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Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Palm Coast Concert Series: Soul Fire, 6 p.m. at The State at Town Center (the former location of the Palm Coast Arts Foundation), 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. This free event is for all ages. We ask residents to bring lawn chairs and/or towels for seating. See you there! Stay tuned for September’s artist announcement! Vendors should reach out to [email protected] if interested.
Notably: Anton Arensky isn’t among the first, second or third names you think of when you think “classical,” though he probably ought to be among the quite great. The Russian composer and pianist was born in 1861. He was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov at St Petersburg Conservatory, he taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin at the Moscow conservatory, and he was influenced by Tchaikovsky, among others, though we won’t hold that against him. (In 1882, when Arensky graduated with a Gold Medal in piano and composition, Ingrid Bols writes in a paper on the composer, “Tchaikovsky awarded him the highest grade for his harmony exam.”) Certainly in the piece below, the emotion is a lot less brutal, a lot more poignant than anything Tchaikovsky wrote. It is more Mendelssohn than Russian. It is his first piano trio, from 1894, dedicated to his friend the cellist Karl Davidoff “who had been Director of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire when Arensky was there as a student and had died suddenly in 1889,” writes David Truslove. “It is no surprise that the cello features prominently in this wonderfully elegiac work. The expansive first movement opens with a lyrical theme stated twice by the violin over a gently rippling accompaniment. With the cello’s arrival both instruments briefly “discuss” the theme before a dance– like episode is reached. Its carefree mood soon makes way for a new expressive idea announced by the cello. To this quiet rapture the violin joins in, and after a dramatic flourish from the piano the music builds towards an intense coda– the piano very much a leading participant. Imitative phrases derived from both the opening theme and the dance– like episode fashion the development and following a dramatic passage of tremolando strings the violin ushers in a full recapitulation with the main theme. An Adagio section reminiscing on the main theme brings the movement to a gentle close.” But don’t stop there. Arensky is worth a long listen
—P.T.
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June 2025
Nar-Anon Family Group
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Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
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Language and religion were the two determining factors of the nineteenth-century definition of the Russian nation, and Arensky integrated features of both the Russian language and Orthodox Church music in his compositions. Through his training in St Petersburg, his teaching at the Conservatoire of Moscow, and his leading role in the Imperial Chapel, Arensky gathered existing folk and church tunes. His integration of Russian folklore, such as the ancient epic byliny, the Orthodox Requiem and Obikhod prayers give his music a diffuse feeling of Russianness. Arensky developed no unique concept or philosophy but adapted and followed the compositional trends of his time. In this respect he remains a significant witness of the standard teaching practices in nineteenth-century Russian conservatoires. He was certainly not a leader of the nationalist movement in music but his contribution to the russification of art and music is interesting. He was part of Ruth Helmers’ ‘grey area of musical practice that existed between the explicitly formulated ideals of nationalism and cosmopolitanism’ (2014, p.3). The work of Anton Arensky shows that in music Russian nationalism and cosmopolitanism can cohabit without major antagonism. With Richard Taruskin’s reformation of musicological analysis on Russian music history, Russian music for today’s researchers is ‘no longer judged exclusively in terms of its national character’ (Maes 2006, p.10). It is probably time for a complete re-evaluation of Arensky’s music, misjudged for its lack of obvious Russianness, which becomes a questionable criticism given the evidence shown in this paper to the contrary.
–From Ingrid Bols’s “Anton Arensky and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia,” eSharp.
Laurel says
Actually, I have much more respect for chickens than I do for this guy.
Ed P says
Trump is currently engaged in a law suit against ABC. Maybe a valid excuse?
Might be difficult to get a fair contest?
Sherry says
This is the kind of l life, disgusting “filth and garbage” trump is “forwarding” on social media. Republicans, is this the kind of person you are still supporting for President of our country? Really?
The post – originally posted by another user – featured photos of Harris and Hillary Clinton alongside the comment: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…”
The comment was an oblique reference to innuendo surrounding Harris’s former relationship with Willie Brown, the San Francisco mayor. The mention of Clinton – Trump’s defeated opponent in the 2016 presidential election – alluded to the affair between Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, and her husband Bill Clinton in the 1990s, which came close to ending his presidency.
It was not the first time Trump had made lewd references to Harris. On 18 August, he shared a video by the Dilley Meme Team, a group of rightwing content creators, to the soundtrack of a parody of the Alanis Morrisette song Ironic that contained the lines, “She spent her whole damn life down on her knees”, as an image of Brown appeared behind a picture of the US vice-president and her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Ray W. says
Yes, former president Trump is suing George Stephanopoulos for saying on some ten different occasions during his interview of a subject that a “jury” had convicted Trump of “rape.” And Trump has a point. Had Mr. Stephanopoulos said that the trial judge had likened Trump’s digital penetration of E. Jean Carroll’s vagina to “rape” in a court order, the lawsuit might lack legs. But Stephanopoulos didn’t say that. Trump might have a chance. Who knows what a jury would do if it gets that far?
Ray W. says
In a July 15, 2022, FEDS Notes paper titled: Fiscal Policy and excess inflation during Covid-19: a cross-country view, researchers associated with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems asked the question of whether government stimulus policies around the world could explain at least some of the “recent surge in inflation. …”
The authors specifically looked at data from before the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, in order to exclude the “many disruptions associated with the war …”
“[F]ocusing on inflation through February 2022 which does not capture many disruptions associated with the war in Ukraine, we show that countries with large fiscal stimulus, or with high exposure for foreign stimulus through international trade, experienced stronger inflation outbursts.” In the U.S. that increase in inflation was assessed at 2.5% from the stimulus money spent as of that date.
“… [F]iscal support boosted goods consumption demand without any noticeable impact on the supply of goods. Hence, the large increase in demand triggered by the fiscal stimulus policy, together with the slow pace of adjustment in production, likely contributed to the current imbalance in the goods market, resulting in the depletion of inventories, pronounced bottlenecks, and ultimately inflation.”
One weakness in the reliability of the assessment was that it was possible that “countries that engaged in larger fiscal stimulus support are also those that have been the worst hit by the pandemic.” Since a hard-hit country might have a larger effect from the pandemic, there might be an “omitted variable issue bias.”
The assessment found that “excess inflation is significantly correlated with each country’s domestic stimulus, as well as with exposure to foreign stimulus. When taken separately or when used in conjunction with domestic fiscal stimulus, both vertical and horizontal exposure to foreign stimulus appear to be significantly correlated with domestic excess inflation.”
I guess that settles it. A significant portion of the U.S. inflation prior to the date of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is attributable to excess fiscal stimulus spending, with a qualifier. Trudenflation is a quantifiable fact, more or less than 2.5%. Both of our presidents, by each signing multiple stimulus packages into law, are likely responsible for much of the inflation in this country and around the world. And the pandemic contributed its own impact on inflation.