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The research I've done suggests that the vaccines could minimise any infection to the point where you wouldn't feel ill at all so it's more than a palliative. In many cases Covid just won't get a chance to take hold but this won't apply to everyone. It's the same for the flu jab where there is alwa...

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Liz Cheney's tweet was rather compelling, even while the irrepressible Matt Gaetz backed up MJT: And GOP conference chair Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, responded to the reporting about the new caucus from Greene in a tweet."Republicans believe in equal opportunity, freedom, and justice for...

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Two weeks back I obtained a mono 50s Living Presence of Dorati's Bartok Concerto for Orchestra . About halfway into the first movement I couldn't grasp Dorati's scheme, but I then figured out that Dorati is really giving an intimate look at the piece and showing us real scholarship in his understan...

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Interesting, Len. I've never heard of this rarely performed work.

I can guess why the conductor wanted to revive this as, judging by his name, he is Ukranian.

I may add this to my collection if I can find a DVD at a reasonable price.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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I have most of the piano pieces, and all the symphonic works issued on CD. One day, HOPEFULLY, someone will get around to recording/releasing his chamber music! Second the motion, Scion7! :D Please post often and frequently, in that order. Delighted that you resurrected this thread, as I plan to ex...

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I watched some of that. The music was superbly done. The band performed "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma Variations in a fine presentation. I felt tremendous sadness at Prince Phillip's passing. It's very much the end of an era for me. Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne of England when I was three ...

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The lawmakers, who encouraged their followers to protest in Washington on Jan. 6, have capitalized on the riot to draw huge campaign donations. By Luke Broadwater, Catie Edmondson and Rachel Shorey April 17, 2021 Updated 12:20 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — Republicans who were the most vocal in urging their...

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71UiCPvQ-%2BL._SY450_.jpg Brazilian conductor John Neschling's survey of Respighi's complete orchestral output has just moved forward with this latest release of that composer's transcriptions of some of Bach's most famous organ works, plus rendering...

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Wonderful concerts from the Rana sisters and Andras Schiff. Many thanks, Rach3! This morning, I donated $50.00 to the Schubert Club. So very glad to see this without commercials. Both Beatrice Rana and Andras Schiff are premiere pianists, and I'm glad to hear from both of them. Schiff's playing of t...

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By Katie Benner April 16, 2021 The Justice Department filed a civil suit on Friday against Roger J. Stone, one of former President Donald J. Trump’s most visible allies, for failure to pay nearly $2 million in federal income taxes. The department said in its complaint, which also covered interest an...

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What will G.O.P. foreign policy be post-Trump? Who knows! By Lisa Lerer April 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET In 2005, two senators went on a global tour. They visited dilapidated factories in eastern Ukraine where workers were taking apart artillery shells. They drank vodka toasts with foreign leaders and ...

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Mr. Cracknell let out a long breath. “Most of my patients supported Trump,” he said. “I love them to death.” It’s a topsy-turvy Maganderthal thing. We already knew The Deplorables were not quick, but now they aim to join the dead. Granted—to cut off your face to spite your schnoz is to make a polit...

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/04/17/world/17philip-funeral-cowell-02sub/merlin_186505899_b3ff9c25-4ce3-44c6-896a-a4fbcc554283-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp In this photograph taken by Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and made available by Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phi...

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. . . on a thread about car hoons. Bet you they are not lefty luvvies. Belle only has one topic. Oh, Belle, honestly! :roll: It's called "projection," dear heart! The shopworn Rightist cycle of hatred — reject, deflect, project. She figures maybe Yanks wouldn’t know what hoons are, so why not paint...

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Scientists have long said that giving people a single course of a Covid-19 vaccine might not be sufficient in the long term, and that booster shots and even annual vaccinations might prove necessary. In recent days, that proposition has begun to sound less hypothetical. Vaccine makers are getting a ...

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By Danielle Ivory, Lauren Leatherby and Robert Gebeloff April 17, 2021 About 31 percent of adults in the United States have now been fully vaccinated. Scientists have estimated that 70 to 90 percent of the total population must acquire resistance to the virus to reach herd immunity. But in hundreds ...

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"Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is launching a new "America First" caucus, her office confirmed Friday, bringing together a group of far-right lawmakers known for their controversial rhetoric. Punchbowl News obtained a flier promoting the new caucus, which calls for a " common respect for...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:28 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:55 am
if you can find it to stream somewhere.
Brian thanks, didn't take long thanks to youtube! Regards, Len

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ia+bartoli

Enjoy!

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I'm surprised that USA Today would publish such a sympathetic article, even though they attribute the closing of the border last year to Covid without naming Trump. The cruelty of humanity never ceases to horrify me, at the same time that our willingness to be kind to strangers lifts me up. This is ...

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Both of you should get a Nobel Peace Prize!

Hooning=Radical Left hatred?

Oh, Belle, honestly!

It's called "projection," dear heart! You need only look in the mirror to find what you fear most.

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barney wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:56 pm
Now that news of his cooperation has got out, I wouldn't give much for his chances for long-term survival with his peace-loving right-wing thug former colleagues.

It's CYA time!

Never forget.

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Yet, NYT tonight: " Johnson & Johnson privately reached out to other Covid-19 vaccine makers and asked them to join an effort to study the risk of blood clots and address concerns as a single entity, but Pfizer and Moderna declined, The Wall Street Journal reports." Not surprising, I'd say. Who wan...

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I loved this from Justice Kagan's dissent: JUSTICE KAGAN, with whom JUSTICE BREYER andJUSTICE SOTOMAYOR join, dissenting.I would deny the application largely for the reasonsstated in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom,592 U. S. ___ (2021) (KAGAN, J., dissenting). The FirstAmendment requir...

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I remember that incident very well. [Giuliani] said that he has been an opera fan for 57 years and has seen more then 100 productions. He, unlike other protesters who deliberately avoid or have never seen the opera, owns the Klinghoffer CD and applauded its music. “I will continue to be a patron but...

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Wonderful, Len, glad you enjoyed it! :D The only singer I'm familiar with in the cast is, of course, Marilyn Horne. The others are all West Coast singers, and I'm not in touch with that crowd. I really think that the Vivaldi revival has been sparked by none other than Cecelia Bartoli, and would reco...

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Right now I'm a little peeved with Rarewaves Imports . Having ordered two items from them, they arrived in the same package and I was assessed $3.99 for each ITEM. No doubt both items would have been covered by one $3.99 fee. A suggestion that if you know each item is assessed a postage fee from a ...

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/01/06/lens/16new-was-oathkeepers/10xp-arrests-schaffer-superJumbo-v2.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp Jon Ryan Schaffer wearing a blue jacket and a hat that reads “Oath Keepers, Lifetime Member” while inside the Capitol on Jan 6.Credit...Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Pr...

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I think I made a mistake; the earlier post probably referred to the Prokofiev recorded by Graffman/Szell, which is well known to me. There is no evidence that I can find that Graffman ever recorded the Kirchner work. In any event, we need a new recording of the Kirchner Piano Concerto, and Ursula O...

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Democrats embark on a new long-shot mission to give 700,000 Americans voting representation in Congress. By Giovanni Russonello Published April 14, 2021 Updated April 16, 2021, 10:14 a.m. ET “It’s a massive irony, for all the world to see. / It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington, D.C.” Those w...

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Iowa is beginning to look like a totalitarian state.

I wonder how many provisions in this new legislation resemble what the CCP is using to crack down on protestors in Hong Kong?

Of course all of this should be challenged on Constitutional grounds.

Never forget.

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We watched this gripping documentary last night and saved it to DVD. ..This is a must-see for everyone here. Brian I had DVRed it and watched it yesterday-gripping-these people have to be jailed-and of course there's trump! Regards, Len Yes, Len, I agree. Out of 300+ cases the Justice Department is...

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The justices are defying their procedural rules to rewrite the Constitution. By Stephen I. Vladeck Mr. Vladeck is a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches courses on the federal courts and constitutional law. He also co-hosts a podcast on national security law. April 1...

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Is there any way to get the Szell/Graffman recording of the Kirchner piano concerto? I would really like to get that. I don't believe that Sony has ever reissued this, unless this is in some huge Szell box that I don't have. (I would be fine with a download, which I would probably burn to CD.) If t...

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Postscript: Just to hammer home how incompetent importcds.com is, a credit from them just appeared in the pending column on my account for #212.68 from my pre-order that they cancelled (see above). They did this once before, and it disappeared in a few days, so I'm assuming that the same thing will ...

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COMMENT: This article contains a Great Moment in Government at the very end that will make you LOL! You have to know that Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been in Congress forever (since 1990), and is a Black senior citizen, to get the best laugh out of the moment. https://waters.house.gov/about-maxine/bio...

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The E.U. is unlikely to order new AstraZeneca doses, a minister says. The European Union is unlikely to buy new doses of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines, a French minister said on Friday, the first public comment from a government official indicating that the bloc will do wi...

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Angela Merkel gets an AstraZeneca dose. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany received a first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, a show of confidence for the vaccine after weeks of confusion over its use across the European Union. “I am happy that today I received my first dose of t...

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Agree. The Norma Reminiscences works really well: Grosvenor sounds totally enthralled by the music.

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Hong Kong Court Sentences Jimmy Lai and Other Pro-Democracy Leaders to Prison The punishments for Mr. Lai, a media tycoon, and other leaders over an unauthorized peaceful protest point to what critics say is the shrinking space for dissent in Hong Kong. By Austin Ramzy April 16, 2021 Updated 7:02 a...

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What's that you say about the chill in my spine?

It's only a matter of time before Taiwan is invaded.

What will America do then?

Never forget.

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This cr@p is everywhere, isn't it?

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Hooning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx0LRO5dzkY

Concerns about mutilation and beheadings of kangaroos in the area, raised by Mayor Margaret Thomas last November, were not reflected in the public consultation report.

The barbarians are at the gate.

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D'ya think that DJT had a hand in suppressing this information while he was in office? Really??

Never forget.

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:54 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:46 am

The pendulum always seems to swing, doesn't it?
Brian I just listened to the pianola for the first time-easy to take but a lot of repetition. Regards, Len

My sentiments exactly.

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Hmmmm... Not so sure I'm on board with this. The scores of Boheme and Otello, even Verdi's Requiem are crystal-clear about how they should be conducted, which is all Dudamel has done so far. Not so Traviata, Rigoletto, Donizetti or Bellini, where a knowledge of tradition is vital. Massenet's operas ...

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John Adams in 1983 was surely ahead of his time. Harmonielehre is one of my favorite XXth Century works, and one that Adams really worked up a sweat writing. Nowadays we have different expectations about contemporary music, and much of the sound-world of Boulez and other twelve-toners has faded into...

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I remember that article well, Barney, thanks. I've heard the Grosvenor recording as well, and my first impression is that the sonata is a bit tame for my taste, although other works on that CD were truly impressive. I'd like to hear it again soon to form a final opinion, though, as I tend to find mo...

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I know the Mitropoulos (one of my favourite conductors anyway). In 2001, my late associate in producing recordings, Nick Nickson and I, released of semi-private CD of this very performance with the NYP. Dimitri Mitropoulos was an excellent pianist. He performed and recorded Prokofiev's Piano Concer...

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COMMENT: This is but one example of the out of control cruel nonsense in our broken immigration system. Sadly, President Biden, thanks to a provision the Trump administration inserted into the most recent government contract with the ICE union, has no direct power to effect any policy changes witho...

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https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODAyODY1My4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6NTEyfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE0NzExMjU3MzZ9 Listening now to Andrew Litton's recent Prokofiev VI from Br...

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