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Open Thread #37
This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on February 9, 2008 at 11:41 am, filed under Open Thread. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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Loren Maazel — indeed a worthy successor to Leonard Bernstein.
“On the eve of the New York Philharmonic’s departure on an Asian tour that will include a visit to Pyongyang, its music director, Lorin Maazel, suggested that Americans are not in a position to criticize the North Korean regime, because America’s own record on human rights is flawed.
‘People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks, should they?’ Mr. Maazel told the Associated Press. ‘Is our standing as a country — the United States — is our reputation all that clean when it comes to prisoners and the way they are treated? Have we set an example that should be emulated all over the world? If we can answer that question honestly, I think we can then stop being judgmental about the errors made by others.’
http://www.nysun.com/article/70860
Well, I’m glad he cleared that up for us.
I’ve always assumed Maestro Maazel was European, given that I’ve seen/heard him listed so often (in 35 years of classical music listening) as a conductor of European orchestras, so I wondered about that “we”.
Evidently he must have been naturalized as a US citizen as a child:
“Lorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer….Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorin_Maazel
He must have been even more of a child musical prodigy than most great conductors — this description (from his official NYP bio, link found at the wiki site) sounds practically Mozart-like:
“…At age nine, he made his New York debut at the 1939 World’s Fair, conducting the Interlochen Orchestra, and led the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, sharing a program with Leopold Stokowski. He was invited by Arturo Toscanini to conduct the NBC Symphony at age 11, and made his New York Philharmonic debut on August 5, 1942, at the age of 12….”
You think Toscanini and Stokowski would agree with Maazel if they were still here today? Oh well, I guess moral clarity was more easily attained back in those days — though to me, it seems that very little has changed (except for an astounding decline of Western self-confidence).
Correction: “Naturalized” is the wrong word as Maazel derived his US citizenship from his American parents. His birth abroad would have presumably necessitated the his obtaining a “Certificate of Citizenship”, required (at that time) for anyone born abroad of American parents.
For those stuck in traffic, just thank god you were not in China during the lunar new year.
If you felt like fucking an East Asian, but you only had the Sex and the City gang to choose from, which one would you fuck? The redhead, right? She’s got the right chin, or somethin’…
WTF?
one of the guys from fire joe morgan is mose schrute!!!
Why does Mexico get all the special treatment? The President-elect of South Korea should be fighting for his illegals as well.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23074668/
One nation should not get the lion’s share of the wealth due to their proximity to the border. Too bad more light isn’t shed on just how bad Mexico treats its illegal immigrants (from South of their border) who threaten to take U.S. jobs that should rightly to the Mexican illegal immigrants in the first place.
With minso’s retirement from guest blogging here and ongoing disputes about the quality or relevance of some other guests, I wonder why others whose blogs are linked here on the right side don’t step up. To name just two who strike me as fine, insightful writers on matters Korean, but who get few to no comments, Gusts of Popular Feeling and Idiot’s Collective deserve more attention, IMHO.
Waygook leaving Korea is selling my hardly-driven 2005 GM Daewoo Gentra. Pics and info here
http://koreapot.com/bbs.php?pa.....;pa_num=79
I like the idea of turning open threads into a classifieds section. Another waygook leaving Korea is selling my hardly-driven 1400cc custom Suzuki Intruder, a beautiful thumping chopper with chrome and not a scratch. ps - this is the first ad I’ve put up.
I’ve got a couple of Mac mini G4s and a Cube for sale if anyone is interested. Plus a couple of older (AMD K6 -2+) Cobalt Qube 3s. All offers considered.
And maybe they’d prefer to keep it that way.
Gennifer Flowers on tour!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asofS1XZwLk
Lecture on transparency tomorrow:
I think Sanshinseon might still be in the US, so I’ll take the liberty of re-posting this notice from his Jan 27 post:
Tuesday Feb 12th: Lecture-Meeting featuring Mr. Sung-Goo Kang, who is Secretary-General of Transparency International Korea, local branch of the leading global anti-corruption movement NGO. He’ll have some interesting and probably controversial things to say about the progress being made, albeit too slowly, on good governance, integrity and reduction of corruption — while still maitaining rapid development — including the changing public attitudes on these issues. 7:30pm in the Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence near Anguk Metro Station, as usual. Free for Members, w5000 donation requested from others.
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