I really should be off Twitter and playing the piano - with feeling!
Richmond/ Ayrshire, Scotland
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Jorge Bolet, the legendary Cuban American pianist
"Only David Oistrakh received the sort of ovation this audience gave Mr Bolet" (Berlin, 1961)
jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet
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First they came for the teaching unions.
And I cheered.
Then they came for the rest of the McBlob.
And I cheered again.
Column on the rot within the Scottish educational establishment.
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
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After Trump called Norway a “shithouse,” the country’s tourism agency published a guide to “some of the world’s most beautiful and spectacular toilets ” sprinkled across the stunning Norwegian landscape.
apnews.com/article/trump-nor…
Hué, Vietnam, October 2019. My hotel, La Résidence felt as if Hercule Poirot might appear.
Murder on the Sài Gón Express
They came to Da Nang
And Then There Were Nguyễn
Hué didn't they ask Hoàng?
The ĂÂBC murders
They do it with Glass Noodles
By the Pricking of My Mosquito
I recently watched a couple of Korean films on my flights to and from Seoul. I was amused by the number of times insults were translated - euphemistically, I presume, - as either “loser” or “garbage”.
I was left wondering what the originals might be!
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During a silent patrol, the crew of a Royal Navy Amphion-class submarine investigates an unfamiliar sound echoing through the hull.
In the 125-year history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service nearly 6000 submariners and over 150 submarines never returned. Lest we forget.
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Los periodistas británicos son mucho más duros que los estadounidenses. Por eso pasan cosas como esta:
(El entrevistado es Steven Cortes, aliado de Donald Trump. El entrevistador es Mehdi Hasan).
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Thank you Netflix for warning me this 18-part documentary about serial killers also has scenes with smoking
Mum pilots daughter and classmates on Iceland flight
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9gk…
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RARE FILM: Jorge Bolet pianist youtu.be/pC0MCwjbzCs?si=x5Ww… @YouTubeより
One of the loveliest sights in Seoul back in 2012 was the LED Rose Garden., by the Great East Gate, Dongdaemum. I searched in vain a few days ago, only to find it had closed in 2019. So I've used AI to improve a fuzzy photo I took back then. Marvellous!
When I recorded "Carnaval", Volodya [=Horowitz] refused to hear it - the only work of Schumann he didn't like. However, he did perform it one season (during a bad medical period) and the tapes from Philadelphia and Tokyo sound like late Alfred Cortot on cocaine.
(Ivan Davis)
🤖 Made with AI
In which I learn that - according to the ancient biographer Plutarch - King Juba II (c.48BC-AD23) calculated the number of “Sabine women” carried off by Romulus as a precise 683.
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“Do you know how I stopped getting protesters to my event at universities?
I held them in the morning.”
— Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
