Promoting the unknown…
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(I am grateful for you sharing this wonderful piece, SpewReeky!)
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Promoting the unknown…
I post these posts way too infrequently, and I have decided that I’ll no longer limit my coverage to pieces I have not already covered on the blog; I figure neither I nor my readers will be able to remember if I shared a specific piece here 6 years ago or not, so I really shouldn’t feel compelled to avoid reposting a wonderful piece just because I posted it here close to a decade ago. The main point of these posts is to keep track of (and share) the wonderful music that I enjoy listening to, and I’ve gradually realized that having an implicit requirement that only ‘new stuff’ be posted here is actually counterproductive.
So anyway, enjoy!
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(I love this piece, and this specific interpretation!)
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(I’m reasonably sure I’ve never posted this one here on the blog before, but even keeping track of this is getting hard at this point).
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(I still have absolutely no clue why a wonderful piece like this gets 10k views, while some random modern pop song gets 50 million views. The world is not fair).
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(Again, I’m reasonably sure I’ve never posted this one here before, but it’s getting progressive harder to keep track as time passes and more posts are added to the archives).
Promoting the unknown
No other interpretation of this piece even comes close to Zimerman’s, in my opinion. This is as good as it gets.
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Random stuff
I find it difficult to find the motivation to finish the half-finished drafts I have lying around, so this will have to do. Some random stuff below.
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(15.000 views… In some sense that seems really ‘unfair’ to me, but on the other hand I doubt neither Beethoven nor Gilels care; they’re both long dead, after all…)
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ii. New/newish words I’ve encountered in books, on vocabulary.com or elsewhere:
Agley, peripeteia, dissever, halidom, replevin, socage, organdie, pouffe, dyarchy, tauricide, temerarious, acharnement, cadger, gravamen, aspersion, marronage, adumbrate, succotash, deuteragonist, declivity, marquetry, machicolation, recusal.
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iii. A lecture:
It’s been a long time since I watched it so I don’t have anything intelligent to say about it now, but I figured it might be of interest to one or two of the people who still subscribe to the blog despite the infrequent updates.
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iv. A few wikipedia articles (I won’t comment much on the contents or quote extensively from the articles the way I’ve done in previous wikipedia posts – the links shall have to suffice for now):
Russian political jokes. Some of those made me laugh (e.g. this one: “A judge walks out of his chambers laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. “I just heard the funniest joke in the world!” “Well, go ahead, tell me!” says the other judge. “I can’t – I just gave someone ten years for it!”).
Political mutilation in Byzantine culture.
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v. World War 2, if you think of it as a movie, has a highly unrealistic and implausible plot, according to this amusing post by Scott Alexander. Having recently read a rather long book about these topics, one aspect I’d have added had I written the piece myself would be that an additional factor making the setting seem even more implausible is how so many presumably quite smart people were so – what at least in retrospect seems – unbelievably stupid when it came to Hitler’s ideas and intentions before the war. Going back to Churchill’s own life I’d also add that if you were to make a movie about Churchill’s life during the war, which you could probably relatively easily do if you were to just base it upon his own copious and widely shared notes, then it could probably be made into a quite decent movie. His own comments, remarks, and observations certainly made for a great book.
Promoting the unknown, a continuing series
I more or less discontinued these types of posts during the last year, but I figured that given how infrequently I post these days I might as well revive these. I’m sure I’ve included some of the pieces below in previous posts, but I don’t really care – if a couple of people who read along when I first posted them still remember those pieces from my previous coverage, they probably liked them anyway.
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Open Thread
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. This is where you share interesting stuff you’ve come across since the last time I posted one of these things (or perhaps it is where you don’t share interesting stuff; the latter is by far the most common decision, after all). I don’t really have anything interesting to share here myself, but I figured I should post something anyway, so… :
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I was considering adding this lecture as well, but it’s not a particularly good lecture so that seemed like a bad idea.
A friend of mine recently made me aware of the existence of this resource, which one of two of you may consider to be worth checking out.
Promoting the unknown, a continuing series
In the posts in this series which I’ve posted so far, I have never once deliberately ‘recycled’ a piece – I may have slipped once or twice, but I have actually gone to extreme lengths to avoid just that. I mention this because I have come to realize along the way that this is perhaps just a tiny bit silly. The most wonderful pieces deserve to be heard occasionally – they certainly do not deserve to be banned from the blog on account of having been shared here before. On a related note, many readers of this blog encountering these posts have not been reading along for years and have no idea if I’ve posted specific pieces here before or not because they do not explore my archives. On a more practical note, it’s also getting harder and harder for me to figure out if I’ve posted a given piece here before or not, because I have not in the past used the categories as optimally as I could have done wrt. handling this specific issue (and this is sadly way too late to rectify now, in the sense that any sort of reasonable cost-benefit analysis would tell me it would not be worth the effort..) and because wordpress do not allow you to search embedded content the same way you search other content.
So unless I hear numerous protests in the comments to this post (ha!), I’ll start caring a great deal less from now on about whether I happen to have already posted a given piece in another one of these posts years ago. I’ll try to keep adding new stuff in these posts but if I love a piece and listen to it occasionally (and want other people to know about it) I really don’t see why I would care all that much about whether or not I’ve shared it here before a long time ago. I rarely post these posts anyway – it’s been almost two months since the last one – and if you’re using a feed it’s not like these posts are hard to avoid (it’s also not that hard if you’re not, but…).
Anyway, I feel reasonably certain there are not any pieces included in this post that I’ve blogged before – I haven’t added any I’ve posted before deliberately in this post, but I have also not checked carefully as I usually do if a specific piece also featured in a previous post from 2 years ago.
Oh yes, the music:
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Promoting the unknown, a continuing series
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(Yes, as mentioned before I now know that Wang actually isn’t that unknown (neither is Richter for that matter, however the specific recording above really needs a wider audience..) – but this is wonderful stuff… I’ve put the rest of the Wang/Harrell concerto below the fold)
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