title: NO BLOODSHED for ZIONISTS

author: Cori Ellison

text:
"In life, democracy.
In art, aristocracy."
--- Arturo Toscanini
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On 26 September 2000, the so-called Great Mickey (Mouse) Richter
performed a 'plug in', heroically, on behalf of Klaus Heiman [sic],
the so-called Authority behind ---naXos---:
http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0009D&L=opera-l&P=R10995
Thus spoke the authority:
"Most singers understand that recording opera is extremely expensive,
especially under our perfect studio (not live) conditions and are
happy with our modest flat fees. Look at our Fidelio cast! The bit
about being allowed only two or three takes and no chance of fancy
editing is nonsense ... artists are allowed as many takes as necessary
to get the music right. However, having said that, we expect our
artists to be well prepared unlike many big-name artists who rely on
the producer and editor to produce a good performance."
We ask:
1. Mr. Heiman seems to have contradicted himself by simultaneously
affirming that his artists are indeed allowed "fancy editing...to get
the music right" and ranting against the "many big-name artists who
rely on the producer and editor to produce a good performance." What
exactly is the difference? Isn't fancy editing what earns producers
and editors their bacon, be it at naXos or Lucifer Classics? Or is Mr.
Heiman whining because Lucifer's console is bigger than his?
2. Mr. Heiman seems to have fallen prey to the epidemic virus of
unfounded critical prejudice and the politics of defamation and
character-assassination (the rate of infection appears to be
abnormally high within the familial fraternity of
American/Anglosaxon/Anglophile critical bedfellows). His words can be
easily formulized: "Big Name + Big Label = Little Music (or Falsity)".
No need to state the converse: "Little/No Name + Little Label = Big
Music (or Truth)". Who exactly are these many unprepared big names?
And how, where, and when?
3. A few years back, the authority was also quoted in "The Boston
Globe" - this other 'plug in' courtesy of
CareerFaggot-turned-critic-turned-promoter Richard "local church mice
are world-class people too" Dyer. Lately,
Dyer has been heard advocating for the equal part Charity/Chimpanzee
Acts that are The Three Mo' Tenors, Andrea Bocelli, and Charlotte
Church.
["Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in
America", by Mark N. Grant, Northeastern University Press, 1998, ISBN
1-55553-363-9:  n-o-t  o-n-e  f-o-o-t-n-o-t-e  on Dyer --- and this
after a 25-year+ career behind him dedicated to latter-day
Anglo+Judeo+Homo-centric bitchery and dishonesty; and just as long
dedicated to sobbing after one Lucine Amara.]
But back to the authority:
"The market is shifting away from name artists, and the average music
lover is confused by bins crowded by recordings. What is the
difference between Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly
in a given piece? Whatever the difference is, it doesn't mean anything
to the average music lover who gives up and chooses our recording
because it is more reasonably priced, and the performance is just as
good. It is an absurdity for Plácido Domingo to sing 'The Barber of
Seville'; our recording is a better performance of the opera. If
Cheryl Studer were to come to me and ask to sing some of the operas
she has recorded, I wouldn't let her." {Author: Richard Dyer / Date:
19.01.1994 / Page: 61 / Section: Living Arts}
We comment and ask:
3A. Funny but we bet that the suits at Lucifer Classics swear
t-h-e-i-r  barber gives a better haircut. Not that some of us (not
nearly enough) give a damn about Sire Domingo, at least not since his
early 90s (and thereafter) publicity and musical circus prostitutions.
3B. Let us cut to the chase: we propose that one big reason for
the present-day crisis is that the ever-so-important anecdotal
experience of the live stage experiences  a-n-d  documented
legacies of certain important big-names (those immediately preceding
the generation of today's so-called "A List") literally fell through a
 g-e-n-e-r-a-t-i-o-n-a-l  c-r-a-c-k.  In the realm of opera, this
previous generation came "too soon" after the Marias and the Renatas
and the Joans and the Montserrats and the Vickys and the Mirellas and
the Regines and whoever....and "too late" for today's democratic
free-for-all (think of the deregulation of the airline industry in the
U.S.A. - surely it is cheaper to fly and with more options but the
experience is ghastly) in deadly mix with the quick fixes and
seductions of Hyper Public
Relations, Hyper Text, and Cyberspace. Few artists can survive without
some form of critical and popular encouragement. It became fashionable
sport (nah, Mob Rule - nah, Olympics) for too influential but equally
ignorant, tin-eared and incredibly, corrosively partial critics and
their bedroom partners to dismiss these artists' work faster than they
could say Compact Disc (and worse: to fully ignore too - consider the
phenomenon that is the Phenomenally Perverse Eclipsing by the press of
a certain
v-e-t-e-r-a-n  soprano whose stage appearances are pre-judged to be
just that: Appearances: Phantom Ships In The Night, when noticed ----
or to fully  d-e-n-y  the usual "critical analysis" - is that what it
is? - accorded minor lights ("Monsieur G could not sustain pitch
b-u-t  the Sicilian
understanding" [the same understanding which, according to the
experts, eludes fellow Southerner Riccardo Muti] - "Madame F [no other
soprano before or during Renée is known to have ever "taken
chances"] shrieked unnaturally, flatting two high A
naturals and her overall intonation was insecure too  b-u-t  the
gowns" - "Hausfrau V was in customary squally voice again last night
and her top sounded tired, though no fault of her own,  b-u-t  her
sofa scene was comfortably moving" - "Irish-American AFL-CIO Heroine F
[who, by the by, tries, and is carded, to "sing" "everything"] [no
other soprano before or during Lauren is known to have ever "taken
chances"] could not sing Reiza's music [she replaced
DeVoid, who had also cancelled all engagements in Vienna, and for the
2nd season in a row - not a bad thing when you try to remember those
Scheiße AIDAs at the MET where Crayola connected them dots and none of
the music - not to mention the brutal stupor that were
Pavarotti and the ever-accomodating Levine]  b-u-t  the visceral
collision") - "Madame Shout squalled an Elektra consistently below
pitch (that's about 75% of your evening) but no matter: the visceral
excitement of some level or other of on-pitch faithfulness to and by
die Juden and a few silent-movie camp gestures secured her
an unqualified triumph...and an onstage kiss from Jimmy Boy the
Paedophile (or rather, Jimmy the boy-paedophile - ladies and gents,
you too can have it all: from orchestras in Munich, Boston, and
naturally New York to standing Os to gushing
press coverage to state-sanctioned murder to Presidential Pardons (see
"Rich, Jonathan" - see "The Hassidic Four [that's right, not one not
two not three but four)" - see "Hillary 'some of my relatives are
Jews' Clinton" and the race for the NY State Senate]....provided you
are
"one of us" or "with us") --- but for how much longer? --- stay tuned
---....well, all that plus Gaby is getting better and better and
better, yes?" - "Madame Attila spreads her
top like butter on warm bread but her cool, Nordic, blonde looks
carried the night" - "The consensus that Madame
Shorties could not really sing Konstanze is questionable for she is a
gifted singer......but more importantly, her name is not Cheryl
Studer" - "Monsieur Hiccup proved once more that you can crack loud
and wide before a Manhattan audience of tourists as long as your name
is not Cheryl Studer; but more importantly, the loss of 95-plus
pounds, in cocktail with a widely broadcast the-dog-ate-the-homework
medication
Sob Story, are sufficient to satisfy the most discriminating demands
of the-below-IQ-of-47.5(that's 50% of something or other to
you)-and-minus set and anyday's coverage of the Arts in
the Jew York Times" - "Maestrisssssimo of Legend, Gilbert "Lego
Blocks" Kaplan, swears he can conduct but one piece of music and one
piece of
music alone but, as one of "our own", full coverage by the Jew York
Times is fully warranted - all that plus a recording under the
syphillitic Deutsche Grammophon" ---you know the skit--- why yes,
ladies and gents, even  these acts of levitation are denied Midland,
Michigan's Prodigal Daughter
--- But then, taking into account the desperate [in vain] efforts
toward reconstruction, toward opening new markets (undue over-exposure
in Arts journalism - over who counts - over what counts - and when and
where -being the final vestige of their former Imperial selves), what
is the
increasingly brilliant, independent-minded, impartial, cultured,
mature, and sympathetic ---right?--- Anglocentric Universe to do with
a creature who refuses categorization? - of what value or use is the
lady? - of what value or use is the artist? - who is neither English
(nor pretender)
n-o-r  r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t  n-o-r  c-i-t-i-z-e-n  n-o-r  D-a-m-e  nor
Faerie
Queene nor Greek (nor pretender) nor black-and-blue (nor pretender)
nor German (nor pretender) nor Austrian (nor pretender) nor
Kammersängerin nor French (nor pretender) nor Cinema Paradiso Italian
(nor pretender) nor Eastern European (nor pretender) nor
Spaniard/Latin American bombshell (they are the flavor of the moment)
nor Argentinian Tango nor East Coast Yiddishbbuk nor Anonymous 4 nor
Asian nor Canadian nor Aussie --- nor, most importantly, deemed
sufficiently  A-m-e-r-i-c-a-n  --- n-o-r  r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t  nor
MET-centric nor Manhattan/Queens/Brooklyn-ette nor Broadway belcher
nor Saint Francis-can nor Angelena nor Chicagoan nor Texan nor New
Mexican nor
Washingtonian nor Saint Louis Gal nor panderer nor tall nor thin nor
heroine-overdose chic nor blonde nor Blonde Ambition nor grotesque nor
grotesquely zaftig nor power hungry nor faghag nor lesbian nor cherub
nor hairy chested nor fashion rag nor glamour puss nor aspirant nor
aspirate nor potential nor promise (what you hear is what you get) nor
apology nor preserved museum mummy nor soccer mum nor sucker nor trend
nor hip nor H.I.P. nor castrata nor contralto nor countertenor nor
counterculture nor lyric mezzo nor soprano on the verge of a mezzo
breakdown nor vice versa nor chanteuse nor soubrette nor starlet nor
coquette nor canary nor woodbird nor nightingale nor tic toc tic toc
tic toc nor geriatric nor vanity record label owner nor
transposer-conductor-intendant-voicecompetitor-crossover-moviemogul-realestatemagnate-restaurateur-sexsymbol-jetsetter
(all in one and one for all and all in a night) nor lazy nor shrinking
violet nor daddy's lil' lass nor mystic nor minimalist nor hyperbole
nor Überfeminist nor Konzept nor dreams and fables nor metaphysics nor
philosopher ("Philosophier' Er nicht, Herr Schatz...") nor scholar
(nor pretender) nor didact nor pedant nor peasant nor composer (you
know, like Callas, who wrote all them masterpieces now falsely
ascribed to one Bellini, one Donizetti, and one other Verdi) nor
paladin of the glorious avant-garde nor rarity rat nor rat tat tat nor
archaeologist nor room temperature nor Sponsored By Talbots nor
Anglican Service nor Vivaldi postcard nor Handel MBA [opera's answer
to the 80s business phenomenon - everyone has one] nor Britten MD nor
Janácek Nobel Prize nor cliché nor stunt nor parody nor caricature nor
Disney nor Ozzie & Harriett nor Will & Grace nor smiley face nor
horseface nor humor monger (in any event, not the shtick you grew up
with) nor camp nor marketing-promo tramp nor trademark nor
image-chaser nor
sensation-seeker nor Eurogarbage nor ez-listenin' nor pleasure ride
nor automatic cruise control nor sentiment-al nor cripple nor married
to one nor victim nor tearjerker nor nostalgia trip nor tourist trap
nor good-cause nor fund-raiser (so to speak) nor social worker nor
Katie Couric nor Walk For A Cure nor We Are The World nor Sound Of
Music nor Under nor Over The Rainbow nor Rainbow Coalition nor
Summertime nor Supper Time (nice tunes....if you can) nor fruit salad
nor cotton candy nor peaches in double cream nor café au lait nor dark
chocolate nor civil/human rights centerfold nor gulag survivor nor
married to one nor refugee nor married to one nor UN Ambassador nor
married to one nor member of any one precious special interest group
(you know who you are)  n-o-r  m-a-r-r-i-e-d  t-o
o-n-e  n-o-r  s-t-r-a-t-e-g-i-c-a-l-l-y  w-e-d-d-e-d  nor politician
nor married to one nor inter-national political crisis parasite nor
ad-minister of propaganda nor grassroots peace activist (you do know,
don't you, that them ancient favourite warhorses of yours composed by
Beethoven and Brahms and Wagner and Liszt were inspired by the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- ask Mehta and Señor Honorario und
Tolerant Barenboim --- by the
by, in a recent Chicago program of Hugo Wolf's Lieder, the "Great
Jewish Musician" [and we thought it un-Klezmer to allude to this
musician's other career] in harmony with his German/Christian
sub-ordinates - a "physically handicapped baritone" and an "underpitch
soprano" (see "Kubiak, David") - were heard "r-e-c-l-a-i-m-i-n-g  the
true meaning of the 'heilge Deutsches Kunst'" --- again, see "Kubiak,
David" --- please note that no one else before GJM had accomplished
nearly as much, and in a mere evening - of course, we know now that
Wolf wrote his songs inspired by populations everywhere holding hands
- to promote future handholding) nor married to one nor Adler Fella
nor Crayola Opera Program alumna nor
Cardiff-VeraRosza-Domingo-GeorgeLondon-RichieTucker-BelleSilverman-Albanese-Horne-Scotto-vonStade-Heggie
groupie nor traveler along the Anglo Silk Road --- the
LandOfOz-BerlinStaatsoperUDL-LaMonnaie-ENO-Glyndebourne-NYCO-Glimmerglass-StLouis-SantaFe-SanDiego-DallasO-HoustonGO-FloridaGO-n-such
workshop ghettoes.
[Imagine, if you dare.]
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E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
E-N-V-Y = D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N
but
S-I-L-E-N-C-E = D-E-A-T-H
Enter into the equation the contemptibly stupid (discerning,
discerning) audiences who (wanted to and still do) believe everything
they read...and voilà, the science gives the (false)
i-m-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n  of yielding the expected (forced) hubris. Then
add the ones who stayed away from attending these artists'
performances because they were simply told to do so (in so many
words). Never mind the  c-o-w-a-r-d-s  who  n-e-v-e-r  attended but
who later saw fit to publish obituaries passing for legitimate
eyewitness reports (see "Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical
Music Criticism in
America", 1998, by Mark N. Grant, and look up "Dyer, Richard"). Never
mind the  h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-s  who, in addition to prematurely and
irresponsibly issuing death certificates (see "Davis, Peter G."),
years later were caught with their pants down performing auto-erotica
to the tune of "Returns Triumphantly!" (see "Davis, Peter G."). Little
wonder many ceased listening --- and begin listening with others' ears
they did.  But leave it to the bloodless (and if you don't have blood
you don't need a heart and if you don't have blood you will find
yourself thirsty, very thirsty, guaranteed) - it is in fact their
exclusive province - to accomplish such feats.
No, they were/are not Maria or Renata or Joan or Leonie or Gwyneth and
why should they be? --- Take the particularly complex case of a
fascinatingly complex, yet elemental, yet thoroughly modern, and yet
not, artist (and most private woman), Cheryl Studer --- was/is the
backlash really for l-a-c-k  o-f  q-u-a-l-i-t-y  or  l-a-c-k  o-f
a-r-t-i-s-t-i-c  w-o-r-t-h?
A decade or so later there's a
perceptible sense of panic and fatigue among critics, industry folk,
and fans alike, most
shockingly noticeable within the gated communities of the old and the
jaded, who can be heard loudly cheerleading anyone (and we mean
anyone)....
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
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[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[....as long as their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer.]
[God Willing.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[And yet more Enchantment courtesy of the Panacea/Schadenfreude of
Cheryl Studer-free zones/ground zeroes.]
[God Willing.]
[Young Ones - Do not be duped by the hollow enthusiasms of the age ---
ever seen a sad clown?]
[But now, oh today....Music and Art....or rather, what passes for
it....and every new product or stage appearance tossed our way by the
Star System we hate to love (certainly a system long preceding but
fatally ran to the ground by the prissiness of political correctness
and the Gestapo tactics of the instinct/thought-control police, in
concert with the 'World Music Congress' - the Rudases, the Sire
Jonases,
the Mehtas, the Holenders (whose nose of Middle Eastern provenance is
long and arrogant enough to sniff all the way to Berlin), the Levines,
the Maazels, the Heymanns, the Previns, the self-professed rap-music
fan von
Dohnanyis of the world (uncle
must be spinning in his ashes - ladies and gentlemen, more often than
we are led to believe, death CAN be in vain), The Three or Four or
Five or Six or Seven Whores
- we are losing count -, Best Friends & Co. Inc. Ltd. S.A. GmbH - the
Ozawas and the Gergievs too are major shareholders (and puppets) in
this "Juderei" - that's right, jUdErEi - we repeat: all this JuDeReI)
- i.e., by
the Star System of Bocelli, of course, or Hampson (now a pretty much
undisputed by-the-book Straussian, Wagnerian  a-n-d ...hear
hear...Verdian...of Stature, don't you know) or the Alagnas (a
f-a-k-e recording of Verdi's -Trovatore- for Sire Tony/EMI --- Grecian
Approximation No. XXV - we have lost count - has not sung Leonora
where it counts, on the stage) or the other Bocelli comrade,
Fleming....well, all of it  h-a-s  sudden Meaning and Necessity, so
the public relationists tell us....the Magic courtesy,  n-o-t  because
of
especially great voices or exceptional interpretive forces or
personalities or even of remotely acceptable  n-e-w  music, but
because:
NUMBER 1:  their names are  n-o-t  Cheryl Studer
and
NUMBER 2:  ...*in good portion and out of
proportion* the promo op-catchpenny that has become 9.11 --- a
monstrous crime monstrously debased by the Infernal Spinning Wheel of
commerce and avarice and revenge and murder (widely disguised as
justice) --- a tragedy now symbiotically hijacked to peddle everything
from Arms Races to Far Right-ism (see "Sharon, Ariel" --- how come we
don't hear strings of consistently shrill High Cs crying for  h-i-s
removal? --- this time, however, we applaud Barenboim for being
practically the only one publicly playing fiddle
on the roof of the problem) to Nationalism to Requiems to
Anglo-Zionist Terrorism --- the latter conducted both musically and
extra-curricularly, most prominently with (critical mass-destruction)
heavy-metal made in the squeaky clean U.S. of A. and paid for with
y-o-u-r  humble American tax dollar (as if you had a choice) and the
blood of  y-o-u-r  sons and daughters. --- So why won't Israel and its
Business/Washington lobbyists fight their next door neighbors, which
includes Iraq, all by themselves and with  t-h-e-i-r  o-w-n  currency
and leave us all  a-l-o-n-e  a-n-d  i-n  p-e-a-c-e?]
[Consequently, would that  t-h-e  o-t-h-e-r  terrorists went home
too.]
[In other words, and in order of appearance...
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
NO BLOOD FOR THE JOEY LIEBERMANS
NO BLOOD FOR THE PAUL WOLFOWITZES
NO BLOOD FOR THE ARI FLEISHERS
NO BLOOD FOR A MERE SANDBOX
NO BLOOD FOR ISRAEL
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
NO BLOOD FOR VENGEANCE
]
[Discuss, if you dare.]
[About the new studio-product (this is what we call them fakery, no?)
from EMI
---Idomeneo---, we are beginning to read puff like "a recording that
n-e-e-d-e-d  to be made." --- after all, it
contains the antipodean missionary of all things English, Sire
Charles; British Will o' Wisp Bostridge; Bocelli collaborator
Frittoli; and, to top it all, the New (Age) Callas - the
organically-grown, FDA approved, anodyne, pastel, drab as
damp cardboard, and dull as fishwater LetItRain Hunt(hyphen - I
married a techie with composer pretensions + I too have a Sob Story to
tell - mine is Breast Cancer - what is yours?) Lieberson.  But do not
for a second believe the ad-men....for this product is yet more of the
ho-hum variety.]
[And oh yes, LetItRain is an  "a-r-t-i-s-t", sensitive and musical -
albeit a very part-time one at that - but please please please notice
that very very very few others are as musical, let alone sensitive and
artistic].
[About the new DECCA ---Cocksucker Blues---, we are already reading
fluff like "A New  F-i-r-s-t  L-a-d-y  of Bel Canto - Renée Fleming
very nearly manages to shake the insistent ghost of Maria Callas."
(see "
www.andante.com
") --- But we (not enough of us) are neither deaf
nor naïve nor stupid. You see, n-e-v-e-r  e-v-e-r  f-o-r-g-e-t  that
sopranos of the calibre of Cheryl and Maria, bruised of voice and
heart or not, n-e-v-e-r  e-v-e-r  s-t-o-o-p-e-d  this low (below the
navel) in the style department. But, after all, the new product
(scooped up 3 years ago) is being sold under a neon sign that reads
"Bel Canto", complete with
a $2 rebate incentive  b-e-l-o-w  its reduced repo artistic sale
value. You know, in the manner of the stereo-typical toupéed and
polyester-clad used-car salesman - insincere, cajoling, slimy,
slippery, sleazy, sticky -- and that's the singing -- a raw deal.]
Blitzkrieg-style Public Relations, Marketing, and now
Blue-Collar/Working-Class Cheap Labor (and the aesthetics, or lack of,
of - see "Flanigan, Lauren" - see "Radvanovsky, Sondra" - "see Goerke,
Christine" - see "Slavs") have been summoned to the cause of salvaging
something or other from the debris of these self-appointed arbiters of
taste and self-avowed "opera/music lovers'" own making. And so the
armies of
businessmen have landed triumphantly with portfolios chock-full with
the truly untriumphant, the amateurs, the pedigree-less, the
unaccomplished, the homogeneous, the vocally faceless, the emaciated,
the pretty, the photogenic, the grotesque too, the church rodents, the
H.I.P.-voiced, the H.I.P.-mannered, the pedigree-less, the correct,
the obedient, the mega amplified, the firefighters, the policemen, the
construction workers, the factory slaves, the custodians, the
industrial quality, the white trash, the divas next door; the divas
next door with the cute children as gimmicks; the divas next door who
are so nice and behave so well and who must reassure us about it; the
divas next door who seek psychotherapy and then have the distaste to
announce it; the divas next door who relax to the Dixie Chicks; the
vedettes next door who love all that jazz and then scat and squat
through  e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g  that is European  a-n-d  Classical (and
not) --- but then, in music that requires precisely that, the phlegm
gets in the way of that thang called swing; the divas next door who
thrive on wrestling, meatloaf, and fish n' chips --- and show it; the
divas next
door who marry well, transgenderly; the divas next door who, although
already in their 40s and beyond, must appease us by "taking baby steps
to protect their voices" and who swear that that's why they will still
be in their prime in extreme old age; the divas next door who swear we
will want to hear them then; the optically challenged, the physically
handicapped, the sob stories, more sob stories, the pedigree-less, the
pedigree-less, the pedigree-less, and yet more of that. And some more
sob stories. And not to be missed: the Teddy Bears (think of - well
not really, since you can't - the cancellations, the vocal troubles,
the gross embarrassments of stunt-ed live programs - everything from
Beg Your Indulgences to Public Regrets to Tosti to Walkouts - by, for
instance, Juan Dieguito Flórez, Domingo, Terfel and Heppner - no
matter - the insulted audiences correspond to their cheating with
tears and Standing Os --- but no surprise here, for it is nothing but
another perversion of our desensitized, demoralized, diseased,
frivolous, diluted, and vulgar days --- f-u-c-k, even Joseito
"Leukemia Sob Story" Carreras became the object of one of these
demonstrations - and this in the enlightened and improved and newly
innocent and important again (so it
goes) Salzburg of the summer of two-thousand-and-two-after-christ).
And thus today's so-called "A-List" (really, nothing but a paid
announcement transmitted by the "Ass-ociated Press"), the P®ops, the
Pops, the Popp Clones, the Grümmer Clones, the Callas Clones, the
Tebaldi Clones, the Steber Clones, the Schwarzkopf Clones, the Price
Clones, the Cut n' Paste Composites, the Fischer-Dieskau Clones, the
Furtwängler Clones --- poor, pitiful facsimiles  a-l-l ---, the
Little Names, the Wannabes, the Crossover Hustlers, the Bubblegum, the
New Age Mongrels, the
Postmoderns, the Postmortems, the Multiculturalists, the Community
Outreachers, the Soundbites, the Marketing Love Couples/Traumpaars,
the Divine, the Fabulous, the Delicious, and the Little Labels That
Could all have it relatively easy in comparison to that preceding
generation. And the critical standards --- what standards? - whose?
--- have reformed, or rather, have doubled and tripled and....But
injury is often prone to insult. Hell, standards have liquified and
then evaporated vis a vis the new generation. It is no longer Sound
Music Criticism or Analysis but Lowest-Common-Denominator Public
Relations Spin [and worse: the fixation with that elusive something
known as
---technique--- technique and organization and perfection as ends in
themselves: music-making as athletic match: missing the forest for the
trees --- but this is another angle for another day]. So much so that
it has become strangely and suddenly  K-o-s-h-e-r  once more (Jesus!,
how many more times are we going to hear about market
over-saturation?) to make records (remember when you and I were
advised to swiftly  r-e-j-e-c-t, wholesale, them records [or
anything containing Cheryl Studer, for that matter?] --- oh, something
about  digital and illusion and un-necessary and in-competent and
im-personal and contrived and in-experienced and un-felt and
perfect and dull and null and this and that and that and this -
beautiful
even - artistic even - you know, the toxic byproduct of uncontained
Kapitalismus - the same Kapitalismus that gave us such goodies as
Meyerbeer,
penicillin, opera glasses, the megaphone, the horn, the microphone,
the photograph, the ("fideistic") Mapleson cylinders, the phonograph,
the light bulb, animated pictures, the telegraph, the typewriter,
carbon paper, the telephone, the clock, the metronome, the radio, the
television, faster trains, the automobile, the jet plane, robots,
rockets, missiles, bombs, Star Wars, frying bacon, monaural sound,
analog tech, reel-to-reels, 8-tracks, the cassette, the LP, stereo
sound, surround sound, faxes, overnight mail, the (unfortunate and
devastating to the testimonials of a vast majority of contemporary
artists) digital tech, the PC, laptops, lapdogs, the CD, the walkman,
the minidisc, the CD-ROM, the famous (pitch re-engineered) Richter
CD-ROMs, the (disgracefully influential,
sound-engineering-bag-of-tricks-wise) DECCA/Solti Ring, naXos,
andante.com
, 12,000 other music websites, the pirates, special
effects, the VHS, HTML, the WWW, Apples, TV dinners, Windows, the cell
phone, the LD, the DVD, MP3s, Opera In The Original (that's English to
you,
naturally and perennially), CNN operas, Vilar titles, Vilar
entitlements, multitasking, micromanaging, acoustically enhanced opera
houses and concert halls, euphemisms, virtual reality, cloning,
artificial intelligence, Callas martyrs, Caruso, Ponselle, Callas,
more Callas, Flagstad, Nilsson, more EMI Callas
re-re-re-re-re-releases, yet more Sony Glenn Gould
re-re-re-re-re-compilations, etc. - and of course, the same
Kapitalismus that has transmitted the Oh So Long Anticipated, Oh So
Extensive, Oh So Very Important --- and, at last!, Oh So Necessary ---
recorded statements from, for example and randomly, Danny Boy
Barenboim,
Zubin, Ozawa, Renée, Aprile [these days reduced - or is it enhanced? -
to
croon, pathetically, opposite Danny Boy The 9.11 NYPD Singin' Cop],
Alessandra, "Marilyn Monroe Purr" Debbie (see "Ross, Alex") - (a
f-a-k-e  recording of R. Strauss' -Friedenstag- for Sinopoli/DGG ---
"...Deborah Voigt's Maria [which was in fact dubbed in after the
recording was completed, after
the original soprano had dropped out]...." -'Fanfare', Sep/Oct 2002,
p. 214), Cathy, Kathy, Jane, Ruthie Ann, "Veteran Wagnerian" Karita
(see CareerFaggot-turned-critic-turned-promoter
"Tommasini, Anthony") - (a  f-a-k-e  recording of Schoenberg's
-Gurrelieder- for Sire Simon/EMI -
http://andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=17979
), Violeta, Waltraud -
and much much more) ----- for naXos, Rare Opera,
Mom & Pop, even for Lucifer Classics.  No matter.
[But......we are afraid it's  t-o-o  l-a-t-e  --- because the
registers, they ain't ringin' (and all too often, we regret to
announce, not just the cash ones).]
3C. How exactly is naXos alleviating the crisis of overcrowding and
confusion among consumers? In opera titles alone, they have recorded
yet  a-n-e-w:  Boheme, Fidelio, Butterfly, Tosca, Flying Dutchman,
Barber of
Seville, Aida, Rigoletto, Magic Flute, and on and on and on. Correct
us if we are wrong but these bread and butter works were not lacking
in existing documentation, whether historical or not, hysterical or
not, distinguished or not, low end or not. And the combined sad
efforts from naXos simply do not measure up. Why pay less, then, when
you can get better and more for twice the price?
3D. "Oh but it does mean something, it does", we say. So the "average
music lover" has become the barometer of quality and relevance? Indeed
they don't deserve Muti, Abbado, or Chailly (however much they deserve
the three-minute-aria-cum-top-ten-hit). And is the Hulun Hu Tympany
Orchestra really better than Amsterdam, Dresden, Berlin or Vienna?
(although, truth be told, too many of us have heard the Vienna, for
one, play and sound like a colony of monkeys under the stick shift of
a colonized but loyal to the crown, and thus celebrated, Indian
cabbie).
3E. And Cheryl Studer, she's not one of the unwashed, is she? Were
they her contemporaries, would Mr. Heiman have singled out Callas,
Tebaldi, Sutherland, or Caballé, to name but a few, in this manner?
After all, they were/are *Daughters Of Lucifer*, to our benefit.
Presumably naXos treats its "illustrious" roster with more dignity,
respect, and vocal support. Speaking of vocal support, perhaps the
crafty (and reptilian) Mr. Heiman is unaware that *his own* Floria
Tosca (Madame Nelly Miri-a-e-i-o-u --- "más sabe el burro que tú")
reportedly bombed in the same role in Orange, France in the year 2000
a-n-d  as Norma at the ROH, London, also in 2000. However, the Tosca
and Norma catastrophes strangely failed to make a dent in the armory
of the "cognoscenti" and their media spokespeople. And it is not so
widely known that Madame M has encountered more stage catastrophes
since then. For those not "in the know", Madame M is said to be the
Bastard Child of the Incestuous Union of the Twins Callas and Heiman,
now all grown and matured into a very 'Rare Opera' singer complete
with numerous fancifully edited recordings to her name. No matter.
4. Many of us have heard naXos' Caruso edition (not that the
long-deceased tenor is remotely a Heiman discovery/original). We
wonder what Mr. Heiman's authoritative producers and editors (and his
Public Relationists) would have made of the great man today for
violating at least a couple of standards of sound conduct:
throat-clearing smack in the middle of a take and a glaring false
entry at the beginning of another? And what of the poor pianist?
Good God.
----------------------------
Considering the Grand Meltdown (not lacking the so called "Grand
Manner") of new opera recordings on Compact Disc from the Universal
Classics family of labels (DGG, DECCA, Philips)....and now apparently
EMI Classics too....let us take a long and hard (just as you like it,
in fact) look at the following
inventory ---
* Title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, rec 8/90, London SO,
Marin, Lucifer Classics
* Hanna Glawari in Lehar's Lustige Witwe, rec 1/94, Vienna PO,
Gardiner, Lucifer Classics
* Countess in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, rec 1-2/94, Vienna PO, Abbado,
Lucifer Classics
* Countess in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, rec 5/91, Vienna PO, Abbado,
Lucifer Classics VHS
* Title role in Rossini's Semiramide, rec 7/92, London SO, Marin,
Lucifer Classics
* Florinda in Schubert's Fierrabras, rec 5/88, Chamber Orch of Europe,
Abbado, Lucifer Classics
* Title role in R. Strauss' Salome, rec 12/90, Deutsche Oper Berlin,
Sinopoli, Lucifer Classics
* Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, rec 6/93, Metropolitan Opera, Levine,
Lucifer Classics
* Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto Act III, rec 9/91, Metropolitan Opera,
Levine, Lucifer Classics
* Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, rec 5/93, Opéra Bastille, Chung,
Lucifer Classics
* Violetta in Verdi's Traviata, rec 1/91, Metropolitan Opera, Levine,
Lucifer Classics
* Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, rec '88, Philharmonia, Sinopoli,
Lucifer Classics
* Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, rec '89, Bayreuth, Sinopoli,
Lucifer Classics
* Senta in Wagner's fliegende Holländer, rec 1/91, Deutsche Oper
Berlin, Sinopoli, Lucifer Classics
* Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, rec 5/89, Metropolitan Opera,
Levine, Lucifer Classics
* Title role in Floyd's Susannah, rec 3/94, Opéra de Lyon, Nagano,
Lucifer Classics
* Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, rec 2/91, Toulouse, Plasson, Lucifer
Classics
* Salomé in Massenet's Hérodiade, rec 11-12/94, Toulouse, Plasson,
Lucifer Classics
* Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, rec 9/90, Vienna PO, Muti,
Lucifer Classics
* Konstanze in Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail, rec 4/91, Vienna
Symphony, Weil, Lucifer Classics
* Queen of the Night in Mozart's Zauberflöte, rec 7/89, ASMF,
Marriner, Lucifer Classics
* Giulietta in Offenbach's Contes d'Hoffmann, rec 87/88/89, Dresden
Staatskapelle, Tate, Lucifer Classics
* Matilde in Rossini's Guglielmo Tell, rec 12/88, La Scala, Muti,
Lucifer Classics (also on VHS & DVD)
* Madama Cortese in Rossini's Viaggio a Reims, rec 10/92, Berlin PO,
Abbado, Lucifer Classics
* Title role in Spohr's Jessonda, rec '84, ORF Orchestra, Albrecht,
Lucifer Classics
* Chrysothemis in R. Strauss' Elektra, rec 1/90, Bavarian RSO,
Sawallisch, Lucifer Classics
* Chrysothemis in R. Strauss' Elektra, rec 6/89, Vienna PO, Abbado,
Lucifer Classics
* Empress in R. Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten, rec 2-12/87, Bavarian
RSO, Sawallisch, Lucifer Classics
* Empress in R. Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten, rec '92, Vienna PO,
Solti, Lucifer Classics
* Title role in Verdi's Aida, rec 6/94, Covent Garden, Downes,
Lucifer Classics
* Odabella in Verdi's Attila, rec 6-7/89, La Scala, Muti, Lucifer
Classics
* Odabella in Verdi's Attila, rec 6/90, La Scala, Muti, Lucifer
Classics Video
* Elena in Verdi's Vespri Siciliani, rec 12/89-1/90, La Scala, Muti,
Lucifer Classics (also on VHS & DVD)
* Drolla in Wagner's Die Feen, rec 7/83, Bavarian RSO, Sawallisch,
Lucifer Classics
* Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin (from Bayreuth), rec 6/90, Bayreuth,
Schneider, Lucifer Classics (also on VHS)
* Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin (from Vienna), rec '90, Vienna PO,
Abbado, Lucifer Classics VHS & DVD
* Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger, rec 4/93, Bavarian State Opera,
Sawallisch, Lucifer Classics
* Irene in Wagner's Rienzi, rec 7/83, Bavarian State Opera,
Sawallisch, Lucifer Classics
* Ortlinde in Wagner's Walküre, rec 8/81, Dresden Staatskapelle,
Janowski, Lucifer Classics
* Sieglinde in Wagner's Walküre, rec 2-3/88, Bavarian RSO, Haitink,
Lucifer Classics
* Zemlinsky's Der Geburtstagder Infantin, rec 83, Berlin RSO,
Albrecht, Lucifer Classics
* Coloratura Arias by Bellini (Sonnambula/Norma), Verdi
(Traviata/Trovatore), Donizetti (Lucia/Lucrezia Borgia), Rossini
(Barbiere/Semiramide), rec 4/89, Munich RSO, Ferro, Lucifer Classics
* Mozart Arias
(Entführung/Zauberflöte/Idomeneo/Nozze/Giovanni/Clemenza/Cosi), rec
9/89, ASMF, Marriner, Lucifer Classics
* R. Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder/Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder/Isolde's
Liebestod, rec 1/93, Dresden Staatskapelle, Sinopoli, Lucifer
Classics
* Isolde's Liebestod, rec 1/88, Bavarian RSO, Tate, Lucifer Classics
* Wagner Gala (Tannhäuser/Lohengrin/Meistersinger/Walküre), rec 12/93,
Berlin PO, Abbado, Lucifer Classics (also on VHS)
* First Europakonzert - in Prague (Mozart: "Non mi dir"/"Ch'io mi
scordi di te-Non temer amato bene"), rec 5/91, Berlin PO, Abbado,
Lucifer Classics HS & DVD
* Covent Garden Gala (Otello/Traviata/Fledermaus), rec 7/88, Covent
Garden, Barker, Lucifer Classics
* Sacred Works (Bach/Schubert/Mendelssohn/Handel/Mozart/Gounod/Faure/Poulenc/Bernstein/Bruch),
rec 3/91, London SO, Marin, Lucifer Classics
* Samuel Barber Songs, rec 9/92, Browning (R.I.P.), Emerson String
Quartet,
Lucifer Classics
* Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, rec 8/91, Vienna PO, Levine, Lucifer
Classics
* Beethoven in Berlin (Ah! Perfido/Choral Fantasy/Egmont), rec 12/91,
Berlin PO, Abbado, Lucifer Classics (also on VHS)
* Brahms' German Requiem, rec 10/92, Berlin PO, Abbado, Lucifer
Classics
* Schubert Lieder, rec 1/90, Gage, Lucifer Classics
* Salzburg Recital (R. Strauss/Schubert/Debussy), rec 8/92, Gage,
Lucifer Classics
* Mahler's Klagende Lied, rec 11/90, Philharmonia, Sinopoli, Lucifer
Classics
* Mahler's Symphony No. 2, rec 11/92, Vienna PO, Abbado, Lucifer
Classics
* Mahler's Symphony No. 8, rec 11-12/90, Philharmonia, Sinopoli,
Lucifer Classics
* Mahler's Symphony No. 8, rec 1/94, Berlin PO, Abbado, Lucifer
Classics
* Verdi's Requiem, rec 6/87, La Scala, Muti, Lucifer Classics
* Verdi's Requiem, rec 11/91, Vienna PO, Abbado, Lucifer Classics
* Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, rec 4/89, Philadelphia Orchestra, Muti,
Lucifer Classics
* Bruckner's Mass in F Min/Mozart's Vespers, rec 3/77, MIT Choral
Society, Oliver, Lucifer Classics
* Donizetti's Requiem, rec 1/84, Bamberg SO, Gómez-Martínez, Lucifer
Classics
* von Schweinitz's Messe Op. 21, rec 7/84, RSO Berlin, Albrecht,
Lucifer Classics
* R. Strauss Choral Works, rec 9/84, RIAS Kammerchor, Gronostay,
Creed, Lucifer Classics
"L-A  Ú-L-T-I-M-A..........que ríe, ríe mejor."
Bravissima Cheryl Studer, verlorene Tochter.  Very beautifully and
exquisitely done.  A most wonderful, exemplary, and unforgettable
legacy, a legacy of  e-x-c-e-p-t-i-o-n-a-l  q-u-a-l-i-t-y  a-n-d
d-i-s-t-i-n-c-t-i-o-n --- the work of a consummate artist.  Thank you.
Thank you for Dedication, Seriousness, and Integrity.  Thank you for
remaining True to your self, to the artform, and to  m-u-s-i-c.  Good
Music.  Thank you for a Universe of Sound and Texture and Expression
a-l-l  o-f  y-o-u-r  o-w-n.  Thank you for  g-e-n-e-r-o-s-i-t-y.
Thank you for  H-i-g-h  I-n-d-i-v-i-d-u-a-l-i-t-y.
And thank you too, Universal, EMI and Sony, for having had the
foreskin (er, foresight) to recognize and capture genius in our midst
(now that these dinosaurs' [delusional] populist causes, causes
palatable to the
Anglocentric and their Axes (oh irony!) Of Love, have caused them to
trim....ouch....their future....for that squeaky clean look and
sound....and potent-ial self-extinction).
----------------------------
And now, a little something to ponder about ---
"Things got pretty rough at the last Philharmonic concert. A bitter
battle broke out over Liszt's 'Mephisto Waltz.' It was the standees
and a part of the gallery, resolved to give their all, against the
parterre, the mountain against the marsh. On the one side we had
youth, intelligence, idealism, good judgement, enthusiasm and
conviction; on the other dullness, frivolity, debility, ignorance,
arrogance, materialism. Such were the contending forces.
There was a lot of applause, but a lot of hissing, too. Since, as we
all know, these Semitic hissing sounds traditionally served the
'chosen people' as shibboleth in combat with their neighbors, it was
not hard to determine who it was that so emphatically proclaimed both
their dissent and their identity. Indeed, these 'chosen people'
habitually make a great show of their exquisite taste. They are always
ready to recognize in Beethoven a good composer. And yet there are
those who see nothing heroic in the courage of such convictions. What,
then, can we call courageous? Let it pass. These excellent and
generous souls will surely enrich the National Guard with a doughty
legion of tailors, and thus be of service to the state. You can take
an oath on that.
To take seriously the ludicrous behavior of these worthy parterre
subscribers toward the works of a genius such as Liszt would be like
punishing children's bad manners with the rack. We are not so cruel.
But it is well to look for what it is that causes the public to behave
like an ill-mannered child and to think like a well-groomed cad. How
is it, we ask, that Liszt's compositions are rejected by the majority
of our degenerate public? The answer is made uncommonly easy for me,
since it is contained in the question. But then why, someone could
object, do Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, etc., appeal to this same
degenerate public? The objection is so banal, the answer so obvious,
that any blockhead could handle it easily. But should someone choose
to ask me what I mean by degenerate public, I accept the challenge
gladly, and am ready with the answer: a degenerate public is one that
is content to be the ward of a degenerate press.
It is a public of newspaper readers. That is the source of all other
evils. That is the source of the thoughtlessness, frivolity,
dependence, distraction, insensibility and, above all, the bias
against those works condemned to death by the press. If this were an
ingenuous public, it would not tolerate for another day the shameful
chains it now fastens to itself voluntarily. But the habit of
cud-chewing has already become too delightful to permit the slightest
effort to use one's own teeth. Thus, this public receives its
impression of a work of art not directly, but from the review in the
newspaper, to be had in concrete form for a patent. Go then to the
apothecary, and buy yourselves some nux vomica or some other purgative
if you want to have an impression. The effect remains essentially the
same, and you spare yourselves the price of the ticket. And so a
public, the despicable tool of a despicable press, will pass judgement
on the works of a genius! A sluggardly mob that enters the concert
hall as if it were a toy store, reduces the noblest possessions of
mankind to idle diversions, and then, if that is not satisfactory,
arrogantly turns its back on the work of art and ceremoniously
hisses...fie, fie, and once again fie!!!
Given such circumstances, it is hardly surprising that Liszt's
original compositions have excited a lively 'for' and 'against'
whenever they have been played in Vienna. This time the applause from
the standees was still far from constituting a demonstration when a
few hot headed Philistines signalled, stupidly enough, the shibboleth.
That was pouring oil on fire. The applause grew louder, and rightly
so, since it was directed no less at the splendid accomplishment of
the orchestra and its conductor, Hans Richter, than at the work
itself. And did not the wonderful performance of this Lisztian
composition merit the most extravagant praise? What did Liszt's
admirers do to excite the drowsy parterre to a counter-demonstration?
They were simply giving due honor to service rendered."
Hugo Wolf
Vienna, 25 April 1886
----------------------------
A HARPSICHORD GLISTENS AND TRIUMPHS
You and I, we know the climate is profoundly  d-e-g-e-n-e-r-a-t-e
 when a nobody of a harpsichordist and her twinklin' little instrument
command more respect and accolades and analysis from 'the chosen
people' (The Rake's Progress --
http://www.operajaponica.org/reviews/dvd/rake96dvd.htm
) than those
ass-igned a certain veteran soprano. Consider this shibboleth ---
http://www.operajaponica.org/reviews/dvd/aidaroh94dvd.htm
Verdi: AIDA
Reviewed by Michael Richter, 27 May 2002
Cast: Cheryl Studer (Aida), Luciana d'Intino (Amneris), Dennis O'Neill
(Radames), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark
Beesley (Il Re), John Marsden (Messenger), Yvonne Barclay
(Sacerdotta), Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, Sir Edward Downes (conductor). Elijah Moshinsky (director)
Thus spoke our Mickey Mouse hero:
{{One can now prove that it is possible to make a performance of Aida
dull. Singing and conducting are altogether competent, but the only
elements of this release which enliven the work are those of the
production - and they are more often confusing or distracting than
constructive. Lloyd infuses some life into his character, but Beesley
is both vocally and dramatically subpar. D'Intino has some moments of
expression but they are not those most needed; the opening scene of
Act IV, for example, is flaccid. Studer, O'Neill and Agache sing all
the notes and none of the music. Many points in the score are marked
'a piacere', but the pleasure of the artists appears to be to do
nothing at all. The effect is altogether colorless - a grey and
pointless recitation of one of the most vibrant scores in opera.}}
"Things got pretty rough at the last Philharmonic concert. A bitter
battle broke out over Liszt's 'Mephisto Waltz.' It was the standees
and a part of the gallery, resolved to give their all, against the
parterre, the mountain against the marsh. On the one side we had
youth, intelligence, idealism, good judgement, enthusiasm and
conviction; on the other dullness, frivolity, debility, ignorance,
arrogance, materialism. Such were the contending forces.
There was a lot of applause, but a lot of hissing, too. Since, as we
all know, these Semitic hissing sounds traditionally served the
'chosen people' as shibboleth in combat with their neighbors, it was
not hard to determine who it was that so emphatically proclaimed both
their dissent and their identity. Indeed, these 'chosen people'
habitually make a great show of their exquisite taste. They are always
ready to recognize in Beethoven a good composer. And yet there are
those who see nothing heroic in the courage of such convictions. What,
then, can we call courageous? Let it pass. These excellent and
generous souls will surely enrich the National Guard with a doughty
legion of tailors, and thus be of service to the state. You can take
an oath on that.
To take seriously the ludicrous behavior of these worthy parterre
subscribers toward the works of a genius such as Liszt would be like
punishing children's bad manners with the rack. We are not so cruel.
But it is well to look for what it is that causes the public to behave
like an ill-mannered child and to think like a well-groomed cad. How
is it, we ask, that Liszt's compositions are rejected by the majority
of our degenerate public? The answer is made uncommonly easy for me,
since it is contained in the question. But then why, someone could
object, do Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, etc., appeal to this same
degenerate public? The objection is so banal, the answer so obvious,
that any blockhead could handle it easily. But should someone choose
to ask me what I mean by degenerate public, I accept the challenge
gladly, and am ready with the answer: a degenerate public is one that
is content to be the ward of a degenerate press.
It is a public of newspaper readers. That is the source of all other
evils. That is the source of the thoughtlessness, frivolity,
dependence, distraction, insensibility and, above all, the bias
against those works condemned to death by the press. If this were an
ingenuous public, it would not tolerate for another day the shameful
chains it now fastens to itself voluntarily. But the habit of
cud-chewing has already become too delightful to permit the slightest
effort to use one's own teeth. Thus, this public receives its
impression of a work of art not directly, but from the review in the
newspaper, to be had in concrete form for a patent. Go then to the
apothecary, and buy yourselves some nux vomica or some other purgative
if you want to have an impression. The effect remains essentially the
same, and you spare yourselves the price of the ticket. And so a
public, the despicable tool of a despicable press, will pass judgement
on the works of a genius! A sluggardly mob that enters the concert
hall as if it were a toy store, reduces the noblest possessions of
mankind to idle diversions, and then, if that is not satisfactory,
arrogantly turns its back on the work of art and ceremoniously
hisses...fie, fie, and once again fie!!!
Given such circumstances, it is hardly surprising that Liszt's
original compositions have excited a lively 'for' and 'against'
whenever they have been played in Vienna. This time the applause from
the standees was still far from constituting a demonstration when a
few hot headed Philistines signalled, stupidly enough, the shibboleth.
That was pouring oil on fire. The applause grew louder, and rightly
so, since it was directed no less at the splendid accomplishment of
the orchestra and its conductor, Hans Richter, than at the work
itself. And did not the wonderful performance of this Lisztian
composition merit the most extravagant praise? What did Liszt's
admirers do to excite the drowsy parterre to a counter-demonstration?
They were simply giving due honor to service rendered."
Hugo Wolf
Vienna, 25 April 1886
----------------------------
M-U-S-I-C OF THE FUTURE
Berg, Alban / Wozzeck / Marie
Cajkovskij, Pëtr Il'ic / Evgenij Onegin / Tatjana
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Così fan tutte / Fiordiligi
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Don Giovanni / Donna Elvira
Puccini, Giacomo / Manon Lescaut / Manon Lescaut
Puccini, Giacomo / Tosca / Tosca
Strauss, Richard / Capriccio / Gräfin
Strauss, Richard / Salome / Salome
Verdi, Giuseppe / Ballo in Maschera, Un / Amelia
Verdi, Giuseppe / Don Carlo / Elisabetta
MORE M-U-S-I-C....REDIVIVUS
Beethoven, Ludwig van / Fidelio / Leonore
Lehár, Franz / Lustige Witwe, Die / Hanna Glawari
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Idomeneo / Elettra
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Nozze di Figaro, Le / Contessa d'Almaviva
Strauss, Richard / Elektra / Chrysothemis
Verdi, Giuseppe / Aida / Aida
Verdi, Giuseppe / Otello / Desdemona
Wagner, Richard / Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Eva
AND YET MORE M-U-S-I-C
Strauss, Richard / Arabella / Arabella
Strauss, Richard / Ariadne auf Naxos / Primadonna/Ariadne
Strauss, Richard / Frau ohne Schatten, Die / Kaiserin
Strauss, Richard / Rosenkavalier, Der / Marschallin
Wagner, Richard / fliegende Holländer, Der / Senta
Wagner, Richard / Lohengrin / Elsa von Brabant
Wagner, Richard / Tannhäuser / Elisabeth
Wagner, Richard / Walküre, Die / Sieglinde
----------------------------
"The dangers of life
are infinite
And safety is among them."
--- Goethe


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title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: Erg Frast

text:
Non me ne vogliate, ma trovo che a forza di segnalare link si impoverisca un
po' la discussione.
Mi rendo conto che fermarsi a pensare e poi scrivere e domandare e
rispondere è cosa impegnativa e faticosa. Ma il NG è questo. Non dico di
abolire i limkaggi, ma almeno di contenerli e quando proprio si deve linkare
sarebbe utile spendera anche due parole per stimolare il dibattito.
L'alternativa è la morte per lobotomizzazione
Saluti
EF


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: rafrasnaffra

text:
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la tua sembra vicina visti i deliri
--
rafrasnaffra
nulla si crea e nulla si distrugge: tutto si fakizza


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: Giampaolo Lomi

text:
Il Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:31:43 GMT, "Erg Frast" <
m.do...@inwind.it
> ha
scritto:
>Non me ne vogliate, ma trovo che a forza di segnalare link si impoverisca un
>po' la discussione.
>Mi rendo conto che fermarsi a pensare e poi scrivere e domandare e
>rispondere è cosa impegnativa e faticosa. Ma il NG è questo. Non dico di
>abolire i limkaggi, ma almeno di contenerli e quando proprio si deve linkare
>sarebbe utile spendera anche due parole per stimolare il dibattito.
Non serve a niente. In realtà nessuno vuol parlare di musica classica
nè di opera. Quando il 12.03.2008 ho postato un articolo sull'opera di
Leoš Janácek "La Casa dei Morti", aggiungendo il link per poter
ascoltare qualche minuto della stessa su youtube, nessuno, tranne
Roberto, ha promosso qualche discussione o altro. Forse l'opera non è
piaciuta, OK. Ma essendo Janacek un autore importante forse qualche
aspetto, anche negativo ci sarebbe stato per dar vita a uno scambio di
idee.
In realtà, ad esser sincero, mi verrebbe fatto di pensare che sul
gruppo  la musica in quanto tale  interessi poco o nulla. Può
interessare, quqndo qulcino del gruppo è direttamente o indirettamente
coinvolto almeno con uno strumentino.  Quindi si preferisce creare
chilometriche polemiche, tanto per sprecare tempo e riempire spazio
oppure perdersi in complicate e quasi sempre ininteressanti
disquisizioni sugli strumenti, sulle tecniche di esecuzione e
quant'altro serva a mettere in luce la bravura di ognuno che deve
essere comunque superiore a quella di ogni altro.
Allora tant'è postare dei  link, con o senza  riferimento a fatti
musicali, tanto per il gruppo non rappresenta alcun stimolo a scrivere
qualcosa di diverso dalle solite tiritere quotidiane.
Altro esempio il link  alla "Valle di Pagan" , che aveva una colonna
sonora con violino solo suonato da David Oistrak, di cui nessuno si è
neppure curato di capire chi fosse l'autore, non ha suscitato commenti
di nessuna sorta. Eppure il video clip postato su you tube sabato ha
avuto 89 visualizzazioni fino ad ora. Era accompagnato da un commento
musicale che  avrebbe dovuto suscitare qualche curiosità, se non altro
per l'accostamento proposto suono immagine.
Mi sembra di poter concludere che il gruppo è statico. Non si rinnova
più, perchè in fondo manca proprio la volontà di farlo. Di questo
passo ben vengano i troll a frotte. Così almeno si farànno 4 risate a
leggere.
saluti
GP


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

text:
Il Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:31:43 GMT, "Erg Frast" <
m.do...@inwind.it
> ha
scritto:
>Non me ne vogliate, ma trovo che a forza di segnalare link si impoverisca un
>po' la discussione.
>Mi rendo conto che fermarsi a pensare e poi scrivere e domandare e
>rispondere è cosa impegnativa e faticosa. Ma il NG è questo. Non dico di
>abolire i limkaggi, ma almeno di contenerli e quando proprio si deve linkare
>sarebbe utile spendera anche due parole per stimolare il dibattito.
Non serve a niente. In realtà nessuno vuol parlare di musica classica
nè di opera. Quando il 12.03.2008 ho postato un articolo sull'opera di
Leoš Janácek "La Casa dei Morti", aggiungendo il link per poter
ascoltare qualche minuto della stessa su youtube, nessuno, tranne
Roberto, ha promosso qualche discussione o altro. Forse l'opera non è
piaciuta, OK. Ma essendo Janacek un autore importante forse qualche
aspetto, anche negativo ci sarebbe stato per dar vita a uno scambio di
idee.
In realtà, ad esser sincero, mi verrebbe fatto di pensare che sul
gruppo  la musica in quanto tale  interessi poco o nulla. Può
interessare, quando qulcuno del gruppo è direttamente o indirettamente
coinvolto almeno con uno strumentino.  Quindi si preferisce creare
chilometriche polemiche, tanto per sprecare tempo e riempire spazio
oppure perdersi in complicate e quasi sempre ininteressanti
disquisizioni sugli strumenti, sulle tecniche di esecuzione e
quant'altro serva a mettere in luce la bravura di ognuno che deve
essere comunque superiore a quella di ogni altro.
Allora tant'è postare dei  link, con o senza  riferimento a fatti
musicali, tanto per il gruppo non rappresenta alcun stimolo a scrivere
qualcosa di diverso dalle solite tiritere quotidiane.
Altro esempio il link  alla "Valle di Pagan" , che aveva una colonna
sonora con violino solo suonato da David Oistrak, di cui nessuno si è
neppure curato di capire chi fosse l'autore, non ha suscitato commenti
di nessuna sorta. Eppure il video clip postato su you tube sabato ha
avuto 89 visualizzazioni fino ad ora. Era accompagnato da un commento
musicale che  avrebbe dovuto suscitare qualche curiosità, se non altro
per l'accostamento proposto suono immagine.
Mi sembra di poter concludere che il gruppo è statico. Non si rinnova
più, perchè in fondo manca proprio la volontà di farlo. Di questo
passo ben vengano i troll a frotte. Così almeno si farànno 4 risate a
leggere. Alla fine quando uno si sarà rotto, fara la grande fuga a 4
mani.
saluti
GP


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: ranapo

text:
Giampaolo Lomi ha scritto:

Quoto con vero affetto e stima ogni parola. Sarà il destino, però trovo
sintomatico che la ... casualità?  o non sarebbe più opportuno pensare
che sia invece sempre questione di causalità?  fra tutte le persone di
questo NG proprio te mi abbia fatto incontrare?
E debbo pure aggiungere che se pur partiti all'inizio con sciabolate,
piano piano siamo passati al fioretto e poi il fioretto è diventato
...fiore e ci siamo un po' chiariti.
Onore al merito capitano. Le giunga il mio saluto notturno e mi permetta
di togliere la mano dalla fronte concedendomi il meritato ..."riiii-posò".
:-)
Raffaele


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: Frenk

text:
"Erg Frast" <
m.do...@inwind.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:zGzDj.38207$FR.1...@twister1.libero.it...

Io invece devo dire che apprezzo le segnalazioni su youtube, quando mi danno
la possibilità di conoscere delle cose interessanti.
Franco


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: Cornelius Coot

text:
Erg Frast ha scritto:
> L'alternativa è la morte per lobotomizzazione
Tranquillo, tu non corri questo rischio.


title: Ai lincatori di youtube

author: dimitri

text:
Oh, gente, avete letto cosa ha scritto Erg Frast?

perfettamente d'accordo, tanto più che io passo oltre ai post con solo il
link, li ignoro totalmente, sono del tutto inutili a parer mio, al limite un
link dovrebbe fare da supporto, non essere il post
D.


title: OT (ma non troppo) Istruzioni per l'uso.

author: Flavio

text:
Cari amici, è ormai quasi un mese che faccio
parte di questo NG, solo un mese fa pur usando quotidianamente
il pc non avevo idea cosa fosse un NG. Oggi lo so, e sono
contento di farne parte (anche se molto da "uditore").
Adesso vengo al dunque, ultimamente vedo sempre più msg
dedicati a qualcuno, discussioni su errori nelle risposte,
persone che non riportano parti dei msg originali ai quali rispondono,
abbreviazioni incomprensibili ecc. ecc.
Ora io vi chiedo questo.
Io sono nuovo "del mestiere" ,
qualcuno potrebbe spendere un po' del suo tempo
per spiegare che cosa è un thread? un post?
quali sono le più comuni abbreviazioni ?
Come si fa ad inserire parte di un msg originale nella
risposta (con il volgarissimo taglia e incolla?) ?
come si fa a rispondere a qualcuno e proprio a quello
in modo che poi nel news il messaggio di risposta venga
collegato a quello originale?
Esiste forse un sito dove poter apprendere
tutto questo?
Io vi ringrazio fin da adesso, purtroppo come spesso accade
ho reputato  più importante il partecipare de il come partecipare
dimenticando che in ogni forma di congregazione ci sono sempre delle
regole da rispettare in modo più o meno rigido.
Ringrazio di nuovo quindi chi mi darà una mano
e mi scuso per tutte quelle volte che ho risposto
in maniera errata creando fastidi o peggio incomprensioni.
GRAZIE
Flavio


author: Tito Ceccherini

text:
Flavio <
oiv...@tiscalinet.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
8b0k9o$evj$2...@pegasus.tiscalinet.it...
> Cari amici, è ormai quasi un mese che faccio
> parte di questo NG, solo un mese fa pur usando quotidianamente
> il pc non avevo idea cosa fosse un NG. Oggi lo so, e sono
> contento di farne parte (anche se molto da "uditore").
>
> Adesso vengo al dunque, ultimamente vedo sempre più msg
> dedicati a qualcuno, discussioni su errori nelle risposte,
> persone che non riportano parti dei msg originali ai quali rispondono,
> abbreviazioni incomprensibili ecc. ecc.
>
> Ora io vi chiedo questo.
> Io sono nuovo "del mestiere" ,
> qualcuno potrebbe spendere un po' del suo tempo
> per spiegare che cosa è un thread?
un gruppo di messaggi accomunato dall'argomento (subject) e che quindi sono
correlati essendo ciascuno la risposta ad un altro...
il messaggio che hai scritto tu inaugurava in pratica il thread "OT (ma non
troppo) Istruzioni per l'uso." che cpmrenderà la mia risposta, quelle di
altri, le risposte alla mia risposta, ecc.
> un post?
un messaggio
> quali sono le più comuni abbreviazioni ?
> Come si fa ad inserire parte di un msg originale nella
> risposta (con il volgarissimo taglia e incolla?) ?
> come si fa a rispondere a qualcuno e proprio a quello
> in modo che poi nel news il messaggio di risposta venga
> collegato a quello originale?
>
> Esiste forse un sito dove poter apprendere
> tutto questo?
potrei consigliarti di cercare nel newsgroup it.news.aiuto
fraguando un po' là (cerca in particolare le FAQ, cioè Frequently Asked
Questions), e con un po' di pazienza non avrai difficoltà a spratichirti dei
meccanismi.
Per rispondere alla tua domanda su come fare correttamente un "Reply"
occorrerebbe sapere che software usi per leggere le news (newsreader). In
ogni caso deve esserci un'opzione che ti consenta di includere il testo
originale, senza bisogno di ricorrere al "taglia e incolla"...
Ciao
Tito


author: Marco Marcelli

text:
Flavio wrote:
> qualcuno potrebbe spendere un po' del suo tempo
> per spiegare che cosa è un thread?
Un argomento, cioe' l'insieme dei messaggi relativi allo stesso argomento.
> un post?
Un messaggio! :-)
>
> quali sono le più comuni abbreviazioni ?
Mah, si usa spesso IMHO (In My Humble Opinion = secondo la mia modesta
opinione), ROTFL (=Rolling On The Floor Laughing, mi sto rotolando sul
pavimento dal ridere), e...... bah, non me ne vengono in mente altre......
>
> Come si fa ad inserire parte di un msg originale nella
> risposta (con il volgarissimo taglia e incolla?) ?
Senza taglia e incolla: basta che tu faccia REPLY...
> come si fa a rispondere a qualcuno e proprio a quello
> in modo che poi nel news il messaggio di risposta venga
> collegato a quello originale?
>
Qualinque SW tu usi, se non jurassico, dovrebbe far cio' in maniera
automatica, se tu rispondi col REPLY.
> Ringrazio di nuovo quindi chi mi darà una mano
> e mi scuso per tutte quelle volte che ho risposto
> in maniera errata creando fastidi o peggio incomprensioni.
>
Nessun problema! Nessuno nasce "imparato" ! :-))))))))
Benvenuto fra noi.
--
=================================
Marco Marcelli - Genova
marc...@libero.it
 [casa]
marco.m...@elsag.it
 [ufficio]
=================================


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

author: Don Bartolo

text:
Un amico dalla barba bianca ancora non mi ha inviato il regalo di
Natale..............
Un piccolo aiuto............č un'opera di Giuseppe Verdi ed il protagonista
ha la gobba...........
Andrebbe bene anche per Pasqua.............:-))))
don Bartolo


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

author: Giuseppe

text:
"Don Bartolo" <
donba...@tiscali.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:b%PQd.552695$b5.25...@news3.tin.it...
> Un amico dalla barba bianca ancora non mi ha inviato il regalo di
> Natale..............
>
>
> Un piccolo aiuto............è un'opera di Giuseppe Verdi ed il
protagonista
> ha la gobba...........
>
>
> Andrebbe bene anche per Pasqua.............:-))))
>
>
> don Bartolo
>
Ma scusa...a chi la invio:
A :
Don Bartolo, Sicilia?
:-))))))))
Ti ho pure scritto chiedendoti l'indirizzo.........a chi ci aspetti a
rispondere?
E' passato oltre un mese...ed è qua che fa la muffa:-)))))))))))))
Ciao
G.


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

text:
"Giuseppe" <
merl...@libero.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:37i9n4F...@individual.net...
> Ma scusa...a chi la invio:
>
> A :
>
> Don Bartolo, Sicilia?
>
> :-))))))))
Eppure sono molto conosciuto...............:-)))))
> Ti ho pure scritto chiedendoti l'indirizzo.........a chi ci aspetti a
> rispondere?
> E' passato oltre un mese...ed è qua che fa la muffa:-)))))))))))))
Hai scritto............?????.............sinceramente non ricordo di aver
ricevuto una mail di conferma da parte tua!!!! Ho controllato e purtroppo
non ho un tuo riferimento..........potresti scrivermi di nuovo?????
Sempre grato.................
don Bartolo


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

text:
"Don Bartolo" <
donba...@tiscali.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:oX5Rd.911206$35.34...@news4.tin.it...

Ti ho riscritto proprio ora...
Fammi sapere se ti è arrivata.
Ciao
Giuseppe


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

text:
"Giuseppe" <
merl...@libero.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:37k9khF...@individual.net...
>
>> Ti ho riscritto proprio ora...
> Fammi sapere se ti è arrivata.
>
Arrivata come un razzo!!!!!!............:-)


title: IT- PER BABBO NATALE..............

text:
"Don Bartolo" <
donba...@tiscali.it
> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:a17Rd.911508$35.34...@news4.tin.it...

Ti ho risposto.....come una Fiat 500:-))))
Ciao
G.


title: MI5 Persecution: Bernard Levin - The Times (31103)

text:
Fanatic's Fare for the Common Man
Certainty level: 90%
The article reproduced below was penned by Bernard Levin
for the Features section of the Times on 21 September 1991. To my mind, it
described the situation at the time and in particular a recent meeting with
a friend, during which I for the first time admitted to someone other than
my GP that I had been subjected to a conspiracy of harassment over the
previous year and a half.
There is a madman running loose about London, called David Campbell; I have
no reason to believe that he is violent, but he should certainly be
approached with caution. You may know him by the curious glitter in his
eyes and a persistent trembling of his hands; if that does not suffice, you
will find him attempting to thrust no fewer than 48 books into your arms,
all hardbacks, with a promise that, if you should return to the same
meeting-place next year, he will heave another 80 at you.
If, by now, the police have arrived and are keeping a close watch on him,
you may feel sufficiently emboldened to examine the books. The jackets are
a model of uncluttered typography, elegantly and simply laid out; there is
an unobtrusive colophon of a rising sun, probably not picked at random.
Gaining confidence - the lunatic is smiling by now, and the policemen, who
know about such things, have significantly removed their helmets - you
could do worse than take the jacket off the first book in the pile. The
only word possible to describe the binding is sumptuous; real cloth in a
glorious shade of dark green, with the title and author in black and gold
on the spine.
Look at it more closely; your eyes do not deceive you - it truly does have
real top-bands and tail-bands, in yellow, and, for good measure, a silk
marker ribbon in a lighter green. The paper is cream-wove and acid-free,
and the book is sewn, not glued.
Throughout the encounter, I should have mentioned, our loony has been
chattering away, although what he is trying to say is almost impossible to
understand; after a time, however, he becomes sufficiently coherent to make
clear that he is trying to sell the books to you. Well, now, such quality
in bookmaking today can only be for collectors' limited editions at a
fearsome price - £30, £40, £50?
No, no, he says, the glitter more powerful than ever and the trembling of
his hands rapidly spreading throughout his entire body; no, no - the books
are priced variously at £7, £8 or £9, with the top price £12.
At this, the policemen understandably put their helmets back on; one of
them draws his truncheon and the other can be heard summoning
reinforcements on his walkie-talkie. The madman bursts into tears, and
swears it is all true.
And it is.
David Campbell has acquired the entire rights to the whole of the
Everyman's Library, which died a lingering and shameful death a decade or
so ago, and he proposes to start it all over again - 48 volumes this
September and 80 more next year, in editions I have described, at the
prices specified. He proposes to launch his amazing venture simultaneously
in Britain and the United States, with the massive firepower of Random
Century at his back in this country, and the dashing cavalry of Knopf
across the water, and no one who loves literature and courage will forbear
to cheer.
At the time this article was written I had believed for some time that
columnists in the Times and other journalists had been making references to
my situation. Nothing unusual about this you may think, plenty of people
have the same sort of ideas and obviously the papers aren't writing about
them, so why should my beliefs not be as false as those of others?
What makes this article so extraordinary is that three or four days
immediately preceding its publication, I had a meeting with a friend,
during the course of which we discussed the media persecution, and in
particular that by Times columnists. It seemed to me, reading the article
by Levin in Saturday’s paper, that he was describing in some detail his
"artist’s impression" of that meeting. Most telling are the final
sentences, when he writes, "The madman bursts into tears, and swears it is
all true. And it is." Although I did not "burst into tears" (he seems to be
using a bit of poetic licence and exaggerating) I did try hard to convince
my friend that it was all true; and I am able to concur with Mr Levin,
because, of course, it is.
At the beginning of the piece Levin reveals a fear of being attacked by the
"irrational" subject of his story, saying "I have no reason to believe that
he is violent, but he should certainly be approached with caution". This
goes back to the xenophobic propaganda of "defence" against a "threat"
which was seen at the very beginning of the harassment. The impression of a
"madman running loose" who needs to be controlled through an agency which
assigns to itself the mantle of the "police" is also one which had been
expressed elsewhere.
In the final paragraph of this extract, his reference to Everyman’s Library
as having "died a lingering and shameful death a decade or so ago" shows
clearly what sort of conclusion they wish to their campaign. They want a
permanent solution, and as they are prevented from achieving that solution
directly, they waste significant resources on methods which have been
repeatedly shown to be ineffective for such a purpose.
31103
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title: Come riuscire ad entrare in loggione alla Scala ?

author: Selbstvernichtung

text:
Salve a tutti.
Ho deciso che devo vedere ad ogni costo A. Kucerova alla Scala nella Carmen.
Probabilmente l'unico giorno in cui sar� libero sar� domenica 20 alle 15.00.
Volevo chiedervi se e come � possibile entrare in loggione. I drammi delle
code fuori dal teatro si riproducono anche nelle repliche ? A vostro avviso
a che ora dovrei presentarmi per potere avere qualche prospettiva di avere
un biglietto ?
Grazie a chi vorr� rispondere.


author: L'Esattore

text:
Nel suo scritto precedente, Selbstvernichtung ha sostenuto :
> Salve a tutti.
> Ho deciso che devo vedere ad ogni costo A. Kucerova alla Scala nella Carmen.
> Probabilmente l'unico giorno in cui sarï¿œ libero sarï¿œ domenica 20 alle 15.00.
> Volevo chiedervi se e come ï¿œ possibile entrare in loggione. I drammi delle
> code fuori dal teatro si riproducono anche nelle repliche ? A vostro avviso a
> che ora dovrei presentarmi per potere avere qualche prospettiva di avere un
> biglietto ?
>
> Grazie a chi vorrï¿œ rispondere.
Presentati con un fischietto o, meglio ancora, con un bue.
Ti faranno entrare di sicuro, in un modo o nell'altro.


author: luziferszorn

text:
On 10 Dic, 20:46, L'Esattore <vdeiul...@NOSPAMsupereva.it> wrote:
>
> Presentati con un fischietto o, meglio ancora, con un bue.
> Ti faranno entrare di sicuro, in un modo o nell'altro.
http://www.scuolaelettrica.it/quiz/primaria/classe2/italiano/toro.gif


author: Henry Wotton

text:
"Selbstvernichtung" <
nonscrivereno...@libero.it
> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:4b214f56$0$642$4faf...@reader4.news.tin.it...
> Salve a tutti.
> Ho deciso che devo vedere ad ogni costo A. Kucerova alla Scala nella
> Carmen. Probabilmente l'unico giorno in cui sar� libero sar� domenica 20
> alle 15.00.
E' anche il giorno in cui andr� io. Ma per mia fortuna ho gi� il biglietto.
Secondo me, visto che devi fare la coda per il loggione, faresti meglio a
tentare in un'altra data, meglio se infrasettimanale.
> Volevo chiedervi se e come � possibile entrare in loggione.
Qui trovi le informazioni necessarie:
http://www.teatroallascala.org/it/guidaallabiglietteria/code_biglietti_galleria.html
> I drammi delle code fuori dal teatro si riproducono anche nelle repliche ?
> A vostro avviso a che ora dovrei presentarmi per potere avere qualche
> prospettiva di avere un biglietto ?
>
Essendo quella data una pomeridiana festiva, quindi comoda per tutti coloro
che non sono di Milano, presumo sar� molto richiesta. Sinceramente se vuoi
stare tranquillo dovresti arrivare prestissimo al mattino davanti
all'ingresso laterale della biglietteria del teatro.


title: Jacques Duphly

author: luzy reloaded

text:
Pièces pour clavecin. Bellissimi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JelErStFFE


title: Jacques Duphly

text:
Il giorno mercoledì 18 marzo 2015 22:30:53 UTC+1, luzy reloaded ha scritto:
> Pièces pour clavecin. Bellissimi:
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JelErStFFE

peccato che poi, col passare degli anni, la sinistra diventi una palla al piede...


title: Cofanetto DG Dvorak: i quartetti per archi

author: Giulio Peruginelli

text:
Registrarti dal Prager Quartett, mi pare..... non li trovo piu' sul
nuovo catalogo di quest'anno della DG: come mai? Sono fuori commercio?
E' meglio farmeli mettere da parte dal mio negoziante, se me li voglio
far regalare per Natale?
E, cosa piu' importante, e' una buona incisione? Merita l'acquisto?
Ciao ciao


author: Luigi Alberti

text:
Giulio Peruginelli wrote:

Una buona notizia per te e` che sono nuovamente disponibili in confezione
economica
di cartoncino e quindi vantaggosi all' aquisto. L' incisione  dal 73 al 78
e` stata
fatta a Praga dai tecnici della Supraphon ed e` di ottimo livello.
Nel mercato, in pratica, non aveva concorrenti a prezzo pieno, adesso al
nuovo prezzo
si impone a occhi chiusi.
Saluti Luigi


text:
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:44:25 +1100, Luigi Alberti
<
lu...@alphalink.com.au
> wrote:
>Una buona notizia per te e` che sono nuovamente disponibili in confezione
>economica di cartoncino e quindi vantaggosi all' aquisto.
Grazie veramente!! Mi hai fermato prima di dilapidare le mie
sostanze... se posso risparmiare non mi tiro indietro. Ma com'e' che
non lo trovo piu' in catalogo? E' sempre della DG, vero?
Ciao ciao


author: Cioran's son -Luca F.P.-

text:
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:09:18 +0100, Giulio Peruginelli
<5lon...@sysnet.it5> wrote:
>Registrarti dal Prager Quartett, mi pare..... non li trovo piu' sul
>nuovo catalogo di quest'anno della DG: come mai? Sono fuori commercio?
>E' meglio farmeli mettere da parte dal mio negoziante, se me li voglio
>far regalare per Natale?
>
>E, cosa piu' importante, e' una buona incisione? Merita l'acquisto?
>
Io li registrai dalla filodiffusione, per quanto la resa della filo
non sia perfetta, oltre che belli in se', mi sembrava una incisione
piuttosto buona.
Ciao!
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ned...@iperbole.bologna.it
Luca F.P.
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author: Roberto Maria Avanzi Mocenigo

text:
Giulio Peruginelli wrote:
>
> Registrarti dal Prager Quartett, mi pare..... non li trovo piu' sul
> nuovo catalogo di quest'anno della DG: come mai? Sono fuori commercio?
> E' meglio farmeli mettere da parte dal mio negoziante, se me li voglio
> far regalare per Natale?
>
> E, cosa piu' importante, e' una buona incisione? Merita l'acquisto?
Per quello ti ha gia' risposto Luigi Alberti.
Vorrei farti notare che c'e' anche l'integrale del quartetto
Stamitz per Bayer Records.  Su 10 CD che si possono trovare
assieme a prezzo budget.  Sono incisioni rinomate, alcuni CD
singoli hanno vinto il diapason D'or e posso considerarmi
felice possessore della intera serie.  Le registrazioni sono
ottime, di una notevole presenza, timbrica correttissima e
grande dinamica.  Io trovo che l'esecuzione sia veramente in
stile, e che gli esecutori mostrino una vera comprensione del
linguaggio di Dvorak. Mi fu consigliata dal segretario della
Anton Dvorak Society, come prima alternativa al ciclo del
quartetto Vermeer.
Roberto
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text:
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 18:01:44 +0100, Roberto Maria Avanzi Mocenigo
<
moce...@exp-math.uni-essen.de
> wrote:
>i fu consigliata dal segretario della
>Anton Dvorak Society, come prima alternativa al ciclo del
>quartetto Vermeer.
E questa da chi e' incisa?
E questo segretario cosa ne pensa dell'incisione del Prager Quartett?
ciao


text:
Giulio Peruginelli wrote:
>
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 18:01:44 +0100, Roberto Maria Avanzi Mocenigo
> <
moce...@exp-math.uni-essen.de
> wrote:
>
> >i fu consigliata dal segretario della
> >Anton Dvorak Society, come prima alternativa al ciclo del
> >quartetto Vermeer.
>
> E questa da chi e' incisa?
Non ricordo, puoi fare una ricerca in rete.
> E questo segretario cosa ne pensa dell'incisione del Prager Quartett?
Non la cito'.
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title: Steinwayhomehub

author: lzy


title: Steinwayhomehub

text:
Il giorno domenica 29 marzo 2020 01:44:35 UTC+1, lzy ha scritto:
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2GYYV8JSqM

pardon, link sbagliato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVZP2xTQuY


title: La riapertura del Gran Teatro La Fenice

author: daniulla

text:
Direttamente dalla Guida superEva di Opera lirica (che sarei io...) e in
indispensabile collaborazione con l'ufficio stampa del Ministero dei beni e
delle attività culturali.... TA - DAAAA!!! :-)
Il programma per l'inaugurazione del Teatro La Fenice.
La Settimana Inaugurale si aprirà il 14 dicembre 2003 con il Maestro
Riccardo Muti.
Poi suoneranno la Philharmonia Orchestra di Londra diretta da Christian
Thielemann, l'Orchestra e il Coro dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma e il
Coro di Voci Bianche Aureliano diretti da Myung-Whun Chung, l'Orchestra e il
Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia diretti da Marcello Viotti, Elton John,
i Wiener Philharmoniker diretti da Mariss Jansons e l'Orchestra Filarmonica
di San Pietroburgo diretta da Yuri Temirkanov.
Maggiori dettagli sul programma:
http://guide.supereva.it/opera_e_lirica/interventi/2003/07/139576.shtml
Saluti
daniulla
Guida superEva Opera lirica
http://guide.supereva.it/opera_e_lirica
Mezza Guida superEva Peanuts
http://guide.supereva.it/peanuts


title: La riapertura del Gran Teatro La Fenice

text:
"daniulla" <dani...@NOSPAMemail.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:adbPa.9272$it4.2...@news1.tin.it...
> Direttamente dalla Guida superEva di Opera lirica (che sarei io...) e in
> indispensabile collaborazione con l'ufficio stampa del Ministero dei beni
e
> delle attività culturali.... TA - DAAAA!!! :-)
>
> Il programma per l'inaugurazione del Teatro La Fenice.
>
> La Settimana Inaugurale si aprirà il 14 dicembre 2003 con il Maestro
> Riccardo Muti.
> Poi suoneranno la Philharmonia Orchestra di Londra diretta da Christian
> Thielemann, l'Orchestra e il Coro dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma e
il
> Coro di Voci Bianche Aureliano diretti da Myung-Whun Chung, l'Orchestra e
il
> Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia diretti da Marcello Viotti, Elton
John,
> i Wiener Philharmoniker diretti da Mariss Jansons e l'Orchestra
Filarmonica
> di San Pietroburgo diretta da Yuri Temirkanov.
Bella notizia, peccato però che queste cose, qualchè giorno fa, siano state
dette e ridette anche abbondantemente.
--
Ciao
   Massimiliano
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"L'uomo comprende tutto salvo ciò che è perfettamente semplice"
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Hofmannsthal


title: La riapertura del Gran Teatro La Fenice

text:
"Maxi75"
> Bella notizia, peccato però che queste cose, qualchè giorno fa, siano
state
> dette e ridette anche abbondantemente.
Va bene, ma io ho potuto pubblicare l'intervento solo oggi...
--
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title: La riapertura del Gran Teatro La Fenice

text:
"daniulla" <dani...@NOSPAMemail.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:KibPa.9297$it4.2...@news1.tin.it...
> "Maxi75"
> > Bella notizia, peccato però che queste cose, qualchè giorno fa, siano
> state
> > dette e ridette anche abbondantemente.
>
> Va bene, ma io ho potuto pubblicare l'intervento solo oggi...
Non preoccuparti, piuttosto ne approfitto per una domanda: non ti sei
meravigliata del fatto che in questo programma manchi Vivaldi?
In un thread precedente non si è parlato d'altro, come mai Wagner si e
Vivaldi no? Solo perchè il primo è morto a venezia..
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title: La riapertura del Gran Teatro La Fenice

text:
"Maxi75"
> non ti sei meravigliata del fatto che in
> questo programma manchi Vivaldi?
> In un thread precedente non
> si č parlato d'altro, come mai Wagner si e
> Vivaldi no? Solo perchč il primo č morto a venezia..
E Strauss? E Puccini? E il catenese Casale?
Probabilmente ci sono motivazioni piů valide sconosciute a noi comuni
mortali...
..fosse anche che non ci hanno pensato... :-)
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