Stephen Everson
Armchair Aristotelian
- Harriet Harman does herself a disservice in leaving herself out of the list of those who were the architects of New Labour; one of the first defining acts of Blair’s government was her taking away benefits from single mothers. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
- A devastating review of Douglas Murray’s bankrupt polemical pot-boiler on Gaza from Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/do...
- Perhaps more than in any other recording, this new one shows just why Webern so admired the total integration of singer and orchestra in Das Lied and how it stands on the cusp of New School modernism. The control of timbre is astonishing. And Lemieux is wonderful.
- From de la Grange:
- A yet further reason why marriage to Russell was not without its irritations.
- Last year Petrenko gave a powerful performance of Bruckner 5 that revealed moments of wit in the score. That ability makes him an ideal Schoenberg conductor. Kopatchinskaja is bold and mercurial. Fantastic disc.
- Interesting take on why it could be a very costly mistake to integrate your systems with a product for whose production tyre is as yet no business model. (Those who like things to get to the point should skip the first few minutes). #AISlop #Genai youtu.be/9KrLURAg_OY?...
- The kind of endorsement of academic values that’s worthy of Matt Goodwin
