I was checking out possible Christmas music but I think we should wait another week. So I looked in the “some time in the future” folder where I stick stuff I run across for enjoying at a later date. I hope this provides some calm as you recover from yesterdays hectic shopping. It did for me the other day
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E‑flat Major the “Emperor Concerto”, Rosalía Gómez Lasheras, the young lady playing the piano is 25 and she has been playing the piano since she was 5.
Enjoy, Jack
while that Beethoven vid is cuing up, here’s Saturday Night Live!!! last night:
Foreign leaders (Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd, James Corden) that were caught making fun of President Trump (Alec Baldwin) at the NATO summit continue their taunting in the cafeteria.
jack, thanks for providing us 40 minutes of mr. B which is a wonderful way to cleanse the psyche palette after that SNL silliness above.
Jack
Thank you for the continuing gift of great Sundays. A wonderful musician for a marvelous piece of music.
I LOVE Beethoven’s concertos… thanks Jack!
LvanB…….Top of the Line
Nietzsche said that music evolved upward until Beethoven after whom it began to devolve.
Non-hokey Western Movie of the Week
“The Left Handed Gun “
Paul Newman as Wm Bonney, John Dehner as Pat Garret. 1958
Written by Gore Vidal.
Good Job Jack!
Loved the SNL cold open. Was fitting.
Excellent performance, Jack. Had to leave this comment on the selection’s YouTube: “Mr Steinway & Sons should award Ms Ursuleasa that concert grand for her personal use along with all ancillary services required to keep its sound as pristine as in this performance.”
Just for fun, Waltzing Matilda as a violin classical piece.
Normally I would take the Badger loss in stride (phooey.) The second half was unwatchable (unlistenable) because of the slobbering over OSU’s various players. Wisconsin might as well as not come on the field in the second half –for all the commentators cared it could have been any team.
And I know how x-r feels about refs with their finger on the scales.
Flatus, I agree, There were several pianist I listened to playing the same piece but she had a fresh vibrancy that the others(though very good accomplish pianists) lack. It was fun litening to her and she is just getting started. Evidently the English speaking world hasn’t discovered her as she doesn’t have a wiki page in English.
Sturge, I don’t know if I agree with Nietzsche, but listening to the young lady play I noticed that Beethoven invented a lot of tricks that have put a lot of beans on musicians tables through the years.
Ya know, if it is a good lick……..
Jack
flatus & sturge, has this guy Jaime Harrison any chance against lindsey? wapo gave him a pretty good write-up:
Challenger takes on S.C. Senate race with rags-to-prominence story, record fundraising
A black democrat in S.C. can only win if there is humongously massive voter turnout. Given our current political landscape, and Linseed’s current rabidly pro-trump stance, its a long shot with a limb in the way but still within the realm of possibility.
So: a giant maybe but probably not.
He certainly has my vote and best wishes, but then I’d vote for a rotten turnip with Alzheimer’s over Linseed.
Another sad passing. Rene Auberjonois at 79
Pat, I, of course, agree with every carefully nuanced word from my sea-side compatriot. For patriotic Democrats, Lindsey has shown that he is a despicable scumbag.
2020’s Question of the Year:
Would John McCain ask South Carolinians to cast their Precious Votes for Lindsey Graham??
Agree or disagree with them, the Republican party was mostly honorable. My Army retiree son still admires colin Powell from that era. These days he loathes and detests Trump. It would seem that Colin agrees with him.
Colin Powell: The Republican Party Needs to “Get a Grip” and stand up to Trump.
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