All of his Ravel was excellent. I would add his recording of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Berlioz. Also, his Mahler seems to be under appreciated.
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All of his Ravel was excellent. I would add his recording of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Berlioz. Also, his Mahler seems to be under appreciated.
Thanks, I hope you’re able to find some relief.
I’m sorry that this has happened to you. I’m a two time cancer survivor. The first was a very rare form of the disease and the only reason I’m still here is an experimental treatment, a product of NIH research. They’re actually killing people here, and people need to know what’s actually going on.
I’m sure Trump will now follow court rulings as always and immediately rescind all tariffs.
Where in the world do these self-important lightweights get the idea anyone cares what they think? Particularly organizations in other countries, particularly those well known for their successful practices. The arrogant ignorance and hubris is astounding.
There will be an accounting one day for these cowardly sycophants. It won’t be as soon as we would like, but history shows their crash to be inevitable. Authoritarianism always ends badly for the authoritarians.
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Today’s lunch, Algarve style tuna steak with potatoes and beverage.
The nazis had gas chambers, today’s authoritarian GOP uses quackery and lack of access to real healthcare. The result is the same.
I’m old enough to remember when Medvedev was thought to be a voice for moderation.
This doesn’t end the way they think. Trump needs to be told about how Hitler, Mussolini, the Ceausescus, Sadaam Hussein, and countless other authoritarians met their ends. Because he’s ignorant he may not know. The underlings should consider the Nuremberg trials. There will be an accounting.
When the time is right it could still work out.
They have been very welcoming to this foreigner. My Portuguese language skills are minimal but I have found so many ‘tutors’ at the grocery stores or restaurants willing to help me. They are absolutely still kind.
We love Porto, but we live in the Algarve. It’s a wonderful place, isn’t it?
There was once a guy named Dwight Eisenhower who mentioned the danger of the military/industrial complex. Drones apparently aren’t as profitable as planes, tanks, submarines, or aircraft carriers.
I moved from the United States to Portugal. The peace and humanity I have experienced here make returning to the United States permanently impossible. I will visit friends and relatives occasionally, but the country is now a lost cause.
I miss the days when shameless lies and utter incompetence would lead someone to slither away into oblivion.
When shamelessness is considered a virtue no level of debasement is too much.
As a famous attorney once said, ‘if the BMT doesn’t hit, you must acquit.’
Well, anything to keep them from kidnapping and disappearing innocent individuals. Let’s take the wins where we find them.
That’s all true. We also need elected Democrats getting off their asses and actually fighting authoritarianism instead of using it to fundraise.
The key to that sentence is ‘a sane country.’ We ain’t that.
All it takes is willingness to wear a stupid looking red hat.
Besides being disgraceful, it makes you wonder why anyone would ever work for Donald Trump.
To beat the rap all one has to do is pledge allegiance to the felon in chief.
So much winning.
I miss the days when shameless, arrogant liars would slink away into oblivion when confronted with the truth. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
I’m sorry, but I call bullshit on this.
That just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
The Democratic Party is absolutely better than the Republican Party. But that is such a low bar. Where the GOP is vile and evil the Democrats are weak and pathetic. But, still marginally better. No wonder the US is in such trouble.
All his Mahler recordings with the RCO are excellent. They have this music in their blood and Chailly is on top of his game.
The Gabrielis were true geniuses. The architecture of Saint Mark’s was tailor made for antiphonal music and they exploited it like no one else, before or since. They introduced dynamics to music for the first time. The recording from the brass ensembles of the CSO, PO, and the CO provide evidence.
Way too late.
We live in the Algarve, really enjoy Portugal and the Portuguese.
Just look at him. Is that who we should trust issues regarding public health?
I’m old enough to remember a time when grifting would be something leading to embarrassment when caught or exposed. I miss those days.
They didn’t have to be blackmailed. The corporate media is all about profit, truth and accuracy aren’t even part of the equation. When ‘news’ is driven by oligarchs facts are the victims.
I’m an American living in Portugal. The distance doesn’t make it less surreal but less impactful for me personally. Not everyone can leave the country, I understand that. I’m 71 and want to live what’s left of my life as peacefully as possible. This has been my choice to do so.
We also have countries like Brazil and South Korea that arrest and prosecute presidents who violate laws, instigating an insurrection for instance. We aren’t quite at that level, we’re not there yet.
It’s truly Europe’s moment, there’s nothing to gain from playing second fiddle to the United States any longer. The EU and UK are much stronger and more stable than Putin and Russia. And they stand to lose much more than the US if Putin remains in power.
The man looks like death warmed over. It’s past time for bad diet, no exercise and obesity to do their jobs.
Laws are mere words if there is no individual or institution willing to enforce them. There currently are none willing to do so.
So you’re saying Trump and his administration are fact averse, shameless liars? Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
You truly can’t fix stupid.
Boy, they certainly have a look, don’t they?
I live in Portugal and got covid. I’m pretty sure it was on the flight from the US.
Money and good taste often don’t go together.
File that under’tough shit, bitch.’
Well, there will be two individuals who threaten world safety in one place that is somewhat isolated, both together in the same place at the same time. Live and in person.
Karma is funny that way.
Facts,facts, facts. They mean nothing to morons and those that support them.
I miss the days when widely known a-holes would shrink from public life in embarrassment and shame.
There’s one real leader fighting two decrepit, wounded, and now desperate autocrats. This is Europe’s time to step up and ignore Donald Trump, he had proven he’s not a real ally. Russia is a paper tiger that a unified EU can end. Here’s hoping they support Ukraine every way possible.
They’ve realized he is every bit as toxic as we all said he was. Rather than admit they were fools they will rationalize his venality no matter how perverse or damning. This will lead to violence eventually.
In case you haven’t heard, we are now living in a post-legal society. Obeying the law and being held accountable for illegality is so 2024.
I live in Portugal now, and line drying is the thing. Took a little getting used to the different feel from clothes using a dryer but the great smell makes up for it.
I live in the Algarve in Portugal. There are Dutch cars and campers everywhere .
Of course he does. Putin absolutely owns Donald Trump. Trump’s recent complaints about Putin have been window dressing leading out to this utter capitulation.
I miss the days when people who were shown publicly to be venal, shameless a-holes did the right thing and vanished from public life and polite society.
This all theater for the mouth breathers. Hell, I know where they are without the help of the FBI.
This says the math genius responsible for lowering drug prices by 1,500%.
Plus, Bruce Cockburn is a vastly underrated artist.
This is all theater for the mouth breathers. Hell, I know where they are without the help of the FBI.
I live in a village in the Algarve region. I’ve learned that opening days, much less hours are mere suggestions. All you can do is roll with it, go to a cafe and contemplate the pleasant fact that you’re in Portugal.
So, you’re saying the administration is full of liars? Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
Laws are merely words without someone or some agency being willing to enforce them. There isn’t either now.
Dolly Parton wrote both those songs on the same day. That qualifies as a productive day at the office.
I’m certain the fact that Trump is the only human on the planet capable of granting this monster a pardon has nothing to do with her assertion. Nope, nothing suspicious here. All above board and completely legitimate.
Burchett is my dadgummed congressman. He is so gosh darn stupid it’s a daily consarned embarrassment to me and many other of his dadblamed constituents. Truly, bless his cotton picking heart.
They truly don’t care. A person or party incapable of shame can’t be embarrassed. This is their superpower. Have you ever seen a Republican apologize when caught lying? If there is no penalty for lying why tell the truth, particularly when it is inconvenient?
Karma comes in many forms.
So, the only person on earth capable of giving this monster a pardon‘didn’t do anything wrong.’ Nothing suspicious here, nope, all perfectly above board and legitimate.
It must be horrifying for these victims of pedophilia to see this. But I am sure he’ll do it. His lifetime of shamelessness and lack of accountability has worked out for him so far. Why would he think this time will be different?
Maybe it’s just me, but that sure seems like there’s something to fear for one Donald Trump. Could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
I live in Tennessee and can attest we have many skilled practitioners of the hair styling arts despite Marsha Blackburn’s evidence to the contrary.
They always have a choice.
Go to Ace Hardware, at least they’re not fascist fellow travelers.
When lying isn’t punished it makes no sense to stop lying about inconvenient truths.
Isn’t that the guy whose wife had to take to court because he wouldn’t pay child support? Maybe he’s just another rank opportunist trying to whitewash his record as an unethical political hack.
There was recent news of the possibility that this type of vaccine might lead to cures for various cancers. Hitler killed people with gas chambers, Trump is doing it through ending medical research and kicking people off Medicaid. It’s every bit as effective and deadly.
Can evangelicals bring themselves to vote for a black woman, even one so venal as they?
I thought this was a great idea when it came out. The performances by the Paris Orchestra, Boston Symphony and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra are particularly good.
Oh, you can expect the August numbers to be in the millions.
Martinu gets my vote for most underrated composer of the 20th century.
A fellow musician and friend of mine attended a concert with two pipers playing. We went after a rehearsal and had had several beers. We were late to the concert but were delighted to find seats in the front row. I will never forget the volume, it made our faces hurt.
One of my favorite conductors, his Mozart is wonderful.
The cubs have their AA minor league team in my town. He managed them and did a great job, got promoted to their AAA affiliate. He was the manager of the year there. Then the big club kicked him to the curb when they had an opening. An elegant second baseman, great hitter and all around good guy. RIP
As they said in Seinfeld, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The cubs have their AA minor league team in my town. He managed them for several years and did a great job, I thought he would be a shoe in for managing the big club. But those ingrates went with someone else. As you said, he was an elegant second baseman, left us too soon.
That clown is my congressman. He often appears in these interviews in a Carhartt jacket, I call it his lumberjack costume. And ‘dad gum’ is one of his favorites. It’s sad that appearing to be a stupid redneck is the key to electability in my state.
I think Billy Joel is an outstanding musician, a very good song writer. He’s more Tin Pan Alley than rock and roll.
The joke about Vivaldi is that he wrote the same concerto 1,000 times. It’s funny because there’s truth in it. Now Bach is entirely different. The B Minor Mass with Peter Schreir and the Staatskapelle Dresden is a marvel. Vikingur Olafson’s recent Goldberg Variations is also excellent.
My all time favorite is Colin Davis and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
It is political malpractice that every Democrat in congress and elsewhere isn’t blasting Epstein/Trump 24/7.
This is way out of his control now. It only gets worse for him from here on out.
Sadly, this isn’t new. Law enforcement has always been a magnet for those who are the last people who should be in law enforcement. There are great people doing that work, but there are a lot of sadists as well.
I’m sorry, but FIFA is as corrupt as Trump. They’re on the same team.
There’s going to be a reckoning for him and his entire cast of toadies. Not as soon as we would like, but inevitable. The Nuremberg trials should be viewed as a cautionary tale by many.
Democratic lawmakers! Awaken from your slumber and connect Donald Trump and Epstein at every opportunity! No daylight between them, 24/7!
Maybe it’s just me, but old CT here sounds rattled.