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This splendid podcast comprises interesting audio passages accompanied by a full transcript and a list of key vocabulary. LJ

Miscellaneous posts, daily doodles, pastimes, comments, articles and reflections on this and that.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/norsk-for-beginners/id1551986776
This splendid podcast comprises interesting audio passages accompanied by a full transcript and a list of key vocabulary. LJ




We look at Mozart’s 1778 visit to Paris and why he thought Parisians were “rude and obnoxious, filled with arrogance and obsessed with self-importance.”
— Read on interlude.hk/mozarts-musical-journey-1-may-1778-paris-real-dump/
I confess I prefer Strasbourg, Bologna, Winchester etc., indeed provincial cities in general. LJ
Full Leonard Bernstein Cycle Remastered Exclusively on Carnegie Hall+ including “Resurrection” from Ely Cathedral.
— Read on www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2023/07/26/Mahler-Symphony-Cycle

“You made it!”
Sabre of London, “The man who was twice”, 1957
John Wayne, in “Chisum”, 1970










Gerard Depardieu is bashing France for its “stinky cheese”, but we couldn’t give a whiff. Here are six of the smelliest you need to bury your nose in, at least once in life. What others would you add?
— Read on www.thelocal.fr/20160922/a-celebration-of-the-stinkiest-cheeses-to-come-out-of-france
Having acquired a Munster d’Alsace from the Christmas Market in Winchester, for which I gladly parted with £9.00 purely for the joy of rediscovering a slice of quintessential Alsace, I’ve just set it alongside a ripe Camembert. Splendid, if a mite whiffy ! LJ










So haben Tantals Enkel Fluch auf Fluch
Mit vollen, wilden Händen ausgesät.
Und, gleich dem Unkraut, wüste Häupter schüttelnd
Und tausendfält’gen Samen um sich streuend,
Den Kindeskindern nahverwandte Mörder
Zur ew’gen Wechselwut erzeugt!





Is it a dog? Is it a frog? It’s Superfig, in training for the Paris Olympics in the Synchronised Frog Impersonation event.
Philistins, épiciers
Tandis que vous caressiez
Vos femmes
En songeant, aux petits
Que vos grossiers appétits
Engendrent
Vous pensiez, “Ils seront
Menton rasé, ventre rond
Notaires”
Mais pour bien vous punir
Un jour vous voyez venir
Sur terre
Des enfants non voulus
Qui deviennent chevelus
Poètes
Vous pensiez, “Ils seront
Menton rasé, ventre rond
Notaires”
Mais pour bien vous punir
Un jour vous voyez venir
Sur terre
Des enfants non voulus
Qui deviennent chevelus
Poètes
Text of J.S. Bach’s Vocal Work
— Read on www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV147-Eng3.htm



















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