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- Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:49 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 139
Re: Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers
The article doesn't really say much about contemporary composers, but in general I always think it's a good to listen to them.
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How to live to 111
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: How to live to 111
The secret to living to 111?
Op. 111 (the Beethoven sonata)
Contemplate that regularly and your brain will remain active and functioning into your second century.
Op. 111 (the Beethoven sonata)
Contemplate that regularly and your brain will remain active and functioning into your second century.
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: ‘Mad’ Marjorie Greene threatens G.O.P. Congresswoman for throwing McCarthy under the bus
- Replies: 13
- Views: 288
Re: ‘Mad’ Marjorie Greene threatens G.O.P. Congresswoman for throwing McCarthy under the bus
Trumpist friends aren't really friends, and they're not worth having.jserraglio wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:41 pmIf you have a lot of Trump friends and pursue this course, prepare yourself to lose a lot of friends.
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: ‘Mad’ Marjorie Greene threatens G.O.P. Congresswoman for throwing McCarthy under the bus
- Replies: 13
- Views: 288
Re: ‘Mad’ Marjorie Greene threatens G.O.P. Congresswoman for throwing McCarthy under the bus
This is precisely why there needs to be accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection, the very thing that Greene is trying to prevent. If the Senate does not convict, or rather WHEN the Senate fails to convict, the clear message that will be communicated is that the use of force, the use of violent mo...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:22 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Onward Christian soldiers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 206
Re: Onward Christian soldiers
I'm reminded of the band director I played under who used to tell us to play the "Light Calvary Overture". I thought maybe this was the version where they took it easy on Jesus, tying hiim to the cross rather than nailing him, letting him take bathroom breaks, or whatever. It seems to me that if Tru...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road
- Replies: 11
- Views: 661
Re: How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road
Among more recent music, Michael Torke's Being (2019) also has that same symbionce with the road. It's a more urban landscape, though, with more details, more buildings and the distant hills are less dominating. (BTW I've decided this is my very favorite 21st century music; when I listen to it I fee...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road
- Replies: 11
- Views: 661
Re: How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road
....has such a strong sense of motion with the ostinato, that repeated motif in the orchestra — almost like telephone poles against which you can measure the speed of the soloist. It’s kind of an aural analogue to what they call optic flow. Like if you’re driving in a tunnel with lights — or, as yo...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thomas Larcher's Cello Concerto
- Replies: 5
- Views: 231
Re: Thomas Larcher's Cello Concerto
There are at least two performances of this piece on Youtube. One of them is by Weilerstein.
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:03 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
- Replies: 10
- Views: 288
Re: 'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
It goes without saying that the MAGAgoths are going to be antisemitic. They wear their antisemitism on their sweatshirts. But even being Protestant is not safe from them. You have to be the right kind of Protestant, and eventually you'll have to be the right kind of right kind of Protestant. And the...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
- Replies: 10
- Views: 288
Re: 'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
Brian, your response puzzles me. From the UCC website: “I see two primary tasks for the Church, one prophetic and one pastoral. The first is to call out and name the persistent evil that is white supremacy,” said the Rev. John Dorhauer, UCC general minister and president. “It is gaining purchase wit...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:08 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
- Replies: 10
- Views: 288
'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day
'Liberal' Churches Warned of Possible Attacks Around Biden Inauguration Day Ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration this Wednesday, the United Church of Christ (UCC) tweeted a warning about threats that "liberal" churches have received leading up to Biden's swearing in. On Friday, the UCC...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Another Attack on Western Music from the Woke
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1640
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1269
Re: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
MSNBC is reporting that some House or Senate members,when many were herded together into a small, but crowded,safe area by Capitol police, still refused to wear virus masks. These assholes should be named, and a motion to expel them from Congress at least advanced so they will have to vote the moti...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ivry Gitlis, RIP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 297
Re: Ivry Gitlis, RIP
When I was a teen, I had his recording of the Stravinsky and Hindemith violin concertos. I was struck by his tight vibrato, which gave his playing a different sound than any other violinist I've heard
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: My Friday Morning Piano Quartet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 302
My Friday Morning Piano Quartet
Recently I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the 135th anniversary of the Friday Morning Music Club, a musical organization in the Washington DC area with which I have been associated for 12 years. My new piece Friday Morning can be heard here in a program of the Friday Morning Music Club. The...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Noah Creshevsky, Composer of ‘Hyperreal’ Music, Dies at 75
- Replies: 2
- Views: 423
Re: Noah Creshevsky, Composer of ‘Hyperreal’ Music, Dies at 75
Thank you for introducing me to a composer I've never heard of. It's too bad composers have to die before you find out about them. Fortunately there's a selection of his music available on Youtube, and I've been sampling them. Some of them sound like manic jazz with lots of drums, some of them sound...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Big problems await Texas' SCOTUS bid to nix 20 million votes
- Replies: 20
- Views: 895
Re: Big problems await Texas' SCOTUS bid to nix 20 million votes
The fact that so many states, and so many congressmen that ought to know better have signed on to this ridiculous suit lays bare for all to see what the Republican party has become. They've utterly given up on democracy. They've given up on constitutional republics, even. They've given up on voting ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1279
Re: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
New York Philharmonic clarinetist Anthony McGill, one of the few Black musicians in the ensemble, agrees that Beethoven’s inescapability can make classical music appear monolithic and stifling. He likens the inescapability of the Fifth Symphony to a “wall” between classical music and new, diverse a...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1279
Re: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
I am a fan of some of the piano concertos of Aussie (?) Malcolm Williamson and piano sonatas of Kiwi Douglas Lilburn. Others from down under we should hear ? TIA. I took a composition lesson with Malcolm Williamson. He was a composer in residence at my college (Florida State University, 1975) for o...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1279
Re: Beethoven and sickeningly stupid culture warriors
Beethoven is, by his prominence in the canon of classical music, an easy target, and a convenient screen on which people can project all of their own issues and concerns. I can remember a book called Beethoven, the Man Who Freed Music by someone whose name escapes me. Freed music from what? Was musi...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Risks from liquor store vs. large religious gatherings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 737
Re: Risks from liquor store vs. large religious gatherings
If a religious group feels so strongly about the need to congregate in large numbers, so much so that meeting virtually by way of Zoom or other software is not acceptable (which is how most churches are handling the pandemic), then they ought to be willing to take the responsibility to quarantine th...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump atty. Sidney Powell: the President was the hapless victim of a leftist algorithm
- Replies: 5
- Views: 509
Re: Trump atty. Sidney Powell: the President was the hapless victim of a leftist algorithm
Leftist algorithm = more people voted for Biden, many more.
They lost. Their Erlöser is now just a LOSER. They need to get over it.
They lost. Their Erlöser is now just a LOSER. They need to get over it.
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Cliftwood" is back on CMG!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 737
Re: "Cliftwood" is back on CMG!!!
Welcome back, piano man! And stick around for your centennial!
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 2020 Shows Why the Electoral College Is Stupid and Immoral
- Replies: 11
- Views: 604
Re: 2020 Shows Why the Electoral College Is Stupid and Immoral
I get the large state vs. small state aspect of the electoral college. But the fact that state politicians can even contemplate setting aside the votes of their state in favor of their partisan choice I find flawed and unacceptable. The process for tabulating electors on election day already provide...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Pentagon pays a price for not requisitioning tanks and jets for Doughboy‘s holiday parades
- Replies: 3
- Views: 247
Re: Pentagon pays a price for not requisitioning tanks and jets for Doughboy‘s holiday parades
I suppose the most charitable interpretation of these actions is that Trump wants to create more problems for Biden to solve once in office, but it sure looks like the actions of a president who wants to use the military to keep himself in office.
I tawt I taw a coup d'etat.
I tawt I taw a coup d'etat.
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 9:39 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: If Kamala Harris becomes vice president, what happens to her Senate seat?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 524
Re: If Kamala Harris becomes vice president, what happens to her Senate seat?
First of all Joe Biden is not going to die within the next four years. He's fit as a fiddle and mentally sharp (in spite of all the lies you may have heard from the residents of Trumpistan). He may want to decline to run for a second term, though. Kamala Harris will be an excellent president in any ...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: After a Decade of Silence, a Composer Reappears
- Replies: 4
- Views: 539
Re: After a Decade of Silence, a Composer Reappears
I heard his Ayre performed a couple years ago, and enjoyed it. It held my interest for its 40 minute duration. It effectively blends Spanish and Jewish folk materials. You can hear some effective klezmer-style clarinet playing pretty close to the beginning in this performance.
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: After a Decade of Silence, a Composer Reappears
- Replies: 4
- Views: 539
Re: After a Decade of Silence, a Composer Reappears
I was wondering what had become of him.
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is the US really a democracy?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1404
Re: Is the US really a democracy?
When I saw this thread I was wondering how long it would be before someone would come along with the “America is not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic” argument. And sure enough, they have. It strikes me as odd that for most of my 66 years the words “democracy” and “republic” were used pre...
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The War on Truth Reaches Its Climax
- Replies: 8
- Views: 781
Re: The War on Truth Reaches Its Climax
Nevertheless, it's all true.
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How Far Might Trump Go?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 622
Re: How Far Might Trump Go?
The Trump administration has made it clear that this is exactly the strategy they are going to use. Judge Kavanaugh's statement that "to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after Election Day and potentially flip the results of an ele...
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Samsung Commercial Music???
- Replies: 5
- Views: 702
Re: Samsung Commercial Music???
Lance -- You might find your answer here:
(and then again, you might not)
https://www.tvadvertmusic.com/tag/samsung/
(and then again, you might not)
https://www.tvadvertmusic.com/tag/samsung/
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:48 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Why did Balakirev go out of fashion?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 874
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Purchasing CD's - Confusion?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1400
Re: Purchasing CD's - Confusion?
Are the Brilliant Classics sets of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach etc. worth obtaining? I have the Brilliant Classics boxes for Mozart and Haydn, and enjoy them very much. For your favorite pieces you may want to buy other performances in addition, but for a modest outlay of cash you've got everything tha...
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump's war on women
- Replies: 5
- Views: 468
Re: Trump's war on women
Just for the record, it's not his Department of Justice. It's not his Federal Law Enforcement. Those agencies serve the American people, not the president of the United States. Trump now has an attorney general who's willing to use the DOJ to serve his personal interestts. But the FBI arrested those...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Yesterday's Debate Stand Back and Stand By
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1789
Re: Yesterday's Debate Stand Back and Stand By
I think Biden showed admirable restraint in merely telling Trump to shut up and calling him a clown. Trump was deliberately trying to make Biden blow up and have a melt-down. It didn't work. Likewise I think Nancy Pelosi showed remarkable restraint in merely ripping up Trump's laughable excuse for a...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A 639-year-long piece by John Cage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 581
Re: A 639-year-long piece by John Cage
It's certainly an expression of optimism to undertake a project like that: optimism that the building and the organ will continue to exist, that it will remain in the hands of the people overseeing the project, that there will continue to be people overseeing the project, or that there will continue...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The collapse of democracy?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1415
Re: The collapse of democracy?
If you say 7%, let's agree on that - but the Dems should not defend that 7% or they are playing into Trump's hands...... Do you not share my sense that BLM began with massive American and international sympathy and support, and could have been a catalyst for real change (and may yet still be), but ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The collapse of democracy?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1415
Re: The collapse of democracy?
...if the Democrats deny that looting is a problem, or even happening, and Trump is able to turn this into a law and order election, that will be calamitous. That is Sullivan's point, and I agree. You're suggesting a defensive strategy, particularly one that assumes the Republican framing of the Bl...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:22 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The collapse of democracy?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1415
Re: The collapse of democracy?
So much BS, so little time. ...Kamala Harris say, as she did yesterday: “The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human.” This is what Trump has long defended as “truthful hyperbole” — which is a euphemism for a lie. If what she said is a lie, police ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:11 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 1271
- Views: 927351
Re: What I listened to today
nK3q01mta2o Since getting the CD, I've been listening to Being by Michael Torke pretty much non-stop*. Being (2019) is a 42 minute opus for a 25-member chamber orchestra. It is in 9 movements, all of which move at the tempo of quarter = 126. If you are familiar with Torke's style, this is a prime e...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1293
Re: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
I would also like to see an end to white on white violence, but at least I know that no one will use that as a reason to dismiss my complaints should I or my family be brutalized by the police. I'm sorry to hear you fear being brutalized. But there are more ways than just physical violence which qu...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Can't warm to Bruckner
- Replies: 57
- Views: 16519
Re: Can't warm to Bruckner
This is the one with the loud ending for the first movement and a totally different trio in the scherzo?
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Spectator on Don Carlo
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1724
Re: Spectator on Don Carlo
Don Carlo has always been my favorite Verdi opera, fascinating as well as frustrating for its convoluted plot and multiple versions. As an undergrad I got to know it through the recording with Placido Domingo and Sherill Milnes and Shirley Verett and Gilulini conducting. In those days I made it a ha...
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 530
Re: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers
They mention Michel van der Aa, who I know is one of some guy's favorite composers, so that means I'm probably not supposed to like him. But I'm finding this piece quite listenable.
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1293
Re: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
I would also like to see an end to white on white violence, but at least I know that no one will use that as a reason to dismiss my complaints should I or my family be brutalized by the police.
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1293
Re: Black Kids Matter: Four children traumatized after cops hold them at gunpoint
Events like this, and they happen quite regularly in the US, are what drive the protests. This has been going on for years and years. But now, because people can document this behavior by taking videos on their cell phones, people can see first hand what's going on and it's no longer just One person...
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:48 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1838
Re: Opera Foundation Removes Trustee for Racially Charged Comments
You have freedom of speech, but not freedom from the consequences of your speech. Ask the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks). Anyone with a high public profile, or representative of an organization with a high public profile has the added burden of needing to moderate their speech, since anything they sa...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:07 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawal of federal agents
- Replies: 2
- Views: 558
Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawal of federal agents
The Guardian, July 31, 2020: The withdrawal of federal agents from frontline policing of demonstrations in downtown Portland significantly reduced tensions in the city overnight. Protesters in support of Black Lives Matter once again rallied near the federal courthouse that became a flashpoint, and ...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: An excellent, well rounded view of BLM
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3233
Re: An excellent, well rounded view of BLM
You were wise.jserraglio wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:36 amI watched the video the day it was posted and found it informative but had nothing really to say about it since it was tangential to the announced topic of this thread.