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- Wed May 15, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The hard Left grows uglier
- Replies: 0
- Views: 17
The hard Left grows uglier
These people are not conservatives, who busy themselves working, earning, raising families. The ferals who are disrupting the universities and getting away with it are hard Lefties. Infantile, entitled, angry and bitter. They've been so propagandized by the institutions that they have inhibited, cau...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
There you go. No argument in sight, just name-calling. Same as the black producer who talked to John McWhorter..."an idiot". Never anything by way of intelligent analysis or argument; just platitudes, bromides, cliches "black lives matter" - it's SO YESTERDAY. What would you have without your victim...
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
I'm no victim, but the evidence is in about the cruelty meted out to others by the hard Left for daring to disagree. Pointing out facts is horrible, I know. Only the Left could confuse facts and commentary with 'victimhood'. It's so ingrained in them that it's an instinctive reaction; it's called A ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:53 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 121
Re: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
I disagree that any person paying $1m in taxation would be 'happy'; this is surely the bloviating chant of an accountant who deals in chump change. The current income tax rate for a person earning over (circa) $200K in this country is 47.5%, plus Medicare levy - and with GST that would quickly go ov...
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 10
- Views: 192
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
The Right's accusations about antisemitism are spot on. I agree. But the Right has just as long and ignoble a history of anti-Semitism, so I think this is much more about Left-bashing than genuine concern for the Jewish community. You are speaking about 80 years ago and much has changed since then....
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
Re: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
Wasn't the Siegfried Idyll composed for the birth of Wagner's son, Siegfried? Perhaps I'm mistaken; I've been know to be. Once.
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
It’s a funny thing. Our schools are very well integrated in terms of achievement, merit, beauty, IQ, but race….. racial integration is communism. This brings me back to the 1960s. My father served on inter-faith councils on race relations and civil rights. Because he felt that a nation whose forefa...
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 with Violinist Alexander Detisov and Pianist Efrem Briskin
- Replies: 6
- Views: 71
Re: Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 with Violinist Alexander Detisov and Pianist Efrem Briskin
And isn't that work by Brahms such a joy!!!
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
Absolutely priceless non-argument.
Oh, I forgot; HEALTH segregates and discriminates too.
Oh, I forgot; HEALTH segregates and discriminates too.
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 121
Re: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
I suppose for much the same reason it took so long to 'investigate' the Clinton Foundation.
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 with Violinist Alexander Detisov and Pianist Efrem Briskin
- Replies: 6
- Views: 71
Re: Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 with Violinist Alexander Detisov and Pianist Efrem Briskin
I will turn my attention to this today. This example of demonstrates once again that somebody can rise and rise no matter how disadvantaged the circumstance. And that the state isn't needed when there's courage and determination!!
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2427
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
You know what? ACHIEVEMENT segregates. MERIT segregates. STATUS segregates. WINNING segregates. WEALTH segregates. BEAUTY segregates. IQ segregates. The Left wants everybody on the same level; nowhere. Move to North Korea if that's what's on the agenda. That way you get a One Star airline and absolu...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
The tribute to your mother was beautiful and heartfelt. You and I are both so fortunate to have parents that provided and imparted the really 'good things in life' to us an early age. Indeed, in the sunset of our lives made all the richer for what happened years ago. Sviatoslav Richter, an antholog...
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
- Replies: 3
- Views: 72
Re: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
From our place it's 80 minutes by freeway to a major outer Sydney northern suburb, where we park the car at a club (we hold membership just for the carparking and eats) and catch the train into the city, which is another 45 minutes. We have this all down to a fine art, so if you come to Sydney we ca...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
- Replies: 3
- Views: 72
Re: Roby Lakatos & Ensemble, Live at Sydney Opera House
I'm sorry to report I haven't heard of this artist or group. These days I don't travel to Sydney Opera House unless it's for a performance which is REALLY SPECIAL . Last time was several years ago - to the Drama Theatre for a performance of "Noises Off" by Michael Frayne. Absolutely hilarious play, ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Frank Peter Zimmermann, violinist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 865
Re: Frank Peter Zimmermann, violinist
A wonderful violinist and favourite, along with Joshua Bell and Leonidas Kavakos (whom I think is now doing conducting). What a pleasure for anybody lucky enough to see any of these in concert. I'm not sure, but I think Zimmermann is or was artist in residence with the Berlin Philharmonic. What an o...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Dr. Jordan Peterson with Brett Cooper
- Replies: 0
- Views: 25
Dr. Jordan Peterson with Brett Cooper
This actress and podcaster is very young and she walks Dr. Peterson through her experiences acting in Hollywood (!!!!) and at university, coping with rejection from her friends from the Left because she was a conservative, and dealing with feminist readings of Jane Austen!! She's a bright girl who s...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang's new "The Vienna Recital" on DGG
- Replies: 8
- Views: 262
Re: Yuja Wang's new "The Vienna Recital" on DGG
I'd say what's happened is that the engineer/producer has balanced the performance dynamics just as you've suggested, after the recital, and simply removed the applause at the same time. All this modern recording engineering begs the question about performance and interpretation altogether, as it ha...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Glenn Loury: Intellectual Force of Nature
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24
Glenn Loury: Intellectual Force of Nature
He and John McWhorter present their weekly podcasts and I wouldn't miss these and haven't for ages, despite the hiatus for Glenn's recent hospitalization and back surgery. They're both amazing and I especially appreciate John's knowledge and love of music: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/13/gl...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
Sviatoslav Richter, an anthology, particularly Rachmaninov #1 from the 1950s when the great, great pianist was absolutely at the height of his powers !! I grew up with this recording and my mother talked me through it when I was about 9. As I'm in the sunset of my life I look back, reflect and celeb...
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Georg Telemann "Tafelmusik" (Complete)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 57
Georg Telemann "Tafelmusik" (Complete)
It takes a big commitment to listen to this huge work by Telemann but just a cursory hearing is enough to convince of his talents and his ability to incorporate the music of others into his own style. Telemann was influenced by Rameau and the French style and this is evident in much of Telemann's mu...
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 1218894
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Well, this is hardly a ringing endorsement from somebody who thinks John Wayne was a 'great actor'!!!
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 1218894
Re: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
Pop tunes which are 60 years old this year !! These were mostly great for dancing and partying. And those pop singers had talent! There were some good melodies and arrangements amongst this lot! And it's amazing how pop music can evoke so many memories!! It was a huge year for the Brits. It's my gu...
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
Clifford Curzon, 1968, Schumann's Kinderszenen. Strength and tenderness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdms6u7fXF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdms6u7fXF8
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fasten your seatbelts for the 1 star airline experience
- Replies: 0
- Views: 47
Fasten your seatbelts for the 1 star airline experience
North Korean national carrier. One can only laugh at this and wonder at the bravery of those people who've signed up for the trip. It's actually priceless and we need to be laughing muchmore about North Korea!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLXw7SQvAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLXw7SQvAk
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang Recital at Carnegie Hall
- Replies: 2
- Views: 90
Re: Yuja Wang Recital at Carnegie Hall
I've always believed Yuja Wang was better suited to those composers from the first half of the program and, of course, to contemporaries like Glass and the late Kapustin. Her dazzling virtuosity seems right for that kind of music.
- Sat May 11, 2024 6:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
I've found myself gravitating more and more to Haydn, not just for the keyboard works but the wonderful masses. I heard them all played for Sonntag Hochamt in Augustinerkirche, Wien with their conductor, choir, orchestra and organist. Here is a wonderful work from Haydn's younger brother, Michael; t...
- Sat May 11, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
- Replies: 1
- Views: 62
Re: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
As I wrote before, I'm a donor and member of the IPA and have been to a speech from Brendan back in 2017 and I also know interviewer John Roskam. Reformed marxist O'Neill always makes quite a lot of sense, though I don't always agree with him. One thing is certain, he does his homework and is unafra...
- Fri May 10, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
- Replies: 1
- Views: 75
Re: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
Yes, I'm a donor and member of the IPA and I admire Brendan (not just as a reformed Marxist). Having been to one of his presentations in Sydney several years ago, he makes good arguments.
I think you've posted it on the Chatterbox instead of the Pub.
I think you've posted it on the Chatterbox instead of the Pub.
- Fri May 10, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
Emanuel Ax plays Haydn Sonata 53 Hob XV1/34. My favourite Haydn sonata; it's such a joy, filled with humour. This is a somewhat 'romantic' reading: I still favour the Brautigam but this one from Ax is absolutely charming. One thing I've noticed with these works when listening whilst reading the scor...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: No shrimp for the barbie ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 92
Re: No shrimp for the barbie ?
Our second son has travelled extensively in remote Australia - WA and SA - for work. The crews are all equipped with Starlink in their vehicles in case of breakdown or emergencies. Coping with the existential heat is a daily challenge for all crews and staff. Dust is off the charts, but it would be ...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Re: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
I admit I was muddying the waters by mentioning B#. The main reason you see odd note names like B# or G## is because these notes are leading you somewhere. B# is like a finger pointing to C#. If you see a B# written on the page you can be sure there's a C# coming up soon. If it were going somewhere...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 132626
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Re: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
Thanks for this. I'm always intrigued about B# when it could be C! But that enharmonic 'spelling' will depend on the original key of the piece (E Minor in this case) and all keys relative to that, I guess - apart from some modulations to distant places. I've forgotten so much theory over the decades...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Re: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
I agree that Atkinson's analysis is somewhat discursive, but I found some of the references useful. When you refer to those conventional harmonic progressions 1-1V-V-1 it did come as a surprise to find the less conventional modulations of which you write. One can 'read' different chords, pivots and ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Re: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
When these amazing works are played (and deconstructed) I always get the feeling that Brahms had the beating heart a lion trapped inside his dowdy, avuncular mien. He was in reality a VOLCANO.
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 649
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
I loved this quote, and it's so very true. I never grow tired of the Bach Passions, the B Minor Mass or 'the 48' and many more works by Bach. Same response to Beethoven (except final movement Symphony 9 - pass!) and Brahms (except Ein Deutsches Requiem - pass). These lines about music and passion fr...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Analysis of Brahms' Passacaglia Symphony #4
Richard Atkinson completes his stunning essays on the forms of the Brahms symphonies with the Passacaglia which ends Symphony #4. He includes other works by Brahms to make his analysis, linking it back to previous compositions using this form of polyphonic complexity. I find it terribly moving looki...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach's successor; the new Thomanerchor Dirigent
- Replies: 0
- Views: 89
Bach's successor; the new Thomanerchor Dirigent
The latest Kantor of Thomaskirche, Leipzig, is Swiss. Andreas Reize. A first for the role. The Passion performances I've posted here are both conducted by Reize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rhAyVStAGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rhAyVStAGA
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach St. John Passion, Thomanerchor/Gewandhaus Orch, Leipzig
- Replies: 0
- Views: 94
Bach St. John Passion, Thomanerchor/Gewandhaus Orch, Leipzig
I posted this recent performance of the St. John Passion in the wrong place. It's the same group which presented St. Matthew in their earlier performance, and which I'd posted under that heading. I've actually sung St. John Passion in a university choir - alto - decades ago (when a Musicology studen...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 649
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Oh, yes, of course!! Senior's moment. I'll repost it separately as it's from the same ensemble as recorded the St. Matthew earlier.
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 219
Re: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
We've heard most of this before. The lead poisoning claim with regard to deafness; yeah, but Beethoven was going deaf by his late 20s. He wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, out of despair, in 1802 a couple of months before his 32nd birthday. There is no irrefutable evidence that any of Beethoven's h...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 319
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
I ask again if this is the same research outfit which predicted a win for Mrs. Clinton in 2016? And, if your stats are correct, they just prove my point about wholesale propaganda anyway. :lol: There's never any nuance, any discussion, any complexity or thoughtfulness. Just knee-jerk, easy to reiter...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Levit versus Wang in Beethoven 31/3 Presto movement
- Replies: 0
- Views: 109
Levit versus Wang in Beethoven 31/3 Presto movement
Levit here from circa 15:20 playing this last movement of " The Hunt " sonata by Beethoven. Lots of humour and personality in this piece, in spades!! Levit has 'characters' in his playing of this work and, of course, it has a fairly hectic pace! He builds up the tension and brings a sense of relief ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms and Dvorak
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4118
Re: Brahms and Dvorak
This Brahms #4 with Kna and the Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester (1953) sounds only a little like Dvorak - whereas the earlier 3 symphonies of Brahms do. The 4th is unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-iB-GM0tQ&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-iB-GM0tQ&t=15s
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3185
- Views: 2354476
Re: What I listened to today
Monteverdi, Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (Libro Ottavo) Jordi Savall. Beautiful, translucent and sophisticated music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjkhWARBVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjkhWARBVE
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 649
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Here's a fairly new performance of the St. Matthew Passion from Thomaskirche, Leipzig. This time one of my preferred countertenors, Andreas Scholl, is singing. It's an excellent performance altogether, with some interesting organ and continuo figurations - even in the chorale sections. https://www.y...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Three Faces of Don
- Replies: 1
- Views: 90
Re: The Three Faces of Don
In Australia a major smallgoods company which makes processed ham is called Don. Just saying.
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 112
Re: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
OH. MY. GOD.
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 246
- Views: 132626
Re: Some mirth
Two men were talking. "Do you know that there are millions of people living on the moon?" "No. Imagine how crowded it is at half moon!!" "We could take a small room, couldn't we? That's an idea, isn't it? Yes, but who said we had to have an idea?" "The last mass trials were a great success. Soon the...