Did not know about Vivaldi's special connection to this year! His most famous piece is still inspiring magnificent leftovers
youtu.be/8oYWfJuMGMA ~greg heil picsrp.github.io i.tgu.ca/real_cal -- from: 'Mike Day' via Chat <[email protected]> to: [email protected] date: Oct 12, 2021, 3:29 PM subject: Re: [Jchat] 3p1 >At a pub quiz the other day, I was very cross at not getting the usp of a >novel of 20000 (?) words. Cross because I heard its title as “Not Awake”, so >the answer obviously wasn’t the digits of pi, as it started 3 5... Mike -- from: Donna Ydreos <[email protected]> to: J Chat forum <[email protected]> date: Oct 12, 2021, 3:04 PM subject: Re: [Jchat] 3p1 Ahh—9 months and 42 days Left over pumpkin pie day. I saw 3pi as 942|365 days—bringing the spring equinox 3 x OP 314 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOh0xND2ilQ >Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi may have been born about 340 years ago but >his music really got going in 1707 Could be played on: La Cathédrale A violin by Antonio Stradivari Cremona, 1707 labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1707 >314 years ago the point when Vivaldi abandoned the priesthood and devoted >himself entirely to his music resulting in The Four Seasons—the 4 concertos >considered to be the single greatest sensation of classical music >The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 "Spring": >II. Largo e pianissimo sempre Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Iona Brown https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J03N2RQ/ref=dm_ws_ps_adp https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X6526P4 Not A Wake: A dream embodying (pi)'s digits fully for 10000 decimals by Michael Keith https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4942770.Michael_Keith, Diana Keith https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4942771.Diana_Keith >"Not A Wake" is a collection of poetry, short stories, a play, a movie script, >crossword puzzles and other surprises, constructed according to a unique >principle: counting the number of letters in successive words of the text (the >first word has 3 letters, the next word has 1 letter, the next word has 4 >letters, and so on) reveals the first 10,000 digits of the famous mathematical >number pi (3.14159265358979...). Fans of the number pi, constrained writing >(such as Georges Perec's "La Disparition"), wordplay, puzzles, or experimental >prose and poetry will find much to savor in this, the first book-length work >based on the pi constraint. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11701114-not-a-wake . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
