Our spectacular Madeira geranium is almost in full flush in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers [click to embiggen]
Having spotted that not one, but two great composers were born on this date, this gives me another perfect excuse to inject some class into this blog...
...with a twist, inevitably.
Whoever would have come up with the idea of putting Gabriel Fauré [born 12th May 1845] and David Guetta together? This lot did...
[I didn't even recognise the David Guetta song - it's here, fyi]
Even weirder, whoever would have thought this piece of music-as-artform that was a surprise hit back in 1981 was based upon a work by Jules Massenet [born 12th May 1842]..?
Indeed, Miss Anderson even subtitled the record "for Massenet". According to a column by Olivia Giovetti for Operavore:
"The work, a breakdown of Massenet’s "Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père" from Le Cid, channels Massenet’s text through a vocoder, layering in several other elements that obscure the source material but amplify its heart..."
Here's the original - see what you think. Apart from the fact that her lyrics "O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad." are an evident pastiche of the song's title, I can't hear it, myself!
I wonder what either composer would have thought...
That first clip had me...that was amazing....and so is that Madeira geranium. I would swear your plants are on steroids honey!
ReplyDeleteIt's been three years in the waiting for that display. Two-and-a-half feet tall, and eighteen inches across - worth the wait, I'd say! Unfortunately once it flowers, it dies. I fell in love with the plant when I visited Madeira (25 years ago now) - we have admired them since at Kew Gardens - and just had to grow one!
DeleteWe do love a good mash-up, especially if it's as classy as that. Jx
That's a nice bush you got there. I also have lots of bloomers I can't stop taking pictures of. I feel like the flower paparazzi.
ReplyDeleteWe have hundreds and hundreds of garden photos over the years - in fact for the past fourteen months or more they're the bulk of our photos as we've hardly been anywhere else. Jx
DeleteI recognised Titanium!!!! Do I win a prize? I feel I ought to.
ReplyDeleteNice bush.
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In the immortal words of Jim Bowen: "You win nothing but your BFH... Bus Fare Home." Jx
DeletePS We like a big pink bush
It's out! It's out!! Isn't it marvellous!
ReplyDeleteAlmost as marvellous as your geranium is Laurie Anderson's "O Superman". I haven't listened to the original yet, but will do in a mo.
P.S. Like Ms Scarlet, I also recognised "Titanium" somehow.
DeleteIt's a thing of wonder - we were worried that the hideously cold Spring nights would have killed off the flowers, but in the end only a few were lost. Thankfully! Jx
DeletePS I was mad on O Superman when it came out (I still have the vinyl single). Not so impressed by Titanium - I prefer the "classical mash-up"...
DeleteI always said you had Klass.
ReplyDelete...wiv a capital "K". Jx
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