Posted on 04/30/2024 2:54:24 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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“The Honorable Merrick Garland”
That right there is pile crap bigger than a Brontosaurus could produce.
In 1936 Rachmaninov came to Philly for the same program except that Eugene Ormandy had replaced Stokowski as Music Director. My mother was allowed to go to that concert, and she said the same thing: Sergei had the biggest hands she had ever seen on a man. She also said his manner at the piano was businesslike. He and Ormandy would occasionally glance at each other to be sure the orchestral cues were in the right place, and he wasn't flamboyant at the piano.
His version of "The Star Spangled Banner" was a reaction to Josef Hoffmann's bombastic version. I've played the Hoffmann arrangement, and you can hear the bombs bursting in midair. Rachmaninov wanted something more contemplative and thankful.
Three weeks before his death in 1943 from cancer, Rachmaninov became an American citizen as his final act of defiance of Stalin.
Maria has been rockin’ my sox for 30 years. I would put her on in my HS classroom back in the 90s to illustrate the fluctuations in stock prices. I declared to my students that Maria was the smartest woman in the world, with her off-the-cuff recitations of arcane data from that floor of the NYSE.
I still think she’s the smartest woman in the world.
You’re welcome!
Good to see you.
That’s a good one.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this thread!
Most of the people I meet at worked are middle class Blacks and they are major P.O.ed at the democratic party.
I pray we can guard enough to stop their cheating and get back to our Constitution.
Howdy, neighbor!
So happy to meet you.
Do you still have family here?
I may know them.
I’m a transplant but have lived here most of my adult life.
Thank you, Gran, great opening.
Appreciate your hard work, you kids.
I LOVE, I STAND WITH TRUMP pic, how lucky is Melania?
I like that, thanks.
Great new thread, LG!
Just in time for two Trump rallies tomorrow!
The International Criminal Court is writing up international arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu.
The ICC has, of course, issued no warrants for the arrest of Hamas leaders who ordered the mass slaughter and government-sponsored rape squads.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1785337223409217873
You’re welcome!
Trump has been making fantastic inroads into the Black community.
I hope that the Blacks you work with are some of those.
As Trump told Blacks before, “What have you got to lose?”
Hey neighbor! Nope, my family all split off several directions. But I guess I’m a fixture, have been since 1954 other that college and military.
Maria is my MUST SEE TV on Sunday morning.
She sure is one smart cookie.
Thank you for the post. It was most edifying.
Funny!
Did you see where Katy Tur was interviewing Nasty Pig-lousy and corrected her on Trump’s low job performance?
Katy pointed out, correctly, that it was during COVID lockdowns.
Nasty called her an apologist for Trump!
I had a good laugh.
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