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Barry

I saw Abbado conduct the BPO at Carnegie Hall on three occasions. One was a Mahler 9th performance that is still among the best things I've ever heard live. As for Inbal, I had a ticket to see Thielemann conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in 2001 while I was there on vacation. So...

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I've also seen the majority on your list, but not Brendel. I'm more of a conductor guy anyway. With a few exceptions, I prefer symphonies and tone poems to concertos as far as orchestral genres go. I'll jump in and play this game with conductors. Which from this list have I not seen? Giulini Colin D...

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I'm debating between Pollini and Bernstein and will go with Pollini because for some reason, I don't think you'd have put Lenny on there if you hadn't seen him.

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/16/condoleezza_rice_china_wants_to_shift_the_narrative_on_covid-19_dont_let_them.html (both text and video interview) Condoleezza Rice: China Wants To Shift The Narrative On COVID-19, Don't Let Them TOM GILLIGAN: You were the National Security Advisor ...

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Funny. Like Barney, I just assumed you had seen Ormandy, although it was so obvious in that respect, that I toyed with saying him just because I suspected you figured we wouldn't guess Ormandy. This was sort of like that sports one I did on Facebook that you chimed in on, Henry. It turned out to be ...

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My guess is Ansermet. Although as a psychological second-guesser, I doubt you'd put the odd one out first in your list. But did Ansermet conduct in the US? I also initially thought Ansermet but figured he was an odd name to throw on there if Henry hadn't seen him conduct. I'm almost certain he gues...

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My guess is Ansermet. Although as a psychological second-guesser, I doubt you'd put the odd one out first in your list. But did Ansermet conduct in the US? I also initially thought Ansermet but figured he was an odd name to throw on there if Henry hadn't seen him conduct. I'm almost certain he gues...

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You aren't following his approval ratings very closely if you think they are taking a nose-dive. They have come down from where they were a couple weeks ago, but they are still above where he's been much of his presidency and higher than Obama's at the same juncture in his presidency for most of the...

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It won't be Sawallisch, who was Music Director in Philadelphia for a decade while I'm sure Henry was a subscriber.

I was a huge Sawallisch fan around the turn of the century and attended many of his programs.

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-chinese-communist-partys-culture-of-corruption-and-repression-has/ The Chinese Communist Party’s culture of corruption and repression has cost lives around the world Irwin Cotler is the chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, emeritu...

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https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/powerful-americans-were-catastrophically-wrong-about-china/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=second Powerful Americans Were Catastrophically Wrong about China The bet that the United ...

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""The next day, on Jan. 31, the president declared coronavirus a U.S. public health emergency and issued a travel ban between the United States and China. Campaigning in Iowa that day, Joe Biden criticized Mr. Trump’s China travel ban, saying, “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria a...

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People on your side of the divide tend not to recognize an American Way of Life. That's one of the reasons people on my side find the Democrats so unacceptable. It ties in nicely with what I've been saying in my past few posts. There is a major cultural divide in this country. It's arguably risen to...

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I respect and even like most of them (I have come to mildly dislike Brooks), and don't have a problem with their stance on Trump. For the most part, they're right about him. My only disagreement with them, if there is one (I doubt they'd all be prepared to commit to supporting the Democratic nominee...

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There are exceptions to every rule. Given the size of the country and number of people who don't feel that way, the people you listed are an anomaly, and some of them may not even be conservatives or Republicans (the military generals probably would have served in a Democratic administration if aske...

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Indeed, "fucking moron" seems to be the general consensus today about the current President among thinking conservatives I respect, too many to list here. There really aren't that many. Most of them work for CNN or MSNBC, where they only care about finding people who will push the company narrative...

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Embarrassed at times. But as I've said before, I've never wished for even a fraction of a second that Hillary were president instead. If he's a fucking moron, he's sure lucked into a lot of good decisions. The three guys who preceded him, who I assume are not fucking morons in your eyes, sure look p...

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It's not accurate to say I wished him dead. I merely thought that I wasn't sure how upset I'd be if it happened. The earlier times that I referred to all involved me thinking about him being removed from office via impeachment; not dying. I reserve death-wishes for people like Putin and Kim, and wil...

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At the risk of surprising you, after reading about Boris Johnson's turn for the worse, I gave some thought to the possibility that it could happen to Trump, leading to a President Pence going into the election. My feelings were not all negative. There have been a number of times I've thought that it...

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" “The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil,” Mr. Navarro’s memo said. “This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the...

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I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that many among us (the American people) are to blame for the extent of the problem in the U.S. Not only Trump and other members of coronavirus commission have repeatedly said to stay in and not go anywhere unless absolutely necessary, but every governor in ...

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We obviously disagree about that. I would say religion has very much to do with the matter while accepting that there can be counter factors that are strong enough to off-set some of the impact of the decline in religion's role in a society. That's much more the exception than the rule though. In mo...

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That would be fine if, as was the case for much of our history, we insisted on a level of assimilation that is no longer insisted on. Nineteenth German immigrants wanted to conduct all official business in some of their towns in German. The government wouldn't allow it. Make English the official lan...

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=2ahUKEwiwiYaIl8roAhUml3IEHc6sD3cQFjACegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Fpreprints%2Fsocarxiv%2Fpvwpy%2Fdownload&usg=AOvVaw15Lk-bDYOGmaAmsS7DmF-G (this one from Stanford is a fil...

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our inability to have enough kids to keep our population steady in more recent years (which is the case in almost all nations that have a much lesser role for organized religion than they used to). Poland being one of those exceptions, and a particularly glaring one at that, to such questionable po...

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The thing about organized religion is that it's always easier to pick out negative incidents to hold it up as something bad because the good that comes form organized religion comes more in the form of long-term trends that don't lend themselves to TV news or newspaper coverage. But I would argue th...

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RE:The American Way of Life: I suggest Samuel Huntington's, "Who Are We?"

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Barry, that is a very reasonable answer, thank you. I agree with many of your concerns. My horror of Trump is not necessarily support for Democrats, especially the "woke" ones of the Left who also horrify me. Identity politics is their only game, and it is so destructive. I am fairly socially conse...

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The people on my side of the political divide have been calling out the lack of moral standards in the country for years. For years, I cared about foreign policy more than anything else when it came to choosing candidates and a party. But that has changed in recent years. What's happened to the cult...

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The nation's soul has been severely damaged for a long time. That's why so many of us felt that business as usual (an establishment Democratic candidate who was happy to go along with the cultural changes to the country that have killed that soul) was unacceptable in '16 and still feel that way. It ...

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You seem to be upset that he is going step by step in terms of escalating his special powers. If he had done it all in one massive power-grabbing executive action, you and many of the others who can't say a single positive thing about him would be complaining that he went to fast. MSNBC's Joy Reid:...

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This GOP House member is a lunatic. McCarthy has said he has a way to get around him without requiring Congressional members to return to Washington. He has even united Donald Trump and John Kerry via Twitter. https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/status/1243552337429438464 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTru...

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/26/dr_birx_coronavirus_data_doesnt_match_the_doomsday_media_predictions_or_analysis.html DR. DEBORAH BRIX: I'm sure you have seen the recent report out of the U.K. about them adjusting completely their needs. This is really quite important. If you reme...

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The trend is not going your way. Look, citing trends at this early stage makes one sound a lot like a giddy Hillary Clinton partisan in the last cycle. Sad, sad, sad. I would agree if not for what you and a few others have turned this board into. If you don't want this to be about jumping on any sh...

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Conservatives can also ask leading questions. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/23/fauci_the_response_of_trump_admin_has_been_impressive_i_cant_imagine_anybody_could_be_doing_more.html https://thehill.com/homenews/media/489191-fauci-media-should-stop-pitting-me-against-trump He was als...

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Let's be clear. Trump may have committed an error in judgment by waiting a little longer than he should have to ramp up anti-coronavirus efforts into high gear. But the Chinese Communist Party leadership INTENTIONALLY hid the virus' initial outbreak and then the extent of it from the world and actua...

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In fact, thank God, he had already toughened up border security and brought in the Mexican military to help via negotiations with the Mexican President. The last thing we'd need under the current circumstances would be people flowing across the border unchecked. Even Angela Merkel understands that a...

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Has China learned its lesson from the coronavirus tragedy? Judging by its continued censorship, no Official responses following Li Wenliang’s death show little sign Beijing realises that the muzzling of information has life-and-death consequences for the world. An unrepentant China may leave the wor...

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Yes. You agree with me. Times have changed. I pointed out on Facebook a day or two ago that the days of Trump publicly praising Xi are over. He had his reasons for speaking in positive terms about Xi personally and his relationship with Xi. It was part of his overall strategy for dealing with China,...

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Too bad he started by calling it a hoax. Regards, Len :( This reminds me so much of what this board was like during the Iraq War and why Corlyss, the founder of this board, I and a couple others left. When Bush introduced the surge, none of the liberals on the board would even discuss the merits of...

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On Wednesday, President Trump held another grim press conference to inform the public he was deploying wartime powers to fight the impending coronavirus threat. Several members of the White House press corps responded by squandering what little time available to them by lecturing the president abou...

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None of which alters the fact that we rely on China for much of our life-saving medication and they have threatened to shut that off (in effect, they threatened to kill Americans) in recent weeks. At this point, continuing to rely on them for critical materials would be as nonsensical as relying on ...

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We're not talking about withdraw from the world; only decoupling from China (and I would imagine, consequently, some of its allies).

Surely, in light of what's happening now, you don't think it's a good idea for us to continue to rely on China for crucial goods, including medication?

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The Wuhan Virus and the Imperative of Hard Decoupling By Andrew A. Michta It won’t be easy or painless, but the role China has played in exacerbating the fallout from the coronavirus crisis ought to force Americans to fundamentally reconsider the relationship. I flew back from Washington DC to Munic...

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/20/biased_press_does_chinas_bidding_on_covid-19.html By Mark Hemingway March 20, 2020 Biased Press Does China's Bidding on COVID-19 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) On Wednesday, President Trump held another grim press conference to inform the public he was de...

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Why the hell publish a story with the title: Worst Case Estimates for US Coronavirus What sort of journalism is this? Certainly not responsible in any way ... Thank you. That was my exact reaction when I heard about that at first. There are obviously those who think we should go on with the level o...

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Nobody in their right minds thought we could confront China without some negative blow-back. But it was still the right thing to do. I actually expect one beneficial side effect of the current crisis will be that we will finally acknowledge the need to make our own medicine. The truth is that while ...

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Although it may seem otherwise, as I believe I mentioned on here the other day, I would not call myself a staunch Trump backer. But I also don't hate him and feel obliged to take his side at times, in the interest of balance. In fact, I believe my ideological conversion from Left to Right about the ...

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Trump makes your side look much worse than Trump. Trump stupidly and rashly gave the markets more than 15 hours to stew over why the Fed was acting on a Sunday and to draw the conclusion that things had to be way worse than Trump was letting on in his premature bubbling-over-with irrational-exubera...

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I am no financial expert and don't discount the possibility that I could be wrong, but I have to say the notion that the entire stock market reaction today to the Fed Rate was precipitated by the fact that Trump announced it Sunday instead of allowing it to come out Monday strikes me as nuts. The ec...

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