Commentor HumboldtBlue linked to this YouTube video…
Which led to this one. I’m in no way knowledgeable about classical music, but I found it fascinating anyways:
And this is going on my ‘music to center myself’ list:
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Commentor HumboldtBlue linked to this YouTube video…
Which led to this one. I’m in no way knowledgeable about classical music, but I found it fascinating anyways:
And this is going on my ‘music to center myself’ list:
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patroclus
Thankfully, the Senate just killed McConnell’s attempt to force a $500 billion Mnuchin slush fund down our throats in a Republican-only drafted bill.
WereBear
Whoa! Are our Senators frightened?@patroclus:
MomSense
Speaking of music, DJ Nice is having another dance party on Instagram tonight. So fun. He is DNice on Instagram – several hundred thousand people all dancing along tonight.
HRA
Thank you, Anne. I needed the last piece, too.
oldster
Yikes! When the cello repairman pulled out a crowbar, I almost plotzed!
But I guess its not so much a crowbar as a…sound-post repositioner?
Very specialized tool, looks like.
gbbalto
Sorry, 3 for 3 error messages for those links (Firefox)
ETA – Works on Chrome
mrmoshpotato
@patroclus: Shitheads. Ready to re-elect Dick Durbin in November.
Movie time.
Ohio Mom
Oldster@5: And then I was like, Huh? That’s all he had to do and now the cello is fixed? What did he do, anyway?
Looked like magic to me.
Ohio Mom
Patroclus@1: goodness, thanks for sharing it.
SiubhanDuinne
I mentioned this in the thread last night, for those who may not know: Sheku Kanneh-Mason first came to wide public attention when he was featured as a soloist at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle two years ago. I believe he’s better known in the UK than in the US. An extremely gifted and engaging young man.
MazeDancer
Rosie is hosting a webcam fundraiser right now. For the Actors Fund. Lots of Broadway stars singing from their homes.
Go to Broadway.com. Click on Rosie drawing.
susanna
Thanks Anne & Humboldtblue, this was great, seeing what this young man pulls out of that massive violin took me far, far away from any other troubles.
columbusqueen
@SiubhanDuinne: His five siblings are all gifted classical musicians at well as shown in the one clip. Saw a piece on the family at the time of the Sussex wedding on CBS Sunday Morning. They were a remarkably engaging & vibrant group.
Mary G
Funny how he keeps taking up her plans. The Bernie Bros have got to be seething.
Baud
@Mary G:
columbusqueen
@Mary G: Do the Bernie Bros get the words “tough shit”?
Trapped Lurker
@Ohio Mom: He adjusted the sound post, a little dowel that conducts the vibrations from the bridge to the back of the cello, so the whole instrument is involved in the sound production.
piratedan
@Mary G: Biden has shown that he’s capable of understanding that he’s not always right and continued to display that he’s still learning and growing and the Warren team probably isn’t that concerned with the credit, but with the result.
I think many of us just want to have what’s broken fixed and improved if possible, good to know that Joe wants to enact the same things.
Mary G
I can’t get it to play, do you have to have an Instagram account?
ETA: pretty sure lamh & MomSense would say this is a BFD.
Baud
@Mary G:
Daily kos but informative post.
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
Some here have been criticising Warren because she still hasn’t endorsed Biden’s candidacy. But she seems to be influencing him in a way that no other candidate has managed, and I think that she is achieving what she really wants. Not so much the presidency but rather the implementation of her policy ideas.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Oh the Wilmer Wankers would’ve voted for a woman, just not that woman.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
The criticism isn’t based on policy influence, but on putting pressure on Bernie to give it up already.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: It looks like she’s going to endorse at the convention. Whatever form that convention takes.
Mary G
I’m sure Biden would be happy to take up one of Bernie’s plans if he had a workable one and not just slogans.
Another Scott
@Mary G:
From the last debate transcript…
Bernie makes things hard for people who want most of the same goals…
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
HumboldtBlue, if you’re around, how’s the tooth?
NotMax
What’s the deal with all the [email protected]: showing up?
Mary G
Says it all.
NotMax
90+ minutes of what-passes-for-lawn slicing done. Clouds in the distance looking primed to roll in.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
See if this link will work:
https://t.co/XC1iQozFWO?amp=1
It took me a few minutes to figure out that the Instagram Live button is at the top of the screen where his profile photo is, not mixed in with the photos. It has a red circle around it to show that you need to press it to get to the live broadcast.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Haha. INCOME INEQUALITY!
Kelly
The trillium and yellow violets came out this week. A pic from today’s walk.
https://imgur.com/RkeP4mR
Mary G
@Mnemosyne: Still getting “log in to see this event.” It’s OK.
Biden SMASH after FEMA weasel interview & “press conference” today (WaPo):
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Good news from NotMax Manor.
WaterGirl
@Baud: would love to see the ad.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Beautiful music. Thanks.
WaterGirl
@Mary G:
I liked that so much that I just wanted to see it again.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
It really shouldn’t, but jouncing around on the lawn tractor really takes it out of me. Ache all over, need to hobble to the medicinal inventory to gulp a dose of sinus pills now.
;)
BC in Illinois
@piratedan:
I have on my bookshelf three of the most non-literary, literary creations imaginable:
Putting People First (1992) by B. Clinton and A. Gore
Change We Can Believe In (2008) by B. Obama
Stronger Together (2016) by H. Clinton and T Kaine
Each of these is an extended platform, topic by topic, 230-260 pages. (You can find Obama’s commitment to a public option on page 46.) But Joe Biden doesn’t need to make one of these for this year. He can just go to elizabethwarren.com/plans and copy down all 81 plans. That can be the basis of the Democratic Platform and the basis of the agenda for the Democratic Senate and House and Administration.
Biden for President. Elizabeth Warren for head of the Program Committee.
lamh36
@Mary G: you have to have an instagram account and follow DNice.
Biden et al joined in last night…tonight’s not as many big names, but STILL DNice is such a great DJ and play an ole skool R&B/R&BPop/HipHopR&B mix NOT so much the newest pop radio stuff. He sticks to the classics and the new classics.
Yutsano
@BC in Illinois: I like it. The goal also is to get him a Democratic House and Senate. I’m still greedy in that I want them all this year.
Patricia Kayden
lamh36
Alright, let me try and get some homework done before heading out the the club to listen to DJ DNice spin on the 1s and 2s!
Mary G
@lamh36: Thanks, that’s what I thought.
Another Scott
https://alfranken.com/listen/andy-slavitt-on-the-pandemic (53 minutes)
Slavitt was Obama’s Obamacare guru.
(I haven’t listened to it yet.)
Cheers,
Scott.
lamh36
@lamh36: btw after DNice set tonight, QuestLove is picking up w/a set!
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Here you go.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Bernie wants so bad to be President. Hillary’s prohibitive lead over him in 2016 didn’t convince him to drop out, and I can’t see Warren endorsing Biden, by itself, convincing him to drop out this time either.
As I said, I also think that, by convincing Biden to adopt her policy positions, Warren is achieving the real goal of her candidacy. Endorsing Biden as a reward for publicly taking up her policy positions might make him seem like her puppet, an optic they would both want to avoid.
MazeDancer
The vote on the ridic McConnell bill tonight was 47-47.
Bernie didn’t vote.
He was n VT broadcasting a campaign livestream.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Thank you. That’s a good one.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Way too close for comfort.
SiubhanDuinne
@MazeDancer: Fuck Bernie and the fucking purity pony he rode in on. Goddammit.
NotMax
Randy Rainbow been a busy little beaver.
Not his best, then again cranked it out incredibly fast.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: I would like to see the day where we don’t have to bother to mention Senator Bernie Sanders as anything but a mediocre Senator.
SiubhanDuinne
@Patricia Kayden: I really hate these people.
Patricia Kayden
Mary G
This is indeed a travesty:
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Edited for superfluity.
Dan B
Sheku’s playing is breathtaking. I know a bit about classical music with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and nieces who were classically trained and/or professionals. My younger niece was a cellist. I should ask her if she has any observations about Sheku. I know there us no need to ask if she knows of him.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Aches? Have you ever tried mowing the lawn……on weed? :)
Mary G
Shit’s getting serious:
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
Hoping to see the dentist tomorrow. Got antibiotic for it Thursday but the swelling has not gone completely away so it’s been four days of soup oatmeal and yogurt.
The worst part is no beer, it’s hard to eat even soft foods and drinking on a near-empty stomach is not recommended.
The dentist responded on Friday and pointed out I can’t be seen if I have a fever or a cough or been anywhere that may have exposed me to the virus which could any-fucking-where at this point.
I’ve had a low-grade fever but that’s almost assuredly due to ongoing infection in my upper jaw but I have displayed no other symptoms of the virus and I am a loner as it is, living alone without a job. So it’s play it by ear — or sore tooth in this case — until we come to a decision.
The idea that I have to ask people to put themselves at risk to provide me treatment is a heavy weight to bear and I am loath to do so, but I am in a very difficult spot.
On a brighter note, I have been binge-watching the fascinating British archaeological show Time Team and today came across two brilliant episodes.
What Dover Castle looked like in the time of Henry II.
Archaeology in the middle of London to find old Roman settlements that would become the city of London.
The Dangerman
I gotta come back to life for a second and give some props to Caroline Dale, a cellist that has played with David Gilmour, U2, and Sonead O’Connor. Here she is backing one of PF’s most famous tracks.
Mary G
@Dan B: I was watching that with all the folders of music on the shelves and wishing I had had a family like that.
HumboldtBlue
And for those above who asked just in the hell the luthier was doing, here’s a short demonstration of a sound post being fitted.
And as Siubhan pointed he’s very popular in the UK.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has become the first cellist in chart history to land a place in the UK Official Album Chart Top 10, in a groundbreaking moment for classical and pop music.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Wow. What an amazing young man. I can’t play a GD thing so musicians astound me.
satby
@Yutsano: I look forward to the day when his ridiculous ass is out of politics and he’s in assisted living. Because you just know his family will park him somewhere as soon as he isn’t bringing in any more sweet sweet cash.
Geminid
Elizabeth Warren’s Green New Deal plan is well thought out and can be a template for action by the Congress that will convene next January. We will definitely need jobs, and the shift from a carbon energy economy to a clean energy economy will be a job generator. Last year I stopped at Vicksburg for some good coffee while traveling west, and encountered four young people in Americorps sweat shirts. I was glad to see that program has survived. It could be expanded to the size of the CCC in the 1930’s, and we could insulate, reroof, and renovate bathrooms and kitchens for every poor family in the country. And stick solar panels on their roofs. And have people earn good job skills in addition to paychecks. Solar farms, wind farms, smart grid transition can generate economic growth as well as electricity. Warren’s plan shows how this can be done by a partnership of the public and private sectors. There is progress now on the energy transition, but it is piecemeal. The new Congress will have the opportunity to make the transition a national priority, and turbocharge it.
Anotherlurker
@HumboldtBlue: Time Team is a great show. Fascinating!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mary G:
I think you can also log in with Facebook, if you have an account there.
Adam L Silverman
There’s always room for cello!
Mary G
Good advice from a healthcare worker:
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman: Rock on!
HumboldtBlue
@Anotherlurker:
It’s wonderful and full of character. I just watched the one on the Battle of Hastings and it’s well worth a watch if only for the very surprising ending.
@Adam L Silverman:
There’s always time for piano as well as young Austrian pianist Alma Deutscher shows us with her original compositions in honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday year.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: You rock on too!
hells littlest angel
Thanks for the clip, AL. Never heard of Sheku Kanneh-Mason before, but I see his released two albums. I look forward to hearing his rendition of “No Woman, No Cry.”
Adam L Silverman
@mrmoshpotato:
Yutsano
I REALLY need to get AsianGRRL into this thread! She’s a cellist.
Ohio Mom
MaryG@83: that was worth a chuckle.
HumboldtBlue
@mrmoshpotato: @Adam L Silverman:
Oh, so youse want to play, eh?
Beethoven with a referee!
Itzhak meets Schiekele!
smike
@satby: They’ll market him as a celebrity if they don’t have to deal with visiting hours and steel bars.
Uncle Cosmo
@Adam L Silverman: Aaaaaaah cripes. I remember a one-panel cartoon from many years back, showing nothing but a backstage collection of musical instruments and a shadow cast on the curtain of a beaver’s tail flapping. The caption:
Nothing new under the sun, indeed…
Origuy
@HumboldtBlue: I’m also bingeing Time Team. I’ve seen all of the episodes before, but it’s very soothing to watch people who know what they are doing and like it and each other working together.
CarolPW
@HumboldtBlue: Those were wonderful, thank you! It’s been a long time since I have smiled this much.
HumboldtBlue
@Origuy:
Yeah, I thoroughly enjoy watching people who do stuff good do their good stuff.
@CarolPW:
An Opera in one unnatural act! Had me on the floor all over again.
Nelle
I’m breathing easier for listening to this. You sent me on a long trail of listening to everything of his I could find. His Deep River is a soul soother, for sure. Thank you.
columbusqueen
@hells littlest angel: His big sister Istata released an album of Clara Schumann’s piano music last fall
J R in WVdonate
Wife and I loved the fiddling, i got a little teary, then I ordered his CDs.
A real mood lifter before bed. What a gifted guy!