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[ by Charles Cameron, Colin Kaepernick with US Army Veteran Nate Boyer in conversation, Isaiah approving IMO – a Sunday surprise ]
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Colin Kaepernick with US Army Veteran Nate Boyer in conversation —

It was US Army veteran Nate Boyer who suggested to Kaepernick to take a knee as a sign of respect

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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD..

Isaiah 1. 18

[ by Charles Cameron — as some of you may know, my nephew Daniel Harding is a celebrated orchestral conductor — but did you know he was also a qualified commercial pilot? — he’s been planning on taking a year’s vacation to pilot for Air France ]
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I’m very fond of ‘air conducting” music I’m listening to — but that’s just my mode of “dancing while sitting down” as one of my teachers called it. Much more wonderful, IMO, is the work of my nephew, the conductor Daniel Harding. Today I ran across his performance, some years ago, of three Beethoven symphonies with the orchestra he loved and worked with for years, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

I’ll share them — Beethoven, Symphonies ## 5, 6, and 7— such bodily enthusiasm, so fresh the well-worn music:

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Here, more recently, is Daniel‘s Beethoven #3, the Eroica, with the London Symphony Orchestra:

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And how could I not offer you Daniel conducting Beethoven #9:

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Daniel, who holds a commercial pilot’s license, was going to take a year’s sabbatical from music to work as an Air France pilot, but .. coronavirus. If I get any news, I’ll pass it along.

[ by Charles Cameron — what’s unprecedented here is and isn’t the serpent biting its tail, depending on which end of the metaphor you’re contemplating ]
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Here:

We are living through an unprecedented use of the term “unprecedented” pic.twitter.com/JlZlaWQ0y3

— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) May 2, 2020

It’s a beauty!

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And I’m adding a second serpent, as a Sunday Surprise:

Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the mirror) for Cello and Piano by Arvo Pärt

[ by Charles Cameron — A DoubleQuote of ouroboroi ]
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I wouldn’t trouble you with this DoubleQuote, it’s one that every TV commentator and op-ed writer has picked up on, it’s that obvious — but it’s also a double instance of the ourboros, and that’s worth remarking:

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Have a supercool Sunday..

[ by Charles Cameron — two of my heroes, one old, one new today ]
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I had the privilege of seeing Shankar one time, I think it was at Occidental College — an evening with an undoubted genius:

Shankar‘s playing — in the above video, as he was that evening — a double violin, its twin necks allowing him to play drone as well as melody synchronously. Brilliant.

I suspect it was Ken Cowan who alerted me to Shankar and took me to that concert.

New to me today, thanks to Bill Benzon and Bryan Alexander, is Japanese jazz composer pianist Hiromi Uehara:

What friends I have! And what terrific creatives we have among us today!