Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. I attended a symposium a couple of weeks ago and someone there suggested that it would be neat if SDA LNR could find some classical music where the video showed, scrolling by (for some value of “scrolling”), the actual score being played. And we all agreed that would be cool.
So tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter performing Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff‘s Prelude, Op. 23 No. 5 (1971, 3:48), accompanied by such video.
I only got to trying for grade one in the Royal Conservatory piano shtick (it’s not my gig, for as you can see to this day I play the DJ instrument, albeit with a little percussion on the side). Still, I did learn to read music (for some value of “read”), and much to my delight I found that I could (though just barely) keep up with the score in that video (in the sense that at least four times out of five the page changed when I expected it to). Heh, that’s fun; I think we’ll do it again some day.
| One of our favourite (here in the SDA LNR studios) Rachmaninoff quotes is: “The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt ~ they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
And here’s one of our favourite Richter quotes: “Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.” |
 Some Flowers For You |
That’s notable, I think, considering that Artur Rubinstein described his first exposure to Sviatoslav Richter as follows; “It really wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. Then at some point I noticed my eyes growing moist: tears began rolling down my cheeks.”
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Liberal Ad$Cam Coderre, aka Hezbollah Coderre, has no comments re his buddy Ad$Cam Brault.
A sample de Coderre’s franglais: “J’ai dit ce que j’avais à dire à l’époque, that’s it.»”
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“Allégations de Jean Brault: Coderre refuse de commenter”
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080915/CPELECFED02/809150877/7068/CPELECFED
The firewall* is now a reality.
Say goodnight, Citoyen Dion. Disparu!
Goodnight/bon soir.
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“New Liberal ads are Dion-less”
OTTAWA — Stephane Dion has pulled a vanishing act in the latest Liberal ad.
The new 30-second spots attack “Harpernomics,” accusing the Conservatives of giving polluters a blank cheque and playing divide-and-conquer politics. A Liberal news release said the ads draw “a clear contrast between the divisive partisanship of Stephen Harper and the progressive leadership of Stephane Dion.
Yet the Grit leader doesn’t even get a mention.
Tory rivals said dumping Dion from an ad designed to sell leadership is “quite telling” and “rather odd.””
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/News/2008/09/15/6775556-sun.html
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“January 29, 2007
Building A Firewall* Around Stephane Dion”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005437.html
Don’t miss Angry’s blog.
Barf is outed; real good.
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“Garth Turner’s on-air encounter with a friend he’s never met before”
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Commenter anon:
“I found this quite amusing from the “Headlines” section of Garth’s website…
Globe columnist: Halton Tory candidate caught in ‘fraud’.
Note to Garth: you’re running as a Liberal this go around!
jccs… just saw the piece on CBC. Can’t believe it. Garth lashes out, playing the victim. He blames CPAC, saying they went door-knocking with him and that he didn’t target that particular home. He doesn’t say why he failed to mention who opened the door.
This will certainly bring into disrepute anything Garth says throughout the rest of the campaign in his riding.
Hope he gets what he deserves.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/273468.php
More on Garth; see the comments about this at AGWN, Janke’s website; it sounds like CPAC is very angry.
“just got an email from our new Provost telling me that I – like everyone else working at the university – must start attending mandatory sexual harassment awareness training sessions every two years. The good news is that I’m going. The bad news is that I’ve gotten some other angry white men together to help me completely disrupt the training sessions.”
He should go to the sexual harassment sessions. After all, he might meet some babes there!
“Anyone who runs an online message board, from the lowliest vanity blogger to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, can be charged under federal human rights law if visitors to their site post hateful comments, according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.”
So let’s all post such “hateful” comments on the CBC site and get ’em in trouble! Or at least until the Conservatives get a majority and the blight of the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission is no more.