Happy Halloween!

I present to you Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) Op. 40, performed by the Polish Kamerton Orchestra

Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre symphonic poem is based on the poem written by the French symbolist poet Henri Cazalis and it refers to the dance of… pic.twitter.com/NJxq6HfywR

— Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) October 31, 2023

In honor of Mozart's birthday

I think this band, which I discovered a few years online, is one of the very best I’ve ever heard in vocals, harmonies and musical arrangements. Check out this song, for example: https://t.co/Wa7Ase0gtM https://t.co/TIOP06rDVY

— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) December 13, 2022

A Musical Interlude

Snowflakes

Pilgrim's Chorus

One Bread, One Body

Mozart’s 3rd Violin Concerto.

The Three Tenors: The Holy City

The Holy City sung by Charlotte Church

The Holy City by the Mormon Tabarrnacle Choir

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

The song combines “Country Roads” with Dolly’s “I Will Always Love You” and Willie’s “On The Road Again.”

A Rose Among the Thorns

I Saw Three Ships

This was really filmed in the middle of the night, as you may have guessed.

500,000 Christmas lights “starred” in this display (that’s a half-million, people!!) 4,900 digital channels were utilized to ensure that the entire spectrum of the piano’s keyboard was featured brilliantly. 46,000 watts of juice were pumped to electrify this pizazz! A camera attached to a drone served as the primary angle to capture the captivating Christmas Spirit of these festive homes. The piano was actually being played. The police actually did show up. For real. (We’d like to thank them for their kindness and mercy. No pianists were harmed or jailed in the making of this video
…yet.

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

This is Your Fight Song (Rachel Platten Scottish Cover) - The Piano Guys

Mark Steyn - Lutey Tunes

Mark Steyn flays Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post until there's no more flesh on the bones of his pretensions.

At any rate, Capehart is eager to dispel the notion that symphonies are the work of tub-thumping white nationalists like Mozart and Mahler. Get a clue, losers:

Those symphonies Trump says "We write" (ahem) would be real lame without the influence of the Middle East and Muslims. According to Salim al-Hassani, chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization and editor of "1001 Inventions," which chronicles "the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization," told CNN years ago that the lute, musical scales and the ancestor of the violin are all part of that legacy.

So Beethoven's Eroica, Brahms' Fourth, Tchaikovsky's Sixth would be "real lame" without "the influence of the Middle East and Muslims".

So says a senior writer in the establishment newspaper of America's capital. On the basis of what? A lone reference to the umpteenth lavishly-funded straw-clutching special-pleading Islamofest created to explain why the casual observer is entirely wrong to conclude that the Muslim world is culturally moribund and entirely irrelevant to the planet's artistic, scientific and economic progress (with the single solitary exception of oil that they require foreigners to get out of the ground for them). The casual observers who've come away with that unfortunate and ignorant misapprehension include, inter alia, a fellow I quoted in America Alone:

In the words of Dr. Mahathir Mohammed, the former prime minister of Malaysia, one of the least worst Muslim nations in the world, "We produce practically nothing on our own, we can do almost nothing for ourselves, we cannot even manage our wealth."

But pay no attention to Dr Mahathir. What does he know about Islam's achievements compared to a senior columnist at The Washington Post? Sure, they may not have done anything much for a millennium or so, but we all know that everything in your world would be "real lame" without Islam. How stupid is Trump? He doesn't even know that, without Islam, we'd be in a lute-free world!

Who knew? When CAIR was named by the Feds as an unindicted co-conspirator in that terrorism-funding case, it was no doubt because the FBI wiretappers eavesdropped on the planning meeting for the CAIR Symphony Orchestra and misunderstood when the imam said, "Where have you stashed the lute?"

The evidence for this is - to put it politely - wafer-thin. Insofar as the lute has anything to do with Islam at all, it derives from the pre-Islamic east - like the one I saw in the British Museum a couple of years back from Mesopotamia, circa 3,000 BC. Then Mohammed showed up and that was the day the music died: Drove my camel to the wadi, but the wadi was dry.

You would think that after this verbal drubbing  that Capehart would find another job under an assumed name after hiding his true identity, but you would be wrong.

Remember when this was a rebellious song?