Some minor references to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in
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and from the same author this is a full album based on Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology
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COME, said the Muse,
Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
Sing me the Universal.
[…]
Is it a dream?
Nay, but the lack of it the dream,
And, failing it, life’s lore and wealth a dream,
And all the world a dream.
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Just a line taken by Bruce Chatwin “In Patagonia”: You’ll not feel the drowning"
2 references to George Orwell’s “1984”
Thanks! I didn’t know this album, listening it now and loving it!
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The song lyrics themselves don’t contain any reference, but there are some spoken words in the instrumental part that are spoken by Boatswain in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”:
“I were well awake,
I’d strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep
And — how, we know not — all clapped under hatches,
Where but even now with strange and several noises
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awaked, straightway at liberty,
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good, and gallant ship”
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Currently reading IQ84 by Haruki Murakami. It starts off with music - the fanfare from Janáček’s Sinfonietta. Later one of the characters buys a recording of it by George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra on side A. Tidal doesn’t have that version, but having listened to a half dozen or so of the available versions my favourite is this one by Abbado conducting the LSO.
Just don’t climb down any freeway access stairs in stockings and a mini skirt and you should be OK.
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