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- Fri May 03, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Hope springs eternal
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 129
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
The Spanish flu outbreak after WW1 was made worse by the depredations and shortages of WW1. Many people hadn't enough good food during this period, particularly in France, and the demobbed military was in pretty bad shape. This made people all the more susceptible to diseases of every kind. Whatever...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 94
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Thanks for the Presto Classical tip. It looks like I'll have to go this way, especially for the Brautigam Beethoven cycle which I really do want. The spouse bought us a new car yesterday so I may have more disc brakes than compact discs as time goes on!!
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 134
Re: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
Brendel is a highly prolific recording artist, and I have well over 100 of his CDs. I find him entirely reliable, always thoughful, poetic and worth hearing. Brendel is quite the polymath; painter, poet and writer (on music). On top of that he's warm, with a good sense of humour. I attended a lectu...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 134
Re: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
A lecture about his life - as a substitute for an autobiography - but I'm not sure when this was. Probably about 2013, judging by his appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgJ4Fn8dTY Belle, 1) At 00:27 of the video, Brendel said he had lived in London for almost 50 years. 2) At 16:23 of the ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 127
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
There are little children on Mein Kampus at Sydney University shouting "Intifada" and 'from the river to the sea". That makes their propaganda from the cradle absolutely complete. All thanks to the Left side of politics. Conservatives are much more interested in the welfare of our children and letti...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 94
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
It's proving to be difficult getting the CDs I want. Having ordered Brautigam's Beethoven cycle some months ago I've just had an email saying it's 'not available'. Our government stitched up a deal with Amazon so that Australians would pay tax on all purchases, so buying from overseas has become com...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 94
Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Tonight it's been all Bach, including a one hour documentary on YT made in Germany circa 1985 with the range of musicians and musicologists. It centred around Bach's life and compositional style and we all know much of this already. The spouse sat with me watching it in complete silence and stillnes...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:43 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Dr. Boghossian talks about why he quit Mein Kampus
- Replies: 0
- Views: 26
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 286
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
Actually the statistics for both female and male-initiated domestic homicide have reduced in the last two decades, but I don't have the actual stats at my fingertips. The role of drugs and alcohol are certainly part of that mix, as is financial problems. In the late 1970s I do remember somebody tell...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 134
Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
A lecture about his life - as a substitute for an autobiography - but I'm not sure when this was. Probably about 2013, judging by his appearance. The comments below don't make it clearer either. He turned 93 last January.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgJ4Fn8dTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgJ4Fn8dTY
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 127
Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
Things are going from bad to worse on Mein Kampus. Why are they even there; they'll only need to learn seven words for a successful career: "will that be fries with that today?"
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- Wed May 01, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Comedy is alive and well in places not accessible to those who would police our thoughts. My local watering hole for instance is a good example. You can regularly hear laughter amongst the patrons as someone recounts an anecdote or tells a joke that they've heard. It's also alive in the workplace f...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124262
Re: Some mirth
Kamela, Kamela
I know it sounds a bit bizarre
But in Kamela, Kamela
That's how conditions are.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside
By nine p.m. The moonlight must appear
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-after-ing than here in Kamela.
I know it sounds a bit bizarre
But in Kamela, Kamela
That's how conditions are.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside
By nine p.m. The moonlight must appear
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-after-ing than here in Kamela.
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 286
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
What are your figures on females killing partners and children, Barney? We have one living 40km up the road from here who was recently released after serving 20 years for killing her 4 babies; the trial and evidence was deemed 'unsafe'. Suffice it to say her husband, who died recently and who had re...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 264
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Professor Alan Dershowitz refers to all this as "Mein Kampus". And he's nailed it. Of course, usual media attention seeking by a member of Bibi's friend Trump's legal team for Trump's first impeachment. https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-wants-alan-dershowitz-represe...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Don't despair, the hard right is keeping comedy alive and well! :lol: :lol: :lol: Another low resolution comment. The real humour is, of course, to be found in Lefty heads exploding at the mere mention of Trump. You don't need argument; just exploding heads. The hard right has ZERO institutional po...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 264
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Professor Alan Dershowitz refers to all this as "Mein Kampus". And he's nailed it.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2083067
Re: What I listened to today
Kapustin playing his 10 Bagatelles, Op. 59. Fabulous music. I love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BBJFE4K-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BBJFE4K-0
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Not only comedy; free thinking and speech, divergent opinion, egalitarianism, merit, happiness, capitalism, logic, cultural cohesion and sovereignty. A vile cohort of despotic killjoys. Jerry Seinfeld thinks ‘the extreme left’ is killing comedy Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has blamed the dearth of televi...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 193
Re: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
Lance, it seems I'm unable to buy the Rachmaninov with Trifonov and Babayan as I've just scoured Amazon Australia and it isn't anywhere to be seen.
Do you have any ideas where else I may be able to find this?
Do you have any ideas where else I may be able to find this?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australians retiring to Spain. Apparently
- Replies: 3
- Views: 106
Re: Australians retiring to Spain. Apparently
Actually, Lance, psychologists recommend that when people retire they should remain in the area of their friends and family. All too often we hear of people moving away to some secluded place for retirement only to be troubled by depression, alcohol and/or domestic violence, as it happens. I know th...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australians retiring to Spain. Apparently
- Replies: 3
- Views: 106
Australians retiring to Spain. Apparently
This woman moved to Spain and waxes lyrical about that country compared to Australia. A whole TV program was dedicated to her and this is but one excerpt. She doesn't mention healthcare or the 'migrant' crisis. Or the fact that Spain was virtually bankrupt in 2008. And that house of hers, where you ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124262
Re: Some mirth
Fair enough, Belle. I'm over-reacting. Two of my favourite films are the Kline/Ronstadt Pirates of Penzance and the Brooks Producers. I never watched Seinfeld, but it is so admired it must have merit. I've laughed immoderately at any number of US comedians or comedies (though not the ones Joe admir...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 120
Re: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
Same for me with Lucia Popp, Janet Baker and Kathleen Ferrier. Pavarotti, Bjorling and Bryn Terfel are all unique. And beautiful Dmitri, who is so very much missed; that gorgeous voice and ready smile!! (Not fussed about Netrebko, who seemed off on this evening!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0x6...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124262
Re: Some mirth
I am going to defend American humour as I've enjoyed it so much over the years, and I posted Foster doing his thing with Dean Martin. A great parody of a drunk. Australian humour was great before it was 'defenestrated' because it wasn't PC. Think Paul Hogan (whom the Americans enjoyed, BTW). Barry H...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 193
Re: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
The Triff and Babayan, but I'll definitely look at those other recommendations.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 134
Re: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
Don't think that's the right link. I went to Jon Stewart again, and life's too short. I can't understand that as I've never cut and paste anything from JS. Anyway, I'll give it another go with Couric and Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgQzL2fzIGg As I've said, the profanities are hard to ta...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australia's first female A380 pilot for Emirates lands in Sydney
- Replies: 2
- Views: 562
Re: Australia's first female A380 pilot for Emirates lands in Sydney
I learned last night, watching a streaming service from Sydney airport (the guest was a retired aircraft engineer), that the Super Constellation aircraft (Lockheed Corporation) owned by Qantas and flown on the Kangaroo Route from Sydney to London sometimes required a new engine during one of the sto...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 134
Re: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
Well, he was certainly singing my song! Every word. Thanks for posting that one, Belle. I really enjoy his "Club Random" on YT (except for the profane language). Honestly, I think his views have moderated because of the wide selection of guests he has, who are often outspoken, arguing with him abou...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Szell and Cleveland LIVE in 1966, Dvorak Symphony No.8
- Replies: 4
- Views: 148
Re: Szell and Cleveland LIVE in 1966, Dvorak Symphony No.8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlaAxF00a4k George Szell was a master with Dvorak's late symphonies. Here he is live in 1966 with his Cleveland Orchestra in a performance that was recorded around the time of his well-known commercial recording released on Epic's yellow label. Enjoy! Don't great per...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 193
Re: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
Thanks for these two recommendations, gentlemen. I'll get onto it today.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 134
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Australia's first female A380 pilot for Emirates lands in Sydney
- Replies: 2
- Views: 562
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124262
Re: Some mirth
Bravo, Barney. Stewart is just another activist hack who thinks ridicule is funny. Yes, well so is having my ears sawn off. Let's look at some REALLY funny Americans, past and present. Bob Hope. He was non-partisan but actually an Englishman. Woody Allen, who uses irony like Australians use a fly sw...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov works for two pianos
- Replies: 14
- Views: 193
Rachmaninov works for two pianos
I have Engerer and Maisenberg playing these and the CD is on right now. This recording isn't to my taste anymore (dull) so I've put down my book and come here for advice. Double CD includes Symphonic Dances. I'm asking the gurus here about what I should buy which will satisfy in these works. Please.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "Freedom" mirages
- Replies: 1
- Views: 128
Re: "Freedom" mirages
Joseph Stiglitz is most certainly not a 'centrist'. He's an old guard socialist who has been to Australia (some time ago) spreading his little pills of poison about 'wealth redistribution' and the failures of 'trickle down economics'. I've heard his rants about this on our national TV network. He's ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 286
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
I think you'll find I referred to this as a 'SET BACK'. You stick to the NYT victim narrative and I'll stick to the more balanced "Australian" newspaper. Not all white men are monsters who see women as fair game, but it suits your narrative to have them viewed as such. It's just so sad to see reveng...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2083067
Re: What I listened to today
Ronald Brautigam playing 4 Impromptus by Schubert, D899, on his replica fortepiano. Wonderful, authoritative and muscular playing. I just adore that strong modulation in Impromptu #2 in E Flat Major. And Brautigam is sight playing these too; very adept with that page-turning, I must say! Another gor...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 286
Another set-back for #Metoo
This time it's Harvey Weinstein. It seems the trial was rigged and there's to be another. Well, who'd have thought? He'll die soon anyway and still has charges upheld in California. 23 years in prison is a huge sentence, especially when murderers often receive less - only to be released and re-offen...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 129
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
I wonder why your "Pravda" media keeps you in a permanent state of panic? (I wonder if I wonder?) I can't and won't waste the remaining years of my life worrying about any pandemic, as I'm just grateful for the standard of living I've got and the happiness index of it. All of it could vanish in a mo...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 202
Re: The US still the indispensable power
As for paying for it all, well, $100 billion compared to an economy of $26 trillion is surely a small price to pay to hold back those who would wreak havoc. It is PRINTED money, Maestrob . And some time, in the not too distant future, you'll wonder why the government cannot afford to build hospital...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms and Dvorak
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3320
Re: Brahms and Dvorak
Vaclav Neumann conducts Czech Philharmonic and Dvorak's Symphony 7. A wonderful work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkVFq1I7sik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkVFq1I7sik
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 7
- Views: 235
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
Getting to more serious matters, Holden, how are your knees going?
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 7
- Views: 235
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
The Taxonomy chart I've posted can be enlarged and read on the Iphone: I've just done it myself and it makes for compelling reading. Very cleverly and accurately thought out by two whip-smart intellectuals.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sex, God and Liberty: Andrew Klavan's YAF address South Carolina
- Replies: 0
- Views: 338
Sex, God and Liberty: Andrew Klavan's YAF address South Carolina
Klavan is part of the Daily Wire group and he's addressing a young audience at University of SC, Chapel Hill. It's just finished. An audience of happy, enquiring young people who don't have chips on their shoulders, hate in their hearts and who appreciate Klavan's ideas: what's not to love about you...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 7
- Views: 235
Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
How to turn a Lefty into a more conservative/classical liberal. There are growing legions of them now and they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out. I suddenly feel hope!! Dr. Boghossian nails it on each of these dreadful metrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtARgjShRvg Boghossian and Shel...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 136
Re: India’s PM Narendra Modi: What makes this Islamophobic strongman tick?
A much more balanced view. Narendra Modi is unbeatable Francis Pike The Spectator Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a surprise when one considers that in a population of 1.4 billion people there are 969 million voters, 2,60...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Philharmonic Opens Inquiry After Misconduct Allegations Are Revived
- Replies: 5
- Views: 293
Re: Philharmonic Opens Inquiry After Misconduct Allegations Are Revived
Meeeooow.Ricordanza wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:47 amA name I recognize--he's a former boyfriend of Yuja Wang.the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 264
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
The cult of woke finds its apotheosis. When teenagers behave like this, most of whom still live at home with mommy and daddy, we are are reminded not just of the second cult - that of the child - but also the poison of institutional indoctrination now at work in US universities. These 'kiddies' of h...