Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
The recent resurgence of interest in period instruments in the classical music world is at least partially driven by an awareness that the composers of the day had the sound of those instruments, and not the modern ones, in mind when they wrote their music. The instruments of the Baroque and Renaissance eras were differently shaped and constructed than modern ones, and the strings were made of gut rather than the metal and metal composites. Gut strings have an intrinsically different sound, but they also have a different effect on the instrument, by virtue of the fact that they require less tension to bring them to pitch, and therefore exert less pressure onto the soundboard via the bridge. The result is a quieter, subjectively warmer sound.
Tonight, to give you a taste of the sound of period instruments, we feature Barcelona’s Jordi Savall, a highly-respected interpreter of ancient music, and the leading exponent of the Renaissance era precursor of modern violins and cellos, the Viola Da Gamba:
The most common sizes of viols are the treble, which is about the size of a violin, the bass, which is about the size of a cello, and the tenor which is between the two. There are also larger and smaller viols. Some have a shape which resembles a violin, others have plainer corners or a much fancier outline. They are always held on the knees or between the legs and are usually played with a bow (which is held underhand). Most viols have C-shaped soundholes and a flat back. Strings are usually made of gut, like the frets which are tied around the neck and are partly responsible for viols’ sound quality. The rich, clear sound of viols means they blend well with each other and with other instruments or voices. Most viols have six strings, but some have more and others fewer.
Here is Jordi Savall (playing the treble viol) and Hesperion XXI performing Baroque era composer Samuel Scheidt’s Le Nuove Musiche.
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From the “What? Me worry? I don’t even live there” files:
“The problem with (educated, suburban women) is that they’ve been trained to think emotionally and they are incredibly sheltered. The worst thing that they could imagine happening to them is getting a B on an English paper at Vassar, and the worst thing they could imagine being is unpopular. They cannot comprehend the idea that illegal aliens – even hard-working, honest ones – will bring drugs, gangs, lawlessness, and poverty across the border and into their lives.
“Reality will not kick in with these chicks until one of their cute blonde daughters gets killed in the crossfire of a drug deal gone wrong between the landscaper and the painter.”
EBD … hard for me to covey what those droning bowed strings do to the hairs in my cochlea!!
It is not pleasant …..
On the guns/gangs/ urban liberal pinheadlettes thing … how do you explain Toronto?
Seems like only a couple of Christmases ago that very thing happened. Although I doubt the perps had any useful job skills like gardening or decorating.
BTW – http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2010/05/elena-kagan.html
Mike Myers for the USSC…
Thanks Vit. Kind of peaceful.
EBD is your DJ tonight, Speedy, and I agree: thanks EBD; an excellent selection.
When it comes to Jordi Savall, it’s an embarrassment of riches. I picked this one because I like the purdy instruments, and you get a nice visual selection.
QOTW: “Preemptive honor killing” – K. Shaidle
Britain’s hidden gendercide: How Britain’s Asians are copying Indian cousins and aborting girls:
“For the hospital sonographer, it’s just another routine 20-week ultrasound scan. The baby is developing perfectly and, helpfully, is lying in the right position to make identification of its gender straightforward. ‘Would you like to know the sex?’ she asks. The anxious-looking Indian woman who has been staring so intently at the monitor, smiles nervously. ‘Oh yes, please,’ she says, her slight Midlands accent betraying the fact that she was born in Britain.
“‘Well, you’re having a little girl. Isn’t that lovely?’ If the sonographer had been a little less tired, she might have noticed the slight hesitation before her patient’s reply, the fleeting look of desperate disappointment that crossed her face. But both are gone in a split second. ‘Oh yes, wonderful news, my husband will be pleased.’
“But the woman is lying – just as hundreds of other British women of Indian origin do every year….”
The Obama deception? … part, oh I don’t know, how about part 2000?
“Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state”. … “Since 1973, Social Security numbers have been issued by our central office,” the Social Security website explains. “The first three (3) digits of a person’s social security number are determined by the ZIP code of the mailing address shown on the application for a social security number.”
hmmmm, He’s never lived in Connecticut.
Is B. Hussien using a social security number first issued to someone that was born in 1890 ?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152773
Roger that, EBD, and Hesperion XXI too. It was via
them that I first discovered Jordi Savall on YouTube.
Cruel, relentless tribal justice, delivered by hard, upright members:
“The Muslim world is full of violent, graphic and alarming stories of ‘honor killings’, in which young woman are killed by male family members for dishonoring the family.
“‘Honor rape’, in which the gang rape of a woman is used as a tool of social punishment, is spoken of less.
“Almost unheard of is an ‘honor killing’ or ‘honor rape’ of a man, but the northern Afghanistan province of Jowzjan is grappling with just that, after the sons of the region’s governor and police chief were found having sex with two women almost a month ago in the Dasht-i Leile desert, north of the provincial capital Shiberghan.
“According to local media reports, a man named Yama, the 30-year-old son of the Jowzjan governor, and his friend Hashmatullah, the 28-year-old son of the provincial police chief, was seen by local herdsmen having sex with 24-year old Shokreya and 22-year-old Jamila.
“The herdsmen allegedly stole the men’s guns and money and gang raped them in retribution for the ‘dishonor’ they had committed by having sex with the two young women.
“The farmers tore the clothes of the two young men with sickles and raped them,” a local official told Pajhwok Afghan News. The herdsmen later described to local organizations that the attack was an ‘honor rape.'”
Classical music is fine and dandy for the single malt, “I say old chum” crowd in thier tweet suites with patches on the elbows, but nothing beats Rockabilly cranked up on the radio as you tool down the highway on a sunny day in your jeans and t-shirt!
In reader tips land, scientists are baffled as Jupiter loses one of its stripes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html
Go Habs Go! The Sweater
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Les Canadiens Sont La! Le Chandail
I’ll try to come up with a relevant Reader Tip to make up for this personal frivolity…yes, I’m aware how sad it is that I’m as exited about a trip to the semis as I used to be about a Cup win.
tweed
Eric Cantor has posted a list of wasteful government programs and has asked that the electorate vote on the programs they wish to cut:
http://biggovernment.com/ecantor/2010/05/12/tired-of-big-government-spending-then-youcut-it/
Anybody think this might be a winner in Canada?
HRCs, Court Challenges Program, Official Bilingualism…..
I am forwarding this to you in hopes that other conservative thinkers like myself are thinking the same thing, we need to stay focused on what the real issue here is! It’s a letter that I just sent to my M. P. regarding the most important issue facing Canadians today, IMHO.
Link
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100510/memo-emery-agent-charges-100510/20100510?hub=Canada
Greetings from sunny Rosetown, Ms. Block!
My name is Paul Cerniuk, and I have a problem with the federal government. To help understand what my problem is with, this preamble:
A couple of suppositions for this illustration: a certain state, say Kentucky, allows almost any weapon to be bought and possessed by anyone with proof of age of majority, and say the state recently made the possession, sale, purchase, or use in any way of the Mac 10 sub-machine gun, fully automatic, illegal. However, as it is a recent law and there are so many of them already on the street that law isn’t fully enforced.
So, let’s say a friend of mine, Kelly, recently went to Kentucky and walked into a gun shop and told the clerk that she lives in Canada and wants to purchase a Mac 10. The clerk sells her the weapon right off the shelf and tells her that as long as her breath doesn’t smell like bourbon and the gun is under the seat she shouldn’t have any problem crossing the border.
So, Kelly brings the Mac 10 to Rosetown where she gets busted. The RCMP ask her where she got this prohibited weapon and she tells them, even supplying the receipt from the store in Kentucky. Kelly now faces some problems with the Canadian justice system, and we can all further assume that the RCMP will be taking a trip to Kentucky to arrest the store owner and clerk who sold the gun to Kelly.
Of course that last sentence could never come true! Even though there was a Canadian that committed the crime, it happened in another country with their own sovereign laws to govern it! The Canadian government would have no more legal right to apply the rule of our laws to citizens of another country that that country would have over citizens of our fair land, of course! It just makes no sense, and I would expect that if the RCMP did try such a stunt the American government would have something to say about it. If the store owner in question (and clerks) have broken American laws, it is not only their exclusive right or responsibility to prosecute, or not, it is their responsibility to protect their sovereign right to do this, and one would expect that government to respond to a foreign police force’s efforts to cross the border and seize an American citizen in kind! In fact, I would expect the uproar to be deafening, and the support that the store owner and staff would receive from their government and public would be overwhelming! The fact that their offence would be illegal in both Kentucky and Canada wouldn’t matter, the over-riding concern from them would likely be along the lines of “how dare those Canadians come over here and try to arrest one of our citizens?!” If the store owner or employees went to Canada, or had actually committed the criminal act while in that country, then maybe a case for extradition could be made, but not when the offence was committed in the U. S.!
If you haven’t figured it out yet, this is about Marc Emery.
Before this last Monday, I had faith that my government would stand by me and protect me from malicious prosecution from another country, preventing the law enforcement agencies from every other nation on Earth from coming after me for some perceived offence in that country. I no longer have that faith. I don’t care what crime Emery is accused of, I don’t care that those same offences are illegal in this country, and I really, really don’t care how much you or any other M.P., bureaucrat, or other functionary of the government agree with the DEA and disagree with Mr. Emery! He is a Canadian citizen, currently waiting for the legal apparatus to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges against him, despite the somehow-overlooked fact that he didn’t actually commit any offence in the U. S.! That very sentence offends me, and it offends me that I have to write it as the truth! Canada almost went to war with the U. S. over a pig, and our government saw fit to fight extradition for Charles Ng but when it comes to stopping a foreign government from snatching one of our fellow citizens off the streets of Vancouver to satisfy THEIR justice issues my government suddenly doesn’t want to get involved. SHAME!
All the arguments that I’ve heard recently, involving the government of Iran taking women (even you!) because you aren’t wearing a burka, I buy. The argument I illustrated at the beginning of this letter is exactly the same as what is currently happening. What’s to stop the DEA from coming for me next, if I have ever expressed support for Emery’s political platform? Apparently, nothing. They can come to my country and act with total impunity because my government, who I used to believe in, won’t lift a finger to stop them. Now, we have to follow laws that voters in another country have expressed a wish for, never mind if it has no relevance to this country, never mind that the only examples human history of this happening involve an empire that the subjugated nation didn’t have a choice in the matter. I haven’t heard of our being conquered yet, but apparently our minister of justice has decided to act like we have been.
This isn’t about pot, it never was and any attempt by you or the CPC to make it about that issue is recognized by me and others like me to be what it is: a distraction from the real issue, sovereignty!
Your team really dropped the ball on this, and speaking as a conservative and a Conservative supporter, I’ve got to say that this is a deal breaker for me. If there is one single thing that I demand from my government, it’s protection from prosecution from a foreign government. If I wanted to live under the American’s rules I would move there. I don’t want to move there or deal with their laws here so I am expecting my government to do its job and stop all other governments from prosecuting me or any other Canadian because if the DEA can come here and snatch Marc Emery they can do the same to me, you, or anyone else. If you or your party can’t do that one thing for me, then I am afraid that I will have to search for or create a party that will.
You don’t have to respond to this message directly if you don’t want to, I will infer your response by the government’s response to the issue overall. Any mention of marijuana other than in a purely definitive aspect regarding naming the criminal acts Emery is accused of by the American justice system will be construed to be exactly what it is: polarization of an issue that is inappropriate. This isn’t left versus right, conservative versus socialist, this party versus that party, pot smoking hippie versus the establishment; this is about Canadian versus American and we are all Canadian, are we not?
Yours truly,
Paul
EBD, strange story you posted about the punitive homosexual rape.
Kind of sad to have to read mixed with nice music.
Here’s another example.
http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/04/30/barber-sodomised-for-beard-abuse/
Paul I think you were smoking pot when you wrote that.
Obviously pressing all the wrong links, but could not find what would seem to be a great preformance. What am I doing wrong?
Paul, just to clarify, Emery did commit an offense in the US, in the sense that he sold marijuana seeds to the US, which is an offense there. That being said, I’m a bit uncomfortable with his extradition too, not because he’s a sympathetic character, or because he didn’t break the law, but for reasons pertaining to sovereignty. If he does something in Canada that’s illegal, he should be tried here, IMO.
I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know what the law is, but that’s my gut feeling, for whatever that’s worth.
Hey, just to lighten the mood a bit, here’s a cute little video: take a bunch of fermented fruit, and a variety of African animals, and you get…the Bowery, savannah-style.
(Hope that cleanses the palate a bit, Rpb…)
Frances: click the bolded “Le Nuove Musiche,” (not the adjacent “Samuel Scheidt”, which is also a link) and you’ll see the video.
If you click on the link labelled “Progressives” that leads off the top post from May 12, a page from Cjunk’s blog pops up. If you look down the right hand side of that, you’ll find a link labelled “Yup. She said Hitler Youth.” That linked page contains a video of David Horowitz eliciting a confession from a female Hamas supporter that she agrees with the Muslim terrorist who said that he hoped all the Jews would come to Israel because it would save them the trouble of hunting them down worldwide.
Here’s the article relating to my insufficient reader tip from last evening.
(Glenn’s Reader Tip links to a Globe and Mail piece by Jane Taber titled “CBC waging ‘faith war,’ Conservatives say.” Very much worth reading – just one more piece of evidence that the Liberal war room and the CBC (and Taber) are essentially one and the same. In the article Taber continues to defend the CBC, but without any substance to her argument; it’s all about attacking the Cons. — EBD)
Excellent article, in my view, outlining the source of the current worldwide economic problems.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/23067
File this under Kathy’s regular “Dear Luftwaffe. Please come back. All is forgiven” feature:
A Roman Catholic schoolgirl has been labelled as a truant after refusing to wear a headscarf on a class trip to a mosque.
AlG’s Weather (AGW): No Comment.
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“Ban urges Canada to put environment on G20 agenda The Associated Press”
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“U.N. head Ban Ki-Moon refusing orders from internal personnel court
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has refused to comply with numerous orders from a new U.N. personnel tribunal to hand over confidential documents and other sensitive information needed to resolve legal claims by U.N. employees of unfair treatment, according to court documents.
The dispute has set the stage for a power struggle between the secretary general, who is seeking to fend off court challenges to the authority of his office, and the dispute tribunal’s judges, who argue that claimants can’t prove they have been wronged without access to internal documents or confidential witnesses.
Ban’s lawyer, Susan Maddox, on Friday refused another of several orders to turn over notes from a U.N. ethics probe involving an American whistleblower. The American, James Wasserstrom, was forced from a top U.N. job in Kosovo three years ago after cooperating with an internal corruption investigation.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/12/AR2010051204868.html
Jesus Yes. Newsweek No.
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“The Ultimate Newsweek Cover Line (UPDATED, AGAIN)
Newsweek has fallen on hard times, and the Washington Post Co. is putting it up for sale. Thoughtful context here and here. I have no long-term solutions. But if they’re looking to goose newsstand sales, Matt Cooper, a triple-crown veteran of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News, once came up with the greatest newsweekly cover line of all time:
“What Would Jesus Eat? The New Science of Biblical Diets Could Be The Secret to Weight Loss.”
Having never worked at a newsweekly myself, I’ll defer to Matt. But it always seemed to me like there was one more station of the cross when it came to newsweekly cover lines, which is why my own ultimate line would be:
“Jesus: Was He Gay? The New Science”
If anybody can top those, I’d like to hear it.
UPDATE: Slate’s John Dickerson, a newsweekly vet, weighs in via Twitter (#BestNewsweekCoverline) with this powerful contender:
“The Jesus Twitter: How Social Networking Can Save Your Family (and your soul)”
That’s sharp–I forgot the “latest tech trend” meme
LATER UPDATE: Goldblog offer this one:
“Abe Lincoln’s iPad: Tech Secrets Steve Jobs Learned from the 16th President (and from Mary Magdalene, Too).””
http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/05/the-ultimate-newsweek-cover-line-updated/56270/
Mississauga Matt @7:32 – well that really does steam my cannoli. On Kate’s dictum that conservatives should start using leftwingers’ own despicable tactics and institutions against them, maybe Amy Owen should appeal this to the U.N. Human Rights Thingie.
(No, wait, I just remembered: Shiny new Prime Minister David Cameron is a Conservative, and he’s going to put a stop to this kind of thing! What a relief.)
Heard on Mark Levin:
Nominee for head of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lauds the British NHS.
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”
Well, at least he’s not trying to hide anything.
PET Cemetery Report: Liberal Ducky Ziffy.
PETCem has a new Separatist Coalition editor. Her’s latest effort here.
If Liberal Ziffy ziffies like a duck, ziffies like a duck, and ziffies like a duck, you know it’s Liberal Ziffy Duck.
Download our Ziffy Duck file now.
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“Coalition? Ignatieff ducks
Norman Spector
In the wake of the formation of a Conservative/Lib-Dem coalition government in Britain, we read behind Le Devoir’s firewall the reaction of three gentlemen who played key roles in our own near-crisis of 2008.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/spector-vision/coalition-ignatieff-ducks/article1567187/
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/05/13/ill-co-sign-that/#comment-81635
I got clued into viol music by the French film
“Tout le matin du monde”
All the mornings of the world.
It’s about the life of French composer Marin Marais.
Since then I’ve listened to viol music by:
Byrd, Gibbons, Jenkins, Lawes, Purcell, JS Bach.
We all know that American military give out way too many medals and ribbons. However, most realize that there is a big difference between a combat medal and a shining shoes one. That is until now. according to a spokesman at the International Security Assistance Force, they are seriously thinking of giving out a medal for NOT firing! honest, the medal would be given for “courageous restraint” for holding fire to save civilian lives.
Of course this has nothing to do with cutting pay raises for military and trying to find money in the defense budget to fund O care. If I didn’t know better I’d swear this is a re-incarnation of the turdeau military policy, with centennial and jubilee medals but wage freeze (actually two during my time in).
Snowstorms kill; humans kill and euthanize.
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“Ontario shelter halts killing of infected animals
OSPCA puts brakes on controversial decision to euthanize hundreds of animals infected by ringworm”
“But officials of the Ontario SPCA say they are concerned about 15 animals that were stolen from the facility by staff and volunteers in the past few days, and which could infect other animals or people in the community.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/ontario-shelter-halts-killing-of-infected-animals/article1567558/
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“Snowstorms kill hundreds of cattle as Cardston County declares emergency
Ranchers in southern Alberta’s Cardston County are in emergency mode after a barrage of spring snowstorms killed hundreds of cattle.
Losses are mounting as melting snow reveals calves that succumbed to the winter-like weather of the past couple of weeks, said Reeve Cam Francis.
The county declared itself a “disaster area” earlier this week, Francis said, noting that some ranchers lost more than 100 calves.
“It’s been devastating. A lot of cattle got piled up from the wind, cows got trampled, some cows were pushed into the dugout and drowned,” Francis said.
County officials haven’t tallied the number of cattle lost.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/thewest/Snowstorms+kill+hundreds+cattle+Cardston+County+declares+emergency/3016251/story.html
No-one @ 5:49 a.m.: The article you linked to (at canadafreepress.com) is left-wing extremist trash. Please don’t be fooled!
nv53 – thanks for the warning; I’m definately not a leftie nor do I want to be1
I did some checking on the writer of the article and he is neither left or right. “He graduated from the United States Military Academy, served as an officer in the US Army, then graduated from Harvard Business School, took a short detour on Wall Street, and had a career in Silicon Valley in several leadership positions in technology corporations.” He does not appear to be conspiracy theorist. He is now a writer and a post-neoclassical economic philosopher. He has series of videos entitled Renaissance 2 on his website.
http://www.youtube.com/user/councilonsper?feature=mhw5