Mr. Lavender-Gas looks like Terry Brooks. This movie's budget has a sort of Monty Python's Flying Circus feel like their episode where the Blancmanges invade Wimbledon.
Before there were real robots, before there was the rock song "Mr. Roboto" and the cyborgs, there was the semi-futuristic opera, "Globolinks". I wonder if that Menotti opera was the first to incorporate computer tape sounds with an acoustic orchestra, chorus, and opera lead singers. Salvatore Martirano, a composer who loved electroacoustic sounds (1927-1998), would have deeply loved the piece with those computer effects.
There was a spaceship opera by Blomdahl called Aniara that used electronic music and it premiere was in 1959. It has elements of popular music as well. Some of the electronic sounds of the ship creaking are quite realistic.
hahaha "I've always said blowing on a trumpet is better then trumpeting on the blower" ??? (in original - "I've always said blowing a trumpet is as easy as using telephone") a bored translator is a deadly translator
Love the premise. great cast, direction etc. But why give Madam Euro a Cyrano nose? She was brilliant and did not need an asshole director who would sabatoge her performance. congratulations to performers!
Since the overtone series is presumably the same everywhere that there is an atmosphere, and since tonality is based on the overtone series, any civilization in any part of the universe is likely to evolve with an affinity toward tonal music. That is why I am more p;rone to believe Close Encounters of the Third Kind than to believe Help! Help! The Globolinks.
It was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera and first performed as Hilfe, Hilfe, die Globolinks! in a German translation by Kurt Honolka on December 21, 1968, in a double bill with Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.[1] The opera had its English language premiere on August 1, 1969, in the United States at the Santa Fe Opera in a double bill with Igor Stravinsky's The Nightingale. We had numerous productions of Stravinsky operas with him present. I remember it was the first time I saw Judith Blegen who also played the violin as part of her character. She was also in the cast of the Marriage of Figaro with Kiri te Kanawas and Ffederica von Stade. All of them later went to the Met.Judith did the best Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and many other roles at the Met. John Crosby had a knack for finding great singers for Santa Fe.
This is another tragedy , created by poor thinking skills of participants . Should they push and pull the van defending themselves blowing horn , after that using violin ? Ok , that is just opera .
I think I might be internetting too hard
I did not know there was a movie. I saw the American premier of this opera in Santa Fe, NM years and years ago
Love Menotti. Thanks.
Thank you for uploading this piece of art! I enjoyed it a lot, it's always nice to see something different that also has a deeper message!
Ich habe als Kind geglaubt, das ist ein Horrorfilm und noch jahrelang Angst gehabt
Ging mir auch so
So ging es mir auch, dieser Film ist für Kinder angsteinflößend
Ich hatte lange furchtbare Angst vor diesen Lampen! Danke für den Upload, war eine gute Therapie. 🙂
Mr. Lavender-Gas looks like Terry Brooks. This movie's budget has a sort of Monty Python's Flying Circus feel like their episode where the Blancmanges invade Wimbledon.
Before there were real robots, before there was the rock song "Mr. Roboto" and the cyborgs, there was the semi-futuristic opera, "Globolinks". I wonder if that Menotti opera was the first to incorporate computer tape sounds with an acoustic orchestra, chorus, and opera lead singers.
Salvatore Martirano, a composer who loved electroacoustic sounds (1927-1998), would have deeply loved the piece with those computer effects.
There was a spaceship opera by Blomdahl called Aniara that used electronic music and it premiere was in 1959. It has elements of popular music as well. Some of the electronic sounds of the ship creaking are quite realistic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniara_(opera) A link to the space opera Aniara by Blomdahl.
Honestly, I think its badass that this was marketed for kids. I with I had some trippy shit to watch like this as a kid.
I'm here because of Squaring The Strange. Thanks (I think) and a shoutout to Celestia Ward.
I almost forgot tha Judith Blegen not only sany the lead role but also played the violin part.
we wachted this in music and i want to see the rest
La ricordo all'Opera di Roma, penso inizio anni Settanta
This was supposed to be something of a cautionary tale, an editorial warning us of the evils of experimental music, the Mellotron, the Hammond?
Could you add a few words of background information about this piece to the video description above, so everyone may learn more?
habe ich nach 55 Jahren noch im Kopf gehabt
L'ho vista qui a Trieste,
L'ho vista qui a Santa Fe, NM
This. Is a very goofy opera
yas emily yas
hahaha
"I've always said blowing on a trumpet is better then trumpeting on the blower" ???
(in original - "I've always said blowing a trumpet is as easy as using telephone")
a bored translator is a deadly translator
Piotr M. Salomon Lol
munari falkland lamp used ad a scenic object-
15:45.
23:54
Love the premise. great cast, direction etc.
But why give Madam Euro a Cyrano nose?
She was brilliant and did not need an asshole director who would sabatoge her performance.
congratulations to performers!
She was way too pretty without it.
Since the overtone series is presumably the same
everywhere that there is an atmosphere, and since tonality is based on the
overtone series, any civilization in any part of the universe is likely to evolve
with an affinity toward tonal music.
That is why I am more p;rone to believe Close
Encounters of the Third Kind than to believe Help! Help! The Globolinks.
It was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera and first performed as Hilfe, Hilfe, die Globolinks! in a German translation by Kurt Honolka on December 21, 1968, in a double bill with Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.[1] The opera had its English language premiere on August 1, 1969, in the United States at the Santa Fe Opera in a double bill with Igor Stravinsky's The Nightingale. We had numerous productions of Stravinsky operas with him present. I remember it was the first time I saw Judith Blegen who also played the violin as part of her character. She was also in the cast of the Marriage of Figaro with Kiri te Kanawas and Ffederica von Stade. All of them later went to the Met.Judith did the best Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and many other roles at the Met. John Crosby had a knack for finding great singers for Santa Fe.
This is another tragedy , created by poor thinking skills of participants . Should they push and pull the van defending themselves blowing horn , after that using violin ? Ok , that is just opera .