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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
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: 3149
- Views: 1954369
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: 3
- Views: 47
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: 2
- Views: 36
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: 123
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: 23
- Views: 2228
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: 108
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: 108
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: 22
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: 108
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: 72
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: 190
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: 2
- Views: 43
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 123
Re: The US still the indispensable power
A pretty thorough appraisal of the situation from Hartcher. However, I'm deeply ambivalent about all this 'America as policeman' stuff, mostly on behalf of the beleaguered American taxpayer who must by now be good and tired of funding overseas wars. There has to be a better way, instead of the burde...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:56 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brahms and Dvorak
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2228
Re: Brahms and Dvorak
Today I listened to Dvorak Symphony #8 with the Vienna Philharmonic/Jakob Hrůša in the concert from Prague late last year. What a very fine conductor he is too; the orchestra was on fire, except the Timp was out of balance by being a little too loud at times. Starts here at 56 minutes : https://www....
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: JS Bach's Three Cello Sonatas, BWV 1027-1028-1029
- Replies: 7
- Views: 239
Re: JS Bach's Three Cello Sonatas, BWV 1027-1028-1029
Yes, this is true. In fact the Trio Sonata is one of the oldest - if not THE oldest - ensemble form in western music. It's actually quite a complicated beast and I remember researching it for 1st year Musicology many decades ago and it was like folding smoke, so diverse were the iterations of Trio S...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Truancy hurts society
- Replies: 0
- Views: 49
Truancy hurts society
There are some holes in this essay, like any piece of swiss cheese, but much of it is just common sense. Remember how everybody screamed and yelled 'racism' about the Australian newspaper cartoon by Bill Leak where the man asks about his aboriginal son's name? Well, the evidence is in that family dy...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: BLM's Assault on American Theatre: McWhorter with Duncan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 132
Re: BLM's Assault on American Theatre: McWhorter with Duncan
What incredibly low resolution thinking!!!
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Dvořák: Biblical Songs (10), Op. 99
- Replies: 6
- Views: 194
Re: Dvořák: Biblical Songs (10), Op. 99
Thanks. I did listen to some of them yesterday on YT, but we had to go out during much of the day - not returning until 9pm - and I will try and catch up today.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 166
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
Lebrecht's ode: SIR ANDREW DAVIS AND THE SNOBS Norman Lebrecht April 22, 2024 The composer Michael Tippett referred to him as ‘the other Davis’ – that is, not Sir Colin. Covent Garden never considered him a candidate to succeed his namesake. He was not appointed Generalmusikdirektor of any holy Ger...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 66
Re: Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
I love the Mendelssohn concertos - all - which includes the Violin concerto. There was energy and joie de vivre in them, in spades. He's still a somewhat under-rated composer, IMO. Perhaps his music is just too 'accessible' for its own good!!
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1954369
Re: What I listened to today
Haydn Piano Sonata in E Minor, XV1:34 Backhaus, 1959. It's one of my favourite piano sonatas, period. I have Ronald Brautigam playing this on the fortepiano too, and it's equally wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgfS9P_MoA&t=45s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgfS9P_MoA&t=45s
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Philharmonic Opens Inquiry After Misconduct Allegations Are Revived
- Replies: 5
- Views: 190
Re: Philharmonic Opens Inquiry After Misconduct Allegations Are Revived
Makes you realize how smart the Vienna Philharmonic has been after all; over the decades putting their own relatives into the orchestra instead of outsiders. That worked mainly to keep 'the sound' but it seems it did have other positive consequences. That was, until they were forced to cease this pr...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 166
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
Don't 'tremble'; enjoy every single minute, especially with music. It's our motto for every single day and and it works a treat. New intellectual pursuits, music and great films and lots of fabulous books. The occasional trip thrown in for good measure and after that a few decent friends who are sti...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119605
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: After Months of Cocaine Washing Ashore, Australian Police Make an Arrest
- Replies: 1
- Views: 55
Re: After Months of Cocaine Washing Ashore, Australian Police Make an Arrest
Some of these packages of cocaine were found in Newcastle, as mentioned, which is just 30km from here and a major coal-loading port. A lot of shipping passes through this city's busy harbour.
Again. Where there's a demand there will always be a ready supply.
Again. Where there's a demand there will always be a ready supply.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 166
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
I'm very sad to learn about this. Davis was a man of warmth, intelligence and humour and we saw this in spades during this Prom years. That he died 'suddenly' whilst being treated for Leukaemia was a huge stroke for fortune for him. It's a dreadful, debilitating disease. A life well lived. Thank you...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: It Introduced Ozempic to the World. Now It Must Remake Itself.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 109
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119605
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 175
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
I would expect the question which heads this discussion to be asked by any 10 year old. And I'd answer it as being asked by a child and not worthy of anything, apart from "when you grow up...."
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Investigating the Academy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 89
Investigating the Academy
What awful, awful times we live in!! It's terrifying. The people who've bought into all this are one and the same cohort who have the unbridled hypocrisy to criticize Rupert Murdoch!! Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why man...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119605
Re: Some mirth
"Yes,Prime Minister" on newspapers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63aIA3e-Tc Absolute comedy gold. The writing on both "Yes, Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" is amongst the very best ever created for television, comedy or drama - and that's a high bar. The Brits have got IT . You can see how m...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Migration as an ideological project
- Replies: 0
- Views: 94
Migration as an ideological project
Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen's address to the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. It's staggering to believe that the Belgium authorities tried to prevent this conference from going ahead and Dr. Maaßen speaks about that and other huge infringements on liberty underway in Europe at the moment. Th...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: BLM's Assault on American Theatre: McWhorter with Duncan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 132
BLM's Assault on American Theatre: McWhorter with Duncan
Clifton Duncan is something of a rugged individualist who is unafraid to express his opinion. Plenty of things to admire. He is talking here with John McWhorter. Duncan refused to be vaccinated during Covid and this caused him a great many problems in his professional life. He's currently writing a ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
' The science is settled '. Of course there are transgender human beings; conservatives just don't want CHILDREN mutilated. Or given the right to determine whether they should be castrated before 21 years of age. And, as with Covid, we cannot trust or be guaranteed the medical profession will behave...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach: Musical Offering, Le Concert des Nations/Savall
- Replies: 0
- Views: 115
Bach: Musical Offering, Le Concert des Nations/Savall
This work is thrillingly executed by this virtuosic group. The Ricercar @ 6 has always brought me to my knees and I watched it yesterday on YT played by Olivier Latry on the pipe organ!! The formidable keyboard skill required to play this - let alone on the organ - is something to behold. Charles Ro...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119605
Re: Some mirth
I absolutely loved Peter Cook. Here he is with (Aussie) Clive James and afterwards Barry Humphries. British humour. You can't beat it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvU9CUllTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvU9CUllTo
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Riccardo Chailly conducts Rossini
- Replies: 2
- Views: 125
Re: Riccardo Chailly conducts Rossini
I've got plane-spotting going on in the background and reading your comments about Chailly. I like the Schumann symphonies, particularly the "Rhenish". That's an interesting study on the long musical line, more particularly in movement 1V Feierlich . It takes the long line and stretches it out to Wa...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Dr. Jordan Peterson with Dr. James Lindsay
- Replies: 0
- Views: 89
Dr. Jordan Peterson with Dr. James Lindsay
Unpacking the post-modernism/Marxist matrix: two fabulously intelligent men sort it. Two very intellectual heavy-hitters on the side of conservatives. (Dr. Lindsay once supported the Democrat Party.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrdyphape4&t=96s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrdyphape4&t=96s
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Immigrants in the long run are an asset to the U.S. economy with its aging population
- Replies: 2
- Views: 169
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
That final quote from Clifford about belief is very compelling, EXCEPT that Christians BELIEVE without a scintilla of 'evidence'. That has worked for over 2000 years, more or less, but it does also throw into relief reasons WHY people have willingly suspended disbelief over the centuries. The entire...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Horowitz in Vienna, 1987 and Moscow, 1986 (re-mastered)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 171
Re: Horowitz in Vienna, 1987 and Moscow, 1986 (re-mastered)
Very moving review. Well said.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Riccardo Chailly conducts Rossini
- Replies: 2
- Views: 125
Riccardo Chailly conducts Rossini
I feel this conductor is somewhat under-rated and I'm unsure why. I've seen him at the Gewandhaus back in 2015 and was impressed. (What a fabulous venue, by the way!!) Here he is conducting what I call 'Mendelssohn's orchestra' in Rossini's Petite Messs Solennelle, Though I prefer the smaller forces...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Audience behaviors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 136
Re: Audience behaviors
A wonderful artist whose work I enjoy - in certain repertoire. Good on him for having the chops to tell it like it is. Relaxing rules; yes that always works a treat, doesn't it!! You can trust people to moderate their own behaviour, really you can. (I'm waiting for that relaxation on the use of seat...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
I prefer the messaging of Dr. James Lindsay who speaks about the growing rate of cults in the USA and around the world. Trans is yet another of these cults and people join/support/sympathize with them because they 'want to be nice'. Dr. Lindsay says if you've bought into the trans issues and support...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 0
- Views: 106
Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
A great discussion with Dr. Arnn about the divisive politics of identity. Heather is a brave woman and I admire her forthright argument, using facts. She loves literature and music and she's quite the polymath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchVwwDc4Fs
Insulting responses. In three...two...one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchVwwDc4Fs
Insulting responses. In three...two...one
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Left wing racism in British public schools
- Replies: 6
- Views: 234
Re: Left wing racism in British public schools
You can call dissent 'uncomfortable'. That surprises me none. Joe is an off-the-shelf hate-bag and what I'm doing is pushing back against the lies and hypocrisy of the Left. This site is typical of many where the prevailing orthodoxy is left wing politics and absolutely no dissent will be tolerated ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 430
Re: Grocery store closures in California
On the contrary, it's your Democratic Party which is the party of big business these days! Big time. The Left grew rich!
As I've said before, I'm not going into a battle of wits with the totally un-armed. It wouldn't be fair.
As I've said before, I'm not going into a battle of wits with the totally un-armed. It wouldn't be fair.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cockpit view A350 from Copenhagen
- Replies: 0
- Views: 114
Cockpit view A350 from Copenhagen
For Av-Geeks like myself this is amazing. Inside the cockpit of the superb machine which is the Airbus 350, with Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines. Scandinavian SK973 from Copenhagen to Bangkok. The computer technology is absolutely off the charts. (I can't wait to take the A350 from Sydney to Fiji in A...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Grocery store closures in California
- Replies: 16
- Views: 430