Four Last Songs Maestro Dmitry Liss Ural Philharmonic Orchestra 'Vier Letzte Lieder' with Olga Peretyatko

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anna Netrebko, Marco Armiliato, Yonghoon Lee, DoloraZajick, and Stefan Kocan in Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera

The super moon fires up over East Hampton Beach

Pope Francis Lays Hands On Ailing U.S. Infrastructure - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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Declaiming that only the blood of Christ would lead to personal salvation, I gently informed them that as one of The Chosen, this would not be necessary. So few signs of pre-Ordination in this crowd - my New England heart despairs.

Milton Friedman

Great to see Dmitri Hvorostovsky on the mend! Il Trovatore: "Vivrà! contende il giubilo" (Anna Netrebko, Hvorostovsky)

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Trust issues

Man discovers he is not qualified for unskilled labour - perfect really for the products of the current private school crowd.

Man discovers he is not qualified for unskilled labour

It's a joke - don't share it with Schubert

Oh Alma do tell us/All modern women are jealous...Alma Mahler ~ "The loveliest girl in Vienna was Alma, the smartest as well".wmv - YouTube

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Worth reading - there's so much deceptive drivel out there....Six easy ways to tell if that viral story is a hoax

Six easy ways to tell if that viral story is a hoax:



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Last orders

From "The New Yorker"

Low caliber- Donald Trump bloviating aboard the USS Iowa, oblivious to the irony of the magnificent backdrop of 16" guns

We're keeping the lights on! New York’s Met Opera Goes From $22 Million Shortfall to $1 Million Surplus - WSJ

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A sorry piece of rubbish from The New Republic' Professor Saul Bellow: Influence of Academy Made Fiction Insufferable

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Jonas Kaufmann sings Nessun Dorma from Puccini's 'Turandot.' Last Night Proms 2015 - I know, a warhorse, but magnificent nonetheless!

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Rule Britannia - Jonas Kaufmann, the first German to sing this - I guess the war is finally over (Last Night of the Proms 2015)

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For British friends upon the election of Jeremy Corbyn, ' Jealousy that poisons passion, And despair that dies for love' Purcell: Fairest Isle (King Arthur), Anna Dennis, Soprano with Voices of Music

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Take a village

The Ottoman Empire Ended? And Franz Joseph...?

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Howard Libby 1915-2015 Mass in B minor BWV 232 (Thomaskirche 2005, Blomstedt) - 15/15

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Working off the Lee Shore -

From the New Yorker

Chasing the cat at 7K...

Yo Mama

The Most Violent Man in the Hamptons? -The East End has been overrun with entitled scum for decades, but this is really a standout. The desecration of what was once a graceful civil place seems complete; we can only console ourselves that the siege will be lifted after Labor Day, until the next 'season.'

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This piece is one of the saddest bits yet from the New York Times, where the question of competence and clarity is dissolved into drivel about 'diversity' in the De Blasio administration. Rather than noting that the city now swarms with lewd and sturdy beggars, unrestrained on the street, we have handwringing over the question over the 'right' number of Latinas... de Blasio’s Aide on Homeless Is Resigning Amid Crisis - The New York Times

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Déchainée - Anna Netrebko cuts loose at the Beiteddine Art Festival Lebanon

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