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Zachary Woolfe's NY Times Review https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/arts/music/review-kurtag-endgame-opera.html A 92-Year-Old’s ‘Endgame’ Opera Is Patiently Perfect Fin de Partie By Zachary Woolfe Nov. 16, 2018 MILAN — In the middle of Samuel Beckett’s bleak but endlessly wry play “Endgame,” a char...

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Kurtag: Fin de partie (Endgame) - La Scala world premiere - audio only. I assume this is sourced from either the Bartok Radio or RAI Radio 3 broadcasts of 11/15/2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOUf9WAY8Y sFOUf9WAY8Y The La Scala French/Italian libretto is here: http://static.teatroallascala.o...

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I was getting it free and just couldn't stand being without it-for a while they allowed you a certain number of free articles but when that came to an end I threw in the towel and became a subscriber! So tell me more about that street in Cleveland-is that downtown-it looked great! Len It is the dow...

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I read this column in the Friday Weekend print edition b/c it is behind a paywall. In every way, a stunning edition, and cheap at the $3 newsstand price. I'm trying to persuade my wife to subscribe to the Times print edition and scrap our farcical local paper. BTW, two of my teaching colleagues who ...

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Kurtag interview by Norman Lebrecht

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/one ... ett-opera/

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In addition to the Nov 14 bombshell article printed below, the Times's 11/16 Friday business section featured a full-page spread with three more damaging articles about FB, detailing how its business practices have caused it to fall out of favor with an increasing number of young engineers, investo...

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The New York Times
Business Section - Commentary
Friday Nov. 16, 2018
by James B. Stewart

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/busi ... n-hq2.html

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Kurtág’s Fin de partie by Pierre Audi, stage director of the La Scala production A Beckett opera and its fate against all odds Samuel Beckett was somewhat adamant that his famous stage works should not be put to music. Not surprisingly: they are in themselves music to be brought to life by actors. ...

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Joyce was an enthusiast of opera, and maybe Beckett shared that enthusiasm and his heirs take it into account. Beckett and Morton Feldman collaborated on an opera, loosely defined, entitled Neither, recorded in 2000 by col legno. Neither Opera by Morton Feldman Librettist Samuel Beckett Language En...

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Arditti Quartett - Kurtag: Clov's Last Monologue (a fragment) [WP] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJz6NjBwyNA JJz6NjBwyNA http://5against4.com/2017/03/05/gyorgy-kurtag-clovs-last-monologue-a-fragment-world-premiere/ For about as long as many people can remember, Romanian composer György Kurtág has...

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Thanks. I just downloaded yesterday's RAI Radio 3 & Bartok Radio b'csts and plan to listen over my T-giving break. Kurtag is a fairly well-known avant-gardist. I have lots of his chamber and orchestral works. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/11/17/arts/music/17moments-oak/merlin_146796672_678305...

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in terms of slavery, the Dred Scott decision negated all of that Whereas roughly seventy years (30% of the life of our Republic to date) elapsed between the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Dred Scott case in 1857, the Dred Scott Decision itself held sway for less than a decade, a good part of w...

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I don't much like David McCullough. He is too laudatory. Agreed, insofar as the subject of the settlement of the Old Northwest Territory is concerned. The vast physical and moral beauties of the place beggar any description a historian might give, even one like McCullough who hails from adjacent, a...

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The Missing Link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhO-3ni71 ... q-iaKiP2Pg

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David McCullough's forthcoming book on the Northwest Ordinance and the settlement of the Northwest Territory:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4681311/ ... -ordinance

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4667124/ ... t-pioneers

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And also why perch, which used to be a common fish, is no longer available anywhere. Are they extinct? Completely fished out? Try fishing in Lake Erie: commercial as well as sport fishing for walleye and yellow perch, among others. https://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width600/img/egan_impa...

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Reporter Abby Phillip might also have asked Trump the same question Dodger second-baseman Eddie Stanky in 1947 asked Phillies manager Ben Chapman:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MkKK49vrd ... &version=3

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david johnson wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:05 am
I am speaking of Waters.

Speak well of her. The less she deserves, the more merit in your bounty.

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Maxine Waters deserves all the mocking she can get, and probably more. I do not know much about the others. The issue is not how much mockery and ridicule Congresswoman Waters deserves, but whether in a public forum the President ought to ridicule, bully or verbally abuse a member of Congress (Mia ...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:29 pm
Yeah he's just disgusting.

Trump can be verbally abusive to reporters because they can't talk back, or like Jim Acosta, they'll lose their job. In any other arena (teaching, courtroom, broadcasting, sports, retail, etc.), such behavior woulda got him fired long ago.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:14 pm
And Judge Judy beat you to the first three words of that.

Appearances notwithstanding, this ain't reality TV — it was FLOTUS Hillary. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/.../ ... oulda.html

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John F wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:43 pm
That recording I found more than 50 years ago, in the Minute Man record store off Harvard Square.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:30 am
"Meddling intellect," as you invidiously call it

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, only Wordsworth beat me to it.

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The Washington Post — PARIS — President Trump’s verbal assaults against black reporters, candidates and lawmakers has renewed criticism that the president employs insults rooted in racist tropes aimed at making his African American targets appear unintelligent, untrustworthy and unqualified. Over t...

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Trump and Minimalism! Lordy, a combo heaven-decreed. Imagine a 2½-hour opera, in Korean, The Fascist Who Mistook His Wife for a Doormat , consisting of two chanted melodic lines, the first for Russian basso-profondo Putin, the other for wussy-castrato Cruz: 담합도 없다! Damhabdo Eobsda! ( No Collusion! )...

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I do like some of your thoughts-so glad Avenatti, Stormy, McDougal are all back in the news! We must be sure who the president is when he's jailed-someone who won't immediately pardon him! Regards, Len :lol: I think, however, in recognition of his always putting America first, before himself, Donal...

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I am listening to a rip of the webcast of the 2018 Met performance as I type this.

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Trouble in Tahiti - like Mass , wonderful and so American in spirit! The theater brought out Bernstein's special talents as a composer. Of course, he was also a musician of the first rank and an urbane village explainer to boot. Full orchestration 0_j3T9zrvGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_j3T9z...

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:32 am
You call that classical music? Sheesh.

Meddling intellect mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things.

jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:32 am
. . . I couldn't find it

Sanctus is to be found at 1:17:05 --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjsKzhpSwE&t=4625s

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Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The US Attorney for the Sovereign District of NY should indict Donald J. Trump, Sr. now . He stands accused, as the 9 Nov. WSJ story suggests, of conspiring with Michael Cohen to violate federal election laws: he should be booked, fingerprinted, b...

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And Jefferson, himself a Deist, denied the divinity of Christ. As for Whitaker, I heard and saw the video clip tonite and interpreted, wrongly I hope, his remark about the DOJ and judges upholding New Testament values as an oblique attack on Jews in the judiciary. Re: the Constitution. Doesn't the T...

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Credos

https://v637g.app.goo.gl/sLHvuJpQx5yXzE416

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Also sprach Matt Whitaker: judges require a "Biblical" (i.e., "New Testament") orientation. Sorta leaves out, don't it? the likes of Brandeis, Frankfurter, Goldberg, Ginsburg, Breyer & Kagan.

Whitaker as QTD by the NY Times wrote:[the courts] “are supposed to be the inferior branch” [to the legislature]

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Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of president’s participation in transactions that violated campaign-finance laws By Joe Palazzolo, Nicole Hong, Michael Rothfeld, Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Rebecca Ballha...

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As many fans of LB did, I acquired the LP edition of Mass when it first came out, and have disliked it ever since . . . . IMHO, the Serenade and the Second Symphony (The Age of Anxiety) are Bernstein's great classical works. Originally felt the same way about the LP which I still own but the work h...

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Perfectly serious. "Mass" is "serious Bernstein", if not great Bernstein; and the composer's ego, or lack of it, has nothing to do with assessing its quality as music.

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There is very little in Mass that qualifies as classical music, and my whole point was that Bernstein was a superior modern classical composer. He also had a titanic ego, which meant that this was not enough for him . . . . Mass is serious classical and seriously good. Bernstein's hat size doubtles...

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[Bernstein] never came up with anything better than the mixed-message Mass . I agree that the Serenade is one of LB's finest works. But the only mixed I hear in his Mass is the macaronic. Otherwise the message conveyed by both words and music is consistent. Because it is so very much of its time, M...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:53 pm
It is the highest of high Anglican churches I have ever been to, which includes a lot of cathedrals. I wouldn't choose there to worship God . . . .

I've heard the Anglican Church praised for keeping Christianity at bay in England.

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[Moses] took the [golden] calf that they had made, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

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This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happier lands. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6487119771_955089f341_o.jpg Saint Thomas Church (New York City) by Darren Barnes (Dwood Photography) , on ...

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Just stumbled upon this amazing site of what I always thought was hands down the most drop-dead glorious church in Manhattan. I used to walk there from my apartment just to absorb some of its beauty. Broadcasts of Eucharist and Evensong services, organ recitals and more. The church just installed an...

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beyond improbable that there could be an ocean with liquid water that far out in the solar system . . . Beyond improbable, unless of course Europa has a heated core and a mineral-laden mantle below its icy crust for water to interact with. In fact, there is recent evidence of "hot spots" on Europa ...

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Richard Wagner: TRISTAN und ISOLDE Spas Wenkoff (Tristan) Catarina Ligendza (Isolde) Yvonne Minton (Brangäne) Donald McIntyre (Kurwenal) Karl Ridderbusch (Marke) Herbert Steinbach (Melot) Heinz Zednik (Junger Seemann & Hirte) Heinz Feldhoff (Steuermann) Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele C...

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I am embarrassed when I recall how insolent I was!! As an adult, I did challenge one professor, a Cleveland State Univ, Ed Psych prof, self-proclaimed Harvard PhD who dressed for every lecture in a white suit, for mocking working-class folks and Catholics repeatedly . Challenged him during a public...

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that's exactly what I did in my teens; read all the plays I could get my hands on In my view, all things being equal, plays require more of a reader than novels and often are more rewarding. Plays were a very big deal for me in school where TV, radio and movies were conspicuously absent. I student-...

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Sure, I haven't seen the flick but the play, dated as it now must seem, openly discusses the topics of bullying and sexual orientation. Strong stuff for the 1950s. The movie, just like Kazan's Streetcar Named Desire film, suppresses all mention of that taboo subject. I spent a summer reading nothing...

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My bad: the first Martin Dysart on Broadway was Anthony Hopkins, not Richard Burton. But IMO Anthony Perkins was great, maybe even unsurpassed, in this role. Perkins appeared on and off Broadway across three decades, 50s thru 70's, starting with the notable Tea and Sympathy in 1954, a play that made...

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