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barney

Actually, I don't think Lance comes on to the Corner Pub. Not sure who the other moderators are. Chalkperson, I think, but haven't seen hide nor hair of him for a long time. You're probably safe, Holden - tell me what you really think.

barney

An interesting article. Just one point I'd like to make regarding what people post online in forums like these and other forms of social media. The bottom line is that you are responsible for the content you post and you can be brought to task for anything that is defamatory, slanderous or illegal....

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Janet Albrecthsen often makes excellent points. This transgender nonsense is dominating all sorts of discourse. It's absurd. I can just see workers on building sites shouting at passing women "nice chest-feeding implements". :D (Of course they should not shout anything.) What is unfolding is the ant...

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This is brilliant news. Even if Trump is not going to jail, as he richly deserves, if he is tied up in endless, expensive lawsuits that will help minimise his ultra-malign influence.

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I didn't realise a visit from you would increase the whole world's suffering!

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I have a lot of Scarlatti on piano, and generally enjoy him, but I'm ashamed to say I've never hitherto heard of Ross. I have harpsichord versions by Ralph Kirkpatrick and Robert Veyron-Lacroix, fortepiano by Jaqueline Ogeil. But I like piano best.

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It seems as though his Ravel is a must have.
Not sure I want the rest.

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Yes, I ordered from England in May of 2020. I just went through my LONG list of Munch recordings and realized that I never received it! Something like that rarely happens to me. I just sent a letter, though it is long past due to get a refund but I asked the vendor to check to see if it ever went o...

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Henry, I'm sorry, but for me there was no link at all, just white space. Did others receive the link? Do you mind trying again?

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Henry, was there something missing on the end of your post? I was awaiting the insights with interest. Or are you suggesting that I can provide insights on dinosaurs from my experience of being one? Brian, thanks for that link.I read some of the discussion, and I too prefer the Alpine Symphony to E...

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Love the first cartoon. Not so keen on the second. Don't like violence normalised.

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Lance, are you aware of the 14-CD Decca Eloquence set of all his Decca, DG, L'Oiseau Lyre etc recordings? I'm just listening to it now. Some lovely recordings, including a Widor fantasia I'd never heard.

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Yes, it seems things could go in all sorts of directions in the US. I'm still hopeful - the country has gone through similar experiences and emerged stronger. It seems to me that if the Republicans could ditch Trump and recover some principles and become a proper Opposition to hold the Democrats to ...

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Thanks Brian

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Well, I bought this recording and am listening to it. I was right--it does sound like Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Requiem für einen jungen Dichter" (Requiem for a Young Poet") on very heavy-duty steroids, if you throw in some cocaine and methamphetamine as well! Very interesting, but I probably won't...

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Henry, was there something missing on the end of your post? I was awaiting the insights with interest. Or are you suggesting that I can provide insights on dinosaurs from my experience of being one? Brian, thanks for that link.I read some of the discussion, and I too prefer the Alpine Symphony to Ei...

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I have written many times of my dismay at the identification of Christianity with Trump supporters and the rise of Christian nationalism. It's not that Christianity should identify with Democrats - it should not identify with ANY political party. One's vote is a matter for one's individual conscienc...

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Brilliant cartoon, Joseph. Neatly encapsulates what I think.

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I often disagree with Brendan O'Neill, but in siding with team Queen rather than team Meghan I definitely concur. There's no doubt that the Queen's has been a life of stoic self-sacrifice and service, even from her childhood and war service. O'Neill cites John Wilkes, one of the wittiest politicians...

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Thanks for those thoughts and recommendations, Brian. I will follow them up gradually. I know of Ancient Airs and Dnces, though I'm not sure I've actually heard the work, but the friend with whom I went to the opera (my usual companion, a first violinist in the MSO) loves it. Just checked my (alas i...

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We certainly have our deranged ranters, but the temperature is definitely cooler. There are people I dislike on both sides, actually, but it's the right that rants. The left tends more to a smug self-satisfaction and entitlement. It's a different culture. Australians don't like anything that seems e...

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Alternative facts, Brian. Very useful things for the Trump cult.

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I'm really glad they got that guy. I see he handed himself in probably minutes before he was arrested anyway. He was vicious.

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Great cartoon, Joseph. Really captures something.

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:26 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:06 am
THE HILL Romney: 'Pretty sure' Trump would win 2024 GOP nomination if he ran for president [url]
Does Romney feel Trump could win while sitting in a jail cell! Regards, Len

As we often say here, from your lips to God's ear, Len.

barney

Thank you Brian, so interesting to see your thoughts. I still use a desktop by the way; I find the phone too irritating. But I am a dinosaur - a brontosaurus perhaps, with a tiny pinhead on a long neck going munch, munch, munch. :D I strongly agree with your observations about standards today. In Au...

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I come across TDS constantly on the right-wing sites Belle loves. There it stands for Tedious Donald Sycophancy.

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Great summary: Jonathan Chait, writing at New York magazine, captured the repugnant essence of Limbaugh's appeal: Limbaugh oozed bile. He did not merely characterize his targets as misguided, or stupid, or even selfish. He rendered them for his audience as dehumanized targets of rage. He had special...

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I heartly endorse the gin-soaked raisins plan, except I omit the raisins.

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Having a well-developed sense of social justice has nothing to do with one's bankbook balance, and everything to do with the very basic ability to connect with people. Some folks are born with that, others will never have it, while many of us are hopefully growing towards that sense of empathy. It'...

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Disappointed no mention of possible jail for tax fraud, if found guilty.

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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, Brian. I was truly charmed by the music. I don't know Respighi that well, apart from the big three or four works like Pines and Fountains of Rome. Might have to investigate further.

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Fascinating, Brian. The last paragraph is prescient.
Are the big five still the same? Has Los Angeles replaced Cleveland? I think it's Lebrecht who sarcastically calls Franz Welser-Most "Frankly Worse then Most". Baltimore and Pittsburgh have had their moments, ditto San Francisco.

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Fascinating thoughts, Brian - one of the reasons I love CMG. In my month in New York in 2016, in which I attended a concert or opera every night but two, I heard the NY Phil a few times. I didn't think it matched, for example, the Bavarians under Janssons whom I heard twice at Carnegie Hall, or inde...

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Appalling, absolutely hate-fuelled comments. How do you get to sleep at night with all that hatred on board? It's a serious question. People like you scare the hell out of many of us. Trump has lost the election and the only thing keeping him from total obscurity and irrelevance is people like you....

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Great stuff. thanks.

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Well, there's an outcry now. I wonder if anyone will be held accountable, and if anything will change. If the Republicans can dither and delay long enough, probably they can get away with doing nothing.

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No I'm sure it's the same here - but the bank has to be satisfied it is fraud. Clearly in your case, and mine, it was but I'm sure people sometimes struggle to prove it.

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Just been to my first live, in-person stage performance in the best part of a year. Tremendously exciting. It was Sleeping Beauty. No, not Tchaikovsky - Respighi! If you didn't know he composed such an opera, you are not alone. Until I saw Victorian Opera had programmed it I didn't know it existed. ...

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Very interesting and illuminating comment, thank you.

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Interesting, Lance. I'm not sure if credit/debit cards are treated differently here. I told you that in January my creditcard details were hacked/stolen by someone at a merchant or whatever. $4000 was rung up in eight transactions in about 10 minutes,but the bank alerted me after three minutes, and ...

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It seems like those companies perhaps didn't do due diligence in the first place.

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:48 am

Barney, the "cassette" referred to in the translated review refers to the box the CDs came in, I believe.

Good thinking, Brian.

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Brian, just ordered it for $A124, incl. postage - not cheap, but it has 3 operas I don't possess (found I have only Cunning Little Vixen and Jenufa)

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I hope Scott Willoughby will be able to get a refund from the automatic withdrawal from his account by Griddy. I keep getting letters to switch to independent electric/gas supplies but have always used New York State Electric & Gas who does the billing no matter what independent supplier you use. A...

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Let's face it, it's not only in politicis that moral compromise is expected from employees - they might end up no better off. But lying and toadying are skills universally appreciated by employers . Undoubtedly in the media, but ruthlessness is one of the main characteristics my son experiences in ...

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Pile of nonsnese, Lance. If English is the reviewer's first language, he's in trouble. What is misognous? Does he mean misogynous? If so, it makes no sense. How can an intepretation be misogynous? ring of the nibels? Solomon ... its virtuosity? Why does he get the neuter pronoun? The price of the ca...

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I am a huge fan of Sokolov. He is a true individualist, like Richter or Gould and not every nuance works for me, but his willingness to explore, his incredible intensity, his delicacy are so striking. Last night I watched him play the first of the D899 Schubert impromptus, and he started in a way I ...

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I should invest in that Mackerras set. I don't have enough Janacek opera. But the one I know and love the best is The Cunning Little Vixen. Just pure pleasure all the way through. Thee's a cartoon version on YouTube I liked, if I recall correctly.

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... But lying and toadying are skills universally appreciated by employers. :D Bingo ! The epithet for our times, but not for the times when America or Australia were founded. Generous of you to say so, but I'm not sure you are right about Australia. White settlement began in 1788 with the arrival ...

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