March 12, 2025

Author: one man

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Arts and Culture / music

Best $20 ticket in NYC – this Sunday, 2 PM, Carnegie Hall

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All of yous.

Yes every single one of you in the tri-state area.

Yous needs to do yousself the favor and go to Carnegie Hall this Sunday at 2pm for the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra’s concert.

Bring the kids.

They are so spectacular you will not believe they are all 20 or younger.

AND the program includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op.35!!!

If you have never seen a live orchestra concert, or not in a long time, or your kids haven’t, go see it. Every seat is $20, at Carnegie Hall!  It is the best $20 ticket in NYC.

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Joshua Gersen, conductor
Elena Urioste, violinBeethoven: Violin Concerto, op. 61
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35

Guest Artist

Elena Urioste

Recently selected as a BBC New Generation Artist, Elena Urioste has been hailed by critics and audiences for her rich tone, nuanced lyricism, and commanding stage presence. Since making her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age thirteen, she has appeared with major orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, including the London and New York Philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and National symphony orchestras. Elena has collaborated with acclaimed conductors Sir Mark Elder, Keith Lockhart and Robert Spano; pianists Mitsuko Uchida, Christopher O’Riley, and Michael Brown; cellists Carter Brey and Zuill Bailey; and violinists Shlomo Mintz and Cho-Liang Lin. She has been a featured artist at the Marlboro, Ravinia, and La Jolla music festivals, among others.

Conductor

Joshua Gersen

The New York Philharmonic has announced that Joshua Gersen has been appointed the orchestra’s new Assistant Conductor, commencing with the 2015/16 season.

Gersen will continue to serve as music director and principal conductor for the New York Youth Symphony concurrently with his newly appointed position at the Philharmonic.

Congratulations JD!

Carnegie Hall

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Dora the Explorer turns 85

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Still full of papaya juice and vinegar

The real-life inspiration for the cartoon character beloved by millions, Dora the Explorer gave up exploring decades ago and has been enjoying a quite retirement in the aptly named Sunset Park section of Brooklyn, recently saying, “On the whole, I’d rather be in Pango Pango.”

Dora the Explorer turns 85

OK, actually it is my mom posing with the stickers she patiently endured for the sake of a happy three-year-old girl.

Humor

Winter Rhyme

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My annual winter recitation

Derived from my correction on the data complied by Mother Goose.

Eh hem.

Thirty days hath September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except January, which has sixty-seven
And February, which has ninety

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Lincoln Speaks

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President Lincoln’s 206th birthday is today!

Hoorayyyyyy for Abraham Lincoln Day!

I wanted to celebrate Old Abe Day at the Morgan Library, where they have a new installation entitled Lincoln Speaks: Words that Transformed a Nation.

But I am too immersed in guitar review season.

So I will have to go some other day and tell you all about it.

Thanks to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, those who are not able to make it to New York City to see this exhibit in person may see the entire collection on line.

Lincoln in HD

photo: hdpics.com

 

Science and Nature

Far Side of the Moon

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When Pink Floyd sang about meeting you on the dark side of the moon, they didn’t realize the far side of the moon isn’t so dark.

This new video from NASA’ Goddard Science Page shows an alien landscape, related to what we are used to seeing as “the moon”, yet so very different down to the smallest detail.

The official text on the NASA Goddard Facebook page is as follows:
The far side of the moon, like the side we can see from Earth, goes through a complete cycle of phases. But unlike the side we can see, the terrain of the far side is quite different. Learn more: http://go.nasa.gov/1KcDj1C & www.nasa.gov/lro

The far side of the moon lacks the large dark spots, called maria, that make up the familiar Man in the Moon on the near side. Instead, craters of all sizes crowd together over the entire far side. The far side is also home to one of the largest and oldest impact features in the solar system, the South Pole-Aitken basin, visible here as a slightly darker bruise covering the bottom third of the disk.

The far side was first seen in a handful of grainy images returned by the Soviet Luna 3 probe, which swung around the Moon in October, 1959. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, was launched fifty years later, and since then it has returned hundreds of terabytes of data, allowing LRO scientists to create extremely detailed and accurate maps of the far side. Those maps were used to create the imagery seen here.

More on the NASA Goddard Facebook page found HERE

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Bob Dylan’s Second Best Speech

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Bob Dylan gave the second best speech of his career when honored as the MusicCares Person of the Year for 2015.

The charity provides money and services for music industry people in their time of need.

A transcript of the speech can be found via the link listed below.

But before you get to that, watch this, a recording of a different speech Bob Dylan gave, over 51 years ago, which someone had the good sense to synch with a slideshow of cleverly placed photos, and then put it on YouTube.

Dylan was 21 years old when he stepped on the stage at Town Hall in New York City, to pay tribute to Woody Guthrie, who was then in the Brooklyn State Hospital he would never leave.

If you have not heard it, do yourself the favor and “roll along with this thing.”

The transcript of Dylan’s equally memorable speech from the MusiCares event can be found at the LA Times , HERE

 Dylan 1963  Dylan 2015

Bob Dylan 1963, 2015

 

 

Arts and Culture / music

Chimes of Freedom

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The mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail

Ever wonder what it must have been like to have heard these words before they had even been released on a record?

Far between the finished sundown (sic) and midnight’s broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway as thunder went crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashin’
Flashin’ for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashin’ for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Well, it would have been a lot like this.

 

http://www.eyeneer.com/video/rock/bob-dylan/chimes-of-freedom

 

The verses of that young man shall be studied by scholars and read by nightlight centuries after the rest of our time have faded from away from the pages of history.

Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/chimes-freedom#ixzz3PwRMAKHh