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(Donald again.) It was loud enough that quite a few people, if not everyone, must have played that extra note.

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This is Donald. Once again I can't sign on under my own name, for some reason. I don't know if this was my worst concert expereince, but it was one of the funniest. When I was at the High School of Music and Art, in New York City, we were invited one afternoon to hear Stokowski's orchestra (can't re...

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As they say, Lenny, you can tall people by their friends - or enemies. Thius would seem to make you and me friends,because we've got a mutual enemy. And your agreement with Teresa seems to me to settle the matter. So we're all on the same page.

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John has never been a bully, Lenny.. Moreover, he's right - you've made the same point over and over without showing any reaction to posts such as Teresa's, who is involved with this issue professionally, and others, including myself having given the issue some thought over what's getting to be nine...

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Dear Agnes, I'll presume to butt into this conversation to suggest that you, Theo, and Teresa are closer to the truth than Lenny, whose impression of Medicare speding fortunes to keep incurable patients alive is based more on assumptions than the experience of professionally engaged physicians. I do...

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A simplistic answer, Teresa: The existence of our nation - our world - was threatened then, and we had to defend ourselves. Having no built-in mechanism for doing so, it still strikes me that the darft was the only possible measure. As it happened, as a fairly recent immigrant, I thought I should vo...

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Steve, I've had too much respect for you to consider you capable of a post like the one I've just seen. Pat phraseology like supposed hatred of our common ideals of democracy, and inept parallels to Soviet commuinism just fall back on the old and tired propaganda gamesmanship. I'm much more impresse...

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And all this is happening while Lance is away on a trip that should be sn unalloyed pleasure for him. Instead, it leaves a mess to welcome him back home. I don't know whether there is anything he could have done if he were at home, or whether he has any means of fixing it on his return- Chalkie's re...

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Can we make a deal, Steve? let's all agree that you are right - until the site gets fixed!

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Lance, I got it as a present, too, and am in the midst of reading it. It's treasurable on many counts - for his music-making, his pianism - not necessarily the same thing - and his ultimate mastery over a major challenge. Before I go on, I should also agree with Chalkie in appreciating Anne Midgette...

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Nice to meeet you, Chalkie. And there's more to you, as we can tell from the knowledge and sophistication of your musical posts, and your presence on this site. Not to mention the potential we still don't know.

I repeat myself - nice to meet you, good to have you on board. Keep up the good work!

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Thank you, Lance, and thank you, everybody, for your kind words. CMG has been a factor in the lives and interests of so many, including yours truly. About that starting date of my membership, though: everybody renewed their membership about that time after the site had ben hacked, and much backgroun...

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Did anyone notice that time has begun to fly - or is it just an illusion? whatever the answer, I seem to remember starting a brand new year quite recently,and now it's gone. Could it be that spending time with our CMG friends has made it go more quickly? Here is hoping that the new year may bring al...

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As far as I remember, there is no mention of his own compositions in the book. I may be wrong, and if so pklease correct me. But I do know that, important as composition was to Artur Schnabel - equivalent if not outweighing his interpretive work - he drew a line between the two aspects of his musici...

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I doubt it, Cosi. This is sensationalist, alarmist, and using volumes of skillful verbiage to snare you into his scheme - whatever that may be. Like John, I listened to a lot of this, telling you how great he is, but the overture led to nothing concrete. I'd rather depend on people who have a track ...

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If we go back far enough to determine that we're all (distantly) related - the next step would be to keep the arguments in the family.

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As you said, Barry, the fact that the Cold War is history makes a big difference. Of course we still need to guard ourselves, but - to what extent we don't know at this point - the relationship has changed from warfare to competition. Where's the difference? we don't know yet, but we should not fall...

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A fascinating story, indeed. I would hope it will propel the Iraniabns to all the "success they're entitled to" in their nuclear program. A worry, here as in similar situations, is the fact that the story necessarily involves some description of the means, So I hope not too much of this becomes publ...

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Congrats, Seàn - keep warm, and keep up the good work!

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A fitting conclusion to that Reagan appraisal. There were many aspects to his presidency that strike me as wrong - but then there is the undoubted charisma and optinism of the man, and his appropriate action in working with Gorbachev to reduce the Cold War tensions. "Trust but Verify" was a good slo...

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Well said, Jak. It's the right thing to do, the deed is done, and perhaps the term "shellacking" is ripe to be put in storage. Considering the course of presidencies, half way through the first term is the obvious time to observe problems, real or potential. But we've seen that judgment has to be he...

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I've been agitating for civility in these discussions and see some progress in that area. No point reversing that. I do miss Ralph's posts and hope he finds his way back here eventually.

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Cosi and Barry, I think there is a line of thinking contrary to what you've read - and that's been under discussion as long as our current efforts at getting out of the inherited mess have been going on. I'm sure you've read it, too. In a way, it's uncanny how we seem to be in a replay of things. Re...

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i think we're talking about different levels of ""wealth." I suppose, Cosi, that you refer to thecategory of the top 1% or2%. There are lots of income levels below that, and that's what I had in mind.

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As Barry said, things like changing th retirement age need to be done slowly and deliberately. I believe that it's been raised to 67 or is about to be - you'll forgive me for not being quite up to date about this, being somewhat beyond that age. But with increasing longevity. and exempting cases whe...

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Thank you, Agnes, for that necessary statement. It should certainly outweigh the patent propaganda statements we keep being fed in opposition. The opposition, it has been pointed out, is much like that which met Social Security and Medicare whene they went through the legislative mill. Both encounte...

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We'll see a lot more argument and a lot more discusssion about constitutional rights and privileges, and, yes, it will go up to the Supreme Ccourt. I'm no lawyer, so I suppose this goes beyond my competence - but how can I be forced to carry automobile insurance, but an equivalent obligation to buy ...

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An apt title for the thread, Henry!

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I note your comment, Jack, and while I'd agree that the potential of the Nazi regime SHOULD have been obvious to all - looking at it from today's perspective - I wonder how many people on this side of the Atlantic could see it then (in 1937.) I don't know where you were then. I was a teenager living...

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I certainly agree with your initial post. Cosima. And I have spent enough time in the South in my traveling years to appreciate something of the Southern charm, and a sense of tradition going back to the Civil War developing into something like conversational folkways. At least, as far as I heve eve...

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.......................and we're relying on Wikileaks to correct history?

Now let's just make Sarah Palin President - preferablly without bothering with all the intrusive literate formalities - and all will be right with the world.

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I haven't heard Dinnerstein in person, either, but there is certainly a vast difference between the impressions created by these two reviews. On one hand, it's rare to read something of the rare vitriol of the Lemco review, which must have had some basis in fact. On the other hand, was it just a bad...

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It may or may not cost lives. It will certainly do damage of some sort. To me, it's a variety of terrorism, carried on at the newly developed electronic hacking level. We have seen more than our share of terrorist activity in this past decade. We have seen it do serious damage. "We"'re still here. W...

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I'm glad you like Anne-Marie McDermott, Chalkie. She won the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Award at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1983 - the first one to win the Hungerford Award and the YCA Auditions simultaneously - one of eight over the twenty-five years of the Hungrford Founda...

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Ditto!

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Your post made me google a name I remembered, but with very little detail. So I googled him and found that he won the silver medal at the 1981 Cliburn Competition. Many performances and recordings are listed - I remember hearing him on the radio many years ago. At present, his activities include tea...

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The story of those three very different and extraordinary women from your hand, Agnes, is something to look orward to.

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As can be seen from the foregoing posts, Lance, your program is much appreciated, and an introduction to a friend online. Listening, I thought I'd find a favorite to talk about, but there was too much to like to designate a single piece. I agree with your enthusiasm for Karl's choral music - the two...

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Regarding the question about great Schumann pianists, there are many, current and historically. One name that's not often remembered is Adrian Aeschbacher, a Schnabel pupil who recorded extensively for DG in the Fifties and Sixties, with a special affinity for Schumann and Schhubert. His "Davidsbünd...

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Speaking for myself, Martin, I must say that I can't see the connection you make between Chopin's Preludes and Schumann, or the distincrtion you make between Schumann's Florestan and Eusebius sections. It demonstrates to me how very personal and individual our various reactions are to a given work o...

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To me, Rubinstein's most compelling recording of Brahms First is with Reiner - masterful on all counts.

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I must admit that speculations of this type don't particularly interest me. Of academic interest, well, perhaps. but this is in line with the periodic speculations about Mozart's diseases, treatment, and cause of death. At this distance, one thing we know is that they're gone, nothing can change tha...

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I don't know about Ralph's photos of Chalkie, but I can put my hands on a couple of pictures of Chalkie that I took on a couple of occasions. Not, of course, of the caliber of Chalkie's work - and I think someone did manage to get my latest meetup shots on CMG - I don't remember who did it, or how, ...

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We're doing it the other way round - a long drive to see three generations - Donald''s brother and his son, grandhild, and assorted relatives. As Donald (who will do the driving) puts it, we're really going to grandpa's house - just not our grandpa. They live too far away for us to get together as o...

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Yes, uindeed. it's time for us to wish each other the best for Thanksgiving as well as the upcoming HolidaySeason - along with health, good fortune and a reasonably settled world in the year(s) to come.

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You have a point, Wallingford, but for the moment I believe the discussion above covered a comparison between Schubert and Brahms. For all my longtime admiration of Brahms, I have to admit that there is something in Schubert - think, once more, of the "hevenly lengths," the surprise modulations, the...

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