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Voter suppression / intimidation: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/02/hard-to-vote-states-register-canvas --------------- WAPO May 3: " Our colleague Caroline Kitchener reports this morning on a potential new strategy by antiabortion activists to try to stop women from traveling out of state to end the...

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But back to #1: If this group is so hard to find, it should surprise nobody in the internet age that something has gone amiss. And that's truly unfortunate. Perhaps the problem is with the searcher ? I just Googled " Classical music forums " and Chatterbox here came up as the second result and the ...

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A live performance of Poulenc's magnificent Organ Concerto: Enregistré le 29/02/2024 au Grand Studio, NDR, Hannovre Francis Poulenc - Concerto en sol mineur pour Orgue, Timbales et cordes, FP 93 Jean Langlais - Chromatique, des 7 Etudes de Concert Orgue Anton Bruckner - Symphonie N° 7 en Mi majeur C...

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From STAT News May 3: Vivien Dugan isn’t getting much sleep these days. The director of the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dugan is leading the team of CDC scientists that is working with partners — in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Admin...

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From WAPO May 3 in part: "...Of course, just because milk remains safe to drink doesn’t mean avian flu isn’t a potential threat to human health. I was honored to learn historian John M. Barry, author of the seminal book on the 1918 influenza pandemic, is a Checkup reader. He emailed me to express hi...

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There are little children on Mein Kampus at Sydney University shouting "Intifada" and 'from the river to the sea". That makes their propaganda from the cradle absolutely complete. All thanks to the Left side of politics. Yeah, all the brats: USA Today May 2: A Gallup survey released March 27, a day...

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... Prokofieff’s 5th PC ! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDad8utFQ0O5vEgpvegozjHjgMYSNsAB4 From Pristine Classical: "Born in 1931, Brendel had just turned 20 when he recorded the Prokofiev - an amazing achievement for a young man who had been sent to dig trenches in Yugoslavia at the...

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Lance wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2024 2:50 pm
Interpretively speaking, however, Brendel displayed his talents in a manner more convincing than his later recordings of the same repertoire.

I don’t have the Schubert, but consistent with your observation, his first Beethoven Opa. 110 and 111 also “better” to my ear than his later.

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I have several of his recordings, including mid-‘50s Vox not in very good sound, of studio recordings of “Pictures”, “Islamey” and “Petrushka”,as well as Prokofieff’s 5th PC ! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n2-PjyPABFZsa8kG2tzQKbvkuFfRl0h54 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5u...

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These causes aren't cool or trendy, you see. It's not about concern for Palestinian deaths, it's extending the middle finger to their elders that matters. And it was ever thus. With its support of and arms supply to Israel the US is more directly involved in and complicit in the deaths in Gaza than...

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The Right focuses on campus “ brats” to avoid and distract from the criminal slaughter the Right’s Israeli brothers have unleashed on the children of Gaza.

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And now Steve? What comedies take your attention, and how much time do you give to news? No comedies except for occasionally the opening 5-10 minute monologues of the late Johnny Carson on old "Tonight Show" re-runs carried on one of our local stations now ( Carson was a huge fan, had some of same ...

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From AxiosAm today, Trump's "Mein Kampf" : " What would a second Trump term really look like? You no longer need to guess: Former President Trump has laid out, publicly and unambiguously, designs to stretch traditions, norms and accepted law in historic ways, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write. Why i...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:00 pm
Mein Kampus. Brilliant.

Conveniently ignoring Bibi's "blitzkrieg", unfortunately not a pun.

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Fww, to my ears, her 2nd PC is even more attractive then her 1st, and her 1944 Piano Sonata ( also at YT with Geoffrey Tozer , with a different pianist at Presto ) is the most attractive of the three.

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CR Gazette recently: "I grew up in a Morris County, New Jersey town six decades ago. Dad was a teacher. Grandpa repaired radios. Like our neighbors we lived in an older home affordable on a modest income. Nearby were orchards, vegetable farms, and dairies. It’s gone. For decades politicians and civi...

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Telling ( ? ) photos:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios ... are#story0

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:51 am
I've not been able to find the Tozer recording of her Piano Sonata.

Did find another pianist playing the Sonata and a couple other solo works, but bit steep price for the Sonata alone:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/p ... -new-bells

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Professor Alan Dershowitz refers to all this as "Mein Kampus". And he's nailed it. Of course, usual media attention seeking by a member of Bibi's friend Trump's legal team for Trump's first impeachment. https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-wants-alan-dershowitz-represe...

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Bibi blaming American students for protesting against what his own actions have brought about. Indeed, and while I deplore much of what the protestors have been doing in terms of physical tactics ,eg. causing classes and graduations of other students to be cancelled,buildings occupied/damaged with ...

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More impressive is her Piano Sonata I heard for the first time today as well, inspired by your post, here played by legendary Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer, a work written 1941-44 while the composer’s husband spent 5 1/2 years as a Nazi POW during WW II. At the Sonata YT is a “Composer’s Note” ...

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A wonderful revelatory and ennobling, not the usual rushed , live performance of the Saint-Saens PC # 2 with the Bournemouth Symphony under Andrew Litton,April 10 ,2024 in Poole,UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ygv0

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Two piano concertos by Australian composer Miriam Hyde (1913-2005). Thanks,fbnyc, my first hearing of the composer.While not a purchase, for me, the concertos were quite enjoyable, especially the 2nd. The influences you note, and, to my ear, English and Irish influences as well , reflecting her tim...

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Stand aside Martha,Daniil,Sergey, Benjamin,et.al.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJnPO4abHU

1958 recordings with André Cluytens,ORF, apparently recently re-mastered,the set to have if have none.

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Male violence in OZ ? Surely all lies:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/australi ... index.html

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NYT Newsletter today.Thanks AG Garland. Delay, delay, delay "It now seems likely that Donald Trump will be able to run for president this year without having faced any legal penalties for his effort to overturn the last presidential election. To many of his supporters, of course, this outcome is jus...

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I watched Lucille Ball’s I Love Lucy Show every week for years, along with Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Sid Caesar I used to listen to Caesar's and Benny's show on the radio before we had a TV ( not until about 1956 for us ) usually around our supper table at home with my family on a Sun...

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At YT I think, you may wish to have a listen to Vronsky & Babin, mine their original RCA lp, but it was a re-released on cd I think.Just the 2 Suites, Op.5 and Op.17. Per the liner notes, they played the Op.5 for Rachmaninoff in person at his home in NY,and he had forgotten he had written the work....

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At what House Correspondents Dinner in DC last night per YahooNews: "President Biden covered a lot of the same points when he took the stage, taking care to address concerns about his age and spin it into a weak point against his opponent. “Yes, age is an issue: I’m a grown man running against a 6-y...

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A review of his Carnegie debut February,2024:

https://bachtrack.com/review-yunchan-li ... ruary-2024

Carnegie is already advertising his April, 2025 Carnegie recital, to play Webern’s brief Variations and the “Goldberg” Variations.Tickets on sale in August.

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Deja vu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLg9zQH3vU ( Yes,Prime Minister )

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From news today:

"Columbia University barred from its campus a student leader of the pro-Palestinian protests who said on video that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” The student apologized."

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From what I can tell he appears to have kept his dates with the Baltimore Symphony/Alsop this weekend playing the Rach 2, so it appears his hand/arm problem was resolved.Apparently he was to play 2 nights, but a third night had to be added due to demand.

https://www.bsomusic.org/

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At YT I think, you may wish to have a listen to Vronsky & Babin, mine their original RCA lp, but it was a re-released on cd I think.Just the 2 Suites, Op.5 and Op.17.

Per the liner notes, they played the Op.5 for Rachmaninoff in person at his home in NY,and he had forgotten he had written the work.

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Today I heard her recordings of 3 of my fav Beethoven Sonatas,Nos.25,31 and 11 on YT and agree very impressive. I'm not in the market to add another complete set, but may consider a FLAC download of a couple. The entire set is at YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHT9DqzyYLk&list=PL4D14bmfCxVU10m...

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Joseph Stiglitz and the Meaning of Freedom The famous liberal economist wants to take back the language of liberty from the right. By John Cassidy April 25, 2024 In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, when there was no vaccine in sight and more than a thousand people who had contracted the viru...

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Thanks for that,maestrob. From LA Times today: " I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is...

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Yes, but I'm unfamiliar with Tamami Honma 's work. Dare I go for it? (I said no more Beethoven 32s ... but you know what happens.). Indeed, the Annie Fischer/Hungaroton set [41003, nine CDs] is a must-have. I read, somewhere, that it wasn't released until after she passed away because she was not h...

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Every adult should know that and act on the basis that sexual predation is a possibility. .... Perhaps you don't think women HAVE responsibilities???!!! What a perverse , degrading view of women , that women must and should have to live their lives constantly on the lookout for efforts of sexual pr...

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https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dail ... =TNY_Humor

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Yunchan Lim takes on the Beethoven PC # 4 Nov.15,2023 with Munich Phil.,Myung-Whun Chung conductor, Nov.15,2023 in Munich, and he handles the challenges quite well.I especially liked the first mov. cadenza and final mov., but a fine performance throughout belying his age. What message did Chung give...

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From "Men Yell At Me" today: "This week, hundreds of college students at universities across the United States set up tent settlements on their campuses to protest the ongoing war in Gaza. In response, free speech absolutists like Caitlin Flanagan and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, “f... them kids.” I...

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From NYT today : The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Julia Bergin, a reporter based in the Northern Territory. Ron Noll was known for riding his Harley-Davidson motorbike in flip-flops, or thongs as they are known here, preferring th...

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But the ploy of shaming the victims who had the courage to testify against this monster will not alter the fact that he remains a convicted rapist in another state. #MeToo Matters The facts, as usual ignored here, are that No One found that any of the victims were lying , the appeals court simply r...

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STAT News today: EXCLUSIVE Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread By Megan Molteni April 25, 2024 Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in m...

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What does suprise me is the number of Republicans on this panel. Does the US have a system to examine these measures that doesn't involve politicians? If not, can you trust the end results? The House is controlled by GOP , thus the number.The GOP panel head: “Retirement from public service does not...

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A wonderfully fresh, enthusiastic, virtuosic live reading of Prokofieff's mighty 5th Symphony by Britain's National Youth Orchestra April 14, 2024 in London. Good to see CM in such good young hands: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y97c A day earlier on BBCR3 is a live March 2,2024 performance ...

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Seems we may have learned little from the COVID pandemic , and no doubt the anti-vaxers,anti-mandaters,conspiricists will come out from under their rocks again.From WAPO today: " ...New this a.m.: Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an out...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:33 pm

The full NPR interview with Berman:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1246297603

As I suggested earlier,Barney.

The interview is actually a bit terrifying if Berman is accurate, which seems he is.

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I will want to obtain a new book coming out this week, “ Minority Rule” by one Ari Berman.Heard him interviewed on NPR about the book. Factoids he mentioned: By 2040, 70% of the US population will live in just 15 of the States,which States will have 30 of the 100 US Senators. Presently, California ...

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