Thursday, December 30, 2010

Is It Normal To Poo Lots When Pregnant?

Claudio Abbado in edicola


I see that part of an editorial initiative that concerns the publication of a selection of performances by Claudio Abbado with various orchestras, those with whom he worked in his important career.
Personally I will buy either one because I have all of them, but I think for a person who begins to know a little 'symphonic music, this is an important opportunity.
It begins with the Second Symphony of Mahler, I think that recorded in Lucerne, with a splendid performance final chorus overwhelming.
course is its beautiful Pergolesi, which has always been an author loved by Abbado, moreover, good reason as well, Verdi, Ravel, etc..
A great opportunity to "listen".

Sunday, December 19, 2010

How Long Should An Ocular Migraine Last

Tommaso Padoa Schioppa

I'm not even remotely an economist but just remember that "after a year "care" Padoa-Schioppa, the Italian deficit had folded in 2007, 1, 9% (even then recalculated to 1, 5%), starting from 2.7% last year. The debt, which now travels over 115% of GDP had fallen to 104%, taking the road to go down below 100% in 2010. "(Ansa)
had been criticized because he had only paid attention to fiscal consolidation but not had done much to boost the economy (remember what they said Fini, Tremonti, etc.).
Now with this government we have increased the debt and do not even have boosted the economy, denying that there was a crisis. A very commendable result!
Then I will tell you everything you want no one but me personally able to erase the bad impression and disturbing (because I do not know if fiarmi to what I feel) I have when I hear the Tremonti compared with the reliability and competence of Padoa Schioppa, a person with clean faces, one who had the courage to say that paying taxes is good (figuriamoci!), one of the most influential Italian, presentable and respected in the international arena, "an Italian frighteningly intelligent," as his English colleague Bernard Connolly.

PS

Today December 21 The Fact publish a bell ' article in his memory by Marco Travaglio.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Genesis Coupe Pro And Cons

La Verdi in crisi finanziaria

The Green is back in the financial crisis. Nothing new, indeed for years does not receive regular government subsidies that were recognized as lawful.
E 'is quite clear that no cultural institution / music can stand up alone, even the staircase, which is also quite virtuous in their management, has warned about their future.
In the case of the Greens the issue is long-standing and led to the accumulation of a considerable debt, not due to mismanagement, but the sole fact that they are almost never got the money owed and promised, and in all these years left standing above all for the dedication, the proximity and economic contributions of members, friends, subscribers and the general public, so that for the Greens , just to give a figure, the ratio of government grants (1,090,000 in 2009) and its revenue is 15%, while for the Scala (48,330,169 in 2008) is 45% for Musical Afternoons (2.27 million in 2009) is 68% for the Symphony Orchestra of San Remo (3,181,557 in 2008) of 89% and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (13,979,231 in 2008) is 98% (data derived from the 2009 budget de The Greens).
It should also be noted that this situation has occurred with either center-right government and center in this share the same zeal and efficiency.
Last night at the Regional TG3 è stato mandato un servizio su questo argomento con una breve intervista al direttore generale Luigi Corbani e un intervento del primo violino Luca Santaniello, il quale ha detto che in questa situazione non hanno altra scelta che continuare a suonare.
Cosa potrebbero fare, se non suonare?
Spero solo che possano farlo ancora per molto tempo.

Intanto in questi ultimi giorni abbiamo avuto:

- uno splendido Porgy and Bess che ha avuto un successo di pubblico strepitoso
- un Vespro della Beata Vergine di Monteverdi eseguito splendidamente da la VerdiBarocca
- un bel concerto dedicato a Schumann diretto da sir Neville Marriner che ha dato una esecuzione molto appassionata della seconda sinfonia
- The third concert dedicated to Nino Rota with the execution of the magnificent Harp Concerto of 1951, which saw our first solo harp, Elena Piva, talented
- now comes John Axelrod, who will conduct the Schumann III and V Tchaikovsky
- December 15 the VerdiBarocca perform a concert in the Cathedral of Monza
- December 22 VerdiBarocca running in the Auditorium of Handel's Messiah and Jan. 6 will perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio
- around New Year's Eve There will be Beethoven's ninth
- again on December 6, we have the Das Lied von der Erde Mahler with conference Quirino Principe.

Sorry if it's not, but I think these are arguments di nessuna importanza presso certi ambienti politici, per cui non mi aspetto nulla.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Monster Energy Coloring Sheets

Anno 2000 - Lezione di sintassi italiana

Ma era il 2000 o l'altro giorno?
Neanche Proust arrivava a tanto. Mi fa venire l'asma!
Ora è anche peggiorato perchè dieci anni a quell'età non sono pochi.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Real Testicle Earings

Porgy and Bess


Ieri sera abbiamo avuto la prima delle tre repliche della versione in forma di concerto curata dal direttore Wayne Marshall di Porgy and Bess di Gershwin.
Il '900 non è stato un secolo molto favorevola all'opera. Sono scomparse le figure gigantesche dei grandi creatori di sole opere, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner, Bellini. Però, nonostante tutto, nel '900 abbiamo avuto delle grandi opere scritte da autori che non erano operisti. Non si può certo negare che non siano grandi opere il Pelleas di Debussy, il Wozzeck e Lulu di Berg, Barbablu di Bartok, Lady Macbeth di Shostakovich, Mosè e Aronne di Schoenberg, ma anche Erwartung , le operine di Ravel, Oedipus Rex di Stravinskij e il suo Rake's progress del 1951, Peter Grimes , ecc. di Britten. C'è anche l'opera italiana soprattutto con Puccini, ultima propaggine di una grandissima tradizione begun by Jacopo Peri and Claudio Monteverdi by the divine, and his Turandot which is a great masterpiece, at least in the first act, neglect the other Italians because they simply do not visit them and I'll gladly keep a distance. Gershwin
In America since the early '20s to write a thought and found a good subject in a book by Edwin Heyward, Porgy , a story written partly in English and partly in Gullah dialect, a community of blacks Angolan slaves. Thus was born
Porgy and Bess, with a libretto by Ira Gershwin and Heyward of the same, which was staged in New York October 10, 1935.
From the point of view form Porgy and Bess is not very different from traditional opera, the Verdi or, especially, to Puccini. There are arias, concert, acted parts, airy, very local color, to Puccini.
When he wrote the opera, Gershwin was held on the piano sheet music of the Meistersinger by Wagner and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. If these were the external influences, Gershwin, however, was bound to be himself, so here's the blues, vaudeville, the musical numbers. To listen in its entirety
Porgy and Bess takes a little 'patience because it is not done all of popular music, you can then easily be disappointed, but not the same thing happens with work by Bellini or Verdi, at least initially, da cui la pratica orrenda delle selezioni, oggi per fortuna abbandonata? Però, con un po' di costanza e cercando di entrare nella sua lunghezza d'onda, alla fine si riesce ad apprezzare del tutto quest'opera.
Come per tutte le opere famose dei secoli XVIII e XIX, molte arie di Porgy and Bess sono diventate molto famose e sono state rifatte da moltissimi cantanti, una su tutte Summertime , che penso abbia avuto tanti rifacimenti quanti ne ha avuti Yesterday dei Beatles. Esiste anche una bella suite sinfonica che raduna i temi principali.
Nella versione concertistica data ieri sera, Marshall ha eliminato i recitativi e salvaguardato le parti cantate più significative cercando anche di mantenere una certa coerenza narrativa.
Great performance, with four blacks singers, Kevin Short, Indira Mahajan, Angela Renee Simpson and Ronald Samm, phenomenal. Greatest
direction of Marshall, completely at ease with this repertoire is his repertoire. I appreciate the fact that Marshall, in the past, has also tried to run other types of music, certainly the results were very mixed, good in the first of Mahler, Sibelius questionable in a second, taken a bit 'too much of the breast, catastrophic in Beethoven's Ninth last year, taking a step of charging the same even running after a group of Indians who had just robbed a stagecoach.
Greatest test of the choir and full orchestra.
virtually Theatre sold out (tonight it seems to me that there is more room here, and I think Sunday).
Great success for everyone with whistling sound Yankee.
short, a great chance to hear something different in a concert season.