Mitch Friedfeld

@co_mahlerfest @MackyAuditorium Heh. The NSO did Mahler's Beethoven 9 in a mini-festival of all of Mahler's Retuschen (B3,5,7,9). This was the only one I heard, still kicking myself for not attending them all. Brains behind the fest was David Pickett. Slatkin conducted. This would have been in 2008 or so.

You haven’t heard this piece like this before. Beethoven’s Ninth (Mahler’s Version). Tonight, 5/16, at @MackyAuditorium mahlerfest.org/blogs/mf39-eve…

@softtail65 Slight cheat: (The) Vatican Rag; Tom Lehrer. youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?si…

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@nick_lindquist Great idea! Another possibility: Monument Valley. Constant solar power, flat terrain, small local population, hence less possibility of grassroots opposition. And for the next two years, next to no opposition from Washington.

Central Park is great, but it takes up a lot of space and isn’t utilized to its full potential. That’s why I worked with McKinsey on a plan to make it a state of the art data center, complemented by rooftop parking and nuclear power. We can still build beautiful things.

@JoshEakle Raise congressional salaries to, oh, $500,000 p/a--negotiable--and ban stock trading without exception. Minimum sentence for violation, 5 years, applicable also to administrators of blind trusts.

Mike Johnson says Congress can't survive on $174k because of inflation, and uses that to justify letting members trade stocks. Incredible take from the guy who decided his only job was taking orders from the President.

@RockNRoLL_85 “I just got in from Texas babe You didn't even know I was around.” Texas; Mike Bloomfield, Electric Flag. youtu.be/s7qAU3yrOrY?si…

What’s a great Song that mentions Texas or a town in Texas? #TexasRock

@softtail65 Still in Love With You Baby; big hit for the Beau Brummels in 1965. youtu.be/pULBWGT9bsk?si…

Name a song with the word "Still" in the title or lyrics...🎶

Dear @NYTGames: Spelling Bee needs a new dictionary. “Paten” is a word, so is “naphtha.” Here, this might help: merriam-webster.com/dictionary

@BerisfordRon Turn it up, I can’t hear it from here.

Now Playing:

@RockNRoLL_85 You don't need more than that one word. Live performance: youtu.be/x5BnE5_lPqE?si…

The greatest song that mentions California!(Not including The Eagles)

@softtail65 The Frim Fram Sauce; Redd Evans and Joe Ricardel, 1945. When you've got Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, why look for anything else (sorry, N.K. Cole)? youtu.be/b_VcSbpEiRg?si…

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@AnnieForTruth As if Trump can read Chinese.

He could read it anyway, even if it was in English! 🤣

@honeymoon250 Please. Anyone of a certain age has done all 20, including me.

9 for me!!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you???

@Hania16836 Ohio has only three letters, one of them a duplicate. Utah and Iowa, however, have four letters, all different. Next question.

@Hania16836 Only?

@JVMonte2 Slight cheat. Moonlight in Vermont; John Blackburn (lyrics) and Karl Suessdorf (music), 1944. I like the version by jazz guitar ace Johnny Smith. youtu.be/gRNpc-hFkCs?si…

What’s a great song that has SUN or MOON in the title?

@josephfotinos @RonFilipkowski Check the feet for clay content.

@RonFilipkowski Oh what a shocker. I wonder what statues he’s going to put up in his Garden of American Heroes? Let me guess…Charlie Kirk? Himself? Robert E Lee? Columbus?

Trump remains laser focused on making life more affordable for Americans.

Which album cover alone made you buy the record before you heard a single note?

@softtail65 Mother-in-Law; Allen Touissant, big hit for Ernie K-Doe. youtu.be/BEwl_sAiAtM?si…

@Natute123 Voilà!

What's one French word you use in everyday life without thinking about it?

@funtomvids @L26426771Roux I really want to know if Xi knew the Thucydides Trap off the top of his head or whether a speechwriter fed it to him.

🟥 When President Xi of China said today that the international situation is turbulent, and wondered out loud whether China and the US could overcome the “Thucydides Trap” and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together, Trump nodded like a dysfunctional bobble head, clearly CLUELESS about the term being referenced. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Donald probably thought it was a Greek dessert... 🙄 The Thucydides Trap describes the DANGEROUS structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (in this case China) threatens to displace an established ruling power (the USA), typically leading to heightened rivalry and risk of conflict. It was a jab, and a warning. 🥊 Nobody respects the USA anymore. Trump's failure and damage to America's influence, is dangerously immense.