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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...

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Leftist algorithm = more people voted for Biden, many more.

They lost. Their Erlöser is now just a LOSER. They need to get over it.

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Welcome back, piano man! And stick around for your centennial!

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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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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I was wondering what had become of him.

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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...

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Nevertheless, it's all true.

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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...

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Lance -- You might find your answer here:

(and then again, you might not)

https://www.tvadvertmusic.com/tag/samsung/

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:55 am
So sad about Balakirev's mental troubles. I imagine we could have had many more musical treasures from him if he had been more stable. Genius always seems to have a price, doesn't it?

I, for one, have had quite enough of stable geniuses.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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...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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:43 pm
Her 8th uses the 1887 original version.

This is the one with the loud ending for the first movement and a totally different trio in the scherzo?

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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...

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3x7xQwgBdg

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:36 am
I 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.

You were wise.

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You want it all to burn, sir, presumably because it hasn't served you personally very well. I'm so glad you know exactly what I think and what I want. I should just leave a blank post and let you fill it in. But you see, I came to this thread out of sense of fairness, because others weren't willing...

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Belle, there's nothing to argue against. Your depiction of "The Left" is a fiction invented in your own mind (and most likely in the pages of.whatever far far right publications you prefer to fill your head with).

I gather that in your mind ad hominems are OK if you say them but no one else.

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Belle, your ranting is so unmoored from reality it's impossible to respond to. You may need to up your meds.

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Of course we wouldn't want the victim narrative to be taken away. God forbid!! No. The Trump administration would have nothing to do if it weren't for their own sense of victimhood. Everybody loves Dr. Fauci, nobody likes Trump. Liberals invented the coronavirus in order to make him look bad. Here ...

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I skimmed through it. It was a discussion with Bret Weinstein and some black intellectuals about larger issues of race in American society. I listened to an extended segment somewhere in the middle. There was a lot of talk about the need for opportunities in education (can't argue with that) the nee...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A week after federal officers in Portland, Ore., brutally struck a Navy veteran who said he had approached them simply to ask a question, a group of military veterans on Friday joined the front lines of the city’s growing protests. Duston Obermeyer, a Marine Corps veteran, said he a...

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It was a great speech. If I were in her shoes I don't think I could have made my response nearly as classy. AOC has a great mind, and a strong spirit. She has a great future and will be around for a long time.

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Young people today are extremely righteous and demand absolute purity (kind of like my generation in the 60s, except they're not stoned and so therefore have more focus), and they're out to end racism and will not tolerate any veneration of slavery. Yes, they do go too far. I say by all means we sho...

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It seems curious to me that advocating for fair treatment from law enforcement makes one part of an "extreme left". How far right must a person be to see justice, which should be at the center of what the U.S. is about, as something "extreme left"? Speaking of muzzling speech, George Floyd, Breonna ...

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I recognise all those things, and I want black lives to matter as much as white. And I want white to matter as much as black. And Aborigines, Japanese, Chinese as much as any. The original point was, is the criticism of Black Lives Matter as a cover for a wider agenda accurate in any way. Possibly ...

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The thing I find the most appalling about the "All lives matter" response is the level of studious and deliberate miscomprehension of the point being made. It should be as clear as day that in a society where black people are time and time again shot by policemen in situations where a white offender...

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This is great stuff. He should have been far more widely known during his lifetime. I've been looking up samples of his work online this morning, and I'm impressed with the ease with which he folds jazz into the Chopin/Scriabin virtuoso pianist/composer thing. It's too bad he didn't write more for o...

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The prominence of the clarinet in Schubert's Octet (as well as the Beethoven Septet which served as its model) is because it is the highest of the three wind instruments in the ensemble. It is the wind counterpart to the first violin, and a lot of the time the composer is passing the melody between ...

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Speaking of Sorabji, if you've got a couple hours to spare, here's a computer-generated performance of the third movement of Sorabji's Symphony no. 2, Jami . I assume the title refers to the suggested attire for listening to the whole 2-hour stretch. Actually, that's not right. This is just the thir...

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Maybe the first 78 variations are easier?

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Today I enjoyed Michael Daugherty's Trail of Tears Concerto for flute and orchestra (2010), and found it a very well-written and substantial composition. Daugherty's early compositions mined pop culture associations ( Dead Elvis ), and struck me as superficial, but maturity has been kind to him. He ...

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Most of the churches I know of have online services conducted on social media. One church I know of has a regular service in the church with a skeleton crew (pastor, organist, choir of four). My regular church uses Zoom to get everyone involved, as does a discussion group called the "Jesus seminar" ...

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At least they don't have to speculate about "what would the composer have done with this?" They don't have to bring in a Deryk Cooke, for instance, to flesh it out.

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I am staying at home most of the time, and that's fine because I like my house and my wife is good company. I'm working from home too, since everything I do at the Library of Congress can be done via telework. My musical activities, unfortunately, have been put on hold. The two community orchestras ...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Sun May 10, 2020 1:23 pm
Interesting piece, Mark, thank you. I do wish your violinist had a sweeter tone, however.

Well, as they say, you fight with the army you've got. Thanks for listening.

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