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Beni Rae Harmony

….brings touch of dissonance to the tone deaf at the White House.

Learning the abacus.

Or count with fingers.

‘ You made such a mess of the pool…..

…..you don’t get to drain the swamp.’

Garry Graffman. Oct 14,1928-Dec 27, 2025.Brilliant pianist

Big pianism, influential teacher and Directer of Curtis Institute.

Christoph von Dohnanyi, 1929-Sept.6th. Distinguished conductor with a long association with the Cleveland orchestra. ‘ That upbeat look.’

Related on his father’s side to composer Erno Dohnanyi with whom he studied and on his mother’s side to Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Lutheran pastor, who was executed for being implicated in the plot to kill Hitler.

Bare knuckle diplomacy

Tariff Tussles.

The Haunting

( Lives of the haunted)