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I admit I was muddying the waters by mentioning B#. The main reason you see odd note names like B# or G## is because these notes are leading you somewhere. B# is like a finger pointing to C#. If you see a B# written on the page you can be sure there's a C# coming up soon. If it were going somewhere ...

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I've never understood "French" or "German" chords and why they were so identified. According to usage, I presume, in those national styles. Something like the 'countenance angloise' of Dunstable, which was based on simple, consonant chords? Only the former are more complex. French 6 and German 6 ar...

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I'm sure Biden's assessment of Netanyahu is correct. He should do more than just threaten to withhold US aid. He should go ahead and do it, until Netanyahu ceases to bring shame upon his country. I say this out of no love of Hamas. I am disgusted by the whole Gaza situation, and it's time the US sto...

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I think his point that the French 6 chord suggests A minor is weak. If one follows the bass line, E minor asserts its primacy in the third measure by virtue of the fact that it's the first chord in root position. What's really happening is that he's establishing the tonic of E minor through the time...

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If I were pressed at gunpoint to name the greatest symphony ever composed I think I would name Brahms 4th. I was impressed, as a teenager, with the chapter in Leonard Bernstein's book "The Infinte Variety of Music" with the chapter which gave a detailed -- much more detailed than one would expect in...

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There are several more recent recordings of that work of Amirov previously recorded by Abendroth on ASV and Naxos, of course both in stereo. The Abendroth recording is in mono. The Abendroth has the advantage of being the first one I heard when I was at an impressionable age. Your first recording o...

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One fairly prolific 19th century for saxophone is the Belgian composer Jean Baptiste Singelee. A friend of Adolphe Sax. His works are rather pedestrian in quality, but rather numerous, and popular with high school solo and ensemble contestants. ean-Baptiste Singelée was born in Brussels and studied ...

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There's quite a bit of snobbery among classical music lovers about the saxophone. The two Johns here at CMG used to routinely pooh-pooh it, and castigate anyone who dared mention it. The French seem to have embraced it, though, just as they've embraced the ondes martinot more than any other national...

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Hermann Abendroth then went on to accomodate himself with the communist regime in Leipzig, so he was "easy come easy go, any way the wind blows". He probably just wanted to make music. I only know of him because I had a recording of his when I was a little kid that really impressed me. It was a piec...

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If I recall, Mrs. Miller's rendition of Downtown came out in 1966, when I was 12. Petulia Clark made a hit of the song the previous year. This was in that narrow window of time in my life when I was keenly aware of trends in popular music, before I discovered Haydn and Stravinsky and was converted t...

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In the pantheon of badness, Mrs. Miller gets lost because she was not as bizarre as Tiny Tim and not as ambitious as Florence Foster Jenkins. Mrs. Miller sings the way most of us do at karaoke, and if karaoke had been around back then she might have had an "everyperson" vibe which would have kept he...

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Another point of view, this from Josh Marshall. Here's part of it (the rest you can find in a link at the end): In these moments we sometimes hear people say, well, don’t try to police the decisions of an oppressed group. This gets to the rub of this issue. The real world isn’t black and white. Grou...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat May 04, 2024 9:46 am
What is galling is the fact the Biden Administration could have acted in manners that could have avoided any credible criticism from the Left and student demonstrations, while also avoiding any credible criticism from the Right and "antisemitism" complaints.

What would that have been?

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This is a segment of a much longer editorial in the Washington Post, most of which does not address the point made in the headline which the editors assigned to it. But the part I am reproducing here underlines what I have been thinking and have not been hearing from any of the other heated argument...

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Lance,
I kind of think of you as a musical version “Mikie” from the Life Cereal commercials. I’ll post a piece to see if “Mikie likes it”.

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This weekend I will be playing a concert with the Avanti Orchestra of the Friday Morning Music Club which will take place in Silver Spring, Maryland. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avanti-orchestra-concert-featuring-chi-yuan-lin-and-brannon-cho-tickets-895673031147?aff=erelexpmlt The Tchaikovsky 5th i...

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Now, that is something I would like to hear! Has it been recorded as a concerto? Berio also orchestrated Brahms' 1st clarinet sonata, making it in effect a clarinet concerto. In the process he added a 30 second orchestral introduction of his own composition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdydyDb8...

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Berio also orchestrated Brahms' 1st clarinet sonata, making it in effect a clarinet concerto. In the process he added a 30 second orchestral introduction of his own composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdydyDb8jCA

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Don't despair, the hard right is keeping comedy alive and well! :lol: :lol: :lol: Another low resolution comment. The real humour is, of course, to be found in Lefty heads exploding at the mere mention of Trump. You don't need argument; just exploding heads. The hard right has ZERO institutional po...

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Don't despair, the hard right is keeping comedy alive and well!

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Does the US have a system to examine these measures that doesn't involve politicians? It's called the United States Public Health Service, which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. What you're seeing in this article is an attempt by politicians to meddle in their decisions. ...

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Oh good, a chart I can consult anytime I need to decide what I think about any particular issue. It's so nice that these guys know in advance what everyone thinks before they think it. Too bad those evil people at Google have made it impossible for me to read. I'm sure the Illuminati put them up to ...

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NYC people, put this date on your calendar. January 24, 2025. Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 8:00 PM. Lindsey Goodman, flute and Clare Longendyke, piano in a program of contemporary works for flute and piano, including Voice of the Turtle by Mark G. Simon (aka diegobueno) How does a composer get...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:01 pm
Duncan refused to be vaccinated during Covid

In other words, he's an idiot, and any opinion he may have should not be taken seriously.

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The emergence of trans people as a visible element in society is posing challenges that society hasn't had to face before. I think accomodation needs to be made for trans people, but it also needs to be made for everyone else who have to deal with them. Activists for trans rights need to consider th...

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Someone's gotta maintain those CEO yachts and vacation homes, and that would be you, the consumer.

You've got to seek out the mom 'n pop diners for the kind of honest breakfast you're looking for. Good luck.

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 am
"La donna del lago is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola

Or in this case, La Donna Del Mar-a-Lago.

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Well, join the Opus Clavicembalisticum Club! I first got to "know" this work with British pianist John Ogdon 's 4-CD recording on the Altarus label [9075] (purchased in Collegetown, Ithaca, New York - I shan't ever forget). Lance, you're making me nostalgic! I disposed of so much of my income in th...

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https://cdn.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.572666.jpg I've always had an interest in the music of Fikret Amirov. When I was little I somehow had in the home a recording of an Amirov piece called "Kyurdi Ovshary" (the record gave the title as "Caucasian Dances") and I used to listen to it ...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:28 am
Are the other 2 movements at YT ? TIA.

You can hear the whole thing here (tracks 10-13). I was just linking to the really difficult parts.

https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6367/

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Hi Lance, I'm flattered that you think I'll be able to unlock the mysteries of Sorabji for you. I don't think I can do that. My knowledge of Sorabji's music comes mainly from perusing his scores in the Cornell Music Library and thinking "Good Lord! That's a lot of notes! So many notes sounding all a...

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I almost always buy a recording for the music, and not the performer. With contemporary music -- which make up the bulk of my new purchases -- there's generally only one performance anyway. I'm good with only one or two recordings of the standard rep. If I enjoy a certain performance, why go out of ...

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And of course, even that Swedish data, and in USA,elsewhere,ignores as it must what the numbers would have been, spread had been, had no precautions been taken, no vaccines, no masks,no distancing,etc. In short, thank goodness precautions were advised and taken by many of us and that as a result mo...

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11 out of 12 (and I really have no excuse for the one mistake)

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One of my retired co-workers didn't get vaccinated in 2020 because she was convinced by friends that the Covid vaccine was, for some reason, more dangerous than the disease. She died of Covid before the year was up. Another friend, a lyricist I worked with in the past, went to the hospital with some...

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You can listen to 3 little fragments of the 8th, but it’s impossible to come to any conclusions about what the whole piece would have been like. The longest fragment is dissonant in a suspensive way, like it would be if you were waiting for it to resolve. The 7th starts that way also.

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The complete quote is "When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross". People have been citing this for years, and now we're seeing it happen.

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It's widely believed that Sinclair Lewis said that, but no one can locate a place in any of his writings where he actually said it. That's why I didn't attribute it to him when I first posted it.
Can you identify a source that definitively places this quote as coming from Huey Long?

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:05 am

diegobueno wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:59 am
Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
Fine. Just so long as he doesn’t come back from the dead.

Who? Sinclair Lewis? If he came back from the dead he'd point his finger and say "See! I told you so!"

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Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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My aphorism is one of the oldest paradigm in the world, practiced by the Church itself (remember The Crusades?) and what ever expedient works. No difference this time. Even as an April Fools joke this is pretty low. Here we've just finished a major holiday celebrating a man who turned away all expe...

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(Groan)
This might be a good day to skip CMG.

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Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ are usually performed in an arrangement for string quartet. Orchestras seem to be reluctant to program an hour-long orchestral work consisting of eight adagio movements, and this by a composer usually known for his light-hearted approach to composition. I enjoy thi...

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Thomas Tallis wrote his Lamentations of Jeremiah in 1560 for Maundy Thursday and that is my go-to music for this day of the liturgical year. If you ask me "what's the most beautiful music ever composed?", this is it. It's a biblical setting in Latin, but includes the Hebrew letters which mark the ve...

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My doctor recently noted that my PSA is high, and I've now had the PET scan, so I may soon join the prostate cancer club. But I trust if they catch it now, they'll be able to treat it. I'm 70.

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100% pure projection of course. The right does nothing but make up victimization stories. Why do you post this nonsense?

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Some guy: I know I've clashed with you as often and as bitterly as anyone here, but still I feel sad at this news. I wish you as much comfort in the coming months as is possible under the circumstances. May you hear the most astonishing music in the next world that none of us here could ever imagine...

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This is Wagner without constant vibrato, and sometimes without traditionally operatic singing. But mostly, the difference in sound comes from the instruments themselves, both originals from the 19th century and reproductions. Historical, often temperamental winds and brasses have a milder timbre, s...

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I just happened upon a book called Kurt Schwertsik und der Begriff der Moderne im Wandel, (I deal with Austrian books at the Library of Congress). I thought I remembered the name from somewhere, but it turns out he's an Austrian composer, about 89 years old by now. I figured he must be pretty avant-...

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I'll have to make a point of watching this video sometime soon. I love that the opening music is from the 8th symphony. RVW's orchestral palette became very colorful in his later years. This symphony includes lots of keyed percussion, or in his words "every 'spiel and 'phone known to the composer". ...

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