The Classical Music Guide Forums

maestrob

A budget that spends on education, homelessness and undocumented immigrants is the product of years of progressive politics, not a governor looking for a diversion. By Ginia Bellafante Published April 9, 2021 Updated April 11, 2021, 12:35 p.m. ET About a decade ago, it became increasingly common to...

maestrob

CNN CNN's Jim Acosta Comes This Close To Calling Tucker Carlson A Klansman https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-acosta-tucker-carlson-kkk-fox-news_n_60721fdac5b6616dcd791978 Frankly, I think a network like Fox News should not be allowed to exist. It certainly wouldn't last two minutes in France, Germ...

maestrob

In Australia, men’s sheds became a global model for helping “old boys” continue living meaningful lives. Now, women are starting their own. By Damien Cave April 11, 2021, 11:05 a.m. ET DAVOREN PARK, Australia — No one really knows when backyard sheds became meaningful to men, as a retreat and a pla...

maestrob

Trump's rant not unlike Hitler's rants of the '30's.Except Hitler far more intelligent. This TrumpReich soldier gives "suckups" a bad name: https://www.yahoo.com/news/scoop-ohio-senate-candidate-josh-204632802.html You have to be pretty awful to be excluded from Trumpworld, don't you? Certainly, it...

maestrob

If I had my druthers, Len, I would choose the Fritz Wunderlich titles and then the Susan Graham French CD.

Enjoy!

maestrob

This is a marvelous, even miraculous discovery!

Many thanks for posting about this, Rach3!

A copy is now winging its way home to my library.

maestrob

John: Thanks for the tip, but I called my bank several days ago and they assured me that the trouble was not with them, as they have approved all transactions without a problem. I know that this is true because each transaction amount was shown quite clearly in the pending column on my online statem...

maestrob

The secularization of America probably won’t reverse unless the intelligentsia gets religion. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist April 10, 2021 As is now traditional on the Easter holiday, I spent last Sunday hunting for eggs with my children, attending Mass, hiding more eggs at an aunt’s house so t...

maestrob

The measures, enacted over the objections of Gov. Larry Hogan, placed the state at the forefront of a national debate over police brutality and officers’ excessive use of force. By Michael Levenson and Bryan Pietsch April 10, 2021 Maryland lawmakers voted on Saturday to limit police officers’ use o...

maestrob

Blood Clots Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine Stem From Rare Antibody Reaction New studies from Germany and Norway examined cases involving mostly younger people who developed serious and sometimes fatal blood disorders. By Denise Grady April 9, 2021 New research has identified unusual antibodies that ...

maestrob

The poison is still there. Never forget! :evil: As long as Trump is alive, I'll be collecting rent from that famous chill in my spine. He has been advised to continue behaving like a pompous jackass in order to keep at bay his early-onset dementia. Golly, Joe, I didn't realize that condition could ...

maestrob

The administration is under intensifying pressure to expand its capacity to care for as many as 35,000 unaccompanied minors, part of a wave of people crossing the border. By Michael D. Shear, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Eileen Sullivan April 10, 2021 WASHINGTON — The desperate plea landed this week in t...

maestrob

The poison is still there.

Never forget!

As long as Trump is alive, I'll be collecting rent from that famous chill in my spine.

maestrob

And this happened in a state that is now Democrat-majority with a Democrat Governor (Ralph Northam).

Troglodytes have limited capacity for growth.

Never forget.

maestrob

Well, FDR tried this, but failed.

I'm sure Biden wants to eventually, but I think he's being wise in appointing this panel.

Somehow the hostile takeover of our government by a vociferous minority has the be stopped.

Never forget.

maestrob

The thing is, How many WV Manchin place names will it take to secure that vote? Joseph maybe none-heard they'll be lowering the corporation rate to 15%. Regards, Len :lol: Precedent dictates otherwise. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd I've heard that Congress is ta...

maestrob

Fascinating idea.

Not sure how this does anything for deaf people, but it's a worthy and welcome effort nonetheless.

maestrob

Lance, what a wonderful repertoire list. Glad to see that the audience for them while diminished, has not gone away completely. But where are the recordings of all the fine music in operettas that we grew up with? I had a Readers' Digest collection of LPs (and other records as well) when I was young...

maestrob

At least one of Pietro Alessandro Yon's works seems to be well known: "Jesu Bambino," generally sung at Christmastime. Yon, born in Italy in 1886 died in New York City in 1943. He made America his home and did much to promote the organ as a concert instrument for recitals rather than just a "church...

maestrob

For what it's worth, all these compositions are available in the mega-boxed Bernstein LP-sized sets issued by Sony. Some of you may already have them. Yes indeed, Lance. I do have those wonderful Bernstein boxes, some of which are still being sold at reasonable prices. That single disc I posted abo...

maestrob

Antonio Soler [1729-1783, Spanish composer] I well remember the American Decca recordings of Frederick Marvin, a professor of piano at Syracuse University, and an artist I met a long time ago. Loved those discs. But I happened on what I find to be amazing performances of a group of Soler's sonatas ...

maestrob

Do ImportCDs have a feedback section where you can record your dissatisfaction? I imagine that people so incompetent take care not to have one. Indeed they do, and I wrote them when my first order was cancelled. Here's the answer I got a few days later, which made no sense to me, as the two items w...

maestrob

Delightful article, Len. I have loved Brahms all my life, and I'm glad to see this. :D Brian, same for me-however there are problems-for example like Lois Kirschenbaum--the Ultimate Opera Superfan-- Brahms was a Dodger fan and that even after they abandoned Brooklyn! Another more serious problem-no...

maestrob

The president has not explicitly endorsed calls to expand the court, but he just ordered a study exploring possible reforms. By Giovanni Russonello April 9, 2021 For many liberals, the state of the nation’s courts system has reached a crisis point. For President Donald Trump and Senator Mitch McCon...

maestrob

Just finished hearing the Julia Fischer concert. Absolutely magnificent. Many thanks, Rach3.

maestrob

Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot in Washington. By Matthew Rosenberg April 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Word got around when Kristine Hostetter was spotted at a public mask-burning at the San Clemente pi...

maestrob

Defense Department officials acknowledge that rooting out far-right extremist thinking from a military of 1.3 million active-duty troops will be an uphill slog. By John Ismay and Helene Cooper April 9, 2021 WASHINGTON — One young soldier said that for the first four months after he joined his Army ...

maestrob

That may be what Moscow Mitch said on the Senate floor, but he still voted to overturn the election. He also voted to acquit Trump both times in the Senate impeachment trials. Watch what I do, not what I say. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/09/big-vote-mitch-mcconnell-opp...

maestrob

Mind, geopolitics aren’t always abstract. Towards the end of the Vietnam War, my older brother was wrestling with whether to flee to Canada before being rescued by a lucky draft number. I’d hate to see our unsuspecting wokesters face a similar dilemma when China invades Taiwan. Absolutely brilliant...

maestrob

Growth industries! :lol: Delightful, Joe. I will give Australia great credit, though , for containing covid. To date, it has recorded about 900 deaths, compared with nearly 560,000 here in the USA, an abominable death toll, while we still have the highest infection rate in the world at 9%, even with...

maestrob

VANITY FAIR REPORT: MATT GAETZ IS WELL AND TRULY F--KED [/size] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-venmo Gaetz and Greenberg are both connected through Venmo to this then 18-year-old woman—who now works in the porn industry, according to a friend of the girl’s.... Gre...

maestrob

The Schubert rarely-done is a great work IMHO, with its haunting opening theme. Do give it a chance! I did decide to hear the Schubert from the Fischer recital.Enjoyed.My first hearing of it as well. Of my 3 first hearings on this recital , decided to purchase a 320kpbs mp3 download from Presto of ...

maestrob

Delightful article, Len. I have loved Brahms all my life, and I'm glad to see this.

maestrob

What a magnificent obsession!

Known about her, of course, but never met her.

I guess she was only interested in famous singers, not those on the way up the ladder.

R. I. P.

maestrob

If you like the Shostakovich Thirteenth Symphony, there is another work that he wrote employing Yevtushenko's poetry and again using a bass soloist, chorus, and orchestra. The work is "The Execution of Stepan Razin." There are a number of recordings on CD; unfortunately, the first one that I heard,...

maestrob

Not sure about the box, but he had no fear. Here he is playing live the 6th Piano Sonata (1988) of Galina Ustvolskaya. I have a recording of her Piano Concerto and Symphony No.1 and Grand Duo for Cello and Violin, all great , but earlier than that Sonata. Shostakovich proposed marriage to her, but ...

maestrob

No, just checked and now Amazon Australia has it. Didn't when I searched a week ago. $236 Australian with free postage (that's $180 US). The 162 Euros I spent is $250. Not so thrilled now. :? Against that, at least I know it is definitely coming. I rang the shop in Brussels and they had Grumiaux bo...

maestrob

Well, I got the same idiotic email from importcds this morning cancelling my order for the Ormandy box as I got for the Grumiaux box earlier. Here is the gist of it: Thank you for your recent order. All orders are subject to credit approval. Unfortunately, we were unable to obtain approval for these...

maestrob

It’s a daring revival of “the American System.” By David Brooks Opinion Columnist April 8, 2021 What is the quintessential American act? It is the leap of faith. The first European settlers left the comfort of their old countries and migrated to brutal conditions, convinced the future would be bett...

maestrob

I am a huge Faure fan , but have no recording of his presumably early First Violin Sonata,Op.13 ( or any any later ) , and do not recall ever hearing the First ( or any later ) . Delightful here. I did not hear the Mozart ( 28 ??!! ), nor the Schubert . I am also a huge Poulenc fan, yet his extraor...

maestrob

I need to get the Shapero and Schuller sets; I already have the Kirchner. Kirchner, who was originally from Los Angeles, is seriously underrated. I've got the Bernstein/Shapero recording mentioned in the article. Coincidentally, I played it just a few days ago after some years. Everything on it is ...

maestrob

Well, yesterday was Yom HaShoah, and KUSC-FM in Los Angeles again did nothing, even though, last Friday, which was Good Friday, Jim Svejda played the complete Bach "St. Matthew Passion." I again sent in a request for Martinu's "Memorial to Lidice" for playing on that day, which was ignored. I just ...

maestrob

https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODczNjg3My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1ODA4MjEyNDl9 About a decade ago, our very own cliftwood introduced me to ...

maestrob

“There isn’t one right way to communicate about vaccines, but you need multiple messages with multiple messengers,” said Dr. Frieden, who leads the health advocacy group Resolve to Save Lives. “And people don’t want to hear from politicians.” One right way is to suggest criminal sanctions.We dont s...

maestrob

Good point, Henry. I see that the price on American Amazon is now also about $300. Let's hope that importcds doesn't cancel my order for a second time. If they do, I simply will not do business with them again, and will advise others to avoid them as well. Not keeping your word in business is really...

maestrob

A fascinating opinion piece from Bloomberg about U. S./China relations and the balance of power in the far East today:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... can-empire

maestrob

OK.

I just got an email from my credit card that a charge has been put through by importcds for $212. I think it's safe to assume that this is for the Ormandy Legacy box.

Let's hope it doesn't get canceled the way the Grumiaux box was.

maestrob

The good news: There are more shots available. The challenge is getting people to take them. By Andrew Jacobs April 9, 2021 Updated 9:12 a.m. ET When it comes to getting the coronavirus vaccine, Mississippi residents have an abundance of options. On Thursday, there were more than 73,000 slots to be...

maestrob

Love the Gail Collins piece, Brian. Wow - you've had some real characters in politics over theyears. Absolute power does indeed corrupt absolutely, doesn't it? :mrgreen: Joe: Gaetz introduced the Medical Cannabis Research Act in April 2018 and again in January 2019, though it never came to a vote. ...

maestrob

Brilliant piece Barney, thanks!

This sure puts Joe Manchin in the hot seat, doesn't it?

All hail Rule 304!

Inquiring minds want to know: Why didn't Barack Obama use this?

Search found 10147 matches