Tricks and Illusions: The Humbling of the Gods in Utgarda-Loki’s Castle


Once upon a time in the ancient Nordic realm, the great gods Thor and Loki found themselves traveling far from Asgard in Thor’s goat-drawn chariot, and sought shelter in a farmer’s home overnight. Thor offered his goats for supper as a show of gratitude, with the intention of resurrecting them afterwards, instructing the farmer and his family to place the bones on the hides to achieve this. However, the farmer’s son disobeyed Thor’s instructions, leading to one of the goats having a lame hind leg. Instead of killing the family as punishment, Thor took their children, Thjalfi and Roskva, as his servants. As they reached their destination, the travelers entered the castle of Utgarda-Loki, where they were immediately taunted for their small size and faced a series of challenges. Eager to prove their prowess, Loki boasted that he could out-eat anyone in the castle, and was proven wrong.

Thjalfi, known for his incredible speed, offered to race anyone in the castle, only to be bested. Thor, known for his immense strength and love of drink, then challenged the inhabitants of the castle to a drinking contest, and was humiliated. Utgarda-Loki revealed that the contests had been illusions, and the gods left the castle wiser and more cautious for having encountered the cunning Utgarda-Loki. And the tale of their encounter would be told and retold, a cautionary reminder of the folly of underestimating the power of illusion and trickery.

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Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie, played by Jacques Février in 1966. Musicologist and philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch used to say that Satie was the composer of mornings, because there is something matutinal about his music… I might add that he was more precisely the composer of Sunday mornings, even though there is nothing religious about his compositions: but there is a serenity, a calmness, an emptiness that modernity associates with Sundays; so here is your dose of Sunday morning music. In fact, Satie was the inventor of something very modern that surrounds your everyday life…

One day of 1920, Erik Satie organized something peculiar during the intermission of a concert by Max Jacobs. Indeed, it was the first outing of his concept of « musique d’ameublement » (furnishing music). The principle is simple: the public should walk around and discuss as if it were a normal intermession while musicians played music that should not be actively listened to…

Because of traditional reflexes, the audience stopped to listen to the music but Satie and Milhaud kept saying « Whatever you do, don’t listen! »… And that’s the day what we now know as background music was born. As a true avant-garde artist and a serial jokester, with that experience, Satie wanted to do away with the idea of music happening as an organized and paid for event. During that intermission, music was therefore a non-event, a piece of furniture in the grand scheme of things, just like lighting or heating. What was seen as a joke then is our life now, and it even has a name, « elevator music »: shops, elevator, bars, restaurants… Every moment is a musical one and it’s barely noticeable because it should not be. It’s ironic that the Gymnopédies, written way before Satie’s concept, eventually became mainstream elevator music.

Ivan Zivkovic captures the intricate beauty of animals and insects through stunning close-up photography, revealing details that are often missed by the naked eye. His work showcases the delicate textures and vibrant colors of the natural world, offering a unique perspective on wildlife.

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Daniil Trifonov, age 20, performing Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (S. 514) during the first round of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, where Trifonov was awarded first prize.
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Trifonov was born in 1991, in Nizhy Novgorod (USSR) as an only child. His father was a composer and his mother was a music teacher. Trifonov began learning the piano at the age of five, gave his first solo concert at seven and gave his first performance with an orchestra (where he notably lost one of his baby teeth during his performance of a Mozart concerto) at the age of eight. At age nine, he entered the prestigious Gnessin School of Music in Moscow and became a pupil of Tatiana Zelikman, (who herself was a student of Heinrich Neuhaus, who taught the likes of Emil Gilels and Radu Lupu). After studying with Zelikman for nine years, and at her recommendation, Trifonov commenced studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, with whom he studied from 2009-2015.

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