Another View From The Holy Father
At Least Vatican Radio Reported This! Continue reading Another View From The Holy Father
Sprung Has Spring! Or In New Zealand, it is the Other Way Around!
Concert Version of a Wagnerian Ring Aria Praising Spring by a GREAT Tenor, Perhaps the Greatest Singing Today, Jonas Kaufmann Winter Storms gave way to the Merry Moon SIEGMUND Winter storms gave way to the merry moon, Springtime gleams in mild light; On bland airs, gentle and lovely He* sways by doing wonders; Through woods and meadows blows his breath, His eye laughs widely apart: – He chimes from overjoyed bird’s sweet singing, He exhales lovely fragrances; Delightful flowers reflourish his warm blood, Germ and sprout arise from his strength. With tender weapon’s ornament he conquers the world; Winter and … Continue reading Sprung Has Spring! Or In New Zealand, it is the Other Way Around!
Surely, “Don’t Call Me!”
Mel Brooks as ONLY Mel Brooks Can Be Continue reading Surely, “Don’t Call Me!”
Abe’s UN General Assembly Address on Wednesday, September 20th
For a wider view of the North Korean situation, here is the tape of the speech Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, gave before the UN General Assembly today. If you study these things, you will likely note that there is a decided change in tone from past addresses of Japanese Prime Ministers. Office of Prime Minister of Japan And China’s Response….. Continue reading Abe’s UN General Assembly Address on Wednesday, September 20th
The Indiscrete Charm of the Hoi Polloi
The Counter Culture and Schwab’s Pharmacy This article, as you might guess, has drawn some ire and in some cases rage. Yet it seems to me elegant in its simplicity, and as straight-forward an argument as you can expect to get these days. Of course it is just an “Op-Ed”, not fact, something I fear bears repeating in these days of FB postings of opinion pieces masquerading as fact. This article is written about the United States. Yet many countries which honor the rule of law as a preeminent and abiding truth should take note. A summary of what I … Continue reading The Indiscrete Charm of the Hoi Polloi
In-credible?
You Be the Judge? Why? John Kerry, as observer of the Kenyan elections opines without James Taylor. Continue reading In-credible?
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Which Hunts I guess they didn’t check their sources adequately. Should the SPLC website be labeled “combustible”? Someday SPLC may appear on its own map, but through no motive of its own. Continue reading “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Another Little Liszt, Another Little Liszt!
And Yet Another List, Alas Another List! Mikado: Another of the Infinite Variations on a Classic Of Your Liszt!! Update August 28, 2917. I apologize that the Kimberly Strassel WSJ article may now require some of you to log in. At the time I read it, it was easily accessible, and you still may be able to access it through a googling to a third-party news aggregator. Suffice it to say that the article raises some very interesting questions about the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC), a “non-profit” organization. The SPLC research is widely cited by those to the “left … Continue reading Another Little Liszt, Another Little Liszt!
Taking the God’s Name in Vane!
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” Bob Dylan, Subterannean Homesick Blues Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) There are so many productions of the Ring some of which, post-WWII, were so spare in scenery as to be almost totally concert versions. These mostly occurred at the Bayreuth Festival, a likely result of WWII and all of its implications for things German. Then there are some Ring productions which are tailor made to an ideology, i.e., Boulez/Chereau’s 1980 Bayreuth production which played on the major conflict between the gods and the humans as one between … Continue reading Taking the God’s Name in Vane!
You Won’t Find This on Ancestry.Com
In Wagner’s Ring Cycle he really did create a world, several worlds in fact. Here is a good genealogy about the family tree. Continue reading You Won’t Find This on Ancestry.Com
