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Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Electric guitar to improve classical music?
Friday, December 12, 2025
Legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100
Dick Van Dyke celebrates 100th birthday
(Eyewitness News ABC7NY) Dec. 12, 2025: The legendary actor continues to be an endless fountain of charm, grace, and chutzpah. Check out more Eyewitness News: abc7ny.com. #entertainment #news #nyc
If only men were like they were a century ago
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
What happened at Nightmare B4 Xmas?
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| What's scarier than the color orange? |
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Hispanic Heritage Month: Art Laboe radio
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues until the middle of October, as we approach Halloween, Samhain, and El Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). Many Southland Latinos fondly remember Armenian AM DJ Art Laboe.
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Spanish Mes nacional de la herencia hispana) is annually observed from September 15 to October 15 in the United States for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic culture to the nation's achievements, culture, and history [1][2].
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Classical Indian music meets metal
(Opalinskyband) Metal genres vs. metal fans - Five metalhead myths debunked in 30 seconds
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| Would Lord Ganesha approve? Goddess Kali? |
Bloodywood and Babymetal
- Karl Rock, YouTube.com; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Free Summer Shakespeare in the Park, LA
THE 2025 GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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| Indie Shakes Spring Campaign 2025 |
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe runs from August 6 to August 31, Wednesdays through Sundays @ 7:00 pm.
Pack your picnic, shake out your blanket, and call your friends, LA’s biggest theater event of the summer begins Wednesday, June 25th!
SYNOPSIS
Love’s Labour’s Lost: Four gentlemen commit to a celibate life of disciplined study, but the last thing they expect is a quartet of aristocratic ladies to sweep them off their feet. Shakespeare’s intoxicating wit meets Bridgerton’s spicy society drama in this lush, bawdy, and bittersweet romantic comedy.
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Alongside these extraordinary productions, ISCLA (the Independent Shakespeare Company Los Angeles) have special events all summer long, including workshops, theme nights, and community engagement activations.
Stay up to date by joining the mailing list, and hit the button for more details. See you at the park! Independent Shakespeare Co.
- IndieShakes.org (ISCLA.org) is back!
- Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, April 24, 2025
A Women's History of Ancient World
Host Mitch Jeserich welcomes British researcher, historian, and critic Daisy Dunn (about), an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World. Her website is daisydunn.co.uk.
For centuries, men have been writing histories (his story) of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors, and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women, aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones.
While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins.
In The Missing Thread, researcher Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the center of the narrative. These pages present Enheduanna, the earliest named author, Telesilla, who defended her city from attack, and the gay poet Sappho.
Here is Artemisia I of Caria, sole female commander in the Graeco-Persian Wars, and Locusta, Rome’s premier toxicologist. Cleopatra may be the more famous, but Fulvia, Mark Antony’s wife in Rome, fought a war on his behalf.
Many other women remain nameless but integral. Through new examination of the sources combined with vivid storytelling, Daisy Dunn shows us the ancient world through fresh eyes and introduces us to an incredible cast of ancient women, weavers of an entire world.
Around 4,000 years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over 1,000 years later, Sappho wrote great poems of gay longing and desire.
For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women — whether they were simply sitting at their looms knitting at home or participating in the highest echelons of power — were up to something much more interesting than most histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.
In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines. It is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and Agrippina, as well as the likes of Achaemenid consort Atossa and Olympias, a force in Macedon.
Spanning 3,000 years, the story moves from Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece, from Lesbos to Asia Minor (Anatolia, Turkiye), from the Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire) to the royal court of Macedonia, and concludes with Rome and its growing empire.
The women of antiquity are undeniably woven throughout the fabric of history (her story), and in The Missing Thread they finally take center stage. More
- PRESS: Daisy Dunn: author, historian, journalist
- The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
- Guest Daisy Dunn, Host Mitch Jeserich, Letters & Politics (KPFA.org), Berkeley, CA, 10:00-11:00 am, April 24, 2025; Dhr. Seven and Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Saturday, March 1, 2025
World's largest pyramid in Guatemala?
El Mirador ("The Viewpoint or Lookout") is the biggest pyramid in the world, according to Mel Gibson who heard it from archeologist Richard Hansen. Yet, we are told Mexico's Cholula Pyramid is the world's largest -- larger than the famous ones on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, or the many in Sudan (formerly Nubia along the Nile River) known as the Nubian pyramids, or the 200 or more in China, or all the ones we're not told about in Alaska, Antarctica, Mars, the Moon, and all over the planet, like the new one recently discovered in Peru at Caral Supe. Of course, larger ones may exist in Bosnia or Indonesia (Gunung Padang), one being mirrored by the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world, Borobudur in Java, which is likely smaller than the colossal Mes Aynak in formerly Buddhist Afghanistan with stupas but no pyramids yet, even though one pyramidal stupa was recently discovered in Central Asia. Interestingly, according to American Rick Fields in A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, the country next to Mexico called Guatemala is named after Gautama the Buddha. Buddhist missionaries reached the Americas before Columbus and Christianity, as demonstrated in American Edward P. Vining's 1895 classic An Inglorious Columbus, which makes the connection to Afghanistan and Afghan Buddhist missionaries along with Chinese pilgrim Hwui Shen. That the country should be so advanced -- like the stone temples all through the jungles of Buddhist Cambodia (Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, etc.) -- is not entirely without explanation.
- Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson; Richard Hansen; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval. Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Friday, February 21, 2025
SNL continues into 51st year: WU
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| There's Sandler. Where's Farley? Oh yeah. |
in Egypt speaking a foreign language until it goes to English at Minute 2:35
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Saturday Night Live turns 50 (satire)
Nearly 15,000,000 Americans tuned in, 202% more than usual, for SNL's 3-hour special celebrating America's favorite satirical look at American culture, current events, and the news. Does this mean that at 50, it's better than ever, or are people just nostalgic for the first season and all the comedic talent that unleashed in Hollywood?
🚨 MAGA raging over brutal new Tom Hanks SNL skit
Weekend Update ft. Bobby Moynihan, Cecily Strong, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Murray – SNL50
Black Jeopardy – SNL50 with Tracy Morgan
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Our music is out of tune (cymatics)
What is the shape of OM? A 1,000 petaled lotus?
CYMATICS: Science versus Music (Nigel Stanford) There's something real, something sacred
- Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels ordered the change to weaponize music and foment chaos to advance Hitler's agenda? besthealthysecrets.com/egyptian-frequencies-of-abundance
WHY has music been OUT OF TUNE since 1939? (432hz to 440hz)
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| What are cymatics? The scientific study of sound |
Uncovering encoded connections of the universe by examining relationships between mathematical constants like Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio, Pi, and Phi, polymath Robert Edward Grant examines the mysterious missing links of mathematics and music.
From Pythagoras to Leonardo da Vinci and Stephen Hawking, Grant examines what humanity can gain from these legendary thinkers and universal constants.
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| We can't see wind, but trees sway, sand moves. |
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- Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, January 27, 2025
Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Mozart!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756–December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture." More
- Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (KFI AM)
KFI's resident Catholic Shannon "Resting B*tch Face" Murray-Farren and uber-WASPy Gary Hoffman outdid themselves by giving "Scrooge" (A Christmas Carol) the Hollywood treatment, as updated by playwright Gary, starring Shannon as Scrooge, for the GAS (Gary and Shannon Show), with much of the ancillary staff joining in the effort. Even those who are not big fans of Charles Dicken's Hindu-Buddhist infused Christian story will not be able to resist this satirical version of the 175-year-old tale of karma, ghosts, NDEs, spirit guides, rebirth in The Downfall (niraya) for stinginess, greed, and lack of giving. It aired
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
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| Spirit guide helps Ebenezer Scrooge |
- Miranda Macpherson: Om Tare Tutare: Let infinite compassion liberate us from fear and suffering | Spotify
- Richie Quintero, Gary and Shannon, KFI AM 640 (iheart.com), originally aired Dec. 23, 2022, rebroadcast Dec. 23, 2024 and 12/31/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Listen ETs, music on Mozart's birthday
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| Classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven was full of heavy metal (ZME Science) |
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| Yes, this is good stuff. I will tell Xenon for sure. |
Was it a huMAN invention or an EThereal inspiration? It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday today, Dec. 17th, and we are listening to the exquisite Turkish March.
Wolf-Am-Mo was a classical musician and composer who had no need of shooting wolves as he could tame any savage beast with just his music. His piano compositions are breathtaking. otherworldly, too good for just this planet. The whole solar system should be able to hear him.
In fact, he is so good that this planet takes him for granted and might forget him. Not so Los Angeles, which has KUSC.org (91.5 FM) to remind us on the air and online, thanks to the generous support of special philanthropists and ordinary donors to the radio station.
- Mozart via Rob Radley, March 28, 2022; text and birthday wishes from Wisdom Quarterly
Fazıl Say: Turkish March (Türk Marşı)
Mozart himself titled the rondo "Alla Turca." It imitates the sound of Turkish Janissary bands, the music of which was much in vogue at that time.
Various other works of the time imitate this Turkish style, including Mozart's own opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
In Mozart's time, the last movement was sometimes performed on pianos built with a "Turkish stop," allowing it to be embellished with extra percussion effects.
The form of the rondo is A-B-C-D-E-C-A-B-C-coda, with each section (except the coda) being repeated twice.
- Recorded during rehearsal at Enka Kültür Sanat. Video by Mustafa Toygun Özdemir
Composing is always a form of improvisation -- with ideas, with musical particles, with imaginary shapes -- and it is in this sense that the artistic itinerary and the worldview of the Turkish composer and pianist Fazıl Say should be understood.
For it was from the free form with which he became familiar in the course of his piano lessons with the Cortot pupil Mithat Fenmen that he developed an aesthetic outlook that constitutes the core of his self-conception as a composer.
Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than 25 years in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organized classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something else. They are more direct, more open, more exciting. In short, they go straight to the heart because the same may be said of his compositions.
(But the real question is, Will the extraterrestrials like it? It might not make a bit of the difference to them, so we'd better stick with playing an analog (rather than digital) version of the original for them or as close as we humanly come to it, which will almost certainly mean finding some young Asian prodigy, preferably a child who just has a knack for the song and no understanding of the context.)
Monday, December 9, 2024
Jesus and the OTHER sons of God
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| Cloudy Jesus, is he happy to have the truth out? |
Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God: An Eye-Opening Account of Early Christian Divergence
Explore the Evolution of Jesus in Early Christianity: Author Catherine Nixey has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 4 ratings since Dec. 3, 2024. This is the #1 new release in historiography."A brilliant book." — The Times, Best of the Year.
"Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again." ― The Economist, Best of the Year
From a celebrated Cambridge University classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Christian traditions — and how they were lost until just one “true” Christ survived.
Contrary to the teachings of the Church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity’s existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs.
One [named Saint Issa] had a twin brother [named Saint James] and traveled to India [and ancient Hemis Gompa in Leh, Ladakh, Tibet]; another consorted with dragons [serpent Reptilians].
One particularly terrifying Christ scorned his parents and killed those who opposed him.
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| Our Lord Ap of T, son of God |
- The original meaning of "heresy" was positive and referred to thinking through and choosing a narrative from among those offered and argued for. The Church made "heretic" a horrible thing.
Comparative religion in the Christian church
Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
Heretic unearths the different versions of Christ [Kristos, one "anointed" with entheogenic drugs, according to American classicist Dr. Ammon Hillman] who existed in the minds of early Christians, and the process of evolution — and elimination — by which "Jesus" became the singular figure we know today.
“Heretic has the mother lode of tales too hot for Christendom. Nixey has carefully wrung out a number of apocryphal texts for scandal.” — Harper's Magazine
From a celebrated classicist [one who studies the classics] comes a group-biography of the many, diverse Jesuses who thrived in early Christian traditions — and how they were killed off until just one “true” [official single-Church narrative of] Christ survived [everything else being considered a blasphemous heresy even if it was true].
Contrary to the teachings of the Church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity’s existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered [when he lived and was making trouble for the Temple].
Instead, there were many different Christs. One had a twin brother and traveled to India; another consorted with dragons; one scorned his parents and killed those who opposed him.
Why do we know so little about these early versions of Jesus? It is because, starting in the fourth century AD, the [Eastern] Orthodox form of Christianity that had become preeminent set about systematically wiping out every other variation, denouncing their gospels as apocryphal [of doubtful origin] and their followers as heretics [freethinkers who dare contradict the official story].
These unfortunate Christians lost their rights, their property, their churches [congregation sites] — in some cases, even their lives. [Burn them as witches!]
Heretic unearths the different versions of Christ who existed in the minds of early Christians and the process of evolution — and elimination — by which Jesus became the singular figure we know today.
- Catherine Nixey, Host Mitch Jeserich, Letters & Politics, KPFA.org (KPFK.org, Los Angeles), Dec. 9, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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