Classical Music for Aficionados
None of which stopped Wagner from being , in voice and pen , the greatest Semite in the German lands . Tonight begins The Jewish High- Holidays and this is normally the first music that usher them in . Played by the great Pierre Fournier. https://youtu.be/WuC_0W4O_MI?t=25 |
"While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to
know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality
between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself
on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was
asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying
something in regard to it. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have
been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political
equality of the black and white races -- that I am not nor ever have
been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING
THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in
addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white
and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living
together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as
they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the
position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in
favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 18, 1858 |
Four days before his death, speaking to Gen. Benjamin Butler, Lincoln
still pressed on with deportation as the only peaceable solution to
America’s race problem. “I can hardly believe that the South and North
can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes … I believe that
it would be better to export them all to some fertile country…” there is a lot more - and worse - here: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/12/01/lincoln-to-slaves-go-somewhere-else/ |
Copland- Appalachian spring, rodeo and billy the kid suite all conducted by Leonard Bernstein NY Phil. Ravel- bolero- also Leonard NY phil Barber - Adagio for strings Len as well Debussy- Suite bergamasque, Clair de lune Cecil ousset Erik Satie- gymnopedies 1 2 3- aldo ciccolini Gershwin - Rhapsody in blue- Leonard again Grieg - peer gynt- Herbert von karajan- Berlin phil theres more but those are my go it’s |
