Conducting

[Rich Engle]

You can almost see it going on in his head. Oh, there are very flamboyant conductors, and even conservative ones, and . . .God forbid, very good ones.

But there is something about seeing a composer of this stature do it that is quite different. It is a very beautiful thing, if you study it.

rde

Edited March 2, 2011 by Rich Engle

[anonrobt]

the full firebird....

[Philip Coates]

> But there is something about seeing a composer of this stature do it that is quite different. It is a very beautiful thing, if you study it.

Hey Rich, how would you like it if I posted a spoof recording of some comic opera Mounties with no comment just below your sharing something you really care about? [Please don't be dishonest and say you wouldn't care.]

[william.scherk]

>>>But there is something about seeing a composer

>>of this stature do it that is quite different.

>>It is a very beautiful thing, if you study it.

>Hey Rich, how would you like it if I posted a

>spoof recording of some comic opera Mounties

>with no comment just below your sharing

>something you really care about?

Here is Diana Hsieh, offering comments on the morality of recommending Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 -- along with fresh denunciations of TheBrandens and TAS/Kelley, leavened with a stirring symphonic score and some heartening visuals.

Hsieh's surprisingly common-sense approach to the TAS-tainted movie comes around 5 minutes in.

[Question 5: Buying an Evildoer's Book

Would you recommend buying Nathaniel Branden's Vision of Ayn Rand or not? Given Nathaniel Branden's history of dishonest attacks on Ayn Rand and Objectivism, would you recommend that anyone buy this book? (It's the book version of his "Basic Principles of Objectivism" course.) I've thought about buying it, but I don't want to support that man in any way.

My Answer, In Brief: You should not give moral sanction to an evildoer's book, recommend it without qualifications, or give the evildoer a platform. However, if the book would be of value to you, then you ought to buy it.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQxfyhUwZE

Edited March 4, 2011 by william.scherk

[Selene]

William:

Thank you so much for the video of this horrid little creature. You do really good work.

Did you create the video, or find it, because the theme over her pedestrian pedantic poisonous prattle is incredibly powerful to me.

It made the theme more plaintively beautiful to me.

Adam

[william.scherk]

Thank you so much for the video of this horrid little creature. You do really good work.

I appreciate the note on the video -- Diana is free with her opinions, very free, and takes a very long time to conclude that there is no freaking embargo on the Rand-approved Branden work or the movie, just watch out for EVUL.

She takes five of the nine minutes to calmly talk about villains, evul, denigration, guilt, sanction, in a non-ranting tone that doesn't quite conceal that she is ranting at boring length about her own psychological issues with demons. Moving beyond this blandly crazy hypermoralism is a difficult challenge for the next fifty years of Objectivish communities of interest. How to move beyond Uncle Kookiepants and the dire moralism of Hsieh?

Did you create the video, or find it, because the theme over her pedestrian pedantic poisonous prattle is incredibly powerful to me.

It made the theme more plaintively beautiful to me.

I took the visual from one of her other Youtube rants, chopped it up, heightened contrast on a sepia filter, cartoonized to be a coloured crayon drawing.

I took the monologue rant from her most recent podcast. I added selected portions of John Galt Theme that made Phil get all a-glistened. I ramped up the busy parts of the theme and added some reverb and discreet Egyptian Bellydance Trance dub to help deliver the emotional oomph.

The theme seemed much too low-powered, so with added punch, and with the Mad Princess of Objectivism maundering in counterpoint, I hoped to once more make someone feel moved.

The challenge to Objectivism is moving, moving beyond schism. It seems like the mad princess will never get over her hurts and disappointments and never consider the hurts and disappointments she has lavished on others.

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Edited March 5, 2011 by william.scherk

[Selene]

Thank you so much for the video of this horrid little creature. You do really good work.

I appreciate the note on the video -- Diana is free with her opinions, very free, and takes a very long time to conclude that there is no freaking embargo on the Rand-approved Branden work or the movie, just watch out for EVUL.

She takes five of the nine minutes to calmly talk about villains, evul, denigration, guilt, sanction, in a non-ranting tone that doesn't quite conceal that she is ranting at boring length about her own psychological issues with demons. Moving beyond this blandly crazy hypermoralism is a difficult challenge for the next fifty years of Objectivish communities of interest. How to move beyond Uncle Kookiepants and the dire moralism of Hsieh?

Did you create the video, or find it, because the theme over her pedestrian pedantic poisonous prattle is incredibly powerful to me.

It made the theme more plaintively beautiful to me.

I took the visual from one of her other Youtube rants, chopped it up, heightened contrast on a sepia filter, cartoonized to be a coloured crayon drawing.

I took the monologue rant from her most recent podcast. I added selected portions of John Galt Theme that made Phil get all a-glistened. I ramped up the busy parts of the theme and added some reverb and discreet Egyptian Bellydance Trance dub to help deliver the emotional oomph.

The theme seemed much too low-powered, so with added punch, and with the Mad Princess of Objectivism maundering in counterpoint, I hoped to once more make someone feel moved.

The challenge to Objectivism is moving, moving beyond schism. It seems like the mad princess will never get over her hurts and disappointments and never consider the hurts and disappointments she has lavished on others.

William:

I am duly impressed. What you intended to convey got conveyed brilliantly to me. I "felt" the theme's added power by it's uplifting strains contrasted to the banal, boorish rant of this second hand rose which does not smell sweet.

Excellent work,

Adam