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I've never heard a bad recording of this, from the first one by Adolf Busch, Rudolf Serkin and Aubrey Brain to the present. Oddly, I've never heard it in concert. Indeed. I don't know anybody who does not love this work, and I have heard it in concert performed by forces no one here would have hear...

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I'd just like to point out that even if the Democrats take over all the rest of government, it won't make much difference. The Supreme Court can overturn any law or even a presidential directive on a whim and has been doing so since John Marshall was Chief Justice.

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The segment that follows this is about Luciano Pavarotti when he was seriously overweight but still seriously singing. It will put Len into a state of shock that I, not a general fan of bel canto, am posting this. It was used by other inferior forces in the conclusion of the great movie Fitzcarraldo...

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Brahms's greatest hero was, of course, Beethoven. He had a bust of that composer in his living room in Vienna. Sorry to learn you have been unwell and have had to go to hospital. Hideous, altogether. Hope things improve for you hereafter. I got some bad medical news myself two days ago and am tryin...

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The whole point is that we are not supposed to have heard of them. I happen to know a MacArthur recipient because we were good friends in college. I will mention his name, which is searchable, because I have only good things to say about him. It is Peter Jeffrey, who is probably the world's greatest...

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Mormon, like Jesuit (as in the pope), is a re-appropriation. It was originally a term of scorn reserved for Joseph Smith, who invented the angel Mormon out of the whole cloth, and his followers. Mormons themselves will use the term, but they prefer LDS. I strongly suspect that this move is related t...

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A great music theoretician is a rare bird indeed. I can scarcely count the number I know of on the fingers of one hand, if we limit ourselves to the common practice period. One, oddly, was Brahms, whose Oktaven und Fünften has never had an engraved edition. Though he was a great contrapuntist himsel...

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Speaking from personal experience, and not because I was ever an offender myself but because I have been a teacher, sexual harassment in high school is a huge, huge problem that has largely gone unaddressed. You will see things about bullying, which is bad enough, but as far as I know, nobody ever t...

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Yes, well, in terms of risking standing up to the rest of government, the only SCOTUS failure I know about is Andrew Jackson's refusal to follow John Marshall's decree that the Eastern nations could not be removed onto the trail of tears. Jackson said something like "Marshall has his opinion, now wh...

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mikealdren wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:22 am
Very strange collection of conductors.....

Yes, and they are all obvious choices. You know what's hard to conduct, and I've only seen it done live once? It is the slow movement of Brahms's violin concerto.

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Another find.

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No, I would not disagree on the "stature" of the piano sonatas. In fact, I would choose Haydn's best over Mozart's best, and certainly Beethoven's, not to mention those of Franz Schubert! Insofar as Mozart's works involving the piano, I would place the piano concertos at the top of his list. Still,...

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He is not little known except in the sense that to the general public all conductors are little known. Come on now. Many if not most New York Philharmonic music directors have been famous before they assumed that post - Mahler, Toscanini, Bernstein, Boulez, Mehta, Maazel. Others who were sought for...

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The two Mozart sonatas listed are major works for pianists, not necessarily juvenalia. Well I know that Lance. I was dividing the program in two. And although it is not hard to find performances by famous pianists of the +300 sonatas, if I could once perform them, they are not major works. As Charl...

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He is not little known except in the sense that to the general public all conductors are little known. Who had ever heard of Alan Gilbert? Then, opening with a piece that will never be performed again, while now common, is a highly questionable practice. (A 36-year-old Dartmouth professor? Give me a...

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Good heavens, why would anyone make a big deal out of these pieces, which any reasonably talented schoolchild pianist could play adequately? Why would anybody perform Mozart juvenilia in the first place?

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https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7960957--howells-to-chosen-hill#reviews Sorry, but evoking a hill outside Gloucester sounds like Delius, whom I also detest. Here is a chorale prelude by Parry that I have played myself. The contrapuntal underpinning of the sappy tune is quite remarkab...

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With all respect as usual to Rach3, it is hard for me to get excited about this, and yes, I did give it a try. Howells is of course best known for his Anglican church music, which is not any better but which graces church music in a way that few things written in the 20th century do. Let's face it, ...

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To follow up because I said I was going to, it went fine, and I'm sure the kids were happy and grateful actually to have a musician sub, but I must blush a bit, because I gave myself such airs while I forgot that a very great deal of programming at the high school level these days is what I can only...

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Join in with me as we follow the bouncing ball to the tune of Loch Lomond: It's not going to happen, it's not going to happen.

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As John F knows better than any of us, City Opera went out of business because of poor management decisions. The argument about grand opera in the US has been going on for many years, dating back to the founding of the paltry funded National Council for the Arts, which Republicans still wish to see ...

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Not so "Peter Grimes," "The Rape of Lucretia," "Gloriana," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Noyes Fludde," "Owen Wingrave" (which is about pacifism, not sexuality), and the three parables for church performance, for starters. And in those whose themes directly or obliquely relate to homosexuality, tha...

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. . . another woman with “credible evidence” . . . not Deborah Ramirez . . . , A third woman, now. No wonder McConnell and Grassley wanted to ram this nominee thru before the dike burst. Thanks for the info, Len. Did not know about this: busy with schoolwork. Boys will be boys , according to some, ...

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It's smaller-scale than "Grimes" and "Budd," and a bit less melodically appealing; kind of like "The Rape of Lucretia," which I believe you've seen. But it's one of Britten's more popular operas. John thanks! I'm going for it! Regards, Len And I think you should. One issue with Britten is that, alt...

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I have heard it and it's as good as any opera Britten ever wrote. You may take that with the ambiguity with which it was intended.

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I don't excuse Kavanaugh for anything, but as someone who went to grad school at Yale (where I was still very shy), this most famous group is a huge partying group. Years later as his boss I warned a father that his son who was about to go to Yale and wanted to be in the group that it was a heavily ...

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a passenger trip to the moon? Ain't never gonna happen, man. You of course know full well that orbital lunar flights were made feasible a half century ago. Right now Boeing and SpaceX are under contract by NASA to send humans into earth orbit, if not in 2019, as projected, then soon thereafter, mos...

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Not a word beyond this, except to say that just figuring out the arpeggione is halfway from here to the next planet.

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In the first place, although his paintings now bring millions, he is a gigantically overrated painter. I suppose that it is irrelevant that he died from a heroin overdose at a very young age, but I can't help seeing the connection between his paintings and ordinary graffiti. Then, to get to the main...

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The only time I was ever in London, on a business trip (there are things I have never shared with anyone here, even John F), I happened to be required to make a side trip to Oxford, where I visited Blackwell's, both the book and the music store. It was a life dream come true. I don't even know if th...

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I volunteered for this in contact with the teacher. Most music teachers have a difficult time finding subs, and when they do, it becomes a babysitting operation. However, this is the chorus teacher in my own local high school, from which my mother graduated (in a different building of course) in 193...

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Veering slightly off topic, the famous saying by FDR was already wrong in its own time. It was perfectly obvious to any thinking person that we had everything to fear from the Great Depression.

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Belle, you have no idea how disgustingly partisan the Pub was long ago. slowly but surely the right wingers all lost their cool and are now gone. My friend Mt Stradivarius has never broken any rules and always speaks his mind. The concept of everyone agreeing with one side is a nice idea, but fanta...

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One of the joys of my grad school experience in the NE (I grew up in a sheltered Ohio conclave) was coming into contact with so many brilliant Jewish classmates, friends in other fields, undergrads and the occasional, very occasional in them days, prof. We are not that far apart in age, and I had a...

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I learned about enabling early during my formation, when I was roundly and correctly called on the carpet for implying that drug dealing is worse than drug using. To avoid enabling, one cannot always be completely frank in an adult sense. To change the subject slightly, what drives me crazy is legal...

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the next nominee will be no better. I think that even the GOP, bad as they are, can do better than a man who as a lawyer back in the 1990s exhibited prurient interest in Bill Clinton, and today, as a judge named to the High Court, has to deny that in his youth he was a drunk, a kidnapper and a wann...

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For the very reason you cited, Kavanaugh is not going to be denied confirmation no matter what his past may have been. It is simply too important to the Republicans to have someone like him on the Supreme Court, and after he is confirmed there will be nothing anyone can do about it. And on the extre...

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Well you know those trombonists. There is a reason they are always in the front row of a marching band.

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Jbuck, I don't think the Met's repertoire is all that conservative . Within the past 20 years or so it as broadened and diversified its repertoire considerably , doing numerous operas you would never have expected them to do in its early years at Lincoln center . This year they're doing the US prem...

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Unfortunately for BK, I believe that the state of Maryland has no such statute of limitations on sex offenses. [/size] Having lived in Maryland for 25 years, I assure you that it does. Yes, but thought I'd verify just in case. I'm sure you know Doveryai, no proveryai is old Russian proverb, made fa...

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"Carnaval" is another favourite by Schumann; there are so many!! I have a recording of this from Arrau and I must say it doesn't enchant - mostly due to the sound quality. So, recourse to the internet is the next best option. 2 recordings to have: Artur Rubinstein's last studio version, 60's , mine...

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Linguists consider Yiddish to be a dialect of German (ironic, no?). In fact, as long as it is written in the Latin alphabet, I can usually make it out. What I can't make out is a name like Hatuey, which looks misspelled whether it is or not.

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One can only assume these 'misconduct' allegations are related to sexual harassment. But maybe it's something else (for once). :roll: Right you are to roll your eyes, for it can be nothing else. Although there are more-and-more stories, often important ones, involving very grown-up people, what is ...

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If that's not what you meant by "One does not properly conduct the last movement of the Ninth with an accelerando," I wish you would explain what you do mean. After all, it's you who brought up the issue of eccentricity in the first place. Of course if you choose not to, there's nothing I can do ab...

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As John F and maybe others know, all Metropolitan Opera performances are backed up. (I can't recall the technical word for it.) Many years ago, the Sieglinde was laid up with an illness and it just happened that Birgit Nilsson was in town. She responded on the moment, though she had not sung the rol...

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It's Traumerei without the umlaut, but more to the point, Furtwängler was eccentric. One does not properly conduct the last movement of the Ninth with an accelerando. None of Furtwangler's performances accelerates in the last movement's coda. What actually happens is in the score. Beethoven marks t...

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Fortunately my French is somewhat better, but I can't make it work. How am I supposed to get past the obvious franglais of connectez-vous?

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When I was relatively new here, one could not find this information unless one watched for the special print edition of the Times that came out every fall. Sometimes I missed it. Not that I could make many performances even in those days, but just the reading of the possibilities was enjoyable, and ...

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Unfortunately for BK, I believe that the state of Maryland has no such statute of limitations on sex offenses. Having lived in Maryland for 25 years, I assure you that it does. There is, however, no limit on the time to present a civil suit, which explains the problem the Catholic Church has now be...

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It's Traumerei without the umlaut, but more to the point, Furtwängler was eccentric. One does not properly conduct the last movement of the Ninth with an accelerando.

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