Monthly Archives: June 2023
No News
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th June 2023The title of this article is what’s available on the numerous TV outlets purporting to be purveyors of news. Their problem is time inflation. There just isn’t that much real news in comparison to the time devoted to its dissemination. The product delivered as “news” is largely devoid of content though enveloped in a sesquipidelian…
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Fritz Wunderlich
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th June 2023I’ve written a little about the great German tenor before but have not devoted a full post to him. Wunderlich was born in1930 and died in 1966 following a fall down a stone staircase which fractured his skull. He was just shy of his both his 36th birthday and his debut at the Metropolitan Opera….
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Last Words
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 19th June 2023Daphne/Jerry: But you don’t understand, Osgood! [Whips off his wig, exasperated, and changes to a manly voice] Uhhh, I’m a man!Osgood: [Looks at him then turns back, unperturbed] Well, nobody’s perfect! Of course, Some Like it Hot is a movie, but its famous last words serve as a preface for some of opera’s last lines. Below are a…
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On Education
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 11th June 2023That American education is bereft of meaning in all but the most cloistered areas of its purview is self-evident. Little Liam and Olivia not only don’t know the three Rs by the 6th grade, they likely don’t even know what they are. Many of them and their like will sail through on the SS Ignoble…
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The Magic Flute in HD – 2023
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd June 2023Mozart’s enduringly popular musical comedy was televised this afternoon in its latest Met incarnation directed by Simon McBurney. The bright comedy is swathed in darkness (lighting not tone) in his staging which employs more theatrical gimmicks than found in the trunks of 10 touring magicians. The orchestral pit is raised almost to stage level. A…
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Possible Ill Effects of Repeated mRNA Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 2nd June 2023A paper in Vaccines: IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein examines the possibility that repeated doses of the mRNA vaccine administered to prevent COVID 19 infection may cause autoimmune disease in susceptible patients. The abstract is below. I have underlined a key part of it. Less…
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