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- Fri May 03, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 97
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: 138
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: I am getting requests for new CMGers every day, but ...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 154
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: 138
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: 12
- Views: 154
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: 12
- Views: 154
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: 5
- Views: 127
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: 11
- Views: 286
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: 11
- Views: 286
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: 120
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 134
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: 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.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 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.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 2
- Views: 123
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: 122
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: 203
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: 203
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: 3
- Views: 131
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: 241
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: 269
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 243
- Views: 124341
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: 8
- Views: 239
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: 322
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...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 322
Re: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Hadelich is certainly highly rated. He's in Melbourne in a couple of months, and I have forked out for a ticket.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Left wing racism in British public schools
- Replies: 6
- Views: 297
Re: Left wing racism in British public schools
Isn't it time for you two to agree not to talk to each other?
(Yes, I mean you, Joe and Belle.) It's getting uncomfortable. I know I can simply not read, but you both vary invective with interesting points, so I want the latter.
(Yes, I mean you, Joe and Belle.) It's getting uncomfortable. I know I can simply not read, but you both vary invective with interesting points, so I want the latter.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124341
Re: Some mirth
Jon Stewart 15 April — Talking World War III Blues, Trump’s dementia, his drooling at his trial, the “Is he Jesus or Mandela?” debate, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeLRtpC2WI I don't really understand why this guy is so popular. His technique seems to be find a bit of news coverage, say the ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 243
- Views: 124341
Re: Some mirth
I saw these, too, Steve, and thought they were great. Didn't occur to me to post them here though. Good for you.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:24 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 288
Re: Susan Tomes gives us another book: "Women and the Piano"
Great name for an author.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1380
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
It is fascinating to hear from the pseudo-libertarian Right on this healthcare issue. They are the offspring of the very gaggle that bitterly opposed Medicare in the twentieth century and then savaged Obama/Pelosicare in the twenty-first. They now presumptively proffer a fix for the real inequities...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
- Replies: 5
- Views: 248
Re: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
There will be a large amount of CYA (cover your a*se) going on. I'm just pleased he wasn't a Muslim terrorist - things are bad enough on Muslim-Jewish (and others) tensions right now.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Phone That Tore Us Apart
- Replies: 3
- Views: 241
Re: The Phone That Tore Us Apart
Yes, lovely piece, thanks.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 275
Re: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
I bought 37 of the two CD sets as they came out, then found the whole 100 in the two boxes, new, for NZ $537 (about $400 US, I think). They weren't that cheap in Oz. I never regretted that! A while ago Lance posted that he'd seen the whole lot on eBay for US$4000, but it's irrelevant - I'll never se...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 246
Re: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
Interesting to watch Yuja in these clips. I've never seen her use music whilst playing live though unless it's a chamber music recital. About whether artists risk the clamour of the audience, I think it gives them even more power to be successful and precise especially when traversing a major, virt...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: VIDEO: Lucia Popp Sings Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs (Solti/Chicago)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 481
Re: VIDEO: Lucia Popp Sings Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs (Solti/Chicago)
I loved that Four Last Songs. I spent a chunk of yesterday on that website listening to more Lucia Popp and then more, Schuert and various Strausses. (In the evening I changed milieu and went to a riveting MSO concert of American classics: School for Scandal overture, Westside Story Symphonic Dances...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Detained Palestinians are facing ‘routine’ amputations, Haaretz reports
- Replies: 3
- Views: 391
Re: Detained Palestinians are facing ‘routine’ amputations, Haaretz reports
If this is true - and it probably is - this is just appalling. What a terrible war this has become.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Replies: 19
- Views: 786
Re: Klaus Mäkelä named to head Chicago Symphony Orchestra
As I wrote in another thread, I have nothing but contempt for Wang's ego, childishness and game-playing (eg the ultra-late cancellations). Professional people very frequently have to work with others they don't like, and they mostly manage it. She signed deals; she should uphold them. For people lik...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 559
Re: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
"Cultural appropriation" is a recently coined and loaded term , and it's very foolish to judge pseudo Asian operas such as Turandot and Madama Butterly by the trendy. PC. standards of the present day . Today, cultural appropriation has to do with. white people doing things such as wearing. the clot...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cannon Frustration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: Cannon Frustration
She can simply not rule until trial starts, then torpedo the case as the article notes.Laurence Tribe and Neil Katyal last night both felt the only safe thing is to find a way for the 11th Circuit themselves to rule on the PRA issue right now, and/or remove her from the case, but there are apparent...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Revisiting Mefistofele Boito Used DVD SF
- Replies: 3
- Views: 297
Re: Revisiting Mefistofele Boito Used DVD SF
I'm planning to see a 2023 Rome production in an arthouse cinema next week. Watch this space ... or not!
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 559
Re: Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation
Cultural appropriation is a two-way street. How much western culture has Asia adopted, just as one example? It's all folderol, this line of thinking. All I know is those ravishing tunes by Puccini are loved by people of all nations. It may interest you to know that when Rimsky-Korsakov first heard ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cannon Frustration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: Cannon Frustration
Indeed, Len. When I say corrupt, I don't mean she is taking bribes - I have not the slightest reason to suggest that - I mean she is abnegating her responsibility to justice and the law in order to help the man who appointed her.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Cannon Frustration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 501
Re: Cannon Frustration
Cannon's bizarre behaviour suggests she is deeply corrupt.