In my first real foray into classical music as a buyer rather than a casual listener, as I said below, I bought Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, the 1812 Overture and Marche Slave as conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Well, I more or less knew what I was getting there, particularly as I’d just seen Great Performances …
I am so sick and tired of this Administration. For the third consecutive year, it’s decided (on what is clearly ideology rather than evidence) to withhold family planning money from the UN Population Fund. From the AP via the NYT: The Bush administration will withhold $34 million in congressionally approved assistance to the U.N. Population …