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Wednesday Wonderings

Another mild dry day, although we expect another gale force storm coming Sunday. I was in Sittingbourne today doing a couple of visits. One of them was a sandwich shop and I tried the new meatless meatball sandwich. It was very tasty.

I watched the latest Flash and DC's Legends Of Tomorrow tonight. Nice to see these two shows back again after the Crisis crossover.

I was listening to the radio this morning and one of the science programs on BBC Radio 4 was talking about Gold. Gold, whilst found on the Earth in gold mines, was actually made through cosmic mega explosions, such as supernovae and more often by colliding neutron stars, in nuclear fusion processes of course. Iron can be created in suns like our own but Gold, being heavier needs much more extreme temperature and pressures for it to be made. Back in 2017 two neutrons stars collided causing gravity waves which were detected here on Earth, and in the spectrographic analysis of the collision the telltale Fraunhofer lines for Gold was noticed, a spike in the whole electromagnetic spectrum!

Like the alchemists who tried to turn base metal in Gold, we can make gold here on earth but only through our powerful atom smashers like at CERN. The only problem is that the Gold will be very radioactive so it would be useless as bling!

Ugh!

All the racists and little Englanders have come out of the wormwood it seems. Burning or trying to burn a fire-resistant EU flag - come on you morons! Sigh! And they still try to blame Brexit.
A few days ago this disgusting "poster" rant was posted on all the fire doors in a block of flats in Norwich.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-51341735

Ugh!

So the vote had nothing to do with race or immigration. Wrong!!

Yep, darker times ahead.

Fur Elise

So dear readers, let sweeten things up with some music. Oh and this year is the 250th celebration of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Beethoven - Fur Elise

The score was not published until 1867, almost 40 years after the composer's death. The discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, affirmed that the original autographed manuscript was dated 27 April 1810. This manuscript has been lost.
The version of "Für Elise" we hear today is an earlier version that was transcribed by Ludwig Nohl. There is a later version, with drastic changes to the accompaniment which was transcribed from a later manuscript by Barry Cooper. The most notable difference is in the first theme, the left-hand arpeggios are delayed by a 16th note beat. There are a few extra bars in the transitional section into the B section; and finally, the rising A minor arpeggio figure is moved later into the piece. The tempo marking Poco Moto is believed to have been on the manuscript that Ludwig Nohl transcribed (now lost). The later version includes the marking Molto Grazioso. It is believed that Beethoven intended to add the piece to a cycle of bagatelles.

The pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore argued in his thesis and his 2010 book Beethoven al piano that Beethoven might not have been the person who gave the piece the form that we know today. Chiantore suggested that the original signed manuscript, upon which Ludwig Nohl claimed to base his transcription, may never have existed. On the other hand, the musicologist Barry Cooper stated, in a 1984 essay in The Musical Times, that one of two surviving sketches closely resembles the published version

Music for the Night People

Time to get jazzy -

Herbie Hancock - Butterfly

Grover Washington - Trouble Man

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr.
Arco Bass – Richard Davis, Ron Carter
Arranged By, Conductor – Bob James
Bass – Ron Carter
Bassoon – Donald McCourt
Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci,

Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio - One Shot

Paul Motian - Epistrophy

Weather Report - Will

Enjoy.

Good Night