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You are right, ablation is a word, though it has nothing to do with using the ablative case. Then of course I meant three different declensions, not cases, because the genitive of the three persons of the Trinity is formed differently for each one. Neither the washing of the hands (the lavabo, mean...

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You are right, ablation is a word, though it has nothing to do with using the ablative case. Then of course I meant three different declensions, not cases, because the genitive of the three persons of the Trinity is formed differently for each one. Neither the washing of the hands (the lavabo, mean...

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Question. Who in that press conference lineup would a Martian have picked out as the POTUS and who as the vassal from a tributary realm offering his submission?

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There is no such word as ablation, unless you are in the business of coining words. Ablution, for those who do not know, refers to the cleansing of the vessels after communion, and I doubt that Pope Francis has had to do so for himself in many years. Trust me once, so trust me twice. Ablation is a ...

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Bernstein knew both how to write for voice and what the Latin said. He did? Seek and ye shall find. The sung text of Missa brevis in its first complete commercial recording would satisfy even the tetchiest of Latinists: https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/CH10172.pdf Once you accept that th...

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Republicans lash out in a firestorm of criticism. Former Illinois House GOP Rep. Joe Walsh calls Trump a traitor.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatod ... /788752002

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PERIOD #1. Brussels — Undermines NATO, Germany and Angelia Merkel. Score 3-0. PERIOD #2. London — Undermines EU, U.K. and Theresa May. Score 6-0. PERIOD #3. Helsinki — Undermines USA, supports Russia and Vladimir Putin. His 16 July press-conference comments are called 'treasonous' by former CIA Chie...

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Bernstein knew both how to write for voice and what the Latin said.

Bernstein: Missa brevis (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEzR5uLhe-Q

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The next time I listen to the Bach B Minor Mass, if it finishes early and there's some time left, I'll put on the Bernstein Mass and give it a listen, to see what all this hubbub is about. I've had a copy of this in my disc collection for years and never opened it. I guess I've been too busy listen...

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Porter was one of a kind. What a life! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/07/12/king-cole — You could follow a progression from Jerome Kern to Dick Rodgers to Gershwin. But Cole seemed to spring like Jupiter from Minerva’s head—all made. What he did was so special and . . . unexplainable that ...

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The OT nailed it: "If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life. Eye for eye, ...

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Dresden was a completely militarized city ... It had to be obliterated in order to avoid the greater evil of prolonging the conflict ... I doubt that anybody wants to destroy beauty plus countless thousands of lives, but there was no remorse in this case. They brought it on themselves Guess they ha...

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Right, you don't have to be a Latinist to make out liturgical Latin. Lucretius it surely ain't. No, it's not, but the difficulties should not be minimized. Liturgical Latin is as all over the place as is English literature. There are many styles and differences. The hymn that gave us the solmizatio...

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Where did Cole Porter's way with words come from?

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIpp2Jj8AQ

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Right, you don't have to be a Latinist to make out liturgical Latin. Lucretius it surely ain't.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:55 pm
You have no idea how elementary this is for me.

You're telling me.

Cf. XVII. Pax: Communion ('Secret Songs'). Maybe it's not so elementary?

Greek, Latin, English and Hebrew. OMG, might it be macaronic?

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Didn't LB conduct Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex? Here is the complete text of Bernstein's Messe. And quite a late-60s, early 70s mess it was. You can judge for yrselfs how much Latin is in there, quite macaronic, I would say. I found some incantatory phrases in the Secret Songs mvmt that the FBI of that ...

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I have the old Latin Mass essentially memorized from childhood, and I am by no means the best or only Latinist in the United States. (Until recently, and maybe even now, the chief Latinist of the Vatican who prepares all papal documents was an American.) There are no subversive lyrics in there, not...

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I recently read an article (maybe in the peerless WSJ?) about how China spies on its own citizens with a couple hundred million surveillance cameras now, with 3/4 of a billion to be installed by 2020. The govt publicizes them to the public to make them believe they are even better at surveillance th...

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Whatever one may think of Alan Gilbert, and I've heard and praised some of his work, "full-blooded vitality" is not how most would describe it. Szell? Reiner? Gilbert could be replaced on THE HORN 's list with any one of the following indiscriminately selected candidates for full-bloodedly-vital st...

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Let's just say it was a grand experiment that didn't work out. It's mass as a messe. Highbrow camp. So bad it's good. My favorite Bernstein would be Candide. If I require true devotional theatrical music from the past century, that would be Poulenc's Dialogues. But I kept several copies of the orig...

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https://tinyurl.com/yazlpxds I remember buying this as a new release and still have my copy. It was the first recording I'd ever heard that had all the repeats. Like Monteux's Vienna Eroica , which used Beethoven's orchestration for the climax near the end of the first movement, it had the jolt of ...

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Merely naming a few apparently indiscriminate exceptions - Valery Gergiev and Alan Gilbert hardly belong in the same sentence - does not answer. They're not indiscriminate exceptions. So long as they meet the criterion of full-blooded conductorial vitality, they would qualify as examples that call ...

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WSJ — Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits Parents, your child may have a new secret friend: your smart speaker. Drawn by the devices’ voice-activated interfaces and warm, playful tone, children as...

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WAPO — President Trump has spent much of his trip to Europe this week lashing out at two of the most powerful women in the world. The barrages aimed at British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel prompted diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic to ask why a president who ...

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Maybe she should have had something in the bag to prod Trump with when he dared to walk in front of her! I'm sure she's thankful he didn't try to lip lock with her the way Carter did with her mama. The Queen's Handbag. That sounds like a cool title for a one-act comic opera a la Poulenc or Wolf-Fer...

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Ezra Pound on literature:

Make it new!

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"West Side Story" isn't even Bernstein's best musical, though it's his most successful. For truly astonishing lyrics it's "Candide," I agree. Candide makes my pulse race. It's a joyous blend of music and poetry, so of the 18th-century, yet in its way also of Jewish culture, of Vienna and NYC. I use...

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John F wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 14, 2018 3:42 am
alone among the world's major orchestras, it has a distinctive style and sound of its own which it consciously and determinedly preserves and can be identified by ear

Add the Cleveland to this list and the other one.

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To the contrary, after the award to Bob Dylan the bar has been set so low that Ogden Nash and Judith Krantz would qualify. Nash is dead but Krantz is still alive and waiting for her phone to ring. :mrgreen: Three huzzahs for Pearl Buck while we're at it. In the wake of the arch, pedantic outcry aga...

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After Bob Dylan, there is no redemption for the Nobel in literature. I agree, the scandal caused not the cancel. It was the Dylan factor. Giving Dylan the prize was equivalent to giving it to Shakespeare. In one stroke, that Nobel had been deprived of haute snob appeal and the bar set so high, the ...

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Wall Street Journal — MAE SAI, Thailand—One of the world’s most dramatic rescue missions appeared to take place like clockwork. It narrowly skirted disaster many times. Early in the search for 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, marooned several kilometers inside a flooded cave, rescuers unknowingl...

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The main attraction for me about CMG was Ralph Stein, not the only one. I was likewise devastated by his death and had never even met him. His magnetism was transmitted via the written word. After spending many weekends commuting to Manhattan, I fell in love (as folks do), tied the knot in NY City H...

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Bernstein New York Phil Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Columbia MS 7414

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Bernstein, New York Phil ‎– Beethoven: Fifth Symphony Columbia LP ‎MS 6468

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Ms Maddow was born to play Viola in 12th Night.

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:43 am
Yes and often the facts she comes up with and news she reports is better than what you get from my man Lawrence or from Brian Williams.

I think I'm half in love with her, or maybe it's with her persona: Rosalind in As You Like It.

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Thanks to an enthusiast from Germany on another forum, I am able to hear on demand a large number of KP's live European broadcasts from 2000 thru June of this year, listed below. Those should give an idea of what he likes to conduct. Haven't had the time to listen to most of them, but so far have fo...

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I like her long overtures. displaying the tessellated quality of her mind. She is drop-dead brilliant.

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I worry this is all a run up to civil warfare.

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Ms Maddow is great. She reminds me of my wonderful elementary school teachers, surely among the most important influences in my life.

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Actually I remember Ralph well. The late Prof. Stein was hands-down the most brilliant person I never met. Learning what was on his mind on any given day was the main reason at the time that I even bothered to log in here. He and I had two things in common: born in the same year and emotionally atta...

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Thanks for the info. Sadly, the nation has moved beyond facts at this juncture to confrontation.

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Thanks for the article, Lenny. Whether or not the House holds Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress, his contempt for certain members of Congress, e.g., the now embattled and diminished Jim Jordan of Ohio, a contempt which he shared with AG Eric Holder, was on display the last time he tes...

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The Wall Street Journal Trump’s second nominee will be an intellectual leader on the bench. by The Editorial Board President Trump kept everyone guessing to the end about his Supreme Court selection Monday, but in nominating Brett Kavanaugh he also kept his promise to select a Justice “who will fai...

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I don't recall ever saying that I feel I am bearing a burden or am miffed by any lack of response. Others have said that, but if I ever did or even agreed with them, then I retract it. What others do or not do, say or not say, is frankly none of my business. In fact, I vigorously (rather too vigorou...

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If you're trying to make things up, try again . . . . That is the real news, and the bad news. If you revisit the two articles, you might conclude that your point was more or less the same one made in more temperate language by both Space.com News and the WSJ editorial: President Trump has become "...

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SpaceNews https://www.space.com/41101-wall-street-journal-editorial-shoots-down-space-force.html WASHINGTON — President Trump has become "fixated" on the idea of a new military branch for space and appears to be ignoring legitimate arguments for why the plan should not move forward at this time, the...

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Cuomo responds to pressure. On this issue, Cynthia Nixon brought it down on his his head. Good for her, I say. She wins for losing. But there's gonna have to be a lot more public outcry than what Nixon instigated before this mountain moves to Manhattan.

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