Substitute Sunday Serendipity

The full version of Vivaldi’s Autumn, performed on original instruments by the award winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Carla Moore, solo baroque violin. 4K video from our December, 2018, concerto program.

Full text of Antonio’s sonnet which accompanied “Autumn.”

Autumn (Concerto No. 3 in F major)

Allegro

The peasant celebrates by dancing and singing
The pleasure of the rich harvest,
And full of Bacchus liquor
They end their rejoicings with a sleep.

Adagio molto

All are led to abandon the dances and the songs
By the air which, now sweet, gives pleasure
And by the season, which invites many
To find their pleasure in a sweet sleep.

Allegro

All are led to abandon the dances and the songs
By the air which, now sweet, gives pleasure
And by the season, which invites many
To find their pleasure in a sweet sleep.

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  1. More about those sonnets from Full texts sonnets of the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. (vivaldifourseasons.it) :

    The Sonnets of Antonio Vivaldi

    In this section, you will find the texts of the four sonnets that accompanied Antonio Vivaldi’s famous collection of concerts known as ‘The Four Seasons.’ You may wonder, what exactly is a sonnet? Well, a sonnet is a short poetic form, generally consisting of 14 verses.

    Antonio Vivaldi was one of the pioneers in introducing descriptive and programmatic music into his concerts. Through his compositions, Vivaldi was able to evoke the environments, sounds, and moods described in the sonnets. This ability to paint with music makes it particularly important to draw inspiration from these texts to fully understand their contents.

    Exploring the verses of the sonnets allows you to immerse yourself in the emotions and images evoked by the music itself, taking you on a sensory journey through the different seasons of the year. The words of the sonnets and Vivaldi’s music intertwine, creating a synesthetic experience in which the words of poetry come to life through the notes of the concerts.

    Thus, whether you are a poetry enthusiast or a music lover, exploring Vivaldi’s sonnets will enable you to better grasp the depth and beauty of his compositions. Each concert becomes a world of its own, a sonic narration that paints the atmosphere and details of the different seasons, from the warm vivacity of spring to the melancholic contemplation of winter.

  2. Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg) watch the vice presidential debate between JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan).

     

     

  3. Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like it being released that Trump was scrolling Twitter during January 6, Elon Musk attending a Trump rally and Trump not wanting to release his medical records.

  5. Read Wapo’s rundown of the Dumbass rally in Butler yesterday.  The comments section was an argument about misinformation, disinformation and lies. Consensus seemed to be it opened with disinformation and was dominated with the latter two. IOW, a lie fest.  And people were leaving 30 minutes into the 3 hour shot show.

  6. News from the Kamala Harris campaign this morning: This week Harris is going on The View, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Howard Stern Show. (Plus, as previously reported, she’s on the 60 Minutes election special on Monday and doing a Univision town hall on Thursday.)

  10. It’s not just that Trump is lying about hurricane response. He’s actually endangering lives, convincing followers FEMA is the enemy — there are even reports FEMA workers need police security in some areas. Sickening.

  12. In re VP Harris interview with Howard Stern

    KeithOlbermann

    That should end the idea that
    @vp
    isn’t doing unscripted unpredictable tightrope interviews It should also serve as notice to the bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying national news outlets that in their obstinance and arrogance they are making themselves obsolete

  14. Certain people in certain places during certain times want to be lied to. In fact, they insist on it. 

  15. NYTimes: Kamala Harris and the Influence of an Estranged Father Just Two Miles Away

    I had been dreading the inevitable deep dive into her relationship with her father, but no red flags, just a sad story of estrangement.

    NYT: “Donald J. Harris rarely speaks to his famous daughter, who lives nearby. But he helped shape who she became.”

    free link…
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/kamala-harris-father.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE4.WYvL.j-26b2qnNR1z&smid=url-share

  18. I am just a simple echo chamber here today but venting lowers my levels: Trump’s lies about Biden’s administration being behind Crooks failed mission in Butler is outlandish and harmful, and yet, his minions were cheering like Mets fans were Friday night. Sickening.
    But then as Craig as thoroughly documented here, Trump’s lies about FEMA going broke because they diverted (the key word) most of their authorized monies to illegal immigrants is so stupid and plainly wrong.  And now Senator Thom Tillis, R-NC,  is dancing around the question regarding this…yeah, a repugg Senator.  He criticized Biden for  allocating money to immigrants but at least did say FEMA disaster relief funds were not tapped.  
    I wouldn’t vote for a Republican if one of their assault rifles was pointed at me. Liars.
    Update: Grandson Anthony is still in the North Carolina mountains and hollers trying to get food and water to dying people. He is a civilian medic , attached to the Asheville Fire Department. It is infinitely worse than TV can possibly portray, he says.

  21. My friends don’t get out of bed on any Sunday after a loss. 

    Does he know that Alabama fans can’t take this kind of cardiac abuse? It’s not even funny and cute when they win. But when they lose? When they’re just another good team in a conference full of good teams that has a near-equal chance of winning or losing on any given Saturday?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/10/06/college-football-week-6-misery-index-alabama-kalen-deboer/75540523007/
     

  22. Walz walked into the Fox News wood chipper this morning and came out just fine in one piece. 

    On Trump’s performance as commander-in-chief: “The people who were in the Situation Room with Donald Trump, like JOHN KELLY, his chief of staff, said he shouldn’t be there. He’s a damaged human being. His own defense secretary said he does not understand the situation and he’s incapable of dealing with it, so it’s about character.” 

  23. Civics lessons are still important.

    Marcus is the smartest one who understands the difference in power between the offices of president and vice president…


     

  25. Ivy,  Well, I did.  It sucked, but not as much as getting the rose bush debris to the gulley and planting 4 Japanese hollies. 
    Fun fact – Bama plays 4 more SEC teams with the same 4-1 record as Bama, one undefeated team (Mercer – and I’m not concerned) and South Carolina and Auburn to finish out the season.  Try to predict the W-L on that schedule.

  26. At the Butler event, Musk was acting like a crazed brainwashed 14 year old kid screaming at people to register to vote these last couple days left to register.  He seemed not to be “on the weed” like he is usually, but hyped up on some heavy stimulant. That creep is crazy and dangerous. So is his pal Trump. Trump is just demented.  
    https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/462181977_8692182337509630_7289627609946933347_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=2LT1rZ26FBgQ7kNvgG7VwGE&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&_nc_gid=AKt_EmOQbzIogQGbWjeauwz&oh=00_AYCP1A2a5lzTrGUFIzwD4feHizrNh4tPbqGZJ1dQ1_bSNQ&oe=6708849A

  27. Take solace, Roll Tide goobers:  my Michigan Wolverines lost also, up in Seattle.  Both teams have new QBs, new coaches, and many different and new players .  I fear perhaps another loss…a beat-down by you-know-who…the team from down south.  The worthless nuts.

  28. Signs of Mental Decline in ‘Confused, Incoherent’ Trump’s Speeches: NYT Analysis (msn.com)

    An increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is blathering on at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.
    An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president—who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so—lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a computer analysis by the newspaper found.
    In addition to Trump’s well documented rambling, repetitive and winding addresses—punctuated with strange asides about things like his “beautiful” body—among the potential signs of cognitive change are that he curses 69 percent more in speeches than he did in 2016. That could be a sign of disinhibition, a kind of impulsivity that is sometimes attributed to mental decline in old age, the Times said.
    The newspaper also said its analysis found Trump used negative words 32 percent more negative words than positive ones, up considerably from 21 percent in 2016, another potential indicator of cognitive change.
    He also uses he uses 13 percent more “all-or-nothing” terms such as “always” or “never” compared to 2016, another potential sign of advanced age.
    “I can’t tell you how staggering this is,” he told Stat News. “He does not think in a complex way at all.”
    The Times analysis similarly found that Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, well below the eighth grade average for modern presidents.
    Trump has attacked the notion that he is experiencing decline and blamed the media for distorting any seeming errors he makes to attack him: “I go for two hours without teleprompters, and if I say one word slightly out, they say, ‘He’s cognitively impaired.’”
    Dr. Bradford Dickerson, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, told the Times a person’s speaking style can simply “change with normal aging,” though added “if you see a change relative to a person’s base line in that type of speaking ability over the course of just a few years, I think it raises some real red flags.”
    Two of Trump’s former allies—who have gone on to endorse his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris—asserted to the newspaper that the former president has shown some form of precipitous decline since he first ran for office.
    “He’s lost an ability to put powerful sentences together,” Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications director under Trump, said. “You can like Trump or hate Trump, but he’s been a very effective communicator. The word salad buffet on the Trump campaign is [now] being offered at a discount. You can eat all you can eat, but it’s at a discount.”
    “I don’t think anyone would ever say that Trump is the most polished speaker, but his more recent speeches do seem to be more incoherent, and he’s rambling even more so and he’s had some pretty noticeable moments of confusion,” Sarah Matthews, Trump’s former deputy press secretary who is now a Harris supporter, told the Times. “When he was running against Biden, maybe it didn’t stand out as much.”
    Meanwhile, Trump’s seeming obsession with the past—his ramblings have been dotted with stale cultural references to Silence of the Lambs, Johnny Carson, Michael Jackson, Cary Grant, and Charles Lindburgh—have not only dated him, but earned a raised eyebrow from one expert in August.
    James Pennebaker, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed 35 Trump interviews from 2015 to 2024 for Stat News and found a 44% increase in sentences focused on the past, which surprised him since presidential candidates ought typically focus on the future.
    On the other hand, Pennebaker said Trump has relied on unusually simple words and sentence structures going back to the days before he was president, suggesting he has simply always been an incredibly simplistic thinker.
    One analytic metric he used—which tends to place presidential candidates in the 60 to 70 range—placed Trump speeches at 10 to 24.

  29. This is a big deal. Florida’s Cuban GOP godfather flips. Al Cardenas worked decades to build the GOP and persuade Cubans to consistently vote Republican. 1st Cuban-American Chair of the Republican Party of FL & American Conservative Union. Just posted this video filling out his ballot for Kamala Harris.. https://x.com/ananavarro/status/1842967335214485727?t=OmylYkzCqTC6OAr079hrMQ&s=19

    Trump campaigning in Florida next two days. Battleground is growing. 

  32. Headline alert. This a new line. Trump just now on migrants; “We’re gonna take them back to their countries and we’re going to shove them right down their throats”

  35. No matter how old the Felon and the Elon get, they’ll never mature beyond the age of 6 1/2. 

  38. unscripted unpredictable tightrope interviews 

    Stern doesn’t do unscripted unpredictable interviews, he does very predictable softball interviews with a few gag questions thrown in

    She should go on sports-talk shows, that’s what the target males are listening to

  39. Being pretty much un-serious about radio, I’m not at all familiar with Stern’s work, except by hearsay.
    I saw him on Letterman once wearing see thru butt pants. TV—Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances.
    But I’d like to see the Kamala interview.

    Gonnegtions

  41. you’re gonna be my MSM if you keep contributing like you have today in the thread, Mr. C 🫡 

  43. Victor Shi
    I really need everyone to understand how big Call Her Daddy/Alex Cooper is: —Second-most popular podcast in the world; 5+ million downloads a week —Most-listened to podcast among women ages 18-24 —Reaches a lot of people who are NOT political So, yes, this matters & is huge.

  44. Purple teacher;
    The DOJ just took down a major Neo-Nazi white supremacist group with federal indictments for drug trafficking (fentanyl, heroine and meth), guns, bomb making materials and. Nazi paraphernalia. It’s not the immigrants, it’s the Nazis. #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

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