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Do you have any sources confirming that Microsoft could block manual installations? As @bbearren pointed out in another message, upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is as simple as exchanging the install.esd file from Windows 10 in Windows 11, which allows installation with the same requirements as Windows 10; which seems to confirm that it is the same nucleus. If this is so, why should it block in Windows 11 or what has not blocked in Windows 10?

Despite the disclaimer seems to me Microsoft is not telling us the FULL truth. As I can understand, reading between the lines, it means unsupported Windows 11 systems won’t receive updates advices on Windows Update. But since Windows 11 uses same core than Windows 10 the real meaning is users must MANUALLY install the patches. Now, and beyond the disclaimer, when the hell has Microsoft taken full responsibility that its – very common – errors can cause to user systems and content? That notice strikes me as the closest thing to the “yes but no” argument (so common to many spouses, big sigh).

What sense would it make for Microsoft to offer Windows 10 for free, trusting that Windows 7 users would migrate to it, if now they will not be able to do so to Windows 11? Predictably, Microsoft changes its mind (again): https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/28/22646035/microsoft-windows-11-iso-workaround-no-update-guarantee

It is still possible using registry hacks, but there is no guarantee that it will work after the final release.

KB5004331 is the August Cumulative Update for .NET framework versions 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10 21H1 https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/topic/august-10-2021-kb5004331-cumulative-update-for-net-framework-3-5-and-4-8-for-windows-10-version-2004-windows-server-version-2004-windows-10-version-20h2-and-windows-server-version-20h2-and-windows-version-21h1-3b963e81-640a-4147-8574-c04f55cd1d08

@Susan Bradley, @OscarCP and forum members: With all due respect, what is the criteria for dividing this topic into two parts? The fact that it covers more than 550 responses does not seem to be relevant. Considering that the topic that tops the list of “most popular topics” – Abbodi86’s very useful method, “Win7 ESU Installer script” – spans 578 responses and HAS NOT BEEN ASKED TO BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, Why is this topic, which covers only one less answer, that is 578, if you are asked to do so? Thanks in advance for explaining it to us.

If you are suscribed to the ink cartridge replacement program, “HP Instant Ink”, that information is the cost to pay for the benefit (the program has really helped me saving a considerable sum of money). Regardless of the contracted plan, HP replaces the ink cartridges based of the real –not even the average– consumption that the user makes of them. In order to knowing this they obviously requires obtaining information from each impression that is made, among other data. Fortunately I only use this program for my children PC, being useful for his elementary school online classrooms and homeworks.

A moving tribute, in rock opera, to the people of Sarajevo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWXQdw-YvVM

Lyrics:

Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day
Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for curling hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right dress to wear
Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown
Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell
Is there a time for first communion
A time for East Seventeen
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
Is there time to be a beauty queen
Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown
Dici che il fiume
Trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
Giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
E le terre assetate
Dici che come il fiume
Come il fiume…
L’amore giungerà
L’amore…
E non so più pregare
E nell’amore non so più sperare
E quell’amore non so più aspettare
Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze

Info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sarajevo

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Opera? So let me contribute one of the most famous (and beautiful) Russian operas, performed by one of the most famous (and beautiful) orchestras and operatic company in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1rtMjtYzMn

Alexander Borodin’s opera: “Prince Igor” Kirov Opera (St. Petersbrug, Russia) Conducting: Valery Gergiev.

“Polovetsian dances” (at 1:22:00 point of the video) is una of the most beauty opera arragement, combining chorus and ballet dances.

Here is the second part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_4mIyktW0

Best regards!

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I have found very interesting the message from @opti1 (https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/arent-these-the-greatest-performances-of-
classical-music/#post-2368227) and the debate that subsequent messages generated regarding the use and abuse of “tempo” in classical music. Notable is, in this case, the video that I share here. It is a rehearsal of the Concerto for Ravel’s piano, which is already an emblematic piece in the repertoire of the great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, in which the conductor of the orchestra is the Swiss Charles Dutoit (who, by the way, is the ex husband of Martha Argerich).

The video is interesting not only because it reveals the implications of the orchestral conducting and the necessary relationship that must be established among this one, the performing soloist and the orchestra, but also for revealing how “tempo” is to be managed in that relationship. Here are some topics it contains, indicating, in parentheses, the corresponding time in the video:

1.- Trumpeter’s mistake (because of the “tempo”?) (1:05)

2.- “Do you want to regain the tempo?” (Director Dutoit’s comment to Martha Argerich) (2:25)

3.- … this concert is NEVER played the same way twice (Dutoit’s comment) (3:00)

4.- … Comment from a musician in the orchestra: “It runs a lot” –referring to Martha Argerich–. However, the director, without taking it into
account, says to Marta: “Go on, inspire us” (4:15)

5.- A musician’s complaint, which others echo, because the percussion is late (4:48)

6.- The director asks the phagot about the tempo he is using (5:14)

7.- Comment Dutoit, with an anecdote about Martha and a bassoon player, which occurred in a previous rehearsal: “Miss, will this be her
tempo”? (5:39)

8.- “IT IS THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING A MUSICIAN AND WORKING IN AN ART THAT LIVES IN CONTINUOUS RENEWAL” (Director’s comment) (11:45)

9.- “… painting is permanent, sculpture is permanent. But music must be transmitted through human beings, through musicians to be heard, so it is clear that in this system MAY HAVE MANY VARIATIONS AND A LOT OF PROGRESS TO MAKE “Ditto (12:02)

…etc. The rehersal holds many more revealing surprises, discover them by watching the video. DO NOT FORGET TO ACTIVATE YOUTUBE SUBTITLES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9hVbEDn5F4

Finally, my recognition and gratitude to @OscarCP for having started this topic that has already become the second most popular in this forum
(something unusual and an oasis on a site considered, mostly, for technical support purpuoses).

P.S .: Those “many variations and progress” to which Dutoit refers are what imprints a permanent dynamism in the music, making possible
“diversions” and improvisations that, in the in the case of the following video, they constitute masterful interpretations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOCqYVBEH5g

Best regards.

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This one performance of Mozart is remarkable:

Mozart’s Concerto for three pianos and orchestra in F major, No. 7, K. 242, known as ‘Lodron’, being performed at the 2015 Verbier Festival. The three piano soloists are Daniil Trifonov, Denis Matsuev, and Valery Gergiev, with Gergiev simultaneously conducting the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZXLoizK-7o

 

I hope you enjoy it. Best regards.

 

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Lars220

My pet and hers…

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Lars220

Perhaps the most know classical piece of the paraguayan folklore performed in classical guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWqXPTrigQ

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OscarCP

Oscar: after Bachianas n ° 5, n ° 2 (specifically the final part, tocatta known as “The Peasant’s Little Train”) is the best known and most celebrated work by Villa-Lobos. This piece is characterized by imitating the movement and sounds of a locomotive with the instruments of the orchestra. Although the intention proposed by Villa-Lobos for Bachianas n ° 2 is to musically reveal scenes of Brazilian rural life – in the case of the tocatta, it refers to the emigration from the countryside to the city – the piece derived in homage to the oldest –and still in use– locomotive in Brazil, featured in the video.

In 1975, the Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullar composed a letter for the tocatta and invited one of the most renowned Brazilian popular music singers, Edu Lobo, to make it known. The result, which I share, does not detract from but rather confirms the original quality of Villa-Lobos.
Note: if anyone want to skip the explanatory intoduction in te video, music begins at 0:50 seconds. Greetings.

Lyrics:
There goes the train with the boy
There goes life spinning
There goes ciranda (*) and destiny
Spinning night city
There goes the train with no destination
Find new day
Running goes by land, goes by mountains, goes by sea
Singing through the moonlight hills
Running among the flying stars
In the air, in the air, in the air … (…)
(*) = children’s round games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R6l86DbYag

And here is the original one, in a masterful interprtation of the Neojiba Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIG4h7lvj4Y

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Perhaps @fred would like to share some videos with us or give us more information about this delightful way to enjoy Amsterdam’s Sunday mornings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVtO7w4Qk0

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