Jun. 9th, 2009

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Over coffee, the others broke it too me that I've been using YouTube in the wrong way. The main point of it is not, as I'd thought, to watch music videos but rather to seek out clips containing swearing and then to complain about them.

At the risk, then, of compounding my error, here's a nice fast performance of Messiaen's astonishingly difficult Les Yeux dans les Roues from Livre d'Orgue.

The piece is a based on a particularly vivid vision from the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel:

1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

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