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Guess where this is located-not a place I normally frequent-for extra credit id the instruments although I won't be able to tell you if you're correct on that. Len https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/o7/lensue/5/06e41072-d710-4116-a84b-1ec9ed2563fa-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=boun...

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Samuel Becket, who insisted in his lifetime on complete artistic control of every one of his works no matter where in the world it happened, would never have allowed this. I guess he left no estate that maintains that standard, so I would have to take an opera of Endgame on its own terms. Incidenta...

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A follow up-we've been back in nyc for musical events and also a tradition of checking out the XMAS window displays-we started with those on 5th ave near central park-those at bergdorf win the prize this year so far-anyway at 57th and 5th we turned the corner and staring us in the face where we saw ...

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Joseph, thanks--impressive! Len

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I was getting it free and just couldn't stand being without it-for a while they allowed you a certain number of free articles but when that came to an end I threw in the towel and became a subscriber! So tell me more about that street in Cleveland-is that downtown-it looked great! Len

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Wow, that street in cleveland they show looks like the kind of street Sue and i love to walk! Still LIC is a lot closer! Len

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John we've been to that museum quite a few times over the years-sensational-gotta get back there some time-we used to go to boston more often. Len

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John F, thanks for posting this article-remember meeting Teachout a few times. Len

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A big article from the NYTimes with loads of photos-very enjoyable-I'll copy and paste the beginning of it-it's too long for me to do the whole article here in secaucus with only the smart phone and the tablet. Len He visited Little Italy and Chinatown, posed for pictures on the Brooklyn Bridge, mar...

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Weather report: The snow/slush is almost completely gone here in Manhattan, thankfully! We went out to dinner in the thick of the mess last night, but the evening was well worth it! At least the subways were working. Brian today things worked perfectly-port authority buses, subways, museum, opera, ...

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After the first trip ever to the museum of arts and design with some very impressive ceramics and other modern ideas for the world of crafts located on columbus circle we went to julliard for the opera-liked the music, production and set-the singers acted and sang well-I found the story a little str...

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Here's one for the CMG music forum-a party like those we don't see today! Len :lol: https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/o7/lensue/5/846b9785-4df9-46a3-8db7-6f385ff5b761-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/o7/lensue/5/d3f36eca-5204-4c61-927...

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John B, i was face to face with Aristotle and a lot more of his paintings-also 4 vermeers! Len

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Yes, thank you, mother nature, for the surprise. :roll: Good thing I have food in the house, because the weather alert is telling people up here not to go out on the roads. John as I just said in my message to John F the roads were just terrible when that amazing couple took us back to out hotel-th...

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It's not as if we had a real blizzard. The snowfall was pretty gentle and while it accumulated, I don't believe there was more than 2-3" on the ground. It's not like NYC to panic just for weather like this. John absolutely agree-at 5:15 with the museum closing we decided it was best to walk back th...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:11 pm
Ah yes, our first snow fall that is sticking in upstate New York. So, take the time to enjoy some of your newly acquired recordings. A very good day/night for it!

Lance definitely a bad day to be at the NYC Port Authority like Sue and I were--I opened up a new thread about it in the Pub. Len

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We were doing great on the first day of our NYC trip what with fabulous oysters and clam chowder at the famous grand central terminal oyster bar and a very nice Dutch art show at the Met Museum of Art-then we encountered this. Len :( Freak snowstorm causes commuter hell, shuts George Washington Brid...

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Mueller needs as much protection as possible. Regards, Len [the worrier]

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the horrendously racist Woodrow Wilson had a father who moved the family from Ohio to Virginia so that he could own slaves. (Otherwise, to make my trivia point for the day, we would have nine presidents from Ohio instead of the already record eight.) And now Virginia may be more blue than Ohio! Reg...

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You would think, wouldn't you, that everyone recognizes the Brooklyn Bridge. No, not at all. I even had to identify that. John I love viewing the Brooklyn Bridge-I also love when you look out at it and also see the Manhattan Bridge and behind that the Williamsburg Bridge-just yesterday was watching...

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Outer boroughs such as Brooklyn? That's a laugh. John we were just in Long Island City a few weeks-had an absolutely superb weather day--we left from Pier 13 south of the South St. Seaport and took the ferry to the Long Island stop at Gantry State Park-it's our second visit over there--we walked al...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:33 am
I would LOVE to hear Netrebko in Adriana Lecouvreur, one of my favorite unknown operas.

Brian we have our tickets to hear that one live-Jan 16! Hope she shows up. BTW it's being done HD style Sat Jan 12. Regards, Len

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The Salzburg Festival is Planning a Mythic Summer By Michael Cooper Nov. 14, 2018 The Salzburg Festival plans to delve into myth next summer, with new opera productions including Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” by Peter Sellars; Offenbach’s “Orphée aux Enfers,” by Barrie Kosky; George Enescu’s “Oedipe,” by Ach...

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Can't say I fully understood the article but we'll give it a shot on Sunday if the snow doesn't foil our NYC minitrip. https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/o7/lensue/5/acdea436-006d-4c47-a291-ef9d26c92407-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of C...

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You all are speaking of Trump. I am speaking of Waters. How would you compare the faults of Waters with all the faults of trump. BTW trump was right on Abby Phillip-she did ask a stupid question-she should have known she was wasting her time--what she should have asked was this and in this manner: ...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:17 pm
Well said, Brian. Me too.

Barney-so Marx was into the ME TOO movement-didn't know it was around then--he really was way ahead of his time! Regards, Len

[fleeing]

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Thanks, some of my favorite singers. Regards, Len

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Maxine Waters deserves all the mocking she can get, and probably more. I do not know much about the others. You should imo take a look at what he has said toward the others-for example can you defend this material-the reporter asked the absolutely correct question and got this: https://www.cnn.com/...

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Jonathan Dove interview: the composer on his latest opera Marx in London An opera about the father of communism? Jonathan Dove might make it more fun than it sounds Hugh Canning Jonathan Dove is our most prolific composer of opera: his new one, Marx in London, opening in Bonn next month, is, he says...

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Yeah he's just disgusting. Regards, Len

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:05 am
Lordy, a combo heaven-decreed.

Wait a second, now Comey is brought back in! Regards, Len

Comey: ‘Lordy, I hope there are tapes’

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... -are-tapes

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And someone needs to write an opera: Trump in Riyadh with the Trump role assigned to countertenor or soprano. Wow, how ironic-in another context I was just listening to the duet between Akhnaten and Nefertiti in Glass's opera-the Met may be doing a new production of the opera Akhnaten in the future...

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the Constitution. Doesn't the Trump Doctrine embrace the notion of the unitary executive that can in effect amend the Constitution via executive order? Wonder when he'll start ordering the media he's been so viciously attacking to be jailed-go Acosta go! Regards, Len https://6abc.com/white-house-su...

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Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The US Attorney for the Sovereign District of NY should indict Donald J. Trump, Sr. now . He stands accused, as the 9 Nov. WSJ story suggests, of conspiring with Michael Cohen to violate federal election laws: he should be booked, fingerprinted, ...

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https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/o7/lensue/5/52846042-6b1f-4e31-8033-da9d9b06aef4-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds This is tempting me-we saw it with Ramey-it won't be done HD style. Regards, Len Review: ‘Mefistofele’ at the Met Opera Is a Devil That Dances By Zachary Woolfe...

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Trump outdid himself with this pick--his best lackey since Devin Gerald Nunes. Regards, Len

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Yeah I was watching CNN and they were covering all this-you've heard of lying Ted-nothing compared to prevaricating Donald Trump! Regards, Len

We need a few indictments now-I'd prefer Don Jr. but even Stone would satisfy me. Regards, Len

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:57 am
Changes in gut bacteria upon becoming Americans are more important than one might have thought.

John just finished dinner and came up to check messages-obviously I read this at the wrong time. Regards, Len

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It looks to be fascinating, and from the stills alone it does not appear to be a trash producion, Sellars or no Sellars. As John F once pointed out, when he wants to, he can create a truly beautiful production :| John yes we have tickets for it-Sun Nov 18-of course we're a little nervous about how ...

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Never heard of Kurtag. Regards, Len A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ By Palko Karasz Nov. 7, 2018 BUDAPEST — In the fall of 1956, the Soviet Union crushed an uprising in Hungary, swiftly ending an attempt to escape the superpower’s grip on the Eastern bloc. The Soviet tanks that...

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This looks interesting to me but I am not going all the way to Hamburg just to see it. Regards, Len A Rare Staging Finds the Magic in Schumann’s ‘Faust’ By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Nov. 7, 2018 HAMBURG — One reason Schumann’s “Scenes From Goethe’s ‘Faust’” is so rarely performed is its hybrid sha...

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Wow that didn't take long--he just got fired. Regards, Len :( :( :( On Whitaker. Regards, Len Matthew Whitaker, a Trump Loyalist, Is Seen as Ascendant Amid Rosenstein Chaos By Katie Benner and Maggie Haberman Sept. 26, 2018 WASHINGTON — Convinced that the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein,...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 06, 2018 8:55 am
Of course this brings up when will Trump move on Sessions-when will he cause a constitutional crisis.

Wow that didn't take long--he just got fired. Regards, Len

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I remember a CBS/Melodiya LP of this opera from long, long ago which was in my local library , before the CD era . It's a really interesting opera with a rather creepy plot , and I like the music very much . I would welcome a revival by Gergiev and the Mariinsky opera and a recording . Bob yes we t...

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It was a rainy nasty sort of day so we took the opportunity to see this little known Tchaikovsky opera-not as good as some of his others but at least there was a traditional set and good singing-for $3.99 in the comfort of our own home and with english captions well worth the experience. Regards, Le...

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I wonder how soon new indictments we be forthcoming in the Mueller investigation-I've missed them this month with the midterms going on-I look forward to more leaks, etc! :D Of course this brings up when will Trump move on Sessions-when will he cause a constitutional crisis. As for the elections I s...

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The Europan Café opposite Lincoln Center closed in July if not earlier. We used to stop in there sometimes after performances, though it wasn't a favorite place. Now there are alternatives, such as indie on 65th Street inside the Munroe film center, across from the Juilliard School - open until 11p...

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Of local interest: he'll make his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2021-2 conducting a new production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West." I would have preferred almost any other opera... We just saw this opera HD style last Sat-Kaufmann was superb once he warmed up-the cast sang and acted well-it's a ...

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