Hila Started a Blog!
May 24, 2009Yep, I bugged her and bugged her until she finally created one. And she didn’t even kick me in the head. Yet.
She’s calling it “And All I Want to do is Fly…” which is a reference to a line that her character Exstasis sings in Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. If you have a few moments, please visit her and encourage her to continue. She has SO much to say, as a performer, as a poet, as a songwriter, as an athlete, and as a human. If we can just get her to keep posting I just know she’ll reveal the secrets of the universe, or at the very least she can explain how she sings everything, and I mean everything from memory, but she still can’t remember where she left her phone. (*Runs from kick to the head*)
Click it here:
Already posted the slightly longer version of the comment on the other blogs: Awesome!
That about sums it up.
it will be wonderful! I have already posted an encouragement post.
Dear Eric-
Just wrote to Hila, reminded her that her solo material is cutting and gorgeous, and that it´s unfair to pique our curiosity by writing brilliant music without writing a supplementary blog.
I wish I could find a more relevant section of your blog for this, but here it is anyway:
I moved to Los Angeles last month. I´m a 25 year old piano nerd recently out of college. I´ve been a fervent supporter of your music since I performed Cloudburst with my community college choir 5 years ago. Since then, I´ve been maniacally sharing your music with everyone I know, arguing for what I take to be the objective truth that you are one of the greatest living composers of instrumental, choral, electronic, any and all musics you choose to write.
I hesitated to write earlier because I was (and remain) spectacularly terrified. My respect for you is just off the charts. Not only for your music, but you as a human being.
You have raised so much awareness of and generated so much interest in contemporary concert-hall music. Thank you so, so sincerely for your music, your actions. Just thank you for being alive.
I had a very similar experience to yours as my initial hook into choral music: performing Mozart´s Requiem with my community college choir. I imagine the pop-like construction of that piece was unalien enough from the formal layout of the rock/electronic albums I was familiar with to open the door to appreciation.
Your material has just cut through me and helped define so much of my personality as a composer.
I wrote a Requiem mass not too long ago that I managed to get performed at Cal Lutheran University (I was so disappointed to have to miss your and Hila´s appearance there). If there is even a slim possibility that I could meet with you in Los Angeles sometime, and possibly play through a piano reduction of one of the movements (I promise it´s brief), it would just make my life.
Infinitely grateful for your time,
Quinn Wolfe
Yay! I’m glad she started a blog.
I can understand the memory part. I can remember every lyric I ever sang, I can keep up with four high school choirs, their music, their costumes and their moods, I can herd vast numbers of cocker spaniels and find them new homes, but I regularly lost my keys.
I choose to believe it’s an artistic thing. Don’t argue.
Avoid the kick to the head, lest ye suffer the same fate as the famed Ed Gruberman in “Boot to the Head.”