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RebLem

The 8th is generally considered the best of the lot, but I love them all, especially the last two. The last one, #15, has premonitions of death and is very somber, very much in line with his 15th symphony. No two quartets are in the same key, and it was Shostakovich's intention to compose 22 string ...

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Not sure about Cher, but Postcards from the Edge made me a fan of Meryl Streep's voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvQBYutgn8

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Actually, the most outrageous one seems to me that he was born of a virgin even though she 1) had a husband, and 2) three other guys showed up with presents.

RebLem

Back in the pre-stereo 1950s, I remember that there were two top choices for the Beethoven concerto in what was called high fidelity sound: Grumiaux and van Beinum with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Milstein and Steinberg with the Pittsburgh Symphony. I chose Grumiaux/van Beinum because I'd hear...

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Of course, we need to understand that mine is a parochial view, seeing it as I do from an American perspective. But in much of Central and South America, in the Philippines, and in much of the third world, the old conditions still obtain. Maybe these rules ought to be the rule, not for the whole chu...

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My purpose in posting this was to demonstrate that celibacy as a policy for priests was not always the standard, that it is not as deeply embedded in Catholic tradition as the Popes like to say it is, and that it is changeable. One of the main reasons it was adopted in the middle ages is because th...

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On Sunday, 26 August 2018, I listened to 4 CDs. CD 1. W.A. Mozart (1756-91): Tr. 1-3. Piano Concerto 23 in A Major, K. 488 (23'55) |Tr. 4-6. Piano Concerto 24 in C Minor, K. 491 (29'28)--Robert Casadesus, piano, Geoge Szell, cond., Columbia Sym. Orch. (23), Cleveland Orchestra (24). Rec. in Severan...

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I found a comprehensive article in WAPO which explains the history of the idea of clerical celibacy. I think this is a good summary, and I propose it be the basis for further discussion of the matter.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/696

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It seems to me that the recent Pennsylvania revelations involve quantum leaps in the depravity of sexual abuse. It used to be that we had accusations about individual priests furtively molesting boys singly and alone. Now we have reports, for the first time to my knowledge, of gangs of pedophile pri...

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On Saturday, 18 August 2018, I listened to 3 CDs. CDs 1-2. Josef Suk (1874-1935): CD 1, Tr. 1-5. Asrael Symphony in C Minor, Op. 27 (1906) (58'38) |CD 2, Tr. 1-4. Pohadka (Fairy Tale), Op. 16 (1900) (30'00) |Tr. 5-8. Serenade for Strings in E Flat Minor, Op. 6 (1892) (29'41)--Jiri Belohlavek, cond....

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I've always wanted a doorbell that played the trumpet fanfare at the beginning of the last movement of the Dvorak 8th Symphony.

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I found 3 Nessun Dormas sung by Aretha Franklin on YouTube. IMHO, this is by far the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJpxkinkPg

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The only Previn recording I don't have on CD that I want is his EMI recording of the Bartok VC 2 (1938) with Itzhak Perlman and the LSO. I think its the greatest performance of this work ever recorded. I have the LP, but it is currently only available on CD as part of a BIG LSO multi-conductor megab...

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It just occurred to me that only two people are even playing the same game as Donald Trump--Omarosa Manigault Newman and Michael Avenatti. Those three are playing chess. Everyone else is playing checkers.

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John F wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:26 pm
Did Previn record any music from before the mid-19th century, and is it any good? All I've heard is late 19th to 20th century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvU5OGdVFNc

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I believe that was Walter Kaufmann, with two n's rather than one. At least it is if it was the same historian of philosophy who rehabilitated Nietzsche in the 1950's.

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They deserve each other. Most of us don't deserve them. WE are the victims, not Omarosa or John Kelly.

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Lance wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:43 pm
I cannot say very much good about Korean pianos either. Most tuner-technicians would agree.
RebLem wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:57 am
If they want to take profits, couldn't they at least find a S Korean to buy it?

My point is if a Korean bought it, it would at least be owned by someone in a democratic country.

RebLem

If they want to take profits, couldn't they at least find a S Korean to buy it?

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You might want to check out Music of the Baroque.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_ ... e,_Chicago

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And he's also against allowing naturalized citizens to sponsor members of their extended families for entry and citizenship. People who have had three different sets of inlaws are not people who value extended families. But such people have no idea about the sensibilities of normal, decent people.

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I remember once in the 1970's, the Chicago public school system cut back on its music programs to save money. They had hearings beforehand with citizens allowed two minutes apiece to say what they had to say. One man in line was offered a chance to jump ahead of everyone by everyone ahead of him, bu...

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I remember once Cavett had Benny Goodman on the show, who seemed unaware of the fact that his fly was open. So Cavett said to him, "Please stand up with me, and turn your back to the camera." Cavett joined him in this, and Goodman stood, and turned his back. Then Cavett said, "Now, I'm not going to ...

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Two boxes of CDs magically arrived on my doorstep today, Monday, 6 AUG 2018. 　 One box is from Berkshire Record Outlet and consists of 5 CDs. The first 3 are separate CDs, not in a box, but parts of a series, The African American Symphonic Series, Volumes 1-3 on Cedille Reocrds featuring Paul Free...

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I don't think Jim Judge is the name. I think you mean Jim Jordan.

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I recommend multiple recordings of these works. One essential set is the Szell/Cleveland set of all three. He re-recorded the 8th for EMI, but I don't like it as much. Belohlavek and the Czech Phil are good. My personal favorite 9th I one by Zdenek Macal and the London Phil on the mid=price Classics...

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As yoiu can see, I have taken a hiatus from listening to music. So, what else did I do? Why, I ordered more CDs, from Berkshire Record outlet, which arrived on my doorstep yesterday.They represent the work of two conductors--Bruno Walter and George Szell. 　 One of the two Bruno Walter issues is a ...

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Sexual assault has been common in the classical music world since the beginning of time, as in all fields where there is inequality of power. From personal experience,I can say that it happens to both sexes. And yes, I was propositioned by my male voice teacher when I was in high school. My reactio...

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Well, thanks for posting that: I had not heard it before. Frankly, I found the performance embarrassing and exhilarating at the same time. Star though Dudamel may be, this over the top reading was frustrating to me in his use of tempo, while exhilarating in its passion in the final movement. 1) The...

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If you have not heard it already, I urge you to listen to Gustavo Dudamel's performance of the Mahler Resurrection @ the BBC Proms. The orchestra is the Simon Bolivar Orchestra from Venezuela, but the soloists and chorus are British. They go well together, and its actually one of the better Mahler 2...

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The final indignity, though, was the royal couple's introduction over the PA system. The guy got the Queen right, but then he said "and his royal highness, the Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh." That is also correct, but he pronounced it Eddin-berg instead of the correct way. Perhaps he was a S...

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This sounds rather like a comment from my late father-in-law..."a lot of people have died today who haven't died before". My son and daughter-in-law arrived in LA 12 hours ago and say the direct flight was 'survivable' (in Premium Economy on the A380). 14 hours. Same as Dubai to Sydney. Do-able. So...

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In my own case it was the experience of hearing most of the world's 'great' orchestras and being intrigued about what makes an orchestra 'great'. An interesting topic for discussion. Here are a few possible reasons, in no particular order. Money. Hiring the best players, often away from other orche...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:04 pm

Martyn Brabbins is a British conductor that has so far flown under my radar.

He also recorded the best, by far, recording of Havegal Brian's Gothic Symphony. You might want to take a look at that.

RebLem

No, no explanation or rationale is given for the exclusion of the Amen Chorus. I own the following Messiah's beside the Dean and Mackerras: Cleobury, C. Davis, Jacobs, Marriner, McGegan, Pinnock, Sargent, and Solti. The Dean is the only one without an Amen Chorus.

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On Sunday, 15 JUL 2018, I listened to 3 CDs. 　 1) Frank Bridge (1879-1941): |Tr. 1. Dance Rhapsody for orchestra, H84 (1908) (19'16) |Tr. 2-6. Five Entr'actes, H. 95 (1910), for the play "Two Hunchbacks," by Emile Cammaerts (1878-1953) (12'05) |Tr. 7. Dance Poem for orchestra, H. 111 (1913) (13'48...

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On Saturday, 14 JUL 2018, I listened to 3 CDs. 　 1) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Sonate da Chiesa a tre, Op. 5, 10-12. (1689) |Tr. 1-4. # 10 in A Minor (4'41) |Tr. 5-8. # 11 in G Minor (5'50) |Tr. 9-13. #12 in A Major (8'19) ||Sonate da Chiesa a tre, Op. 4 (1694) #s 1-6. |Tr. 14-17. #1 in C Majo...

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Perhaps I should re-evaluate my position on the VPO. I have not until now for several reasons. I do know that no one who was in the orchestra before the surrender of Germany in WWII is still in the orchestra, of course. But it appears that some (I know not how many) are still sympathetic to that cau...

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1. Chicago Symphony 2. London Symphony 3. Concertgebouw Orchestra 4. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra 5. St Petersburg Philharmonic 6. Berlin Philharmonic The Vienna Phil has too many unreconstructed Nazis for me to vote for them. When a Bernstein rehearsal of a Mahler symphony ended once, an orchestra ...

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A much longer article with essentially the same information as this appears in the current issue of Local Flavor, a food and arts weekly here in New Mexico. Actually, we have two national labs here--LANL and Sandia National Lab at Kirtland AFB here in Albuquerque. The Sandia Mountains east of Albuqu...

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The ULINE catalog is an excellent source for CD jewel cases. That's where I get mine. https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=jmc8W7_5Noms8APE-4iYDw&q=ULINE+catalogue+CD+jewel+cases&oq=ULINE+catalogue+CD+jewel+cases&gs_l=psy-ab.12...4903.31505.0.35146.36.31.1.4.4.0.236.3970.2j26j2.30.0....0...1c...

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I did not mean to suggest that someone at Google was deliberately sabotaging CMG as part of his job at the direction of his supervisors. I was suggesting that some rogue miscreant there might be engaged in some unsanctioned mischief-making activity.

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Now, the posting times listed here in this thread say I was 6th. Actually, I was the first. What evidence do I have? I posted here a minute before or a minute after I did at Good-Music-Guide, where my post is still first in the thread headlined Gennady Rozhdestvensky, R.I.P., on page two of the Gene...

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So maybe we should abolish the FBI and figure out all the laws the FBI enforces and create a different agency for the enforcement of each law? Why should the immigration law have its own enforcement agency? No one is suggesting that immigration laws not be enforced. Just that when we have a particul...

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If you look at the sixth post down in this thread, you will find a post by yours truly which was originally the first post in the thread. It also had a link to a gramophone obit @ https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/the-conductor-gennady-rozhdestvensky-has-died For some reason, that l...

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On Saturday, 30 JUNE 2018, I listened to 2 CDs. 　 1. Boris Tischenko (1939-2010): Beatrice, a Choreo-symphonic cycle of 5 symphonies, (1998–2005), Op. 123: |Tr. 1. Dante Symphony 3 "Inferno" (2001) (39'33) |Tr. 2. Dante Symphony 5 "Paradise" (2005) (33'41)--Nikolai Alekseev, cond., St Petersburg P...

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Yesterday I was substituting for a social studies teacher. Exams are over and most classes are killing time until the literal end of the school year, which invites worst expectations regarding behavior for a sub. But I've gotten pretty good at this, and with basically good kids things rarely go wro...

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This afternoon, I received a package from Albany Music, which now provides shipping services for Berkshire Record Outlet. Its 5 CDs of music by Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915), which exactly doubles the size of my Taneyev collection. 1. A NAXOS CD featuring Ivan Peshkov, violin, and Olga Solovieva, piano...

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I've always found it interesting how often very important Soviet composers also wrote for film. Do you suppose they were expected to do this by the state for films which had propagandistic value? When composers were on the outs with the Stalinists, film work was often the only work they could get. ...

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Has this student been associated with anti-Semitism in the past? I have seen this quote before, posted by good, decent people as a warning of how evil forces take control of a country.

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