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Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.

With technique and intellect essential to playing the often fiercely difficult works of Brahms, including the two above works, Vogt and Brahms were a perfect match. If some critics complained about his sometimes quick tempos, it behooves us to remember the alleged quip made by the great virtuoso pianist of a century ago, Moritz Rosenthal,Continue reading “Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.”

Worth reading.

Does Kamala Harris Have a Catholic Problem in PA? This is a good piece, but the author may err by restricting Kamala Harris’s difficulties appealing to working-class Catholics in Pennsylvania alone. Other than whacko extremists like Jesuits in the academy, her revulsion to observant Catholics is far broader than those considered “working class;” in Pennsylvania andContinue reading “Worth reading.”

The ups and downs in American history of Christopher Columbus.

When Bickerstaff was in grade school, the received opinion of Christopher Columbus was positive; a man of stupendous courage who discovered, accidentally perhaps, the Americas, one part of them many years later becoming a safe haven for oppressed people everywhere, the United States.  Gradually l, and as left-wing revisionists took over our cultural institutions andContinue reading “The ups and downs in American history of Christopher Columbus.”

More masculinity on display by the Harris-Walz campaign.

The testosterone level is nearing the unbearable. First the campaign released a commercial with some of the manliest men you ever did see proclaiming their enthusiastic support for causes usually associated with liberal wimps, and ending with their endorsing Kamala for president. Okay, so what it turns out they were paid actors–what of it? ActorsContinue reading “More masculinity on display by the Harris-Walz campaign.”

Expediency? Heaven forfend.

A friend writes: Archbishop Anthony Fisher has been Archbishop of Sydney for 10 years. The archdiocese has 670,000 Catholics and 129 parishes. But he still has not been made a cardinal although Sydney traditionally is a cardinalatial See. Bishop Mykola Bychock who will be created a cardinal, is eparch of the Ukrainian Catholics in Australia,Continue reading “Expediency? Heaven forfend.”