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But as the presiding officer, Mr. Leahy could issue rulings on key questions around the admissibility of evidence and whether a trial of a former president is even allowed under the Constitution. (Mr. Leahy is also still expected to have a vote in the trial, like other senators.) ..... Mr. Leahy’s ...

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Based on what I've heard from others, I should consider myself fortunate: I was able to get an appointment at a nearby "mega-site" in Southern New Jersey for February 17. Great news! I have family who live in that region, so would also appreciate knowing how you did that, if you can spare the time!...

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Based on what I've heard from others, I should consider myself fortunate: I was able to get an appointment at a nearby "mega-site" in Southern New Jersey for February 17.

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The Capitol riot has ended the notion that the president’s hardcore base was motivated by economic anxiety. It has always been about race.

This has been my view of the Trump movement since the start of his campaign in 2015. "Make America Great Again" is code for "Make America White Again."

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Something worth remembering - as clearly you have. Do you remember the lady? Yes, I remember Lisa G. And I remember when I picked her up at her parents' apartment, and I told her mother where we were going, her mother gave me a peculiar look and made some comment about what "PDQ" stood for. I guess...

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Strangely, the Wikipedia page states that he gave his New York concerts in Avery Fisher Hall, but I never saw him there, only in Carnegie. I saw Peter Schickele/PDQ Bach at Avery Fisher Hall (I believe it was still called Philharmonic Hall at the time). This was in 1967 or 1968, and it was my first...

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The intellectual side of me supports the rule of law and the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

The emotional side of me calls for a similar punishment for the human perpetrator that this poor creature endured.

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Yes, Hank, thank you! I found the Bridge Sonata posted on her website linked below, along with 5 other videos of her playing. Unfortunately, her CD that is pictured above is not available on amazon for streaming, so I will try to look elsewhere for the balance. Here is the Clarke Sonata (different ...

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WjXiJjzHL._SL1200_.jpg I first heard Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata (arranged for cello) on the radio, played by a different cellist. This piece made an immediate impression on me, which was only strengthened on second hearing when I acquired this r...

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Harris, my best wishes to you on your milestone birthday! I hope that there are many more to follow, and I look forward to seeing you again at PCMS concerts.

H

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Here's a link to last night's broadcast:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/igor-levit ... 021-01-03/

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 28, 2020 6:12 pm
I believe Ricordanza here has attended a live recital (?).

Yes, Steve, I attended a recital by the Masons last December and posted a review:

http://www.classicalmusicguide.com/view ... =3&t=50650

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Well, it wasn't today, but two days ago. Most of the snow had melted and the weather was mild enough to get me out of the house for a long walk in the neighborhood. My companion for the walk was this album: some of Chopin's greatest works played by one of the leading Chopin interpreters of our time....

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In his recently posted video, Trump has called for increasing the individual payment from $600 to $2,000, while slamming several spending provisions, including the payments to cultural institutions described above. So what will happen? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Thanks for posting. I liked your piece.

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81re2j3x6hL._SX425_.jpg On Wednesday, December 16, in honor of Beethoven's 250th, I played one of my old LP's: Rudolf Serkin's performance of the Piano Concerto No. 4 with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Looking at this record b...

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There's a little back story with this, so bear with me while I explain. The "Classical Masterpieces" channel of Music Choice was playing on the TV while I was in another room. I heard the familiar strains of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and, when the violin entered, heard some particularly fine p...

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Thanks, Don and Brian, for the good wishes.
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OK, here is the letter to the editor The title put up by the NY Poat editors is "Canceling Classics ". "As a lifelong classical musician and an unabashed liberal , I found Jonathan Tobin's article on the alleged threat of 'wokesters' to the immortal Ludwig van Beethoven and classical music in gener...

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THEHORN wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:06 pm

I wrote a letter to them by email saying who ridiculous all of this is , and by golly, they printed it !

I'd like to read that letter. Can you post it here?

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And then there's this disgraceful recommendation as to what should happen to him. Regards, Len :( :( :( Trump attorney issues call for violence against former election cybersecurity official Anderson Cooper 360 Appearing on The Howie Carr radio show, Trump campaign attorney Joe diGenova said that f...

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Last night, I watched an interview on 60 Minutes of Christopher Krebs, the Homeland Security official who was fired by Trump for saying that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. He is described as a life-long Republican. After watching that interview, I had one reaction--Biden should hi...

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Not that the Times is flawless of course, and I was very disturbed at the sacking of the opinion editor after some staff rebelled about the Cotton oped. That disturbed me as well. The Times' explanation said that the Cotton piece shouldn't have run because it didn't meet their "standards," but they...

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Whenever the New York Times published an article critical of Trump (or a factual article that he perceived as critical), Trump would respond by Tweet or during a speech and invariably refer to the newspaper as "the failing New York Times." Well, that newspaper hasn't failed yet. In fact, Trump has b...

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Lance, I share your pain. Every day, we get calls on our landline from telemarketers, scams, etc. I don't pick up if I don't recognize the caller, but that doesn't solve the problem. On non-work days, I usually settle into a comfortable chair in the late afternoon and try to doze off for a while. In...

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Thanks for posting this article, Len. I was fortunate to hear Sheku in concert last December, along with his sister Isata, and reported on it here:

http://www.classicalmusicguide.com/view ... =3&t=50650

I hope his next tour across the pond includes Philadelphia.

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91joSkBUlWL._SS500_.jpg Yesterday, thanks to the "Music Choice - Classical Masterpieces" channel on my cable TV, I heard for the first time Alexandre Guilmant's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra No. 2. Normally, I'm not a fan of organ music. Too often, the composi...

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I understand and agree with the sentiment expressed in this column, but I must admit that I have a problem with the question, Are you OK? Let's take the example of the woman on the sidewalk, in tears while she spoke on the phone. If I had gone up to her and asked, Are you OK?, I would expect her to ...

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When I looked at my CD collection, I was a little surprised to find only one by Garrick Ohlsson--his recording of the complete Chopin Polonaises. This small number doesn't reflect the high regard I have for this pianist, based on his recitals that I have attended. I've had the pleasure of hearing hi...

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I'll bet that Ricordanza and cliftwood will have something to add to this thread about last year's concerts in Philadelphia as well. I'm quite sure I remember Florence Price being mentioned recently. 😉 Indeed I do. I suppose that news about the Philadelphia Orchestra has not reached the West Coast,...

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cliftwood wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:31 pm

I'll be 90 in 6 weeks

Happy Birthday in advance! from your young friend (I'll be 70 in two weeks) Hank.

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It's already on my "to read" list....along with many, many other books.

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IMHO, the GOP candidate with the best chance for success is Nikki Haley. And if Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate (Biden will be 81 years old), that would make two candidates with roots in India. Interesting!

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Harris,

Good to hear from you! Glad that all is well with you and I'm also hopeful about the future.

H

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The pianist-composer is back. Not quite like past years, when pianists such as Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni and Sergei Rachmaninoff regularly performed their own compositions. But it’s no longer an oddity when some of today’s leading pianists, including Marc-André Hamelin and Daniil Trifonov, perfo...

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I'm intrigued by the Roman Rabinovitch concert tomorrow, since their website says it will be available for 72 hours after the actual event for streaming. Haven't heard him yet, and he did win the Rubinstein competition in 2008. I suppose, like the MET, a $20 donation would be appropriate? Thanks fo...

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Trump has a history of stiffing his contractors, suppliers, etc. Wouldn't it be perfect justice if Rudy is left with an unpaid bill after this is all over?

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This fall, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society was unable to hold concerts in the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater (about 600 seats), so it switched to the much smaller Benjamin Franklin Hall in the American Philosophical Society. Only 25 people were allowed to attend concerts there; the rest att...

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“Why can’t I have police reform? Why can’t I have law and order? Why do I have to pick and choose? I should be able to have both,” Spann said. Exactly!! Frankly, the ultra-liberal idea of defunding the police department there is a nonsense and will have to be re-thought, or chaos will be the perman...

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Pivotal for me is the speed and expressiveness of the slow movement. It’s got to hold togetherthroughout and with something this length that’s not easy to do. I also want to feel the dark emotions that can be expressed. I want this achieved via dynamics, not rubato. The last movement also has to be...

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Trump already announced at a rally yesterday that he may just declare victory at the end of today. We'll just have to wait and see. That's exactly what he did early Wednesday morning, even though the results for several key states were not complete at the time (and not complete as I'm writing this ...

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How does Trump explain the rising numbers of COVID cases? Well of course, the doctors are inflating the numbers to make more money! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFW5awGSIZ4 How can any doctor, or health care worker, or scientist, or person who knows and respects people who work in these fields, s...

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CelloGuy wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:44 pm
I haven't posted anything here for a long time (although I look around, from time to time!). Today I signed in, just to see if my signon credentials still work.

Welcome back!

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Excellent column by Thomas Friedman.

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I was just watching the local news on TV this morning. The family of Walter Wallace called for an end to the looting, but, unfortunately, it continued last night.

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Thought I'd post another review from the vault. Richard Goode is scheduled to present his next Philadelphia recital on February 5, 2021. At this point, we do not know whether there will be a live audience. The bio appearing in the program booklet states: “Mr. Goode is widely regarded as the legitim...

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the guys said they wouldn't be watching the debate-there was a football game going on-the Giants maybe? Yes, there was a football game: Giants vs. Eagles, and the Eagles (the team I follow) won by one point. That's what I watched most of the time, although during some of the commercial breaks, I sw...

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It's a familiar story that Trump invents things and that his conception of reality is, at best, skewed. There are examples of this almost every day. But I was particularly struck by this exchange in the AARP Bulletin. It's an excerpt from a telephone interview of Trump. (A telephone interview of Bid...

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Among other things, Sasse had accused the President of using his office to enrich his family, scorning Evangelicals, kissing the asses of dictators, and flirting with white supremacists. And he's still supporting Trump for re-election. Sasse also voted against removing him from office in the impeac...

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Hmmm....seems to be a mismatch between the music and the album cover.

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