Béla Bartók connoisseur. DeSantis/Youngkin 2̶0̶2̶4̶ 2028 enjoyer. Isaac Newton appreciator. Prefers to be called maestro.
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This woman who regularly takes forever at the gym using the yoke turf lane while streaming to Tik-Tok, completely oblivious to the fact that others may be waiting for it.
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I got a short 15-minute coaching session by Larry Dutton (Emerson SQ violist) on the Brahms A minor quartet a few years ago. I like to (jokingly) tell people that I studied with Larry Dutton.
A while back I had a principal of a top 5 orchestra call me while listening to auditions for a conservatory. A candidate had listed me as a teacher and I’d never heard of them.
Turns out he had one lesson with me years earlier. One lesson doesn’t make someone your teacher.
Based on playing alone he may have had a chance at getting into the school, outside chance at best, but he was rejected. He lied on his resume.
Truth is plenty of people make it without “connections”. I’ve been on committees that have hired 21 year olds in major spots. There’s no reason to make crap up.
Those who do have connections earned them. I had great connections. It wasn’t because I was beautiful. I’m not. I got them by seeking out teachers and doing what they told me.
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Youngkin may actually be the best bet here considering he has been entirely absent from politics for a year and has basically no association with Trump. But I’m under no illusion that Rs have an easy (if any) shot in 2028.
An all-around great guy, though. I even met him once.
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850-lb yoke PR for ~30 ft. Felt heavy but solid. This follows last weekend’s Brahms and Schubert PRs
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Interesting how they claim there is a difference between being anti-Israel and antisemitic. (I could buy into that to a degree, even though I am pro-Israel.)
At the same time, they also insist that being anti-Islam (ideology) is being anti-Arab (race). They want it both ways.
It’s wild that El-Sayed and his awful surrogates dismiss these criticisms as racist instead of standing up to them and answering them like a man.
Nothing to do with race. Everything to do with him being an awful person.
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IDGAF about race. (For instance, I think Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a lovely person and would happily vote for her if she ran for something in the US.)
The fact that Piker and his vile, American-hating family members are US citizens is a stain on our immigration policy.
I was very pleased with how our Brahms sextet and Schubert quintet came out last Sunday. Some small errors, but nothing significant. Also, a wrong few things I did that I thought were super noticeable are hardly noticeable in the video of our concert.
Just performed Dvorak op. 106 (2nd vln). It went okay, especially considering we weren't super prepared.
Next week's concert program:
-Brahms: String Sextet, op. 18 (1st vln)
-Schubert: String Quintet in C (vla)
-The Girl from Ipanema (1st, encore, my arrangement for sextet)
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No idea if this plays out in the electorate. But I will say that my best friend is Jewish. He was always center-left, and grew up in a Dem household. His shift to the right over the past 2-3 years is very noticeable.
L. Louise Lucas got the first L in her name after the VA referendum. Now she’s about to have enough L’s to open up a Maine outdoor clothing company.
@SenLouiseLucas personally handled illegal drugs & forked over thousands in💰 she moved money across state lines. Many unidicted co-conspirators (UCCs) SANG & snitched on entire Lucas family
💯 will be u/c video of Lucas committing crimes
Full indictment storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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My mom loves telling the story about how I once misheard it on the news as "high crimes and Mr. Wieners", and how 6-year-old me was distraught because I thought I heard a bad word (wiener) on TV.
Every kid alive in the late 90's has the same answer I suspect xitter.twitterapi.xyz/Abert_Squirrel/status/…
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They can't and they won't. It would offend their new voting base.
It's incumbent on Democrat politicians to explain to voters why this won't happen here in America and/or what they will do to stop it when it begins.
Republicans are already on the record.
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The desired goal is always top-down rule from "panels of experts", and they go shopping for pretext based on the current trends. Right now it is AI and data centers.
