I love Virginia Woolf, an all around literary all-star. I look no further for literature which encapsulates life-- inner and exterior life as can be depicted and translated into words and sounds and pauses. None better than Virginia, to my mind, in the ouvre of a brilliant transcendent woman. Different, but none better. Patti Smith knows this and does a good job of gratifying us with a new take on our elder stateswoman. Loved this!
Virginia Woolf has a novel called 'The Waves' and it's because of this, I'm guessing, that prompts her to call the evening 'Wave'. :) This is so beautiful. I've always loved Virginia's work, but hearing it like this to music makes it... well, perfect.
Nice it woz when the Bad Girl of Rock became its High Priestess + Earth Mother. Also from her early 20 s She's been an American Artist. Author of Seventh Heaven , Babel , Just Kids , M Train , The Coral Sea , Devotion + Year of the Monkey + a lot of other stuff ! What an incredible woman ! All thru her life She's always shown this incredible generosity of spirit. Have read Orlando but I've never known anyone quite like Patti Smith.
Patti Smith leyendo a Virginia Woolf con esa voz que ilumina, que devela, tan intima, tan secreta, tan profunda y bella y subliminal. Ay Virginia cuanta melancolía hay en tus palabras llenas de colores, de vestidos, de mujeres, de Londres,de soledad, de intensidad, somos poetas vagando en el aire, caminando hacia el agua oscura y profunda. Virginia...The time is coming. ♥︎ Something eternal, something in her, in her long dress, perfect colors, small, beautifull, Virginia.
Six years late, but better late than never. An excerpt in the middle of this performance is from the first chapter of The Waves and the rest is improvised.
