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Happy Halloween everybody!
(Almost exactly two weeks now, and not a word from anyone. Not a peep! That it would seem can only mean one thing. Oh well then, so here goes...)
["Gluck, "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice" from "Orphée et Eurydice" (1774), Simoneau"]
Oh yes, even Russians, etc., etc. (It's true.)
["Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 - mvt 2, Abbado: CSO"]
As a bonus extra --
Now THIS was someone else's idea (but which, and to wrap things up, we can share also. And please everyone, it’s just a movie.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvgiDxeRaM
["Ten Minutes Ago" - 1965]
[ch. 8]
And as Paul said, “We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us,” so would we in the same spirit and language earnestly desire to be ambassadors for Christ to men, even as the Word of God beseeches them to the love of Himself, seeking to win over to righteousness, truth, and the other virtues, those who, until they receive the doctrines of Jesus Christ, live in darkness about God and in ignorance of their Creator.
To them Jesus Christ is an all-sufficient Lord, who Himself instructs them, in order that when fully instructed He may form them into a kingdom worthy of God, and present them to God the Father. But indeed they do in a sense separate themselves and stand aloof from those who are aliens from the commonwealth of God and strangers to His covenants, in order that they may live as citizens of heaven, “coming to the living God, and to the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, which are written in heaven.”
Socrates, “Anytus and Melitus may kill me, but they cannot injure me; for it is impossible that the better should ever be injured by the worse.”
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book VIII
I SAY NO!
Myself: And aiding and abetting an absolutely notorious hooligan group. I am writing all this down. If it was only having sins be forgiven, would not that of itself be sufficient grounds and proof? We could do this. We could do that. We could do this other. etc. But as usual you say we can't. Why? Because this person whose identity we are not permitted to know says so. I believe the term is niggardly, correct?
A.L.: But where's your proof?
Myself: All right. For starters, is not this one of the very sweetest voices you ever heard? Funny, she's funny even in still photographs, by which intelligent people know what a more than superior actress she is. In addition to this, can it not be said she embodies and represents SEVERAL crucial and important things.
A.L. And what would these be?
Myself: That peculiar and delicious charm of a past era now completely lost, not to mention such like her who are no longer with us. Granted she's not all the greatest shakes NOW. But honestly, does it not out and out kill you that others got to see her back then when we didn't (in that way)? And yes, and as for YOU, and outside of all that is holy, what do you think all THIS is anyway? Yes I AM shouting at you. This guy is in howling agony, or at least a very pronounced whimpering, an acknowledgement of receipt doesn't seem like much to ask. The simple fact is the thing was not possible without you, and was else and otherwise just a jumbled pile of fragments.
First let me say that although the song itself is very good, I have yet to hear a GREAT version of it. This try, from the 1946 biography of composer Jerome Kern, has a few problems, including the gimmicky use of umbrellas in the dance. But at least we get to hear the song.
["Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) - June Allison & Ray Mc Donald "Till The Clouds Roll By""]
