Open thread 9/18/2024
Mark Knopfler looks so happy here. He wrote this song. The Everly Brothers are way past their prime, but boy do they still sound good. And Chet Atkins looks like George W. Bush to me:
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Open thread 9/17/2024
IMHO the greatest interpreter of Chopin ever. In this clip, Horowitz’s wife – Toscanini’s daughter Wanda – seems rather annoyed:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/16/2024
I’ve written about Clive Wearing before. He’s still alive now, at 86, although this documentary seems to have been made about twenty years ago:
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Open thread 9/11/24
Baryshnikov is her father and her mother is also a well-known ballet dancer, and yet …
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Now everything is peachy keen and hunky dory. Did you have trouble getting here earlier today, or not? Blogs are funny things. You’re at the mercy of your server. Luckily, most of the time things go smoothly. But then there … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/10/2024
Roundup
(1) Kamala Harris has finally managed to put up a policy page. It sounds as though it’s about what you’d expect: sparse, to the left, and heavy with anti-Trump material. (2) I think it’s obvious to any thinking observer that … Continue reading →
Open thread 9/9/2024
The camera’s perspective those last few seconds is daunting:
Continue reading →Open thread 9/7/2024
This has long been one of my very favorite poems, and recently I stumbled on this haunting musical rendition in song:
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