https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-eu-lexit-leave-remain-kate-hoey-a8711286.html
http://www.the-wagnerian.com
file:///C:/Users/paulh/AppData/Local/Temp/Positive_influence_of_Wagner_upon_Nietzsche.pdf
https://boulezian.blogspot.com/2020/07/wagner-and-feuerbach.html
http://classical-music-blogs.weebly.com/independents.html
Matthew Goodwin Professor of Politics Kent
http://www.the-imr.uk/upcoming-events/2016/2/2/music-into-words
"jessica duchen"
https://unherd.com/2019/04/have-the-remainers-lost-perspective/
https://www.effiedeans.com/2020/08/the-broadcast-media-has-disgraced-itself.html
wagner nietzsche 47 / 5,430,000
https://www.effiedeans.com/p/about-me.html
https://randompublicjournal.com/2018/07/18/brace-yourself-effie/
guardian 27 february 2017
Ian Pace
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.classical.recordings/c/7S5QfzzysWw/m/pDArP6RlxG4J
https://slippedisc.com/2019/10/a-guide-to-the-child-abuse-inquiry-at-english-music-schools/
https://www.bargainjohn.com/product/royal-bayreuth-blue-mark-berry-set-7-pcs-floral/
https://www.wagneropera.net/articles/articles-bayreuth-2017-berry-03-siegfried.htm
https://slippedisc.com/2017/08/a-composer-and-a-violinist-are-appalled-by-bayreuths-ring/
If you consider the explicitly fascist Daily Mail
to represent the ‘centre ground’, you have problems.
Shut down every ‘independent’ school, every grammar school, every
infernal ‘academy’, and give every child a first-class comprehensive
education.
"Godwin's Law" Invoke the Nazis and
you've lost the argument
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies)[1][2]
is an Internet
adage
asserting that "as an online discussion grows longer, the
probability of a
comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
approaches 1".[2][3]
That is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes
on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or
something to
Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the
discussion or thread often ends.
We need the Labour leadership to tell the truth: that this
so-called "migrant crisis" has been invented by the Tory
Press to distract attention from the crimes, negligence and
incompetence of the Tory Government.
2 April 2020
Well, this is nice. I have found a website devoted to bizarre
attacks not just on me, but on many others:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897287/Remainer-slammed-comparing-Brexit-celebrations-planned-January-31-Kristallnacht.html
17 January 2020
Ross Ibbetson
A university lecturer has provoked outrage
after comparing the planned
Brexit celebrations in
London to a 're-enactment of Kristallnacht.'
Dr Mark Berry, of Royal Holloway University,
suggested that the Leave Means Leave event on January 31 was similar to the
Nazi's vicious assaults on Jewish property in 1938.
He tweeted
Sadiq Khan: 'Could you explain, please, why you have given provisional
agreement to this re-enactment of Kristallnacht, @SadiqKhan? Anyone can see
that this is a pogrom waiting to happen. Please reconsider.'
The page has the title 'Stop the violence now!' and begins, 'Green
Councillor Jillian Creasy and other local Greens took part in the rally in
support of Palestinians in Gaza.' This was organized by Sheffield Palestine
Solidarity Campaign.
One of the photographs on the Green Party site shows a placard held by one
of the demonstrators. The placard can be seen at a glance, without the least
difficulty. The image above shows the placard. I don't give the whole of
the photograph to avoid infringing copyright. The placard obviously reads in
full:
ISRAEL
You have Become
Like Your
NAZI
Predecessors
The 'ss' in 'predecessors uses the lettering which was employed by the
German SS.
The equivalence of Israel and the Nazis is a claim which is despicable. The
Green Party's inclusion of this placard on their Website is despicable.
https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22508/1/Response%20to%20Charlotte%20C.%20Gill%20article%20on%20music%20and%20notation.pdf
https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/response-to-charlotte-c-gill-article-on-music-and-notation-full-list-of-signatories/
https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/trouble-with-klinghoffer.html
https://www.roger-scruton.com/about/music/understanding-music/174-review-of-richard
file:///C:/Users/paulh/AppData/Local/Temp/Romantic_modernism.pdf
https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/taruskin/excerpts.html#practice
https://www.jstor.org/stable/854194?seq=1
formative transformative
Andrew Bowie
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/01/american-lulu-review
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1325507/iran-news-venezuela-missiles-world-war-3-donald-trump-united-states
aphorisms religion ideology 4 / 1,690,000
ethical depth 1 / 157,000,000
Rilke Kafka 1 / 1,120,000
poetry line length 1 / 88,700,000
poetry modulation 1 / 3,360,000
poetry composite 1 / 59,800,000
Israel Palestinian ideology 4 / 5,080,000
16 August
Pfordten, Ludwig Karl Heinrich, Freiherr von der
(b. Ried im Innkreis
...
politician and jurist. Held professorships in
Würzburg and
Leipzig. Appointed Minister
of Education by Frederick Augustus II of Saxony in 1848. Wagner failed to
interest him in his “Plan for the Organization of a German National Theatre
for the Kingdom of Saxony.” Bavarian Minister-President and Foreign Minister
from 1849-59 and 1864-6. During the 1850s, Pfordten failed to unite the
smaller German kingdoms under Bavarian leadership against Prussia and
Austria ... Pfordten’s second ministry proved
disastrous, Bavaria emerging on the losing side in the Austro-Prussian War
(1866).
25 July Wagner and Bakinin
Bakunin seems, in startlingly later-Wagnerian fashion, to have lost some of
the Rousseauvian faith he had held since childhood in man’s natural
goodness, remarking from Lugano: “If there were in the whole world three
people, two of them would unite to oppress the third”
What the hell is wrong with people? I hate this country so much.
https://www.overgrownpath.com/
@BjornHeile
Absolutely. They will be on poppy enforcement duty come November, or rather
October.
4:42 PM UTC - 24 Aug 2020
Well, this is nice. I have found a website devoted to bizarre
attacks not just on me, but on many others:
Why have you deleted the tweet Mark Berry?
As predicted, Remainers frantically deleting their vile Nazi slurs.
The Nazi Hoey presumably on the verge of mentioning George Soros.
The Marquess of Queensberry Rules:
a written code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing, intended
to promote amongst other things fair play.
The Markberry Rules: a set of unwritten rules followed
by Dr Mark Berry of Royal Holloway (a branch of London University) and many
others applied to a different form of combat, polemics. Polemics under
The Markberry Rules pay little or no attention to fair play.
Characteristic features of Mark Berry Polemics (MBP) under The Markberry
Rules:
(1) People and organizations which are vastly different from Nazis and
Nazi organizations, vastly different from Fascists and Fascists
organizations, vastly less harmful or not harmful at all, it can be argued,
are routinely described in MBP as Nazi or Fascist, or a comparison is made
with Dr Goebbels.
Supplementary: this characteristic feature of MBP isn't to be
confused with 'Godwin's Law, which has been formulated in different ways,
such as this: 'As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a
comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.' This is patently
hyperbole. An alternative formulation: 'Invoke the Nazis and you've lost the
argument.' This is patently garbage. Nazis are invoked to try to justify
arguments and counter-arguments in many different fields, supposed prejudice
and supposed anti-prejudice, to support 'political correctness,' for
example, and to oppose political correctness, to support reasonable views
and deranged views. (The examples here will show that invoking the Nazis can
be used by people with very different views.)
Illustrative examples,taken from the writings of Dr Berry (referred
to informally as 'The Markberry' in some places) and other writers. The
examples from The Markberry come from his blog, Boulezian
https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
and his twitter writings
https://twitter.com/boulezian
Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass: a pogrom against Jews carried
out by SA Paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi German on 9-10
November 1938. 267 synagogues were destroyed during riots. Over 7,000
Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, together with many other Jewish
buildings. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. From a
report in The Times newspaper (11 November, 1938):
'No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world
could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of ... assaults on
defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.'
Kristallnacht is viewed by many historians as a prelude to The Final
Solution.
The subject that Dr Mark Berry studied at Cambridge University was
history. How does he view Kristallnacht? the deeply disturbing claim
that Kristallnacht can be compared with an event held in connection with
Brexit. Addressing the Mayor of London, Sudiq Khan:
'Could you explain, please, why you have given provisional agreement to
this re-enactment of Kristallnacht ... Anyone can see that this is a pogrom
waiting to happen.'
Mark Berry retweeted this:
19 August 1927 | Polish girl Danuta Koch was born in Warsaw. In
#Auschwitz
from 13 December 1942 (deported during expulsion of Poles from the
Zamość region). No. 26928 In 1944 she was transferred to KL
Flossenbürg and liberated there.
She was liberated, along with other surviving
prisoners, by the United States army. For a dignified and very
moving account of the liberation and the discovery of some of the
horrors at this, one of the smaller camps, of course, see this
Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbUP6cl2NE
Any awareness he may have of the military resources needed to
liberate this and other camps, the practicalities and the price paid
by the allied forces is, I would think, very slight, well beyond his
comprehension, just as present and future dangers which demand
military preparedness are well beyond his comprehension.
The unacceptable presence in public life of fascists such as
must stop now.
He's referring to Sarah Atherton MP. Can The Markberry explain why and
how Sarah Atherton is to be ejected from public life, given that the
electorate chose her as their MP? Is the form of democracy he supports the
one current in the United Kingdom or one closer to the 'democracy' in the
old DDR or some other form, which allows for the elimination of people from
public life whose views he dislikes? What about the elimination of people
from academic life whose views he dislikes? The elimination of journalists
whose views he dislikes? He uses that word 'now' which you find so often in
the calls of people whose grip in reality is insecure. Another example, from
a different sphere:
'End all animal exploitation NOW!' What? This minute, with no allowances
made for the practicalities at all?
I think that Royal Holloway made a disastrously misguided appointment
when it appointed Mark Berry. Mark Berry suffers from Mark Berry
Syndrome (MBS) - symptoms include tendencies to hysteria and a severely
defective sense of reality - but I don't call for his dismissal, and
certainly not for his instant dismissal.
Thursday, 12 December 2019
4 Oct 2019
Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra
Ádám Fischer
(conductor, piano)
Mozart’s Linz Symphony
is too often overlooked, bewilderingly so for a work of its stature.
First performed by the BPO in 1936, under Victor de Sabata, the
orchestra had not played the symphony since 2006, when Daniel
Barenboim had conducted it. Its first movement introduction hear
opened with due C major pomp, Fischer navigating and communicating
its darker side with audible appreciation of the role played by
oscillation between major and minor modes in what Charles Rosen
characterised as the ‘Classical style’, Mozart’s chromaticism
crucial in this particular case. Indeed, the secret of so much
Mozartian sonata form was well treated in the first movement as a
whole: how to balance and/or project the twin demands of balance
itself and formal dynamism. A questing – and surprising –
development contributed to that success, likewise a commendably
fresh and vigorous recapitulation, even if it lacked the last few
degrees of seemingly effortless tension in great accounts of the
past (Davis, of course, Böhm, Walter, et al.). Antiphonally placed
violins proved telling, as soon as it was possible for them to do
so, which is to say long before the introduction concluded.
A fine, generative balance and/or dialectic also characterised the slow
movement: in this case, between courtly, Salzburg serenade – strings,
almost operatically eloquent, just as much as heavenly Berlin winds –
and the Romantic angel of death, which already haunts Mozart’s work
here. (In truth, it always did.) Might it have been loved a little more?
Perhaps, but relative sternness reaped its own rewards, Beethoven but a
stone’s throw away, for all the talk – not entirely unjust – we hear of
his symphonism owing more to Haydn than to Mozart. The minuet was not
free of mannerism, or at least of manner, but the
mitteleuropäisch swing
Fischer imparted to it was fine with me. What a relief, moreover, it was
not to have it rushed. Was it an affectation to allot its trio to solo
instruments? Doubtless, but it worked, in its way, and there was no
doubting the excellence of the playing. A fleet finale fizzed as it
must, counterpoint commendably clear. It could at times have been a
touch more directed, more inevitable, though only by the standards of
those elusive great performances of the past. In the here and now, there
was much to enjoy. If the Mozartian smile finally revealed were
hard-won, a little effort is no bad thing.
'Perhaps this audience did need to see and hear Orlando with her
girlfriend, to hear her child sing freely, to be reminded of the threat
Trump-and-Johnson fascism poses us all, and so forth.'
23 Oct 2019
19 August 1927 | Polish girl Danuta Koch was born in Warsaw. In
#Auschwitz
from 13 December 1942 (deported during expulsion of Poles from the
Zamość region). No. 26928 In 1944 she was transferred to KL
Flossenbürg and liberated there.
At 11am today, we fall silent and remember all those who sacrificed
so much to not only defend our country but to fight for a better
world and a better future.
Craig Whittaker MP Calder Valley
