Why Mozart Didn’t Like Paris
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
A Guide to Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies | Carnegie Hall
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
Virgo
“There must be some mistake …”
“You made it!”
Sabre of London, “The man who was twice”, 1957
John Wayne, in “Chisum”, 1970
Pomfret
Honeytrap
A pleasant afternoon
Straightforward, by comparison with some this week!
A good recovery, after an early distraction
Medea: Euripides
A satisfactory effort!
A slow start, then a breakthrough and the rest followed swiftly
Pre-prandial hypnotism
My friend and I
Medea, in “Die Argonauten”, second work in Grillparzer’s trilogy, “Das goldene Vlieẞ”
In celebration of the stinkiest cheeses to come from France – The Local
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
High seas
Juncture …
Mathematical beauty and truth
A rainy afternoon in November
At the GS
GS & Home. Smoothly concluded.
La statue
Swiftly done
Werewolf, not behemoth …
Lollop …
At the General Store again
Iphigenie auf Tauris, I, iii (Goethe)
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!
Solved at the GS
Dafydd Y Garreg Wen
Rather slow …
Completed by 8.30 a.m. at the GS
Fig I, the Entertainer, is applauded by Fig II, the Impostor. “There can be only one”
Widmung: Schumann (Gedicht von Fr.Rückert)
Du bist die Ruh’ (Schubert: Gedicht von Fr.Rückert)
Figgles Flies West
Is it a dog? Is it a frog? It’s Superfig, in training for the Paris Olympics in the Synchronised Frog Impersonation event.
Brassens: Philistins
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
Cantata BWV 147
Text of J.S. Bach’s Vocal Work
— Read on www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV147-Eng3.htm
Croissant à la Figue
Daily Diving Practice
The Ceremony of the Cleansing of the Thumb
Figgles Flies West
In the rain at the GS
Ego te absolvo
In the rain …
La vie de Francis Cabrel en chansons
Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity – Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
— Read on www.scientificamerican.com/article/einstein-s-parable-of-quantum-insanity/
Cracked at the GS
Lyndon @ Adonis Blue 
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