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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 54
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Hogs in Alice Springs
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4
Hogs in Alice Springs
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another set-back for #Metoo
- Replies: 4
- Views: 80
Re: Another set-back for #Metoo
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 63
Re: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
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...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
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 ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 359
Re: New US civil war film
The interview is actually a bit terrifying if Berman is accurate, which seems he is.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.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 359
Re: New US civil war film
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 ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 359
Re: New US civil war film
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 h...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
Sheku Kanneh - Mason playing Weinberg's great Cello Concerto with Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool in Liverpool April 4 :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9vc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9vc
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New US civil war film
- Replies: 10
- Views: 359
Re: New US civil war film
The impact of technology, let alone the coming AI, on the culture: From AxiosMacro April 22: “Flashback: Acemoglu pointed to the late 1970s, when automation hit America's factories in a way that reshaped the industrial landscape. "People from Silicon Valley, journalists and some economists might be ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Alexander Tharaud live in London, April 22,2024
- Replies: 1
- Views: 47
Alexander Tharaud live in London, April 22,2024
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, April 22,2024. The selection of Couperin here was not, for me, very attractive music .The Satie “Avant” and “Je” were first hearings for me,"Je" very enjoyable.. His arrangement of “ La Valse” for me suffered from being tarted-up by excessive added virtuoso displays a...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andrew Davis RIP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 172
Re: Andrew Davis RIP
Lebrecht's ode: SIR ANDREW DAVIS AND THE SNOBS Norman Lebrecht April 22, 2024 The composer Michael Tippett referred to him as ‘the other Davis’ – that is, not Sir Colin. Covent Garden never considered him a candidate to succeed his namesake. He was not appointed Generalmusikdirektor of any holy Germ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119746
Re: Some mirth
UKRAINE (The Borowitz ReportApril22)—After six months of what seemed at times an unwinnable battle, on Saturday the Ukrainian army scored a stunning victory over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Jubilant Ukrainian soldiers cheered as news spread that their despised foe from Georgia’s 14th congressional ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Toscanini live in London,1952
- Replies: 2
- Views: 78
Toscanini live in London,1952
I heard only the 3rd, my fav Brahms symphony. A rather relaxed reading here (? ) I think , compared to my recording by William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony, but I'll defer to the symphonists here: Enregistré le 1/10/1952 au Royal Festival Hall, Londres Johannes Brahms - Symphonie n°3...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Live: Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 With the Leningrad Philharmonic 1960 (BBC)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 99
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
Carolus Antonius Fodor (1768-1846) - Simphonie à grand orchestre (c.1805) NetherIands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Hаlsstеаd (conductor) Interesting throughout, pleasant, if a one-hear.Reminiscent of late Mozart with a touch of early Beethoven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGvkFJHLjM (Audio ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Severin von Eckardstein's new cd
- Replies: 15
- Views: 771
Re: Pianist Severin von Eckardstein's new cd
A final suggestion if you are a Prokofieff fan, the "War" Sonatas, of which I have heard only the 6th from his 2021 cd so far, and it's revelatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6dKBzG ... Nw&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6dKBzG ... Nw&index=1
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119746
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Thomas Friedman — What Israel Needs to Do Now
- Replies: 5
- Views: 549
Re: Thomas Friedman — What Israel Needs to Do Now
And not just Israel. As usual, an insightful op ed from New Yorker's David Remnick today: The War Games of Israel and Iran While Netanyahu and the Islamic Republic exchange ballistic “messages,” the question of Palestine demands the moral and strategic courage of actual statesmen. By David Remnick A...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 176
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
Agreed. Reasonable accommodations need to be made for trans , but also by trans.david johnson wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:24 amNo! Your dressing room should be determined by your plumbing.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
Martha Argerich and Evgeni Bozhanov play the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, live video,Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra , conductor Naiden Todorov , March 25,2021, in Sofia I suspect. One of my fav PC’s and Bozhanov a pianist I've followed since 2009:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbDM7GKA30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbDM7GKA30
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119746
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: NICHOLAS KRISTOF: What Happened to the Joe Biden I Knew?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 93
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
A recent live performance of Mozart's PC #20,K.466, effectively scored for piano and string quintet ( arranged by Mozart or whom not identified ), and the quartet also plays Beethoven's great Op.95 String Quartet, for me possibly his most effective quartet , would be great to hear a paired performan...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My midday late breakfast today at IHOP: a story
- Replies: 6
- Views: 140
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 799
- Views: 192483
Re: TrumpReich in action
From Axios today, the Confederates rise again: "The UAW on Thursday secured a federally sanctioned unionization vote for workers at the 6,100-person Mercedes-Benz factory in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Pharmacists at multiple CVS stores are moving to join a new union as part of a growing backlash to...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts Fox lie about criminal case jury pool
- Replies: 4
- Views: 121
Re: A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts Fox lie about criminal case jury pool
From AxiosPm today: "One of the first jurors seated in former President Trump's historic criminal trial was dismissed Thursday after expressing concerns about being publicly identified. Why it matters: With the People of New York v. Trump set to be one of the most high-profile and politically charge...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pianist Severin von Eckardstein's new cd
- Replies: 15
- Views: 771
Re: Pianist Severin von Eckardstein's new cd
An interesting new find with pianist Severin von Eckardstein . His extraordinary realization of the epic Sonata " Ballada" , Op.27 by Nikolai Medtner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Df-0z0EtHA&list=PL_qnZP9dy-CY5MV2TCwRRBkhIyfweU6uu&index=29 (Mov.1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI5fArOtV34 (Mo...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Horowitz in Vienna, 1987 and Moscow, 1986 (re-mastered)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 175
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 925
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
A recent Brookings study per Axios:
" ...The paper compared poverty reduction efforts in the U.S. to other countries including Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands, and found that the U.S. is the only one where working full-time at minimum wage doesn't lift you above the poverty line..."
" ...The paper compared poverty reduction efforts in the U.S. to other countries including Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands, and found that the U.S. is the only one where working full-time at minimum wage doesn't lift you above the poverty line..."
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts Fox lie about criminal case jury pool
- Replies: 4
- Views: 121
Re: A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts Fox lie about criminal case jury pool
IMHO, Trump should be held in contempt, and held in Rikers Island every night of the trial, released only during the day to attend trial, and during trial breaks be in custody of his lawyers and/or officers with no ability to post anything anywhere. Those like Watters should be investigated by a gra...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 233
Re: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Fww, I thought this recital lived up to Hadelich's excellent reputation.Weiss is quite an accomplished, well-regarded pianist in his own right.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Audience behaviors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 139
Audience behaviors
In Britain no less,From SlippedDisk today: TENOR STOPS MID-CONCERT TO DENOUNCE NEW BIRMINGHAM RULES ORCHESTRAS Norman Lebrecht April 18, 2024 The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham last night by stopping after the third song in Britten’s Les Illuminations to denounce the CBSO’s new...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
Some great live and all very recent concerts this past couple days on Dutch Radio 4 and Radio Belgium . On Radio 4, Pletnev playing Rach 3, Viotti conducting Mahler 9 ( Viotti presumably dressed), Weesp Chamber Festival with Dvorak’s “American” Quartet and Korngold’s Suite for Piano Left Hand,Two Vi...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 233
Re: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Fww, I had to miss the real time live stream April 16 as we had a tornado storm scare here at the time, but have discovered it is archived, at least for some time, and can be watched now which I am planning to do right now: https://theviolinchannel.com/vc-live-vc-artist-augustin-hadelich-from-the-ya...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lehrmann vs Higgins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Re: Lehrmann vs Higgins
Do be aware that a civil finding is nothing like a criminal conviction. Law 101. The Judge said she might have been lying because she was 'trying to process' what had happened to her. 101, precisely why I noted the Judge said it was " likely " , not that he said " beyond a reasonable doubt." He did...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lehrmann vs Higgins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Re: Lehrmann vs Higgins
Oh, that's very funny!! A biased left wing organization prints something to cover its own backside when they were part of the "get Morrison" brigade!! What is funny is the near-total avoidance,discussion, of the fact the Judge ( not a biased leftwing organization) has found and reasoned, rather con...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lehrmann vs Higgins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Lehrmann vs Higgins
Judge says likely Higgins was raped in Parliament:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103706656
A more balanced account than appearing in some other reports here.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/ ... /103706656
A more balanced account than appearing in some other reports here.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3149
- Views: 1958685
Re: What I listened to today
Guilty pleasures of mine.Sound not the best on these , but listenable. Sergei Bortkiewicz’ Piano Concerto No.2 for Left Hand , Op.28, live video,Academic Symphony Orchestra "Philharmonia" Chernigiv,Ukraine (date ?) Nadejda Vlaeva - piano Mykola Sukach-conductor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgQho...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Some mirth
- Replies: 224
- Views: 119746
Re: Some mirth
Topics for your Bible study group from New Yorker today: The relationship between a parent and a child can be a tricky one. Have your parents ever bound you to an altar—as Abraham did to Isaac—ignoring your pleas for mercy and fully intent on sacrificing you, only to abandon their plan at the appear...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: NYT Review of René Fleming's Strauss in Atlanta, Ga.`
- Replies: 2
- Views: 162
Re: NYT Review of René Fleming's Strauss in Atlanta, Ga.`
Atlanta Journal Constitution mostly behind a paywall , but it appears your sister’s assessment was correct, and what can be read says orchestra too loud:
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlant ... W2NDDCYSQ/
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlant ... W2NDDCYSQ/
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 925
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
- Replies: 7
- Views: 233
Augustin Hadelich free live-stream recital April 16
Tomorrow night,Tues. April 16, 7:30pm EDT (US) , free, with pianist Orion Weiss: https://theviolinchannel.com/vc-live-vc-artist-augustin-hadelich-from-the-yale-school-of-music/ Program S. Prokofiev Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 Amy Beach Romance, Op. 23 E. Ysaÿe Sonata in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3, “...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 925
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=30275696...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: An interview with Sir Antonio Pappano
- Replies: 0
- Views: 133
An interview with Sir Antonio Pappano
Absolutely wonderful 45 minutes , “This Cultural Life”, BBC Radio 3, April 11:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yb9l
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yb9l
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 213
Re: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
You can hear the whole thing here (tracks 10-13). I was just linking to the really difficult parts. https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6367/ Heard first time today, enjoyed more than any Sorabji I've heard, and will re-hear yours. For the other CMGers here, a link to the Sonata is below, may h...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 213
Re: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
Are the other 2 movements at YT ? TIA.diegobueno wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:02 amMaybe that's the problem. Maybe I need to make it the first part of a long cycle of monstrously difficult piano sonatas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_UrsMxcEDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZ3u2rTtk0
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
- Replies: 3
- Views: 182
Re: The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
Not to mention Hitchens would have drunk Buckley under the table.Perhaps Buckley knew. I saw Buckley live give a talk in 1971 at Ripon College in our Wisconsin, and have his book, "The Jewelers Eye". He had numerous debates with famous lefty professor Noam Chomsky, on YT.Chomsky usually got the bett...