The Syrian Shia 'ceasefire,' an exquisite comic coda for the desecration of American foreign policy; supporting the U.N. Resolution merely a last stain on the final swirl down. I would return to my mourning for Harambe, but there's the matter of the 10% tariff.

Connecticut melancholy

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf "Christmas Album" with the Ambrosian Singers, Cond. Charles Mackerras, and Julian Bream, Guitar

W. A. Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate, with I Barocchisti under Diego Fasolis 2005 Roberta Invernizzi

The Ankara assassination of the Russian Ambassador - a crucifixion worthy of a medieval master

Tales of Hoffman Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Carol Vaness - "Per pietà" - Cosi fan Tutti, Metropolitan Opera 1996 Cond. James Levine

China Forbes with Pink Martini at Town Hall, New York

Bull! Your host, with a bronze bull, taken from Persepolis, reign of Xerxes, circa. 424 B.C. The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago

The winged bull from the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II - The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago

Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright at the University of Chicago

MARTIN LUTHER 500th Anniversary - Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn - Johann Walter & Martin Luther

No seal sashimi for him - New England has lost it's bite - Shark attack at High Head, Cape Cod, MA

Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing - The New York Times

Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing - The New York Times: " You can’t eat it, drink it or mate with it. "

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'Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right. - Opinion – Forward.com

Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right. - Opinion – Forward.com: "met with steel"

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Torah finials made by New York silversmith Myer Myers for the Touro Synagogue in Newport approx. 1766.

Single shell on the Charles

Music from Händel, Purcell, and Hayden - Music in honor of St. Cecilia Musiques pour Sainte Cécile | Marc Minkowski

Handel, From Harmony to heavenly harmony The Red Herring baroque ensemble, The New Baroque Times Voices(Ode for Saint-Cecilia's day)

Today is St. Cecilia's Day - let us begin with a Te Deum - Charpentier Te Deum Les Arts Florissants William Christie

Clownfish and anemones at play - The Mystic Aquarium

La Clemenza di Tito: "Deh, per questo istante solo" -- Elīna Garanča "Remember, just for this one moment, how you once loved me"

The Donald Trump Inauguration - Gounod: Faust - "Le veau d'or" Ruggero Raimondi

Leonard Cohen entertaining the troops during the 1973 Yom Kippur War - Rest In Peace

Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire (Live 1988) Rest in Peace

Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings "An die Musik" by Schubert, accompanied by pianist Gerald Moore - shameless escapism from these times...

A little mood music for the Trump Victory - Siegfried Funeral Music - Götterdämmerung - Solti - VPO

A chat with Kaija Saariaho, the composer of L'Amour de Loin, with Peter Gelb, the Director Robert Lepage, and the Conductor Susanna Mäkki.

Tamara Mumford sings the Pilgrim's aria from Act 1, of L'Amour de Loin, acc. on piano by Dimitri Dover.

Clémence's aria from L'Amour de Loin. Susanna Phillips, with Musicians from the Mannes School of Music, Jacob Bass, Cond.

Apollo's Fire - Concert at the Library of Congress, with Amanda Forsythe, Soprano

Apollo's Fire - YouTube:



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Consider a Monarchy, America Nikolai Tolstoy - The New York Times

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The memorial for the fallen officer - The Helmsley Building Park Avenue New York

The Art of the Rout: What a Trump Loss Does to the G.O.P. - The New Yorker

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La Clemenza di Tito: "Deh, per questo istante solo" -- Elīna Garanča

The Styles Section of the New York Times, with a good cigar!

A detail from Hans Memling's superb Triptych of Jan Crabbe at the Morgan Library - All panels are together in the USA for the first time. NY friends should check it out

The Order of the Red Eagle, awarded to J. P. Morgan by Kaiser Wilhelm II, in appreciation of his presentation of a letter from Martin Luther to Charles V. On display in a delightful exhibit on Martin Luther at the Morgan Library

Gun with which Verlaine shot Rimbaud up for auction | World news | The Guardian

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Martin Luther's '95 Theses' at the Morgan Library

Joyce DiDonato - In War & Peace - Lascia ch'io pianga

Quoth the raven nevermore

Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature - The New York Times

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Max Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op.47 (1995 Remastered Version) Jacqueline du Pré Gerald Moore piano

W. A. Mozart, Così fan tutte : "Per pietà, ben mio perdona" Dorothea Röschmann Berlin Staatsoper, Cond. Daniel Barenboim

It's time again to throw open the Gates of Hell - La Resurrezione Händel, Disserratevi o porte d'Averno (Angelo).avi

Sonia Prina, Il Giardino Armonico. "Vedrò con mio diletto". GIUSTINO, Antonio Vivaldi. -

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We missed the Hillary Trump debate for Tristan - a fine trade!

Autumn Sail Gardiner's Bay

Fleeting fame at the Hi Life

Breakfast on Broadway - Free wifi should not be used to expose innocent dogs to porn!

Eleonora Buratto - Amelia "Come in quest'ora bruna" from Simon Boccanegra, Verdi - Riccardo Muti piano

Somewhere from West Side Story/Leonard Bernstein - Sara Murphy, mezzo soprano and Brian Holman, piano

Juan Diego Flórez of the Incan Empire singing Rule Britannia - Last Night of the Proms 2016

Tristan, the Ur Prelude und Liebestod

I am stunned and saddened by the loss of Johan Botha, a gentle, gifted artist - "Morgenlich leuchtend" - Meistersinger '08, Richard Wagner

The Litchfield Historical Society

Jacobean Revival carriage house in need of revival at Ventfort Hall

The Mount, Lenox, MA

Tempus Fuggetaboutit

Walking to the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

I have suffered this abuse before! From 'The New Yorker'

A splendid rebuke to the present millennial slacker culture, Alexander Tyler ran away from his ancestral home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, to join the Confederate Army of Virginia at the age of fourteen. Pardoned at Appomattox, along with Robert E. Lee, Tyler left for Germany to continue his education in engineering at Carlsruhe and Freiberg,Saxony. In 1870 at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Tyler joined the First Uhlan Regiment, serving with distinction in the campaign and subsequent occupation of France. He was decorated for his service by Kaiser Wilhelm I, and sadly passed away while working as a mining engineer in New Mexico at the age of 35. His improbable burial in East Hampton is the result of his marriage to a daughter of the Gardiner clan.

I, Caligula

Plum Island

Jewish man stabbed on street in French city of Strasbourg - BBC News

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En pointe Central Park

Bubble man Central Park

Lenneke Ruiten, Nahuel Di Pierro, and Sandrine Piau in Cosi, with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

My kumbaya guitar case

On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe - The New York Times

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Vanessa at Santa Fe

Capriccio 'Kein Andres, das Mir so im Hertzen loht

Nuestra Señora de Los Dolores, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe

Santos Palace of the Governors Santa Fe

Don Giovanni at Santa Fe

Pueblo circle

Trigger warnings - Fat Boy's detonation control

The Plateau

Pueblo Condo

The Frey Trail

Dies Irae

It's monsoon season!

Down into Frijoles Canyon

The beginning of the trail - Bandelier National Monument