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A lot of these arguments are kinda comical to me. Fact of the matter is, this is the most dead serious kind of shit. It could potentially take down not just the PSU football program, but the whole f**g university. In order to avoid a shutdown, everyone even remotely responsible is gonna have to walk the plank. End of story. It's even more comical that our jock-sniffing culture can blind seemingly intelligent adults to the obvious reality.

Regarding the non-reporting of criminal activity, I compare this in some ways to the Salomon Bros. (Wall Street) Treasury bid-rigging scandal of 1991. In that case, the supervisor of the law-breaking employee privately reported the conduct to top company executives, but nothing further was done. This very nearly took the company down: Warren Buffett had to temporarily act as chief executive until the firm could be sold, and all employees in the relevant chain of command were fired. Applying this to Penn State, I expect all of the implicated heads to roll, from the University President through the AD, down to Paterno, possibly even McQueary. I wouldn't even be surprised if the University sees fit to suspend the football program, or administer some kind of "death penalty" a la SMU 1987 (I personally find this a most appropriate solution). Disclaimer: I don't intend to draw any parallels between child abuse and financial shenanigans, only to make disciplinary predictions.

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Many thanks! Decided to go for Rachel Podger. Good opinions here confirmed external reviews. Clips sounded pretty good, too.

Thanks. I'm also seeing enthusiasm for Rachel Podger. She gets bashed by Classics Today's Jed Distler (2/10 "artistic quality"), but he's a critic whose tastes are very different from mine (certainly in the pianistic realm), so I'm inclined to disregard his opinion. Strange, I've really "rediscovered" the violin S/P recently. Weirdly, I was motivated by listening to several versions of Busoni's piano transcription of the great Chaconne from Partita #2 in D minor. The cello suites seem to get more discussion, but the violin works are surely no less worthy of attention. (Granted, I've listened to the cello suites much more often over the years, but I now can't say why...)

Have owned Grumiaux's recording for years. Have been listening a lot lately, and want to hear some others. Prefer to go the HIP route rather than Milstein, Szeryng, etc. (not that there's anything wrong with them, of course...). Any recommendations? Cursory searches turn up the names Tetzlaff, Zehetmair and Wallfisch. Tetzlaff samples sound pretty good. Don't know much about the HIP realm, open to suggestions. Thanks.

Happy Birthday, all the best!

Finally broke down and bought Herbie Nichols's Complete Blue Note Recordings box - a big expenditure, but will call it a (recent) birthday present.

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Well said.

Many thanks, most appreciated. Hadn't visited for a couple of days, and was surprised to find the thread!

Thanks. Interesting, back when I lived near NYC I attended several concerts featuring David Starobin. I even heard him and George Crumb perform Mundis Canis (at Manhattan School of Music), a work later released on Bridge. I've purchased several Bridge CDs, all contemporary music.

Right! I found the glasses a bit confusing.

Well, I'll break the string of puzzlers with this fairly easy one (Warning - peekable link name):

Hat sale, not just classical, at Jazz Loft: https://www.jazzloft.com/c-37-hatsale2.aspx Not overwhelming, but a few fairly interesting-looking classical: Schleiermacher on piano (esp. the 2 Soviet avant-gardes), Pauline Oliveros (is she "classical"?), Anzelotti on accordion, James Tenney.

A hint: she has been on the cover of hundreds of magazines! Total shot in the dark...Claudia Schiffer?

On the subject of Monteverdi, I've seen a 9-CD box set of the complete operas on Brilliant Classics. Looks interesting, but I don't yet know enough about the recordings to put it on any wish lists. I've seen two of the three operas live and really dig them. [Added] 4-CD Vespers set less than USD 10 used. Any other Monteverdi suggestions welcome...

I'm in such a minority as to be statistically insignificant, but... I live in a rural area without easy broadband (DSL is possible, but would have to go satellite, which I don't really trust, for more bandwidth), so am quite happy with the DVD-by-mail thing (Qwikster or whatever it's called). I actually downgraded my subscription a couple of months ago to cut out streaming and do DVDs only. I also dig the bonus material/commentaries on deluxe DVD editions. I agree that streaming/downloads will eventually dominate, but the poor minority w/o ready access to high bandwidth is gonna get screwed.

We could also solve the problem without all the algebra and symbols. Here's an approach: Start out with a blind guess of 55 rabbits and 50 chickens. Rabbits have 4 legs, and chickens 2, so the total # of legs is 55*4 + 50*2 = 320. That's 40 legs short of our required 360, so we need to switch some chickens to rabbits to gain 40 total legs. Now, for every chicken we switch to a rabbit we gain 2 legs (4 - 2). So to gain 40 legs we need to switch 40/2 = 20 chickens to rabbits. That gives an answer of 55+20=75 rabbits and 50-20=30 chickens. Check: 75*4 + 30*2 = 300+60 = 360. But if the kid's taking algebra in school, she's probably supposed to work through the system of 2 equations in 2 unknowns...

FWIW, here's the instrumentation for String Quartet and Orchestra: Soloinstruments/Soloists: violin; violin; viola; violoncello Instrumentation: 3 2 6 1 - 1 1 1 1 - perc, hp, cel, pno, str Instrumentation details: 1st piccolo; 2nd piccolo; 1st flute; 1st oboe; cor anglais; 1., 2., 3.th clarinet in Bb(5) (1st cl.+sop.sax(Bb);2nd+alto sax(Eb)); bass clarinet; 1st bassoon; 1st horn; 1st trumpet; 1st trombone; tuba; percussion; harp; celesta; piano; violin I; violin II Again, unusual and smaller than I associate with "orchestra." The only info I can find for Oboe and Orchestra is: Besetzung : 4 4 4 4 - 3 3 3 1 - Schl(3), Hf, Klav, Str, which I don't know how to decipher, but the forces seem larger than for the other two pieces, though still kind of "chamber orchestra."