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GMG News / Re: Bug Report 2024

Last post by Spotted Horses - Today at 07:17:16 AM

OK I have done some investigating. The site is under attack from bots, one of them from China requesting hundreds of pages every minute. These bots are automated web trawlers, not necessarily malicious, they are often just scanning pages for content for search indexes, or other reasons. But they slow the legitimate access to the forum considerably.

I am going to learn how to block them at a server level. First bit of code initiated, please let me know if you notice any difference.

cheers
Rob

I hope they are benign and not some sort of malicious attack. If they are really spiders creating an index, would it take this long for them to download the entire contents of the site for their index? On the other hand, what could an malicious actor want from this site? To gain unauthorized access to our preference for Bruckner symphonies?

Site seems uniformly slow at this point, requiring several seconds for a like to be registered, for quoted text to appear, to view a listing.

#2

The Diner / Re: The unimportant news threa...

Last post by Todd - Today at 07:02:45 AM

This made me upset when I saw what the people were doing in (to) this national park.  I hope that they catch them!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68822318

PD

Rocks don't have rights.

The actions were misdemeanors on their face, so while the police and feds should spend a little time looking for the perps, it should be measured in minutes, not hours, let alone days or weeks or months.  The statement in the linked article that this action could be a felony demonstrates a perverse criminal prosecutorial mindset.  Something similar happened in Oregon a while back when vandals (not to be confused with Vandals) toppled Duckbill rock.  The hooligans were not caught and the statute of limitations ran out. 

[NOOO!!! Not possible!]

#3

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: Beethoven piano sonata sho...

Last post by Atriod - Today at 07:02:17 AM

  NOOO!!!  Not possible!  Or should I write: NEEEIIIN!!!  Nicht Moeglich! ? 😇

Well, I guess I cannot argue with Science (?). 


When I return home, I will look into Mr. Sonoda!

Sonoda's Evica cycle is extremely good, I'd have to think about this some more to be certain, but I'm pretty sure it would make my top 10 cycles.

#4

Composer Discussion / Re: Mahler Mania, Rebooted

Last post by Atriod - Today at 06:56:07 AM

The Ninth is neither abyssal nor a school outing ( though Putzi is certainly referenced ).

As to what the Ninth actually  is, though, final definitions still elude me despite my deliberating over the course of some forty years.

Perhaps that's merely a hallmark of all great works of art: Transcending the perceptual limits of any one individual. Otoh, it may be that I'm simply incapable of getting my head all the way around the Symphony. I certainly won't discount that possibility, since I'm smart enough to know how dumb l can be. 

As you say what we take away is subjective, but I have a hard time hearing it as anything but what I wrote. Mahler writing about his failing heart in the first movement (both literally and figuratively). How sad the final movement is, not just being adagissimo but then changing the tempo to "extremely slowly." I can't remember who said this (Bernstein?) calling the music being suspended, going beyond time/infinity which is not too dissimilar to what I called it, being taken to the abyss.

I easily hear this in performances like Chailly, Kobayashi/Japan Philharmonic (what I posted on another board is like being taken to the event horizon in that last movement in this performance) or Inbal/Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. I have heard some easy, breezy performances that don't seem to get what it's about.

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GMG News / Re: Bug Report 2024

Last post by brewski - Today at 06:53:07 AM

Quite slow here this morning (10:48 EDT in US). A good 5 seconds executing any command, whether moving to a new page or simply clicking the "Like" button.

Adding my appreciation for Rob's work, vanquishing all these bots!

-Bruce

#6

The Diner / Re: The unimportant news threa...

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 06:38:05 AM

This made me upset when I saw what the people were doing in (to) this national park.  I hope that they catch them!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68822318

PD

#7

The Diner / Re: Pictures I like

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 06:31:34 AM

This is a score cover of some music I listened to earlier, and I found it rather eye catching.

I can't determine if this rendering of Theodore Roosevelt bears a positive or negative connotation (or something akin to humour or caricature).
VS

I found out a little bit of information about the work (see link below).  Apparently, the composer had initially called it "Uncle Tom".  No idea as to why he had renamed it to "Uncle Teddy" when it was published.  https://www.rundel.de/en/article/uncle_teddy/MVSR2323

PD

[Armstrong Gibbs.Complete Piano Trios.London Piano Trio.Recorded: probably between 2004-2007.The members changed over the years, and their website is defunct.]

#8

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Irons - Today at 06:28:38 AM

Armstrong Gibbs.
Complete Piano Trios.
London Piano Trio.
Recorded: probably between 2004-2007.
The members changed over the years, and their website is defunct.

The performance of the Piano trios is well done. They are committed and clear cut in their approach of these beautiful works. An underrated composer, who has to tell much more as is currently recorded. The sound is good.

I have a soft spot for Armstrong Gibbs, despite the fact his image reminds me of a headmaster of a bygone age. I return to his Guild recording of complete chamber works for violin a lot so your recording of Piano Trios is of no little interest.

#9

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Irons - Today at 06:12:48 AM

I have that recording on LP. Rather good I thought.

[Rachmaninoff]

#10

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Cato - Today at 06:05:44 AM

While in the car somewhere in Utah, U.S.A...


The original version of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #4

The more I hear this version, which was the one first performed by the composer, the more its intricacies and richness enthrall me!