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Waldstein
I hear you. Every now and again, a commercial, a movie, the radio, will remind me of a piece of music I used to love but grew apart from. The latest instance was my wife listening/watching Anna Netrebko -- great soprano -- singing the Song to the Moon from Dvorak's Rusalka on YouTube. It's a lilting, ethereal piece that could soften the hardest of hearts. In fact, I was sitting around feeling grumpy and oppressed by life when my wife turned it on. In a minute, my face was smiling and my soul was floating among the stars. The power of good music. If you listen to Song of the Moon, you'll notice there's a part in it that whoever wrote "Over the Rainbow" borrowed.— January 19, 2011 9:56 a.m.
Itty-Bitty Committee
How nice, Ms. Grant, that your friends have permanently damaged their kids' lives via divorce and can now party without them. That's just great.— December 17, 2010 10:59 a.m.
Oceanside
This photo is stunning. There's so much humanity in the Christ figure. The combination of sculpture and photography is sublime. Bravo 760side.— December 16, 2010 4:30 p.m.
What San Diego's Gate teachers do for very smart kids
Excellent point, Surfpuppy.— December 2, 2010 12:41 a.m.
Wachet Auf
I love these comments about Bach: "The immortal god of harmony" --- Ludwig van Beethoven. "The most stupendous miracle in all music" --- Richard Wagner. "Study Bach: there you will find everything" --- Johannes Brahms. "O you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you" --- Giuseppe Verdi. "If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach" --- Aaron Copland.— December 2, 2010 12:26 a.m.
Savior
First of all... what's wrong with guilt? Gringo, you've got kids. Don't you want them to feel it when they've done something wrong? Or would you rather they go through life committing wrong and feeling no responsibility for it. Both you and Ms. Grant are dealing in tired 1970s psyche-cliches that say the secret to happiness is to dump your guilt. In reality, it's a recipe for unhappiness to live in a way which is incongruous with what you know in your heart to be right and wrong.. The secret to happiness is to live a principled life, acknowledge when you go astray, repair any damage done, receive forgiveness, and forgive others when they go astray. All of which the Catholic church Professes. Religion is among the most natural things on earth. Every culture that ever existed developed a system of beliefs about powers higher than themselves. To write all of that off as "Big Sky Daddy" stuff is, to paraphrase RFGringo, smug, contemptuous, unholy self-righteousness.— November 22, 2010 11:08 a.m.
Walmart Woos; San Diego Plays Hard to Get
So a city strapped for cash doesn't want a huge job-providing, revenue-producing store within its limits. To paraphrase Dr. Evil, why must we be governed by freaking morons?— November 9, 2010 4:02 p.m.
Goat Love: Trick or Treat?
In Fantasia,Mussorgsky's evil revelry is stopped by Schubert's Ave Maria, which is the most famous musical setting of the Hail Mary.— November 3, 2010 3:22 p.m.
A Requiem for Innocence
Mozart's requiem is indeed a master work. But THE masterwork of all masterworks? I'll have to think about that. It's up there in the Top 10 without a doubt. There is something about the traditional requiem Mass that inspired some incredible musical. The Salva Me passage from the Verdi Requiem strikes such a raw penitential tone that it makes me tear up. And the Pie Jesu and In Paradisum from the Faure requiem define the word ethereal.— November 3, 2010 3:07 p.m.
My Pants were on, so what was the Big Deal?
I have to laugh every time someone blames Prop 13 for the education woes -- and every other kind of woe -- afflicting California. The Spenders in Sacramento have raised taxes in every other way possible -- including taxes disguised as fees -- and they still can't balance a budget. So now they're thinking, "If we could just raise the taxes on grandma's home every year, then we'd be able to have music in the schools again." What horse crap! We get taxed plenty, and the Lottery generates billions. (Remember how we were told it was going to make CA schools the best in the country.) Entitlement programs, overspending politicians, overpaid administrators, ridiculous union-crafted pensions, and a loss of corporate taxes due to companies fleeing this state's crappy business environment are bankrupting education, NOT prop. 13.— October 20, 2010 4:53 p.m.