From a search in this journal for Angel Eyes —
From a 2020 film directed by Tony Leech —
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Variants
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Princeton Requiem
Angel Eyes
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From The Daily Princetonian ,
U. community gathers to BY JACOB DONNELLY Students, faculty, staff and community members circled around a table supporting a single lit candle in the lobby of Murray-Dodge Hall on Monday night as they remembered the life of Audrey Dantzlerward ’16, who was found dead in her room in Edwards Hall today. The gathering, led by Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel Alison Boden, was moved to the lobby after a room reserved for the meeting overflowed.
Participants spoke commonly of Dantzlerward’s contributions to campus life, sharp intellect, supportive gestures and friendly demeanor, and the Wildcats, an |
See a YouTube video, uploaded on May 26, 2014,
of the Princeton Wildcats singing "Angel Eyes."
See also "Angel Eyes" and "Proginoskes" in this journal.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sunday May 24, 2009
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Saturday, November 15, 2003
Saturday November 15, 2003
Aes Triplex
The title, from a Robert Louis Stevenson essay, means “triple brass” (or triple bronze):
From the admirable site of J. Nathan Matias:
“Aes Triplex means Triple Bronze, from a line in Horace’s Odes that reads ‘Oak and triple bronze encompassed the breast of him who first entrusted his frail craft to the wild sea.’ ”
From Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle:
Juliana said, “Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?”
“You have a disconcertingly superstitious way of phrasing your question,” Hawthorne said. But he had squatted down to witness the coin throwing. “Go ahead,” he said; he handed her three Chinese brass coins with holes in the center. “I generally use these.”
This passage, included in my earlier entry of Friday, combined with the opening of yet another major motion picture starring Russell Crowe, suggests three readings for that young man, who is perhaps the true successor to Marlon Brando.
Oracle, for Crowe as John Nash (A Beautiful Mind):
Mutiny, for Crowe as Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander):
Storm, for Crowe as Maximus (Gladiator):
As background listening, one possibility is Sinatra’s classic “Three Coins”:
Personally, though, I prefer, as a tribute to author Joan Didion (who also wrote of coins and the Book of Transformations), the even more classic Sinatra ballad
“Angel Eyes.”
* Horace leads to “Acroceraunian shoals,” which leads to Palaeste, which leads to Pharsalia and to the heart of Rome. (With a nod to my high school Latin teacher, the late great John Stachowiak.)
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Thursday, December 12, 2002
Thursday December 12, 2002
Play It
From a Kol Nidre sermon:
“…in every generation 36 righteous
greet the Shechinah,
the Divine Presence…”
A scene at the Sands in Las Vegas,
from Play It As It Lays,
by Joan Didion:
“What do you think,”
Maria could hear
one of the men saying….
“Thirty-six,” the girl said.
“But a good thirty-six.”
For the rest of the time
Maria was in Las Vegas
she wore dark glasses.
She did not decide to
stay in Vegas: she only
failed to leave.
Today’s site music, in honor of
Sinatra’s birthday, is “Angel Eyes.”
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Thursday October 10, 2002
In Lieu of Rosebud…
On this date in 1985, Orson Welles died
…sitting at his typewriter, working on the next day's script changes for his movie,"The Other Side of the Wind."
— Louis Bülow, The Third Man and Orson Welles
From a review of "Leaving Las Vegas" — a film starring Nicolas Cage that includes a tribute to Welles:
At least Cage dies without saying "Rosebud."
To me, the musical equivalent of "Rosebud" in this film is a song that Sting sings on the soundtrack, "Angel Eyes," which of course was rendered to perfection in Vegas by Sinatra long before Cage and Sting.
One visual equivalent, in turn, of "Angel Eyes," is to me a sketch for a painting I did in 1976. This has been likened to the many eyes of an angelic creature named Proginoskes in a novel for children and adolescents by Madeleine L'Engle.
Perhaps the dark cynicism of Leaving Las Vegas (the book) might be somewhat counterbalanced by the looney religiosity of A Wind in the Door, L'Engle's novel.
At any rate, here are links to the "Angel Eyes"
© 1976 Steven H. Cullinane
Also, "Angel Eyes" is now the background music for this site; one night of the Bach midi was enough.
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Sunday September 29, 2002
Angel Night
In honor of Ellis Larkins, jazz musician, who died on Sunday, September 29, 2002, the feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, here is the best midi rendition I can find of the classic melody “Angel Eyes.”
(This entry was actually made on October 3, 2002, but I had saved a place for it on Michaelmas. The midi is from Wesley Dick’s Juke Box page. For some classic New Orleans funeral music, go to Dick’s home page.)
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