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Vaclav Neumann conducts Czech Philharmonic and Dvorak's Symphony 7. A wonderful work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkVFq1I7sik

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Getting to more serious matters, Holden, how are your knees going?

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The Taxonomy chart I've posted can be enlarged and read on the Iphone: I've just done it myself and it makes for compelling reading. Very cleverly and accurately thought out by two whip-smart intellectuals.

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Klavan is part of the Daily Wire group and he's addressing a young audience at University of SC, Chapel Hill. It's just finished. An audience of happy, enquiring young people who don't have chips on their shoulders, hate in their hearts and who appreciate Klavan's ideas: what's not to love about you...

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How to turn a Lefty into a more conservative/classical liberal. There are growing legions of them now and they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out. I suddenly feel hope!! Dr. Boghossian nails it on each of these dreadful metrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtARgjShRvg Boghossian and Shel...

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A much more balanced view. Narendra Modi is unbeatable Francis Pike The Spectator Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a surprise when one considers that in a population of 1.4 billion people there are 969 million voters, 2,60...

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Ricordanza wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:47 am

the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey
A name I recognize--he's a former boyfriend of Yuja Wang.

Meeeooow.

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The cult of woke finds its apotheosis. When teenagers behave like this, most of whom still live at home with mommy and daddy, we are are reminded not just of the second cult - that of the child - but also the poison of institutional indoctrination now at work in US universities. These 'kiddies' of h...

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A pretty thorough appraisal of the situation from Hartcher. However, I'm deeply ambivalent about all this 'America as policeman' stuff, mostly on behalf of the beleaguered American taxpayer who must by now be good and tired of funding overseas wars. There has to be a better way, instead of the burde...

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Today I listened to Dvorak Symphony #8 with the Vienna Philharmonic/Jakob Hrůša in the concert from Prague late last year. What a very fine conductor he is too; the orchestra was on fire, except the Timp was out of balance by being a little too loud at times. Starts here at 56 minutes : https://www....

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Yes, this is true. In fact the Trio Sonata is one of the oldest - if not THE oldest - ensemble form in western music. It's actually quite a complicated beast and I remember researching it for 1st year Musicology many decades ago and it was like folding smoke, so diverse were the iterations of Trio S...

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There are some holes in this essay, like any piece of swiss cheese, but much of it is just common sense. Remember how everybody screamed and yelled 'racism' about the Australian newspaper cartoon by Bill Leak where the man asks about his aboriginal son's name? Well, the evidence is in that family dy...

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What incredibly low resolution thinking!!!

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Thanks. I did listen to some of them yesterday on YT, but we had to go out during much of the day - not returning until 9pm - and I will try and catch up today.

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Lebrecht's ode: SIR ANDREW DAVIS AND THE SNOBS Norman Lebrecht April 22, 2024 The composer Michael Tippett referred to him as ‘the other Davis’ – that is, not Sir Colin. Covent Garden never considered him a candidate to succeed his namesake. He was not appointed Generalmusikdirektor of any holy Ger...

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I love the Mendelssohn concertos - all - which includes the Violin concerto. There was energy and joie de vivre in them, in spades. He's still a somewhat under-rated composer, IMO. Perhaps his music is just too 'accessible' for its own good!!

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Haydn Piano Sonata in E Minor, XV1:34 Backhaus, 1959. It's one of my favourite piano sonatas, period. I have Ronald Brautigam playing this on the fortepiano too, and it's equally wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgfS9P_MoA&t=45s

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Makes you realize how smart the Vienna Philharmonic has been after all; over the decades putting their own relatives into the orchestra instead of outsiders. That worked mainly to keep 'the sound' but it seems it did have other positive consequences. That was, until they were forced to cease this pr...

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Don't 'tremble'; enjoy every single minute, especially with music. It's our motto for every single day and and it works a treat. New intellectual pursuits, music and great films and lots of fabulous books. The occasional trip thrown in for good measure and after that a few decent friends who are sti...

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Some of these packages of cocaine were found in Newcastle, as mentioned, which is just 30km from here and a major coal-loading port. A lot of shipping passes through this city's busy harbour.

Again. Where there's a demand there will always be a ready supply.

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I'm very sad to learn about this. Davis was a man of warmth, intelligence and humour and we saw this in spades during this Prom years. That he died 'suddenly' whilst being treated for Leukaemia was a huge stroke for fortune for him. It's a dreadful, debilitating disease. A life well lived. Thank you...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6W57r1yTWs

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I would expect the question which heads this discussion to be asked by any 10 year old. And I'd answer it as being asked by a child and not worthy of anything, apart from "when you grow up...."

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What awful, awful times we live in!! It's terrifying. The people who've bought into all this are one and the same cohort who have the unbridled hypocrisy to criticize Rupert Murdoch!! Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why man...

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"Yes,Prime Minister" on newspapers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63aIA3e-Tc Absolute comedy gold. The writing on both "Yes, Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" is amongst the very best ever created for television, comedy or drama - and that's a high bar. The Brits have got IT . You can see how m...

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Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen's address to the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. It's staggering to believe that the Belgium authorities tried to prevent this conference from going ahead and Dr. Maaßen speaks about that and other huge infringements on liberty underway in Europe at the moment. Th...

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Clifton Duncan is something of a rugged individualist who is unafraid to express his opinion. Plenty of things to admire. He is talking here with John McWhorter. Duncan refused to be vaccinated during Covid and this caused him a great many problems in his professional life. He's currently writing a ...

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' The science is settled '. Of course there are transgender human beings; conservatives just don't want CHILDREN mutilated. Or given the right to determine whether they should be castrated before 21 years of age. And, as with Covid, we cannot trust or be guaranteed the medical profession will behave...

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This work is thrillingly executed by this virtuosic group. The Ricercar @ 6 has always brought me to my knees and I watched it yesterday on YT played by Olivier Latry on the pipe organ!! The formidable keyboard skill required to play this - let alone on the organ - is something to behold. Charles Ro...

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I absolutely loved Peter Cook. Here he is with (Aussie) Clive James and afterwards Barry Humphries. British humour. You can't beat it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvU9CUllTo

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I've got plane-spotting going on in the background and reading your comments about Chailly. I like the Schumann symphonies, particularly the "Rhenish". That's an interesting study on the long musical line, more particularly in movement 1V Feierlich . It takes the long line and stretches it out to Wa...

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Unpacking the post-modernism/Marxist matrix: two fabulously intelligent men sort it. Two very intellectual heavy-hitters on the side of conservatives. (Dr. Lindsay once supported the Democrat Party.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrdyphape4&t=96s

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Cultural enrichment. What's not to love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4WqEadu3M

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That final quote from Clifford about belief is very compelling, EXCEPT that Christians BELIEVE without a scintilla of 'evidence'. That has worked for over 2000 years, more or less, but it does also throw into relief reasons WHY people have willingly suspended disbelief over the centuries. The entire...

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Very moving review. Well said.

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I feel this conductor is somewhat under-rated and I'm unsure why. I've seen him at the Gewandhaus back in 2015 and was impressed. (What a fabulous venue, by the way!!) Here he is conducting what I call 'Mendelssohn's orchestra' in Rossini's Petite Messs Solennelle, Though I prefer the smaller forces...

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A wonderful artist whose work I enjoy - in certain repertoire. Good on him for having the chops to tell it like it is. Relaxing rules; yes that always works a treat, doesn't it!! You can trust people to moderate their own behaviour, really you can. (I'm waiting for that relaxation on the use of seat...

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I prefer the messaging of Dr. James Lindsay who speaks about the growing rate of cults in the USA and around the world. Trans is yet another of these cults and people join/support/sympathize with them because they 'want to be nice'. Dr. Lindsay says if you've bought into the trans issues and support...

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A great discussion with Dr. Arnn about the divisive politics of identity. Heather is a brave woman and I admire her forthright argument, using facts. She loves literature and music and she's quite the polymath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchVwwDc4Fs

Insulting responses. In three...two...one

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You can call dissent 'uncomfortable'. That surprises me none. Joe is an off-the-shelf hate-bag and what I'm doing is pushing back against the lies and hypocrisy of the Left. This site is typical of many where the prevailing orthodoxy is left wing politics and absolutely no dissent will be tolerated ...

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On the contrary, it's your Democratic Party which is the party of big business these days! Big time. The Left grew rich!

As I've said before, I'm not going into a battle of wits with the totally un-armed. It wouldn't be fair.

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For Av-Geeks like myself this is amazing. Inside the cockpit of the superb machine which is the Airbus 350, with Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines. Scandinavian SK973 from Copenhagen to Bangkok. The computer technology is absolutely off the charts. (I can't wait to take the A350 from Sydney to Fiji in A...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:26 pm
Who knows what to think any more? Everything is so convoluted. I just think it's all a big mess.

Don't over-think it, just do what you do - do well!!

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I love this soprano and am familiar with her work in the baroque repertoire, especially with Les Arts. She's superb.

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This is a treat. The maestro; I loved the way he tried out the piano first!! What class, what panache, what je ne sais quoi!! His playing is wonderfully idiosyncratic - even mannered - at times, and it all seemed so effortless! I appreciate his Mozart and I never listen to this composer these days. ...

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You think so, Lance? "Tax dodgers", "wealth", "hiding". Hardly the badinage of the Algonquin Round Table and typically laced with bitterness and bile, sans facts.

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Thanks for the heads up. I'll listen now if it's on YT.

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The Copenhagen Stock Exchange, which is over 400 years old (and is referred to by Dr. Niall Ferugson in 'The Ascent of Money'). Such a beautiful city (with an Aussie as queen) and it's always a huge loss when something like this happens. One person interviewed said "this is our Notre Dame". I hope t...

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