Comments on: Open thread 4/11/2025

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:27:21 +0000

Yes indeed

https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/ice-deports-former-mexico-governor-tomas-jesus-yarrington-ruvalcaba-serving-sentence-in-illinois-federal-prison/

Shaffer and milos forman made mozart more iconoclastic then he probably was leaving out for example his musician parents and inventing the rivalry with salieri

But he did have more of an experimental bent as far as the hapsburgs allowed

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:02:58 +0000

I bet he would like Rhapsody in Blue.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:10:00 +0000

Aggie @ 7:04pm,

I read your comment and thought for sure the accordion would have been contemporaneous with Bach. It’s basically a pipe organ/bellows contraption made small (using reeds rather than pipes). But you’re right. The accordion wasn’t invented until the 1820s!

For most of my adult life I’ve been minorly obsessed with the scenario of Wolfgang Mozart somehow traveling through time and hearing modern music and being exposed to modern, electronic instruments. I wonder if he would appreciate ragtime, big band, swing, rock, jazz, fusion? What would he think of electric keyboards? Synthesizers? My guess is he’d find ragtime amusing and pick it up rather quickly. I think he’d like some of the other stuff, but find most of it unchallenging. I think he’d dislike most all rock, even more musically complex, prog rock stuff like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, or Rush. Would he like Porter, Gershwin? Rhapsody in Blue?

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:00:48 +0000

huxley @ 12:34, not my cup of tea.
sdferr @ 5:21pm, very much my cup of tea. What a great arrangement, thanks!

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:30:41 +0000

Snow on Pine asks “Funny, how months later we still know, have been told, practically nothing about either of the two perps who tried to assassinate President Trump.”

There’s now a third assassin being charged by DoJ under Bondi, Shawn Monper. Ironically, he’s from Butler, PA — where the kid named Cooke shot DJTs ear, only fortunately. Miraculously. Introductory details:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/11/another-trump-a…plot-foiled-but-theres-a-bizarre-twist-to-this-one-n4938819

By: Insufficiently Sensitive

Insufficiently Sensitive — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:07:30 +0000

Usually you hear virtuoso Balkan music on a big Dallape 6-row accordion like that, but it’s got plenty of capabilities (and the player likewise) for covering Vivaldi orchestrations too. Bravo Aleksandr Hrustevich!

By: Le Mot Juste

Le Mot Juste — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:43:55 +0000

And brief but tasty accordion during an epic global song cover.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1GU1qQ1zQ

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:36:01 +0000

I chose the nick for it’s literary resonance

miguel cervantes:

How dare you, sir! 🙂

By: Le Mot Juste

Le Mot Juste — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:30:18 +0000

Sdferr,

Astounding improvs from mystical Messiaen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7g0ULVl2I

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:22:08 +0000

that is correct,

the court filing seems to suggest that routh, had contact with some Ukrainian officials, perhaps like Princip and certain Serbian officials, but that doesn’t seem to be an interesting story, for many,

i guess one can make a parallel to Zangara, who apparently was hired by the Mob, to hit Anton Cermak, and was quickly dispatched,