Latin Jazz

Nearly forty years ago I caught Cal’s act live on the coast. Too cool.

Notice the diatonic at the end. Understated and still Much too cool!



Tito and Cal



Very, very nice

Christ and his mother and Palestine

Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria (Cecilia Bartoli)







Christ and his mother are the original Palestinians, hounded by Herod who tried to kill him.

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Daniel Barenboim set for Metropolitan Opera debut


By RONALD BLUM, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, November 27, 2008
(11-27) 21:01 PST New York (AP) --

For Daniel Barenboim, music and politics meld together.

Set to make his long-awaited Metropolitan Opera debut Friday night in Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," the 66-year-old Jewish former wunderkind is known as much for his championing of Palestinian rights as he is for his work as a conductor and pianist.

So when he appeared at the Met for a round-table discussion on Nov. 18, talk quickly turned to Barack Obama's election as president and Barenboim's predictions of events in the Middle East.

"I think the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can be solved only by the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it has to have the backing of the rest of the world. It cannot be an initiative from the outside," he said.

Born in Argentina, Barenboim grew up in Israel, became a famous child pianist and made his Carnegie Hall debut at 14. His conducting debut wasn't until 1967, but he became so noted for his work on the podium that he was hired as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991-2006 and music director of Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 1992, a position he still holds. He also is principal guest conductor of Milan's Teatro alla Scala.

Yet, for many, his most noted actions came in 2001, when he conducted "Tristan" excerpts in Israel, breaking an unofficial ban on Wagner, whose music and anti-Semitic writings influenced Adolf Hitler; and last January, when he accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship.

So, given his ties with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he tries not to expect Obama to come up with immediate solutions.

"I'm thrilled and delighted that he has been elected, but I think it's unrealistic to hope that he will achieve a solution to all these problems," Barenboim said.

Part of his reaction to Obama's election stems from his own experiences in the United States.

"I read with my own eyes at the entrance of a golf club in Miami in 1958 ... a sign that said: "No Jews, no blacks and no dogs allowed." So there is quite a development in all that," he said.

He views politics and finance similarly to music, citing the need for leaders in all three fields to recognize "everything is interdependent." As a metaphor, he cites that one cannot be only a rhythmical, melodic or harmonic musician.

He said the world wouldn't have seen the current economic crisis if financial leaders realized "that everything is connected."

He mentions his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which he founded with the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said in 1999. It includes Israeli and Arab musicians along with many from other countries.

Barenboim recounted a story from the first night the orchestra members met.

"The Syrians sat at one table, the Israelis sat at a separate table and the Egyptians. There was no contact among the different Arabs, either," he said. "And the poor Palestinians, this was actually very typical, didn't know which table to go to. ... 'I think in the end they went and ate in the kitchen. I'm not joking."

Near the end, talk finally turned to "Tristan." Barenboim will become the first conductor other than music director James Levine to lead the opera at the Met since Erich Leinsdorf in 1974.

"Life is not the same after 'Tristan.' Musical life, musical works, everything, after 'Tristan' has to be seen through 'Tristan's eyes. And even the music before 'Tristan' is looked at differently. It is one of those pivotal works, like the 'Well-Tempered Clavier' has been of Bach," he said. "The harmonic language is stretched to the maximum, like an elastic, and there was no beyond that, and therefore new had to come."

He does not, however, view it as a love story.

"Tristan is an opera about death. And it is that death, the fear of death and the looking for death as the only possible way to solve the entanglement in which they find, this is, if you want, the locomotive, the motor of the opera," he said. "There is nothing more democratic in the world than death. In the end, it comes to everyone, rich and poor, good and bad, and is one of the things that we all have to deal with. ... He who spends his life without thinking about death misses out on one of the most forceful dimensions of human existence."


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After death comes the judgment. Those who persecuted Christ and his mother and the Palestinians have NO hope, who enter in at the gate to hell.


"And the poor Palestinians, this was actually very typical, didn't know which table to go to. ... 'I think in the end they went and ate in the kitchen. I'm not joking."

What Jesus says about this.

Lk:16:
19 ¶ There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.
20 And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
21 Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
23 And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:
24 And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
25 And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.
26 And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither.

Flowers

Covered with the flowers,

Instantly I'd like to die

In this dream of ours!



Etsujin.

La Pasión y la Verdad

En el puerto tranquilo

Para la señora de conmemoración

Haiku

Senju Waterfall, Kawase Hasui

A mountain village

under the pilled-up snow

the sound of water.




A lightning flash:

between the forest trees

I have seen water.

Masaoka Shiki (with him Haiku as word for poems began)

Beladi

Please read this first and understand what Beladi is and then see real Beladi. Thank you. Safiya


"Belly Dancing" and Childbirth published first in 1964 in "Sexology" & numerous other magazines & papers over the years

Danse du ventre, or belly dancing, is not at all what Western society thinks it to be, i.e. a dance of sex and seduction. This is an erroneous and ignorant belief, reinforced and perpetrated by stage and movie writers too lazy to do research. Neither is it a 'belly' dance, since much more is involved than just the stomach muscles.

Oriental dancing, as the Arabs themselves call it, is one of the oldest forms of dance, originating with pre-Biblical religious rites worshiping motherhood and having as its practical side the preparation of females for the stresses of childbirth. Thus it is the oldest form of natural childbirth instruction.

According to Farab Firdoz, a dancer from Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, the dance was still performed in the less Westernized parts of her country in the '50s, around the bedside of a woman in childbirth, by a circle of her fellow tribeswomen. In this ritualistic form men are not allowed to watch it. The purpose here is to hypnotize the woman in labor into an imitation of the movements with her own body. This greatly facilitates the birth and reduces pain from womb contractions. It helps the mother to move with instead of against the contractions.

Unfortunately, Western civilization brought a sick eroticism to the Middle East along with its technical advances. In The Dancer of Shamahka, Armen Ohanian says:
"Thus in Cairo one evening I saw, with sick incredulous eyes, one of our most sacred dances degraded into a bestiality horrible and revolting. It is our poem of the mystery and pain of motherhood, which all true Asiatic men watch with reverence and humility, in the faraway corners of Asia, where the destructive breath of the Occident has not yet penetrated. In this olden Asia, which has kept the dance in its primitive purity, it represents maternity, the mysterious conception of life, the suffering and the joy with which a new soul is brought into the world.

"Could any man born of woman contemplate this most holy subject, expressed in an art so pure and so ritualistic as our Eastern dance with less than profound reverence? Such is our Asiatic veneration of motherhood, that there are countries and tribes whose most binding oath is sworn upon the stomach, because it is from this sacred cup that humanity has issued.

"But the spirit of the Occident had touched this holy dance and it became the horrible danse du ventre, the ‘hoochie-koochie’. To me, a nauseating revelation of unsuspected depths of human bestiality, to others it was -- amusing. I heard the lean Europeans chuckling. I saw lascivious smiles upon even the lips of Asiatics, and I fled."

Generations of Bedouin and Berber mothers may have to bear their young not only without benefit of hospitals and modern antiseptic methods, but also without the comfort and muscular aid of what is definitely an ancient folk ritual. This is because even some Arabic people are now beginning to see sex in what is simply a gymnastic exercise for a natural function. As a result, the ritual is slowly dying out.

Other peoples, among them the Hawaiians and Maoris of New Zealand, have had their own chidlbirth preparation dances involving pelvic and abdominal muscles. The Hawaiians used to have a hula called "Ohelo", that was done in a reclining position, by both sexes, every morning. As late as 1936, the Maoris still practiced their form if this exercise.

A small subsect of the Allaoui Moslems believe that the Messiah will be born to a man, since woman is unworthy of such a high honor. Under this supposition, the men in that sect practice Oriental dancing in preparation for the honor to be awarded them someday, that of giving birth to their Deliverer.

The idea that children must be brought forth in pain is a religious one, based on the Christian concept of original sin and the penance to be exacted for it. The Bible states, "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children". Nothing is said about undue or excruciating pain, and yet the thought of agonizing birth pangs is pounded into our heads from the earliest age of understanding. Thus, childbirth is approached with bodies & muscles tensed in fear and anticipation. Instead of relaxing and helping nature along, we put stumbling blocks in her way.

The newest idea in obstetrics today is to prepare pregnant women for the coming ordeal either through hypnotism or special training classes. They can now be ultra-modern and still give birth the "natural childbirth" way. Doctors have recently found that babies born in this manner come into the world more alert and without the common anaesthesia-induced torpor.

What hypnotism accomplishes, although temporarily, is the gradual removal through post-hypnotic suggestion of the whole mental concept of painful childbirth. The relaxed woman can now concentrate only on helping nature by moving with the contractions of labor.

This self-same thing is accomplished by the circle of dancing Arab tribes women who hypnotize the woman in labor into imitating their rolling pelvic motions. Their task is far easier though, since there is no unfounded and exaggerated fear of childirth’s pains in primitive societies.
Who would think of sending a man who has a sedentary job to run in Olympic races? Why then does Western society expect a woman, who has never used her pelvic muscles for more than just holding up her garter belt, to give birth easily, a feat more taxing for the muscles than any athletic competition?

Childbirth must be prepared for. Dormant muscles must be built up little by little, step by step. All it takes is a little work, which certainly would never harm the mother or the unborn child. Strengthening the muscles also helps in carrying the child through pregnancy and greatly reduces stretch marks on the abdomen.

Training classes, such as Education for Childbirth courses given at one of the major hospitals in New York City, try to accomplish in a few short months or weeks what should have been started in childhood: namely the shaping-up of pelvic muscles used in pregnancy and childbirth and to regain shape and muscle tone after birth.

The first lesson in the Exercise Review Sheet of that hospital says: "Concentration Exercises -- Object: to learn muscular control of muscle groups. Particular attention is paid to strong contraction and absolute relaxation of the rest of the body."

The technique of Oriental dancing is one of contractions and releases while all other muscles not involved in the movemen are relaxed.

Class 2 goes on: "Stand with knees easy, feet parallel and with the weight of the body well over the arches of your feet. Rock your pelvis upward, Tighten slowly your buttocks and lower abdominal muscles. . . Lying on your back, with legs bent, press back firmly on floor, contracting abdominal muscles at the same time -- release."

This is a position assumed in almost every Oriental dance at one point or another, where the head reaches the floor from a backbend and the body relaxes untill the spine rests on the floor. The knees are sharply bent and the feet outside of and close to the thighs. Slow rhythmic breathing is followed by fast shallow breathing, acceleration of which increases with contractions, producing a variety of abdominal movements.

One of the women, who attended classes of this sort, was the wife of a prominent lawyer of Turkish background and mother of twins. She told me that one of the movements her obstetrician stressed was a rippling movement of the abdomen, the old Arabic "belly roll" - what we now refer to as the "camel".

It was explained that the upper part of the wave, as her doctor termed the movement, was to be done between the contractions of the womb, and the lower part of the wave, or bearing down, was to be done as the womb contracted. This would aid the mother considerably in expelling the baby with minimal wear and tear on all the internal organs and muscles involved. Fighting the contractions through fear and preoccupation with the thought of pain would only tense the muscles and tear them rather than allow them to stretch gently during the uterine contractions and relaxations.

The rolling movement itself is no child’s play to learn, for when done wrong it only serves to stetch the stomach muscles. The lower spine, pelvis, diaphragm and abdomen are involved. This is extremely difficult to describe in writing & must be demonstrated, explained step by step, felt gradually muscle by muscle.

Each little muscle must be found and developed in turn, before the whole can be manipulated to the extent that each split second can be perfectly controlled. Rather than sharpness and angularity, there must be a smooth, circular, undulating motion.

Fortunately, the Turkish backround of the woman I mentioned gave her more than just a laywoman's knowledge of Oriental dancing and therefore a greater knowledge of and control over her pelvic muscles. Subsequently, she learned all the exercises with greater speed and facility than the average female produced by a society that is just discovering its hips via some of the newer social and Latin dances.

These are muscles that have been used by almost every Arabic and Turkish - speaker (and many others) from childhood on up, in the execution of some of their indigenous folk dances: vulgarly and wrongly referred to in Western society as the danse du ventre or, worse yet, belly dance.










Wouldn't you know it. Wouldn't you just know it!

See Michael's comment below. Thank you Michael and for the picture. I am updating the post with the picture of "Little Egypt", the first "Belly Dancer" put together by Sol Bloom, a Jew.

शरमाना

'थंडर, उत्तम' नाग हम्मादी पुस्तकालय मैं हूँ ह्त्त्प://डी.अर्मोरी.कॉम/पुब/उसेर/लीवित्त/ग्नोसिस/ठुंदर.हटमल से ध्यान ... वित्हीं. इहूँ ... इस नातुरेस की. मैं आत्माओं की रचना कर रहा हूँ. मैं नियंत्रण और अनियन्त्रणीय रहा हूँ. मैं संघ और विघटन कर रहा हूँ. मैं और स्थायी हूँ मैं हूँ के घुला देनेवाला. मैं एक से नीचे रहा हूँ, और वे मुझे करने के लिए आते हैं. मैंने निर्णय और बरी कर रहा हूँ. मैं, मैं, और पाप की जड़ पापमुक्त हूँ मुझ से व्युत्पन्न. जो मैं सबको और जो ग्रास्पेद नहीं किया जा सकता है इस भाषण को प्राप्य है जो सुन रहा हूँ. मैं एक हूँ जो बात नहीं है, गूंगा और महान शब्द मेरे भीड़ है. (यह सरस्वती) की देवी माँ शुरुआत सभी देवताओं और देवी और सभी टोने के (माँ) / जादू उन लोगों के साथ संपर्क में था. भारत में देवी माँ दुर्गा और काली का रूप ले लेता है. इस योगिस आजीविका या शरमाना या साधु, भारत, (ईश्वर आग अग्नि देवता की पूजा बुलाया 'इस क्नोवेर जिनकी जीभ देवी काली विनाश की देवी, एक द्विलिंग देवता-देवी) प्राचीन अश्शूर / फारस से आयातित है, और कश्शाफ (टोना) की जादुई इन्कान्ताशन्स के अभ्यास में लगे हुए है और अन्य लोगों के बीच (नागिन काला जादू) प्रथाओं, नाचाश है प्राचीन मेसोपोटामिया, जो प्राचीन अश्शूर के माध्यम से अपने रास्ते वहाँ बनाया की / फारस के रूप में अच्छी तरह से. इस टोना और जादू और मनोगत प्रथाओं के साथ उसमें भगवान द्वारा देउतेरोनोमी १८:१०, ११में निंदा कर रहे हैं सूचीबद्ध के आराम के साथ यह अजीब आग (हिब्रू: एश). यह पहली दत में सूचीबद्ध है: के अंतिम घृणा १८:१०:न तो करते हैं वहाँ आप किसी भी एक के बीच में है कि उसका बेटा या बेटी एक्स्पिअते चाहिए पाया जा, उन्हें आग के माध्यम से पारित करने के लिए .... (द्रव) वह अंतिम घृणा आग बलिदान द्वारा मानव त्याग है (अग्नि में) करने के लिए झूठे देवताओं / गिर आत्माओं से अलौकिक शक्ति प्राप्त की आशा में देवी, और अपोस्ताते दूत, शैतान - शैतान, जैसा कि बाकी के मुख्य (द्रव) टोना / जादू और ज्योतिष शुरू किया, के बाद बाढ़ की दुनिया है, चल्देया सुमेरिया अस्स्य्रो -कसदियों मेसोपोटामिया में. फिर यहूदी यिस्रैल में यहूदियों की तैयारी में है, वे अपने अपने मलऊन मंदिर इन्कुल्कातेद के लिए आशा की जा रही है.

"Thunder, Perfect Mind" from the Nag Hammadi Library

http://d.armory.com/pub/user/leavitt/gnosis/thunder.html

I am ... within.I am ...of the natures.

I am the creation of the spirits.

I am control and the uncontrollable.

I am the union and the dissolution.

I am the abiding and I am the dissolving.

I am the one below, and they come up to me.

I am the judgement and the acquittal.

I, I am sinless, and the root of sin derives from me.

I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped.

I am a mute who does not speak, and great is my multitude of words. ( this is Sarasvati)

The Mother Goddess was the beginning (the mother) of all the gods and goddesses and all sorcery /magic in connection with them.

In India the mother goddess is Durga and takes the form of Kali.

The yogis, ajivika or sramana or sadhu, of India, worshipped the fire god Agni (the god called "The Knower" whose tongue is the goddess Kali the goddess of destruction, a hermaphrodite god-goddess) imported from ancient Assyria/Persia, and engaged in the practice of the magical incantations of the kashshaph (sorcery) and nachash (serpent black magic) practices, amongst others, of ancient Mesopotamia, which made their way there through ancient Assyria/Persia as well. This strange fire (Hebrew: esh) with the sorcery and magic and rest of the occult practices listed together therein are condemned by God in Deuteronomy 18:10, 11.

The final abomination of this is listed first in Dt:18:10: Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.... (DRV)

That final abomination is human sacrifice by fire sacrifice (as in Agni) to false gods/goddesses in the hope of gaining preternatural power from fallen spirits; the apostate angel, Satan - the devil, is the chief fallen spirit of the rest and who Jesus Christ said was a murderer and a liar from the beginning. Jn:8:44: You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. (DRV)

Sorcery/magic and astrology began, in the post flood world, in Chaldaea Sumeria Assyro-Babylonian Mesopotamia.

It always, I mean always, includes the murder of children. That was the most rampant sin from the time of the fallen angels coming into the daughters of Adam (notice it is Adam again, not the daughters of Eve, it is Adam’s sin that got us where we are).

Gn:6:
1 ¶ And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of Adam, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
3 ¶ And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4 ¶ Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God [the fallen angels] went in to the daughters of Adam, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. [the pre-flood nephilim, not human but with the souls of demons]
5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6 ¶ It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 ¶ But Noe found grace before the Lord.

And then comes the flood.


It was also the most rampant sin from the time after the flood until now. Child murder is the absolute most heinous murder there is. Abortion and infanticide are all child murder.

Alan Guttmacher did more than anyone (including Margaret Sanger) to promote the massive abortion agenda throughout the world. Human Life International reports that women abortion providers are being trained to offer the little murdered babies to mother Gaia via witchcraft. This is the sin of conjuring power from Satan by using idols and false goddesses and gods (Hercules-Melkart of Carthage is an ancient example) as mediums to channel Satan’s trap of diabolic power into oneself by the triple sin of 1) murder, 2) disobeying God by worship of Satan and 3) idolatry-sorcery.


Do you think the demon goddess Lilith will have any appreciable following in Israel amongst Israeli women? Answer: Most assuredly. Obviously the demon goddess Moloch has returned to the center of Israeli worship and that for export to Africa and the U.S., see the following:

Alan Guttmacher Institute Mission: "The Institute's mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation."

From Mary Meehan’s "The Road to Abortion" Copyright © 1998, 1999 & 2002 by Mary Meehan. In 1966 Dr. Alan Guttmacher, apparently trying to be witty, wrote from Africa to a U.S. colleague: "My trip has been great. I believe I converted the Jews in Israel and now I am working on the pigmented savages." This private comment from Guttmacher (who was Jewish, but not observant) came soon after his Planned Parenthood group gave an award to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.(32)

32. William H. Draper, Jr., to P. A. Gorman, [8 or 11] Sept. 1967, Guttmacher Papers; Alan F. Guttmacher to Frank Notestein, 13 June 1966, PPFA (II), box 125; and Congressional Record (10 May 1966), vol. 112, part 8, 10164-10165. In his statement accepting the Margaret Sanger Award, Dr. King praised Sanger and family planning and spoke of "the modern plague of overpopulation." Unfortunately, he seemed unaware of the eugenics connections of Sanger and of population control in general. Ibid.

It is being inculcated again in Zionist Yisrael by the Jews in preparation, they hope, for their damned temple and the worship of Satan in that temple so that the Jews can gain the power from Satan to rule the world.

It is a hermetic principle of the Jews’ Talmudic Satanic Lurianic Cabalism that Satan is to be worshipped and that in this illuminist sense especially they, the Jews, will gain power over the whole world from their father who is Satan. The utter depths of Satanic depravity and sorcery is the slaughter of children and offering them to Satan. The so-called “blood libel” attached to Jews throughout the centuries is absolute fact. The center today of child snuff porn and every other form of diabolic depravity is the Jews’ Jerusalem. Via the Jews’ planning it on purpose, even using the Christian concept of the Antichrist as a guide to go by, this is by the Jews’ design leading up to the Antichrist in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, there to force all those who will apostasize from the true God to worship the Antichrist (the Dajjal) and his henchmen the Jews. To do so is eternal damnation.

Jan. 2, 2006 St. Sylvester Bishop of Rome

this brief excerpt tells what happened when Jews opposed the Church with sorcery (see above for the origin of sorcery):

...During the reign of the emperor St. Constantine the Great the Jews arranged a public debate to determine which faith was true.... St. Sylvester spoke for the Christians, and the Jews had one hundred and twenty learned rabbis led by Zambres, a magician and sorcerer.... St. Sylvester convincingly demonstrated that all the prophets foretold the birth of Jesus Christ from the all-pure Virgin, and also His voluntary suffering and death for the redemption of the fallen race of mankind, and His glorious Resurrection.

The saint was declared the victor in the debate. Then Zambres tried to resort to sorcery, but the saint obstructed the evil by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Zambres and the other Jews came to believe in Jesus Christ, and they asked to be baptized.

.... End of Excerpt.

日本

History of Japan

History of the people of Japan.

Culture is expression.

香道 Kodo is way of very subtle fragrance. To meditate.

It is from Nara Period, even before.

Majida Al Roumi Christmas Concert

Majida Al Roumi - Silent Night (English, Arabic & French)

Majida Al Roumi Christmas Concert

Jesus

Safiya, the song Corcovado is beautiful. This is a statue in honor of Jesus atop of the hill of Corcovado.

Earlier

Love one another, as I have loved you