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Here's a February 7, 2017 obit which I missed at the time. "Professor" Irwin Cory dies at 102. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/irwin-corey-comedian-and-foremost-authority-dies-at-102.html?smid=fb-share Corey was one of the stars in a brief series called DOC which lasted only a little mor...

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Most people here, barney, think N Korea will be managed. I am far more worried about something else: the need to raise the debt ceiling. Republicons don't like to do that, but most of them in Congress know it needs to be done. Its not a certainty that DJT has figured that out. Many here feel he does...

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Bach was heavily influenced by Dietrich Buxtehude. From Wikipedia: In 1705, J.S. Bach, then a young man of twenty, walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck, a distance of more than 400 kilometres (250 mi), and stayed nearly three months to hear the Abendmusik, meet the pre-eminent Lübeck organist, hear him p...

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Oh, that poor horse! He ought to be arrested for animal cruelty.

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The Oistrakh/Cluytens LP of the Beethoven Violin Concerto was my first recording of that work. Its the one I learned the concerto from. Its still a very good performance, but no longer my favorite. That would be the Grumiaux/Galleira recording. My number one favorite recording, though, was his recor...

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Thanks for this!! I've passed it on to my friend who is a trombonist as I'm sure he'll also be interested in the symphony for concert band!! Last week we had at our music appreciation group a fellow who is a conductor/musician (and Major) in the Australian Army Band; I was amazed at the sophisticat...

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One reason you might have that problem is if you've tried to login repeatedly with a mistaken password. This protects you from hackers who try to access your account with various possible passwords, a form of identity theft. I suggest that the next time you login successfully, you save the user ID ...

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Not a worthy choice. By the 23rd century when Star Trek is set everybody will have an implanted universal translator which enables them to speak and understand all languages. 😉 The officer with a Russian name once mentioned an old lady from LENINGRAD. What is Leningrad? . Yes, and all the displays ...

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To Tennstedt's credit, tho - he did a marvelous Bruckner #7 with Chicago - [archival set - CSO in 20th Century] really first rate, one of the greatest I've ever heard....really impassioned - great surges of sound, and powerful long lines - the great Adagio is the finest I've ever heard, with a shat...

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Copland developed dementia in his later years. He described the decision to stop composing as "it was like a spigot had been turned off". He was increasingly in demand as a conductor of his own works, and that's what occupied him in the later years. I have a hypothesis about this. I think Copland r...

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Arrived today, Monday, February 6, 2017: 1) Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9--Christopher Hogwood, cond ASMF.(5 CDs) 2) Prokofiev: Symphonies 1-7--Gennady Roshdestvensky, Moscow RSO. (3 CDs) 3) Shostakovich: Piano Concerti 1 & 2; Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57-- London Phil (Pcs), Vladimir Jurowski, cond...

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I just finished listening to a relatively new cycle of the Beethoven Symphonies recorded live in concert in 2002 by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, its music director. It has been issued on the hanssler label. I found most of the performances disappoi...

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Michael Moore says that about 90,000 Michiganders (he is from Flint, Mich) voted DEM in the down-ballot races, but left the presidency blank on their ballots. I think Hillary has always been a poor politician. She is a dedicated public servant--she did good work as Sec of State, in the Senate, and a...

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So, of the world's most famous historical artists, is there any soloist, singer, or conductor you believe may NOT have had good reissue success? Immediately, now, having survived going forward into 2017, I think of Serge Koussevitzky and a release of all his recordings made for RCA Victor. Probably...

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Yes, a new year is upon us. I can't complain too much about 2016, but it is hopeful we are going to have a peaceful, happy and very musical year for all of us in 2017. Thank you for being a part of CMG and hope that we can add to our people list at CMG. We all need to keep our favourite music alive...

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Back in the Seventies, after George Szell's death, Pierre Boulez was musical advisor and principal conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, though never Musical Director. During that period, he did a complete Schubert symphony cycle which got rave reviews. The tapes are still around. I would like to ha...

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Counties don't count, as of course you know. The population of Los Angeles County is 10,170,292; that of Loving, King, and Kenedy Counties, Texas, is a grand total of 801. And your Democratic friend's anecdote merely shows how irrational voters can be - which after last November, we already know an...

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Around Albuquerque, the food trends over the last decade has been toward more Asian food other than Chinese. Lots of Indian, Thai, Korean, and Vietnamese places. Barbecue is always big here, and the Korean restaurants, especially, have added some twists to it. I saw Carla Hall on THE CHEW a couple o...

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I heard a startling statistic the other day. Although she won more votes than Donnie Little Hands, Hillary Clinton won only 16% of the counties in the US. Not what anyone would call a broad base of support. Let me tell you a true story from my college days in rural Missouri in the 1960's. One of my ...

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WHY IS TRUMP DOING THIS (i.e., blowing up the Republicon Party)? Donnie Drumpf was one of the original birthers. He challenged BHO to provide his original birth certificate. Finally, Obama got tired of it and published his original birth certificate--in the week before the 20011 White House Correspo...

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His finest moment? Well, he didn't embarrass himself here, but how were any of his moments here fine? I watched the whole thing, and could find nothing particularly fine or remarkable in any way.

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I am reviving this thread to let you know that the Ton Koopman Complete Buxtehude ($298.04 from Overstock.com via Google Shopping) arrived @ my house today. Haven't listened to any of it yet, but the way it is organized, or rather disorganized, is worthy of note. The box has one DVD and 29 CDs. The ...

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I hope you had a great birthday, Lance.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/arts/ ... .html?_r=0

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I wish this site had a LIKE button, as Facebook does.

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What I have been listening to lately: 10 CD Sony set of all James Levine's commercial Mahler recordings for RCA. Sym 1 in D Major "Titan" (55'29)--London Sym Orch, rec.1974--CD 1, Tr. 1-4 Words that describe this performance: MOR. Enthusiastic. Energetic. Vital. And most of all, sure-footed. Levine ...

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rwetmore wrote:Wow, shocking news. He was about the only one who actually upheld the constitution.

Blah, blah, foo.

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8 CD Decca set 478 2364 Brla Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Works--Zoltan Kocsis, piano--rec. Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg. CD 1--(54'03)--rec. Sep 1991 Tr. 1-14......14 Bagatelles, Op. 6, BB 50, Sz. 38 (28'46) Tr. 15-16....2 Elegies, Op. 8b, BB 49, Sz. 41 (14'41) Tr. 17-22....4 Romantic Folk Dances,...

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10 CD Brilliant Classics set--Mendelssohn (1810-47): Complete Chamber Music CD 1--Violin Sonatas--Joan Berkhemer, violin, Kyoko Hashimoto, piano, rec. June, 2002 Doopsgezinde Remonstrantse Tr. 1-3.....Violin Sonata in F Major (1838) (23'15) Tr. 4-5.....Violin Sonata in F Major (1820) (16'00) Tr. 7-9...

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I attended only one Masur concert. It was at Ravinia, the summer home of the CSO, and they did Beethoven 9 and the Choral Fantasy. I have forgotten who the soloists were. They were good, but not memorable performances. I always found him a lackluster conductor except in Mendelssohn with the Gewandha...

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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (9)--Wolfgang Sawallisch, cond., Concertgebouw Orch., Amsterdam, in the Concertrgebouw 1991-3--5 CD set from Brilliant Classics, lic. from EMI. CD 1 (TT: 77'17)--rec. 1993 Tr. 1-4 Symphony 1 in C Major, Op. 21 (27'37)-- 1 (9'08), 2 (8'48), 3 (3'33), 4 (6'01). Tr. 5-8 S...

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Sorry, folks, but I am going to have to go one more day on this project. I have listened to the first three discs of the Sawallisch set. So far, I find that the Eroica and the Allegretto of the 7th are big disappointments, but the rest are pretty good. I have yet to listen to Symphones 5, 6, and 9. ...

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I have listened to the first three CDs in the Fleisher/Szell set, which means all the Beethoven concerti plus the Mozart 25. Finished up just before coming to the computer to post. I am going to dispense with my usual headnotes on this, as I am sure all of you are familiar with these performances or...

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I've decided on what seems to me the favorites here--Fleischer/Szell and Sawallisch. I listened to all of the first three concerti today, plus the first two movements of the 4th before the GOPer debate started. I hope to finish the Beethoven concerti and maybe throw in the Mozart too, before this da...

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So, I guess you want to give up on American agriculture, which depends on Mexican field hands to harvest crops. That';s nice--where we gonna get our food? Import it from Canada and Mexico? And, of course, we might as well forget about ever bidding on the Olympics and any World Cup or any other inter...

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Yes, I did read Hershey's The Child Buyer. Very good, pretty scary story.

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If you're curious about Furtwängler's 9th, the wartime Berlin performance is the one to hear, despite less than ideal sound. GHlPC3CAZ20 Furtwangler recorded the Beethoven 9th 3 times during the war, two of them in Berlin. One was on 22-24 March 1942, and the other was on Hitler's birthday, 19 Apri...

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If you want to post it here, or send it by PM to me, I will avidly peruse them and see what I want. Keep in mind, though, I may already have quite a few of the ones you have. You also might want to find a classical music radio station or an NPR station that will play them and just donate them and ta...

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I have decided that next week, in conjunction with Beethoven's 245th birthday, I am going to do a little Beethoven listening @ home, and then report on it. I am going to pick two issues: one of the 4 sets of Beethoven symphonies I have but have not listened to yet, and one of the 5 sets of Beethoven...

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Congratulations! I hope you find your new job fulfilling. Have they done any recordings? Is finding a way for them to make recordings part of your mandate?

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I didn't know Morton Gould conducted enough performances with the CSO to fill up 6 CDs. I knew until now of only one LP--of the Shostakovich 2nd and 3rd symphonies.

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If we are going to close our doors to Syrian refugees, we should also pack up the Statue of Liberty and send it back to France with the message that we no longer deserve it and they do.

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Here's what I have been listening to lately: 8 CD Brilliant set Rossini: The Five One Act Operas--I Filarmonici di Torino (D 1, 2) English Chamber Orch.(CDs 3-8), Marcello Viotti, cond.--licensed from Claves Records, Switzerland. Singers; Valeria Baiano, sop CD 7 | Maria Bayo, sop CDs 5, 6 | Luca Ca...

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I don't have the Neumann or the Belo sets, but my favorite complete set is the one by Kubelik, by far. Other good recordings are the Szell/Cleveland 7,8, and 9 on Sony, anything by Ancerl and Talich, and there's a 6th by Karel Sejna that's really good. My number one favorite 9th, though, is one with...

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Since my last report, I have been listening to the following: DGG 477 7948 TT: 63'48--Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (Tr. 1-7) & cond. (Tr. 1-6), Trondheim Soloists (Tr. 1-6), London Sym. Orch, Valery Gergiev, cond. (Tr. 7) Tr. 1-3......J S Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor, S 1041 (13'28)--rec. Feb 2007...

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The great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec died yesterday, Monday, July 27, 2015 in Prague. In all the obits I read, I found no reference to my favorite Moravec recording: a performance of the Prokofiev First Piano Concerto (the best one ever, IMNSHO) with Karel Ancerl and the Czech Philharmonic on a long...

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How tastes differ! :lol: I agree with you on Walter's Mahler IX from 1961: grew up with that recording and have a special relationship with it. I have that same kind of relationship with his Das Lied von der Erde with Mildred Miller and Ernst Haefliger. Just listened to it the other day, and confir...

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Since my last report, I have been listening to the following: 7 CD Sony set of all of Bruno Walter's Columbia Mahler recordings: CD 7-- Tr. 1-4......Sym. 1 in D Major "Titan" (50'30)--NYPO, rec. Carnegie Hall 25 Jan 1954. Bruno Walter. NYPO. Carnegie Hall. Mahler. That's a pretty heady mixture of co...

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I'm surprised more people didn't comment on this SCRIABIN box. Does the composer fit into your listening habits much? I have very much enjoyed picking through this-and-that in the box. I have it. I haven't listened to any of it yet, and its at the bottom of one of the tallest of my seven stacks of ...

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