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Nocturnes (“night pieces”) for piano are so thoroughly associated with Chopin that one might be forgiven for thinking he invented the genre.[*]

The actual inventor was an Irish-born British composer-pianist named John Field (1782-1837), who spent much of his adult career in Russia.

His work is mostly forgotten now, but in his lifetime he was both popular and influential on other composers. Below are some of his nocturnes — it’s not hard to hear where Chopin got the idea.

Video at the link.

It is difficult to think about a present that doesn’t include the melancholy, haunting music of Leonard Cohen, the dark and sultry edges of “Hallelujah,” the words of a young man grappling with his faith in “Lover, Lover, Lover.”

But that present almost didn’t exist. In October 1973, the 39-year-old singer-songwriter was living on a Greek island, mourning what he considered to be the end of his career.

And then the Yom Kippur War began.

Cohen hopped a boat to the mainland, and then a flight to Israel, where he found himself wandering in and out of Tel Aviv cafes before being recognized by like-minded musicians. Cohen was soon on the road, where he and the other wartime entertainers — most of them Israelis — traveled from army base to outpost to camp to raise the spirits of disheartened fighters on the brink of catastrophic loss. Less than a year later, he would release one of his most acclaimed albums.

I wrote here a couple of months ago that Lou Elizondo, former head of the DOD’s formerly secret ATIP program investigating UFOs, and Chris Mellon, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, were concerned that those in the Pentagon who had thwarted Elizondo’s efforts at getting more transparency about UFOs, and who wanted to stop any further information about UFOs from becoming public, had hurriedly established their own new UFO investigation organization, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF). *

This ahead of Congressional legislation which became law, and which established a new DOD UFO investigative organization that was intended to be much more transparent.

An organization which would gather information on UFOs from a much broader range of sources, and with a mandate to make regular classified reports to Congress, and unclassified reports to the public.

Well, it certainly looks as if Elizondo was right because Chris Mellon recently wrote an opinion piece in “The Hill” in which he pointed out that the DODs own much more restrictive organization, the UAPTF, last year issued a “Security Classification Guide” “… which appears to classify virtually all data analyzed by the task force…” including videos and images–to include the retroactive re-classification of the three Navy TICTAC, GIMBAL, and FLIR1 videos which the Pentagon had previously declassified and released to the public. *

* https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out

* * https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/597039-how-government-over-classification-may-hide-ufo-videos-and-harm-our

Not in a cute way either. An alien intelligence.

I saw that earlier today. Best laid plans of Vlad go agley?

There had been “reports” of Vlad trying to bring in Syrians to fight the Ukrainians. True or false? Who knows.

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