TheSong of Songs (Shir ha-Shirim in Hebrew) is an unabashedly sensuous, even at times quite erotic, paean to love. Throughout its eight short chapters, an unnamed young man and young woman pursue one another through verdant fields and valleys lush with flowers. Their excitement to be together is palpable, captured in poetic stanzas like:
You have captured my heart, my own one, my bride. You have captured my heart, with one glance of your eyes, with one look at your dcolletage. How sweet is your love, how much more delightful than wine! (Song of Songs 4:9-10)
The Song of Songs is considered one of the five megillot (scrolls), which are read on major festivals. It is traditionally chanted in the synagogue during Passover, due to its thematic connection with springtime. Following the mystical tradition, some Sephardic and Hasidic Jews have a custom to recite it each week on Shabbat evening, as Shabbat serves as a renewal of loving vows between God and the Jewish People. While the tradition ascribes the its authorship to King Solomon (Song of Songs Rabbah 1:1), who lived in the 10th century BCE, modern scholars note the many literary parallels with other love poetry and wedding songs from both Babylonia and Egypt and suggest a later date of composition, perhaps around the fourth through sixth centuries BCE.
The celebrated podcast Song Exploder comes to The Ford for a one-of-a-kind evening of music and conversation featuring Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. Merritt joins host Hrishikesh Hirway to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the band's opus, 69 Love Songs, by deconstructing some of the iconic tracks. Their conversation will be followed by an intimate solo performance from Stephin Merritt performing a short solo set of Magnetic Fields songs, live on stage at The Ford. This event will not be recorded, so this is your only chance to experience this special evening.
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But back to our topic: why do we read this book on Passover and what can we learn from the Passover story by reading the Song of Songs? One explanation is that the Song of Songs is really an allegory for the love of G-d for the people Israel. Since the story of the Exodus is also the beginning of the love relationship between G-d and Israel, Passover is an appropriate time to learn about this love. The lover in the song is taken to be G-d, and the beloved is the people Israel. This allegorical reading was widespread among the rabbis in our tradition by the 1st century CE. The song was ascribed to King Solomon because of the few times his name is mentioned in the book and because of its references to a king. The strongest support for the allegorical interpretation comes from Rabbi Akiba who said this book was the holiest among all of the writings. The song has also been variously interpreted through the Christian church, as a drama, as a cultic liturgy, or on its literal level as a secular love song.
While doing housework, I was grooving on a great song from Alison Krauss that I hadn't heard in a while (probably because I hadn't played that station in a while) and noticed I hadn't thumbed it up yet. About that time I lost my wi-fi and Pandora switched to one of my offline stations. I rushed back to my wi-fi reception area, frantically switched back to the original channel and, of course, Pandora starts playing another song and has lost my recent history for that station.
i'd love to be able to see the list of songs i listened to last saturday, so i could go try to find the tabs or chords. i discover so much new music using pandora - NOT having this feature may encourage me to quit paying for it and move to a service that does have an easy-to-use history feature.
Storing a JSON list of artist : song takes a lot of memory? If yo you're doing it wayyyyyyy wrong. That's a ridiculous excuse considering how cheap storage is and how little data actually needs to be stored.
Not buying this. Scrolling through your recently played music used to be a thing. Granted I've been using pandora for give or take over a decade but it definitely was a thing at some point. For what ever right, wrong or indifferent reason it's not anymore. This is supposed to be a music discovery platform. How are we supposed to discover music if I can't go back and see what songs have played over time. It's not realistic to have to run to the device to thumbs up the song for every new one I hear. You have my vote to bring this feature back.
Today I logged into my Pandora Account for the 1st time in years.I remember that I was in love with many songs that I used to listen to on Pandora years ago. But I don't remember the names of many of them nor the radio station they were on. For example, I remember one of the songs had the word "April" in the title but I don't remember what station it was on, nor the artist's name. Is there any way to see all of the songs that rotate on each station, or a history of the songs I listened to going back years, or do I have to listen to all my stations 1 by 1 until I hopefully find the song? Thanks for anyone who replies.
See this screenshot - this is the second song that has played so far in this listening session - behind this track you can partially see the album artwork of the track that played before this one did.
While I don't have screenshots of this process on mobile, it works similarly. After you have listened to multiple tracks in the same listening session, if you navigate to the now playing screen, you can swipe to the left or to the right to view what tracks played in that same session.
Flash71, Im not sure if this is any help but I figured what the hey. In the search bar I typed in Best Coast. Once they turned up I clicked on Stations, they came up Best Coast Radio. I hope it was something you were looking for. Take care.
I am also having this problem, i thought i was the only one! It's so annoying because if i delete it from my library the whole album is deleted from my playlists. i thought updating it would help but it didn't. does anyone know how to fix this??
This is happening to me too. It's extremely frustrating, especially since you can't delete songs from your library without removing them from playlists too. I updated to the newest version of IOS in hopes it would help-- no luck. As others have said, if you are really really quick on adding a song after turning the setting off yet again it seems to work sometimes, but that's annoying, unreliable, and only lets you add one song at a time.
This seems to a bug that crawled in after the last update. They need to fix this asap, it's annoying and it would definitely be a driving factor on me switching music streaming service. My music library is sacred. I add songs to a playlist and depending on a few factors they either ascend to my music library or stay in the playlist till whenever.
If you're wanting to add songs to a playlist , go to the playlist and select "edit". Then add the songs by search. I haven't had them added to my library and I added at least 6 new songs to a playlist.
Me too!! I thought it was only me, but I tried restarting my phone and deleting Apple Music and reinstalling, but that doesn't work either so don't stress yourself to do so. I might contact Apple to see if they can do anything about it, but for the meantime, keep deleting songs out of your library.
So annoying, might just go to Spotify... or do the old method way of high res downloading/torrenting each song. Shame, I like Apple Music > Spotify because they support the artists more... but if they cannot fix such a simple bug anytime soon I will cancel my subscription and move on.
There are just some bird songs that stop me in my tracks. I marvel at the complexity, the melody, the tone. They're the ones that stand out from the rest of the dawn chorus by their sheer beauty. I'm always grateful to be in the right place at the right time when I hear them.
Here's a link to download the FREE Audubon Bird Guide App: , so you can have bird songs in your pocket.
I include links to the online version of the Audubon Bird Guide for each of the birds listed below -guide and give links for the songs.
Veery. When I'm asked to pick my favorite bird song, this is it. The Veery can make two tones at the same time, using both sides of its syrinx to create harmony with itself. The song has a spiraling, descending flute-like tone. You can see the two tones on a spectrogram and read more about it here.
Wood Thrush. Really, all of the thrushes are amazing singers. But I like the bouncy lilt of the song of the Wood Thrush, as well as the strange, almost-metallic sound at the end of the song. It's a really weird noise that sets it apart from all other birds' songs.
Hermit Thrush. This one's song is clear, simple and yet complex at the same time. The longer tone at the start of the song sets a calming vibe, and then it gets all jumbly. It's a good one.
Bobolink. Yes, the R2-D2 bird. Its song is a very bubbly, metallic-sounding tumble of random notes. You'll find these birds nesting in Vermont's hayfields. Learn more about Audubon Vermont's work to help conserve the Bobolink:
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