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My niece and her daughters have a Nook and like it very much; its advantage for them over the Kindle is that it does color, essential in children's books. For me the Kindle Paperwhite model, backlit, is superior because with it I can download New York Public Library's ebooks for free; they don't do...

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Well I got the same thing. I tried hard to get a link to the original article. Maybe one of our geniuses can figure this out, but otherwise I suppose it is a dead thread.

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l don't know whether or not this, which I picked up from Facebook, will come across as a successful link or not, nor have I the competence to comment on it, but I thought people might find it interesting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11188226/Violin-teacher-Suzuki-is-the-big...

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Well of course Chopin also wrote songs, and I don't mean juvenilia. The person known to Garrett (IcedNote) and myself was something of a prodigy and his first love as a boy was Chopin. He played everything by him, but his greatest regret was that he could not understand the Polish, which of course n...

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:57 pm

Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:55 pm
For some reason I can never see any of the links you post. It's just a large blank section in the box.
I'm sorry. I don't know what to do to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0

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Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:55 pm
For some reason I can never see any of the links you post. It's just a large blank section in the box.

I'm sorry. I don't know what to do to help.

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John F wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:27 pm
My copy is on the way from Barnes & Noble.

Fortunately, I own a Nook, which is Barnes & Nobles superior answer to the Kindle. Therefore I just downloaded it.

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No influence from Schubert's Erlkönig there, or anything. :roll: Wolf was one of the last composers I came to terms with. Lieder singers have always loved him, but for a long time I found his settings a bit arbitrary, and then there's the matter that (a) he detested Brahms, who had snubbed him and (...

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If you love lieder, you must explore Richard Strauss's songs, especially on these two albums: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vJ4zWDzXL._AC_US327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aZclAAw%2BL._SS500.jpg There is also a disc by Margaret Price out ...

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As a theologian, back in days of old, Ratzinger was considered liberal. I liked him before he became J-P's hatchet man. As pope, though, I thought highly of him. Two of my teachers appeared to speak Latin fluently and two more came pretty close. All four were excellent teachers. Latin was my favori...

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A sadly neglected art. You will never hear Lieder on even the most sophisticated classical channel. There are singers who would wish to devote their lives to it, but they also have to eat every day. Webern and Berg were both pupils of Schoenberg, and he wrote about how difficult it was to convince o...

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Actually I ended up being an admirer of Ratzinger if only because of his intellect. Unlike JP II but like Paul VI he never disciplined the odd unruly theologian. Indeed, as a peritus (expert) at Vatican II he maintained friendships with some of them. Then there was his musical interest, and the fact...

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I think this is much the superior (Scottish) song than the cliched (Irish) "Danny Boy" - in this case, sung magnificently by James Dunn as part of a devastating performance in " A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". A remarkable film. Ergo, I can't understand why Renee Fleming would bother with "Danny Boy"!! ...

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Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:09 am

jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:05 am
Oh really? Does your wife always let you have the last word?
“With people. . . who seek only division . . . even within the family — silence, prayer” is the path to take. —mi compadre, Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Who like myself has only one living sister to name as proper family.

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:22 pm
On that we can agree. I'm a big fan of marriage me own self.

Oh really? Does your wife always let you have the last word?

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The key phrase in this post is "raised millions." Ever been to Vatican City or St. Peter's? It takes millions every year just to keep the place going, and it does not come from taxing surrounding Italy. That is possibly one reason why Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, also an offender in this way, was gi...

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When I told my wife about the Clinton chewing gum caper , she pointed out that that GOP rascal, G.W. Bush was handing out mints to Michelle that he had got from Laura. My wife, you see, doesn't like Republicans one single bit. She votes a straight Democratic ticket and she always votes twice (once ...

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Referring to jserraglio's previous post, schism is the norm in Christianity. (Actually heresy is the norm, but let's not go there.) I'm sure I don't have to tell j that the last important schism involved the definition of papal infalibility by the First Vatican Council. Many bishops actually voted a...

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Here is the entire ceremony on tape. The Queen of England will not have so fine a ceremony when she goes. As our local expert on such matters I could explain everything, but choose not to bore you with that unless someone has a specific question. My only question is why Bill Clinton is chewing gum d...

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Vigano is out-and-out lying. If I were a betting man, I would bet on it. I am no particular fan of Francis, you know. His willingness to concede to church tradition in terms of married priests, female priests, and sexual morality when he could change these things with a stroke of the pen makes me ha...

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Len, for years and years I have run the free Awesome Duplicate Remover without any problems. I have never had to reload it or update it, and it is awesome in its ability to find duplicate photos, of which I have many thousands that I would never have a need to bring up here. Just pull and drag your ...

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None of this requires the resignation of a pope. There is nothing new in an offender being "sentenced" to spend the rest of his life in quiet monastic retirement. Consider the following case: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/22/nyregion/quiet-fields-father-ritter-found-his-exile-after-scandal-covenan...

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Those who have never been to the National Cathedral as I have been may not know that while it is not St. Peter's, it is the largest true Gothic cathedral in the world and presents numerous acoustic difficulties. I suppose it would be niggardly of me to deny McCain his wish to have a secular song per...

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People wrote for the Voice without any pay just for the privilege. A journalistic disaster if ever there was one.

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Poppeia, as I have posted before but it has been very long, is an extremely difficult opera. It is a tribute to Len and Sue that they can appreciate it at all. It is essentially a musical setting of a play without formal arias, etc. It is radically different from Monteverdi's Orfeo, the first import...

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Lance will be fantastically interested in this, but I am reminded of the tour I once took of the Adams property in Braintree, MA. Astonishingly, the Boston Post Road runs right by the property exactly as it did in the 18th century, but my main point involves the Adams home, which was home to both Jo...

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Look at it this way: Perhaps it will start a tango craze in New York. Worse things have happened. I don't know about that or this one either--AS ONE"-at least these clips have surtitles! BTW we once caught tango classes going on at the Chelsea Market in Manhattan--can't find the photos I took. Rega...

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I happened to be living in Washington DC in 1961 when I was six years old, when my father was stationed with the US Air Force Band at Bolling AFB. I remember resenting my parents for absenting us from the inauguration, which was less than two miles away, and having instead to watch it on TV. I did n...

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One of those things I just stumbled on. I think they are lip-synching to a studio recording, but that does not change the fact that such close harmony is incredibly difficult. Back in Maryland, I attended a talent show put on by my church, where I got to rise to the microphone to say "Yes" in Sandma...

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By Byron, who was au fond homosexual. She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron (George Gordon) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denie...

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We in the US should be so lucky. On the other hand, maybe we've got what we deserve. As I posted once on Facebook, those who voted for Trump are getting what they deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us are also getting what they deserve. (I think that Switzerland is the only country in the world wi...

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The Next Generation was the last Star Trek Series that I watched religiously every week. One must understand that the world waited for what seemed like centuries for this elongated sequel to the classic series. Now look at what happened to all the actors. They are almost all older than I. As Data sa...

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Pocket is the default system for sorting bookmarks on Windows 10. I didn't sign up for it. It just shows itself.

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I have zero interest in Cher. However, I will admit a guilty pleasure in the following, and you must endure a few moments before you hear the 50th anniversary of this song.

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I don't know what algorithm pocket uses, but they've got me nailed pretty good, and sometimes I don't know why or how. I avoid many of their suggestions not because they are irrelevant, but because they are disturbingly relevant, and I am only human and cannot tolerate the torture. Here is a very re...

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I also read Kim but the work is best honored in the classic film of 1950 starring Errol Flynn and the young Dean Stockwell. There are numerous authors who are better served by films than by the reading, including, unfortunately, Dickens. Thomas Hardy was one of the two or three greatest English poet...

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George Herbert Easter Wings ". . . With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously . . ." https://tinyurl.com/y8hs59eq I don't know what prompted that, but T.S. Eliot thought George Herbert not a minor poet. He did not give titles to his own devotional poetry, but the title of the famous original St...

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We have yet to come upon the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day (November 11, 1918). I expect that it will barely be observed, though it remains one of the most important dates in history. Turning it into Veterans Day in the US does not do the trick, for we already have a day to honor the fallen. Bu...

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I'm still getting over what follows, which I heard live at Tanglewood several years ago. There are several things going on here. First, some composers were if not exactly one-hit wonders, then close to that. Dvorak and Sibelius both wrote horridly mediocre works in their alleged maturity along with ...

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The Man Who Took On the Pope: The Story Behind the Viganò Letter By Jason Horowitz Aug. 28, 2018 ROME — At 9:30 a.m. last Wednesday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò showed up at the Rome apartment of a conservative Vatican reporter with a simple clerical collar, a Rocky Mountains baseball cap and an e...

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This looks back to the time when City Opera's seasons included several contemporary American operas including one premiere. Some of these went on to be recorded and produced by other opera companies. But even then, City Opera balanced its seasons with standard repertoire, "Carmen" and "La Traviata,...

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I guess niche City Opera is better than no City Opera at all. I don't believe in Karma. I believe in the greatest city in the world having two major opera companies like its main European rivals. But there it is.

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Will this stuff never end? Have many of Daniels' recordings. No doubt this will cut his career short. I realize that it is irrelevant, but male altos, counter-tenors, whatever you want to call them, necessarily have short careers to begin with. Men cannot carry a head tone or falsetto much into mid...

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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 ch...

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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 t...

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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 Evidently the first Protestants did not understand tha...

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It has been said that one of the reasons Francis can't make the headway he would like to is because he has enemies but does not necessarily know who they are. If I were to speculate, but I imagine I am not far off the mark, one has now revealed himself, and for entirely church-political reasons havi...

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There's an Opera Delaware?

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I realize that this is all translation, but the level of erudition of Liszt's prose is beyond belief. This from a man who once said that he had no real native language. (Yes, I know he was Hungarian, but you get the point.)

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When I was teaching in Maryland, someone from outside the school was trying to start a rugby club. It did not fly within the school, probably because rugby has little in the way of protective equipment. We played intramural flag football. Best practice was to shred the flags into thin strips and ti...

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