Last sunset 2011 Central Park

Verdi La Traviata Brindisi Libiam ne' lieti calici

Trees lost in the October storm reduced to mulch

Josef Haydn: Trompetenkonzert Es-Dur - I

Italy surrounded by squalor and disgrace

Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' - Stormy Weather (1943)

Bill Evans - Beautiful Love (Jazz Piano Workshop Berlin 1965)

The Tallis Scholars sings Palestrina

I. Bach: Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben / Angelika Kirchschl...

Waltraud Meier - Wir wandelten Op. 96 No. 2 - Johannes Brahms

Winter solstice Southampton

Wild swans in the Springs

A Vandalized Valley - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online

A Vandalized Valley - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online

Happy Chanukha

We have lost Dear Leader!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfg3EgKaOgY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Christopher Hitchens - Rest in Peace

Good morning:

      Essayist, wit, grace, a tremendous loss.

A memorable bit from 'Hitch 22' will serve as a festschrift:

                  Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner, rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed on by some Apache transvestite".

Rest In Peace

Mozart: Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solemnes de confessore)

Swamps of Central Park

Natalie Dessay - Grossmächtige Prinzessin, Part 1/2

Io t'abbraccio from RODELINDA

The Commentator - Who is really fighting the covert war against the regime in Iran?

The Commentator - Who is really fighting the covert war against the regime in Iran?

Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas, Film) - Singing Scene

From 'The New Yorker'

At least there's something sounder here than his son's whining "Losing Mum and Pup," but you're probably better off reading Edmund Burke. I still have kind memories of him, and the strains of Bach's BWV 1048 run as a sweet threnody, whenever I smite another collectivist liberal or defeatist. It is perhaps a kindness that he's not around to see the Republican Party's desecration today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/buckley-william-f-buckley-jr-and-the-rise-of-american-conservatism-by-carl-t-bogus-book-review.html

VICTORIA JOYCE Fairest Isle (Henry Purcell - King Arthur)

J.S.Bach BWV 853 - Patricia Hase

Mozart: Concerto per orchestra, arpa e flauto, KV 299 - rondò allegro

E strano! E strano! - Patrizia Ciofi

The Fountainhead - Enright Building Party

Central Park South

Monteverdi Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria Hanna Bayodi-Hirt Melanto Ed L...

Cooking with Julia - Bon Appetit

The White House - but he wasn't home!

Justice Holmes "Three Generations of Imbeciles are enough"

Arlington National Cemetery

The Confederate States of America memorial

Field Marshall Sir John Dill at Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

The Vietnam War Memorial

The Martin Luther King Memorial, Washington, D.C.

For the Nurses who served in Vietnam

Georgetown at night

Christiane Karg - Come il vapor s'accende (Haydn) - 2010

H. Grimaud 1/3 Rachmaninov piano concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18 [Moderato]

An Aesthete's Lament: Well Said: Lesley Blanch

An Aesthete's Lament: Well Said: Lesley Blanch:

'via Blog this'

Late fall Central Park

Domestic bliss

Goetterdaemmerung Récit de Waltraute

Mad cow disease fears over violin strings threatens works of Handel and Bach - Telegraph

Mad cow disease fears over violin strings threatens works of Handel and Bach - Telegraph:

'via Blog this'

Vivaldi: Concerto n. 3 in C major (Il Gardellino)

Vivaldi: Concert in C major RV533

Laduree - corruptive influences on Madison Avenue

The Falconer Central Park

The New York Historical Society Library

Nick has it right. It remains 1938 in the West, where the quiet capitulation to Islamic fascism allows these events to be quietly accepted.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/nick-cohen-azerbaijan-murder-islamism

Gibbons - O Clap your hands sung by I Fagiolini

[HD] Presentation of the Rose - Jurinac & Rothenberger

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Handel - Theodora - Bane of virtue

Flow my tears (Lachrimae Pavan) J. Dowland - Marga Wilden-Hüsgen u. Mar...

Slough of Despond John Bunyan

The Winchester reservoir - once part of the Middlesex Canal

Thanksgiving carving

山田耕筰：赤とんぼ（三木露風）Kosaku YAMADA: "Aka-Tombo"

A photo of JFK's temporary grave, taken by my father shortly after the assassination.

Wagner : The Ride of the Valkyries - Copenhagen Ring

Gil Shaham - Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen (HQ)

Sandrine Piau - Un cenno leggiadretto (Serse)

My favorite Victorian ironwork bridge Central Park

Central Park North Reservoir

Central Park Reservoir

Central Park North Reservoir

VIII. Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina / Christophe Rousset

Delphine Galou - Già che morir non posso - Radamisto 2009

Waltraud Meier "Chanson du voile" Don Carlo

The view behind the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA 2004

'Land of Hope and Glory' Vera Lynn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQgdE50QA4&t=52s

Stephanie Blythe "Lo faro, diro spietato" Rodelinda

Zelenka: Requiem en Re Mayor ZWV 46

Yankee Doodle Dandy Finale

"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae (poetry)

For Great-uncles Jesse Rosenberg and Phillip Schein Meuse-Argonne 1917-1918

Francoise Gilot at the Consulate General of Hungary

VOR Fleet Battered in Med

VOR Fleet Battered in Med

Lucia Popp ~ Ei parte... Per pietà, ben mio perdona (Cosi fan tutte) RARE!

Central Park Sheep Meadow

Herding Piping Plovers

La Traviata Preview

XIII. Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena | Les arts florissants

I. Monteverdi: Lapidabant Stephanum | Les Arts Florissants

Hélène Grimaud - Schumann Klavierkonzert a-moll, 1.Satz

Sunset Three Mile Harbor

The Zetas in Vera Cruz have blinked - chalk one up for Anonymous and the hackitocracy! Well-done!

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/anonymous-calls-off-outing-of-narco-cartel-after-release-of-kidnapped-member.ars

Violin Concerto No. 3 - Autumn 1st movement

A severance? Jon Corzine should be indicted for co-mingling client funds!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2011/11/04/corzine-resigns-at-mf-global-wont-seek-golden-parachute/

Bemused that we are fearful of 'damaging the relationship' with Pakistan, Bin Ladin's shelter, the Hakkani motherland, and perhaps the most dangerous nuclear-tipped terrorist base in the world.

http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2011/11/04/obama-limits-cia-drone-strikes-in-pakistan/?cid=soc-Facebook-in-Terrorism-obama_limits_drones-110411

"Venere bella", Giulio Cesare, Aria: Cleopatra, Act 2 scene 4

No veiled threat.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/02/141928567/french-newspaper-firebombed-after-satire-involving-prophet-muhammad?ft=1&f=1001

Excellent news! I have been self-medicating for decades!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-checkup/post/substance-in-red-wine-shows-promise-in-first-human-study/2011/10/31/gIQAtMZRcM_blog.html?utm_campaign=wpapp

It split Manhattan schist but couldn't survive the No'Easter

Anonymous Veracruz copia

The Great Lawn

Boo!

A Frank Lloyd Wright interior

A mid-19th Century New York square piano

The American Wing, The Met

First snow Central Park