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Dec 17, 2022Liked by Cynthia Chung

You could add to your article the attack on ballet. The Bolshoi summer season at the Royal Opera House in London was summarily cancelled. Opera singer Anna Netrebko was also cancelled at the Royal Opera. The Bolshoi was eliminated from World Ballet Day this year, they who are normally one of the prime contributors. It is a heinous attack on the arts and culture perpetrated by the West.

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Powerful writing

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Dec 17, 2022Liked by Cynthia Chung

Excellent essay.

My heart hurts. I long for hope.

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Dec 17, 2022Liked by Cynthia Chung

And these same cultural institutions bend over backwards to make excuses on behalf of self-professed Nazis, as long as they are Ukrainian.

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One should also remember Valentina Lisitsa. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lisitsa%2C+pianist%2C+banned&t=osx&ia=web

It is one of my deepest hopes that your articles and Matt's too will be translated into Russian and German for distribution.

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Dec 19, 2022Liked by Cynthia Chung

I believe I am correct in saying that the former Head of the Royal Opera House is now the Director General of the BBC. There has long been a close collaboration between the two.

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All of this must be heartbreaking for the artists involved. Politicians truly lose their soul when they gain a little power. Then they crave ever more to fill the void. Must it always be so?

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Jan 9, 2023Liked by Cynthia Chung

Thank you for your insights! There is at least one prominent German speaking out. Statesman and leftist former politician Oskar Lafontaine just published a book entitled "Ami, It's Time to Go! Plaedoyer fuel die Selbstbehauptung Europe's" ("Plea for Europe's Self-determination"), in which among other things he calls for evicting all US military bases from Germany. See also https://sputniknews.com/20221128/german-statesman-slams-eu-leaders-spinelessness-demands-natos-dismemberment-closure-of-us-bases-1104796406.html

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I also wanted to add: Valery Gergiev's longest professional engagement outside of Russia was with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he worked for some thirty years. Like in Munich, he was on 1 March summarily dismissed for insufficiently distancing himself from the Russian government apropos of Ukraine. I was completely disgusted.

https://presearch.com/search?q=gergiev+rotterdam

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I watched the Palmyra concert when it was first broadcast on RT's YouTube channel and found it an absolutely overwhelming experience. What made it so powerful was its understated quality; virtually no words, the RT team simply let the music and the powerful visuals (the images of the Roman ruins) do the talking.

Speaking of Beethoven, I realize Ode to Joy is the perennial favorite of many, but I confess I find the Prisoners Chorus from Fidelio in some ways even more affecting. I've seen Fidelio a number of times in the theater and this scene is so profoundly moving; an almost religious moment of solemn joy. They have, in an allegorical way, escaped from Plato's Cave. Perhaps another high point in Weimar Classicism?

Fragment from a production at Covent Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7e1jKx7Qg

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Dec 22, 2022Liked by Cynthia Chung

Thank you Cynthia. Also watching your lecture : 'The battle for the mind. How to exit an artificial reality' https://youtu.be/ZTTeX6useKI

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Gergiev has been Sacked to Appease the Great American "Exceptional" Cultural Empire ,because Germany is a US Colony, with No Voice of it`s own.

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GCHQ KILLED PRINCESS DIANA

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I would add this to the preceding: The late French philosopher, Michel Foucault (1926-1984), is credited with saying the following: "[...], no matter how serious a given situation, there are always different options for action and change, although very limited in some cases. Foucault's position is that to ignore unjust practices within the social body is to tolerate and perpetuate their existence, thus condemning a whole section of the population to despair. Although there are multiple social and historical constraints, there is always a way to change these constraints – namely, a margin of freedom. Foucault, therefore, assumes that people will always seek to modify the actions of others. In short, to wield power - but that assumes, at the same time, that people will resist such attempts. To quote Foucault, if only for the last time, and in doing so, paraphrasing him (of course!), in connection with the homo Deus of a Schwab or a Harari (on hacking the human brain): "How does it mean that in Western Christian culture, the government of men demands of those who are led not only acts of obedience and submission but also acts of truth? This requires not only that the subject tell the truth but that he tell the truth about himself, his faults, his desires, and the state of his soul (see Harari's "Homo Deus")... And so on? (Michel Foucault, 1926-1984)

See you on Zoom tomorrow at 2 PM.

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Well spoken, and let's not forget the villification the Serbs went through in the 1990-2000's.

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Indra Hughes looks at matters including gematria in the music of Bach. I used to play Bach's cello music. I came later to Indra Hughes and I had always played without knowing much about harmony, either. I also came later to theories of gematria in world events. My school music teacher said that after studying harmony he had to come again to his ideas of music. And then about world events?

This may be a bothersome post for some. Maybe someone could hep me with it. Before the days of Facebook we had UUCP discussion groups, which were for a while indexed on Dejanews, which Google bought and a small portion still remains. https://groups.google.com/search?q=kansan1225 Kansan1225 saw number patterns around how model Heidi Klum was presented in magazine articles, and related them to coming world events. So I have to look at world events as my music teacher had to look at music anew. Or maybe not.

I'm partly posting this since on Mercola.com the recent post (they only remain briefly) looks at planning for a 2025 catastrophic contagion.

https://groups.google.com/search?q=kansan1225 He points out how planners signal their event plans. I wonder if it's like psychiatrist Peter Breggin talks of how psychopaths always signal.

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