Max Ernst — L’Ange du Foyer, (1937)
Image of the month: L’Ange du Foyer
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FILMS – JUNE 2016
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on June 30, 2016
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(Maté 1950) D.O.A.
(Marks 1966) Perry Mason: Ep.267 ― The Case of the Dead Ringer
(Bennett 1989) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.10 ― The Dream
(Kirkland & Nastuk 1998) The Simpsons: Ep.209 ― D’Oh-in’ in the Wind
(Hopper 1966) Perry Mason: Ep.268 ― The Case of the Misguided Model
(Groening & Marino 2011) Futurama: Ep.91 ― Yo Leela Leela
(Rye 2016) MidSomer Murders: Ep.109 ― Saints and Sinners
(Anderson 1998) The Simpsons: Ep.210 ― Lisa Gets an “A
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First-time listening for June 2016
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23686. (Junko Ueda) The Epic of Heike [L’épopée des Heike]
23687. (Mr. Oizo & Sebastien Tellier) Steak
23688. (Maroon 5) Hands All Over
23689. (Incredible Fred Banana Combo) FBS
23690. (Alan Hovhaness) Saturn for Soprano, Clarinet & Piano, Op.243
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READING — JUNE 2016
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23206. (M. C. Ricklefs) A History of Modern Indonesia Since C.1200
23207. (Paul McLeary) The Fight for Fallujah’s Highway 11 [article]
23208. (Ľubomír Novák) Archaeology of Viking Age Færoe Islands [article]
23209. (Bret Stern) How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 and Not Go to Jail
23210. (M. J. Walker, et al) Combustion at the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Negra del
. . . . . Estrecho del Río Quípar [article]
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FILMS — MAY 2016
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on May 31, 2016
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(Hibbs 1965) Perry Mason: Ep.249 ― The Case of the 12th Wildcat
(Silberston 2002) Foyle’s War: Ep.1 ― The German Woman
(McEveety 1982) Voyagers: Ep.7 ― The Day the Rebs Took Lincoln
(Crane & Pintoff 1982) Voyagers: Ep.8 ― Old Hickory and the Pirate
(Wiseman 2007) Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
(de Leon 1959) Terror Is a Man
(Trivas 1959) The Head [Die Nackte und der Satan]
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First-time listening for May 2016
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on May 31, 2016
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23670. (Pierre de Manchicourt) Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus
23671. (Pierre de Manchicourt) Motet: Reges terrae
23672. (Pierre de Manchicourt) Motet: O virgo virginum
23673. (Pierre de Manchicourt) Chanson: Long temps mon coeur languissoit
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READING — MAY 2016
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on May 31, 2016
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23169. (Thomas Paine) A Letter Addressed to the Abbé Raynal on the Affairs of North America
23170. (O. Sigmarsson, et al) Dynamic Magma Mixing Revealed by the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull
. . . . . Eruption [article]
23171. (Witold Rybczynski) City Life
23172. (Torben Bjarke Ballin) Rising Waters and the Processes of Diversification and
. . . . . Unification in Material Culture — the Flooding of Doggerland and Its Effect on NW
. . . . . European Prehistoric Populations between c. 13,000 and 1,500 cal BC [article]
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Handel’s Fireworks
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on May 30, 2016
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Well, I have no shortage of recordings of this, one of the most popular works of baroque music. I have performances conducted by Fennell, Gardiner, Hogwood, Marriner, Maier, Pinnock, Savall, Stokowski, and Warchal, and I’ve probably heard a dozen others. Most listeners divide them into two categories: 1) recordings using original period instruments, or an approximation thereof; 2) recordings using twentieth century instruments in a standard concert format. I’m not going to sneer at the latter group. Handel was as pragmatic a showman as music ever produced, and he would have been perfectly happy hearing Stokowski’s wonderful and totally inauthentic version, though he might have told Marriner to give his performance a little more zetz. But on the whole, I prefer the period instrument versions, and of those, I’d pick Jordi Savall’s for my desert island music collection. This version has zetz-aplenty. Read more »
