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Update from The House of Plague, Day 68 (and breathe)
Re. today's news, then the parody account of No 10's cat is doing a better job than our Esteemed Leaders:
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Otherwise:
So I give you:
From the presenter's comments at the end:
The Fifth premiered here at The Royal Albert Hall in June 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Sir Adrian Boult (sp?) was listening in on the radio and afterwards wrote to Vaughan Williams that 'the Symphony's serene loveliness is completely satisfactorily in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.'
(Although please don't skip the comments at the start!)
And from the comments on youtube:
More even than The Lark Ascending or the Tallis Fantasia, when my psyche needs repair this is the piece I turn to. In the thirty-seven years I've known it, it has never once let me down.
This is going to be another one of my rare serious threads, so feel free to ignore if you’re just here for the cat pictures (more of those soon)
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 23, 2020
Senior government ministers leaping to defend Dominic Cummings for breaking the government’s lockdown regulations is VERY dangerous
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Otherwise:
Ok, everyone just stop for a second. Take a breath. Relax a moment. And realize that we're all living through a fucking worldwide plague. I mean, that's crazy. A plague.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) May 23, 2020
So, yeah, maybe it's ok if if you're freaking out. Give yourself a break. It's a plague.
So I give you:
From the presenter's comments at the end:
The Fifth premiered here at The Royal Albert Hall in June 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Sir Adrian Boult (sp?) was listening in on the radio and afterwards wrote to Vaughan Williams that 'the Symphony's serene loveliness is completely satisfactorily in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.'
(Although please don't skip the comments at the start!)
And from the comments on youtube:
More even than The Lark Ascending or the Tallis Fantasia, when my psyche needs repair this is the piece I turn to. In the thirty-seven years I've known it, it has never once let me down.