A large work today. Handel at his very best. I hope that there is something in this composition for everyone. A marvelous performance!
Enjoy the music but most of all enjoy your day!?
22 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”
handel put to music
psalm 110
Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.
The Lord said unto my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool.
so did Mozart and Vivaldi.
guess in those days it was hard to find lyricists and one had to recycle over and over the good stuff.
The Congressional Oversight Committee (Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat) question President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) about his former boss.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Michael Cohen testifying before Congress about allegations surrounding President Trump.
Southern Command’s new Dining Room. 4 days to the finish line!
Downstairs office
Craig, it’s great when a plan comes together!
Jace, that was simply a brilliant performance by all involved. It seemed as every member of the choir, every instrumentalist, had a direct connection with Maestro Gardiner who, in-turn, was wired to Handel himself. Well done!
All those classical composers who had ties directly or indirectly through their patrons to the church created masterpieces that had biblical themes but the works transcend the subject matter. Even heathens like me are moved by it. Handel’s Messiah stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best musical compositions ever written IMHO.Â
Lovely Jace
what a wonderful way to start of the week and the day
Jim Jordan ugh Ohio should be so embarrassedÂ
You mean the OSU wrestling coach? Â That Jim Jordan?
Absolutely beautiful Jace. Thank you for our amazing Sundays.
Thanks all. Glad you enjoyed the Handel. I am a little humbled when I realize that he composed this work at the ripe old age of twenty one!
Craig,
Thanks for the pictures. Looks as though progress is definitely taking place. As for yourself, do you have any elbow grease left?
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he will vote for measure blocking Trump’s emergency declaration, paving way for passage
[…]
Paul (R-Ky.) said in a speech Saturday at the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he “can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president,” the Bowling Green Daily News reported.
“I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” Paul said, according to the newspaper. “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”
Paul joins fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) in opposing Trump’s move, a reflection of some resistance within the GOP to what lawmakers see as executive overreach and a test of the constitutional separation of powers.
The disapproval resolution has already passed the Democratic-controlled House and requires a simple majority to pass the GOP-led Senate. Fifty-three senators caucus with Republicans and 47 caucus with Democrats, meaning that four Republican defections would be enough to ensure passage.
While the resolution is likely to clear the Senate — an embarrassing rebuke to Trump, lawmakers in both chambers lack the votes to override a threatened presidential veto.
[continues]
21 ?!? How can that be right ?
A bit of arithmetic applied to yesterday’s poll shows that in the Dem race Undecided is twenty lengths in front, followed by Klobuchar, Harris, Booker, and Biden, in a tight pack. In the republican race Undecided is the only horse on the track. The rest are still in the stable.Â
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows 4 in 10 voters would vote to reelect President Donald Trump.
In the poll conducted Feb. 24-27, 41 percent of registered voters said they would definitely or likely vote for Trump in 2020; 48 percent said they would definitely or likely vote for the Democratic nominee instead.
Among those polled, 58 percent said they don’t believe Trump is telling the truth about the Russia probe. And 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s national emergency declaration to find funding to build a border wall.
But Trump’s base remains strong; 88 percent of Republican voters approve of his presidency.
Other groups that were the fondest of Trump: Rural residents, 60 percent; whites without college degrees, 60 percent; men, 54 percent; and whites overall, 54 percent.
The majority of people who disapproved of Trump were members of a minority group: led by 88 percent of African-Americans and 64 percent of Latinos polled disapproved of Trump. Young voters — defined in this poll as those aged between 18 and 34 — also strongly disapproved of Trump (57 percent).
Trump’s overall job approval is at 46 percent. In NBC-WSJ polls, Trump’s approval rating has been above 40 percent for the past nine monthly polls.
The majority of Americans remain confident in the economy and believe there won’t be a recession next year.
The poll consisted of 900 adults, 720 registered voters, 247 Democratic primary voters and 210 Republican primary voters with an overall margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.Â
Those poll numbers are just bizarre.
I saw Michael Buble in concert in Detroit on Friday night. He has this thing for this tour where they pre-select someone from the audience to sing a song they love to sing in the shower. On Friday night, the woman who was chosen decided to sing an opera song. Michael tried mightily to persuade her to sing something everyone in the audience would know, but she would not be deterred. She was a good singer, but opera was not the smartest of song choices. After she finished, Michael said to the band/orchestra, “Do you know anything from 1635 that the audience might really like?” LOL!
handel put to music
psalm 110
Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
Sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.
The Lord said unto my Lord:
Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool.
so did Mozart and Vivaldi.
guess in those days it was hard to find lyricists and one had to recycle over and over the good stuff.
The Congressional Oversight Committee (Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat) question President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) about his former boss.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Michael Cohen testifying before Congress about allegations surrounding President Trump.
Southern Command’s new Dining Room. 4 days to the finish line!
Downstairs office
Craig, it’s great when a plan comes together!
Jace, that was simply a brilliant performance by all involved. It seemed as every member of the choir, every instrumentalist, had a direct connection with Maestro Gardiner who, in-turn, was wired to Handel himself. Well done!
All those classical composers who had ties directly or indirectly through their patrons to the church created masterpieces that had biblical themes but the works transcend the subject matter. Even heathens like me are moved by it. Handel’s Messiah stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best musical compositions ever written IMHO.Â
Lovely Jace
what a wonderful way to start of the week and the day
Jim Jordan ugh Ohio should be so embarrassedÂ
You mean the OSU wrestling coach? Â That Jim Jordan?
Absolutely beautiful Jace. Thank you for our amazing Sundays.
Thanks all. Glad you enjoyed the Handel. I am a little humbled when I realize that he composed this work at the ripe old age of twenty one!
Craig,
Thanks for the pictures. Looks as though progress is definitely taking place. As for yourself, do you have any elbow grease left?
wapo:
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he will vote for measure blocking Trump’s emergency declaration, paving way for passage
[…]
Paul (R-Ky.) said in a speech Saturday at the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he “can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president,” the Bowling Green Daily News reported.
“I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” Paul said, according to the newspaper. “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”
Paul joins fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) in opposing Trump’s move, a reflection of some resistance within the GOP to what lawmakers see as executive overreach and a test of the constitutional separation of powers.
The disapproval resolution has already passed the Democratic-controlled House and requires a simple majority to pass the GOP-led Senate. Fifty-three senators caucus with Republicans and 47 caucus with Democrats, meaning that four Republican defections would be enough to ensure passage.
While the resolution is likely to clear the Senate — an embarrassing rebuke to Trump, lawmakers in both chambers lack the votes to override a threatened presidential veto.
[continues]
21 ?!? How can that be right ?
A bit of arithmetic applied to yesterday’s poll shows that in the Dem race Undecided is twenty lengths in front, followed by Klobuchar, Harris, Booker, and Biden, in a tight pack. In the republican race Undecided is the only horse on the track. The rest are still in the stable.Â
politico:
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows 4 in 10 voters would vote to reelect President Donald Trump.
In the poll conducted Feb. 24-27, 41 percent of registered voters said they would definitely or likely vote for Trump in 2020; 48 percent said they would definitely or likely vote for the Democratic nominee instead.
Among those polled, 58 percent said they don’t believe Trump is telling the truth about the Russia probe. And 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s national emergency declaration to find funding to build a border wall.
But Trump’s base remains strong; 88 percent of Republican voters approve of his presidency.
Other groups that were the fondest of Trump: Rural residents, 60 percent; whites without college degrees, 60 percent; men, 54 percent; and whites overall, 54 percent.
The majority of people who disapproved of Trump were members of a minority group: led by 88 percent of African-Americans and 64 percent of Latinos polled disapproved of Trump. Young voters — defined in this poll as those aged between 18 and 34 — also strongly disapproved of Trump (57 percent).
Trump’s overall job approval is at 46 percent. In NBC-WSJ polls, Trump’s approval rating has been above 40 percent for the past nine monthly polls.
The majority of Americans remain confident in the economy and believe there won’t be a recession next year.
The poll consisted of 900 adults, 720 registered voters, 247 Democratic primary voters and 210 Republican primary voters with an overall margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.Â
Those poll numbers are just bizarre.
I saw Michael Buble in concert in Detroit on Friday night. He has this thing for this tour where they pre-select someone from the audience to sing a song they love to sing in the shower. On Friday night, the woman who was chosen decided to sing an opera song. Michael tried mightily to persuade her to sing something everyone in the audience would know, but she would not be deterred. She was a good singer, but opera was not the smartest of song choices. After she finished, Michael said to the band/orchestra, “Do you know anything from 1635 that the audience might really like?” LOL!
Pogo
Yes that Jim Jordan – he makes my skin crawl