#Antonio Lotti

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Antonio Lotti (ca. 1667 - 1740) - Concerto for Oboe d'amore, Strings and Basso continuo in A-Major, I. Allegro assai. Performed by Albrecht Mayer, oboe d'amore & direction, and New Seasons Ensemble on period instruments.

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Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) - Miserere in D minor ·

Thomas Hengelbrock

Performer: Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

Performer: Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble

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Cambio di Cuori............................Antonio Lotti, (1667-1740)

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The Last Castrato: "Crucifixus"

Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922) was an Italian castrato singer of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings.

The value of the recording is its uniqueness. The voice is clearly in the soprano range. It is not a great voice, and the technique is either bad or marred by the habits of the time (in particular an abundance of portamento and scoops in the attacks of notes, which can be excruciating). But its timbre is very striking, with the ambiguity that one expects, and it is most intriguing in the high notes.

One should not, however, look at this recording as evidence on the castrati of the 18th century. Moreschi was as far from Farinelli as we are from, say, Rossini. The last castrato to sing on stage, Velutti, had retired 30 years before Moreschi's birth. As his repertoire and technique show, he belongs to the world of late 19th century religious music, not Baroque opera. Whether due to the recording technique or (more likely) to Moreschi's own voice, one learns nothing about the phenomenal strength, agility and holding power that were celebrated qualities of operatic castrati. What remains from this recording is a haunting quality of voice that is clearly unlike anything else.

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Antonio Lotti

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Mi crítica del concierto de Xavier Sabata y Vespres d'Arnadí esta noche en el Espacio Turina.

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT RITA OF CASCIA The Patron Saint of the Impossible and Lost Causes Feast Day: May 22

"Since we offend our sweet Jesus, every day, in thought, word, deed and the omission of good works, we should pray every day, and every hour of the day, and weep for our offenses against so kind and loving a Father, Master and Spouse."

The patron of the impossible, abused wives and widows, was born into a noble family at Roccaporena, Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 1381. At 12, despite her desire to enter the convent, she was asked by her parents - Antonio and Amata Ferri Lotti, to marry to Paolo Mancini, who was quick-tempered and immoral. With humility endured insults, physical abuses and infidelities for many years.

Eventually, the husband was stabbed to death during a family feud, and their two sons planned for revenge. Unable to restrain their vengeful desires, Rita requested the Lord to take them to himself rather than allowing them to commit a crime and lose their souls. Accordingly, they died of natural death a year later.

Afterwards, Rita desired to enter the Augustinian monastery in Cascia, but was turned away, for fear that the nuns might get involved in the family feud. Because of her insistence, the nuns requested as condition for acceptance the difficult task of reconciling her family with that of her husband's murderers.

By the grace of God, she succeeded, and at the age of 36, was able to enter the monastery. One day, as she was praying before the crucifix, a thorn from the crown of Jesus penetrated her forehead, and the stigmata remained till her death. At the end of her life, while bedridden at the convent, Rita requested her cousin from a rose from the garden of her old house. Despite the fact it was January, and no flower could survive the winter weather, a single blooming rose was found, and brought to her.

She breathed her last. Rita's final words to the sisters who gathered around her were: 'Remain in the holy love of Jesus. Remain in obedience to the holy Roman Church. Remain in peace and fraternal charity.'

Rita died peacefully on May 22, 1457 in Cascia, Perugia, Umbria, Italy, and she had acquired the reputation as a saint of impossible cases. The bells of the convent immediately began to ring, untouched by human hands, calling the people of Cascia to the doors of the convent, and to announce the triumphant completion of a life faithfully lived.

After her canonization as a saint by Pope Leo XIII on May 24, 1900, her incorrupted body is venerated in her shrine in Cascia.

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Uhhhh all of this applies to any and all OCs

Also an addition to this which wasn't on the ask game: what is this OC's most controversial opinion (but an opinion on smth rlly rlly dumb that doesn't actually matter)

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💯- share three random facts about your oc that others may not know. Tara: He has a thick Russian accent, he sounds like Pomni from TADC, and he can't dance because he's prone to injury. Amaya: She has chronic fatigue syndrome, her style of choice is angura kei, not goth, and her favorite song is Town With No Sun. Virgil: He's a Libra I think, born on the 13th of February, he's not actually fluent in French despite using it in regular conversation, and he never got top surgery, he just has a naturally very small chest. Rina: She's a boss at word puzzles (such as crosswords) and loves to play them, she picked up smoking for the sole purpose of pissing off her mom, and her favorite movie is The Neon Demon. Antonio: He's autistic and might meet the criteria for ASPD, he uses he/she/they/per pronouns but likes all neopronouns, and his favorite animal is snakes. Lori: She has hypoxemia, her temperature tends to run low, and she has a HUGE phobia of scabies mites and botflies. Cody: He knows basically nothing about pop culture, he's dyslexic, and he was raised Christian.

🩹 - does your oc have any physical and/or mental disabilities? Tara: Autism, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and digestive issues from childhood pancreatitis Amaya: Autism, chronic fatigue syndrome Virgil: Autism Rina: No Antonio: Autism Lori: Autism Cody: Autism, dyslexia

🌲 - what is your oc's favorite holiday? (note: the one in the ask game is a christmas tree, this is a normal pine tree. I couldn't find the normal pine tree so I just worked with what I had.) Tara: Samhain Amaya: Halloween Virgil: Halloween Antonio: Valentine's Day Rina: Idk

🍎 - where was your oc born? do they still live in/around their place of birth or do they live somewhere else? how do they feel about their birthplace?

Tara: Saratov, Russia. He lives FARR away from there now. He hates it there and honestly I would too if I was raised the way he was.

Amaya and Rina: Somewhere in Ohio. Amaya loves it, Rina hates it. Rina lives there, Amaya lives in Michigan.

Antonio: Somewhere in Idaho, iirc. Probably lives around there.

Virgil: Boston. Does not live there. Did not live there long enough to form an opinion on it.

Lori: Salem. She likes Salem, but being there is not a good thing.

Cody: Salem. He hates Salem, but the last time he tried to leave, his tires got slashed and it took a month to get them fixed.

The Monster of Salem: I think you know.

💔 - what are three of your oc's negative traits?

Tara: Lack of strong moral compass, paranoia, self-victimizing

Amaya: Possessiveness, emotional behavior, tendency for lashing out

Virgil: Prioritizing being the center of attention over being a good person, manipulative behavior, moral irresponsibility

Rina: Narcissism, stubbornness, distrust

Antonio: Lack of compassion, manipulative behavior, paranoia

Lottie: Mistreatment of others, refusal to acknowledge her issues, distrust

☕ - does your oc prefer coffee, tea, hot chocolate, milk, water, or some other drink? how do they like to take this drink (ex. coffee with milk, hot chocolate with whipped cream, a specific kind of tea, etc)?

Tārā: Tea. Specifically herbal tea. It makes its own blends sometimes.

Amaya: Flavored sparkling water, ginger ale, melon soda, stuff that’s not overbearing in flavor.

Virgil: Black tea.

Antonio: Water with flavor packets. An excessive amount, often times.

Chesa: Tea. Usually Tārā’s tea. When he makes it, he pours an extra cup for her.

Rina: During the summer she drinks a lot of water, but along with that and through the rest of the year, she likes coffee and peach Monster.

Cody: Apple juice. Can’t explain it.

Lori: Probably forgets to drink. Buys vitamin water even though she prefers Coke so she doesn’t die.

Lottie: Ice water.

😊 - what are your oc's career/general life desires? what do they want to get the most out of life?

Tārā: A comfortable life where he has the space to pursue spiritual endeavors and go to therapy.

Amaya: To protect those she loves. In terms of career, she’d like to work in a library or history museum, somewhere where her lifelong passion of preserving history can be put to use. It’s the most important thing to her.

Virgil: To be loved by audiences. He’s… working on having self worth outside of that.

Rina: To surpass the people she’s compared to and told to fill the shoes of. She wants to be a singer.

Lori: She doesn’t know. I’d say to tell stories that she feels people need to hear.

Cody: He just needs any amount of stability before he can start thinking about that.

Bonus: what is the OC’s most controversial but mundane opinion?

Tārā: Most holistic medicine only works in tandem with modern medicine.

Amaya: Eroguro is a valuable and important type of art and shouldn’t be brushed off just because of the content matter without a deeper look at the intention behind it. (<- autistic)

Virgil: Being human is overrated.

Antonio: You can’t make up for the things you’ve done in the past. You can only move forward.

Rina: Sex is stupid and that’s why she uses whore as an insult- it insinuates you’re someone who shapes your whole life around something completely trivial and also is an embarrassing thing to be called.

Lottie: The Exorcist is a horrifying movie for a bunch of reasons no one but her sees.

Lori: True crime is not inherently exploitative and can be a way of honoring victims.

Cody: Everything in the world can and will kill you.

Akki: Because she is a product of her environment, she cannot be blamed for her actions; they, too, are a product of her environment.

The Monster of Salem: If you steal something that belongs to it and you end up scattered across a room in thirteen different parts with your spine nowhere to be found, you probably deserved it.

Chesa: Ignoring hitchhikers is an outright cruel thing to do if you have the means to help them. You should never leave someone behind.

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Ashley had known Jay for years, since she’d first started as a dispatcher for CPD/CFD. He’d invited her to Lottie’s Pub when they’d gotten off work one day and they’d been friends ever since. She’d had a crush on him since shortly after they’d hung out that first time, but she didn’t say anything, because he’d seen the way he looked at Erin Lindsey.

No one had heard from Jay since he'd left work the other day. It wasn't like him not to have arrived at work yet. He was usually one of the first to show up. Antonio was working on tracing his cellphone.

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Gilmore Girls M-W Masterlist

Name: Magnus Medina

Faceclaim: Dylan O’Brien

Love Interest: Jess Mariano

Story: N/A

Name: Mario Medina

Faceclaim: John Barrowman

Story: N/A

Name: Mercy Medina

Faceclaim: Michelle Trachtenberg

Love Interest: Logan Huntzberger

Story: N/A

Name: Monroe Gilmore

Faceclaim: Bebe Wood

Love Interest: N/A

Story: I See Stars

Name: Noah Grant

Faceclaim: Kit Conner

Love Interests: Rory Gilmore & Tristan Dugray

Story: N/A

Name: Oliver Lynn

Faceclaim: Jacob Elordi

Story: N/A

Love Interest: N/A

Name: Richie Gilmore

Faceclaim: Grant Gustin

Love Interest: Simon Forester

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

Name: Richie Gilmore/Richie Donahue-Callisto

Faceclaim: Grant Gustin

Love Interest Troy Donahue-Callisto & Harry Bechtel

A second variation of Richie who exists in the Delicate verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty, Troy, Harry, Vicki, and Lottie, sometimes combined with other crossovers.

Name: Regina Gilmore

Faceclaim: Leighton Meester

Love Interest: Vance Hawthorn, Grace Kim

Story: How Girls Should Behave

Name: Ruth Rygalski

Faceclaim: Idena Menzel

Love Interest: Max Medina

Story: Our Little Corner

Name: Rupert Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Tom Cavanagh

Love Interest: Alice Hathorn

Story: Multi

Name: Simon Forester

Faceclaim: Joe Keery

Love Interest: Richie Gilmore/Kirsty Gilmore*

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About/Delicate*

*In the Delicate-verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs, Simon is usually Kirsty Gilmore’s love interest, with the exception of Everything Changes.

Name: Vance Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Penn Badgley

Love Interest: Regina Gilmore (How Girls Should Behave), Colin McCrae & Finn (multi-verse endgame), Antonio Bailey

Story: Multi

Name: Vienna Geller

Faceclaim: Kiernan Shipka

Love Interest: Tristan Dugray, endgame TBD

Story: Mastermind

Name: Wayne Colt-Forester

Faceclaim: Jensen Ackles

Love Interest: Dennis Colt-Forester

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

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For your song asks: 14, 22, 23 (I’m excited!!)

14: Harmonies that remind me what music is for

"Gold (A Capella)" from Once

"Flight," Sutton Foster and Megan McGinnis

"All is Well," shape note song

"Underneath the Stars," Voces8

"Crucifixus," Antonio Lotti

"From Heaven Distilled a Clemency," Terik O'Regan

"Who Is Like Unto Thee," Simon Khorolskiy

"Hymn of the Axciom," Vienna Teng

"Let Us Sleep Now" from Britten's War Requiem

22: Songs that remind me of myself

"Anyone Can Whistle," Sondheim

"No One Else" from Great Comet

"You're On Your Own Kid," Taylor Swift

"The Composer," Sarah Sparks

"The Analog Kid," RUSH

"Saturn," Sleeping at Last

"Soldier," Fleurie

23: Songs that remind me of Liz 💙

"Have You Heard," The Gray Havens (And the "Longing for Heaven Hours" playlist more generally)

"Lamentaciones de Jeremias," Z.R. Stroope Fellow choir girl!

"Till We Have Faces," Heath McNease

"Letters from the Atlantic," The Arcadian Wild

"Walz Across Texas," Willie Nelson

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Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) - Teofane: Lascia che nel suo viso (Aria) ·

Nuria Rial · · Artemandoline

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Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, he appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Troilus and Cressida, and films, including My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, as well as television series and soap operas, such as One Life to Live, The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He was born in San Antonio to Lottie Brisette (née Coleman) and Albert Cornelius Freeman, a jazz pianist. Taking a hiatus from college, he enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 to serve in the Korean War. He starred in The Detective, before taking his most recognized acting role as police captain Ed Hall on One Life to Live, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for that role in 1979 and was the first actor from the show as well as the first African-American actor to earn the award. He appeared in Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include The Hot L Baltimore and Look to the Lilies, a musical adaptation of Lilies of the Field. The show ran for 25 performances and 31 previews. His portrayal of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader, in the film Malcolm X earned him the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Motion Picture. He played Malcolm X in Roots: The Next Generations. He had a recurring guest role as the manipulative Baltimore deputy police commissioner James Harris in Homicide: Life on the Street. He joined the Department of Theatre Arts at Howard University and served for six years as department chairman. He married Sevara E. Clemon (1960)​. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDHiMGMPqS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Alessandro Bazzoni and Siri Evjemo-Nysveen try to clean up their image in the Financial Times and come out “roasted”

The Italian businessman Alessandro Bazzoni and his wife Siri Evjemo-Nysveen, wanted internationally for the theft of more than 3 billion dollars from PDVSA, tried to get an approach to the prestigious media The Financial Times and came out destroyed in the final report published this Saturday.

In a typical move by a Public Relations team, the couple sought to declare to the British media that they had no relationship with Alex Saab, that it is “pure speculation” that they have invested millions of dollars in Polo horses and that he is the owner of the Maltese company Elemento LTD - in charge of transporting Venezuelan oil abroad and the reason why Bazzoni was sanctioned by the OFAC in 2021 - but the FT “background check” left the couple in a worse position.

Starting with the main image, where Alessandro Bazzoni appears next to the LaFerrari hybrid, a Ferrari project also known as the F150, and which is worth close to one and a half million dollars. One of the 499 units manufactured of this model is the one that Bazzoni took home as a prize in a polo tournament held in 2021 in Egham (England), when his Monterosso Polo Team was beginning to emerge internationally thanks to money from corruption in PDVSA.

His wife, Siri Evjemo-Nysveen, is also the owner of the MT Vikings, another squad that participates in some minor tournaments. Evjemo-Nysveen, through her role as vice president of the Swiss bank MBaer Merchant Bank (of the Julius Bär Group) helped introduce money from bribes and thefts in PDVSA into the banking system. Some of the clients, related to these businesses, whom he introduced to the bank are Colonel Antonio Pérez Suarez, the family of former minister Tareck El Aissami and Álvaro Pulido Vargas.

Recently, the media outlet News Break revealed that the British justice system is investigating the circle of polo players related to Alessandro Bazzoni and Siri Evjemo-Nysveen for suspected money laundering in the purchase and sale of copies.

The athletes who have been summoned to testify for their relationship with the Bazzoni/Evjemo-Nysveen couple are:

• Alejandro Pistone

• Angela Moran

• Antonio Heguy

• Benjamin Urquiza

• Charlotte Pykett

• Christopher “Cris” MacKenzie

• David “Pelón” Stirling

• Diego Tomás Cavanagh

• Emma Boers

• Emma Claire Wood

• Emma-Lou Becca

• Facundo Sola

• Guillermo Terrera

• Guillermo “Sapo” Caset

• Hazel Jackson

• Inez Bethell

• Ignacio Novillo Astrada

• Ignacio “Cubi” Toccalino

• James Beim

• James Crossley

• Joaquin Pittaluga

• John Paul Clarkin

• Juan Gris Zavaleta

• Juan Martín Nero

• Juan Martín Zubía

• Kayley Maria Smith

• Lia Salvo

• Lottie Lamacraft

• Lucas "Luquitas" Criado jr.

• Mackenzie Weisz

• Mark Tomlinson

• Matias Gonzalez

• Matt Perry

• Rosanna Turk

• Rosendo Torreguitar

• Ross Ainsley

• Saad Audeh

• Sam Browne

• Sebastián Merlos

• Severo Jesús Jurado López

• Tamara Fox

Both Alessandro Bazzoni and Siri Evjemo-Nysveen are unable to leave the UK due to an Interpol red alert issued by Venezuela. Two of their front men, Erik Roveta and Germán Bonelli, were arrested this year in Greece and Argentina respectively and are awaiting deportation to the Caribbean country.

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Antonio Lotti