From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #282 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Sunday, July 21 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 282 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Thee? [Les Irvin ] Re: New Library item: The creation has begun [Anita ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:06:44 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: Thee? Discuss! - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:39:54 +0000 From: Laskowski, Michael To: les@jonimitchell.com Hi, I just wanted to suggest that Joni seems to be singing the line six of the "Song to a Seagull" : /Have names they must call *thee*/ I'm hardly an expert, but "me" seems to make little sense there -- it damages the leading metaphor (or at least my understanding of it). The mistake is replicated in the tabs and chords files (and few covers of that song I've heard). The live version from 1967 has the "thee" more vividly pronounced. Regards, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:25:03 +0100 From: Anita Subject: Re: New Library item: The creation has begun I am SO excited about this, as I have been for months! Come on people, which Love songs will she pick or would you choose? Anita On 20 Jul 2013, at 04:38, TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com wrote: > Title: The creation has begun > Publication: Alberta Ballet > Date: 2013.7.21 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2643 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:57:49 +0100 From: Anita Subject: Re: Joni's LOVE SONGS and the New Ballet Thanks Laura. Must put my glasses on when I read! Too excited by Ballet. Anita On 20 Jul 2013, at 16:52, est86mlm@ameritech.net wrote: > Anita, > > I noticed a list of the songs Joni picked for the ballet here: > > It does say: "Subject to change - work in progress" > > Subject to change - work in progress Subject to change - work in progress Scroll way down to the bottom for the list - Act 1 and Act 2: > http://www.albertaballet.com/content/joni-mitchell-creation-blog > > Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 05:24:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: New Library item: The creation has begun While I'm interested in this, I don't have enough knowledge of dance to know which songs would translate and flow best. Obviously she has oodles of love songs to choose from. Bob ________________________________ From: Anita To: Joni JMDL Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 5:25 AM Subject: Re: New Library item: The creation has begun I am SO excited about this, as I have been for months! Come on people, which Love songs will she pick or would you choose? Anita On 20 Jul 2013, at 04:38, TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com wrote: > Title: The creation has begun > Publication: Alberta Ballet > Date: 2013.7.21 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2643 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:30:35 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Thee? Ok, I'll bite. Why would Joni's 'gentle relations' have names they must call a flying thing for loving the freedom of all flying things? My feeling has always been that Joni has a fascination with the physical act of flight. In 'Amelia' she sings 'like *me*, she had a dream to fly'. Of course 'fly' in that line can quite easily be interpreted as being metaphorical. But I think it is probably both literal and metaphorical although I think Joni's dream is to fly without benefit of an airplane. There is also that lovely photo on the inner sleeve of the original vinyl pressings of 'Hejira' of Joni in the black feathered cap with black draped arms outstretched in imitation of a 'black crow flying' that she likens herself to in the song 'Black Crow'. When I was a very young child I remember imagining that I could fly. I have an oddly vivid memory of lying on my stomach on the top of the small slide attached to our swing set in the backyard, lifting off of it and flying up to the roof of our house. No doubt it was a dream but it seemed real to me at the time. I still occasionally fantasize about what it would be like to fly like a bird. Looking down on everything.... Now I wonder what 'my gentle relations' would have thought if I had told them I had levitated myself to the roof of the house? Silly boy. Dreamy. Lives in his own imaginary world. When she was a young adult, maybe Joni's family would have found her love of 'the freedom of all flying things' to be foolish. Or worse, maybe a bit loony. (She is Canadian, after all. ;-)) Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Les Irvin Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:06 PM To: Joni List Subject: Thee? Discuss! - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:39:54 +0000 From: Laskowski, Michael To: les@jonimitchell.com Hi, I just wanted to suggest that Joni seems to be singing the line six of the "Song to a Seagull" : /Have names they must call *thee*/ I'm hardly an expert, but "me" seems to make little sense there -- it damages the leading metaphor (or at least my understanding of it). The mistake is replicated in the tabs and chords files (and few covers of that song I've heard). The live version from 1967 has the "thee" more vividly pronounced. Regards, Michael ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #282 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe