Sunday Serendipity

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

A lovely work for solo harp. About perfect for a quiet and relaxing Sunday morning.

Enjoy the music and by all means enjoy your day!?

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  1. jace, thank you.  lovely.

    here’s a bit about ibert from his official biographical website:
    …..in 1911, Ibert entered the Paris Conservatoire,  and was taught by Pessard , Gédalge, and Vidal. Among his classmates were Darius Milhaud and Arthur Honegger, with whom he would work later on several occasions. His father unhappy about his music studies, had withdrawn financial support, so Ibert earns his  living by working as an accompagnist and writing light piano pieces and popular songs under a pen name. His previous skill improvisation became useful when he was employed as a pianist at sillent movie théâtres where he composed  scores  to fit the action on the screen. He later was to write over sixty film scores for sound movies.
     

     
    World war I interrupted Ibert’s studies at the Conservatoire .He joined an army medical unit, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre by the French government.
     

     
    Shortly after returning to the Conservatoire, Ibert stood for the competition for the Premier Grand Prix (Prix de Rome). He won the prize,which meant living up to three years in Rome at the Villa Medici, in October 1919.
     

     
    During his stay   at the Villa Medici, from February 1920 to May 1923  Ibert produced some of his best known works such as « La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading » and « Escales »..
     

  6. if only for the enjoyable way he has with words, read-worthy is this review of  books on the twit by carlos lozada in wapo:  I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books — and then I read Omarosa

    Some are born Trump sycophants. Some achieve Trump sycophancy. And some have Trump sycophancy thrust upon them — since he’s a star, they let him do that.
     
    Look past the cable-news apologists, rally die-hards and compulsive @realDonaldTrump retweeters, and you find the fawning, best-selling pro-Trump book authors, those who bind their allegiance in hard covers for all eternity. These writers have elevated the reflexive defense of Trump to an art form, even if, as often as not, it’s of the paint-by-numbers variety. Their book titles (“Trump’s America,” “Understanding Trump,” “Let Trump Be Trump,” “The Russia Hoax” and the like) and book jackets (Trump flashing his thumbs-up, his antagonists lurking in ominous black-and-white tones) make the works’ audience and purpose clear. Crack those covers, and you find that whatever the author’s vantage point — former staffer, outside adviser, legal analyst, Fox News host — there is a particular way to write these books. The works display recurring tics of Trump-like language, comfort with cynicism, talent for tautology, weakness for flattery and freakish rhetorical and moral contortions.
     
    These do not appear to be difficult books to write, but for one challenge: At some point and in some way, they must grapple with Trump himself.
    […continues delightfully…]
     

  7. Harpist Charlotte Balzereit is indeed the Queen of Jacques. And another well done to Jace!

  8. Watched Giuliani on MtP–he was in peril of having his upper teeth fall out, despite that he persevered.

  11. Patd & RR, consider me associated with your comments this morning (which in that respect is no different from any other morning). ?

    And Jace, what I said last week, and the week before, and ….???

  12. Flatus, LMAO about Rudy. I’ve never seen anyone work so hard to destroy his own reputation in my life. And Jesus H Christ, I think He could probably afford to go to a decent dentist and could buy some fugging Sea Bond.

  14. Good job with your backpack/community outreach event, pictures of which you posted in the previous thread, Jack.

     

    Thanks for linking the Lozada book review, patd.  I meant to share it the other day, but forgot.  It’s a long(ish) article, but worth the read.

  17. history revisited (or rewritten) in the twit reference to dean as a rat vis a vis mcgahn report and dean’s response.

    excerpts from the guardian’s  Trump invokes Nixon and McCarthy in NYT White House counsel report rant

    [….]
    The president’s rage was stoked by a bombshell report that said White House counsel Don McGahn has cooperated extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Russian election interference, links between Trump aides and Moscow, and potential obstruction of justice.
     
    The president both called the Times report “fake” and confirmed its substance.
     
    Repeating a spelling mistake made in his initial response on Saturday, when the report was published online, Trump wrote: “The failing [New York Times] wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel [sic] Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel [sic], he must be a John Dean type ‘RAT.’”
     
    Dean was White House counsel to Nixon during Watergate. He testified against the president, pled guilty to obstruction of justice and was held at an army base. He spoke on Saturday to Slate.
     
    “Don McGahn is doing exactly the right thing,” Dean said, “not merely to protect himself, but to protect his client. And his client is not Donald Trump; his client is the office of the president.”
     
    The Times said McGahn had spoken to Mueller’s team for a total of 30 hours, on the advice of Trump’s first lawyers in the Russia investigation. McGahn shared some information investigators would not otherwise have known, the Times said, about events including Trump’s attempts to fire Mueller.
    In a separate report, Reuters said a person familiar with the matter did not believe McGahn provided incriminating information about the president and had not seen or heard anything that amounted to obstruction of justice by Trump.
     
    Nonetheless, Trump said on Sunday that the Times “wrote a story that made it seem like the White House Councel [sic] had TURNED on the President, when in fact it is just the opposite – & the two Fake reporters knew this. This is why the Fake News Media has become the Enemy of the People. So bad for America!”
    Dean tweeted a reply, saying he had “trouble using the title Mr President for someone installed by Putin”. He doubted Trump had “ANY IDEA what McGahn has told Mueller” and added: “Also, Nixon knew I was meeting with prosecutors, b/c I told him. However, he didn’t think I would tell them the truth!”

    […]
    Dean was not impressed by Trump’s behaviour.
     
    “I see a lot of similarity in the bungling,” he told Slate. “Watergate was not a carefully planned crime and cover-up. It was one bungled event after another. I see the same thing happening with Trump.”
     
    In his Twitter rant, Trump went 20 years back in time from Watergate, to the “red scare” of the 1950s. “Study the late Joseph McCarthy,” the president wrote of the Wisconsin senator who led efforts to criminalise “un-American” political beliefs, “because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby!”
    […]
    Slate asked Dean if McGahn should resign.
     
    “More likely he would be fired than resign,” he said. “Trump does not like people doing the right thing.”
     
    He added: “I think there is good reason for McGahn to believe that Trump would throw him under the bus, since Trump throws almost everyone under the bus …self-preservation is a real motive. At times, I felt it. When I first tried to go in and blow up the Watergate cover-up, I was really worried about the president and the office.”
     

  20. from Washington examiner:
    A top former intelligence official said Sunday he wants to avoid the “impression” that he is changing his tune about President Trump in order to maintain his security clearance.
     
    Days after the White House announced Trump had pulled former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance due to the “risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior,” former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden said “sure” when asked if he would be honored to be included in a group of Trump critics who have their security clearances removed.
     
    “And frankly, if his not revoking my clearance gave the impression that I’ve somehow moved my commentary in a direction more acceptable to the White House, I would find that very disappointing and frankly unacceptable,” Hayden said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
     

  23. IMPOTUS is a horrible terrible person.  Why do people still support him and believe him?

  26. Well that’s kind of depressing – 30% of active voters are stupid or venal

  27. Considering that folks in Trumpsky’s  base are probably the ones threatening Manyfraud’s judge (could be russkies tho), maybe those who’ve flown the coop are just not speaking out (because they’re afraid of his base) & will show they’re on to him when they vote.

  28. Yes, maybe his one-time base is afraid of his base.

    Ted Cruz aka “Lyin’ Ted Cruz,” says he would welcome Trumpsky’s support.  (Maybe he does come from a family of commies.)    Beto O’Rourke making progress…Ted gettin’ nervous.

  29. tremendously rude un-elected monster president attacks mccarthy-ism; sinks kevin’s chance to become Speaker.

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