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Brahms and rap on today’s music menu

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It's time to learn German, just like it was time to do so twenty years ago, when I first wanted to feel for myself what the Bach cantatas must have have meant for Bach's congregation.  Yesterday, it was a fun little Brahms song  Die Schwestern ("The Sisters") ( Op 61 (Four Duets for soprano and alto with piano accompaniment) No 1.) that said to me, "you must learn German now."  Listen and watch a version of the song by world famous singers Angelika Kirschlager and Barbara Bonney, as well as a homemade video of the Deuterettes singing at a piano keyboard.

On another musical note: this afternoon, I learned that a local rapper filmed a video at the barber shop where I get my hair cut, bringing the barber a bit of fame (and hopefully more fortune).   The video of Mac Miller is full of local Pittsburgh imagery, which is a lot of fun to someone living in Pgh.

Pittsburgh might shrink but it won’t disappear!

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As Deaths Outpace Births, Cities Adjust - New York Times:

    While natural decrease occurred in many Southern cities that were magnets for retirees, the overall population was replenished by the influx of younger migrants. But in Pittsburgh and other places outside the South, not only has the population aged in place, but also, to a lesser extent, the very old — often disabled and widowed — have returned to spend their last years with children and grandchildren and avail themselves of better medical treatment and transportation.

Hmmm....I don't think Pittsburgh will shrink to nothing though.