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- Mon May 20, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 13
- Views: 301
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
Thanks Belle. I too thought Furedi made some excellent points.
- Mon May 20, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Washington NSO Members Object to Rapper
- Replies: 4
- Views: 50
Re: Washington NSO Members Object to Rapper
According to the Slipped Disc website, a number of the members of the Washington, D.C. NSO have objected to an upcoming concert program featuring the orchestra with the rapper Killer Mike and the Mighty Midnight Revival. Killer Mike is definitely a rapper in the "gangsta rap" genre, with the "N-wor...
- Mon May 20, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Robert Levin's Mozart Project
- Replies: 1
- Views: 50
Re: Robert Levin's Mozart Project
This is excellent news, and I will fork out for the complete concertos set when it is available. Thanks for posting, Belle. I heard Levin play Mozart in Melbourne several times, always improvising his cadenzas, and I loved it. He told the audience one night what is in the article above, that most of...
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 813
- Views: 199992
Re: TrumpReich in action
H-Bomb Gaza says Sen.Lindsay Graham: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/12/lindsey_graham_it_was_ok_for_america_to_nuke_hiroshima_so_israel_can_do_whatever_you_have_to_do.html Golly! Unhinged? Besides, even if it were justifiable (which it is not), how do you limit the damage to a stri...
- Sun May 19, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: After Outcry, Concertgebouw Will Allow Jerusalem Quartet to Perform
- Replies: 1
- Views: 57
Re: After Outcry, Concertgebouw Will Allow Jerusalem Quartet to Perform
Well done. But I hope they don't regret it - the protesting scum will see it as a challenge.
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: von Weber's opera: Der Freischütz
- Replies: 7
- Views: 173
Re: von Weber's opera: Der Freischütz
I've seen a traditional production in Melbourne, and it was all it should be Len!
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 172
Re: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
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. From the program: Richard Wagner’s (1813–1883) exquisite tone poem Siegfried Idyll was composed in 1870 as a birthday present to his wife, Cosima, following the birth of t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 13
- Views: 301
Re: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
Two good articles, Mark, thank you. Netanyahu and Hamas deserve each other, but the rest of the Middle East and the world doesn't deserve either.
It's all so tragic.
It's all so tragic.
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest
- Replies: 13
- Views: 301
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:13 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 183
Re: The Donald’s 819-million-dollar tax writeoff
I will take the liberty of posting a short column I wrote for the Centre of Public Christianity about tax. Donald Trump and I probably don't differ much in the amount we pay! What one of us SHOULD pay is another question. We had our Federal Budget last night in Australia. Paying tax is a pleasure De...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2526
Re: Heather Mac Donald: Race, Merit and the Future of the Republic
It eems to me the Left has shifted on this. For most of my life it has fought for equality of opportunity, which I strongly support. Now it wants equality of outcome, which is humanly not possible. The only way is the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland: everybody has won, and all shall have prizes. Al...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 209
Re: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
I have 11 accounts
Barenboim, Karajan, Muti, de Sabata, Gardiner, Van Kempen, Fricsay, and two different ones each by Solti and by Giulini, including the one you mention, Lance. I must play that one soon.
Barenboim, Karajan, Muti, de Sabata, Gardiner, Van Kempen, Fricsay, and two different ones each by Solti and by Giulini, including the one you mention, Lance. I must play that one soon.
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 172
Re: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Earth" (Song of the Earth)
Funny you should raise this today Lance. I attended a fascinating concert of DLvdE just on Monday night - the arrangement for chamber orchestra begun by Schoenberg played by the Australian Chamber Orchestra with tenor Stuart Skelton (no stranger to the Met) and mezzo Catherine Carby. It's scored for...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Hopkins to play Handel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 128
Hopkins to play Handel
From the Australian arts magazine Limelight Hopkins to play Handel Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins to star in biopic scheduled for late 2025. by Jason Blake on 6 May, 2024 Continuing his late-career focus on portrayals of historical figures (most recently Sigmund Freud), Anthony Hopkins is rea...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: An Absent Player in the Spotlight at the Philharmonic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 161
Re: An Absent Player in the Spotlight at the Philharmonic
Oh dear. I haveto say, I'd rather have heard the oboe concerto. Wasn't the associate principal up to it? I'm sure s/he was.
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
Ah right. I did see that. Sorry, Len, I was thinking there was a follow up. Though I wonder how safe a Republican speaker can be who relies on Democrat support!
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
Excellent! What was it Len? I missed it - got 3 concerts in 5 days and 4 doctors' visits (nothing amiss, apart from wear and tear - check-ups, flu vaccine etc).
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 286
Re: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
Thanks Brian, I found this fascinating.
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
Very interesting - and seems to make good sense.
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 749
Re: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
I strongly recommend Paul McCreech and the Gabrielli players. The famous Richter version from 1959 flirts with HIP. I also have Solti, Gardiner, Chailly, Christoph Spering (HIP from memory - though all the 21st century accounts are influenced by it) and Georg Christoph Biller which was well reviewed...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 430
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 528
Re: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
But back to #1: If this group is so hard to find, it should surprise nobody in the internet age that something has gone amiss. And that's truly unfortunate. Perhaps the problem is with the searcher ? I just Googled " Classical music forums " and Chatterbox here came up as the second result and the ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life
- Replies: 10
- Views: 430
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.
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 528
Re: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
Lance, please continue your present policy.
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 528
Re: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
Why separate "classical music (recordings) from classical concert reviews? Why even have separate "rooms" for books, films, and "pub stuff?" Some of your other suggestions may make sense, but I can't agree with these two. Listening to a recording and attending a concert are two vastly different exp...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 367
Re: Bigoted Brats on Mein Kampus
The Right focuses on campus “ brats” to avoid and distract from the criminal slaughter the Right’s Israeli brothers have unleashed on the children of Gaza. Hmmm. I think you can be justly appalled at the toll in Gaza and still agree with this article, as I do. The question I have in my own mind is,...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 483
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
What are your figures on females killing partners and children, Barney? What annoys me is that the (so-called) Justice system needs to be front and centre for never seriously punishing offenders and letting others out on bail. But is there ever any mention of this? Of course not!!! No government wi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 483
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
There does seem to be an upsurge in male violence against women this year, and it's very daunting. Too early to say if it's coincidence or a trend. The only counter-point I'd like to make is that males are overwhelmingly the victims of male violence, far more than women are, and that this deserves a...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 277
Re: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
Well Lance, the human voice was the original instrument, and is still the most universal. I instantly recognise Pavarotti, Wunderlich, Fischer-Dieskau, Pears, Sutherland, Callas, Ferrier pretty much infallibly. Not many others of whom I could make that claim. There's a couple of dozen whom I'm likel...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar I used to listen to Caesar's and Benny's show on the radio before we had a TV ( not until about 1956 for us ) usually around our supper table at home with my family on a Sun...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
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 ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 255
Re: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
That's the right link. I'll watch tonight. Thanks.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 255
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.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
In contrast, Australian humor is like dark matter: we know it has to exist somewhere, but good luck finding it. Somehow I suspect you've put the usual effort that Americans do into Australia - none whatsoever. Or you wouldn't say anything quite so ill-conceived. After all, you've suggested several ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bill Maher; finally making it back towards the centre
- Replies: 5
- Views: 255
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.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
Oh, I think we agree there are some very funny American comedians. I named a few earlier. We just disagree on which they are. Especially when it comes to Stewart, even if I probably like his politics. But it's not even Stewart that I mind so much, it's the contemptible fawning audience who burst int...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
The unrivalled comedian, Jon Stewart weighs in on the media’s overblown coverage of Trump’s criminal trial, from sketch-artist interviews to following his motorcade via helicopter... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkf2U5jcE0 I know you're just being provocative, Joe, calling him unrivalled but you ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-april-26th-whatever-he-wants?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Humor_042624&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0f513f92a404695e3103&cndid=16856169&esrc=Order_Confirmation&utm_term=TNY_Humor Many a true word spoken in jest...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Arizona indicts Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a slew of others for trying to overturn 2020 election
- Replies: 1
- Views: 272
Re: Arizona indicts Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a slew of others for trying to overturn 2020 election
Good. Obviously it will be too late, too slow, to influence any voters though. And if Trump wins they can all expect pardons.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene — so Right she looks Left
- Replies: 4
- Views: 275
Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene — so Right she looks Left
An eloquent article.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:20 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 345
Re: The US still the indispensable power
I was extremely worried by Republican intransigence over Ukraine aid. This is good to know, thans Joe. Proxy wars are ugly things, but it seem to me Russia must be stopped at the first hurdle.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The US still the indispensable power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 345
The US still the indispensable power
From The Age in Melbourne Despite Obama and Trump, America just proved it’s still the ‘indispensable power’ Peter Hartcher Peter Hartcher Political and international editor April 23, 2024 — 5.00am Save America’s credibility never has recovered from Barack Obama’s “red-line” ultimatum to Syria’s dict...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
- Replies: 1
- Views: 251
Re: PM Albanese calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after Musk accused Australia of censorship
Couldn't read it, Joe, as I'm not willing for them to use my data. Is it possible for you to paste it? I am concerned about preserving free speech, but I can't see Musk's case for posting live vision of a bishop being stabbed. As Oliver Wendell Holmes famously observed, free speech does not include ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: January 24, 2025
- Replies: 3
- Views: 335
Re: January 24, 2025
Yes, congratulations. Quite a thrill.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 339
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
Davis was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for years; I've interviewed him. A gregarious and funny man, who got on really well with the musicians. They loved him, even while finding him occasionally irritating.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
John Spooner used to be a quite a good friend at The Age. He is a brilliant cartoonist/illustrator. But with utter crap like this one, I wouldn't know what to say if I met him today.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And a lotta folks have tried ever since Jon Stewart basically invented parodic "fake news" as a comedy form some 28 yea...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 249
- Views: 134459
Re: Some mirth
I'm not criticising his intelligence; I'm sure he's very bright. I'm criticising the credulous simplicity of Americans who think it's really clever and funny to find a news clip then introduce it by asserting the opposite. Even I could do that. And in the last clip that was posted here, that's all h...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 312
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
No they don't, Lance; obviously the question carries its own answer. The argument, which I don't accept, is that they put on a bit of lippy and stockings, say they are women, and, lo and behold, they are women. But the transgender activists - or many of them - are quite vicious. I'm not at all surpr...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 382
Re: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Rach3, Thanks for posting the concert. Here is the concert on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXs-1nG6-0E By the way, Hadelich is the victim of a terrible accident. When he was fifteen, a fire on his family farm burned much of his upper body, including his face and bowing arm. He lost a co...