Mi telefona Amedeo:
– Ma hai visto il programma?
– L’ho visto, tutta roba moderna e russa.
– Ma che facciamo? andiamo lo stesso?
– Ma si, rischiamo. Al limite veniamo via all’intervallo.
– Sei sicuro?
– Non si vive di solo Mozart.
Passion for music
Gidon Kremer e la Kremerata Musica sono questa sera alle ore 21 al Conservatorio di Milano, con questo non facile programma:
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Postludio D.S.C.H. per soprano, violino, violoncello, pianoforteD.SHOSTAKOVICH
Trio op 8 per violino, violoncello e pianoforteA.SCHNITTKE
Sonata n.2 (Quasi Sonata) per violino e pianoforteD.SHOSTAKOVICH
Sonata n.1 op.12 per pianoforte
7 Romanze su poesie di A.Blok op.127 per soprano, violino, violoncello, pianoforte
Hanno presentato questo stesso avventuroso programma il 5 dicembre ad Amburgo alla Musikhalle, e lo presenteranno anche il 20 gennaio a Los Angeles alla Walt Disney Concert Hall e il 25 a New York alla Carnegie Hall.
Dice Kremer:
“My craziness is that I fill my days with so many commitments and should relax more. I work too much. But that is because I am a man of passion for music.”
Newspeak
Lessig segnala che sul sito della Casa Bianca c’era questo comunicato emesso il 1 maggio 2003, che diceva:
“President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.”
Senza nessuna spiegazione, o notifica di aggiornamento, oggi invece trovi questo:
“President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.”
Meno male che The Way Back Machine è la memoria della rete, e che queste operazioni orwelliane non passano sotto silenzio.
La nascita del Metaweb
David Isen punta a questo post di Nova Spivak: ottimo riassunto del perchè i feed RSS sono the next big thing:
“I predict that every medium to large corporate Web site and every major publication and wire service, as well as an increasing number of enterprise applications and services will publish and subscribe to numerous RSS channels. Already we see the beginning of this with numerous major organizations embracing RSS from IBM, Microsoft and Sun to The New York Times, ABC News and WIRED to name a few examples”
The Final Energy Crisis
“Willingly or not the world will learn what Peak Oil means. The major underlying theme of this book, it means we are entering a period of accelerated oil and gas depletion, unstoppable price rises for oil and gas, and increased conflict for remaining reserves. Several articles provide detailed figures, and reference sources on the accelerating depletion of cheaply producible oil and gas.
Peak Oil will become an accepted fact within as little as 5 or 6 years. The CEO of ExxonMobil Exploration in September 2003 gave his corporation’s estimate of how much new oil production capacity must be found, proven, developed or upgraded to cover yearly losses of about 3.25 Million barrels/day due to both economic + geological depletion. Exxon’s estimate is that 36 Million b/d must be developed by 2015 to cover depletion. This is “four new Saudi Arabias”, or “twelve new Venezuelas”. In 11 years. This is at the least unlikely to be possible.”
[via CommUnity of Minds News]
