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