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My point is that the facts as presented don't amount to much more than character assassination. And that happens equally as often as power corrupting, in general. (Sometimes you have both at the same time). But I really don't know much about orchestras and what goes on inside them. Do you think a '...

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Musicians! Read between the lines, though. There's definitely a hefty amount of professional jealousy and spite at work here. Is there anything that is actually newsworthy? The professional misconduct with the student is all hearsay. He got his sister into a temporary job on a trip to China, big de...

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What a phony this Haggard is. He preaches to people and does the complete opposite. "Completely heterosexual" is a ridiculous statement, you are either gay or you are not. If he had homosexual encounters with this male escort he is gay!

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Hi everyone. :) i need some recommendation for a violinist who is a student for 4 years, 13 yrs old child. what would be good and interesting for listening at this age for a violinist player?? Perhaps you could suggest something... thanks in advance Well I think it is good to have a well rounded kn...

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And in January 2009 we might well wish we were back in the post-Clinton era, rather than the mess left by Dubya. That is just a backwards way of thinking frankly. There is no reason we should go back to that pre 9/11 Clinton legacy (mess) he left behind. The post-Clinton era for your information wa...

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Conservativemaestro wrote: "Let me tell you Werner, we're still paying for Bill Clinton's negligence in the White House - had he actually had some guts and wiped out Al-Qaeda (which Bush has practially done), had Clinton gone after the [slamic terrorists in Somalia (that killed 19 of our servicemen...

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Keith, you're right about some phrases turning up again and again in different contexts. Sorry I was less than original - neverheless the bit about our children and grandchildren being burdened with the consequences of this administrstion is true, low current unemployment or not. Let me tell you We...

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Jimmy Carter = worst US president in history.

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Corlyss, you've finally got something right. "By their fruit ye shall know them!" Apply that to Mr. Bush and his band of blind and incompetent neocon backers. Our children and grandchildren will long pay the price. Performance, not rhetoric, still makes the diffference. That line about our grandchi...

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Well certainly in those days Toscanini and Reiner would be able to remove a musician just like that. Lots of these professional orchestras are political snakepits that the novice fan will not realize. I know that if a music director does not like a member of the orchestra - he may remove that membe...

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Well certainly in those days Toscanini and Reiner would be able to remove a musician just like that. Lots of these professional orchestras are political snakepits that the novice fan will not realize. I know that if a music director does not like a member of the orchestra - he may remove that member...

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Thugs, mugs, and mouthpieces The 'orchestral terrorism' alert level at the Seattle Symphony has fallen to 'low.' But the 'newspaper skepticism' level has risen to 'severe.' By Mark D. Fefer It was one of the more bizarre, even absurd, local stories of the year. In an ongoing internal battle over the...

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I can't believe I'm reading this. Dresden, Hiroshima, Gernika... those would be judged as crime against humanity by today's standards. Those were vicious and truly evil acts that have no justification whatsoever. Do you truly believe that those people really deserved that? I sincerely hope this thr...

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Note that both France and Russia lag behind their neighbors in average IQ thanks to their vengeance against the upper layers of society. Very true. Furthermore, from an economical standpoint - it is these upper tiers of society which make the economy work. It is the corporations that create jobs, a...

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Well I like Romney's chances. I think he's one of the few Republicans that can beat Hillary Clinton in the heated political debates that will come. I'd hate to see that woman back in the White House - the old saying "buy one, get one free", applies to the Clintons. It will be a step back for this co...

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I am, and still are somewhat puzzled by the admiration people on classical boards have for masters and recordings from the past. I will not deny of course the merits of those past conductors and musicians, but there are so many good and even better interpreters of classical music around today, that...

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Many people are reluctant to admit the nature of the current jihad. Bush always calls it the war on terror. We are not really on a crusade against the Tamil Tigers or ETA, though we may generally disapprove of terrorist tactics. The current war is with Islam. There are reasonable people who are acc...

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Islam's Threat to the West By Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com WASHINGTON – "We do believe Islam is at war with the Christian West.” With that comment, Paul Weyrich and William S. Lind have broken through a taboo in the entire discussion of the war on terrorism. Those who say the threat comes only from "Isla...

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Continue with the scare tactics, I'm going to go buy a big SUV.

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David Raksin used to have a radio program about film music, and he praised Bernard Herrman as one of the best. I think his music greatly enhances Hitchcock's films. Hermann actually made a cameo in one of the Hitchcock films, conducting the orchestra (I believe it was the Royal Philharmonic, or the...

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Well Reiner could be really insulting. Back then they did not really have a union for the musicians, Reiner and Toscanini would make violinists play all alone during rehearsals, which could be quite intimidating. If anyone was to do that today with an orchestra, these tenured musicians would go cry...

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Air over some parts of the open southern oceans may be the last vestiges of almost pre-industrial skies. The only pollutants in that air are sea salt, a little mineral dust, a faint whiff of brimstone from volcanoes and a smidgen of smoke from wildfires. It's not that someone is hoping to bottle th...

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Well, as a Mass. resident and voter: the reason Mitt was elected (and we've had Repub. governors, until this month, for 16 yrs.), is that they were seen as a counterweight to the overwhelmingly Demo. legislature. Plus the dems. put up basic insider types from the legislature with no imagination. Ha...

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David Raksin used to have a radio program about film music, and he praised Bernard Herrman as one of the best. I think his music greatly enhances Hitchcock's films. Hermann actually made a cameo in one of the Hitchcock films, conducting the orchestra (I believe it was the Royal Philharmonic, or the...

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Conservativemaestro wrote:Glad to hear that is coming out, they are probably the best orchestra in the US at this time.
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No orchestra is better than the New York Philharmonic!!!!!

Um I don't know about that...

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http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?cn=aei&c=10162&s=20271&e=5174&&espmt=2 They'd make a wonderful ticket for '08. It wouldn't be the worst ticket in my opinion, but not the best. Both Lieberman and McCain are far too loose with immigration. I don't know what their stance is on gay marr...

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[quote="pizza"][quote="karlhenning"][quote="Heck148"]It is true that Toscanini, Reiner, Szell, etc could be absolutely miserable sobs - demanding, intimidating, domineering, insulting, bullying, etc, etc... Well Reiner could be really insulting. Back then they did not really have a union for the mus...

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Glad to hear that is coming out, they are probably the best orchestra in the US at this time.

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Oh Barry….Get a grip…You know I’m exaggerating and you also know that I’m just as wary of Ahmadinejad and his ilk as you are. The difference is, I have known from the beginning that invading Iraq would only create problems and would not solve a thing Who so far has been proven right? Why should any...

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http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?cn=aei&c=10162&s=20271&e=5174&&espmt=2 They'd make a wonderful ticket for '08. It wouldn't be the worst ticket in my opinion, but not the best. Both Lieberman and McCain are far too loose with immigration. I don't know what their stance is on gay marr...

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I can't say it better than Senator McCain did on the Power Line blog: During my recent trip to Iraq, commanders spoke of adding as many as five additional brigades in Baghdad, and one or two additional brigades in Anbar Province. This, I believe, is the minimum we should consider. It would be far b...

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I wouldn't vote for a Repuklican for anything. There are no good Repuklicans out there (accept maybe dead ones). :wink: Well, I think it was Ann Coulter who remarked once, "There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats." I happen to agree with her on that statement. A good example...

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That's the one good thing that voters in Massachusetts have done by electing Romney. The fact that Ted Kennedy is continually reelected term after term, is a testament to how ignorant these voters of Massachusetts really are. I suppose this sort of ugly, sweeping personal remark is to be expected h...

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I wouldn't vote for a Repuklican for anything. There are no good Repuklicans out there (accept maybe dead ones). :wink: Well, I think it was Ann Coulter who remarked once, "There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats." I happen to agree with her on that statement. A good example...

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Oh thank you. Yes I will make it a point to come here often, I am already beginning to have a lot of fun here

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Why? Well, as far as performance of baroque music is concerned, the repeats were not supposed to be performed in the same manner. The musician was supposed to have enough musical wit to ornament the repeat differently. When the repeats are not performed, I think I'm being cheated. If the editor (of...

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Romney wouldn't even win Massachusetts, just as Pataki wouldn't even win New York. Possibly not even in their own party's primary. There's a reason Romney's nickname is "Nit." So how do explain the fact that Massachusetts elected him governor? That's the one good thing that voters in Massachusetts ...

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Well it is about time I think that we took care of these Satanic warlords down in Somalia. Bush has had to clean up a lot of the mess Clinton behind. If you take a look at the Clinton debacle in Somalia for example - which incidentally the far-left media has turned a blind eye to, had Clinton handle...

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The fact that Romney might not win Massachusetts or New York in the primary, which are two of the most liberal states, means absolutely nothing. If you look at his record it is much more impressive than any other candidate in my opinion. He has done lots of things outside of politics, like running a...

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BOSTON (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney began his drive for the presidency in earnest Monday, gathering his national fundraisers in Boston and having them call friends and colleagues in a push to raise the first of an estimated $100 million this year. The former Massachusetts governor hoped the glitzy ...

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I quite agree with that, I have those Naxos disks and they are very nicely played representations. Another choice, and one you shouldn't do without, is Jascha Heifetz playing the 4th and 5th. There are so many different recordings out there that it is hard to just pick one, but Heifetz had Vieutemp...

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Every Toscanini enthusiast, should read a book by Samuel Chotzinoff, President of NBC Music, about Toscanini. It is a very well written book.

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So true Corlyss, if it was Donald Rumsfeld, or someone from the Bush administration stuffing highly classified documents down their pants then hiding them under a trailer - as Berger did, the left-wing media would be all over it. There definitely is (to put it in a nutshell) a big double standard in...

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