Vive La République! Vive La France!

A 11heures, je vois sur la chaine FranceInfo, le meeting de Marine LePen <<La France Qu'on M!>> Je comprends un moitié des phrases, surtout les phrases typiques des politiques. <<Nous sommes prets! Notre projet est ambitieux. Il est moderne, il est nationale, pour la France. Avec un état protecteur. Des prédateurs en bas, comme les prédateur en haut! Nos filieres en peril. C'est vous que payer la fraude! Une immigration anarchique. A l'étranger que vient de nous, respecter nos lois! Le peuple francais est un peuple généreux et amicale, mais c'est en eux de décide qui peut rester, que peut etre francais. ... Nous voulons un France en paix. Nous en avons le courage, la volonté. Notre économie sera protégé, enfin. Des choix philosophiques. Avec nous, léconomie restera au service des gens. Les couts de confinements, la politique sanitaire, cette pénurie appliqué sur nos société. Qui a justifié la désolation sociale? La France est pour tous les Francais! Ce projet sur la grande politique maritime. Il faut faire des choix. A conquérir des nouveaux marchés. Le bonheur des francais. Cést une France fraternelle, qui sait que l'avenir, qui jamais abandonne des enfants. Rapellez-vous! Le pouvoir de l'achat c'est le grand question d'aujourd'hui. Qu'importe la gauche, qu'importe la droite, l'importance, c'est la France! L'indivisibilité de la république! La mobilisation! Lorsque le pays va vers l'abime... Nous allons gagné! L'avenir est dans vos mains. Vive la république! Vive la France!>>

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String Quartet Broken String

We attended a marvelous concert last night, at the Porto Museum of Casa do Infante , a beautifully-renovated 1325 building near the river. At one point it served as a customs house. The government sponsors Portuguese musicians to return from other European orchestras to perform in their homeland. We heard and saw this group play a traditional piece – Haydn string quartet Opus 20 #2. Then the modern Benjamin Britten's Three Divertimenti – the stunning last movement of which they performed as an encore. They performed (and I recorded) the Shostakovich Quartet #9, during which the first-violinist broke a string (it features several strongly-plucked chords!) and had to retreat&repeat!

EUA: tanto estrago em tão pouco tempo

As part of my effort to learn about Portugal, both the country and the language, I'm subscribing to the centrist newspaper, O Publico . There are plenty of newspapers: conservative tabloids, and socialist and communist-sponsored daily papers; I find O Publico to be most sober, with consistently interesting columnists and opinion pieces, in addition to some local (Porto) news, with just enough sporting news to keep me chatting with the taxi driver. Today's opinion piece sums up, I think, European pundits' view of the U.S. government. As the title puts it: so much damage in so little time. I shudder at the rank incompetence and corrupt behavior, demonstrating a cynical attitude toward public service, showing indeed that the cruelty is the point. What scandal, what damage will be the tipping point to collapse this government? And what will it take to recover from the damage? Who will be able to trust the US government again, ever? Only ni...

Música Tunas e Boémia

We attended an unusual concert last night: Música Tunas e Boémia (bands and parties) University student folk-music groups — big groups of 40 and more each! put on a great show of singing, playing, flag-twirling, tambourine-swinging, all at the major (private) concert hall. The most unusual thing about it was that nobody used any electronic device (except for microphone amplification)—no electric guitar or keyboard, no big drum set…every instrument and prop was hand-held. The singing was quite good, given the effort to synchronize 40 voices.

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