FILMS — MAY 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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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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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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16-05-31 MUS Fireworks

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 »

Image of the month: The Highlander

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#C (4938)

FILMS — APRIL 2016

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(Hitch­cock 1951) Strangers on a Train
(Meza-Leon 2015) Rick and Morty: Ep.19 ― Inter­di­men­sion­al Cable 2: Tempt­ing Fate
(Pol­ci­no 2015) Rick and Morty: Ep.20 ― Look Who’s Purg­ing Now
(Cardiff 1964) The Long Ships
(Archer 2015) Rick and Morty: Ep.21 ― The Wed­ding Squanchers
(Affleck 1998) The Simp­sons: Ep.196 ― This Lit­tle Wiggy
(Gray 1998) The Simp­sons: Ep.197 ― Simp­son Tide
(Hugh­es 1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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First-time listening for April 2016

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23642. (Louis-Albert Bour­gault-Ducoudray) Rhap­sodie cambodgienne
23643. (Arca) Mutant
23644. (Kishori Amonkar) Raga Gaud Malhar
23645. (Rae Srem­murd) SremmLife
23646. (Flo­rence Price) Mis­sis­sip­pi Riv­er Suite
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READING — APRIL 2016

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23113. [3] (Jonathan Swift) Gulliver’s Trav­els [Trav­els Into Sev­er­al Remote Nations of the
. . . . . World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver]
23114. (Michel de Mon­taigne) De l’amitié [arti­cle] [read in Eng­lish at 9575]
23115. (Torsten Gün­ther, et al) Ancient Genomes Link Ear­ly Farm­ers from Ata­puer­ca in Spain
. . . . . to Mod­ern-day Basques [arti­cle]
(Éti­enne de La Boétie) Oeu­vres com­plètes d’Estienne de la Boétie [ed. Paul Bonnefon]:
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Image of the month: a sublime moment

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2016 APRDidi­er Durassier, mas­ter of the Bre­ton bag­pipe, plays for me on the seashore at, if mem­o­ry serves the penin­su­la of Quiberon.

FILMS — MARCH 2016

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(Cameron 1991) Ter­mi­na­tor 2: Judg­ment Day
(Pol­ci­no 1997) The Simp­sons: Ep.173 ― The Canine Mutiny
(Kirk­land 1997) The Simp­sons: Ep.174 ― The Old Man and the Lisa
(Band 1982) Parasite
(Moore 1997) The Simp­sons: Ep.175 ― In Marge We Trust
(Mar­ton 1966) Around the World Under the Sea
(Gilbert 1962) H. M. S. Defi­ant [aka Damn the Defiant!
(Rear­don 1997) The Simp­sons: Ep.176 ― Homer’s Enemy
(New­ton 2014) Rick and Morty: Ep.5 ― Meeseeks and Destroy
(King 1940) The Case of the Fright­ened Lady

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