#octet

[lennajune]

Anatole is hot.

Glazunov is drunk.

The forest is beautiful.

The photographer doesn’t help.

#dave malloy #malloysicals #octet #octet musical #great comet of 1812 #natasha pierre & the great comet of 1812 #ghost quartet #preludes #preludes musical

[iphigeniacomplex]

"prayer", ghost quartet (dave malloy, 2014) | "when i heard the learn'd astronomer (walt whitman, 1865) | "little god", octet (dave malloy, 2019)

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Image 1: A screenshot from the Bandcamp lyrics of "Prayer" from Ghost Quartet. The text is black on a white screen, and styled in all caps. It says, "I WILL TRY TO FORGIVE MYSELF / FOR BEING ABSENT IN PUBLIC / AND BORED BEFORE STARS / FOR NOT REMEMBERING / FOR NOT BEING IN MY BODY / FOR NOT STARTING RIGHT NOW"

Image 2: A screenshot from the Poetry Foundation website, containing the full text of Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer". The text is black on a white screen, and in a serif font. It says, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer, / When the proof, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, / When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, / When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, / How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."

Image 3: A screenshot from the Genius Lyrics page for "Little God" from Octet. The text is black on a white screen, and says, "We traveled into black holes, into quarks; we slipped through time backwards and sideways; we created new life forms, living suns; we watched the universe multiply, invert, spiral, disappear. We beheld an infinity of wonders---and yet we sat at our desks in stoic calculation, paralyzed by the unforgiving relentlessness of our intellect." The text from "We beheld an infinity of wonders" to "stripped of awe" is highlighted in yellow.

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#it speaks! #sorry for being hashtag anti-intellectual i was just relistening to little god bc i think its a fantastic work of short speculative -> #<- fiction (highly recommended; you dont need to listen to all of octet bc it is standalone) and ive been thinking about this kind of -> #<- thing a lot lately. #alt text and transcripts bc im not sure which one is better so i figured i could try both here. hope you enjoy #ghost quartet #octet #dave malloy

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

the tumblr lesbians love Dave Malloy so much because not a single show of his doesn't have either a lesbian or a woman in a suit/playing a man

#i haven't seen Beardo so im just assuming #great comet of 1812 #dave malloy #malloysicals #ghost quartet #octet #preludes #clown bible #don't stop me musical #beowulf

[moonpleaser]

oh you fool !!!!! you fool !!!!! it's all within yourself !!!!!!!!!!!

#velma #velma octet #octet #octet musical #malloysicals #my art #has anyone here listened to octet #hi

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #octet #octet musical #dave malloy #language: english

[asthe-crow-flies]

the fact that the song/monologue little god exists is just so funny to me like in the middle of a musical about an internet addiction support group Actual For Real (probably) God shows up and gets some random scientists to try to figure out if she’s actually god because she’s not sure. and then after that the musical continues to be about the internet

#like there’s no indication of supernatural stuff existing up to that point #and then fucking god starts turning phones into fish and coffeemakers into pterodactyls #i love little god so much it’s so funny in a really unsettling way #octet #octet musical #malloysicals #dave malloy

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY (DAVE MALLOY’S BIRTHDAY)

#dave malloy #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 #ghost quartet #preludes #moby dick #octet #the witches #beowulf #clown bible #etc

[raydioactivegeorg]

hey i am in a field btw. if you even care

#octet

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

I love it when a musical composer knows how to fill me with Dread. Nothing sexier than a composer who can write Dread.

#specifically I’m thinking of: #joanna (judge turpin’s reprise) from #sweeney todd #monster from #octet #and blues: feel the rain fall from #parade #post i made #musicals #stephen sondheim #dave malloy #jason robert brown #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #octet musical #parade musical

[pixies992]

Promotional video for Dave Malloy’s new musical Three Houses (!!!!!!!)

#dave malloy #malloysicals #three houses #three houses musical #octet #octet musical #scott stangland #great comet

[pilarsofsalt]

part of being a stem major is just being constantly haunted by Little God by Dave Malloy

#dave malloy #malloysicals #octet #who up rn paralyzed by the unforgiving relentlessness of they intellect

[gasparodasalo]

Carl Schuberth (1811-63) - Octet for Strings in E-Major, Op. 23, IV. Allegro furioso. Performed by Hoffmeister Quartet & Soloists from Wrocław Baroque Orchestra on period instruments.

#carl schuberth #romanticism #classical music #strings #octet #period performance #period instruments #rarely performed composers #string octet #chamber music #violin #viola #cello #violinist #violist #cellist

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

Dave Malloy blinkies!!!

Show off your favorite Malloysicals with me! You are welcome to use any of these!!! Credit is appreciated. They are all hosted from my website so it's nice and easy to copy the link, or you can download it for yourself. These are 300x40px for tumblrs sake, but they were originally made at 150x20.

MORE GORE version of the Beowulf one under the cut!

#blinkies #custom blinkies #eyestrain #bright colors #eyestrain tw #cw flashing #pixel art #gifs #neocities #dave malloy #malloysicals #ghost quartet #clown bible #don't stop me #don't stop me musical #octet #great comet #great comet of 1812 #beowulf thousand years of baggage

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

Karly Octet makes me so CRAZY like what do you MEAN yes no no yes yes left right left left right left…..mama was a gambler mama played the slots watching the wheels go round and round when will I get lucky when will I get my shot when will those three cherries line up when will those three cherries line up when will those three cherries line up when will those three cherries line up????? We all know that’s what sex is rights it’s fucking GOD??? YOU NEED TO BE GAGGED… god there’s no fucking equivalency here!!!! I feel my body stretched between 2 cliffs one side is fantasy the other reality I feel my fingers start to loose their grip and I can’t hold on I COULD BE SO GOOD AT LOVE I COULD BE SO GOOD AT LOVE I COULD BE SO GOOD AT LOVE I COULD BE SO GOOD AT LOVE!!!!! Where am I supposed to meet people? Church?? FUCK!!!

#I am so normal and can be trusted around Karly octet #I sang solo memorized all the way through last night genuinely so proud of myself #Karly is like actually a dream role for me istg #octet #octet musical #malloysicals

[willknightauthor]

PERSEPHONE

Dumbness spites me when I meet her. Numbness bites my tongue to greet her. Bless or curse me, all the sweeter, Springtime daughter of Demeter. 'Tween Jove's realms I ever teeter When I chance a chance to treat her To a liaison discrete ‘r Read her tumbling lines of meter.

#poetry #poem #writing #Persephone #Demeter #Hades #trochaic tetrameter #monorhyme #own writing #love #romance #love poetry #octet #writeblr #trochaic

[lesbianelizabethfrankenstein]

actually thinking abt love in dave malloy’s work in general. like. love is everything physical that you feel and that you see and you have to believe in it or or doesn’t mean anything and it’s cosmic and it’s comets and looking through your telescope together and it’s making art together and when your hands touch over the piano and does he love you does he love me you’ve read his letters and it can be secret but it can also be in the tiny normal gestures that mean something different because you’re in love and the internet can make it just as much as it can break it and it’s being annoyed by each other but it doesn’t matter because you’re together and your lives are each other’s and i could be so good at love i could be so good at love i could be so good at love i could be so good at love

#is this coherent i wrote it while at various red lights #anyway i treat dave the way normal people look at philosophers i want him to explain all the secrets of the universe to me #okay what did i reference here #ghost quartet #preludes #the great comet #moby dick a musical reckoning #octet #dave malloy #slay