Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-4ikcohCs

Seasons of Love

By Stevie Wonder

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

how do you measure? measure a year

in daylights,

in sunsets,

in midnights,in cups of coffee,

in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife

in five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

how do you measure a year in a life?

how about, love?

x2 more

measure in love...

x2 more

(Stevie)

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,

five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan,

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,

how do you measure a life of a woman or a man?

in truths that she learned,

or in times that he cried,

in bridges he burned,

or the way that she died,

its time now, to sing out though,

the story never ends,

let's, celebrate remember a year in a life, of friends,

remember the love...

(oh you gotta remember the love)

)remember the love...

(oh yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah)

remember the love...

('member, sing out, give out, measure your life!

measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, Ohhhhhhhh)

seasons of love...

x3 more

In Diapers - Report Cards

In Spoke Wheels - In Speeding Tickets

In Contracts - Dollars

In Funerals - In Births

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand

Six Hundred Minutes

How Do You Figure

A Last Year On Earth?

How Do You Figure

A Last Year On Earth?

(Seasons Of Love...)

How Do You Figure

A Last Year On Earth?

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand

Six Hundred Minutes

How Do You Figure

A Last Year On Earth?

Seasons of....LOVE....

I chose Edouard Manet's painting of "Dead Toreador and The Bullfight" because it stuck out with its single subject of a man lying defeated on the ground, and because it brings me to think about why ONLY the subject of a dead man was painted. I can easily understand that Manet is showing the idea of a death, but why are there little details of how the death came or happened? Don't get me wrong, because I know it is obvious how the Toreador died, but why is that not being shown in the painting as well? ... Manet had no intentions of showing the fighter at the scene nor did he want to include any other subjects in this. I guess it keeps things simple, yet mysterious...

After staring a little longer, the man appears to be placed in a rather comfortable position and his location of "eternal rest" seems to have little significance to the dead man itself. However, the contrast of shadows to the darker figure is still somewhat appealing to the eye of the viewer. Also, there is some depth shown here, since the figure is placed on a diagonal, which can make things slightly more interesting...though not too much. I am still not sure why I like this painting or choose to read into it so much. I guess I can say that I appreciate Manet's idea of presenting a consequence [death] without explaining/ painting how or why it happened. One can look at this painting and say: "Alright, bulls are not always our friends!"

Photo Conversation with Berger ..in my opinion:

Joelle Wallach's Visit

Joelle Wallach visited Sweet Briar College on Wednesday, January 27^th and spoke with us about Women Composers dating back from the 800’s to the 20^th Century. She was surely a feisty woman with a deep passion for music and for the women she was talking about. She did not have any problems answering the few questions that we could come up with. I was very amazed at how quickly Joelle could identify and separate all of the music within a matter of seconds. Clearly, she studies what she loves and I am sure that she makes this impression on all of her audiences.

There weren’t too many of us who were familiar with the powerful list of composers she introduced to us, so it was definitely a lot to absorb. In fact, I believe that there are only a few people in the classroom who are accustomed to the knowledge of writing music in general. For the most part I think we can identify different genres of music, especially in today’s music, but Joelle helped us recognize subtle differences in each of the different composers. Her helpful hints let us identify the era that the music was created or written in and allowed us to group some of the women together. A great deal of information was presented to us in one short hour, and I could feel Joelle wanting to tell us more and was dying for us to dig deeper and to be curious about these infamous women.