Moon Pavilion

Dame Edna Everage spills the beans on what makes Americans tick

Jorge Bolet and Franz Schubert - an unexpected but lengthy partnership
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Coming soon: State of the Union circus!
#TuckFrump

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
Oscar Wilde

Humor kan meget. Også fortælle sandheden.

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I didn’t recognise him in the second role

Sergei Rachmaninov’s tribute to Josef Hofmann, in dedicating his third piano concerto to him.

This makes more sense. The £2.99 Benchmark: In the mid-1970s, the pound was much stronger. An LP costing £2.99 in 1974 would, when adjusted for inflation, cost over £20 today. Some estimates even place the equivalent, in terms of purchasing power, closer to £25.

I got it as a birthday present in 1974. I’m still puzzled to this day. - The LPs were expensive, £3 each x3. In today’s money that’s apparently £120 in total. I simply can’t believe that mum and dad would ever have paid that.

Are we there yet?

First got to know Faschingsschwank from an LP I bought in 1973. Haven't heard it much for many years until I started looking to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's career. And it as a staple of his repertoire.

Intrigued! Checked up..."In the fourth episode (1st mvt.) , after coyly alluding to his own Carnaval, Schumann cheekily chides the Viennese, who at this period had outlawed anything French, by introducing very briefly a disguised version of the banned-in-Vienna Marseillaise"

foggy mornings are often the most peaceful mornings

A Scottish party leader calls for an embattled PM to quit but his cabinet rallies round and backbench MPs bang desks to show their support....

I once heard a radio advert for home security systems. In the soundtrack, you could hear sinister owls hooting at night. Contact telephone number?
Part of it was: 28-28-20.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump.

But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Alfred Brendel and Benjamin Britten after the Leicester Square première of “Carry On Up The Khyber Passacaglia”

In 1953, Jorge Bolet played in Tampa, Florida. Also in the concert was Sinfonia Piccola (1935) by Heikki Suolahti, a 17 year old Finnish boy who died at 18. The score was given to conductor Thor Johnson by no less a figure than Sibelius, in Finland in 1950.

Mrs Mary Louise Curtis Bok, founder of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (1924), created an endowment of $12 million for free tuition.
She later said that all she had done and put into the Institute was justified "in this one student"

Jorge Bolet (1914-1990)
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