Open thread 11/23/2024
Chopin wrote this piece when he was eleven years old. It’s his earliest surviving work, but not the earliest he wrote. He was a child prodigy not just in playing but in composing:
I think the pianist is thirteen here.
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Evidently the WSJ is onto me. When I try to pull up their articles on Archive I get blocked. Which is a shame, because David Mamet is subbing for Peggy Noonan this week, which is great!
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/decline-and-fall-of-america-not-yet-history-culture-politics-policy-c5fff60d
Perhaps you can get around the wall yourself.
Great piece by Mamet. This link might go around the paywall (it’s a free “gift link”):
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/decline-and-fall-of-america-not-yet-history-culture-politics-policy-c5fff60d?st=3bX6Sc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
A great finish:
Thank you Neo for the morning smile. The boy could have been me at 13 but playing a Clementi Sonata. Chopin’s early compositions had that Polish dance, unexpected quirky sound. Innocent genius.
Guess Mr. Mamet doesn’t consider Iran’s ally & pardner Russia to be a threat to the West—hence no mention of Ukraine’s desperate fight against Russia’s reinvasion there…