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The Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was described by Mozart himself in his own thematic catalogue as “for beginners”, and it is sometimes known by the nickname Sonata facile or Sonata semplice.[1]
Mozart added the work to his catalogue on June 26, 1788, the same date as his Symphony No. 39. The exact circumstances of the work’s composition are not known, however. Although the piece is well-known today, it was not published in Mozart’s lifetime and first appeared in print in 1805. A typical performance takes about 14 minutes.
The second movement is in the key of G major, the dominant key of C major. The music modulates to the dominant key of D major, and then back to G major in which the exposition is heard again. For the development, the music modulates to G minor, then B♭ major, then C minor, then G minor and finally back to G major, at which point the recapitulation occurs followed by a short coda.
I wonder if we’ll look to orbital debris skeptics to inform our choices on this issue…
We have too much oil in Alberta.
“The province’s landlocked oil is selling for a massive discount. The world price is hovering around $55 US per barrel. The price Alberta gets is called the Western Canada Select price — and that’s worth about $12 per barrel. The gap is called the price differential.
It’s just one bit of bad news after another for Alberta’s NDP government.
As if inheriting an economy heading into a recession in 2015 wasn’t bad enough, the NDP has watched the world price of oil stabilize while the price our landlocked energy industry receives has dwindled to a record low.”
We just can’t sell enough of the damn stuff to make it profitable, and the current status quo is making other people rich so it appears we’re kinda stuck at the moment.
What an incentive to actually put the dollars into diversifying our economy and weaning the oil industry off of the huge public subsides it receives. I would also like to see our domestic gas prices reflect the current glut of oil in Alberta.
Of course, to even question the primacy of Oil and Gas in our province is akin to heresy, but it doesn’t mean questioning the priorities of our government should not be done.
Barbara Coloroso has done exemplary work in writing “Extraordinary Evil – A Brief History of Genocide”. Second time around on this book, now going low and slow to really get down with the text and understand what she is saying. I wanted to share some of the passages that resonated with me.
A Jewish officer in the US Army during World War II, Lieutenant Meyer Birnbaum wrote about a young Jewish boy he found near death in Ohrdruff, a concentration camp annexed to Buchenwald. The young boy requested bread and then broke down sobbing as he spoke of his murdered family:
After about fifteen minuets of bitter sobbing, the sixteen-year-old boy suddenly looked at me and asked whether I could teach him how to do teshuvah [repent]. I was taken aback by his question and tried to comfort him. “After the stretch in hell you’ve been through, you don’t need worry about doing teshuvah. Your slate is clean. Your slate is clean. You’re alive, and you have to get a hold of yourself and stop worrying about doing teshuvah,” I told him. But my words had no effect. I could not convince him. He kept insisting: “Ich vill tuhn teshuvah – I want to do teshuvah. Ich muz tuhn teshuva – I must do teshuvah.”
Finally, I asked him, “Why must you do teshuvah?” in the hope that talking would enable him to let go of some of the pain I saw in his eyes. He pointed out the window and asked if I saw the gallows. Satisfied that I did, he began his story:
“Two months ago one of the prisoners escaped…the camp commandant was furious about the escape and demanded to know the identify of the escaped prisoner. No one could provide him with the information he was seeking… In his fury, the commandant decided to play a sadistic game with us. He demanded that any pairs of brothers, or fathers and sons, step forward. We were terrified of what he might do if we did not comply. My father and I step forward.
They placed my father on a stool under those gallows and tied a noose around my father’s neck, the commandant cocked his Luger, placed it at my temple, and hissed, “If you or your father doesn’t tell me who escaped, you are going to kick that stool out from under your father.” I looked at my father and told him, “Zorgst sich nit – Don’t worry, Tatte, I won’t do it.” But my father answered me, “My son, you have to do it. He’s got a gun to your head and he’s going to kill you if you don’t, and then he will kick the chair out from under me and we’ll both be gone. This way at least there’s a chance you’ll survive. But if you don’t, we’ll both be killed.”
“Tatte, nein, ich vell dos nit tuhn – I will not do it. Ich hab nit fargessen kibbud av – I didn’t forget kibbud av [honouring one’s father].”
Instead of being comforted by words, my father suddenly screamed at me: “You talk about kibbud av, I’m ordering you to kick that stool. That is your father’s command.”
“Nein, Tatte, nein – No, father, I won’t.
But my father only got angrier, know that if I didn’t obey he would see his son murdered in front of him. “You talk about kibbud av v’eim [honouring one’s father and mother],” he shouted. “This is your father’s last order to you. Listen to me! Kick the chair!”
I was so frightened and confused hearing my father screaming at me that I kicked the chair and watched as my father’s neck snapped in the noose.
His story over, the boy looked at me… as my own tears flowed freely, and asked, “Now, you tell me. Do I have to do teshuvah?”
Barbara Coloroso. Extraordinary Evil – A Brief History of Genocide. pp. 93 – 95.
MALES CANNOT BECOME WOMEN. (This statement of material reality is now a ban worthy offence on Twitter and here on Word Press.).
Let’s just get that out of the way upfront. If this blog goes dark, you’ll know why. Silencing women and stifling free speech is the order of the day because keeping the gender delusions of entitled males safe from bad words, arguments, and science is more important than just about anything it seems.
The punishment for daring to speak of material reality becomes ever more apparent.
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