Same Procedure as Every Year

Saturday Night Music

Hélène Grimaud

Christoph Eschenbach

Orchestre de Paris

Laughing Lhursday*

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Bookworm's Delight

This was the beginning, ...

... and thus it ended:
My family knows to silence me. :)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas,
Peace on Earth
and Goodwill to all People.

Saturday Night Music

Free Ramón Ebalé

Read more at Reporters without Borders.

Laughing Lhursday*

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Saturday Night Music

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911)

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Laughing Lhursday*

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Saturday Night Music

Martha Argerich *5 June 1941

Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856)

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886)

Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937)

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
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Saturday Night Music

Edvard Grieg

Khatia Buniatishvili

Laughing Lhursday*

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220

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti  (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848)

Saturday Night Music

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Martha Argerich

Riccardo Chailly

Laughing Lhursday*

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Monochrome Monday

Silent serenade

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Laughing Lhursday*

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Happy 75th, Maestro!

Daniel Barenboim born 15 November 1942

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Der Leiermann

Thomas Quasthoff (*9 November 1959)

Drüben hinterm Dorfe
Steht ein Leiermann,
Und mit starren Fingern
Dreht er, was er kann.

Barfuß auf dem Eise
Wankt er hin und her;
Und sein kleiner Teller
Bleibt ihm immer leer.

Keiner mag ihn hören,
Keiner sieht ihn an;
Und die Hunde knurren
Um den alten Mann.

Und er läßt es gehen
Alles, wie es will,
Dreht, und seine Leier
Steht ihm nimmer still.

Wunderlicher Alter,
Soll ich mit dir geh'n?
Willst zu meinen Liedern
Deine Leier dreh'n?

by Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) 

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)

Winterreise
 
Daniel Barenboim *15 November 1942

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
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Thoughts

If man does not
eliminate war from history
it will be war
that eliminates man
from history.

Gino Strada

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

170 years ago

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 Dezember 1929 – 5 March 2016)

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
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Nah.
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Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Laughing Lhursday*

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Eamon Kelly

Eamon Kelly (1914 – 24 October 2001)

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Saturday Night Music

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886)

Martha Argerich

Friday is Skyday

It was a fine place
to speak about refugees.
And to talk with some.

Laughing Lhursday*

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Bernstein on Mozart

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990)

Friday is Skyday

Friday the 13th
completing a sun orbit.
What a fine omen.

Laughing Lhursday*

Niall Tóibín (born 21 November 1929)

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Eccola!

Joan Sutherland (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)

Milord

La Foule

Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963)

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978)

Saturday Night Music with Eliane Rodrigues

Eliane Rodrigues *7 October 1959

Happy Birthday, Milady. :)

Saturday Night Music with Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982)

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Anniversary of an Assassination

Surely the President of the Russian Federation enjoys a most happy day with all his dear friends, and everyone will have done his best to make the flawless democrat happy.
I wonder which one was the most special present today.

 
Eleven years ago, October 7th, 2006 some admirers intended to surprise (?) their beloved President with a very very special present - and let assassinate Anna Politkovskaya.

Well, and here's a List of murdered Russian journalists.

Friday is Skyday

Peace Nobel Prize.
Those with the bomb keep relaxed.
ICAN – you can't.

Laughing Lhursday*

Flann O'Brien (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

Eamon Morrissey

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101, Flann, eh? :)

Flann O'Brien (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

Peace Price for Erdoĝan

With twelve days delay:
September 22nd, Aslı Erdoĝan in Osnabrück received the Erich Maria Remarque Friedenspreis (= PeacePrice).

And this months a book with some of her very latest essays got published in German:

Nicht einmal das Schweigen gehört uns noch.

It won't come as a surprise that in Turkey these essays 'do not exist'.
It seems in English they have not (yet) been published, but in French:
Le silence même n'est plus à toi (Lettres turques.

Finally, here the English wikipedia entry about Erich Maria Remarque.
And here the English wikipedia entry about his most famous book: Im Westen nicht Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front.

It's (still) mighty plain to see

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967)

Whereto?

Whereto ...?

Marianne Werefkin

On the Road ... whereto?

Fascism raises its right arm.
Franco would be very pleased
 with his successors' ruth- and shamelessness.

Oh, and by the way:

If I were a Catalan,
I had voted 'No'.
Nationalism is Fascism's little brother.

Saturday Night Music

Mitsuko Uchida

Beethoven

Word verification

Sorry. Word verification enabled, for a change.
Hopefully not for long.
Don't like it, but less I like getting 60 spams within a few minutes.

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday*

Eliane Rodrigues
There does not exist an English entry

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The Tale of Wealth and Misery

Das Märchen von Reichtum und Not

Es war einmal Bruder und Schwester:
Der Reichtum und die Not.
Er schwelgte in tausend Genüssen,
sie hatte kaum trocken Brot.

Die Schwester diente beim Bruder
viel hundert Jahre lang;
ihn rührt' es nicht, wenn sie weinte,
noch wenn sie ihr Leiden besang.

Er fluchte und trat sie mit Füßen,
er schlug ihr ins sanfte Gesicht;
sie fiel auf die Erde und flehte:
Hilfst du, o Gott! mir nicht?

Wie wird das Lied wohl enden?
Das ist ein traurig Lied!
Ich will's nicht weiter hören,
wenn nichts für die Schwester geschieht!

Das ist das Ende vom Liede
vom Reichtum und von der Not:
An einem schönen Morgen
schlug sie ihren Bruder tot.

Adolf Glassbrenner (March 27, 1810 – September 25, 1876)

Saturday Night Music

Yeol Eum Son

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin

* [For first time visitors]:
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Regenbogen

. . .

Late Prime

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[De]Light

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Globalisation

. . .

Impatiens glandulifera

Saturday Night Music

Maria Callas (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977)

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday* Still posted!

Hm, this got scheduled weeks ago. Obviously, certain people did not like Carlin to be seen talking about the Bushs and Cheneys and war, three days after 9/11. :)

Update 2017/12/25: The web does not forget:



George Carlin

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On the Road

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Past Prime

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On the Road

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Refuting Cicero

Two beers are enough
to prove Cicero was wrong:
Belhaven & Daracha

Saturday Night Music

Edvard Grieg

(15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907)

Khatia Buniatishvili

Friday is Skyday

. . .

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin

* [For first time visitors]:
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The Walnut

. , , [a long story to tell]

L’elisir d’amore

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007)

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. . .

On the Road

Sunday morning on the road

Saturday Night Music

Maurice Ravel

Martha Argerich

Friday is Skyday.

19:08

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin

* [For first time visitors]:
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Signs of Autumn

Four ...

Six ...

Nine ...

More and more migrants
are gathering day by day.
Their aim: Africa.

Young Oak

The oak tree of Seanhenge.

On the Road

... while waiting for a railway crossing.

On the Road

. . .

Saturday Night Music

Anastasia Huppmann

Friday is Skyday

. . .

Frères Humains

Léo Ferré  (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993)

Road to Peace

"Road To Peace"

Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times
To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons

It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians
They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace

"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance
If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace

In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
He's out upon the road to peace

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
And he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace. 

Sunday afternoon

. . .

Saturday Night Music

Zubin Metha

Khatia Buniatishvili

Friday is Skyday

. . .

Ole Bull

Ole Bull (5. Februar 1810 in Bergen; † 17. August 1880)

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

My Walden

No fungicides,
no herbicides,
no pesticides.
Lots of earthworms, though,
of bugs and birds and bumble bees.
Lots of flowers and herbs,
lots of beans, carrots, onions, tomatoes, zucchini etc.,
lots of white, red and black currant,
of rasp- and blackberries etc.
and potatoes for another year.
Oh, and not to forget:
Healthy bee colonies
mean healthy honey.

Poor Children

Toys in abundance.
What did they teach two children?
I want more more more! ...?

On the Road

A misty morning.
No supremacists around.
Weather knows no race.

Silence

...

Saturday Night Music

Mitsuku Uchida

Franz Schubert

Friday is Skyday

19:21

19:22

19:24

Laughing Lhursday*

George Carlin

* [For first time visitors]:
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Hollyhocks

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Chimneys

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Monochrome Monday

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Old Mug

Saturday Night Music

Friedrich Gulda

Friday is Skyday

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