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The Gaggle Music Club: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto In B Minor

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (B. 191). First performed in 1896, the concerto is one of the masterpieces of the late Romantic era--a work at once epic in scope, symphonic in conception and intensely personal in emotional content.

Dvořák had been reluctant to write a cello concerto. He considered the cello unsuitable as a solo instrument, believing its upper register was too nasal and its lower register too muffled to project over an orchestra. This judgment came from experience. As a violist and orchestral player himself, he knew the practical balance issues.

In 1892, Dvořák accepted an invitation from Jeannette Thurber, founder of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, to become director of the conservatory. His assignment was to help develop an authentically American classical music that incorporated folk and African-American idioms. During this American sojourn, he composed the majestic Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ...

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Solaris" (1972)

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October 05, 2025
TG 1981: Andrej Babiš Wins In Czech Republic--Is He Really The Real Deal?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss this weekend's election in the Czech Republic that saw the return to power of Andrej Babiš, and winder whether the veteran politician is really as Trumpian, as Orbánian, as Euro- and NATO-skeptic as the media claim he is.

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January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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