Back in the 1960-ies, there was an election campaign in Germany, when senior chancellor Konrad Adenauer was still the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), even at age 90. He was one of the great Europeans, who created the core of what is now the European Union (E.U.), together with Charles DeGaulle.
Well, during this campaign, there was a special radio program, created by the Socialist Party (SPD) around Erich Ollenhauer. The title of the radio program was: "Learn Rhenish (the dialect or idiom of Rheinland province, spoken by Konrad Adenauer) with the Bundeskanzler (Chancellor)", all fabricated from recorded speeches, cut into word slices & put together again. Not a very difficult task then, but much easier today with all the electronic tools, and further not so difficult as Mr.Adenauer reduced his vocabulary to not more than 300 different words. (Today there are politicians !!!, who get along even with a much shorter vocabulary, even repeating these very short sentences over & over until they believe them themselves !). This radio programm was entertaining & never insulted the old gentleman chancellor. Why do I write about this ? Well, Al Jazeera could provide such a program as "Learn Arabic with Osama !" - Not funny at all ! But the timing is very interesting, as such "tapes" are broadcasted at "appropriate times", means, when decisions should be forced. These people think perhaps, that we are Kindergarten children, believing Mickey Mouse & Dagobert Duck. The same happen with the survey about "War support by the American People". You remember the survey ten days or two weeks ago, when 855 people were questioned, less than a 250.000th of the US population. And NOW: politicians & journalists, even serious journalists, point on that survey as the opinion of the American people. Not funny at all. And the opinion of the American people is NOT pro War, as I know from many letters on this list & private letters I received. Last night we had a serious program, featuring a serious journalist & writer from Austria, who has been in Iraq twice the last ten months, and the former double of Saddam Husseins notorious son. This man, many times acting on place of Husseins son, when he was afraid being assassinated, left Iraq several months ago, and he witnessed many of the cruelties committed by S.Husseins son (the double reported incredible things, - and he made a very serious impression), and he said that Saddam intervened, but pardonned his son after few weeks (even after murders). So it is clear, that S.H. regime MUST end, but from inside. Threatening the Iraqi people with war just unifies it in its support for the (hated) regime & will not remove the ruler. Did you ever get known, that masses demonstrate against the US presence in the Golf region yesterday, - in Iran, as they feel it as a threat ? Danger escalates now on a fast pace. Beware ! Yes, this letter has to do with music also. There are horn players in Bagdad, in the National Philharmonic, an orchestra, which exists over 50 years now. They play our music: Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, even Mendelssohn. The orchestra has some 50+ members. All are suffering very much under the shortage in all possible supplies. If you pray, if you still can pray in this world, pray for our colleagues in Baghdad as well as for our colleagues, who will be deployed to the golf. -- Prof.Hans Pizka email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel.: +49 89 903 9548 - www.pizka.de (horn site) with connections to www.pizka.de/Pizka-music.html (publications) - www.pizka.de/PizClasHr.htm (instruments, mouthpieces) www.pizka.de/PizWrHorn.htm (Viennese Horns) - www.pizka.de/mpiece.htm (mouthpieces) www.pizka.de/Pizka-travel.htm (pictures, stories, experiences from my travel) - open soon mail is virus checked _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
