#cole muzio

[tomorrowusa]

Donald Trump continues to prove how inept he is as a candidate. On July 31st he went racist at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). Now he's feuding with Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of must-win swing state Georgia. And Trump attacked Kemp at a rally inside Georgia itself.

Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Atlanta on Saturday — in which he repeatedly attacked Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) — has evidently left GOP leaders in the all-important battleground state of Georgia absolutely furious. A pair of new reports from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Politico quote a number of prominent Republicans — some on the record, some on background — as being equal parts angry and confused by Trump’s attacks on Saturday night. “I’m sitting here scratching my head,” said former Kemp campaign manager Bobby Saparow, in an interview with Politico. “Attacking the popular governor of a pivotal swing state makes zero sense. If we want to actually unite, ask for the support of the guy who beat your endorsed primary opponent by 52 points and handily defeated Stacey Abrams.” “Attacking a successful and popular governor is not only wrong, it’s politically stupid,” added Cole Muzio — a close Kemp ally — in an interview with the AJC. “The stakes are too high for pettiness — and for the candidate to actively undermine his own chances.” During the rally, Trump told his supporters that Kemp is “a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy and he’s a very average governor.” He added that on Kemp’s watch, Georgia has “gone to hell.” [ ... ] “A lot of republicans like me might just decide not to vote at all in the presidential election because of stupid antics like tonight,” former GOP legislator Allen Peake told the AJC. “Trump may have just lost Georgia.”

If Weird Donald isn't totally incompetent then the only other explanation I can think of is that he's actively trying to lose the election.

Actually, there may also be the possibility that his dementia is really starting to kick in – bigtime.

Whatever the reason, he's clearly unfit for any office.

[todayclassical]

February 05 in Music History

1705 Death of French composer Jean-Gilles in Toulouse. 

1710 FP Bononcini: G. "Muzio Scevola" Vienna.

1748 Birth of German composer Christian Gottlob Neefe in Chemnitz.

1755 Birth of mezzo-soprano Carolina Fredrika Mueller in Copenhagen.

1763 Birth of tenor Charles Incledon in Cornwall. 

1791 Death of tenor John Beard. 

1795 Death of tenor Antoine Trial. 

1810 Birth of Norwegian composer and violinist Ole Bull, in Bergen. 

1818 Birth of composer Samuel Jackson. 

1825 Death of tenor Pierre Gaveaux. 

1852 Marriage of soprano Jenny Lind to her pianist, Otto Goldschmidt. 1862 Birth of Mexican composer Felipe Villanueva in Tecamac, state, Mexico.

1865 Birth of American composer Harvey Worthington Loomis. 

1866 Birth of American composer Rossetter Gleason Cole. 

1868 Birth of Belgian composer Lodewijk Mortelmans in Antwerp. 

1875 Birth of Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes. 

1884 Birth of tenor Alfred Piccaver in Long Sutton Lincoln. 

1887 FP of Verdi's opera Otello with Toscanini at the cello, at La Scala in Milan.

1894 Birth of tenor William Wernigk in Chemnitz. 

1895 Pianist Rosina Lhevinne debuts with the Moscow Symphony. 1895 FP of Ippolitiv-Ivanov's Caucasian Sketches, in Moscow. The composer conducting. 

1896 Death of composer Henry David Leslie.

1897 FP in USA of Richard Strauss' Also Spracht Zarathustra in Chicago with Theodore Thomas conducting.

1902 Birth of Polish composer Bronislaw Kaper. 

1904 Birth of soprano Erna Schluter in Oldenburg.  

1907 Death of German composer Ludwig Thuille, age 45, in Munich.

1909 Birth of Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz in Lodz.

1911 Birth of Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling.

1916 Death of tenor Francesco Marconi.

1917 Birth of Austrian bass-baritone Otto Edelmann in Vienna. 

1921 Birth of English conductor Sir John Pritchard in London.  1926 Birth of French composer Andre Gedalge in Chessy. 

1934 Birth of tenor Pietro Bottazzo in Padua. 

1934 Birth of English conductor and organist John Poole. 1939 FP of Carl Orff's opera Der Mond 'The Moon' at the Nationaltheater, in Munich.

1942 Death of tenor Robert Hutt. 

1943 Birth of French-American composer Ivan Tcherepnin, near Paris.  1945 Birth of Czech tenor Josef Protschka in Prague. 

1945 Birth of American soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson. 

1951 Birth of tenor Curtis Rayam in Belville, FL. 

1951 Birth of American composer Elizabeth Swados.

1952 Birth of English soprano Marilyn Hill Smith. 

1953 Death of soprano Suzanne Adams. 

1958 FP of Sir Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 2. BBC Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, in London.

1954 FP at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Presenting Mozart's Don Giovanni.

1962 Death of bass Leon Bjorker. 

1962 Death of French composer Jacques Ibert, at age 71, in Paris.

1967 Birth of Australian soprano and composer Sonia Jacobsen in Camden, New South Wales.

1969 FP of Thea Musgrave's Clarinet Concerto, in London.

1970 FP of Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra. New York Philharmonic.

1991 Death of baritone John Hargreaves. 

2000 Death of Canadian composer Barbara Pentland. 

2000 Death of baritone Pablo Elvira.

2003 FP of Kaija Saariaho's Terestre. Camilia Hortenga, flute; Felix Fan, cello; Bridget Kibbey, harp; Steven Schick, percussion; Yonah Zur, violin. Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC.

2004 FP of Stephen Paulus' Paean commissioned by Pat and Reidar Bjorhovde, symphony patrons. Tucson Symphony Orchestra, George Hanson conducting as part of the TSO´s Diamond Jubilee in Tucson, AZ.

2004 FP of Bright Sheng´s The Pheonix. Jane Eagland, soprano. Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwartz, conducting, in Seattle, WA.

2014 Death of conductor, arranger and composer Richard Hayman.

[mediamattress]

[Joe Paterno] was a coward. He was a man who stood idly by when even the most jaded and careless among us would have reacted with rage and violence toward someone who committed the acts that Jerry Sandusky did. The fact remains that the best scenario we can paint for this supposed leader of men is that he reported an incident to his superiors at a time when a calm reaction for most of us would have been to grab Jerry Sandusky by the collar and slam him against a wall, to physically remove him from the premises, and make it life’s mission to insure justice for those boy whom he had robbed of everything.

Cole Muzio, "Joe Paterno was a Coward, and his Family still doesn't get it" (Breitbart Sports)