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jim wood on "Carl Orff, beyond Nazi music"

jim wood — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:40:39 +0000

And Gassenhauer was actually written by Orff's collaborator Gunild Keetman.

Tony Curzon Price on "Carl Orff, beyond Nazi music"

Tony Curzon Price — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:16:13 +0000

Thank you for the correction, Stephen.

tony

Stephen Langley on "Carl Orff, beyond Nazi music"

Stephen Langley — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:35:21 +0000

Malick used 'Gassenhauer' in 'Badlands,' not 'Days of Heaven.'

Candace on "Carl Orff, beyond Nazi music"

Candace — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:13:55 +0000

I love all that I've heard of Carl Orff although I probably prefer the Schulwerk.

I didn't know what I was singing in Catulli, that's hilarious.

718-276-739-532-377 on "Calle Santa Fé: between Chile and freedom"

718-276-739-532-377 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:27 +0000

Interesting review, and great film too.

Given that the struggle against the dictatorship forced the transition towards democracy to begin in 1990, rather than 1997 as foreseen in Pinochet's 1980 Constitution, it was worth it. Also, the review makes it sound like the only resistance to the dictatorship was armed and led by the MIR, neither of which is true. The resistance to dictatorship was carried out by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, and it was they who forced the transition.

For those interested I can recommend the following authors for the Chilean struggle against dictatorship and the transition towards a 'restricted democracy': Brian Loveman, or James Petras and Fernando Leiva. Lois Oppenheim has also written some good stuff on this subject.

ianniscarras on "William Blake: a visionary for our time "

ianniscarras — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:09:34 +0000

My morning Open-Democracy-break was made the richer thanks to this article. Only I wouldn't describe Songs of Innocence and Experience as "beautiful little poems". Their under half is quite ugly, like Blake's God, and perceptively so... I.C.