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Belle wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:41 am
No amateur ever understands these kinds of dynamics.

. . . which is why I pay a pro to manage my portfolio for me, keeping my mind free for finer things than vulgar money grubbing. In the unlikely event you ever accumulate enough to interest a wealth manager, you should try that yourself.

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I don't see how Israel's continued existence is possible without a decisive military defeat of Hamas. Yes, but at issue is what "decisive military defeat" means in practice, and how and at what cost in human lives that is to be accomplished. Regarding solutions, I respect David Brooks highly but ha...

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As per usual, in lieu of an answer you offer bald denial. So tell us, when has Netanyahu taken responsibility for his own behavior? How has his refusal to do so not ceded the high moral ground to bloody Hamas murderers? How is it not “bleeding-heart liberalism” of the worst sort to see over 15,000 k...

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The political line toed by the Right runs something like this: “Oh, oh, oh my, how my heart is breaking for the children of Gaza, but Israel didn’t kill those babies, Hamas killed them, Hamas started it. You must understand, the ancestors of these kids are to blame for voting Hamas in.” So, a modern...

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Péter Eötvös, two-time Kossuth Prize-winning composer, has died at the age of 80 TELEX https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/03/24/eotvos-peter-meghalt-zeneszerzo-zenepedagogus-karmester Wikipedia https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_P%C3%A9ter March 24, 2024 - 12:40 p.m Nikolett Halász Péter Eöt...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:53 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:09 am
White bourgeoisie and the fear that they will soon be "replaced" by undeserving brown-skinned immigrants.
You must be talking about trumps good people on both sides? Regards, Len

Magafa are noxious Know-Nothing nativist ninnies.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... nist-dead/

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The Far Right Lost Badly and Wants Its Revenge Bipartisan spending legislation approved by Congress represented a major defeat for ultraconservatives, who immediately turned on Speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday pushed through a $1.2 trillion bipartisan package to fund the governm...

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[The Germans] were voting for specific programs that they thought would benefit them, and for a year’s insurance against the people they feared..." That was very interesting to read thank you and confirms for me that those with the most to lose financially (could we call them the middle class?) wer...

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the rump of 'deplorables' gather behind Trump. People who've been excluded from 'the American dream' by their own historic, and now former, political base! Your misconceptions about America are broader than the Mississippi and run deeper than Crater Lake!!! :lol: Trump’s base, the Deplorables, have...

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NBC News Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker Johnson has served as speaker of the House for five months. Greene stopped short of forcing a vote to remove him, calling her motion a “warning.” Mar. 22, 2024, 11:49 AM EDT / Updated Mar. 22, 2024, 2:25 PM EDT ...

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America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood March 18, 2024 NYT Guest Essay By Marie Arana Ms. Arana is the author, most recently, of “LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority.” She is Peruvian American. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/21/opinio...

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Investors Pour Money Into Wall St. as Stocks Set New Highs The influx of cash reflects optimism about the economy and company earnings despite high interest rates and stubborn inflation. NYT By Joe Rennison March 22, 2024 Updated 11:41 a.m. ET It looks like there is little that can trouble investor...

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Thanks, I'll check it out.

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Hi Lenny, I heard that Turandot broadcast last Saturday on my WQXR app thru bluetooth headphones and was mightily impressed by the two young principals and Maestra Oksana Lyniv's conducting. I'd love to see the video when and if it appears. BTW, thanks for all the other posts about opera. I try to r...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:23 pm
Biden needs to tell you what time he's going beddie-byes!!

Runaway toothless infantilism!!

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Who hates more, jserraglio or antisemitics [sic]? Yep, it's a difficult choice. By that wooly logic the 85% of Israelis who want Bibi out like yesterday would all be antisemites. :roll: Armchair warriors who have zero skin the game [sic] You’re joking, yes? A significant portion of my taxes paid ov...

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Top 10 :: For me, Bruckner is the greatest of them all. Followed very closely by Haydn & Beethoven, and at a greater distance by Mozart and the other usual suspects.

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MAGAfa in Congress backs Bibicide to the hilt. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-speake ... -congress/

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Isn't your thread subject tautological? All sayings QTD from Francis ‘Yogi’ Bacon, “The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral”: Of Those That Would Opine Upon America . . . They are so pitch perfect they talk nonsense. Of Terra Incognita . . . It gets late early out there. No one goes there nowadays,...

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Which pronoun does he, she, they or it go by??!!

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If ever there was a prolix, self-actualizing and grandiloquent narcissist it's KRudd, as we called him. He is Trump's Australian incarnation so it's interesting to see the Trumpster bagging somebody who is his psychological mirror image. That's projection and narcissistic injury for you.... “Prolix...

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In Europe the people reacted to hoards of immigrants invited in by Merkel, tramping through their individual sovereign nations like they were going camping - and so entitled! The UK is a tinder-box with leaders who are self-interested and borders totally out of control . . . the Labour Party will c...

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Trump’s Hall of Shame : Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, George Papadopoulos, Allen Weisselberg, Rick Gates, George Nader, Tom Barrack, Elliott Broidy, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Peter Navarro, and counting . . . Peter Navarro Begins 4-Month Ja...

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“Donald Trump has said I’m not talented so many times, Eric is starting to get jealous,” Kimmel said after the ex-president bashed him (again) on Fox News. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/19/arts/19latenight/19latenight-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp Jimmy Kimmel, in a black suit and blue t...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=an0l0osfNF0

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Caruso’s the man. I have all his recordings.

I am currently exploring, as Maestrob suggests, the amazing Lucia Popp https://la-castafiore.blogspot.com/sear ... e=true&m=1

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On the American front, besides the most worthy Copland & exciting Hansen (hey, what about Barber and Ives?) ... Harold Shapero Symphony for Classical Orchestra Bernstein/Columbia SO or Previn/LAPO: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nI1N_HgXI0&list=OLAK5uy_m34-6o_dkpI3Qyy2XnzxhkNCMg99emn1I&pp=8AUB https...

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Febnyc wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:26 pm
Ok - but can't find any for sale. I don't do streaming at all.

It's also downloadable. https://archive.org/compress/am-cdmae-l ... ches14.zip

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My pick of fave Symphonic Cycles Nielsen Blomstedt Vaughan Williams Boult, or Previn, or Norrington live Haydn "London" cycle Szell & "Paris" cycle Leslie Jones Brahms Ansermet Shostakovich Rozhdestvensky Melodiya Schumann Szell Prokofiev Martinon Vox Simpson Handley 1-10, Matthew Taylor 11 Hyperion...

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I'm wondering if there's a CD? Yes, on I.A. there is a 1994 Hispavox reissue on CD of that LP in lossless with full artwork. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/am-cdmae-lmeches14 https://archive.org/compress/am-cdmae-lmeches14/formats=FLAC&file=/am-cdmae-lmeches14.zip https://archive.org/...

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Shostakovich 5 Bernstein
Nielsen 4 Martinon
Mahler 3 Horenstein
Mahler 4 Szell
Bruckner 7 Jochum
Simpson 3 Horenstein
Shostakovich 14 Britten/ECO
Bruckner 8 Horenstein
Mahler 2 'Resurrection' Bernstein/Cleveland live 1970
Khachaturian 3 Stokowski/CSO

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A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered. When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it. Image Tommy Orange, in a sweatshirt, baseball cap and sneakers, sits in front of a high school classroom. Students are arrayed around him. The ba...

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Music In Catalonia 1968 Hispavox CD 1994 {Coleccion de Musica Antigua Espagnola vol. 3} available in a good CD transfer at https://archive.org/details/lp_la-musica-en-catalua-hasta-el-siglo-xiv_capilla-musical-y-escolana-de-santa-cruz-d https://ia802803.us.archive.org/32/items/lp_la-musica-en-catalu...

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Three masses by Adrian Willaert (1490–1562) by Dionysos Now!, all three made available free by the artists for streaming or download. https://www.evilpenguin.eu/dionysosnow https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4db9e2_fbc05190036c496eac70e4734621beb2~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_745,h_745,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_...

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Severe mental illness, possibly bipolar disorder. John Ogdon, the great British pianist who blazed fitfully in the musical firmament for a few short years before his mind gave way . . . https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10816279/Piano-Man-a-Life-of-John-Ogdon-by-Charles-Beauclerk...

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You are only slightly more likely to die from a homicide in San Francisco than you are in a car crash there, but you are 70 times more likely to die before that of cancer, stroke and heart disease.

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The GA commission was set up to remove her if the opportunity arose. Now it will.

Prediction -- Trump and his minions will walk. This case will likely never come to trial.

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When Debuts Flop: Katie Britt Is the Latest in a Long Line of Botched Opening Acts The Republican senator, whose State of the Union response drew savage criticism, is not the first novice lawmaker from the South to see her introductory event veer off the rails. Senator Katie Britt, Republican of Al...

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The Clarence Thomases, Thomas Sowells, Herman Cains, Tim Scotts, John McWhorters, Mark Robinsons, and Glenn Lourys have, willingly or otherwise, been appropriated by nattering nabobs of nativism for the trophy case of their own entitlement: "most of these critics are actually black!!!" https://www.y...

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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – January 26, 2021 Liked it overall though it became somewhat repetitious. Next up for me Interstellar; Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hNdWgqwYL._SY...

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Judge Says Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case, but Only if Former Romantic Partner Leaves

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15 ... mp-georgia

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https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical% ... ed-aged-88

1978 world premiere performance of his opera Lear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52V7eNUWqc [audio only]

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Carnegie Hall Live Vienna Philharmonic Franz Welser-Most G. MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 This concert was broadcast live on Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 at 2pm. Conductor Franz Welser-Möst calls Symphony No. 9—Mahler’s final completed symphony—“the strongest, most impactful farewell ever written in music.” The...

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Things like tape,s which are easily subject to alteration, cause problems in courts of law. I am not saying that the tapes were altered just that any prosecutor has to be very sure that they haven't been So. how likely is it that the Georgia Sec'y of State, an avid Trump supporter, would have docto...

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San Francisco Symphony’s Maestro to Step Down, Citing Split With Board Esa-Pekka Salonen, the ensemble’s music director, said that he no longer shared the same goals as the administration, which has been cutting costs. Esa-Pekka Salonen, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, is stepping...

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This might possibly be a case where what was initially reported by the media and what is actionable in law didn't match. What I'm suggesting is that the media have gone gung ho regarding the charges without bothering to fully check the actual facts. The most important fact which was that Donald did...

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The Players Championship is on the Golf Channel, NBC, ESPN+ and Peacock today through Sunday.

I’ll be watching it.

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Stunning artwork. Rusalka - one of my faves, too. You have quite the collection of operas! Dvorak’s Rusalka Chalabala/Prague National Theatre 1963 https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music116/v4/4b/d8/ab/4bd8abde-398f-05d9-c599-88441f91e329/5905348206686.jpg/400x400cc.jpg I have this performan...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:52 pm
It's ubiquitous.

Taking a line from the redoubtable Howard Beale:

I'm mad as hell, you motor mouth mothers of monarchism, and I'm not gonna take it any more!!

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