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The post-WWII order we’ve known hasn’t just crumbled. It has collapsed — and WWIII is looming.
Introducing my book #WorldWarYou about how to stop WWIII and win the fight for our future: open.substack.com/pub/berlinbr...

A New Vorspiel: The Wagnerian Joins Substack News and information about the German Composer Richard Wagner and his work

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"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world [...] "Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians of the mind. Books are humanity in print."

---Schopenhauer

My favorite period of F. W. J. Schelling's writings are roughly the years from 1809 to 1818, which produced the Freedom Essay, The Ages of the World drafts, The Stuttgart Seminars (1810), Clara, and the Deities of Samothrace (1815)

I’ve spent nearly two decades working in conflict zones & emerging markets, watching democracy unravel worldwide.
Now I’m writing a book about the global conflict upon us & what each of us can do to stop it.
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Sir Roger Norrington (1934-2025): An Unflinching Ear for Wagner News and information about the German Composer Richard Wagner and his work

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Berlioz 150: The Amazing Fantastique Sir Roger Norrington explores the history of “the first truly Romantic score in history” and recounts his experiences performing it.

In 2019, I asked Roger Norrington if he’d write an article for our Berlioz150 series. I received a brief response: “Yes I’ll try to do that for you, Mark. Sir R” A week later, an email: “Is this any good for you?” 950 perfect words followed.
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Roger Norrington conducting

Here is a man who truly lived for music: a pioneer with endless creative ideas and appetite for oceans of repertoire, and such zeal to share this with fellow musicians and audiences. Rest in piece, Sir Roger Norrington.

Sir Roger Norrington: pioneer, enthusiast, provocateur. I saw him conduct so many times, mostly with the OAE, always with a twinkle (and often with "jazz hands"!). His Beethoven cycle with his London Classical Players opened my ears to period instruments. RIP
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About 95% Fanny Hensel's 450+ works were for voice and/or piano only (because sexism).
This is obviously sad for her--she wanted to write more for larger formats and other genres, but didn't get the support. (see: sometimes Felix was a little bitch)

Four Songs for Horn & Piano [PDF instant download] — HenselPushers This arrangement includes four of Fanny Hensel’s lieder, arranged for horn and piano by Andrew Sehmann . Songs in this collection: Italien (H157), Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’ (H285), Das Meer erglän...

3) Das Meer erglänzte weit hinaus (H335) - since you're making me choose, this is my favorite Hensel lied. I love anything that sounds like water... and this is about the shining sea, and then fog, and then longing and sadness. UGH IT'S TOO MUCH

Scherzo have awarded @tamarastefanovich.bsky.social ‘Organised Delirium’ album with a Scherzo Excepcional!

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About News and information about the German Composer Richard Wagner and his work

We have taken this overhaul as an opportunity to update the About page. Here, if you're curious, but nothing exciting.

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The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

The Young Idealist My name is Christopher Satoor, and I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. I am also a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy, and ...

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Debt crises aren't just fiscal events–they reflect chronic underinvestment in the real economy. As a Commissioner on the Jubilee Commission, chaired by Prof Joseph Stiglitz & Martin Guzman, our report shows 60+ nations now spend more on debt service than health.

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Outrageous: Trump wants the NHS to pay more for US drugs in a new trade deal. US healthcare is a mess, but instead of fixing his own system Trump wants to drag the rest of us down with him. Join me and sign the petition against this NHS price hike:

R. I. P. Helen De Cruz. You were really someone special. A sane voice in an insane world, a rose rising through a cement block ... a glimpse of sunlight in a stormy day. The world has lost a beautiful soul.

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New thread. Israel and Iran.

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Good morning @loveinner.bsky.social!

Do I hear the distant thud of a 60-CD Giulini box #NewRelease landing on your doorstep?

Meanwhile, a German newspaper ‘opinion’ (headline since revised)

Just arrived from Presto, the new Carlo Maria Giulini edition. Recordings made between 1952 and 1980 newly remastered on 60 CDs. 😊

Philosophy Friends & Fellow Colleagues the Next Episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series will be a special Book Series Presentation feat: Dr. @andrewbowie.bsky.social paperback release of 'Aesthetic Dimension of Modern Philosophy' (Oxford Uni Press). It's a Huge honor to have Dr. Bowie on!

Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum? (Oh, and Mr Merz goes to Washington, too.)

The latest Chartbook just dropped!

Why Chinese domestic consumption will struggle to replace export orders lost in the US.

I guess some Russians must be feeling pretty foolish right now. They put all that effort into a massive but marginally effective attack on civilians, while Ukraine was preparing a much more difficult — and more damaging — attack right under their noses.

This gravely ill girl has been ordered to leave the US by the White House - but doctors say she could die within days The four-year-old is receiving a cutting-edge treatment that is keeping her alive - but her mother has received a letter saying she must return to Mexico.

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