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Does the US have a system to examine these measures that doesn't involve politicians? It's called the United States Public Health Service, which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. What you're seeing in this article is an attempt by politicians to meddle in their decisions. ...

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Oh good, a chart I can consult anytime I need to decide what I think about any particular issue. It's so nice that these guys know in advance what everyone thinks before they think it. Too bad those evil people at Google have made it impossible for me to read. I'm sure the Illuminati put them up to ...

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NYC people, put this date on your calendar. January 24, 2025. Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 8:00 PM. Lindsey Goodman, flute and Clare Longendyke, piano in a program of contemporary works for flute and piano, including Voice of the Turtle by Mark G. Simon (aka diegobueno) How does a composer get...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:01 pm
Duncan refused to be vaccinated during Covid

In other words, he's an idiot, and any opinion he may have should not be taken seriously.

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The emergence of trans people as a visible element in society is posing challenges that society hasn't had to face before. I think accomodation needs to be made for trans people, but it also needs to be made for everyone else who have to deal with them. Activists for trans rights need to consider th...

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Someone's gotta maintain those CEO yachts and vacation homes, and that would be you, the consumer.

You've got to seek out the mom 'n pop diners for the kind of honest breakfast you're looking for. Good luck.

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 am
"La donna del lago is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola

Or in this case, La Donna Del Mar-a-Lago.

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Well, join the Opus Clavicembalisticum Club! I first got to "know" this work with British pianist John Ogdon 's 4-CD recording on the Altarus label [9075] (purchased in Collegetown, Ithaca, New York - I shan't ever forget). Lance, you're making me nostalgic! I disposed of so much of my income in th...

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https://cdn.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.572666.jpg I've always had an interest in the music of Fikret Amirov. When I was little I somehow had in the home a recording of an Amirov piece called "Kyurdi Ovshary" (the record gave the title as "Caucasian Dances") and I used to listen to it ...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:28 am
Are the other 2 movements at YT ? TIA.

You can hear the whole thing here (tracks 10-13). I was just linking to the really difficult parts.

https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6367/

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Hi Lance, I'm flattered that you think I'll be able to unlock the mysteries of Sorabji for you. I don't think I can do that. My knowledge of Sorabji's music comes mainly from perusing his scores in the Cornell Music Library and thinking "Good Lord! That's a lot of notes! So many notes sounding all a...

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I almost always buy a recording for the music, and not the performer. With contemporary music -- which make up the bulk of my new purchases -- there's generally only one performance anyway. I'm good with only one or two recordings of the standard rep. If I enjoy a certain performance, why go out of ...

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And of course, even that Swedish data, and in USA,elsewhere,ignores as it must what the numbers would have been, spread had been, had no precautions been taken, no vaccines, no masks,no distancing,etc. In short, thank goodness precautions were advised and taken by many of us and that as a result mo...

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11 out of 12 (and I really have no excuse for the one mistake)

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One of my retired co-workers didn't get vaccinated in 2020 because she was convinced by friends that the Covid vaccine was, for some reason, more dangerous than the disease. She died of Covid before the year was up. Another friend, a lyricist I worked with in the past, went to the hospital with some...

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You can listen to 3 little fragments of the 8th, but it’s impossible to come to any conclusions about what the whole piece would have been like. The longest fragment is dissonant in a suspensive way, like it would be if you were waiting for it to resolve. The 7th starts that way also.

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The complete quote is "When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross". People have been citing this for years, and now we're seeing it happen.

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It's widely believed that Sinclair Lewis said that, but no one can locate a place in any of his writings where he actually said it. That's why I didn't attribute it to him when I first posted it.
Can you identify a source that definitively places this quote as coming from Huey Long?

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:05 am

diegobueno wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:59 am
Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
Fine. Just so long as he doesn’t come back from the dead.

Who? Sinclair Lewis? If he came back from the dead he'd point his finger and say "See! I told you so!"

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Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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My aphorism is one of the oldest paradigm in the world, practiced by the Church itself (remember The Crusades?) and what ever expedient works. No difference this time. Even as an April Fools joke this is pretty low. Here we've just finished a major holiday celebrating a man who turned away all expe...

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(Groan)
This might be a good day to skip CMG.

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Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ are usually performed in an arrangement for string quartet. Orchestras seem to be reluctant to program an hour-long orchestral work consisting of eight adagio movements, and this by a composer usually known for his light-hearted approach to composition. I enjoy thi...

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Thomas Tallis wrote his Lamentations of Jeremiah in 1560 for Maundy Thursday and that is my go-to music for this day of the liturgical year. If you ask me "what's the most beautiful music ever composed?", this is it. It's a biblical setting in Latin, but includes the Hebrew letters which mark the ve...

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My doctor recently noted that my PSA is high, and I've now had the PET scan, so I may soon join the prostate cancer club. But I trust if they catch it now, they'll be able to treat it. I'm 70.

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100% pure projection of course. The right does nothing but make up victimization stories. Why do you post this nonsense?

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Some guy: I know I've clashed with you as often and as bitterly as anyone here, but still I feel sad at this news. I wish you as much comfort in the coming months as is possible under the circumstances. May you hear the most astonishing music in the next world that none of us here could ever imagine...

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This is Wagner without constant vibrato, and sometimes without traditionally operatic singing. But mostly, the difference in sound comes from the instruments themselves, both originals from the 19th century and reproductions. Historical, often temperamental winds and brasses have a milder timbre, s...

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I just happened upon a book called Kurt Schwertsik und der Begriff der Moderne im Wandel, (I deal with Austrian books at the Library of Congress). I thought I remembered the name from somewhere, but it turns out he's an Austrian composer, about 89 years old by now. I figured he must be pretty avant-...

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I'll have to make a point of watching this video sometime soon. I love that the opening music is from the 8th symphony. RVW's orchestral palette became very colorful in his later years. This symphony includes lots of keyed percussion, or in his words "every 'spiel and 'phone known to the composer". ...

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My favorite Monteverdi recording is called "Geistliche Konzerte" with Jürgen Jürgens and the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, on the Archiv label. Most of the selections are from Monteverdi's "Selva morali e spirituali". There's something about the acoustics of the recording, the choice of continuo instrume...

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Wow! Nobody else admires Copland III, with that killer fugue in the second movement? Just saying, but I think it's a masterpiece! 😉 I own about 8-10 recordings. Do give it another try! I have both Bernstein recordings of Copland's 3rd. It's definitely my favorite American symphony. Probably Copland...

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Aribert's Lear only makes me wish all the more that Boito had convinced Verdi to take up the subject.

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Mark, that is a very heartfelt and touching story about your father. This segment from below: "I can tell you there won't be any angels with harps, that's for sure. I just can't believe that we just stop existing. God created us for more than that." I hope he was incorrect about the angels and harp...

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My father used to say that he couldn't imagine living beyond 89 years old, and yet his 90th birthday rolled around and he was healthy and active. My wife and I took trips to see him every summer during these years, and he insisted on being the host. He took us places, made meals and wouldn't let me ...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:52 pm
It's ubiquitous.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/1 ... eral-rage/

Said by someone who comes on here spouting rage every day.

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Lance,

Stop watching Fox News! Stop watching your Sinclair-owned station.
Problem solved.

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Don't forget the Michael Tippett Piano Concerto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLYOWOp2l4

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Many thumbs up.

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Your government is hard Left because it has infantilized the people by going after one cohort on behalf of another. I just noticed this. Are you really saying that Donald Trump is on trial because the Biden administration is persecuting him? Do you really believe that? Are you really that gullible?...

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Well, that's such an all-encompassing rant, there's nothing there to hold on to and respond to.

I do have to snicker at the idea that DeSantis displays "Christian values". It seems to be doctrine among modern evangelicals to negate the teachings of Christ in their treatment of others.

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The usual partisan media is barracking for the federal government and its hard left ideologies. So the federal government of the United States itself is "hard left" and must be opposed? As a patriotic American I must protest. The United States government is based on the rule of law, not the rule of...

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DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke Conservative lawmakers rejected a host of new culture wars proposals in the legislature by Lori Rozsa The bill banning rainbow flags from public buildings in Florida sounded like a sure bet. State Rep. David Borrero (R), the legislati...

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The MAGAnauts, and Republican party in general, know they are in the minority. They know they cannot get elected if everybody votes. That's why they introduce all these restrictive voting measures.

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Elgar's 2nd, although very long, is more interesting ,to me, although apparently not nearly as successful with the public as the 1st, either then or now. I am still waiting to catch on with the 1st, but I'm sure if I sit down with it, it will impress itself upon me. I've enjoyed the 2nd for about 3...

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It's so amusing to see Comrade Belle railing against capitalism.

"Wokers of the world, Unite!"

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You know, Belle, even by your standards this is pretty shameful. Your article cites a Trump crony and alt-right looney Mike Benz as interviewed by Tucker Carlson, whose lies are so outrageous even Fox News had to let him go. most obviously the now debunked Russia collusion hoax, and build a new dome...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:48 am
Haydn/Stravinsky — that's quite a contrast!

I find the two of them have quite a lot in common. Their music is logical and often witty (I'm thinking of the neoclassical Stravinsky, of the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto or the Octet). They're both "comfort food" music to my ears.

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The Misa Tango! I've actually performed that piece! I play with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra whenever they use a full orchestra (most of the time they're a tango group with just strings, piano and bandoneon) and one of these times was in 2014, with the Choral Arts Society, in a concert at the...

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Apart from the obvious ones: Machaut -- Messe de notre dame Ockeghem -- Requiem Dufay -- Missa Se la face ay pale Byrd -- Mass for 3 voices come to think of it, in early music circles those are also the obvious ones. Haydn -- Lord Nelson Mass, Harmonie Mass, Missa in tempore belli Bruckner -- Mass i...

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