Nicholas Spanos: "Since nine o'clock" poetry Cavafy

[sjuli17]

So he is also a composer, great! I like the beginning of the song very much.

[serenaluce]

@sjuli17 I like the whole song!:-) It's very personal for me...

[PhillipLWilcher]

There is for me here a wonderfully rich feeling of resignation. Something quite given over to the moment. Deep seated. Overwhelming.

It is a very beautiful song. I love it!

Bless you!

[SuperNvt]

I think when people listen to this singer they don t need to know any language.Everything is clear!His singing brings harmony to our hearts and souls!

[serenaluce]

@SuperNvt Absolutely! You don't have to know the language. Music is the universal language! But you know what? I'm learning Greek now. I thought it's already impossible, but when I understand more words it sounds even more beautiful to me than before! Such is beautiful and mysterious language! I also recommend you to listen to Spanos's another composition Desire. I've already learned it by heart:-). It also sounds even more beautiful to me now than a year ago:-)

[MegaVladislava]

Редчайший тембр!!! Прекрасное исполнение!!!

[serenaluce]

@MegaVladislava I agree, rarest timbre!!! Brilliant performance!!! For those who don't understand Russian:-)

[birjanka]

Мне больше понравилось "Since nine o'clock", об этом свидетельствует мой комментарий.)) Хотя по большому счету все зависит от настроения, от внутреннего настроя...

[serenaluce]

@birjanka Vot vidite, v etom vashi vkusy sovpali:-), khotya soglasna: vse zavisit ot nastroeniya. Zdes' bol'she glubiny i svetloi pechali, a tam bol'she zavorazhivayushei, vsepogloshayushei krasoty dlya bolee radostnykh momentov, chto li...

[serenaluce]

@birjanka Znaete, ya seichas pereslushala Desires. Sami slova kak-budto by nichego takogo radostnogo ne predveshayut, no eto takie chuvstvennye i neobychnye stikhi, i vmeste s ochen' krasivoi muzykoi Spanosa i zavorazhivayushei krasotoi ne ostavlyayut chuvstva bezyskhodnosti. Mne vot kazhetsya, chto i poet, i kompozitor khotyat skazat', chto esli na dannyi moment eti zhelaniya ostalis' ne udovletvorennymi, to v dal'neishem oni vse-taki budet udovletvoreny. Ya slushu nadezhdu i optimizm, a vy?

[birjanka]

Очень интересное произведение, мне понравилось! Спасибо!

[serenaluce]

@birjanka Deistvitel'no, ochen' interesnoe proizvedenie. Mne tozhe ponravilos':-) Ya smotryu, russkie otsenili takuyu krasotu!:-) A vy poslushali ego drugoe sochinenie "Desires"? Tozhe zamechatel'noe. Kakoe vam bol'she ponravilos'? Mne oba, no vot eto "Since nine o'clock " kak-to dazhe glubzhe...

[serenaluce]

I wonder , non Greeks understood better and appreciated this piece more than Greeks themselves? I don't understand Greek (do you?) but I feel very well how beautiful and moving it is! Really sadness, but not desperation. I agree with you that "joyful experiences can occur at any time in life"! There is hope in this composition! As I said before, his singing is from a better world! It's magical!

[serenaluce]

Very interesting, unusual composition. His singing is just from a somewhat better world than ours... Pure magic...

[Habrolissimo]

Whoops: kai Peliades. Sorry.

[Habrolissimo]

Very moving. The poem reminds me of the one by Sappho:

deduke men a Selene

kai Heliades

meso de nukte

ego de mono katheudo

Sorry, but I couldn't face finding the Greek alphabet on my computer. Thanks for posting this.

[serenaluce]

Did you mean this poem by Sappho (in English translation)?

Tonight I've watched

The moon and then

The Pleiades

go down

The night is now

half-gone; youth

goes; I am

in bed alone

[Habrolissimo]

That's the one. I got carried away and forgot to post a translation. In the original, however, there's no equivalent to 'youth goes.' Thanks for catching this.

[serenaluce]

Thanks. It's from the book I have "Sappho (A new translation by Mary Barnard)".