Sunday Serendipity

String Trio , Op 9, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven

From wiki:

The three String Trios, Op. 9 were composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1797–98. He published them in Vienna in 1799, with a dedication to his patron Count Johann Georg von Browne 

Although this opus does not contain the most played works by Beethoven it was a significant milestone in his development as a composer. At the time of publication the 28-year-old Beethoven regarded the trios as his best compositions. The trios can be seen as a part of the preparation for the upcoming string quartets, which became the leading genre among his chamber music. The musicologist Gerald Abraham has remarked that in terms of their style and aesthetic value the string trios of Op. 9 rank with Beethoven’s first string quartets which ousted the trios from the concert halls. Beethoven composed no further trios after the first quartets (Op. 18) were published in 1801

The woman who is playing the violin with such enthusiasm is Ye Wu . It is a pleasure to watch her work.

Enjoy, Jack

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  1. Jack, thanks. yeah, she’s really into the music but then the other two seem just as enraptured.

    seeing the word “steicht-” took me down a linguistic rabbit hole. online dics say it’s german for “strike” and for “string” musically speaking and for “prank/caper/lighthearted behavior.”   i prefer the latter definition considering how delightfully active the trio was.

  2. Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like the Alabama Supreme Court ruling frozen embryos are children.

    click here to see more of weekend update:
    Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like a study showing women benefit from exercise more than men.

  3. Senators Tim Scott, James Risch, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio (Devon Walker, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Marcello Hernandez) discuss Donald Trump over a meal.

  5. Haley is doing very good, especially since all the others dropped out and she is not sharing the vote. She is still the one to beat and sfb is not getting the job done.  As he drifts deeper into the black hole that is his mental state and the pressure of the trials hits him upside the casaba, driving him more likely to do something wonderful for the world, the smell of failure overwhelms him. 
     
    I still think Haley as a candidate against Biden is not good for Dems.  A lot of Dems will overlook her frwnj ideas because she presents a fresh, younger, person to vote for.

  6. Just like Iowa and NH the final polls overstated Trump’s actual performance. Hope this is true for Trump/Biden matchups, where the average is Trump +1.9.

    Iowa Caucus
    • Final 538 Avg: Trump +37
    • Final Actual Result: Trump +30

    New Hampshire Primary:
    • Final 538 Avg: Trump +18
    • Final Result: Trump +11

    South Carolina Primary:
    • Final 538 Avg: Trump +28
    • Estimated Result (per NYT): Trump +20

    That’s an average mistake of 11 points in Trump’s favor, well outside the margin of error. There is an obvious flaw in methodology causing them to oversample Trump voters. They need to determine if same is true for Trump/Biden national matchups.

  7. Trump badly lost Charleston and Columbia suburbs, by double digits. Not a good sign for his appeal to voters like them in battleground states. Massive wins in rural/exurb counties without holding his own in suburbs is exactly why he lost reelection.

  8. He looked particularly slimy last night, like he’d just crawled out of the Great Dismal Swamp. The humidity really got to his hair. Gross. 

  9. Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Trump won’t beat Biden without Haley voters

    Haley was “running against a quasi-incumbent who was endorsed by nearly every GOP official in the state. None of them want to risk getting a primary challenge if they fail to bend the knee to Mr. Trump. Yet as in New Hampshire, the size of her vote shows that millions in the party don’t want Mr. Trump back in the White House.”

    If the Trump campaign is “really focused on the autumn, they ought to be working to unite the party and draw her voters back into the fold. Mr. Trump is making no such effort. He didn’t mention her in his remarks on Saturday, and his campaign continues to threaten Ms. Haley and anyone else who isn’t lining up behind Mr. Trump”

    free link –
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-nikki-haley-south-carolina-primary-2024-gop-presidential-race-60d4544c?st=a8sju3j9yuokd4o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

  11. Craig – One piece, bonkers, that is almost never factored in the analysis of this year.  The guy is rapidly decomposing, each day brings more evidence of that crash. Although the magats think he is talking to them, he is literally talking to himself in some other universe.  There may come a point where he is given the big hook and except stage left, unless he becomes prime exhibit in a bad lifestyle play, on the marks center stage and room temperature.
     
    Will he become so far gone that the people who run things make the decision to put him in a padded room?  Meaning they need a candidate.  Again, Nikki is first in line, whether they like it or not.  Next up is a whole pen full of men who appear more stable than sfb, but in reality are nuts, as in frwnj, and do not stand a chance of beating Biden.
     
    The speed at which the orange idiot is failing makes me look at sometime in late May, around Memorial Day, when the switcheroo happens. People busy, news media does not care (too much), and they are tired of running shotgun of a fruitcake.  It gives a good six weeks to sell their chosen devil to the public. 

  12. Attribution: War fatigue by Gatis Sluka, Latvijas Avize, Latvia

     

    current so-called war fatigue only in those not currently wearing fatigues

  13. excerpt from worth reading article in this 3rd year of putin’s war

    Art shows the surreal reality of wartime Ukraine in a way the news never could | Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian

    You might think that reading a poem about the war, or looking at a painting or watching a film, might somehow be a secondary experience, less immediate and instructive than, say, watching the news. I suspect the opposite is true: in the hands of a good artist, you can be plunged into the life of another human, all distance eradicated, all boundaries collapsed. This can be extraordinarily painful, as in the Bafta-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, whose director, Mstyslav Chernov, thrusts the viewer right inside the besieged city. Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk wrote a poem recently, which Blacker translated last week. It begins by considering a scene of recent horror and death. “Watching from afar, you can always stop in time, / not get too close, where the eye sees too much”. Literature, she writes, can edge us towards a position where we can absorb what might otherwise be unendurable details: “The child’s shoe, which flew into the air from the child’s foot, / when they were mixed with the shards of glass and concrete, the women’s broken fingernail emerging from the rubble, / the unblurred remains of the body”. A poem can offer a way of seeing an unblurred reality, in its bright and painful glare, Kruk suggests: the boundaries of artistic form contain it, and make it – just – bearable to see.

  14. I think he feels unfettered and free to talk whatever rot can enter his “mind” because he knows he’s not going to be here.  

  15. Nice quote, Cook Report’s Amy Walter:

    “The modern GOP divide in stark display in SC: Haley overwhelmingly wins wealthy, country club Kiawah and Hilton Head, while Trump crushes Haley in rural and working class parts of the state. Haley wins Whole Foods, Trump wins Piggly Wiggly.”

  16.  The Hill

    Standing up on a stage nearly two years from the date she began hiding under a bunker in Ukraine with her infant son, Anna Zeitsava delivered a defiant message to a crowded auditorium on Capitol Hill. 
    “I know that right now, in this very moment, Russians are committing a real genocide of the Ukrainian nation,” she said on Wednesday. “But please don’t take us as a nation of victims. We are Ukrainians and we are a nation of fighters — and we will fight to the victory.” 
    Zaitseva and her now two-year-old son, Sviatoslav, survived 65 days in a crowded shelter in the Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. They were part of a group of civilians sheltering while Ukrainian soldiers defended the plant from Russia early in the war.  
    The steel plant’s defenders, who were the last to surrender to Russia in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, became a symbol of resistance that year. Zaitseva has emerged as one of the city’s most resilient survivors after turning her harrowing experience into passionate global advocacy to support Ukraine.  
    Zaitseva, 26, plans to return to Ukraine to be a paramedic. And she is also tirelessly fighting for the freedom of her husband, Kirilo Zaitsev, a Ukrainian soldier who remains in Russian captivity, along with other Mariupol soldiers captured in 2022. 
    “I’m grateful to the soldiers, the Mariupol defenders, because they saved my life,” she told The Hill. “Now I have to do the same ….
    [continues with her harrowing story]

     

    was mike johnson there to hear her?  were any GOPer critters there to hear?  and would they even care. 

  17. In addition to President Biden needing to issue an EO on the border to bypass obstructionist MAGAt Russo-Republicans, he needs to do something about price gouging.  

    Grocery prices are through the roof, again.  In addition to shrinkflation, the prices are climbing, again.

    Corporate greed is killing our country. Exorbitant CEO pay, stock buybacks, tax avoidance.   Make it stop, please.  
     
    On happier note, gas was $2.79/gallon.  I only needed half a tank.  Last month, my gasoline bill was $0 since I walk for shorter tasks. 

    POTUS Joe can put through a bunch of EOs while tRUMPublucans are vacationing, while average Americans are taking care of business.

    Where are Russo-Republicans? Did Putin send them on an excursion to Moscow, or pay for a fancy trip to Dubai? What’s the draw of Dubai, anyway? Comrade Carlson went there when he left Moscow. Money laundering? Epstein-level ick?

  18. Oh no, please don’t put Plumpty in the same category as Piggly Wiggly. Love shopping at the Pig! 

    Winn Dixie, maybe. Even Whole Foods ain’t like it was.
     

  19. Orange Adolf “loves the poorly educated.”  He wins with that crowd.  At least once, he said it out loud.  Class warfare-monger. 
     
     
     

  24. Fantastic Night of Folk, Legacy and Vibe as Arlo Guthrie, Along with His Band AND the BURNS SISTERS performed and entertained at Oklahoma’s PREMIERE Singer-Songwriter Venue….. The BLUE DOOR, in Downtown OKC! This may be my finest moment of the night. Arlo talking about…….. his dad. Almost mystical, being in the same room, as someone who is part, of a family heritage that CHANGED our world forever. Love you Woody. And Love you Arlo!

  25. Pat, thanks, that is awesome! Saw Arlo on his 50th “Alice” tour. Really close to the stage too, like 3rd row center, I think it was Alys Stephens which is a very intimate venue. Arlo’s a fabulous performer. Surprisingly interpersonal about his story.

    (I’m related to a union stagehand.)

  26. I live in NH… but my native state is Massachusetts.
    I LOVE Arlo…. Seen him perform live many times… he never disappoints.

  27. Why doesn’t Nikki just tell SFB that she’ll get out of the race if he can win a debate against her?   It’s not like he’ll take her up on it, and it’ll make him look like the mental weakling that we all know and despise. 

  28. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/22/texas-federal-summer-lunch-program/
    “Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families”
     
    “Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has opted not to join this national effort. If it had, qualifying families would have received $120 per child through a pre-loaded card for the three summer months.”

    “Texas is one of 15 states that will not participate. Among the 15 is Alabama — opting out with similar rationale to Texas — attributing their reasoning to an insufficient amount of time to appropriate the funds necessary for the program.”

    There go the red states with their ~Christian~ values, again. Sorry kids, we don’t have “time,” so you don’t get to eat. Fried baloney!
     

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