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Sat in the front row and fell asleep at the Fifth. I love it and it’s so bombastic. But I slept lol.

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Having ,long ago , studied post grad with the russians - (5 years Phillipe Hirshorn -the ultimate satirist ''They think I'm the angel of death ,which I probably am'' referring to why Lieberman's major intl competition winning students were scared (& obliged) to come to him, at all .

PH was a big man ,daring to demonstrate mozart 5th concerto ( which Lieberman had bitched on regularly to students ,being far harder than paganini or anything else)- for my sometimes 2x weekly lesson ,roasting - upon entering the chamber -greeted by PH's live demonstration of Mozart 5 ; seeing my eyebrows raised , subsequent appreciation ''that's not bad''- finishing together the (liturgical)- ''for a russian'' together ,laughing) .PH did that , to mimic his own criticisms .. It was an active dismantling of technocracy by a Soviet politicisation of art as satire -

( https://youtu.be/LUKxJlsKkkc shows what it was like standing in close vicinity of such acoustic nuclear fusion . )

I also played shostakovich 5th symphony ,which is doublespeak in its finest form .Solzhenitsen's We Never Make Mistakes - is related ,at least in spirit .

I found his string quartets less opaque ,as that is a less censurable 'diary 'form . (Mozarts greatest works regularly quoted from Bach's seminal equivalents- a Mozart fugue is a massive thing ,like 10 camels racing each other ,abreast)-all gleaned from the highest form of shorthand - the place of fugue in a string quartet - which JS Bach touched on in the 48 ,but in germinal form .

So these bold Shostakovitch 'nursery rhymes'- the kind of satire that Shostakovich hid all over the place ,like Alban Berg in his violin concerto - from which his mentor Schoenberg saw fit to begin serial music (12 tone rows variations )from the idea- in almost all his (Shostakovitch's) Stalin laboured symphonies .

Shostakovich wanted one thing in his life - to make people laugh .

He failed .

But so did Shakespeare ,in comparison to the Goons (Peter Sellers ,Spike Milligan ,Harry Secombe )

But they failed ,in comparison to NL's Johnny Van Doorn - who was of the opinion nobody had the right to understand him - he combined the breadth of Shostakovich's doublespeak with a kind of Monty Pythonism -that needs injected into Fauci ASAP .

The Soviet referential '' double cheek whammy '' greeting is a cultural equivalent of 'so you're not dead yet'?' - not that anyone western would get that .

A good hard slap on the back was reserved for special occasions .

But the transition between Sovietism and laughter is best demonstrated by Ingrid Bergman in the early parts of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwbs3TKS7k

Her humility blew me away - there is no faking the soviet placement of those fingers .

The bit where her teacher says '' it's too important '- my neighbors will complain' ' ,is built on the previous section of her duet based on her astonishing performance of Grieg's piano concerto in A minor .

Better than words .

But Ingrid Bergman has some of the most convincing piano playing ,in her ability to negate Sovietism , in essence .

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check out the madcap van Doorn/self-kicker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvqACxkXoQw

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The Fauci Anthem is ready , a truly effective mRNA ,for a change .

-But that 'link' is not the best use of Van Doorn (apart from infusing distilled versions thereof ,in an attempt to forensically rehabilitate Fauci ,God knows his hatred of life has a 'cure ') .

I was referring to his later work ,after he had spent 14 weeks on top of a cupboard in a bedsit in Belgium ,in order to get 'çlean', in order to not subject his future wife to the ignominy of his various (serious )addictions . JvD succeeded !

Having met and interviewed 2 close friends of JvD - one time he was sitting unsurreptitiosly playing Chopin ,in a bar - he (JvD) was attacked physically . Each blow resulting in him behaving like bamboo - bending ,not breaking (the Taoist definition of forgiveness) -continuing ,unfazed - in the piece being presented ,which his dad used to also play ,a poem written on just him being applauded by neighbors in Arnhem - in the agonising rebuilding after 'a bridge too far ' cock up by Montgomery resulting in so very many allied WW2 deaths .

In this context '' Änschloss'' the very thing demanding refusal to believe in God ,

''a priori'' ,according to Bonhoeffer ,in Ethics and elsewhere . It's why he was in lifelong search for a secular reference to God ,faith - antithisis to D Prince ,who was so Alexandrian as to belittle mankind's choice ,NOT to approach God ''as worm'' ,but in their magnificence of maturity ,strength . This was B's lifelong concern .

Worth putting into a good translation program ,per short stanza .

an excerpt from his "Stemmingen"

Lessen in menselijkheid (spoonfeeding humanity)

zijn bij hem te ver

-krijgen voor 3 dollars ( costs 3 dollars per hour )

Per uur en speciaal

Voor de geestelijk

Vermoeiden onder ons

Is het de moeite waard

Om onder zijn hoede

Te bestuderen hoe

Men op de handigste

Manier iets als de KLUTS ( any personality predating hippocampus shrinkage)

Terug kan vinden &

Dat werk is speciaal

Voor hem weggelegd

Omdat gebleken is

Dat hij zelfs de

Grootste Geheimen (parameters of zero scientific doubt)

Tot in de kleinste

Details heeft

Doorgrond & het

Geelkluerig aureool

Om zijn barok hoofd

Doet er al op wijzen

Dat hij door een

Hogere Macht is

Voorbestemd om

Als Superguru of Ascetisch Heilige

Door het leven

Te gaan & het is

Zijn taak om aan

De mensheid een

Nieuwe leer te

Verkondigen die

Door niemand minder

Dan God persoon

-lijk is goedgekeurd (Fauci ,Gates as biologically '' new christ '')

JvD was an active dismantler of 'technocracy' - he showed how ,where ,when ,and why .

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Bring it on, kliquor! Seems like you have a lot to offer.

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CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM! Adore classical music!

Can't say this often enough! PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

The horrifying senators, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

BURN BACK BETTER!

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI!

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

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Even better is Tony Palmer's "Testimony" with Ben Kingsley starring as Dmitri! It was a BBC mini-series, but also came out as a DVD quite awhile back. Hard to find. If anyone would like a .mp4 DVD rip, signal back with an email addy.

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I love his waltz no. 2 though... just saying...

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For a few days now I've had "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" playing in a loop in my mind - Elton John resisted!!

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I like "Day by Day" from *Godspell* movie.

Her voice is growing up voices for me when our church that met at a middle school under construction had our choir practices at my parents house in the barrio.

Sounds like we weren't in America. ;^}> I can't tell you where we were even 50 years later, might compromise the places!

_Cherish is the new love, be well._

*May God nod to ward thee & thine!*

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Celia, great post and most interesting. I appreciate music (as long as it's well written and well played). I'll definitely lend an ear to Shostakovitch' 5th. Music is so natural to life, especially music that's written with life in mind (as Shostakovitch has done). I remember a quote from my working days, "The whippings will continue until moral improves". Seems to go in line with your quote at the end "Your business is rejoicing. Your business is rejoicing"

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