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Thread #167191   Message #4031459
Posted By: Steve Shaw
31-Jan-20 - 09:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK politics
Subject: RE: BS: UK politics
And your understanding of politics is so facile that you make me feel like I'm losing faith in people like you having the vote. Go to bed for chrissake. Anyway, I thought I'd celebrate this inauspicious occasion, though it's long past me bloody bedtime, by listening to Lennie Bernstein, one of my great US heroes (Gershwin being the other, along with Woody), conducting the "freiheit" version of the finale of Beethoven 9. Very poignant, as the ode to joy has been sort of adopted by the EU, and that Beethoven, though a man of his times, was ultimately a great internationalist and a believer in the good of mankind. Unlike these bloody vicious, idiotic, xenophobic brexiteers who want to pitch "England" back into those illusory glory days of yore wot never happened...sick man of Europe, etc... Even more poignant in that Lennie died less than a year after that great occasion. Bedtime, Stevie boy!