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I'm very sad to learn about this. Davis was a man of warmth, intelligence and humour and we saw this in spades during this Prom years. That he died 'suddenly' whilst being treated for Leukaemia was a huge stroke for fortune for him. It's a dreadful, debilitating disease. A life well lived. Thank you...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6W57r1yTWs

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I would expect the question which heads this discussion to be asked by any 10 year old. And I'd answer it as being asked by a child and not worthy of anything, apart from "when you grow up...."

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What awful, awful times we live in!! It's terrifying. The people who've bought into all this are one and the same cohort who have the unbridled hypocrisy to criticize Rupert Murdoch!! Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why man...

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"Yes,Prime Minister" on newspapers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63aIA3e-Tc Absolute comedy gold. The writing on both "Yes, Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" is amongst the very best ever created for television, comedy or drama - and that's a high bar. The Brits have got IT . You can see how m...

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Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen's address to the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. It's staggering to believe that the Belgium authorities tried to prevent this conference from going ahead and Dr. Maaßen speaks about that and other huge infringements on liberty underway in Europe at the moment. Th...

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Clifton Duncan is something of a rugged individualist who is unafraid to express his opinion. Plenty of things to admire. He is talking here with John McWhorter. Duncan refused to be vaccinated during Covid and this caused him a great many problems in his professional life. He's currently writing a ...

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' The science is settled '. Of course there are transgender human beings; conservatives just don't want CHILDREN mutilated. Or given the right to determine whether they should be castrated before 21 years of age. And, as with Covid, we cannot trust or be guaranteed the medical profession will behave...

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This work is thrillingly executed by this virtuosic group. The Ricercar @ 6 has always brought me to my knees and I watched it yesterday on YT played by Olivier Latry on the pipe organ!! The formidable keyboard skill required to play this - let alone on the organ - is something to behold. Charles Ro...

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I absolutely loved Peter Cook. Here he is with (Aussie) Clive James and afterwards Barry Humphries. British humour. You can't beat it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvU9CUllTo

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I've got plane-spotting going on in the background and reading your comments about Chailly. I like the Schumann symphonies, particularly the "Rhenish". That's an interesting study on the long musical line, more particularly in movement 1V Feierlich . It takes the long line and stretches it out to Wa...

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Unpacking the post-modernism/Marxist matrix: two fabulously intelligent men sort it. Two very intellectual heavy-hitters on the side of conservatives. (Dr. Lindsay once supported the Democrat Party.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrdyphape4&t=96s

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Cultural enrichment. What's not to love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4WqEadu3M

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That final quote from Clifford about belief is very compelling, EXCEPT that Christians BELIEVE without a scintilla of 'evidence'. That has worked for over 2000 years, more or less, but it does also throw into relief reasons WHY people have willingly suspended disbelief over the centuries. The entire...

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Very moving review. Well said.

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I feel this conductor is somewhat under-rated and I'm unsure why. I've seen him at the Gewandhaus back in 2015 and was impressed. (What a fabulous venue, by the way!!) Here he is conducting what I call 'Mendelssohn's orchestra' in Rossini's Petite Messs Solennelle, Though I prefer the smaller forces...

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A wonderful artist whose work I enjoy - in certain repertoire. Good on him for having the chops to tell it like it is. Relaxing rules; yes that always works a treat, doesn't it!! You can trust people to moderate their own behaviour, really you can. (I'm waiting for that relaxation on the use of seat...

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I prefer the messaging of Dr. James Lindsay who speaks about the growing rate of cults in the USA and around the world. Trans is yet another of these cults and people join/support/sympathize with them because they 'want to be nice'. Dr. Lindsay says if you've bought into the trans issues and support...

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A great discussion with Dr. Arnn about the divisive politics of identity. Heather is a brave woman and I admire her forthright argument, using facts. She loves literature and music and she's quite the polymath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchVwwDc4Fs

Insulting responses. In three...two...one

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You can call dissent 'uncomfortable'. That surprises me none. Joe is an off-the-shelf hate-bag and what I'm doing is pushing back against the lies and hypocrisy of the Left. This site is typical of many where the prevailing orthodoxy is left wing politics and absolutely no dissent will be tolerated ...

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On the contrary, it's your Democratic Party which is the party of big business these days! Big time. The Left grew rich!

As I've said before, I'm not going into a battle of wits with the totally un-armed. It wouldn't be fair.

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For Av-Geeks like myself this is amazing. Inside the cockpit of the superb machine which is the Airbus 350, with Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines. Scandinavian SK973 from Copenhagen to Bangkok. The computer technology is absolutely off the charts. (I can't wait to take the A350 from Sydney to Fiji in A...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:26 pm
Who knows what to think any more? Everything is so convoluted. I just think it's all a big mess.

Don't over-think it, just do what you do - do well!!

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I love this soprano and am familiar with her work in the baroque repertoire, especially with Les Arts. She's superb.

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This is a treat. The maestro; I loved the way he tried out the piano first!! What class, what panache, what je ne sais quoi!! His playing is wonderfully idiosyncratic - even mannered - at times, and it all seemed so effortless! I appreciate his Mozart and I never listen to this composer these days. ...

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You think so, Lance? "Tax dodgers", "wealth", "hiding". Hardly the badinage of the Algonquin Round Table and typically laced with bitterness and bile, sans facts.

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Thanks for the heads up. I'll listen now if it's on YT.

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The Copenhagen Stock Exchange, which is over 400 years old (and is referred to by Dr. Niall Ferugson in 'The Ascent of Money'). Such a beautiful city (with an Aussie as queen) and it's always a huge loss when something like this happens. One person interviewed said "this is our Notre Dame". I hope t...

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Again, no argument, no facts, just hysteria and screaming. If you are representative of your nation then this explains A LOT.

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This is one of the world's biggest cats. The Norwegian Forest cat, along with the Maine Coon. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e2/63/72/e263728d52d303936d7589abf328e6b9.jpg We have a wild dog problem in Australia. And wild horses (Brumbies). Our son lives on an acreage and wild dogs attacked and killed a s...

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I don't know these "Biblical Songs" and I must say I can't seem to get enough of Dvorak these days. Been watching on YT some performances from the late Vaclav Neumann.

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The excellent and admired British pedagogue Katharine Birbalsingh talks to Peter Boghossian about her amazing inner-city London school and its stunning academic performance . She's drawn the ire of the Left and progressives because it is based on conservative traditions and she refuses to engage wit...

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More asinine commentary from the giant chip on the shoulder. Infantile, narcissistic comments. As I said, bitterness has a long tail and is very very resilient - especially when there are zero friendships in the real world to temper extremist views. In my experience on music boards all the trolls - ...

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That finding is NOT in dispute . The Liberals NEVER denied a rape; how could they when nobody knew about it? She only told about it days later when forced to 'explain' her security breach before being about to be fired. What they denied was a calculated cover-up by the former government's staff. Do...

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Oh, what a tragic!! A biased left wing organization like the ABC prints something to cover its own backside when they were up to their eyeballs in the original "get Morrison" brigade over this!! I suppose you could put your political rivals on trial during a Presidential campaign and jail him. That'...

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Just like you, we're all celebrating cultural enrichment and diversity!! And, god, it feels so good!!

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Bigger isn't better. It's the same as saying something is good because it's popular. Doah!! People are moving away in droves from California for the reasons you state, Lance. Mainly to Texas and Florida (Rubin says there's no income tax there). My doctor and her family wouldn't leave their hotel roo...

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This article is about the infamous rape trial which has filled the news in Australia for the last few years. It was a contributing factor in the loss of government by the Coalition in 2022 and the monumental lies and beat-up created by the then (Labor) opposition. They stood in moral judgment of the...

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It's the opportunity cost, Lance, of having people do as they please without fear of the law and an ideology which calls for 'de-funding the police'. Well, who in the world would have thought business would leave the state of California!!?? My 12 year old grand-daughter, maybe? One million people ha...

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Dvorak, Stabat Mater , Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Schoenberg Choir/Harnoncourt. This was recorded in 2012, just less than 4 years before Harnoncourt's death. You can already see the symptoms of advanced Graves Disease (badly bulging eyes). The poor man was valiant to the end. I'm not usually fond o...

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Gold is indeed a volatile investment. It can literally go years before moving, suddenly going backwards and always costing money to store. I remember a fellow from a Gold Bullion company coming to a meeting of shareholders several years ago spruiking the benefits of gold. He said, "it's an excellent...

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Not to mention Hitchens would have drunk Buckley under the table.Perhaps Buckley knew. I saw Buckley live give a talk in 1971 at Ripon College in our Wisconsin, and have his book, "The Jewelers Eye". He had numerous debates with famous lefty professor Noam Chomsky, on YT.Chomsky usually got the bet...

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This program has only recently been made about the life of William F. Buckley Jnr. Even his moniker sounded pompous, but there was obviously far more to the man than the eponymous ring-tone. Christopher Hitchens once opined that Buckley was essentially "shy"; either that or he kept running from one ...

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Regine Crespin; the French soprano par excellence.

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Systemic failures, just as we suspected. This is an absolute tragedy all round; for the victims, the survivors, the rampaging killer and his family. It is doomed to be repeated because, as my son says, " you need to understand the system will not protect you ". What made him make that statement? He ...

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More victims of a failing and overburdened mental health system? Yes, Holden, it probably will be. This man was 'known to police'. The police officer who took him out acted decisively and bravely. Surviving victims and their families are in for more misery in the coming days, months and years. Year...

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Don't think this for a moment. I have this CD by Peter Hurford, which I love. When in Europe I purchased CDs at cathedrals like Stephansdom, Passau. Every Wednesday we went to Peterskirche in Wien for the weekly 3.15pm practice sessions of students from Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst W...

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You have one enormous chip on your shoulder. It comes across in everything you post. Bitterness is a resilient trait.

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PM Luxon and his voters now know what many of us already did; we should beware the empath with the head tilt. This is what Luxon needs to do now about the NZ Left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKC8pSFg1Vw Matter-of-fact Kiwi leader’s shaking off Ardern fairy dust PM Christopher Luxon is brimming ...

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