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Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216: make music part of your life series

Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216

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The Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg in 1775. Mozart was only 19 at the time. The piece is in three movements:
1. Allegro
2. Adagio

3. Rondeau, Allegro.
The Allegro is in sonata form, opening with a brilliant G major theme, played by the orchestra. The main theme is a bright and happy discussion between the solo violin and the accompanist, followed by a modulation to the dominant D major, then its parallel key D minor. It experiments in other keys but does not settle and eventually heads back to the tonic, G major, in the recapitulation with the help of the cadenza.
The second movement is also in ternary form form, and in the dominant key of D major. The orchestra begins by playing the well known and beautiful main theme, which the violin imitates one octave higher. The winds then play a dance-like motif in A major, which the violin concludes by its own. After a conclusion in A, the violin plays the main theme again, remaining in the same key. When it should have sounded A natural, it sounds A sharp, and the melody switches to B minor, in a fairly tragic passage. It soon modulates back to A major, and to the home key of D major through the main theme. After the cadenza, and in a quite unusual thing for Mozart to do, the violin plays the main theme again, thus concluding the movement in D.
The third movement is a Rondeau Allegro, and opens with an orchestra theme which gave the concerto its nickname: “Straßburg“. After a lonely, short passage by the oboes only, the solo violin enters with a different melody which modulates to D. A brilliant and high passage in D is soon followed by a descending arpeggio-like melodic line which eventually leads to the G string and repeats itself. After the second time, the violin plays the lonely oboe line from the introduction. A chromatic scale then leads to the “Straßburg” theme with the violin playing. The orchestra imitates the violin and abruptly changes to B minor and a B minor violin theme: exactly the same theme as in the first violin solo, played in the relative minor key. As the theme itself repeats, it once again abruptly changes to E minor. The small E minor cadenza introduces the orchestra, which once again plays the “Straßburg” theme in G major. After a couple of bars in D major by the orchestra, the music goes from Allegro to an Andante in G minor, almost in the fashion of a scherzo-trio form. The strings play saltando quavers while the violin plays a note-rest small melodic line which repeats itself and eventually leads to a G major Allegretto. The violin plays a crotchet-only playful theme, while the orchestra plays brilliant and fast threesome up-and-down notes, in a way that the solo violin’s part acts as a background only. The parts switch and now the orchestra plays the playful theme, while the violin gets to show off by playing fast notes. The quick passages stop for the violin to play a more ceremonial theme played on the D and A strings, in the fashion of a Musette. This pattern sounds two more times until the violin concludes the fast theme with a low G, and switches to Tempo 1. After a few bars, the first solo theme that the violin played is played as a variation in A minor. The violin plays the “Straßburg” theme in G minor, and the orchestra imitates it in the usual form of G major. After the typical first solo variation, this time in the tonic key. The violin plays another small cadenza which leads to the last “Straßburg” theme played in two octaves. The orchestra plays it one third time in the lower octave. Instead of ending the concerto in a pompous way, Mozart chose to end it instead with the lonely oboe theme in G major played piano, adding the feeling of a musical “disappearing”.
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Serenata Española de Joaquim Malats Pepe Romero: great compositions/performances

Serenata Española de Joaquim Malats Pepe Romero

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Joaquim Malats

 

Joaquim Malats
Joaquim Malats fotografiado por Audouard (c. 1900).
Nombre	Joaquín Malats i Miarons
Nacimiento	1872
Fallecimiento	1912
Ocupación	pianista y compositor

Joaquín Malats i Miarons (Barcelona, 1872 – 1912) fue un pianista y compositor catalán.

Biografía

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Estudió Juan Bautista Pujol with the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona. After debuting at age fourteen (1886) extended his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize in piano and Diémer award 1903 Acted throughout Spain, France and Portugal with extraordinary success. It opened a lot of masterpiece Isaac Albéniz: Print composer wrote Iberia.Como Spain, suite for large orchestra, a Spanish Serenade 1 a trio for piano, violin and cello, and piano works different: mazurkas, dances, serenades, and Waltz Babillage Caprice.En the Music Museum of Barcelona newspaper articles a correspondence with Isaac Albéniz and a large collection of photographic portraits of pianist preserved. 

Johannes Brahms – Trio in A minor op. 114: make music part of your life series

Johannes Brahms – Trio in A minor Op. 114

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Johannes Brahms, Trio in A minor op.114, Martin Fröst clarinet, Clemens Hagen cello, Leif Ove Andsnes piano, International Chamber Music Festival, ICMF 2010, http://www.icmf.no
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The Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in A minor, Op. 114, was one of four chamber works featuring clarinet composed by Johannes Brahms in rapid succession after emerging from retirement toward the end of his life.

It is one of a small number of compositions for clarinet, cello and piano, and one of the very few to have entered the standard repertoire. Eusebius Mandyczewski, a scholar and friend of Brahms, wrote of the trio that “It is as though the instruments were in love with each other.” ^[1]

The movements are marked Allegro, Adagio, Andantino grazioso – Trio, Allegro.

Brahms was inspired to compose these works by the playing of clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.^[1] In November 1891 Mühlfeld participated in the first private performance, in Meiningen, with Robert Hausmann on cello and Brahms on piano. The following month they had a triumph with the public premiere in Berlin.

The clarinet in this Trio can also be substituted with a viola.

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this pressed – for the record: Liberia Officials To Prosecute Ebola Infected Man For Lying On Health Form « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

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MONROVIA, Liberia (CBSDFW/AP) – The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian authorities said Thursday.

With an Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected.

On the form obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by a government official, Thomas Eric Duncan answered “no” to questions about whether he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of someone who had died in an area affected by Ebola.

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Ebola: The world’s most dangerous Virus (full documentary) : because it’s never to late to educate oneself!

Ebola: The world’s most dangerous Virus (full documentary)

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Published on May 30, 2013

Viruses are supposed to be the biological weapons of the future.They are everywhere. Millions of viruses around us, interact, invade. Virus able to evolve, change your environment, jump from one species to another. Scientists continue its track. Looking hiding in nature, in animals that viruses use to travel from one place to another planet … but not always find them.

In recent decades there have been many diseases that so far only affected animals. These diseases, caused by very aggressive virus, appear with high frequency in Africa, and requires a high financial contribution in order to eradicate them. Marburg virus, influenza, dengue, yellow fever, Ebola virus, human immunodeficiency virus, Epstein-Barr…

To find answers we enter for the first time in the High Security Center Biological where the most dangerous viruses in history and the emerging service. And the World Health Organization explains how he manages to monitor the emergence of new viruses and diseases in any country.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – In fact, there is a 50 percent chance a traveler carrying the disease could touch down in the U.K. by October 24, a team of U.S. researchers have predicted. Scientists used Ebola spread patterns coupled with airline traffic data in calculating the odds of the virus spreading across the world.

They estimate there is a 75 percent chance Ebola will reach French shores by October 24. Belgium has a 40 percent chance of seeing the disease arrive on its territory. Spain and Switzerland have lower risks of 14 percent each.

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this pressed: aq First Ebola Patient Diagnosed in U.S. Dies in Dallas – Bloomberg

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died from the virus while in isolation at a Dallas hospital.

Duncan was diagnosed with the disease on Sept. 30 after contracting it in his native Liberia, where Ebola has infected about 7,500 people, killing half. He had come to the country to marry his girlfriend, Louise Troh, who is now being quarantined and has not yet shown symptoms of the disease.

“It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am,” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said in a statement today.

He developed a fever and stomach pains on Sept. 24, four days after arriving in the U.S. Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital’s emergency room o

Sept. 26, after doctors failed to diagnose him with Ebola. He was brought back to the hospital in an ambulance two days later.

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CDC Warns On AIRBORNE EBOLA: yet no quarantine measures to passangers of airplanes coming into the country!

CDC Warns On AIRBORNE EBOLA

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The CDC has just issued an “Interim Guidance about Ebola Virus Infection for Airline Flight Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel”
The guide is heavily directed at preventing Airborne Transmission within Aircraft.

Three key CDC directions jump out:

1: The CDC primary concern is Airborne Contamination
Keep the sick person separated from others as much as possible.
Provide the sick person with a surgical mask (if the sick person can tolerate wearing one) to reduce the number of droplets expelled into the air by talking, sneezing, or coughing.
Give tissues to a sick person who cannot tolerate a mask. Provide a plastic bag for disposing of used tissues.
Wear impermeable disposable gloves for direct contact with blood or other body fluids.

2: The CDC is directing cleaning crews not to use compressed air to clean aircraft.
Do not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air

3: The CDC is once again threating legal action for flight crews that don’t report passenger illnesses

In addition; A CMC hospital spokesman in Charlotte is quoted as stating that “Ebola testing will not be performed” on a suspected EBOLA case because he/she has tested positive for Malaria. This seems to be a very high risk proposition given that some Malaria tests are known to have high false positive rates, and Ebola is known to produce Malaria type symptoms. Nor does having Malaria preclude one from also having Ebola.

Moreover, not testing for EBOLA seems to be the height of medical irresponsibility given that Charlotte is the home base for a known Ebola case, and that 60 more Charlotte based missionaries who have a known Ebola exposure are being evacuated back to the United States.

Finally, if and when Ebola does enter the United States all pressures will be to under report the situation as the economic panic consequences are considered high.

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Despite telling hospital workers in Dallas he was in West Africa where the Ebola virus is spreading, the man who brought the disease to the United States was sent home after his first visit with doctors.

The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian has exposed an undetermined number of people to the deadly and usually fatal disease.

After the man returned and his diagnose was confirmed, officialdom began tracking anybody who had contact with him. It was initially determined a group of between a dozen and 18 people, ambulance workers and a number of school children, had contact with the patient. The Department of Health has confirmed a patient is currently in isolation and undergoing testing in Honolulu.

The Hawaii Nurses Association said the person is being treated at The Queen’s Medical Center.

Officials told KHON2 Ebola is a possibility, however the patient has yet to be specifically tested for the virus.

“We are early in the investigation of a patient — very, very early — who we’re investigating that might have Ebola,” said Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy state epidemiologist. “It’s very possible that they do and they have Ebola. I think it’s also more likely that they have another condition that presents with similar symptoms.”

Liberia, has prompted national concern over the potential for a wider spread of the deadly virus from West Africa, where at least 3,338 people have died in the worst outbreak on record. A public tweet from a large government supplier of emergency response products specializing in “high risk events” says that Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in the month of October. The shocking revelation, made on the Goldenstate Fire/EMS Twitter page

isolated and quarantined. Confirmation that the first case of Ebola has arrived in the United States will prompt questions as to whether the CDC will enact emergency procedures that could see even healthy Americans detained against their will. I can understand the need to keep the public calm, but why don’t these officials just tell us the truth? Like I have said so many times before, let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst.

It is the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States. That’s an important distinction because — unlike the medical workers who contracted Ebola in Africa and were flown back to the United States for treatment — the new Ebola patient could’ve been circulating in the general U.S. population, potentially spreading the disease.

The U.S. patient diagnosed with Ebola is a man who was traveling in Liberia, and he started showing Ebola symptoms four days after returning. The man has been placed in “strict isolation,” according to a statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. ebola u.s. usa america “united states” “ebola outbreak” sick sickness virus doctor exposure disease care health healthcare hospital liberia “west africa” africa travel flight emergency “ebola vaccine” flu “flu vaccine” winter 2014 2015 “winter 2014” prepare “emergency supplies” “face mask” “moon suit” “hazmat suit” food “food storage” future humanity patient “aid work” recovery media news entertainment fever texas bugout control power family “elite nwo agenda” truth contact bunker charity epidemic alex jones rant infowars gerald celente marc faber gloom doom david icke coast to coast am exposed false flag attack isis isil mh370 ukraine bilderberg george soros rothschild cdc

In a briefing on Tuesday, CDC officials stressed that because the man was not symptomatic with Ebola while flying, there was “zero risk” of transmission for other passengers on the plane. They also vowed that public health officials “would stop [Ebola] in its tracks in the U.S.”

More than 3,000 people have died, and CDC estimated that as many as 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone could contract Ebola by January 20. That’s about one in seven members of the population.

The longer the Ebola outbreak goes on, the greater the chance that the disease could mutate, too. Scott Gottlieb, who served as a top FDA official under President George W. Bush, has warned that there’s even a chance that Ebola could go airborne, Emory Healthcare in Atlanta has already treated three victims of the current Ebola outbreak. Two of those patients — Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who were doing missionary work in Africa —

As we reported earlier this month, the U.S. State Department ordered 160,000 Ebola haz

eto whom do we oww this displasure – series: Dallas Ebola Terror: Two More Waves Of Infection Expected

Dallas Ebola Terror: Two More Waves Of Infection Expected

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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

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quotation: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

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today’s birthday: Juan Perón (1895)

Juan Perón (1895)

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word: broach

broach 

Definition:	(verb) To bring up (a subject) for discussion or debate.
Synonyms:	initiate
Usage:	I felt uncomfortable, but after two weeks of waiting for repayment, I decided to broach the subject of the outstanding loan