From one song to another: The beautiful duet sung by Hero and her lady-in-waiting Ursule in Beatrice et Benedict – a comic opera based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, written and composed by Hector Berlioz in 1858. Listen here.
Two more performances at Royal Academy of Music.

Following the winding ways of the Heideggerian landscape is by no means an easy task. We fumble searchingly amongst the shapeless forms of a desert in darkness. Huffing and puffing, we are close to surrender. Then along comes the poem by Rilke and sings:

Though swiftly the world coverts,
like cloud-shapes’ upheaval,
everything perfect reverts
to the primeval.

Suffering is not discerned,
neither has love been learned,
and what removes us in death,
nothing unveils.
Only the song’s high breath
hallows and hails.
(Part I, Sonnets to Orpheus)

And off we go again, to play on this tortuous way! hurrah!

Aza Shade is exhibiting some drawings at Indo in Whitechapel. They’re good. I’m proud to say I bought one. The one with the green sticker. Start at £150. Good deal. She also sings in a band called ManFlu. They’re playing at The Macbeth in Hoxton on the 7th December.

Six pretty pictures that were made with Sang Bleu mood in mind. And the able help of Simon Constable, Tessa, Bruce Argue, Sofie Nielander, Atsuko Kudo, Christian Louboutin, Nana Rapeblossom, October Noire and Jessica Love. Sure it won’t be the last we see of them in these parts.

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