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Bravo, Keigo Takesa: Beautiful craftsmanship on the flute, especially the etched/engraved key, and you (multi-tracked, I assume) and your flute(s) achieve a remarkably fine performance, with notably good intonation. Is the artificial ivory material the typical (rather soft) polyester stuff that ...

Greetings Kim Pineda: I'm absolutely taken with the vigor of your playing overal, of pushing these old flutes to their full expressive limits, and especially here in the Partia of fully exploring this particular instrument's various voices in parallel with Bach's exploration of more abstract musi...

Ron Paul trivializes the descent into tyranny and thus trivializes himself and his candidacy when he jokes on the campaign trail about the banning of cell phone use while driving. He has not made the sort of speech one sees here during any of the recent GOP debates, and this suggests that unfortu...

@davidbellugi Grazie for the reply, and especially the information on the possible availability of Breukink's "Eagle," which you play with brilliant effect in your other video of these dances at Villa Favard, via Kung, although a visit to their Web site has no mention of this marvelous modern alt...

Bravo, David Bellugi: With wonderful effect, you restore Respighi's suite to its own time rather than treating it as some oddly belated example of the "antique" period to which its title refers, getting some sensitive, nuanced ensemble string playing. Thanks for posting.

Hallo, Klangmueller,

Thanks for posting this series of live performance videos. Here Temmingh plays a "Frubarock" (early 17th-century style) recorder appropriate to the period of the "Division Flute." Elsewhere, I believe, he plays a similar soprano. Many players use a so-called "Ganassi" model,...

Beautiful performance of the Castello. The Boekhout works superbly!

Nice work on the "Folia." The Klemisch's Steenbergen sounds very good in hands. I would be interested in when this instrument was made. Arigato.

Laura Flanders has it absolutely right, whereas confused neo-liberal Ed Schultz has it exactly backwards: The question is not whether OWS has reached a turning point, it is whether the tactics and strategy for police repression of the movement has taken a new turn. The answer, as she so rightly ...

Newzar: Please, no euphemisms. Tear gas does not "happen," like rain. It is released, dispersed, thrown, launched, or fired at people in the form of cannisters or grenades.

This news brief is flawed: It shows us Beck repeating his red-baiting mythology about who constitutes the OWS; it shows us Obama accusing every other leader for failure to deal with the issues OWS is raising, and has him suggesting that the problem is that people "feel" the deck is stacked agains...

Dear travsthrutime, please post the rest of this lecture that has begun so promisingly. BTW, who is the lecturer?

The speaker is Jesse Lagreca, I believe, who has emerged as something of a media-anointed celebrity spokesperson of the occupation at "Liberty Plaza." It's nothing official. I think an interview with him by RT can be found on youtube.

@Garcian You may be naive about the theater (not a bad thing to be) but you're not stupid about this atrocious acting. You're quite right: they are delivering lines (rather badly at that), not embodying characters. The witticism about the "pi-rats" is squeezed for all its worth, and played to t...

Thanks for a remarkable glimpse of a gracious, genial, grave, garrulous, ingratiating, engaging, genuine giant and servant of the theater: "One can see when a foreign company who is used to the idea of a permanent ensemble ... arrive upon our shores...it is that hot breath of unity that ... has a...

Andonis, Many thanks for this wonderful collection of remarkable art. I had no idea that northern Greece had such a flourishing, early neolithic culture, almost contemporaneous with that of the very early Anatolian, e.g., Catal Hoyuk. I think that neolithic culture did not believe in the same se...

@Dazzler59 I am not your "dear," but I thank you just the same for proving my point. Your imitation of a "Hitch-slap" may not be quite as acerbic as his, perhaps because the alliteration has a bit too much poesy to it, but the lack of intellectual content is perfect mimicry. I'm honored that you ...

Graham: I love your wise deconstrucction of the Christian sacraments, your recovering them as the desiderata of a spiritual life that are, in fact, the givens of our natural selves, not to be bestowed and mediated by the hitorically contingent institutions of religion that arose in the Bronze Age...

God may not be great, and neither is Hitchens: As Hitchens & Co. invariably do, let's also put aside the institutional essence and historical contingency of "organized" religion (as if there's any other kind) so as to suggest that belief in God is not what matter most to believers but rather whe...

@chubbm Hitchens' (and Dawkins') support for making a hell for tens of millions of Iraqis in the here and now say a lot more about them than does their righteous mouthings about Enlightment values. Who needs a vengeful God when we can count on intellectual secularists such as these to condone the...

Part I: If I were to filter The Manifesto through the lens of literary criticism, I might start by calling it a work of speculative fiction, an ironic adult fairy tale or satiric ghost story, the narrative of which recounts how the mad scientist Dr. Bourgeois and his deformed man-servant Kapital ...

@GLOKD I thought I affirmed Hitchens' verbal skills by calling him "preeminently glib," but his capacity for poison-tongued barbs, self-admiring wit, enjoyment of ridicule, and arrogant assertion of his own mental superiority suggest he is more interested in playing the roles of entertaining, but...

Dear brothers and sisters: "Christopher Hitchens Is Not Great." If intellectual villainy needed a face, there could be no better choice than that of this preeminently glib proponent of an atheism that means nothing for a world enslaved in its "mind-forged manacles." That as late as 2008 he could ...