Easter Oratorio

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Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

23 thoughts on “Easter Oratorio”

  1. ahhh bach, johann sebastian that is

    Easter Oratorio – Wikipedia

    The work is based on a secular cantata, the so-called Shepherd Cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a, which is now lost, although the libretto survives. Its author is Picander who is also likely the author of the oratorio’s text. The work is opened by two instrumental movements that are probably taken from a concerto of the Köthen period. It seems possible that the third movement is based on the concerto’s finale.

  2. The Easter Bunny (Bowen Yang) invites Dr. Fauci (Kate McKinnon), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), Mayor Eric Adams (Chris Redd), Elon Musk (Mikey Day), Britney Spears (Chloe Fineman), Jared Leto (Kyle Mooney), and Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to share their Easter wishes.

  4. patd..  thanks!
     
    Happy Easter, Passover, and whatever else anyone celebrates.

  8. Lyrics and Music Production by The Freedom Toast Editing and Video Creation by Cinebot Video Executive Producers for Parody Project Don Caron and Jerry Pender

  9. the guardian:

    A Russian ultimatum for the last remaining Ukrainian troops holding out in the besieged port city of Mariupol to surrender has passed, as Moscow edged closer to full control of the city in what would be its biggest capture since it invaded Ukraine in February.
    The city has been facing a humanitarian catastrophe for weeks, as Russian tanks advanced towards the centre, razing neighbourhoods along the way. The number of civilians killed in the siege is unknown. The Ukrainian-controlled council has accused Russian soldiers of collecting bodies and incinerating them in a mobile crematorium.
    On Saturday night the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, described the situation in the city as “inhuman” and accused Russia of “deliberately trying to destroy everyone” there.
    […]
    The situation was “very difficult” in Mariupol, Zelenskiy told the Ukrayinska Pravda news portal. “Our soldiers are blocked; the wounded are blocked. There is a humanitarian crisis … Nevertheless, the guys are defending themselves.”

  10. Pat
    Sorry, with Easter, taxes and family gatherings, I’m a confused mess. I had todays music all planned when I got a call from my sister informing me my contribution for todays meal.(I did volunteer) Then shopping, back to taxes, then cutting up veggies for a big salad, then back to taxes, Assure Brewster the thunder wasn’t going to kill him. more taxes then bed. Woke up this morning with an “oops”.
    Any way thanks for covering for me.
    Jack

  11. The Washington Post

    Pope Francis, in an Easter address delivered to tens of thousands of worshipers in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, called for “peace for war-torn Ukraine,” and for caution over conflict that could lead to nuclear war.
    Under the bright sun before a crowd reveling in a return to tradition after previous years’ pandemic-related restrictions, the pope called Sunday’s holiday an “Easter of war.”
    “We have seen all too much blood, all too much violence,” he said. “Our hearts, too, have been filled with fear and anguish, as so many of our brothers and sisters have had to lock themselves away to be safe from bombing.”
    “Let us all commit ourselves to imploring peace, from our balconies and in our streets,” he said, in a plea for people to take up the cause. “May the leaders of nations hear people’s plea for peace.”
    He cited a line from a 1955 manifesto by physicist Albert Einstein and philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which scientists and thinkers warn of the risks posed by nuclear weapons, writing, “Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war?”
    [continues]

  16. BiD, don’t forget the chocolate bunnies.  here’s rosie’s song from long ago and vintage ads, some with easter card art nouveau around 1910

  18. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/us/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/index.html

    “The Florida Department of Education announced Friday that the state has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next school year’s curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among reasons for the rejections.”

    “It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” the governor said.”

    WTAF

  19. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/economy/stocks-week-ahead/index.html

    “Still, American economic leaders believe decoupling is already underway. Oaktree co-founder Howard Marks wrote in late March that “the pendulum [has] swung back towards local sourcing” and away from globalization. Blackrock Chairman Larry Fink echoed the sentiment in a letter to the company’s shareholders. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine,” he wrote, “has put an end to globalization we have experienced over the last three decades.”

    “The economic burdens come at a politically precarious moment. This fall, Chinese President Xi Jinping will petition for a third term as the nation’s leader, breaking with the tradition of a two-term maximum.”

    Hmmm, Xi wants to be leader for life?

    “Nearly 400 million people across 45 cities in China are under full or partial lockdown as part of China’s strict zero-Covid policy.”

    “The quarantines there have led to food shortages, inability to access medical care, and even reported pet killings. They’ve also left the largest port in the world understaffed.”

  20. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/15/texas-evictions-pandemic-rent-relief/

    “Even when landlords receive rent relief, it’s not a guarantee that renters will stay housed.”

    Slumlords used covid money to do upgrades and then double rents.

    Even decent apartments have drastically increased rents, but without doing any upgrades.

    One of my coworkers is moving in with their mom, because rent is going up $300/month.

    Housing is becoming a huge problem, which is odd since there were so many excess deaths. (New babies don’t need their own place, so birth rate can’t have anything to do with it.)

  22. which is odd since there were so many excess deaths. 

    that’s the influence of real-estate speculators and non-primary-residence investors

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