Má Vlast, No. 2. Vltava (River Moldau)
composed by, Bedřich Smetana
In this piece, Smetana uses tone painting to evoke the sounds of one of Bohemia’s great rivers. In his own words:
The composition describes the course of the Vltava, starting from the two small springs, the Studená and Teplá Vltava, to the unification of both streams into a single current, the course of the Vltava through woods and meadows, through landscapes where a farmer’s wedding is celebrated, the round dance of the mermaids in the night’s moonshine: on the nearby rocks loom proud castles, palaces and ruins aloft. The Vltava swirls into the St John’s Rapids; then it widens and flows toward Prague, past the Vyšehrad, and then majestically vanishes into the distance, ending at the Elbe.
Enjoy Jack.
thanks Jack. for those who have the time, here are fourteen minutes more — kayaking mit music on the Vitava
Vltava (The Moldau River) by Bedrich Smetana; Vilem Tausky conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vltava (also known as Die Moldau in German) is the name of the longest river in the Czech Republic and is also the title of the second of the six symphonic poems composed by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), which are collectively known as Má Vlast (My Homeland). Through his music, Smetana attempted to celebrate Bohemia’s history, mythology and landscape.
channeling our old trail friend Jace and marking the day’s celebration in christendom.
Palm Sunday | Meaning, Facts, Observances, & Significance | Britannica
BTW we’re also in the middle of islam’s ramadan which began march 10 and ends april 8 this year which is a month of fasting, prayer reflection and community according to wiki and commemorating mohammad’s first revelation.
we’re a little too early for judaism’s passover which will be celebrated april 22 – 30
this time of year a lotta partying going on.
Holi 2024: Why do we celebrate Holi? Know history and significance of the festival of colours – Hindustan Times
Holi: What to Know about India’s Most Colorful Tradition – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
can’t “pass over” maher’s celebration about this time last year of atheists day
The fastest growing religious group in the United States are “Nones” – as in no religion at all – and it’s time they get a holiday of their own.
one of the comments to above:
“What are you doing for Atheist Day?” “Nothing.” “Oh, Orthodox, eh?”
In 71 I took a music appreciation class at the Citadel (as a veteran student, no uniform and all that crap) from one whale of a moo-Jician— Mr Vernon Weston—the only member of the faculty who didn’t have to be in uniform. He spent one whole class on “The Moldau” by Smetana.
I don’t remember much from so long ago, but I’m hoping that some of it will possibly come back when I listen to it again.
As usual—Thanks, Jack.
I don’t call myself an atheist, or agnostic, or anything else. But OPPOSITE OF REPUBLICAN will do nicely for the time being.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-palm-sunday-ukraine-gaza-ab758834cb0f99887b6f58a2c771fcc5
“Pope Francis skips Palm Sunday homily at start of busy Holy Week that will test his health”
“Francis had been expected to deliver a homily halfway through the service and a prepared text had been distributed to journalists. But when an aide presented Francis with his glasses to begin reading, the pope made clear he wouldn’t deliver the remarks, leaving the crowd waiting in silence.”
“Vatican officials didn’t immediately explain why. The Vatican press office later said the homily was replaced by “a moment of silence and prayer.”
My journey toward “take all religions and dump them into the sea” began in the 8th grade. I was attending an episcopal military private school where we were marched into the church every morning for a regular church service. It was what I came to understand to be a typical episcopal service. Call and response, stand up, kneel and pray, sing a song etc.
I noticed that a good many kids didn’t stand, kneel, or sing, but just ignored the whole business, doing their homework or whatever. I finally asked somebody wtf was up with that and I found out that those kids were Jewish, and were not required to participate. That was the first step of the journey, where I decided that I must be Jewish. Later still I found that I also didnt have to be Jewish either. It just got easier all the time. lol
And the pope called for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war so the hell with that too. Shut the F up, Mr pope.
Christianity, Ramadan, Pesach, Wiccan Ostara are all currently enjoyed and with the Chinese New Year’s/spring holidays just past show that the Spring Equinox has always been a time of celebration as cultures saw an end to winter and greeted the joys of new growth.
Jack, Thank you for a beautiful piece of music.
Jack… great selection… thanks!
We dodged a bullet yesterday. We had another ice storm. It wasn’t as bad as the last one where we had every wire ripped off our house and lost power for 12 days. We lost power last night for about 6 hours. We had one of those automatic full house generators installed last summer. It worked like a charm. Everything is encased in ice this morning… but it’s beautiful!
Little MAGAt Marco Rubio is really campaigning for that VP spot this morning.
He’s pro-Russia, too, and wants Ukraine to stand down and “negotiate” away their country.
MAGAt Marco. MAGAt Marco. MAGAt Marco.
Noel Casler
‘I’m shocked that a giant corporation that helped Mark Burnett launder the image of a lifelong sexual predator, tax cheating speed freak with a habit of publicly stating how hot his daughter was into a ‘biz genius billionaire’ hired one of his consigliere’s as on-air talent…’
Such a pleasant tune to go with my pleasant view of Georgetown from hospital room. Getting discharged in 1 hour. Managed to dress myself without assistance.
Old Berman On Chuck Todd
You’ll notice he says @NBCNews executives owe Welker an apology, NOT that they owe viewers an apology
LarrySabato
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I watched. She was what I expected: a complete, total LIAR who should never be forgiven for being a senior Trump enabler and trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power. No Traitors. #NoRonna
Liz_Cheney
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Ronna facilitated Trump’s corrupt fake elector plot & his effort to pressure MI officials not to certify the legitimate election outcome.She spread his lies & called 1/6 “legitimate political discourse.” That’s not “taking one for the team.” It’s enabling criminality & depravity.
Dr David Lustig.
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No matter how many times I’ve seen this clip over the years, I’m still astounded that anyone this agonizingly-stupid could be walking around without a court-appointed guardian, or that 74M Americans watched it and said, “Let’s re-elect him!!”
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5982/Int%E2%80%99l-committee-must-investigate-Israel%E2%80%99s-holding-of-dead-bodies-in-Gaza%E2%80%8B
“Int’l committee must investigate Israel’s holding of dead bodies in Gaza”
“Concerns about organ theft from the corpses were brought up by Euro-Med Monitor, which cited reports from medical professionals in Gaza who quickly examined a few bodies after their release. These medical professionals found evidence of organ theft, including missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.”
“According to the human rights group, Israel has recently made it lawful to hold dead Palestinians’ bodies and steal their organs. One such decision is the 2019 Israeli Supreme Court ruling that permits the military ruler to temporarily bury the bodies in what is known as the “Numbers Cemetery”. By the end of 2021, the Israeli Knesset (or Parliament) had passed laws allowing the army and police to hold onto the bodies of dead Palestinians.”
“There have been reports in recent years of the unlawful use of Palestinian corpses held by Israel, including the theft of organs and their use in Israeli university medical school labs.”
“Israeli doctor Meira Weiss disclosed in her book Over Their Dead Bodies that organs taken from dead Palestinians were utilised in medical research at Israeli universities’ medical faculties and were transplanted into Jewish-Israeli patients’ bodies. Even more concerning are admissions made by Yehuda Hess, the former director of Israel’s Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, about the theft of human tissues, organs, and skin from dead Palestinians over a period of time without their relatives’ knowledge or approval.”
“Israel is thought to be the biggest hub for the illegal global trade in human organs, according to a 2008 investigation by the American CNN network, which also revealed that Israel participated in the theft of organs from dead Palestinians for illegal use.”
That’s veering close to “blood libel”, who wants rotten organs?
“…kept the dead bodies of Palestinians in subfreezing temperatures—sometimes below 40 degrees Celsius—in order to ensure that they remain undisturbed and to possibly hide the theft of organs.”
From the previous link, they weren’t “rotten.”
I agree, outrageous claims could definitely just be antisemitism if there was no verification. (Euro-Med is a human rights monitor, but since it has Palestinian ties, I don’t know how unbiased they are.) Based on the inclusion of a book by an Israeli doctor and the CNN report, it’s not nothing, though. And, human beings can be greedy and disgusting, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
Would you like me to remove the post?
i’m no arbiter, just my $.02 🫡
i’ve been observing how the hoi polloi consume news and it seems almost everyone just reads headlines (doom-scrolling) and watches tiktoks on their phones, which makes salacious headlines that much more powerful
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/24/ukraine-says-it-hit-two-russian-ships-off-occupied-crimea
“The defence forces of Ukraine successfully hit the Azov and Yamal large landing ships, a communications centre and also several infrastructure facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in temporarily occupied Crimea,” Ukraine’s military said on Sunday.”
“The military’s statement did not say how it hit the targets, but a Moscow-installed official in the region reported a major Ukrainian air attack, and said air defences had shot down more than 10 missiles over the Crimean port of Sevastopol.”
Yes? No? I tend to believe Ukraine hit the ships, and that Moscow is saying they shot down the missiles.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/16/greg-abbott-jeff-yass-camapaign-donation/
“Gov. Greg Abbott received a $6 million campaign contribution.. which his campaign is calling the “largest single donation in Texas history.”
“The check came from Jeff Yass, a national Republican megadonor whose priority issues include school vouchers.”
“Yass is a billionaire from Pennsylvania who is co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based investment firm Susquehanna International Group. He is also a top proponent of “school choice,” or programs that allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school costs.”
According to Wikipedia, he also sits on the board for the Koch-y Cato Institute.
We need to re-elect Joe, and give him a decent majority in the House and keep the Senate. A November trifecta!
Biden/Harris 2024
So, like Jack, i’m deliberately trying to avoid these two specific topics because i am personally very leery of accidentally disseminating mis/disinformation.
Of course, i’ll read whatever y’all post, though. What i should have said was nothing 🫡
Not at all. That’s a good a point. Too late to take down the post. Anyway, I do try to read full articles and check other sources, which is how I knew Euro-Med, while being a human rights monitor, may not be unbiased.
I guess that’s a good point about avoiding posting about Israel/Hamas. We can all read the news. But then I would have zero function here since I mostly just state the obvious.
I’ll try to do better.
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Jamie, That looks like a good one. Thanks.
I hope the sun puts on a good show here. It all depends on the weather. The local guy had the extended forecast through April 7th…and it’s looking cloudy and rainy. Hopefully, it will be clear on the 8th. I have my eclipse glasses and a filter for my camera lens. Hmmm, I hope my preparedness didn’t jinx the weather around here.
Bink, I don’t have the TikTok, but I listen to a lot of podcasts and music while I’m painting. I’ve noticed new podcast channels want to be paid to subscribe and listen to them. Uh, nope. Get sponsors like KO did. If you’re a no-name who can’t get sponsors, it just seems like you’re trying to find a way to monetize talking to your friends. End stage capitalism is weird. My favorite, fun podcast is The Woo Woo With Rachel Dratch.
Dan Rather is always good to read. He has a newsletter rather than a podcast.
Bad part is you have to give
Old guy who remembers what was like.
Random Dan Rather, long tweet:
After giving it some thought, I am convinced that the real story isn’t just that Donald Trump’s campaign is being vastly outraised by President Biden.
It’s that Donald Trump has been forced to cancel rallies in swing states because he couldn’t afford them:
According to a recent report, Donald Trump initially planned to attend a rally in Moreno, Arizona on the same day as his Ohio rally.
Those plans were scrapped, per CNN, “with two sources citing a desire to save money and attend a more politically advantageous event in Ohio…”
If Trump’s fundraising continues its slump, it may force him to triage which states he can afford to have rallies in.
But one thing I can say with certainty, in a race this close, both candidates need to make their case in front of voters.
If Trump is spending most of his time in courtrooms rather than on rally stages and if his campaign coffers continue to be barren, his ability to reach those needed swing voters will be seriously curtailed.
For the big laugh of the weekend – a obese orange idiot “won” two trophies for beating all the amateurs and professional golfers at some golf corse. First off the absurdity of sfb winning anything that involved movement is falling down hilarious. Second is most clubs do not have play during winter to avoid damaging greens and approaches. Finally, the cheat had to rig the results to win. Yeah, I am all fuzzy that the orange idiot “won”. Hopefully tomorrow he shows up with over one half billion dollar bond to go forward with an appeal.
When the time is right he’s going to dig up that casket and fly.
There’s going to be a lot of people left to twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
The rats are all tap dancing around the exits—whistling and tap dancing and looking the other way.
The really stupid ones probably won’t wake up until waaaay past the “Oh, Shit.” stage. They’ll be running around in circles trying to find their tap shoes.
It’s all fun and games until the Boss takes a powder.
Sturgeone – you brought up something interesting. That POS aeroplane is one of the few things he does “own”. I wonder where it is tonight.
Was it made by Boeing, how old is it, and is there duct tape involved?
That huge gaudy thing? That’s a decoy.
The REAL one is small and fast—and kept smoking in a hanger somewhere in Jersey.
Bid, yes, ?, yes.
i’ve been watching more streaming tv with my dog than i’d like to admit- i used to put on period dramas for her but it turns out she prefers a good action flick 🤷♂️
I dropped Apple TV after a 3-month trial and two for pay. They have some good stuff coming up, like a second season of Loot, and a documentary about Steve Martin. I’ll wait awhile, so I can binge entire seasons of stuff and then drop, again. I’ve watch Ted Lasso at least seven times, and it’s the only show I’d not want to wait to binge watch. But, it sounds like three seasons is all there will ever be.
freevee (prime with ads), tubi, pluto and plex are all free, infinite content, leans towards older stuff but that’s not a bad thing
pretty sure can watch all in browser on PC, if you use a phone it pushes you to the app 🤷♂️
Ok, you now have diversions, i’m going to post less, looking forward to having a healed Mr. C back on the front, he’s been doing well this season, onwards towards preserved democracy , Joe/Kamala 2024 🇺🇸
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