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• Post #2244740

  Record of the day for 2026-04-22 Rachmaninoff: Symphony 1. Slatkin, St. Lous Symphony. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9539899--rachmaninov-symphony-no-1-prince-rostislav https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7959088--rachmaninoff-symphonies-nos-1-3

• Post #2244739

  Record of the day for 2026-04-23 Sibelius Symphony 1: Maazel, PSO https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8084687--sibelius-symphonies-nos-1-7 Also Ormandy: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8078409--eugene-ormandy-conducts-sibelius Also Vanska, which is only in streaming: https://music.apple.com/us/album/sibelius-symphonies-nos-1-and-4/1727126796

• Post #2244738

  Record of the day for 2026-04-24 Probably the peak Symphony Number 1... Mahler symphony 1. Honeck, PSO https://www.discogs.com/release/7056470-Mahler-Manfred-Honeck-Pittsburgh-Symphony-Orchestra-Symphony-No-1-Titan But this one is hard to get. So get the Bernstein. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7942590--mahler-symphony-no-1-in-d-major-titan

• Post #2244737

  Maybe the weirdest thing about claude code and such is how an engine that just can understand flat text and has some good search heuristics is a much stronger tool for so many code manipulation tasks than all the static analysis and other tools with much more "rigorous" foundations that have been build over the past 50 years. "Code is just text" has a history of winning over smarter tool representations since Unix and emacs killed all the structure editors. It...

• Post #2244736

  Symphony #1 fest continues! Record of the day for 2026-04-27 Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique (also a Symphony no. 1). Bernstein. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7928042--berlioz-symphonie-fantastique

• Post #2244735

  Record of the day for 2026-04-28 Malcolm Arnold, Symphony 1. Hickox: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7922776--arnold-symphonies-nos-1-2 Handley: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8338968--arnold-symphonies-nos-1-5

• Post #2244734

  Record of the day for 2026-04-29 Nielsen: Symphony 1. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7923524--nielsen-symphonies-nos-1-6

• Post #2244733

  Record of the day for 2026-04-30 Florence Price, Symphony 1. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9252023--florence-price-symphonies-nos-1-3 Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8520012--florence-beatrice-price-symphonies-nos-1-4

• Post #2244731

  Record of the day for 2026-05-01 A double Symphony 1 to finish off the festival. Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony, Barber: Symphony 1. Neeme Jarvi, Detroit. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7945709--barber-overture-to-the-school-for-scandal-op-5-etc

• Post #2244730

  Wut. (37F in Pittsburgh right now)

• Post #2244729

  Here is what I want an """AI""" agent for: run around my computer and figure out how to turn off all the fucking activity badges.

• Post #2244726

  Record of the day for 2026-05-04 Bill Evans: Portait in Jazz. One of the classic records with LaFaro. https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8540709--portrait-in-jazz https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/portrait-in-jazz-keepnews-collection-bill-evans-trio/0088807230678?qref=bsk I like this version because the alternates are at the end and don't mess up the album's sequence. Strangely missing from Apple Music

• Post #2244725

  Record of the day for 2026-05-05 More classic Bill Evans: Explorations https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8500793--explorations-original-jazz-classics-remasters

• Post #2244724

  If a recipe for "4 servings" of stir fried greens has multiple tablespoons of soy sauce in it put it down and never use a recipe by that food writer ever again.

• Post #2244723

  Record of the day for 2026-05-06 More classic Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8680853--waltz-for-debby

• Post #2244722

  Record of the day for 2026-05-07 Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard. https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8477416--sunday-at-the-village-vanguard

• Post #2244721

  Record of the day for 2026-05-08 David Murray Big Band https://www.discogs.com/release/1307488-David-Murray-Big-Band-Conducted-By-Lawrence-Butch-Morris https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/david-murray-big-band-david-murray-big-band/g9bvvdjmsn1ua https://music.apple.com/us/album/david-murray-big-band/295592523