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More fine playing from the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition winner. Enregistré le 28/03/2022 à Flagey, Bruxelles Franz Liszt - Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, Prélude d'après J. S. Bach, S.179 - Les Années de Pèlerinage - Italie : Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, S. 161 - Abschied, S.251 - La Lugubre Gondola I...

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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F1F-cx3YL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg The above excellent CD of conductor John Wilson's latest take on Ravel may lack the ultimate French atmosphere of Jean Martinon's set for EMI, and even Andre Previn's crystal-clear "Ma mere l'oye" on Pittsburgh, but it is a ...

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Seán wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:00 am
I have ordered the Vox Box 2 CD set of all of the Chavez symphonies with Eduardo Mata conducting the London Symphony Orchestra

Congratulations, Sean. You have many hours of excellent listening ahead!

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Lack of collegiality on the SCOTUS is at an all time high, I'd wager.

Tough on those of us in the majority.

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:58 pm
Fww, I acquired from Presto an mp3 download of her Op.24 Piano Trio, same recording as the YT.

Excellent music Steve! Thanks for the discovery. I'll be checking out other CDs of her music on Spotify.

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This set is currently sitting in my JPC.de basket, it is available for €4.99 and I do like all of the excerpts that I have listened to so far. I am going to buy it. https://media1.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0047163506123.jpg That's the one, Sean! Grab it while you can! :D I can also recommend the 8C...

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June 25, 2022 By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. The Supreme Court this week embraced a vision of the Second Amendment that is profound...

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Demand for medication abortion is surging, setting the stage for new legal battles. By Pam Belluck June 26, 2022 Updated 9:18 a.m. ET In the hours after the Supreme Court released its decision overturning the legal right to abortion in the United States, nearly 100 requests for appointments flowed ...

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Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:30 am

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Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:04 am
So does that mean that America's women have all just been varicated?
As George Wallace once proclaimed: Patriarchy now! patriarchy tomorrow! patriarchy forever! Or words to that effect.

Some effect!

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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally now has a place of power in the political establishment and a chance to prove itself in the eyes of voters. By Aurelien Breeden and Constant Méheut June 26, 2022 Updated 7:18 a.m. ET PARIS — In 2017, after the far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her allies won only a h...

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With THC levels close to 100 percent, today’s cannabis products are making some teenagers highly dependent and dangerously ill. By Christina Caron June 23, 2022 Elysse was 14 when she first started vaping cannabis. It didn’t smell, which made it easy to hide from her parents. And it was convenient ...

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Trust the liberal justices: Dobbs puts many other rights in grave and immediate jeopardy.
BY MARK JOSEPH STERN
JUNE 24, 20221:41

Slate Magazine article here:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... ality.html

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June 26, 2022 Michelle Goodwin Ms. Goodwin is a chancellor’s professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and author of “Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.” Black women’s sexual subordination and forced pregnancies were foundational to slavery. If ...

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June 26, 2022, 6:00 a.m. ET By Pamela Paul Opinion Columnist As the Fourth of July looms with its flags and its barbecues and its full-throated patriotism, I find myself mulling over the idea of American exceptionalism. What, if anything, makes this country different from other countries, or from th...

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The right-wing majority’s selective application of history reveals the larger fraud in this pair of landmark rulings: Their reasoning is not legal but political, not principled but partisan.

Ruth Marcus said it so well.

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Is America Falling Behind?

Undoubtedly.

We are ruled more and more by a hysterical, anti-democracy minority that wants to take away hard-earned rights of the majority.

The resulting hostility is trashing the American experiment.

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Yes, Alito made up his mind first time he read Roe v.Wade, as did the other 5, and then all lied at their confirmation hearings and in Senators' offices. Gentlemen and ladies don’t lie under oath, they prevaricate. Oh! :o So does that mean that America's women have all just been varicated? :roll: :...

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Len, I agree it was too hot to spend more than a short time outdoors yesterday, so we stayed in also. Carlyle Floyd's Susannah is a masterpiece IMHO. and I've worked on "Ain't it a Pretty Night" with several sopranos. We also saw the MET production in 1999 with Fleming/Hadley/Conlon, and I was delig...

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By overturning Roe v. Wade, Dobbs is sure to go down as one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions, undoing a constitutional right that’s been in place for nearly half a century and delivering a decisive victory to the anti-abortion movement. As people try to make sense of this moment, we...

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That's a performance I would have given my eye teeth to attend!

There's no question that Muti is a great Verdi conductor.

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June 25, 2022 By Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith Ms. Warren is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. Ms. Smith is a Democratic senator from Minnesota — and the only senator to have worked at Planned Parenthood. The Supreme Court has spoken: Roe is gone. But the Supreme Court doesn’t get the final...

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This is a decision in search of an opinion. Yes, Alito made up his mind first time he read Roe v.Wade, as did the other 5, and then all lied at their confirmation hearings and in Senators' offices. Indeed. The Right lost any sense of honor when Ronald Reagan repudiated his California pro-choice bil...

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June 24, 2022 By Mary Ziegler Mary Ziegler is the author of “Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment.” The anti-abortion movement has long argued that reversing Roe v. Wade would strengthen American democracy. Roe, the argument goes, short-circuited ...

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June 25, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — “What is happening here?” a distraught Nancy Pelosi said on Friday. It’s a good question and I can answer it, because I was there at the start of the corrosive chain of events that led to women losing control of their own bod...

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In short, this is the same Alito who agreed in the Citizens United case that corporations cannot be limited in the amount of money they are permitted to spend on campaign contributions, but now holds women can be limited in what they are permitted do with their bodies pre-viability.He regards himse...

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The Rachel Maddow Show, June 24, 2022 (complete)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9cXnBfDzsY

One protester seen in Washington Square last night carried a sign reading:

"The Handmaid's Tale is not an instruction manual."

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More whining. Never ends. Meanwhile "there are some signs of progress" - women hold 61% of administrative positions. Why is that a good thing? Or a bad thing? If women are better than men (or trans or whatever) by 3 to 2, then that is absolutely fair. Presumably the companies concerned appointed wh...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW8KPvmbl0A

Enjoy!

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Fascinating, Len. Thanks for posting this. Not sure if I'm in the market for these (I have plenty of Ellington's own recordings, along with jazz greats Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy.), but I'm glad to know that these important works haven't been forgotten.

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OMG Neil! What a saga! As Barney said, thank God you've still got all your marbles. All those treasured recordings gone! I do hope you can figure out how to work with Spotify on your computer. It's not the same as holding a treasured recording in your hands, but the sound is very good and they have ...

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Streamed it earlier today. Fabulous playing for a 22-year-old. The vinyl noise didn’t interfere with my enjoyment. Quite agree. Just finished hearing, and I noticed some interesting differences from his Decca LP, most notably in the intriguing and very effective shaping of the "Aolian Harp" etude. ...

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The British documentary producer who interviewed, filmed Trump before and after Jan.6 I believe has testified behind closed door to Congress, and said on NPR radio this am, that he believes Trump actually believed the garbage he was being fed about stolen election, and presumably still does. That m...

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June 23, 2022 By Aaron Tang Mr. Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and a former law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. What a week so far for conservatives. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that prohibited religious private schools from receiving taxp...

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June 24, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET By Richard L. Hasen Mr. Hasen is the author of several books about elections and democracy. In 2020, he proposed a 28th amendment to the Constitution to defend and expand voting rights. In a 2019 ruling requiring the former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify at a c...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f92pYZYGfc

Enjoy!

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June 23, 2022, 1:01 p.m. ETJune 23, 2022 Alan Feuer, Adam Goldman and Maggie Haberman Federal investigators carried out an early-morning search on Wednesday at the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, in connection with the department’s sprawling criminal inquiry into efforts...

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After some restrictions on gun permits were deemed unconstitutional, legislators announced plans to craft new laws that honor the ruling while still creating limits. By Eric Lipton, Shawn Hubler, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Serge F. Kovaleski June 24, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Tens of millions of America...

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COMMENT: Too little, too late! The compromise, the product of an intense round of talks between a small group of Democrats and Republicans, omits many of the sweeping gun control measures that Democrats and activists have long called for. Toiling to keep Republicans on board, Democrats left out the...

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In case you missed it, this week Iowa’s Trump suckup Gov.Reynolds signed a new Iowa law permitting AR-15’s to be used in deer hunting.The previous black powder, bow and arrow, rifle, and shotgun seasons not enough apparently, perhaps because Iowans ( thankfully) are such poor shots ? We’re not Texa...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:50 am
They ARE stupid, even for Deplorables.

Just look at the PR hits they’re taking from the Cheney CMTE, with no leverage to respond, thanks to Kevin McCarthy.

Responding to what's real with QAnon and Jewish space lasers would only make them look even more ridiculous, don'tcha think?

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Ashkenazy in his salad days. Chopin Etudes op. 10 & 25 Melodiya/Bruno LPs. https://archive.org/details/lp_etudes-opus-10-25-complete-best-interpret_vladimir-ashkenazy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52169276203_b666e2b4e5_o.jpg Very interesting, Joe! Of course I have his London/Decca CD of thes...

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Elza van den Heever as Senta I would pay good money to hear Elza van der Heever, as I hear she's the real deal. Brian we paid good money to hear her at the Met and she was very good indeed-Maria Stuarda as Elisabetta (Queen Elizabeth I)! Regards, Len Yes, I have that on DVD, IIRC from the telecast....

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June 22, 2022 By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist This past weekend, the Republican Party in Texas voted on an outrageous platform that not only denies the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also rejects gay marriage and seeks to “protect” minors until they turn 17 against “predatory se...

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The Supreme Court struck down New York state’s system for issuing concealed weapons permits, ruling that the century-old law requiring that applicants demonstrate “proper cause” and “good moral character” violates the Second Amendment. Read the decision here: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docum...

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This only proves my theory that the entire Trump wing of the Republican party is toxic now.

I predict that the vast majority of them will be defeated in November. The "ick" factor is just too strong. I just cannot imagine Dr. Oz going to Congress.

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Ric, that cadence was originally developed, I believe, for use in large spaces, where echoes had to fade away, and was later adapted to microphones when they were invented. Our President uses it, as does the former guy, although I'll be damned if I'll listen to the latter.

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Henri Sauguet (1901-1989): Les Forains, balletto (1945) -- Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux diretta da Henri Sauguet (1963) -- I. Prologue: tempo di marcia allegro II. Entrée des Forains: mouvement de valse III. Exercises: quasi adagio IV: Parade: tempo di marcia allegro V. La Repré...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fC3JqGVzQ

Enjoy!

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Great! Thanks!

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