My new rough character design for Strauss, Rott, and Wolf

[ ♫ Elfenlied ♪ Hugo Wolf ♫ ]

... Dang it. Thinking about this post. And...

If Moony and Poppy stayed together, they would have had wolf triplets named Fido, Hugo, and Milo. And possibly a rabbit daughter named Sunny after the boys got older, I'm still debating that last kid.

Why can't I stop thinking up families? (Because it's cute and fun)

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) - Abendbilder (Friedlicher abend)

Artist: Marcus Farnsworth

Artist: Sholto Kynoch, piano

'Wolf in sheep's clothing'

«...la noche es la mitad de la vida y ciertamente la mitad más bella...» Goethe, 8: Philine

Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie - Lied Matinee Hugo-Wolf-Medaille

Foto ©Reiner Pfisterer Fra le tante proposte interessanti offerte dalla vita musicale di Stuttgart, la liederistica occupa un posto di rilievo grazie alla presenza della Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie, Continue reading Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie – Lied Matinee Hugo-Wolf-Medaille

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Elena Gerhardt: The Art of Lieder Singing: Wolf: Auf einer Wanderung: BBC: 7/15/50. Pianist: Joan Coombes

Concert review, ★★★★½, Prix Serdang 2023 for Ariel Lanyi. Award ceremony and recital @ Villa Serdang, Feldbrunnen SO, 2023-06-25 — Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook), HWW 159 (selection, arranged for piano by Ariel Lanyi); Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes in C♯ minor, op.13 (including the 5 extra variations, op.posth.)

Blog post #648

La regina delle amazzoni

Hugo Wolf (13 marzo 1860 - 1903): Penthesilea, poema sinfonico (1883-85) ispirato dall’omonima tragedia (1808) di Heinrich von Kleist. Staatskapelle Berlin, dir. Otmar Suitner. Aufbruch der Amazonen nach Troja Der Traum Penthesileas vom Rosenfest [5:29] Kämpfe, Leidenschaften, Wahnsinn, Vernichtung [10:03]

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Hugo Wolf, Goethe-Lieder (Aus Wilhelm Meister, Mignon, 1). Elly Ameling, soprano Irwing Gage, piano

The character names in Kataow are amazing because first, you have Kipo— lovely name, love how it sounds, and I’m it has some amazing meanings that tie in to Kipo as a character. 

Then you have Wolf. You never learn her previous name, but Kipo calls her Wolf (full name: Wolfatha Christie the Fourth) and Wolf accepts it. She never asks people to stop calling her that. It’s a perfect name for Wolf.

You’ve got Benson. I haven’t met many Bensons (usually, just ‘Ben’) but it sounds familiar and nice. Benson is a nice guy. A good friend.

Mandu is a blue four-eyed and six-legged pig, named after the dumplings Kipo’s dad used to make. It’s a little odd but hey, mute pig— and it has sentimental meaning to Kipo— so it fits Mandu perfectly.

You’ve got Kipo’s family Lio (not an uncommon name) and Song (beautiful name) and Hugo— they all fit well with Kipo. 

Hugo later takes the name Scarlemagne— a play on ‘Scar’ and Charlemagne’. That’s so clever! 

There’s also Jamack, Troy, Dr Emilia (sounds like a normal human name, but still cool for an antagonist), and may we not forget Yumyan Hammerpaw. 

And then you have… Dave. Just Dave. Dave the Bug. Dave the metamorphosing bug mute. This is so hilarious, it’s perfect.

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) - Manuel Venegas (Der Corregidor) : Frühlingschor for Choir & Orchestra ·

Ensemble Stuttgart · Dieter Kurz ·

Württembergischer Kammerchor · Ensemble Stuttgart · Chor der Staatlichen HfMDK Stuttgart ·

although i understand why tightly-plotted stories are, by and large, preferred by the majority of contemporary audiences, i have to say: i’ve always been more keen on meandering and polyphonic narratives. just… give me all the overly ambitious and grandiose stories with a strong sense of place, over-the-top aesthetic, ensemble cast, multiple digressions, and no conventional plot (or at least no conventional three-act structure) to speak of, and i shall be a very content woman indeed.

(& on a related note: i sincerely believe that we ought to bring back the tradition of long-winded quasi-philosophical doorstoppers originally published in monthly instalments. out with the sleek shallowness of dirtbag realism!)

I find the fact that Hugo seems to be far more likely to ascribe ulterior motives to Wolf than to Kipo to be incredibly funny.

In 'All That Glitters', while Kipo is definitely doing it all out of love, everything Kipo does is an attempt to guide him towards her ideal outcome. And yet Hugo takes her at her word every time she insists otherwise. This despite her proving herself capable of outmaneuvering him (telegraphing her contingency plan in doing so) with her secret farmer rebellion in Corndog King. She played him like a fiddle in season 2 and yet in season 3 he still seems to be operating under the idea that she's too naive to ever be plotting anything behind anyone's back.

Meanwhile, Wolf is never anything but straight-forward in achieving her goals. She's consistently blunt in her methods and reasoning, yet Hugo is constantly looking for the hidden angle (that just isn't there). In 'Prahmises' he immediately assumes that Wolf tracked him down in order to interfere with his plan to assassinate Dr Emilia and is initially skeptical when she says otherwise.

All this is especially hilarious because Kipo's not even subtle. Like, at all. Like I pointed out earlier: she essentially revealed her back-up plan to Hugo while they played Corndog King and it just sailed past his radar. On the other hand, everyone else has always known that Kipo's kind actions, while genuine, are also part of Kipo's plan to bring about world peace. They just go along with it, usually because they know that trying to talk her out of it won't work. Wolf, Lio, Benson, even Dr Emilia, they all know Kipo's scheming. Hugo's the only one who somehow keeps missing the memo.