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Monday, March 29, 2004



I should catch up on reading some French, since I've realized how much I've forgotten French, after trying to help out Mehrnoosh with her essay!

Here's the last 2 paragraphs of Camus' l'etranger, what an amazing book!

.. Meursault refuse pour la troisième fois de voir l'aumônier. Il pense au "mécanisme implacable" qui le conduira à la mort, à ses chances de s'y soustraire. Apprendre qu'une seule fois, la roue s'est arrêtée, que le condamné à mort est parvenu à s'échapper, lui suffirait : " mon cœur aurait fait le reste". Il se souvient de son père qui avait assisté à une exécution capitale. Lui s'il était libre, il irait assister à toutes. Il pense à tous éléments de la mise en scène : la guillotine, l'aube ... Meursault sait que c'est à l'aube que les bourreaux viendront le chercher. Lorsque le matin arrive, il sait qu'il a gagné un jour de sursis supplémentaire. Il lui arrive même de songer à l'éventualité d'une grâce. Cette pensée le remplit d'une joie insensée.

Meursault pense à Marie, qui a cessé de lui écrire, quand l'aumônier pénètre dans sa cellule. La conversation s'engage entre les deux hommes. Les paroles de douceur et d’espoir de l'aumônier mettent Meursault hors de lui. L'aumônier insiste pour que Meursault se repente, mais le condamné à mort lui répond qu'il ne sait même pas ce qu'est le péché. En le quittant l'aumônier indique à Meursault son intention de prier pour lui. Meursault se précipite sur l’aumônier, le saisit au collet et l’insulte. Après son départ, Meursault retrouve le calme et se laisse transporter par la nuit estivale : "Devant cette nuit chargée de signes et d’étoiles, je m’ouvrais pour la première fois à la tendre indifférence du monde. De l’éprouver si pareil à moi, si fraternel enfin, j’ai senti que j’avais été heureux, et que je l’étais encore. Pour que tout soit consommé, pour que je me sente moins seul, il me restait à souhaiter qu’il y ait beaucoup de spectateurs le jour de mon exécution et qu’ils m’accueillent avec des cris de haine".


posted by Farzaneh | 4:43 p.m.

Friday, March 26, 2004

All about Architecture
- dedicated to Saba

Zaha Hadid Wins Pritzker Architectural Prize:
English Farsi

Zaha Hadid's Works
From Official Website
Contemporary Art Museum Projects

Book: "Brick: A World History"
English Farsi

posted by Farzaneh | 11:52 a.m.

Wednesday, March 24, 2004


حالم به هم مي خورد از اين همه ناپاکي.. اي کاش نخوانده بودمش. انگار يک نيرو و حس عجيبي مرا وادار به خواندنش کرد. اي کاش گذشته اي وجود نداشت

posted by Farzaneh | 7:38 p.m.

Tuesday, March 23, 2004


مي نوش که عـمر جاودانـي اين است
خود حاصلت از دور جواني اين است
هـنگام گل و مل است و ياران سرمست
خوش باش دمـي که زنـدگانـي اين است

حکـيم عـمر خـيام نـيـشابوري

posted by Farzaneh | 11:23 a.m.

Friday, March 19, 2004


عيد نوروز بر همه مبارک باد


posted by Farzaneh | 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

I had such a great extended Birthday! thanks to my family and Sobhan. The cds I got from Bahman made my day on Sunday, besides my cake, of course! Richter is the absolute best performance of Rachmaninoff Concerto Piano no.2.. I had the tape, but listening to the cd is something else.. i can feel my soul flying all the way up. Last night, after the dinner, when we came home and listened to the concerto, I felt I am entering a different world! if there exists heaven, that must have been the heaven.

And the dinner was amazingly good. We went to Bhima's Warung, an Indonesian-French restaurant in waterloo. The place is decorated very nicely. The walls are painted (green trees and bushes) to make the place look like a jungle. There were so many nice art crafts from indonesia and all these little pieces of decoration that make all the difference..bamboos, candles, wooden sculptures, photo frames, darhaaye hasiri, beautiful colours of tablecloth, dishes.. it makes you feel you're on a trip to Indonesia! except for the fact that the chefs are French! The food was amazing! the best dinner I've ever had. Not only the quality was good, but also the quantity was quite large. The dishes were so uniquely made and ornamented that we didn't even want to eat. Everything was artistic, from the decorations to the way the ornament the food on beautiful plates, to the background music, all perfect for you to capture every moment and engrave it in your memories..
wow, whoever reads this must think I am obsessed with food! not quite! it was just a great night.. oh, and i should say it was quite pricey, but definitly it's a place you must go to at least once!

Today was charshanbe soori, but it was snowing here.. I was planning to go, until I fell asleep for 3 hours when i was hoping to get 10 minutes of rest, which is why I cannot sleep right now! too bad I missed it. I was thinking of charshanbe soori's in Kooye Nevisandegaan.. the smell of fire, feshfeshe and naarenjak comes back to me as I think of those days..
I should go play some Taar now.. what a long night!

posted by Farzaneh | 2:57 a.m.

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Memories are coming back to me.. summer days at home in tehran. Reading "Les plaisirs et les jours", listening to music, and dreaming..

باد کولر چقدر ميچسبيد! بوي اون روزها يک لحظه مي پيچه تو ذهنم شايد. بوي رطوبت کولر. چقدر آرامش داشتند آن لحظه ها. چقدر من عوض شده ام. کاملا در دنياي ديگري بودم..کجاست آن دنيا؟

هيچوقت وجود نداشت من خودم آفريده بودمش
بايد برگردم.. من به اينجا تعلق ندارم



Il vaut mieux rever sa vie que la vivre, encore que la vivre, ce soit encore la rever.
Les Plaisirs et les Jours, Marcel Proust

مارسل پروست


posted by Farzaneh | 12:49 p.m.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Trip to Washington (Feb 20-23)

Had a great time with Saba and Bernard.. some good laughs thanks to Bernard's astonishing Farsi phrases!
Learned a few things, not only about buildings, but also about people and human characteristics.. Architecture students are very fun and social! specially, compared to students of my program!

more pics to come up! thanks to Hamed for his camera.



Washington Botanical Gardens

posted by Farzaneh | 3:58 p.m.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004


بابا طاهر


مرا نه سر نه سامان آفریدند
پریشانم پریشان آفریدند
پریشان خاطران رفتند در خاک
مرا از خاک ایشان آفریدند

سه درد آمو بجانم هر سه یکبار
غریبی و اسیری و غم یار
غریبی و اسیری چاره دیره
غم یار و غم یار و غم یار

درخت غم بجانم کرده ریشه
بدرگاه خدا نالم همیشه
رفیقان قدر یکدیگر بدانید
اجل سنگست و آدم مثل شیشه

بیا تا دست ازین عالم بداریم
بیا تا پای دل از گل برآریم
بیا تا بردباری پیشه سازیم
بیا تا تخم نیکوئی بکاریم

هر آنکس عاشق است از جان نترسد
یقین از بند و از زندان نترسد
دل عاشق بود گرگ گرسنه
که گرگ از هی هی چوپان نترسد

بود درد مو و درمانم از دوست
بود وصل مو و هجرانم از دوست
اگر قصابم از تن واکره پوست
جدا هرگز نگردد جانم از دوست

اگر شیری اگر میری اگر مور
گذر باید کنی آخر لب گور
دلا رحمی بجان خویشتن کن
که مورانت نهند خوان و کنند سور

مدامم دل براه و دیده تر بی
شراب عیشم از خون جگر بی
ببویت زندگی یابم پس از مرگ
ترا گر بر سر خاکم گذر بی

اگر زرین کلاهی عاقبت هیچ
اگر خود پادشاهی عاقبت هیچ
اگر ملک سلیمانت ببخشند
در آخر خاک راهی عاقبت هیچ


posted by Farzaneh | 3:32 p.m.

Monday, March 01, 2004

It was a musical weekend. started off with watching "Chicago" and ended up sleeping while listening to "Faryaad"!
I liked Chicago, though I couldn't watch the whole movie! The idea was unique, at least in Hollywood.. if you have seen Dancer in the Dark (one of the best movies i've seen), you know where the idea of being physically in prison, but seeing and sensing everything in the musical world, comes from. Nevertheless, the puppet scene was amazing and very original.. anyway, chicago was much better than i expected it to be!!
Our practice with saba was very good too.. hopefully, we're ready to perform! i love both our pieces "Vocalise" and the Sonate we've played since the beginning of time! so hard to choose one! we had a great time with the "armani song".. poor saeed hadn't even heard it once, but he managed to figure it out very well! it's really such an advantage (nemat) to have a good voice. it's the most portable and low-maintanance instrument! it was good to see my mom so cheered up while singing "daaman keshaan saaghiye meykhaaran..", remembering the days of singing this same song when she was at our age in the mountains.. i wish there were mountains around here, so we could go hiking too.. of course, i wish with much higher intensity that we would be climbing up tochal and kolakchaal..

ohh and the dinner was great!! so good to see Mehrnoosh after such a long time.. we watched Lost in Translation. It's a funny movie. it's quite original, and the acting is good too. But you get a feeling the actors are not really acting, and that's how they are in real life.. it was a different way of showing the idea of being lost. Lost in life, no matter what stage you're in. It definintly wasn't the kind of movie that would challenge your mind and have a great influence on you.. but we got good laughs out of it.. the poor Japanese!

Have to start playing Taar and taking it seriously. There's not much time to the end of term! I'm so happy i've found the largest resource of music cds ever!! have to refresh my memory about all the cds i wanted to get and couldn't find in stores! there is a solution to every problem, at least for now!

posted by Farzaneh | 4:59 p.m. | | | | | | | | | |

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