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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Westminster Halloween parade was attended.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Haaretz: Shostakovich's muse By Noam Ben Zeev

Published 02.04.07

Shostakovich's muse


In March 1953, a sigh of collective relief swept over the streets of the Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin was dead. Among the millions of people who felt that their lives were returned to them was the man who had been considered the Russian national composer until he fell out of favor with the regime, eight years earlier, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).

His Ninth Symphony, which he wrote to celebrate the USSR's victory in World War II, was radiant, full of life, almost "light," but it infuriated Stalin. The Party committees declared it to go against the will of the Soviet people, and denunciated the composer with the label that was a death sentence for any artist: "formalistic."

Shostakovich was boycotted. The eight years during which the commissions dried up and the performances of his work ceased, and in which he was dismissed from his position as professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory, brought him to the brink of poverty and to thoughts of suicide. It seems that he was not immune to the curse: Beethoven had been the last to write nine symphonies, and in the 130 years since his death, no major composer had succeeded in completing a 10th one.

In December of 1953, however, the curse was lifted. The conservatory's huge Bolshoi Auditorium, sparkling with thousands of lights and overflowing with colorful bouquets, was packed with an audience that had come to celebrate the composer's return to his hometown, with his new symphony, his 10th. The enormous, excited crowd applauded the Leningrad Philharmonic, under the baton of one of the period's great conductors, Evgeny Mravinsky. And Shostakovich, bursting with pride, took his seat of honor…


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The coffee monster greeted the other morning

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Art in the park well all right; art in the backyard

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Dmitri Shostakovich in 1935



Dmitri Shostakovich in 1935.


A 1935 photograph of Russian composer Dmitrij Dmitrijevič Šostakovič (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич,) September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975.

I’ll be happy to have a copy of Symphony No. 10 in E minor, from 1953, for Christmas. I’m just saying…

Also see: “The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amSqQ5XNaGE





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Monday, October 24, 2011

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

QuoteInvestigator.com looks into: Be Kind Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle

The Quote Investigator looks into: Be Kind Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010


Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle

Plato? Philo of Alexandria? Ian MacLaren? John Watson?

 This blog post is based on a question that was posed at the wonderful blog used by the quotation expert Fred Shapiro who is the editor of one of the best reference works in this area: The Yale Book of Quotations. Fred Shapiro’s posts appear on the Freakonomics blog.

Question: This question is from Glossolalia Black.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It is attributed to Plato on this little thing I have up in my office, but I was told by a friend that it wasn’t him.

Fred Shapiro replied “this sounds anachronistic for Plato by almost 2500 years” and then invited readers to attempt to trace the quotation.

Quote Investigator: The websites ThinkExist, Quotations Page, and Brainy Quote do have this quotation listed under the august name of Plato.

Philo of Alexandria is another popular choice when assigning attribution, e.g., QuotationsBook credits Philo. Sometimes Anonymous gets the nod. QI was able to trace the saying back more than one-hundred years to its likely origin. The original aphorism did not use the word “kind”. Instead, another surprising word was used.


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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010


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Kevin E. Dayhoff - TheTentacle.com: Bank Transfer Day

October 19, 2011

Bank Transfer Day
Kevin E. Dayhoff
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4695



The continuing saga of the crusade against the vampire squids… I’m just saying…

While everyone was distracted by what Charles Krauthammer delightfully described as, the “Starbucks-sipping, Levi’s-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters (of the Occupy Wall Street movement who) denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over…,” a new social uprising term has entered the public discourse. Saturday, November 5 is “Bank Transfer Day.”

According to the uprising’s meager beginnings on Facebook, created by a small business owner, Kristen Christian, 27, a small art gallery owner in Los Angles, citizens are encouraged to take their money out of the blood-sucking vampire squid mega-banks and put it in smaller community banks or more specifically, credit unions.

Ms. Christian owns “Le Spec,” an independent art gallery. She spoke for many when she answered a question from Jen Doll, in a Village Voice article: Why did you decide to do this?

“Mostly just, I was tired. I was tired of being charged bank fee after bank fee after bank fee… When they decided to react so negatively to the Durbin Amendment, that made me sick…”

As opposed to the Occupy Wall Street protests, which appear to be a mobocracy of themeless, clueless anarchists on holiday, Bank Transfer Day has a well-defined and articulated goal, with a specific action plan.

Even National Public Radio, which never met a leftist cause it could not wholeheartedly support, with our tax dollars, could not fathom what the Occupy Wall Street protestors were trying to say

Much of the mainstream media and leftist Democrats want you to believe that Bank Transfer Day is an offshoot grass-roots effort spawned by the Occupy Wall Street anarchists-without-a-clue.

Nothing could be farther from the truth...  

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Baugher’s Restaurant in Westminster supports Little Friends of Grace Christian Preschool on Tuesday, October 18, 2011


If you have not had dinner yet, go over to Baugher’s Restaurant in Westminster. Baugher’s will donate 10 percent of all the receipts from Little Friends of Grace Christian Preschool on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.



If you are looking at this after October 18, 2011, go dine at Baugher’s anyway. Baugher’s has always supported the local community. We should all redouble our efforts to support local businesses that support local families and the local community.

Baugher’s Family Restaurant, 289 W. Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157, 410-848-7413

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Toni Guagenti - HamptonRoads.com: Don’t-miss life lessons cover ‘Terri’s’ territory




Don’t-miss life lessons cover ‘Terri’s’ territory




“TERRI”
Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 2011, R for sexual content, language and some drug and alcohol use – all involving teens
Best extra: “A Look Inside ‘Terri,’” a 10-minute high-def behind-scenes short with co-writer/director Azazel Jacobs and others, including actor Jacob Wysocki (Terri) and cinematographer Tobias Datum
CONFUSED. AWKWARD. UNCOMFORTABLE – just a few words to describe adolescence regardless of who you are, what color you are or how much money your parents or guardian might have. In director Azazel Jacobs’ world of “Terri,” viewers can relive some of those embarrassing high school moments and empathize with the movie’s teen characters. Maybe there are new life lessons to discover, too.
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/10/don%E2%80%99tmiss-life-lessons-cover-%E2%80%98terri%E2%80%99s%E2%80%99-territory
There might be some adults willing to admit that, just because you get older, you don’t always have all the answers to what life throws your way. These folks might relate to John C. Reilly’s character, a high school principal who reaches out to loners to help them cope with the day-to-day challenge of growing up. By “Terri’s” end, he helps himself as well...  


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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Harry's Main Street Grille Westminster Maryland

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Harry's Main Street Grille Westminster Maryland

Caroline and Grammy share a Bergman moment.

The library tree historic downtown Westminster Maryland.

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I stopped by 4 a gr8 coffee & conversation & food at Birdies in Westminster.