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Belle

It's all a predictable consequence of out-of-control woke victimhood. Be very careful what you wish for; you may well get it!!

Belle

Oh come on, Belle and Ric! Just bury your heads in the sand of reality denial! I really get a kick from how you can't differentiate between the newsroom and an opinion piece. :lol: Just wait until the former guy cancels the nuclear submarine deal and Chinese troops show up on your beaches as he ext...

Belle

Further to the postings above, I've just been through some statistics myself from the Australian Bureau of Statistics study from 2021-22 and this is what I've found: Of women aged 18 years and over : 23% experienced violence by an intimate partner 17% experienced violence by a cohabiting partner 9.3...

Belle

Wow, that piece by the Dutch composer!! The Jussens played this with tremendous virtuosity. I agree that they're great for CM, as is Wang and the other new kids in the musical firmament. You nailed it regarding the Rachmaninoff Suite; I thought their performance was somewhat hard-driven myself. But ...

Belle

A diffuse hatred of right wing or conservative governments gives rise to this kind of disingenuous cant. The operative word is 'HATE'. The government is Israel will be elected by the people of that nation, not activists from the USA. It's always amusing to me to see the dysfunctional polity which is...

Belle

The great thing about all these cuts and pastes is that you don't have to think for yourself!

Belle

Coming just a couple of years after the end of Covid shutdown, this is a very impressive result for Emirates. The airline lost billions during the shutdown and doubts hung over its business model and A380 fleet, but I always had confidence in them and their product. Why? In 2009 we first travelled i...

Belle

Ah, the warm bath of groupthink and confirmation bias!!

Belle

Following this essay, some comments about the current Domestic Violence hysteria gripping Australia. Here's an excellent commentary I found in a Substack, which is essentially accurate and which is borne out by actual statistics, which can be checked out below: The hysteria, dishonesty and blatant l...

Belle

This writer finally grew up!! What follows in this essay is one of the reasons I have always preferred the company of men. Howard Hawks once said he liked women who 'hunt, shoot and ride a horse...who don't wear pink frilly things....the kind of women who prefer the company of men and who generally ...

Belle

Firstly, nothing that WAPO writes can be taken seriously; they need professional fact-checkers and some editorial standards. Secondly, the Left always takes the extreme case and holds it up as the exemplar of their opponents. That's disingenuous, just for starters. No barrister could possibly hold u...

Belle

This is JUST EMBARRASSING, but real!! Keep it up if you want to get rid of Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5UTLa2SIKU

Belle

They couldn't care less about Trump or the USA in general. I'm sorry to say, embarrassed to say , they should care. Fww,I'm a retired lawyer after 43 years at the bar ( including at my local !) , but I'll defer further braggadocio. Go for it, Rach, as I've love to hear your story!! My family will c...

Belle

Meet the man who says improvisation is the key to Mozart Richard Bratby The Spectator Robert Levin describes his 30-year quest to record the composer’s complete piano concertos with the Academy of Ancient Music – and why he's winging it in the cadenzas In August 1993, the pianist Robert Levin sat d...

Belle

For all the people with TDS I recommend much more music, fine film, wine and books. If it was good enough for Beethoven and Haydn to keep composing music when Napoleon was shelling Vienna it should be good enough for y'all to find sanctuary in music too!

Belle

I watched this yesterday and it was recently recorded. I've got mixed feeling about it as this work is such a fave that I'm probably obsessive and precious about it.

See you what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB_8Vgsoq6g

Belle

One of the best disease controls is often bright sunlight. Some of our press will do its best to help keep the rest of the World safe, or at least know what is coming their way, too,despite having to compete against the Murdochs’ money. Have you read Trump's Agenda 47 ? His autocratic GOP cronies’ ...

Belle

I started reading this, hearing about public officials being threatened with violence which while not new, according to the authors is escalating. (They don't provide any data to support those claims). However, not far into the article, a trend started to emerge and there were numerous references t...

Belle

This essay absolutely nails it!

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/1 ... -protests/

Belle

That's easy. Theresa Stratas from the film of the 80s.

Belle

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat May 18, 2024 8:19 pm

Belle wrote: ↑
Sat May 18, 2024 8:11 pm
Same here, but without the Penfold's Grange. (I'm not a drinker, actually.)
" A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." W. C. Fields

He was hilarious. Loved him in David Copperfield.

Belle

Same here, but without the Penfold's Grange. (I'm not a drinker, actually.) During the listening of the Brahms #3 (up very loud) the spouse was outside cleaning the car which we're trying to sell, and I smiled to myself when he walked inside to get something, completely nonplussed about the loud mus...

Belle

William Steinberg's Command recordings of the Brahms four symphonies are out. I'm thinking hard on what my benchmark recording might be of the Brahms Third Symphony. There are so many - of all Brahms' symphonies. Just thinking about it, my mind immediately wanders to the recordings by Bruno Walter ...

Belle

Belle, as much as I admire and appreciate the genius of Brahms in his Fourth Symphony, I am in awe of the sense of adventure in his Third. Not only does he bravely end the symphony on a quiet note, but his scoring of the first movement is incredibly inventive, especially where he begins the melody ...

Belle

Brahms actually wrote four Piano Trios, and these notes following provide the background. The first Trio is the most beloved and I am not really familiar myself with the much later ones that Brahms composed. Thanks for this.I have a recording by the Beaux Arts Trio of all Brahms' , Op.8 for me the ...

Belle

Brahms actually wrote four Piano Trios, and these notes following provide the background. The first Trio is the most beloved and I am not really familiar myself with the much later ones that Brahms composed. These notes come from a YouTube link to the four Trios, but they're not played well enough t...

Belle

Do I detect the ever-so-faint sight and sound of heads exploding in the distance? Channel energies into music or something productive!! Wider reading required!! Last night at my son's home, following half a day working in his wife's legal practice (on reception, ushering in clients and word-processi...

Belle

Absolutely exquisite; I'm listening as I write this. The Brahms is off-the-charts wonderful. I mean, the harmonies just for starters.... I can now have this running in my new car's surround sound, which is a double bonus.

Belle

Thanks for the heads up. I posted a link to that shocking Times Magazine investigative report detailing in excruciating detail the hard-right ultranationalist takeover in Israel here (gift article, no paywall). https://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=61404 Obviously, the kids curre...

Belle

The immovable object meets the unstoppable force; Biden to Bibi!!

Belle

The Australian Labor PM is unable to deal with antisemitic electorates and renegade representatives of those seats filled with Israel-hating voters. We live in a wonderful, cohesive country. Really we do. I just love the way that we celebrate cultural enrichment and the beautiful uniqueness of multi...

Belle

I can see it already!! I believe the script has already been laid down in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnm5fuwskY

Belle

Yeah. That. And what a beautiful piece it is too!! I love it.

Belle

These people are not conservatives, who busy themselves working, earning, raising families. The ferals who are disrupting the universities and getting away with it are hard Lefties. Infantile, entitled, angry and bitter. They've been so propagandized by the institutions that they have inhibited, cau...

Belle

There you go. No argument in sight, just name-calling. Same as the black producer who talked to John McWhorter..."an idiot". Never anything by way of intelligent analysis or argument; just platitudes, bromides, cliches "black lives matter" - it's SO YESTERDAY. What would you have without your victim...

Belle

I'm no victim, but the evidence is in about the cruelty meted out to others by the hard Left for daring to disagree. Pointing out facts is horrible, I know. Only the Left could confuse facts and commentary with 'victimhood'. It's so ingrained in them that it's an instinctive reaction; it's called A ...

Belle

I disagree that any person paying $1m in taxation would be 'happy'; this is surely the bloviating chant of an accountant who deals in chump change. The current income tax rate for a person earning over (circa) $200K in this country is 47.5%, plus Medicare levy - and with GST that would quickly go ov...

Belle

The Right's accusations about antisemitism are spot on. I agree. But the Right has just as long and ignoble a history of anti-Semitism, so I think this is much more about Left-bashing than genuine concern for the Jewish community. You are speaking about 80 years ago and much has changed since then....

Belle

Wasn't the Siegfried Idyll composed for the birth of Wagner's son, Siegfried? Perhaps I'm mistaken; I've been know to be. Once.

Belle

It’s a funny thing. Our schools are very well integrated in terms of achievement, merit, beauty, IQ, but race….. racial integration is communism. This brings me back to the 1960s. My father served on inter-faith councils on race relations and civil rights. Because he felt that a nation whose forefa...

Belle

And isn't that work by Brahms such a joy!!!

Belle

Absolutely priceless non-argument.

Oh, I forgot; HEALTH segregates and discriminates too.

Belle

I suppose for much the same reason it took so long to 'investigate' the Clinton Foundation.

Belle

I will turn my attention to this today. This example of demonstrates once again that somebody can rise and rise no matter how disadvantaged the circumstance. And that the state isn't needed when there's courage and determination!!

Belle

You know what? ACHIEVEMENT segregates. MERIT segregates. STATUS segregates. WINNING segregates. WEALTH segregates. BEAUTY segregates. IQ segregates. The Left wants everybody on the same level; nowhere. Move to North Korea if that's what's on the agenda. That way you get a One Star airline and absolu...

Belle

The tribute to your mother was beautiful and heartfelt. You and I are both so fortunate to have parents that provided and imparted the really 'good things in life' to us an early age. Indeed, in the sunset of our lives made all the richer for what happened years ago. Sviatoslav Richter, an antholog...

Belle

From our place it's 80 minutes by freeway to a major outer Sydney northern suburb, where we park the car at a club (we hold membership just for the carparking and eats) and catch the train into the city, which is another 45 minutes. We have this all down to a fine art, so if you come to Sydney we ca...

Belle

I'm sorry to report I haven't heard of this artist or group. These days I don't travel to Sydney Opera House unless it's for a performance which is REALLY SPECIAL . Last time was several years ago - to the Drama Theatre for a performance of "Noises Off" by Michael Frayne. Absolutely hilarious play, ...

Belle

A wonderful violinist and favourite, along with Joshua Bell and Leonidas Kavakos (whom I think is now doing conducting). What a pleasure for anybody lucky enough to see any of these in concert. I'm not sure, but I think Zimmermann is or was artist in residence with the Berlin Philharmonic. What an o...

Belle

This actress and podcaster is very young and she walks Dr. Peterson through her experiences acting in Hollywood (!!!!) and at university, coping with rejection from her friends from the Left because she was a conservative, and dealing with feminist readings of Jane Austen!! She's a bright girl who s...

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