I'm sure there will be a full investigation.

“.. A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.”

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I’m sure this is not a popular opinion, but does anyone else find the third movement of Beethoven’s Ninth to be incredibly boring?

Viktor Ullmann: Streichquartett Nr. 3 | Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg YouTube video by Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

This beautiful and haunting quartet was composed in Theresienstadt. The composer was later murdered in Auschwitz.

Finzi: Romance for String Orchestra

Brahms Opus’ 117 and 118.

Van Cliburn's Brahms is up there with any other interpretation. Just beautiful.

Would the existing flu vaccine provide any immunity at all?

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 (1953) Kapell/Mitropoulos YouTube video by Restoration Archive

A friend came over for dinner. It was his birthday, so I gave him venison with dauphinoise; cherry cake and custard. We fell to talking about Brahms PC1. This is still *it*. What a mensch Brahms was, listening through this to the man.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HNB...

Ferocious performance.

Not very presidential.

Brahms' Sextet No. 2 in G Major - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2007 YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

Since I'm into classical music I will post my favorite You Tube video on the topic. Although the video quality is a bit lacking, the experience of the entirety is sublime.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdGt...

Recipes would be nice.

Hmm. Perhaps I could have phrased that better.

Haha. For the first 95 years of his life, I hardly gave Blomstedt a thought. Now he seems to be everywhere and I am adoring what I am hearing. Check out his Brahms 2 and the Academic Festival Overture. Ebullient!

Had the supreme pleasure of seeing John Adams conduct at the NY PHIL last night. Wonderful program included Part, Copland, Gabriella Smith (who introduced her piece) and the man himself, Adams, conducting his symphonic work City Noir. Joyous.

Why would anyone hate Clara Schumann?

No, sorry. It was actually Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Phil.

That Brahms 2 is amazing. Those trombones!

Ok, I'll Play:

Brahms 2
Saint-Saens 3
Brahms 1
Beethoven 3
Mahler 1
Schubert Unfinished
Mozart 36
Haydn 104
Brahms 2
Brahms 4
Mendelssohn 3
Mendelssohn 4
Prokofiev 1
Sibelius 2
Schubert 9

Brahms' Sextet No. 2 in G Major - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2007 YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)

Since I'm into classical music I will post my favorite You Tube video on the topic. Although the video quality is a bit lacking, the experience of the entirety is sublime.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdGt...