tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post1958789170672605091..comments2024-03-28T11:30:46.101-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Gypsy field tripOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-35241736623626942372015-02-18T23:50:50.930-05:002015-02-18T23:50:50.930-05:00Thank you for this blog, Cara. This is not an easy...Thank you for this blog, Cara. This is not an easy group to get to know & your sensitivity (and your friend's!) helps to open a door to their culture for the rest of us.Pam De Voehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352755063960715280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-53273035877776757232015-02-18T10:37:07.667-05:002015-02-18T10:37:07.667-05:00HUGE congratulations, Cara! Well done!!!HUGE congratulations, Cara! Well done!!!Everett Kaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371555243187874414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-74133980519010852412015-02-18T08:57:55.508-05:002015-02-18T08:57:55.508-05:00We have had the same problem with 'Bushman'...We have had the same problem with 'Bushman'. San refers to a certain group, and the Batswana term - Barsawa - also has pejorative connotations. The First People sounds a too formal and it's an invented name anyway. <br />Complicating things, the Bushman don't have a word for themselves; it's sort of 'us' and 'them'. Eventually we chose to use Bushman but explained the issue in an authors' note. So far so good... Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-34171840458720651542015-02-18T03:39:22.099-05:002015-02-18T03:39:22.099-05:00One my favourite pieces of music to train to. That...One my favourite pieces of music to train to. That in my ears can inspire me up the toughest hill! Caro Ramsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08499318515241879831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-810782728932162832015-02-18T03:36:05.104-05:002015-02-18T03:36:05.104-05:00Jeff, the Italian word is very similar--"zing...Jeff, the Italian word is very similar--"zingari." Which inspires me to return to my role as self-appointed custodian of the soundtrack for this post. Here is a link to music by Verdi, which many Americans will recognize from Bugs Bunny cartoonS. We call it The Anvil Chorus, but its real name is "Coro dei Zingari."<br /><br />https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlj57o_il-trovatore-verdi-act-ii-la-zingarella_music<br />Here is a translation of the words:<br />The Anvil Chorus<br /><br />See how the clouds melt away<br />from the face of the sky when the sun shines, its brightness beaming;<br />just as a widow, discarding her black robes,<br />shows all her beauty in brilliance gleaming.<br />So, to work now!<br />Lift up your hammers!<br />Who turns the Gypsy's day from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />Who turns the Gypsy's day from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />Who? Who from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />His lovely Gypsy maid!<br /><br />Fill up the goblets! New strength and courage<br />flow from lusty wine to soul and body.<br />See how the rays of the sun play and sparkle<br />and give to our wine gay new splendor.<br />So, to work now!<br />Who turns the Gypsy's day from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />Who turns the Gypsy's day from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />Who? Who from gloom to brightest sunshine?<br />His lovely Gypsy Maiden.<br /><br />That said, I invite you all to join me in congratulating Cara on her starred review in Publisher's Weekly for the upcoming MURDER ON THE CHAMPS DE MARS!!!Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-85279474937612796752015-02-18T00:13:37.006-05:002015-02-18T00:13:37.006-05:00I find it difficult to choose the right name in wr...I find it difficult to choose the right name in writing about Gypsies. That name itself is I understand offensive to some, as is Roma, Rom, so I settled on using the Greek name--Tsigani--which I was assured was not offensive. But I wouldn't bet on it. They lead a life that Aleksandr Pushkin once glorified for their choice of the "wild life," but as you well know, suffer for it far more, I'm sad to say. Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-59637163277104626152015-02-17T11:44:02.509-05:002015-02-17T11:44:02.509-05:00They sure seem to be nice enough folks with a litt...They sure seem to be nice enough folks with a little different lifestyle, maybe considered a subculture. Wish I was related to Django Reinhardt. I first heard him nearly forty years ago and have been amazed ever since.Jonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170214396483091419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-14903802749868315472015-02-17T11:11:26.407-05:002015-02-17T11:11:26.407-05:00EvKa I might be exagerating a tad but in her day w...EvKa I might be exagerating a tad but in her day women married young ie 14, still now too.<br />Cara Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14592098418515886674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-63617543467026756962015-02-17T11:09:47.327-05:002015-02-17T11:09:47.327-05:00Holy Defecation! "great-great-great-grandchi...Holy Defecation! "great-great-great-grandchildren?" Assuming they're new-borns, that's still 6 generations with five of them having to be old enough to have had kids. Let's assume this couple is 90, that's an average age of having your first child at 18...generation after generation after generation, and probably younger than that. Hmm... still, being the youngest child of the youngest child, I never even knew my dad's parents, so the idea of SIX generations all alive at the same time is... just weird.Everett Kaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371555243187874414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-61557629985000905212015-02-17T05:06:20.067-05:002015-02-17T05:06:20.067-05:00Cara, thank you for this introduction. Here is a ...Cara, thank you for this introduction. Here is a link to Django playing "La Mer," emblematic of his French and Gypsy roots. One of my favorite all time jazz cuts. I have not tired of it in fifty years!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNQ4FR6Me8&list=RDtgNQ4FR6Me8<br />Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.com