REACH wrote:
...shoot another Russian...
Perhaps with a neurotoxin? Or a trans-uranium element? Those fun-loving Russians seem to have found their way around Finland, and settled into England. I urge you to support the Mueller investigations, which are being conducted with a legal staff, as last reported to me, only one tenth the size of Kenneth Starr's, when he was investigating the question of whether Bill Clinton stuck a cigar up Monica Lewinsky's butt.
REACH wrote:
...a great composer (Sibelius)...
Never a fan of atonal, or 12-tone programmatic music, and much influenced by Osmo Vanska (pronounced Venska), the Finnish conductor of the Minnesota orchestra, I'm happy to report that Finnish composers are at the leading edge of traditional, tonal, orchestral music. A tip of the cap to Estonia: Aarvo Part (say Pairt), a minimalist of sublime beauty, was hugely influential on his neighbors to the north, across the Gulf of Finland. The Fins alone are generating more first-class orchestral music than we conservative consumers of this entertainment are capable of digesting.
I need to mark this entry with what in German are known as umlauts. Is there a two-stroke method to import them into New Scaratings? The first "a" in Vanska and the "a" in Part should both be so marked. You know, that little double period thing over the "a"?