Sunday Serendipity

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

A lovely work for oboe on this quiet Sunday morning.

Enjoy the music, but most especially enjoy your day!?

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  1. c-moll?

    interesting definitions listed in Wiktionary for the English usage
    moll (plural molls)
     

    A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. quotations ▼
    A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
    (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
    (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a bikie. quotations ▼
    (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.

    [….]

    (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode

  2. jace, thank you… loved oboe sounds from the first time as little girl heard “peter and the wolf” duck, but found it an awfully awfully hard instrument to play…. exhausting more like it.   am not the only one according to classicfm:

    The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons being your main ambassador.

    [….]
    2. The first few years of playing the oboe will sound literally horrifying
     
    Like other beginner instrumentalists, beginner oboists have to develop a thick skin. And those around them must develop that thick skin, too – covering as much of the eardrum as possible.

    3. It’s genuinely one of the hardest instruments to play
     
    Flipping from D flat to E flat quickly is the oboist’s version of successfully completing a Rubik’s Cube using only your knees.
    […continues…]

  4. , from “oboe and the brain”

    “The Health of Musicians” by James Frederick Rogers, published in “The Musical Quarterly” in 1926 (you need JSTOR access to read this, hence me quoting from it):
    QUOTE
    [T]here is a tradition among musicians that oboe-playing has a tendency to induce insantiy. Mr F.N.Innes remarked in a letter to the author that “there is doubtless a great deal of nonsense about this belief, but the belief is certainly prevalent, and I should personally say that my own experience has tended to confrim the belief that, in the cases of a small minority of players on this instrument, the effects are as stated.” The strength of this notion, even among performers on the instrument, is evinced by the fact that an oboe-player in London, when tried for theft, pleaded not guilty on the ground that his act was the result of a mental condition brough about by his work. Just what the judge in the case thought of this plea we were not told by our informant.The effect or imagined effect of playing upon this beautiful instrument (when it is beautiful) has been atributed to the prolonged pressure of air within the lungs needed for tone-production and the secondary effect on the circulation in the brain. It is an unlikely hypothesis, and certainly not as tenable an explanation as that the plaintive character of the music produced by the instrument may have by degrees a disastrous effect upon the mind. Every really artistic reed-instrument player is likely to be driven “to drink” if not to insanity by the behaviour or misbehaviour of his reeds. Whether the oboist has more trouble along these lines than other wood-wind performers, we do not know. If there is any real foundation for such a legend of the oboist (of the truth of which we are very skeptical), perhaps it is some combination of all these conditions that leads to his mental unbalancing. That the playing of the oboe does not shorten existence, or necessarily cloud the mentality in later life, is evidenced by the fact that a performer on this instrument who was ninety-two years of age appeared not long since as a soloist at a public performance in Boston.
     

  6. Love well played oboe. Seldom hear it.

    Like the Mueller cartoon- someone will draw him shooting fwitch in a barrel.

  7. Jace,  Thank you for another beautiful piece of work for our Sunday mornings.

     

  8. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, so here is some more beauty for the day.

     

  10. Toby with a couple of her new birthday month toys (Pat, the wishbone you recommended in background). She got stuffing out of the soft toy dinosaur in about 20 minutes. But the carcass material is fairly strong so it might be usable for awhile. Taking her to vet tomorrow 11am for annual shots etc.

  11. It’s fun connecting Russian dots in Mueller indictment to campaign timeline. Many “coincidences” like this: Trump tailored massive shift in ad buys late in the race right after Russian hack of DNC battleground intel showed where Clinton vulnerable.

  12. The FIFA World Cup from Russia, on Fox.  It’s a trifecta of corrupt oligarchy!

    Oui, Monsieur Pogo, je deteste les cobbles.  What other sport deliberately puts their championship on the worst playing surface possible?  Kinda dumb.

  13. Jace, another masterpiece selection. Here’s a little Beethoven to follow it. Note that the ‘oboe’ in the center is an English horn. They could add a bassoon if they wished, but it would really be redundant. Many thanks for your rousing our musical interest every week—we (I) need that

     

  15. trump prepares for the meeting with his undercover boss, putie.    They may share a joke about the election meddling, but the real reason for the meeting is oil in the Golan Heights.  bebi and trump spent time talking today about what the israeli branch will need.

    Golan Heights and the Syrian War.
    As mentioned previously in an Asia Times article, in November 2015, Afek Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of the US company Genie Energy, discovered an oil bonanza in the Golan Heights “with the potential of billions of barrels.” Genie Energy, boasting an advisory board studded with former US cabinet officials, managed to obtain exploratory licenses despite opposition from environmental and local groups concerned that drilling could pollute the Golan countryside and the Sea of Galilee below, the source of most of Israel’s drinking water. However, the biggest problems revolve around the issue of sovereignty.
    Israel annexed much of the Golan in 1981, but it is still regarded internationally as illegally occupied Syrian territory. Israel’s leaders had previously offered to pull back from the Golan, which was captured in 1967, in return for a comprehensive peace treaty with the Syrian government. However, since Syria began disintegrating in 2011, there are efforts to demand recognition of Israeli control of the 1,200 square kilometers it occupies in the Golan Heights.By maintaining a US military presence in Syria and partitioning the country into spheres of influence similar to China in the 19th century, it would facilitate Israeli annexation of the Golan and allow US/Israeli energy companies to exploit the oil reserves.

  16. I should have put a warning on the strategic culture site, I linked above…supposed right center site, but it is a dem hate fest site…gop dominant, pro-russia and china, but the info about syria is good.  Always fun to read the side headlines.

    like this one –
    US Deep State Hits Putin-Trump Summit with Preemptive Strike as Russiagate Fizzles Out
     

  17. I think Paul Simon used a bassoon in “The Boxer”.  It makes such a neat noise.

    reeds for horns department:    We were in the middle of an unending version of “Hava Nagila” while all the guests were on the floor doing that dance thing they had going on where the bride and groom were hoisted up on two chairs when the sax player’s reed got crooked or something and every 4th or 5th note was a piercing squeak…..he was playing the lead into a microphone….he couldn’t stop to fix it, just had to play on, Macduff, while super-guests, event planners, and various venue peoples were all running around frantically trying to find the source of that hideous shriek…….it went on forever……

    And oboes and bassoons have TWO reeds…….Oy

    Good old Jace……he always never fails to trigger up some kind of memory…..

  18. I put up 6 more postcards on end of yesterday’s wine for anyone likes those things…….

  20. the guardian:

    [….]

    Trump was speaking to CBS News at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland, in an interview recorded on Saturday and scheduled for full broadcast on Monday. Asked “who is your biggest foe globally right now”, he said: “Well I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now you wouldn’t think of the European Union but they’re a foe.”

    […continues…]

  21. He said “we have….”     Royal “we”, I guess…….because he does have a lot of foes…….the BEST foes ever……he, not we.

  23. Charleston has a few cobblestone streets…..you cannot drive down them, they’re brutal……and the poor tourists have to go down at least a couple in those horse drawn carriages…..brutal.

  24. sturge, also feel sorry for the horse hooves on cobblestones. the lady tourists in heels like mel’s pictured above, don’t feel so sorry for them.  the poor horses at least aren’t as stupid about their footwear.

    4 inch heels?  why?  masochists?

  25. Yeah, another oil field in the cross-hairs of a half dozen artillery-over-burdened enemies. Like shooting fwitch in a barrow, right Mr Pogo ? Just what the world needs.

    Why couldn’t they find it in some place that doesn’t have six kinds of crazed para-military militaries banging away at each other with russian, American, commie Chinese, no Korean, Brussels, and Iranian rockets ? Like Greenland or Antarctica ? Is that too much to ask, I ask ya ?

  26. Thanks again, Mr Jace.

    Btw, the 2d of August is coming. If the Great Snowy Owl opens his eyes that day and sees a ground hog to eat, there’ll be 6 more weeks of summer.

     

  27. Marmots don’t cut it. It’s gotta be an actual ground hog to count, and marmots can only count to five. It could be a ground round ground hog, but it hasta be your gem you wine critter.

  28. more on the gru by ny times today:

    U.K. Poisoning Inquiry Turns to Russian Agency in Mueller Indictments

    […]
    The indictment detailed a sophisticated operation, intended to disrupt America’s democratic process, carried out by a Russian military intelligence service few Americans know about. But analysts and government officials say the G.R.U., now known as the Main Directorate of the General Staff, serves as an undercover strike force for the Kremlin in conflicts around the world.
    The agency has been linked to Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine, as well as the annexation of Crimea in 2014. It has been involved in the seizing of Syrian cities on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad. In more peaceful regions, the G.R.U. is accused of creating political turmoil, mobilizing Slavic nationalists in Montenegro and funding protests to try to prevent Macedonia’s recent name change.
    [….continues and discusses skripal background….]

  29. “Marmots don’t cut it. …., and marmots can only count to five”

    only on one hand, man.   watch what I can do with all four paws!

  30. Bette Midler @BetteMidler

    Donald Trump warned Europeans that immigrants were causing Europe to “lose its culture.” Then he poured ketchup on his steak and watched 8 hours of Fox News.

    5:06 PM – 15 Jul 2018

     

  31. Ms Pat, you are a hoot ! However, I’m pretty sure that’s a prairie dog.

    I believe that’s Larry dePrairie, who used to do very mean marmot and rabbit lampoons before PC ruined his ethnic joke schtick.

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