Best Bach Please Podcasts (2024)

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Gaza Despatches - Dr Jamal Merei II A Palestinian Voice to Parliament - Dr Ziad Basyouny II Western Suburbs Letter to EPA - Please Explain II The Children's Bach II This is the Week II Captured: How Neoliberalism ...

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Gaza Despatches - Dr Jamal Merei here II after his recent visit to Gaza Dr Merei calls on Australia to do more to address the humanitarian catastrophe..A Palestinian Voice to Parliament - Dr Ziad Basyouny here II Dr Basyouny announced to the Town Hall Palestine Rally that he is now a candidate in the next Federal Election. This is in the seat of Wa…

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Voices from Sydney Palestine Rally 11 Aug II No Incinerator Lara II This is the Week II Socialist Response to the housing crisis II

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Voices from Sydney Palestine Rally 11 Aug here II Voices from Sydney Rally For Palestine recorded by Vivien Langford – Climate Action Show. Josh Lees talks of Wars caused by Imperial Powers. Dennis Dougherty, local convenor of commemoration of the dropping of Nuclear Bombs in Japan – he talks about Peace ceremonies at Nagasaki. Israel was disinvite…

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Voices @ Sydney Palestine Rally II John Shipton for Palestine II Slap Bang Kiss II This is the Week II Fracking the Kimberley? II Housing Crisis Survival Expo II

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Voices @ Sydney Palestine Rally here II Joy Hannah - Lebanese Resistance Activist about the spread of war into LebanonJanufa Yaad speaking followed by Senator David Shoebridge on Australian culpability regarding weapons. Recorded on 4-8-2024 by Vivien Langford.John Shipton for Palestine here II John Shipton speaking for the first time since his son…

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The 3rd Keyboard Partita (A Crucial Revision) 22:01

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A brief(er) episode for you today: Bach’s first published opus was his six partitas for keyboard. In some of the sources within Bach’s circle, copies retained as a ‘Handexemplar’ include revisions by a scribe we can almost say with certainty is Bach himself. The most consequential of these revisions appears at the end of the third partita, where th…

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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 3 53:07

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The final performer’s commentary episode for you. This is live commentating (the program notes of the future) on the last of my three simultaneous releases. This album is a bunch of preludes and fugues— some maybe you know, some maybe you don’t. You can stream and individually purchase any track including the performer’s commentary from the third v…

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Randa Abdel Fattah II The State II This is the Week II Don Sutherland on Inflation II

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Randa Abdel Fattah here II A knock out speech in support of Palestine from the Sydney Rally 27-7-2024 recorded by Vivien Langford.The State here II Playing at the Explosive Factory in Inkerman St, St Kilda, The State is a brutally hilarious interrogation into the role of activism, protest, and collective organistion. Play to Aug 10th ticketsThis is…

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Voices Palestine Rally Sydney 20 July II 11 years too long II All Static & Noise II Bloomshed tears The Importance of Being Ernest II This is the Week II Organising! A Remedy for Despair II

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Voices Palestine Rally Sydney 20 July here II Sarah Sarweesh, a Palestinian Australian, who speaks at the Sydney Rally for Palestine on July 20th after being arrested at Anthony Albanese's electorate office.11 years too long here II We hear Ada, a refugee from Iran, who spoke at the RAC Speak Out on the corner of Bourke St and Swanston St to mark t…

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No One Ever Erected a Statue to a Critic (Bach vs. Scheibe) 36:19

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Johann Adolph Scheibe went down in history for attacking Bach’s “turgid and confused” style. “…from the natural to the artificial, and from the lofty to the obscure ... one wonders at the painful labor of it all, that nevertheless comes to nothing, since it is at variance with reason.” Let’s examine the controversy from the beginning. How To Suppor…

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Sydney Palestine Rally 7th July II Blockade Australia Action II David Rovics live II This is the week II Local Council Elections II

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Sydney Palestine Rally 7th July here II Senator Fatimah Payman's stance followed by Ritta from Doctors for Palestine.Blockade Australia Action here II Blockade Australia has held more than a dozen protests on the Hunter rail line since Tuesday. They have been stopping passenger trains and coal movements into one of the world's biggest coal ports fo…

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Mi Fa, et Fa Mi est tota musica (BWV 1078) 32:59

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On March 1, 1749, Bach penned the following into a Stammbuch: Today’s episode covers this canon in depth. What does it mean? How does it sound? Here is a link to the article by scholar, Anatoly Milka. The book, Bach and the meaning of Counterpoint, by David Yearsley is available here. How To Support This Podcast: https://www.paypal.me/wtfbach https…

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Gaza Eye-witness II Julian Assange Jubilation II Aphids II This is the week II Wages, Productivity & Workers Self Determination

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Gaza Eye-witness here II Surgeon Dr Sanjay Adsoumili gives an eye-witness account of working in Palestinian medical facility now. Thank You to Vivien Langford for the audio.Julian Assange Jubilation here II People gathered outside the British Consulate in Melbourne on Tuesday 25th June on hearing the news of Julian Assange's release.Aphids here II …

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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 2 37:46

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Another performer’s commentary episode for you. If you’ve missed out on the second of my three simultaneous releases, you’ll have a chance to listen to it here, with my live commentary. You can stream and individually purchase any track including the performer’s commentary from the second volume here. —More streaming links (including youtube playli…

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VicPol & the Palestine Rally II Palestine in Schools Rally II This is the Week II COTI No 7 II Dr Gondarra OAM Passes II

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VicPol & the Palestine Rally here II Sue Bolton, Merri-bek Councillor and Socialist, joins us to discuss the VicPol aggression toward the Pro-Palestinian Rallies with particular targeting of the weekly Sunday 12pm rally outside the State Library.Palestine in Schools Rally here II earlier this year when teachers at Victorian Schools were told not to…

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Solidarity Breakfast Radiothon Show!

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Solidarity Breakfast Radiothon Show where we ask listeners to send in donations to keep the show and the station on air for anothor year.#3cr need $275,000 and Solidarity Breakfast needs to raise $2000 of it Donate hereToday's program features:Monica Campo here from Darebin 4 Palestine talking about the Protest Parade starting today at 11amAnila Mc…

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Bach's Puzzle Canons (Yes, Please.) 30:02

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Thanks for your feedback on the last few episodes. I’ve gathered my listeners enjoy piecing together musical cells in their minds, so today’s episode will bring you more of that. The eight surviving canons, BWVs 1072-1078 (+BWV deest) were written on small pieces of paper or penned into registry books. Their compact content, usually only a few note…

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Rihab Charida - a Palestinian Film Maker II Darebin 4 Palestine Protest Parade II World Refugee Day Telethon II This is the Week II How Australia Created a Housing Crisis II Refugee Voice of Hope II

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Rihab Charida - a Palestinian Film Maker here II Rihab is caught in a recording by Vivien Langford at a recent Belmore Park, Sydney event for Palestine.Darebin 4 Palestine Protest Parade here II The Protest Parade called by Darebin 4 Palestine will kick off at 11am on Saturday June 15th at Nathan Lambert's Office 352 Bell St, Preston, then march to…

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Vigil for Palestinian Journalists II RAN Spies on China II A Portrait of Love II This is the Week That Was II The Last Few Years of Neoliberalism II No Northern Incinerator Wollert Update II

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Vigil for Palestinian Journalists II 143 journalists have been killed in Gaza. We go to the Vigil held in Melbourne on the 24th of May held in front of the State Library supported by MEAA and organised by MEAA Unionst for Palestine - speech from Naser Mahni here and then a haunting Irish ballad that was shared as a tribute to all people that are fo…

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Performer's Commentary, Vol. 1 47:07

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If you miss those DVDs with the optional director’s commentary, you’re going to enjoy this episode. Each album in my ‘J.S. Bach Complete Solo Keyboard Works’ will be accompanied by this type of work, my commentating as the music plays. You can stream (and individually purchase) any track including the performer’s commentary from the first album her…

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Voices for Palestine Sydney Rally May 19 II Kanaky Libre! II East Timor Fight Lessons for Palestine II Mullivaikkal Rally II Anti Poverty Centre Budget Response II Julian Assange Update

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Voices for Palestine Sydney Rally May 19 II Sydney rally for Palestine May 19 recorded by Vivien Lanford from #3cr #skidrow Climate Action Show - Rula Hafawi, former UN Aid Worker here Paddy Gibson, Unionist hereKanaky Libre! here II Kanaky Libre! solidarity rally organised by the BPU on Thursday 23 May in Melbourne. Final speaker: Gardanya, Kirrae…

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Voice for Palestine II 25th May Port Protests II Next Wave II This is the week II Labor's Future Made in Australia

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Voice for Palestine here II Dr Aziz Bhimani just returned from two weeks working as a sturgeon in GAZA - recorded by Vivien Langford (Climate Action Show) - Belmore Park, Sydney 14th May.25th May Port Protests here II On Saturday 25 May 12:00PM, Palestine solidarity groups and Trade Unionists for Palestine will hold rallies at every port across the…

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What Did Bach's Business Card Sound Like? 48:53

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You know that portrait of Bach holding a little scrap of music? Ever wonder what the piece was? What it sounded like? That piece of paper is a six-voice, triple canon: number thirteen in the fourteen additional canons found on the back of Bach’s personal copy of the Goldberg Variations. (Analysis of that specific canon around 32 min.) We’ve covered…

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Palestinian Statehood II Senator Mehreen Faruqui II Nakba Day 2024 II Gabrielle Shipton II This is the Week II David McBride II

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Palestinian Statehood here II Kathryn Kelly, from IPAN, talks about the recent bid for Palestine Statehood recognition at the UN.Senator Mehreen Faruqui here II speaking at Sydney Rally for Palestine on May 5th. Recording thanks to Vivien Langford (Climate Action Show)Nakba Day 2024 here II Mindy, ASU Unionist for Palestine, and Renee, student rep …

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Voice for Palestine Sydney 28 April II Mo'Ju Up close and personal II If We Burn II This is the Week II African Solidarity May Day II

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Voice for Palestine Sydney 28 April II three speakers from the Sydney Rally recording provided by Vivien Langford (Climate Action Show)Zachariah Haddad aged 10 hereProfessor Mazin Qumsiyeh hereSydney Uni Palestine Protest Camp Member Yaz hereMo'Ju Up close and personal here II a snippet from a recent session at The Count's Jazz Club in Clayton.If W…

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Solidarity with Palestine May Day II Full Protection Call for Palestinians II Abbotsford Convent Art Precinct Turns 20! II Why States Colonize and Why They Stop

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Solidarity with Palestine May Day here II MUA Sydney Branch Secretary Paul Keating calls for May Day Solidarity with Palestine at March 21st Sydney Palestine Rally. Recorded by Vivien Langford from the Climate Action Radio show. Vivien Langford from the Climate Action Radio show. 5pm Monday in Melbourne #3cr and 10am Mondays in Sydney #skidrow.Full…

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Three Albums on Presale Today! (Ever Dance With a Double?) 30:56

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ALBUMS ON PRESALE TODAY! BUY THE ALBUMS HERE! Volume One: Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/nhfuws4t Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/mrxj7pws Volume Two: Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/mtykbxnz Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/3m7b9v6w Volume Three: Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/mr44kwmf Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/3e4kwnsb As for the …

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Sydney Rally for Palestine 14th April II Commons Social Change Library II Gallipoli: A Story Untold II This is the Week II Text-to-Image AI & Journalism II

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Sydney Rally for Palestine 14th April here II April 14th PALESTINE RALLY SYDNEY featuring Amal Nasser, Thalia Anthony, Rick Kuhn.recordings to Vivien Langford from the Climate Action show 5pm Mondays at 3CR and 10am Mondays on Skid Row.Commons Social Change Library here II Holly Hammond joins us to talk about the Commons Social Change Library and t…

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Freedom Flotilla for Gaza II Techno Park Rally II Fem Belling Jazz @ The Count's II This is the Week II National Wage Review II

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Freedom Flotilla for Gaza II two voices from the Sydney 7th April rally for Palestine. Thala Salaam (aged 15 wearing her grandmother's thorb) here & James Godfrey from Free Gaza Australia about the Freedom Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza hereTechno Park Rally here II the Techno Park residents rallied on 9th April because dispite a reprieve from evict…

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Some NEWS (and a Cantata...) 32:01

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Thanks for all your support during The Bach Store! If you’re in NYC on Friday, come to Le Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street at 7pm. Be sure to mark your calendars: April 24th, 2024, my new albums will be on PRE-sale. It marks the beginning of my most ambitious project to date: a very thorough, if possible, ‘complete’ set of the keyboard works of…

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Gaza is Starving II Israeli Torturing of Palestinians II Sher Ibrahim Dadoum @ Sydney Palestinian Rally II Circus Oz Smash it! II This is the week II NO! Toxic Incinerator in Wollert

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Gaza is Starving here II We speak with Oxfam Australia's head of Humanitarian, Lucia Goldsmith about the terrible situation in Gaza where Israel is making deliberate choices to starve civilians. People in northern Gaza are 'surviving' on245 calories a day. Children are dying of starvation..Israeli Torturing of Palestinians here II We hear from Tala…

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Muayadi Ali @ Palm Sunday Rally II Vashti Fox @ Marxism 2024 II VicPol & Explosive Weapon Use II This is the Week II Threat to Live Music Venues II Quaker Satement for Peace

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Muayadi Ali @ Palm Sunday Rally here II Muayadi Ali gave an impassioned speech calling for support for Palestine at the Melbourne Palm Sunday Rally.Vashti Fox @ Marxism 2024 here II Vashti Fox gave the speech of the day at the first day of Marxism 2024 entitled Against Colonialism, Empire and Caital full speech hereVicPol & Explosive Weapon Use her…

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Celeste Liddle: Voice for Palestine II Peace Walk Against AUKUS II La Nuit Blanche: French Jazz @ The Count's II This is the Week II RMIT Strike II Dave Sweeney: NO NUCLEAR

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Celeste Liddle: Voice for Palestine here II Week 20 at the Melbourne Palestinian Rally Arente woman, Unionist and writer Celeste LiddlePeace Walk Against AUKUS here II Bunjil's Fire 20/03/24: Robbie Thorpe & Ibby speak with Winiata & Karina from Beyond Uranium Canberra. They are part of the Peace Walkers Against AUKUS - a month long walk from Port …

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Sheik Hussan @ 10 March Sydney Palestine Rally II Palestian Visas Cancelled II NOPSEMA & Seismic Testing in Otway Basin II Fuse Festival II This is the Week II Don Sutherland talks workers role in the ...

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Sheik Hussan @ 10 March Sydney Palestine Rally here II speech at the Palestine Rally in Hyde Park on March 10th recorded by Vivian Langford from the Climate Action Show Mondays at 5pm on 3cr. There was a banner 7 metres long with thousands of names in small print of children by age. Two columns over children under1 many more toddlers. Palestinian V…

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Tell the Truth about Palestine Rally II Prison Visitor Research II Geelong Gallery 2024 II This is the Week II X-Rebellion Westgate Stoppage

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Tell the Truth about Palestine Rally here II Declan Furbrin Gillick speaking up at the MEAA members for Palestine rally outside the ABC to mark the Fair Work Commission hearing into the dismissal of Antoinette Latouffe held on Friday March 8th.Prison Visitor Research here II Doctorate research by Dr Nicole Ryan from La Trobe with support from Dr Na…

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Bach Store is BACK! (+ Bach at 15 yrs. old) 25:46

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You read correctly: The Bach Store is back. In Erfurt, Thuringia, the state from where the Bachs hail. I will play for five hours, March 14-28, 12.00-18.00 GMT +1 (7AM-1PM EST.) You can (hopefully) stream the whole run on my youtube. Subscribe HERE. Or go to: www.youtube.com/@wtfbach Here is the latest video I mentioned in the podcast. Bach Store M…

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Heart Wrenching Voices for Palestine II Wage Peace & the Counter Terrorism Cops II Queer PHOTO 2024 II This the Week II AELA: the road to an earth centric ideology

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Heart Wrenching Voices for Palestine here II Janufer Yad said she was "broken" by the deaths and the world's silence.Mohammed Kaminzorro from Kahn Younis spoke about the death of so many in his family. He said he was accused of being emotional and angry and said :"I am livid, enraged". Feb 25th Palestine Rally in Hyde Park Sydney recorded by Vivien…

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Introducing: The Flute! 51:10

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This week I’ll be performing some flute chamber music in Santa Barbara, California. I realize I’ve never specifically mentioned Bach’s wonderful flute repertoire on this podcast. We tackle here what I find is the most complex composition in the repertoire: the first movement of the b minor sonata, BWV 1030. Pieces heard: BWV 1030.1 Source P. 1008, …

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Melb Palestinian Rally 18 Feb: John Shipton & Amin Abass II Julian Assange Vigil II Future River: When the past flows Exhibition II This is the Week II Deaths in Custody Rally II

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Melb Palestinian Rally 18 Feb: John Shipton here & Amin Abass here IIJulian Assange Vigil here II as the English Courts make a ruling on the US extraditionn of Julian Assange we go to the 24 hour vigil held outside the Melbourne British Consulate.Future River: When the past flows Exhibition here II Kimba Thompson from Blak Dot Galleries and artist …

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Rihab Charida @ Sydney Palestinian Rally Feb 11 II Victorian Mosque Open Day II The Count's Jazz club II This is the Week that Was II Techno Park Update

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Rihab Charida @ Sydney Palestinian Rally Feb 11 here II Palestinian/ Australian filmmaker Rihab Charida recorded at Sydney Rally for Palestine 11 Feb thanks to the intrepid 3cr reporter Vivien Langford from the Climate Action Show.Victorian Mosque Open Day here II Dr Mohamed Mohideen, founder of the Victorian Mosque Open Day, talks to us about this…

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Two More Cantatas (1724, Part 3) 42:40

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This is the final episode introducing Bach’s cantata cycle of 1724. In the first four cantatas of the cycle, we heard how Bach used Lutheran hymnal melodies as cantus firmi in different voice parts in each opening movement (sopranos, followed by altos, followed by tenors, followed by basses.) Here, the next two cantatas see less predictable treatme…

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Young Voices for Palestine II 350.org Events II The Unsent Condolences II 'Aspiration' LNP Stalking Horse.

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Young Voices for Palestine II We hear from two voices from the Sydney 4th Feb rally provided by Vivien Langford (Climate Action Show):Rita Emad, 17 year old Palestinian/ Australian here Jasmin Johnson Students for Palestine hereFollowed by Stella Swain from Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) from the UK about the Boycotting of Barclays Bank. here …

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Sydney 27th Jan Pro Palestinian Rally: Dr. Sarah Abdo II Otway Basin Seismic Blasting Update II Indigenous & European Divide : Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner II Killing for Country II Poverty & the ...

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Sydney Pro Palestinian Rally 27th Jan: Dr Sarah Abdo here II Dr Sarah Abdo a specialist doctor and left us with this quote" I grieve for this world that used to sing about humanity and human rights. I cannot believe that we are living in the twenty first century."Recorded by Vivien Langford from the 3cr programme Climate Action Show. Otway Basin Se…

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Declan Furber Gillick @ Melb Pro Palestinian Rally II Rula Kalafawi @ Sydney Pro Palestinian Rally II Stop the Dock Dissected II

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Declan Furber Gillick @ Melb Pro Palestinian Rally here II Delan Furber Gillick multidisciplinary artist writer and performer from Mparntwe from the Blak People's Union speaking at the Pro Palestinian rally melb 21-1-2024Rula Kalafawi @ Sydney Pro Palestinian Rally here II Sydney Jan 13th Rally - Rula Kalafawi talks about Palestinians at home whose…

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2024. An Important Bach Year (Part Two) 45:37

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Last episode we introduced Bach’s second cantata cycle from 1724. We saw in the first cantatas of the cycle, Bach used a church melody as the cantus firmus first in the sopranos, then the altos. This episode we will explore the next two cantatas where Bach sets the cantus firmus in the tenors in BWV 7, and the basses in BWV 135. About the melody yo…

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Zim Picket @ Webb Dock II FOE 'Climate Ready Victoria' Plan II Great Ocean Rescue Tour - No Seismic Testing in the Otway Basin II Luku Ngarra: The Law of the Land II Standard of Living Crisis II

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Zim Picket @ Webb Dock here II 3cr Thursday Breakfaster Inez Winter reports from the Community Picket against Israeli owned Zim ship at Webb Dock right now - The picket is ongoing at Webb Dock in Port Melbourne and community support is requested.FOE 'Climate Ready Victoria' Plan here II Cam Walker, from Friends of the Earth, joins us to discuss FOE…

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2 minutes: P.D.Q. R.I.P. 3:19

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Peter Schickele was one of my idols. He died on Tuesday, January 16. His creation, P.D.Q. Bach, helped bring much needed self-effacing humor to the world of classical music. Links below to help you get into his (and Victor Borge’s— another giant of classical music parody—) life and work: Peter Schickele’s Obituary, NY Times Beethoven’s 5th announce…

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Palestine Solidarity : Students for Palestine & Resources Wars II Kock the Top Off Book Launch II Circus of Illusion II Techno Park Update II Fitzroy Flats Fight Back Begins II

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FOURTH & LAST in the SUMMER SEASON of SOLIDARITY BREAKFAST PROGRAMSPalestine Solidarity : Students for Palestine & Resources Wars II High School student Jisselle, from Students for Palestine, gives an impassioned speech just before the New Year in Melbourne here . Two fellow students at Tertiary level brings the issue of the war in Sudan having the…

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Why Is 2024 An Important Bach Year? 39:50

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In this episode we delve into Bach’s second cantata cycle begun in 1724. The first two cantatas are briefly covered, (with two further cantatas to follow next episode) as well as the connection between the Lutheran church melodies and the significance of the year Bach began this ambitious project. Pieces heard: BWV 20, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Cl…

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Unions for Palestine Zim Melb Picket II Midsumma 2024 II Housing Australia's Brief II Public Housing Tenants Speak Up II

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Unions for Palestine Zim Melb Picket II We go to the ppleton docks Footscray just before Christmas where Unions for Palestine were gathered to set up a picket to stop the arrrival of a Zim Ship the Sparrow. The Sparrow had been diverted but the rally continued and we here from a number of people at the rallly here and a speech by Gem Walsh, from th…

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Palestine Solidarity Katoomba & Sydney 17th Dec II Vicpol shaggy dog tale of arrest II a chat with Filmmaker Robert Connolly II Fiona Scott Norman @ Green Left Comedy Debate 2023 II Awful AUKUS Arthur ...

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2ND SUMMER SEASON SOLIDARITY BREAKFAST PROGRAMPalestine Solidarity Katoomba here & Sydney 17th Dec here II Antony Lowenstein talked to a Palestine Solidarity Crowd in Katoomba and we hear some words from the Sydney rally.recordings thanks to Vivien Langford.Vicpol shaggy dog tale of arrest here II Simon Hunt relates how he and his partner were targ…

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My Mini Concert for You 21:46

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I rarely just play on this podcast, but that’s how I’d like to package this little present for my listeners. Rather than spending days researching and writing, today I will play four fugues and introduce them only briefly. It’s some twenty minutes of music I hope you can enjoy during your holidays. The quote I read to introduce this short concert i…

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