I found this interesting and informative.
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/18093732/ ... onceptions
And yes, I did my homework before posting.
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- Mon May 20, 2024 5:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What's The Story About The Israel Palestine Conflict?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 25
- Mon May 20, 2024 2:30 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: ‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 160
Re: ‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
One of the best disease controls is often bright sunlight. Some of our press will do its best to help keep the rest of the World safe, or at least know what is coming their way, too,despite having to compete against the Murdochs’ money. Have you read Trump's Agenda 47 ? His autocratic GOP cronies’ ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A "Benchmark" Recording - Beethoven
- Replies: 3
- Views: 103
Re: A "Benchmark" Recording - Beethoven
My benchmark recording of Beethoven's "Triple" Concerto has been and will remain Oistrakh/Rostropovich/S. Richter with Von Karajan on the podium. That said, given the need to choose, I would go for the live recording. Oh, and I did cave in and buy the Lars Vogt 27CD box. Some real treasures there, ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: ‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 160
Re: ‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
I started reading this, hearing about public officials being threatened with violence which while not new, according to the authors is escalating. (They don't provide any data to support those claims). However, not far into the article, a trend started to emerge and there were numerous references to...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: George Cziffra Plays Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies (complete with score)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 115
Re: George Cziffra Plays Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies (complete with score)
As you've just opened the box Brian can I suggest that you delve into the Transcendental Etudes as your next Liszt listen.
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 208
Re: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
I've never come across that Fricsay you mentioned Lance so I might see if I can hunt it down. Apart from the one I originally mentioned there is also a studio recording on DGG from the early 1950s. EDIT: Found it here: https://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Berlin-Fricsay-Grummer-Blatter/dp/B000UYWG58 Now c...
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 208
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Babayan playing Mendelssohn & Schubert/Liszt early on
- Replies: 4
- Views: 132
Re: Babayan playing Mendelssohn & Schubert/Liszt early on
This is amazing. I have this CD which I managed to get after hearing Babayan in Scarlatti. Iwas lucky because I looked about a year ago and couldn't see anywhere online you can now get it. I'll check again. The playing is superb. I might also check out Qobuz and Spotify. I'll amend this post if I fi...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 208
Re: Verdi's Requiem (Messa da Requiem) CD recordings
The Verdi Requiem is one of my Desert Island works - I must have irt in my collection. Whenever someone I know well passes on (or a major artist) I play the it in their honour. My first experience with the Requiem came from the sample CD of a monthly music magazine but I can't remember which one tho...
- Mon May 13, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Canberra Symphony gets some aid
- Replies: 1
- Views: 94
Re: Canberra Symphony gets some aid
I've always described Australia as a 'cultural desert' as far as the Arts go. Maybe this will go some way towards refuting that.
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 218
Re: Favorite D. Scarlatti Sonata pianists?
Lance, you've already named some of my favourite Scarlatti recordings (Babayan, Shehori, Meyer and Horowitz who really started it all for me. I'd like to add in Yevgeni Sudbin, Dubravka Tomsic, Emil Gilels, Christian Zacharias and a stunning set by Maria Tipo. The K491 D major (if that's the one you...
- Sat May 11, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
- Replies: 1
- Views: 100
Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
Right forum this time, apologies for the earlier mistake.
Interesting thoughts about the concept of a memory hole a la Winston Smith from Orwell's 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc2GEyiQCk
Interesting thoughts about the concept of a memory hole a la Winston Smith from Orwell's 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc2GEyiQCk
- Fri May 10, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
- Replies: 1
- Views: 132
Brendan O'Neill Thoughts On the Recent Past
Belle will probably be familiar with this man (he works for Spiked after all) but he had some interesting things to say about George Orwell's "Memory Hole and how it might apply today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc2GEyiQCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc2GEyiQCk
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: No shrimp for the barbie ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 134
Re: No shrimp for the barbie ?
THis is interesting because it's the first I've heard of it and I had to hear it from a foreign media outlet. Looks as if our media didn't deem it newsworthy. If you want to know what Australia's remote roads can be like find the "Outback Truckers" series on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 153
Re: Cziffra Plays Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes
I have this in the 40 CD Box set. It's just mind boggling what he could do at the piano. I think the majority of these were recorded for Hungaroton (1, 2, 8, 9 and 12 were missing). I am assuming that he completed the set for EMI. However, EMI may have wanted hm to do a complete set. I'm not sure.
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 300
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
From WAPO May 3 in part: "...Of course, just because milk remains safe to drink doesn’t mean avian flu isn’t a potential threat to human health. I was honored to learn historian John M. Barry, author of the seminal book on the 1918 influenza pandemic, is a Checkup reader. He emailed me to express h...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 239
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Comedy is alive and well in places not accessible to those who would police our thoughts. My local watering hole for instance is a good example. You can regularly hear laughter amongst the patrons as someone recounts an anecdote or tells a joke that they've heard. It's also alive in the workplace fo...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 276
Re: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
I don't listen to that many vocalists but of those I do I would instantly recognise Te Kanawa, Leontyne Price, Boris Christoff, Pavarotti, Bjorling, Fischer-Dieskau, maybe some others.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 450
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Food for thought from an earlier time - I always loved that program and its predecessor - Yes Minister.Rach3 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:48 pmDeja vu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLg9zQH3vU ( Yes,Prime Minister )
I wonder what will transpire if Jewish students end up being killed as part of these protests.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Hogs in Alice Springs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 194
Re: Hogs in Alice Springs
The MC problem became so bad in Qld that the state government enacted a couple of simple laws - gang patches were outlawed and any gathering larger than three people who were known 'bikers' (motor cyclists with previous affiliation and convicted of criminal offences)was deemed as illegal. It worked ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 6
- Views: 392
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
- Replies: 2
- Views: 258
The Covid Response Fallout Continues
It appears that it's not just Australia that would like government policies regarding Covid measures examined. The sad thing is it goes way beyond Fauci as the responses of individual states also needs to be examined but that's another story. What does suprise me is the number of Republicans on this...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Live: Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 With the Leningrad Philharmonic 1960 (BBC)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 225
Re: Live: Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 With the Leningrad Philharmonic 1960 (BBC)
Absolutely, a wonderful performance. What Shostakovich asks of his brass players in the third movement borders on the impossible unless you take a moderate tempo which Mravinsky doesn't - it's one the fastest third movements on record and you can hear the little mistakes in intonation these brass pl...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 349
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 311
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
The thoughts of female swimmers who had no choice but to share a changing room with Lia Thomas sums it all up.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 349
Re: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
As you know I work with children and at the moment we have two students 'transitioning' between genders. One of the students I know well and she/he (please excuse the maybe inappropriate pronouns) has had a determination to make this transition from quite a young age. In this case I can see that it'...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
- Replies: 5
- Views: 283
Re: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
This has happened a couple of times now. Driving across the Nullarbor Plain (Nullarbor means no trees) I've seen a rather large animal crossing the road in the distance between the a size of a terrier and a labrador and have been astonished to see that it's a feral cat. This is a huge size for a cat...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1763
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1763
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
I have two questions. I am a US citizen and I have no health insurance. If I suddenly fall ill and have to be taken to hospital, will this cost me financially? Will I owe thousands of dollars? Alternatively (my second question) will some form of social welfare system cover me? I'm not asking these q...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
- Replies: 5
- Views: 294
Re: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
More victims of a failing and overburdened mental health system? The police officer was very brave. To be able to unholster and prepare her Glock to fire would have taken time which she had very little of with a man running at her with a knife. My understanding is that police are trained to run away...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1763
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
When we debrief, residents tell me how much they struggle with the moral dissonance of working in a system in which the best medicine they can provide often falls short. They’re right about how much it hurts, so I don’t know exactly what to say to them. Perhaps I never will. It beggars belief that ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 301
Re: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
GPOTTC introduced me to a number of pianists I was barely aware of and like you Lance, I cherry picked what I bought rather than get the whole set.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 275
Re: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
Phenomenal technique but I'm not sure that the musicality is there.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Switzerland found guilty of harming the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz by not acting on climate change
- Replies: 2
- Views: 373
Re: Switzerland found guilty of harming the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz by not acting on climate change
.....and the Swiss will simply turn around and say "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" These global courts are basically powerless and this applies to Switzerland who are not part of the EU so applying any form of pressure would be hard.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 736
Re: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
I am also in both camps. As far as artists go, if Trifonov, Grosvenor, Sudbin or others put out a new recording I want to hear it and like Brian I use streaming media to sample it first. If I really want that recording I tend to look initially at digital downloads. Also, if a previous undiscovered r...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Blue states welcome fed’s summer dollars to feed hungry kids; GOP govs. check the gift horse’s mouth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 321
Re: Blue states welcome fed’s summer dollars to feed hungry kids; GOP govs. check the gift horse’s mouth
The skeptics would ask "Would this federal initiative have been done if it wasn't an election year?" Regardless of that, the real winners are the people who most need this aid.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Uchida and Biss illuminate Schubert four-hand rarities
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1318
Re: Uchida and Biss illuminate Schubert four-hand rarities
I love Schubert and his ability to bring melody in all it's emotional guises to his works. I'll look up these four works on YT - Belle has given me a start here. Having had the joy of hearing Karl-Ulrich Schnabel live I'll also head there if I can find it - thanks Donald.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 395
Re: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
Well, there may be something we can do to avoid sickness, avoid death for as long as possible, do as many of the right things we are supposed to do (abstain alcohol, fats, sugars, smoking, drugs, etc., in other words, don't eat what you want or like) - and this is: DON'T EVER GET OLD! It really rip...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Jussen Brothers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 597
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5019
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
Techniticene Hunted high and low for this but couldn't find a source for it anywhere via dictionaries, thesauri or media quotes. Are we inventing our own words now? If it’s possible to misspell a word I coined, I did it—it should have read “we are ensconced in the Technethocene ”, in other words, t...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 395
Re: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
Hard not to view these tactics as mob type shakedowns.And drives some doctors out of business or into hands of VC firms as story notes. What a great Country: housing, college, cars, medical care unaffordable. Yes, when I make comparisons with my own country we are certainly much better off. However...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5019
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
That seems long ago now that we are ensconced in the Techniticene and asked to view reality as just so many data points: So you are happy to not have the data? Suits me.......now I have this wonderful bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell you for a great price. It's been in the family for ge...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5019
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
From my persepctive (and mine alone) the response to Covid didn't match the data at the time and I'll come back to that as it's important if we are to use the gift of hindsight to make sure we never make these mistakes again. The response to Covid was ill conceived (panicked would be a better word) ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
Yes, exactly. I'm wondering how your new knees are going? Exceptionally well thank you. I was up and mobile the day after the operation and permanently shed the crutches the day I got home. The physio staff were frankly astonished at my progress (and said so to me) and looking around at my fellow '...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Fury of Europe's farmers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 306
Re: The Fury of Europe's farmers
Woah! Didn't see this coming... https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/the-fury-of-europes-farmers/ A couple of observations: 1. I can see why the British people were so keen to leave Brexit (and I had this expressed to me when I was there in 2019). Farming, especially smaller farms. are making a...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
This is what resonated with me Later, at Sydney University, and especially at Oxford, I had teachers who valued their students’ ability to assimilate the authorities and to create strong arguments for a distinctive position, rather that regurgitate lecture notes and conform to some orthodoxy. Indeed...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 420
Re: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
That's a blast from the past, World Record Club!! I wonder if it was only for antipodeans? Belle, I believe that it was started in Britain and spread out into the Commonwealth. Australia had it's own LP pressing plants for the major companies so that would have made it easy to set up. I think of al...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 943
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
I have taught in both the public and private sectors and know which I prefer. One thing I discovered early in my career was in my first promotion. That was when I discovered the power of passive resistance and it was rightly directed against me. I could do nothing about it as the staff working as pa...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Muslim migrants from Africa have transformed this Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 169
Re: Muslim migrants from Africa have transformed this Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn
Hopefully there is an intermingling of both the white and African members of this neighbourhood. Of course that often means mixing in some sort of social context. This is one way to break down those racial barriers that simply stem from misunderstanding of cultures.