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2 weeks ago
Como Poden (harp with brays turned off)
Catherine Campbell Northern Single-Row bray harp (also called "Boston" harp). Played by Martha Schreffler. This is the sound of the harp with the...
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4 weeks ago
Beethoven Oboe trio
This is a live unedited recording from the small stage of Operaen in Copenhagen. Recorded on the 9th May 2010. This was one of 3 pieces on the pro...
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Why are so many people confused about who wrote this piece? If you hear someone play Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini" do you not get that either? Good grief. Anyway, my enthusiastic thanks to the Royal Danish Oboes for posting this video. I've been playing oboe for more than 50 ye...
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3 months ago
Bundaím, Socialists in Yiddish and Hebrew
The story of the Bund in Israel. The first 8 minutes of the film by Eran Torbiner
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"The goal of socialism is to make everyone poor"? "Globalism and banker control are out of control but that is a result of socialism"? You are seriously confused and/or ignorant.
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5 months ago
A Natural Selection
Gene Screen BC 2011 Participant.
Christie, a deaf female who has struggled with her inability to have children, visits a fertility clinic with ano...
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Isn't it a bit ironic that the film ends with a carefully selected piece of music?
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9 months ago
Lars von Trier banned from Cannes over Nazi, Hitler shock remarks
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier was condemned and declared "persona non grata" on Thursday by the Cannes Film Festival for saying that he sympathiz...
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Just like most of the comments posted below, Trier's remarks were stupid and ill-considered. I don't think he should have been banned because he did apologize and very awkwardly tried to withdraw what he was saying (I suspect he'd been drinking). Some condemnatory response would have been suffi...
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1 year ago
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks 1/2 (Ouverture)
Very moving performance on 23 august 1991 of Handels Music for the Royal Fireworks by a huge baroque band on period instruments, consisting of 24 o...
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My mistake. It appears that the recording I was thinking of was made in 1989, It's the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis wind ensemble under August Wenzinger and still downloadable.
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Too bad the dog wasn't panting in rhythm. Hilarious. (nice harp playing, though)