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Things got heated during a FOX Faceoff debate between black activist Quanell X and host Angela Box.
According to Daily Mail, the pair were discussing South Carolina Officer Ben Fields, who became infamous among liberals last week when he was caught on camera throwing a high school girl to the ground.
Box argued that Fields should not have been fired over the incident, blaming "all this" police brutality stuff on "black culture."
"When you have a student disrupting the class making life hell for the teachers and other students it is impossible for other students to learn," she said. "I do agree the cop went too far but I don't think he should have lost his job over it."
"I think it's high time we start addressing the root causes of all this: the disrespect of teachers, this Black Lives Matter movement, this perpetual chip on your shoulder against everybody that's not like yourself," Box continued. "It's got to stop. We've got to address the culture."
Hearing this, Quanell X lost it.
"Ms. Box, nobody supports a disruptive student in a classroom because it stops other kids from learning," he said. "But what I do have a problem with is, men should never handle a woman like the way that cop handled that little girl, to turn that desk over the way he did, grab her around her neck, then grabbed that child and threw her across the room, that is unbecoming of a man with decent character and conduct."
"That's unbecoming of a conduct of a police officer. They should have got a school counselor, a therapist on campus with a school counselor and a mental health officer to come to the school to deal with that child," Quanell X continued. "We don't know what was going on with that kid. But no kid should be disruptive of their learning environment."
"Now, for you to say that we need to deal with the culture of black kids in schools, let's deal with the culture of these crazy fanatic white boys who go in schools with guns and shoot and kill everybody," he added.
If Quanell X is so concerned about women being treated well, he shouldn't be screaming at a woman on national television.
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Beleg Cúthalion, nicknamed Strongbow, was a Sindarin elf who served in the army of King Elu Thingol of Doriath as Chief Marchwarden.
Sometime during the First Age, Beleg and his friend Mablung were the only Elves of Doriath to fight with the Union of Maedhros in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, as King Thingol would have nothing to do with the war. Together with Mablung he was one of the great captains of the Sindar, and was part of the Hunting of the Great Wolf Carcharoth during the trials of Beren Erchamion and Lúthien.
Later, he became a good friend and brother-in-arms of Túrin Turambar. When Túrin left Doriath, Beleg got permission from the King to follow him into exile and bring him the kings pardon, wielding the black sword Anglachel that Eöl had forged and given to Thingol in tribute. Beleg found the band of outlaws Turin was leading while Turin was away scouting, and was tortured by the outlaws until Turin found and released him. Unable to persuade Turin to return to Doriath with him, Beleg returned to King Thingol and gained permission to join Turin. He went into the wilds again and found Turin on Amon Rûdh.
Together with Túrin, wearing the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin, he became for a while a captain against the Dark Lord Morgoth. When Túrin was captured by Morgoth, Beleg was grievously wounded, yet with the knowledge and strength of an elite elven warrior, he recovered and followed the orcs. He met the escaped thrall Gwindor in Taur-nu-Fuin and together they rescued Túrin, but as Beleg cut the bonds from Túrin's wrists and ankles he slipped, accidentally cutting Túrin with his sword. Túrin awoke and did not recognize Beleg in the darkness, assuming the shape bent over him with a blade was an orc and that he was to be tortured again. In a sudden rage of self-defense, he wrested the sword from Beleg and killed him.

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After a wet Pembrokeshire summer I find myself in Nice, capital of the French Riviera. My reasons for being here aren't entirely (or even partly) musical. So, after a week in the city, trying to discover what the place has to offer is, frankly, a bit after the event.
France's fifth-largest conurbation has, happily, much to recommend it. What is especially pleasing is that I seemed to have arrived at the right time, since next month the city plays host to the Manca Festival of Contemporary Music (14th–24th November). Transport links to Nice are excellent (four cheap Easyjet flights a day from Gatwick, for example), so you might consider a short city break to catch some of this.
Manca takes place under the auspices of CIRM, one of six Centres Nationaux de Création Musicale (National Centres for Musical Creation) in France, the other five being in Bethany (outskirts of Reims), Albi, Marseille, Lyon and Alfortville. CIRM was founded in 1968 by composer Jean-Etienne Marie, its mission being 'to promote the contemporary music repertoire, focussing its activities mainly along four lines: production, diffusion, training and research.' The organisation has strong links locally and internationally and has a special interest in the promotion of electronic music, especially by playing host to composers who create works in its three electronic studios.
Some of these are written especially for the Manca Festival, as is the case in this year's opening concert, which features premières of two CIRM commissions, Tiantian Wang's The distant murmur and Yikeshan Abudushalamu's Divine Light, both for chamber orchestra and electronics. The concert also features two premières by Michel Pascal: Never die and Requins for 16 instruments and electronics.
Highlights from the rest of the festival include, on 18th, Hugues Dufourt's Burning Bright for six percussionists, an hour-long work inspired by William Blake's The Tyger with lighting and scenography by Enrico Bagnoli. On 20th there is a live electronic performances given by Gaël Navard. It is inspired by the the discovery of exoplanet Kepler-186f in 2014, the performance wittily billed as a piece of 'exomusicological' research conducted through 'telesonoscopes', the result being the first performance of 'Keplerian' music on their native instrument, the 'soundplane.' On 21st is a performance of Phèdre, an opera for solo voice by Marianne Pousseur and Enrico Bagnoli based upon a text by Yannis Ritsos. There are also two concerts of electroacoustic music presented by students at British universities on 19th and, on 24th, an international study day on the theme 'Geste Musical : Modèles et expériences.' Three of the papers at this conference are in English, one of which also includes a video projection and live performance.
Prices for all events are very reasonable: many are free, others mostly being 5 or 10 euros.
As planned, I tuned in for the broadcast première of Max Richter's Sleep on Saturday. I'd initially thought that the 8 hour work, which is designed to be slept through, was a peculiar idea. Why would a composer want his audience to be unconscious? And if you really wanted to influence a person's sleep, shouldn't the music be a little less restful? I was wrong; I experienced extremely vivid dreams in which sound was a constant feature, the experience being both fascinating and a little disturbing. It was an interesting experiment, worth checking out.
If you are looking for something less somnolent, check out Objects at an Exhibition, a splendid collaboration between the Science Museum and NMC in which six composers took an exhibit as the starting point for a new work, the whole being a homage to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Thea Musgrave's Power Play takes its inspiration from the steam engines of the Energy Hall, the result being charmingly 'technical' work with a good deal of Stravinskian neoclassical wit. The statue of R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire, is the starting point of Christopher Mayo's Supermarine, a grungy piece for cello, double bass and sampled aircraft engines. Claudia Molitor's 2TwoLO takes its name from first BBC transmitter. It begins with BBC archive recordings explaining some key facts about early days of radio broadcasting – the surprising fact that music was not initially permitted to be broadcast, an account of an early recording session and an early broadcast schedule – whilst the music, perhaps reflecting its gradual acceptance in the new medium, atmospherically creeps, bumps and scrapes into existence, gradually taking on a more solid form. David Sawer's exciting Coachman Chronos, flies along with the energy of the historic York Mail Coach, though not without periods of thoughtful repose. Gerald Barry's melancholic The One-Armed Pianist is inspired by a false limb designed to allow the left arm of an injured pianist to play octaves. In it a simple two note figure is gradually expanded until the octave is reached, and then insisted upon with sad significance.
Barry Guy's Mr. Babbage is Coming to Dinner, an improvisatory work full of keenly imagined and felicitous instrumental timbres, completes what is a very satisfying programme – the works are wonderfully varied and one can easily imagine how effective they would be in situ. This project, one must remember, is just one of many – some collaborative, some solo – from NMC over the last few years. These include 20x12, New Music Biennial Project, Music Map, Digital Discoveries and Next Wave. When it comes to supporting and promoting British contemporary music, no other record label comes close.
2015 is a Venice Biennale year, the 10 day music programme running from October 2nd–11th. In total there will be 18 concerts presenting 31 new works, the main composers featured being Pierre Boulez, Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenman and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
In his 90th birthday year Pierre Boulez will be the subject of a special tribute with a performance of Messagesquisse prefaced by 10 pieces written in homage to him on 11th. Machinations for 4 female voices voices, electronics and video by Georges Aperghis, winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for 2015, will be performed on 10th. Helmut Lachenmann, 80 years old this year and the winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2008, will see performances of Grido for String Quartet, Trio Fluido for clarinet, viola and percussion and Streichtrio I for violin, viola, cello. Souvenir à la memoire for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano by Giuseppe Sinopoli will be performed on the final night.
Other composers represented are: Milica Djordjevic, Nina Šenk, Pasquale Corrado, Federico Gardella, Silvia Borzelli, Lara Morciano, Dai Fujikura, Marcin Stanczyk, Luca Antignani, Filippo Zapponi, Benoît Chantry, Aureliano Cattaneo, George Benjamin, Fabio Nieder, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Dieter Ammann, Matteo D'Amico.
In the UK the Aberdeenshire Sound Festival runs from 22nd October to 9th November. The programme is extremely wide-ranging. It kicks off with Philip Cooke's By Reason of Darkness, a setting of sections of Job, verse 37 scored for community choir and bells at 6pm on 22nd. The rest of the first week focuses on cross-art forms, including art and music installations in partnership with Gray's School of Art; Sandglass with choreography by Lucy Boyes and music by Thomas Butler; and an audiovisual collaboration Requiem for Edward Snowdon by Matthew Collings and Jules Rawlinson. The second week focuses on contemporary music performances with pianist Ian Pace and Ensemble Alternance from France. There will also be works for organ as part of a part of a collaboration with French festival Musiques Démesurées, including a new work by Jean-Luc Guionnet. There's much more besides, including new operas, a series of new works commissioned to partner each of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas and new joint commission by six Scottish composers.
On 3rd October at Barbican, London there is a BBCSO Total Immersion Day exploring the music of Henryk Górecki. This begins with an introduction by Polish music expert, Professor Adrian Thomas at 11am, followed by performances of Górecki's String Quartet No. 1 and 2 at 11, a film documentary at 3pm, a concert of his vocal music given by the BBC Singers at 5.30pm, and a final evening concert of orchestral and vocal music at 7.30pm.
Outside the two festivals other premieres this month include the BBCSO playing Richard Ayres' No. 48 at Barbican on 8th; Laurence Crane's Chamber Symphony No. 2 The Australian and Marisol Jiménez's XLIII - MEMORIAM VIVIRE at St. John's, Smith Square on 10th; the UK premiere of John Adams Scheherazade.2 at the Barbican on 29th; and Lotta Wennäkoski's Verdigris given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Queen's Hall Edinburgh, also on 29th. The Swansea Festival, finally, runs from 2nd—17th. There's not a whole lot in the way of contemporary music, but a major highlight is the chance to hear the five-star rated ballet Cinderalla with Ballet Cymru and music by Jack White.
On DG there are new recordings of Witold Lutosławski's Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 2 conducted by the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle.
NMC is celebrating the life of Steve Martland with a two-disk set that includes Horses of Instruction, Patrol and Crossing the Border. It is currently available for pre-order.
Galina Ustvolskaya was a composer whose uncompromising style led to its almost complete neglect in Soviet Russia. She was, however, widely admired, including by her teacher Shostakovich. The 11th volume of a survey of her music played by Natalia Andreeva is released this month on Divine Art, together with a new disk featuring the clarinet music of Ian Mitchell.
On Col Legno, Austrian Heartbeats #2 is a programme of music by young composers selected by Georg Friedrich Haas: Marco Döttlinger, Peter Jakober, Hannes Kerschbaumer, and Manuela Meier.
On Navona Records Moto Continuo features contrasting works by Osias Wilenski, Nicholas, Anthony Ascioti, Diane Jones, John A. Carollo, Robert Fleisher and Brian Noyes.
On F-IRE, finally, something a bit different: Alex Hutton's Magna Carta Suite, a lively and enjoyable crossover album that features elements of jazz and classical music.
Max Richter's new album on DG, the 8 hour Sleep is a gigantic set of variations that explore the way music can interact with states of consciousness. The complete work is only available as a digital download (no streaming) from iTunes where, it must be said, it has been gathering a string of five star reviews.
The piece, as the title suggests, is designed to be slept through, an idea that leaves me with mixed feelings. I can see that a more provocative work might affect the quality of a person's sleep in a way that would be of artistic interest. I can't, however, imagine this music achieving such an effect; its slow, minimalist beauty is certainly admirable but more likely, I would have thought, to induce a state of sleepy contentment.
If sleeping through a composer's work seems perverse, an alternative would be to buy the one hour highlights disk, which is intended to be enjoyed fully conscious. This version is also available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music. If the full experience is of interest the 8 hour version is £24.99. Even better, there is also an opportunity to try before you buy: Radio 3 is broadcasting a complete performance from midnight on 26 September to 8am on 27 September. Despite my reservations the idea is a fascinating one, so I shall definitely be tuning in.
One of my favourite radio shows at the moment is Radio 5 Live's Film Review Programme, dubbed Wittertainment by its devoted army of listeners ('Hello to Jason Isaacs', by the way). It's hosted by Simon Mayo with Mark Kermode as its resident film critic, the two of them being a cross between a warring couple and father and son, the former trying to discipline a recalcitrantly loquacious latter. As well as listening to the most recent programmes, I am so addicted I have been trawling my way through their back catalogue. Here are some of Mark Kermode's views I decided to scribble down whilst listening to an episode from 2011:
'It's like Annie Hall meets the grim reaper without the jokes.' (on the film Restless)
'Passable waffle whilst it's there.' (on Monte Carlo)
'I did watch the whole thing and I didn't enjoy it very much.' (on Reuniting the Rubins)
These were written down in a random moment when the idea for this blogpost came to mind. They're actually pretty anodyne. A really terrible film will provoke a full-scale 'Kermodian Rant', a stream of invective that is, nevertheless, elegantly-phrased, well-argued and based on a massive store of film knowledge. Here's a classic example: Mark Kermode's monumental dismissal of Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
The criticism is passionate, honest, well-informed, sometimes divisive and, frankly, not always right (though Kermode would disagree there). Listening to the programme I have been struck by the extent to which the passion, which cuts both ways (when Kermode likes a film he also really lets you know), sends me searching for a film, or at least adding it to my growing 'to watch' list. It has also made me seek out films in actual theatres, an activity that I was never that much interested in. I've recently paid good money for screenings of popcorn nonsense like Minions, Mad Max: Fury Road and Mission Impossible V and more thoughtful fare such as Conducta, Birdman and an arthouse screening of North by Northwest.
This reengagement with film is entirely down to good criticism. Which inevitably made me wonder why we don't have this kind of energy in contemporary music criticism? I am not saying that it is terrible but, whilst there are certainly examples of scathing reviews, I more often have a creeping sense that critics are afraid to say exactly what they think. I read, for example, a recent thumbnail review of John Adams' Absolute Jest in a national newspaper that said something along the lines of (I paraphrase) 'I don't subscribe so much to enthusiasm that others show for Adams music, but.…' And so went on to give a generally lukewarm review. That opening phrase was actually pretty daring in the context of current criticism and I appreciated its honesty, but it had, nevertheless, a politeness that was crushingly dull. Why is this?
The first reason is, I think, is probably fair enough: criticising high art is, on the whole, a different proposition from criticising commercial art. With high art there is a level of competence in its execution that qualifies it to have that label in the first place. So a critic is probably right to be cautious in his approach, even if he should be constantly on the lookout for imposters: low art that is masquerading as high art. And I think the contemporary music scene has sufficient pretentious twaddle in it for critics to make things a bit livelier than they are. Why they don't is probably down to the second reason, which I think is much less excusable: the fear of being called out for being wrong, ill-informed, or, God forbid, simply 'not understanding' dear boy.
Do you know what? It's okay to have an opinion, to risk being wrong, and to have a gut reaction on one hearing alone. These are deep waters, I know, since I'm only too aware that challenging music, as in any form of art, sometimes requires effort to achieve understanding and even enjoyment. Gut reactions matter, however, if we are to have a lively public discourse. Inflamed, partial, even erroneous debate is healthy as, in the same way I have been inspired to go more to the cinema, it might lead curious audiences back to our concert halls.
What worries me is that currently all of the lively criticism is taking place behind closed doors. I've had some fabulous discussions with friends about recent Proms premieres, or the difficult music of old stalwarts. On one occasion I told someone close to me to turn off Boulez's Structures II because I thought the music was so ghastly. A lively debate has since ensued that has opened my mind to some of his works (the magical Pli Selon Pli, for example), whilst rather confirming my opinion about others. At the other end of the stylistic spectrum someone recently said to me that they thought Steve Reich's The Desert Music to be the greatest orchestral (ok it has voices too) work of the last four decades. I went back to it and found it monumentally pretentious and, actually, quite dull. I'm probably wrong, but as Kermode himself would say: 'Other opinions are available.' Mine matter too.
I realise I am maybe criticising others for something that I am guilty of myself; I am often quite cautious about criticising other composers in this blog. Actually I think this is probably right and proper. Whilst figures of the stature of Boulez and Reich can take care of themselves, this forum is a place for encouraging and supporting composers. And I don't consider myself a critic. What I can't help wishing, however, is that the real critics had a bit more Kermodian wit and verve. A livelier discourse might lead to a bit more enthusiasm about new music. In the meantime maybe it's incumbent on the rest of us to have and to share strong opinions about the music we listen too. We really don't have to like everything or, worse, pretend we understand everything. It's time for us to have the courage to hate music.
Members may remember Sound and Music's commissioning survey from last year, which received a fair amount of gloomy press coverage. My own reaction was a little more positive, though maybe a little contrary; I would, of course, like to see composers paid a lot more. Sound and Music is currently running the survey again, which should give the first hints as to whether the situation is growing worse or better.
On this year's survey, Susanna Eastburn, Chief Executive of Sound and Music, says:
Being invited to create a new work (and being paid for it) is a vital part of life and income as a professional composer. Last year's findings sent ripples of shock around the world as it revealed just how little most composers are being paid to create music. Without composers, there would be no music, so I very much hope that we see some signs of improvement.
Listening is core to Sound and Music's vision and is at the heart of everything we do. This survey is an important way that we can listen to what composers tell us about the realities of their working lives so that we can better understand and advocate for them and their work. I urge any composer reading this to take a few minutes to complete the survey, and I thank them for their time.
Head over to Sound and Music to make your contribution.
I was enormously impressed to find Naxos disks available on Apple Music. Since starting to use the service, however, I've noticed a curious thing. Last month some albums that I had enjoyed and mentioned in a previous post – a disk of Piano Trios by Benet Casablancas, Bright Sheng's Night at the Chinese Opera and a programme of music for winds by Chen Yi – mysteriously disappeared from my Apple Music library. I kept receiving this message:
I initially put this down to a bug in the software – I've experienced quite a few other issues with Apple music over my free trial period: dropped tracks, duplicate entries, search stops working, ongoing problems with iTunes Match, weird inconsistencies in the length of composer's biographies (compare, for example, that of Mozart with the aforementioned, and comparatively unknown, Bright Sheng). Enough, in fact, for a separate blog post that would act as a bit of a corrective to my favourable review of Apple Music.
This month there was a bigger gap than normal between my checking out recent releases and writing about them. As usual I'd been over to Naxos, looked at their new albums and then added a few that interested me to my Apple Music library. These were a disk of John McCabe piano music, a composer who died recently and who deserves a bit of attention; an album of music by John Joubert, a name that is perhaps more well known than his actual music; and a symphony and cello concerto by Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin, who I don't know at all. I'd dipped into the first two and listened to the whole of the Chin and planned to revisit a few times before writing this blog post.
Of course, when I returned a few days later, these tracks had also mysteriously disappeared, with the same unhelpful message. Today I've searched for some of the other Naxos new releases: some contemporary piano music from China; Krzysztof Meyer chamber music; Áskell Másson music for clarinet; Roman Berger chamber music; and Andrew Staniland's Talking Down the Tiger. Only the Másson is available to me. It looks like the Staniland was available at some point since a search using the album title Talking Down the Tiger reveals the composer as an 'artist' next to a picture of that album, but with no trace of the actual album (a similar thing happens when you search for Bright Sheng):
It is a different story if you go back to music released before the advent of Apple Music. Those mentioned in my June CD roundup – albums by Boris Pigovat, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kaikhosro Shapurji Sorabji, Richard Danielpor and Pino Vargas – are all available for streaming. What on earth is going on?
It seems to me that Naxos, and possibly other labels, are trying to have their streaming cake and eat it. They are releasing albums for a few days on Apple Music, realising that the most likely point when they will receiving streaming revenue is when disks are new and customers (and reviewers!) are exploring them. Of course, if a customer then likes a disk, he is in for a disappointment when returning for another listen: the disk has disappeared and must now be purchased.
I have some sympathy for the reasons behind this. Naxos, a label I much admire, probably operates on wafer-thin margins; as such they need to do everything they can to maximise revenue. It just seems to me that this is not the solution. As well as losing customer good will, such an approach only works anyway if the disk is not reintroduced for streaming at a later point. The fact that older Naxos disks are still available suggests that these new releases will indeed be reintroduced. So what incentive does that leave the listener to buy, knowing full well that it will reappear at a later date? None. And what revenue does Naxos then earn whilst the disk is not available for streaming? None. Everyone is a loser.
I realise that record labels are adapting to new models of distributing their products. I can only hope that this reflects a period of experimentation on the part of Naxos and that they will soon realise that their approach is not beneficial to either the customer or themselves. In the meantime my straightforward advice to Apple Music users is: enjoy Naxos's back catalogue – give them every bit of revenue you can to support their generally excellent work – but on no account feel forced to buy one of their new releases. You would be wasting your money.
Before writing this blog post I wrote to Naxos asking them to clarify their position regarding streaming of new releases. They did not reply.
Musikfest Berlin (2nd–20th September)
Over the course of 19 days there will be 30 events featuring over 70 works by 25 composers, played by 30 orchestras, ensembles and by countless soloists. All this will take place at the Philharmonie, its Kammermusiksaal, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the Passionskirche and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
The Musikfest Berlin starts under the title Tehillim with an event on the eve of the opening concert in the Philharmonie's Kammermusiksaal: Steve Reich's psalm recording, which will be performed by Ensemble Modern and the Synergy Vocals. Schönberg's oeuvre unfolds in a series of 15 concerts interwoven with pieces by Gustav Mahler. The highlight of this series is the oratorio Die Jakobsleiter with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Ingo Metzmacher; and Glückliche Hand with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle. Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde will be presented in a quasi-concertante version at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on 18th.
Beethovenfest Bonn (4th September–4th October)
The festival, with a programme of 54 events, is being held under the motto 'Variations'. Starting from Beethoven's '33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli', musical variations pervade the entire programme. Variations appear in large-scale orchestral works and in chamber music, in changes of instrumentation or in witty variations on variations.
Whilst the programme focuses on core classical repertoire, there is also some contemporary repertoire to be found. There is the first performance of a new version (for two cellos and orchestra) of Sofia Gubaidulina's Two Paths on 11th; two chances to hear Salvatore Sciarrino's Quando ci risvegliamo on 12th; and a concert of works by Iván Fischer on 20th.
There will also be three dance productions with live music paying homage to Beethoven the 'avant garde' composer. One of these, entitled Landscape, is being staged by the minimalist Saburo Teshigawara with composer/pianist Francesco Tristano and the dancer Rihoko Sato. It will also include music by J.S. Bach and John Cage.
Ultima: Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (10th–19th September)
Billed as 'the premiere contemporary music festival in the Nordic region', it takes place at venues all around Oslo: the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo Concert Hall and the University of Oslo's Great Hall as well as in small clubs, shop premises, industrial premises, museums, schools and outdoors. The Ultima Festival aims to promote artistic distinctiveness, trends and innovation and to make music of a high artistic standard accessible by everyone.
Events include: Adam and Eve–a Divince Comedy, a new burlesque comic opera on fundamentalist religion and misogyny by Cecilie Ore on 11th and 12th; a chance to hear Harry Partch's microtonal instruments in action on 12th; Gérard Grisey's Le Noir de L'Etoile for six percussionists, a spectacular work that has never been performed in Norway, on 16th; world premières from Jon Øivend Ness and Øyvind Torvund on 19th at 3pm and from Andre Bratten/Ole-Nerik Moe in the evening.
Also throughout the festival is the ULTIMA ACADEMY – a series of academic and public lectures, screenings and workshops in parallel with the Festival. The theme this year is 'On Nature'.
Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (18th-26th September)
The theme of the 58th Warsaw Autumn's programme is dynamistatic, a word that describes music that is both static and dynamic at the same time. Though this is a rather convoluted hook on which to hang a lot of different music, it doesn't distract from a lively and interesting programme. Composers represented include: La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Stefan Prins, Raphaёl Cendo, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Philippe Manoury, Giacinto Scelsi, Toshio Hosokawa, Gérard Grisey, Ray Lee, Hans Abrahamsen, Paweł Szymański, Johannes Kreidler and Jagoda Szmytka. There will be a celebration to mark the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez and 80th of Helmut Lachenmann with a performances of Boulez's Dérive and Lachenmann's Air during the festival's opening concert.
Interesting programming will also go hand-in-hand with lively presentation. Włodzimierz Kotoński's Étude concrète (For One Cymbal Stroke) will, for example, be presented as an installation in a deserted century-old apartment house. It will run simultaneously with a second installation, which will discreetly present the voices of former residents of the house.
Prom 31: 8th August, National Youth Orchestra
I was knocked sideways this morning when catching up on the latest Proms 'première' (actually it had already been performed twice on the NYO tour), Tansy Davies's Re-greening. I expected urban grunge, the cliché that is oft applied to her music. Instead we got less urban, more urbane.
Alert: spoilers ahead! Follow this link to listen to the piece.
Davies explained before the performance a little about how the work was put together, the first novelty being that its 7-minute span is conductorless. Instead the work is constructed around a series of evenly spaced events with players within the orchestra initiating the material. Even given precise planning, such freedom presents dangers, especially in an orchestra as generously proportioned as the 164 member NYO. Not only did the ensemble make light of these challenges, hearing them do so was intrinsic to the success of the work.
164 young players responding to each other, acting together to produce a work without external control, somehow got to the essence not only of what the NYO is about, but what youth music making in general is about. Many young players, including those in this fine orchestra, will go on to non-musical careers, but the spirit of self-reliance, self-discipline and team cooperation that was magnified in this music are also life lessons. If local politicians realised this then maybe they wouldn't be so keen to take the knife to free instrumental tuition.
In purely musical terms I'm not sure how pick my superlatives, so deeply did the work impress me. It was a risk, especially, to ask the orchestra to sing, even more so to make use of something as tweely bucolic as Summer Is Icumen In and the heavenly but well-worn (see Britten's Noye's Fludde, for example) Tallis Canon. But it was the juxtaposition of the familiar and strange that made the journey so compelling, the found ideas set in sharp relief against dashing bursts of bright woodwind and strange, ravishingly orchestrated chords that for a moment seemed to join heaven with earth.
The piece was a triumph, further proof of the vibrancy, the absolute necessity of contemporary music. I've often banged on about how there's something for everyone in our multi-faceted new music scene. At the Proms the evidence has been everywhere. We've had the brash showmanship of Gary Carpenter's expertly crafted Dadaville; the more introspective and challenging landscapes of HK Gruber's into the open… and Luke Bedford's Instability; the tonal delights of Hugh Wood's Epithalamion; and the rich thematic and harmonic world of MacMillan's Symphony No.4. Good grief, on 7th we even had the treat of a Messiaen world première, the fairly recently discovered (and more recently orchestrated) Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui). One can't help but feel that we're living in some kind of golden age, such is the array of delights on offer.
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"In any event, you have not shown racism against Semites on the part of Luther "
"And Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free"
What wolves in the pulpit? I have no idea what you're talking about. You're sending me on wild goosechases, seemingly in an effort to make it seem like Lutherans are anti-semites. Why are you doing this? It almost seems like you're trying to distract from the issue at hand, which is that the Islamists are butchering Christians all over the place. There is anti-semitism in the world but I have never known a Lutheran who was anti-semitic, although not one of them would agree with the Jews' rejection of salvation through Jesus Christ.
>>I have no idea what youre talking about.
What does this mean?
>>the Islamists are butchering Christians
Meet the New ÜberBa'al, same as the Old ÜberBa'al
—The Who?
He wouldn't give the requested context for the quote he cited, so I have been reading the entire text. The quote he gave was on page 61 at http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/JewsAndTheirLies.pdf . Reading that, you can see that my explanation was correct. He was saying that the Jews were acting as if the Lord and the angels must worship them and their farts, because they believe they have the right to undo the Word of God and call Him a liar.
So far what I have seen is refutation of the claims of the Jews of Luther's day, although he also says that the Jews were practicing usury, getting rich off of the work of others, twisting words to slander Christians, etc. Whether that is anti-semitism or whether it is true, I don't know. It actually sounds a lot like those today who complain about the 47% who live off the government teat. And the refutation of the claims sounds a lot like the way folks here don't agree with taqiyya (Muslim lying for the cause), the slaughter of infidels, or violent jihad.
I have read the entire text at http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/JewsAndTheirLies.pdf and did not see that in there. Where are you finding that?
I Googled that entire quote that you gave so that I could see if anybody cited a reference page or showed it in context. There are a lot of sites claiming that Luther said that in this writing, but nobody gave full context or referenced pages or links, and now I know why, because (unless the pdf I just read is not complete) that quote is not in there. The other quotes I found that were supposedly cited from this writing of Luther are snippets cobbled together out of context - the exact same kind of deception and lies that Luther accused the Jews of his day of doing.
In the last page of that PDF Luther is addressing the Jews' claims that they are being held captive by the Christians. Luther says they are free to go, are not being held captive by anybody, and that he wishes they could be in Jerusalem. He says that Christians are perhaps enabling them in their wrong-doing by not enacting justice for the crimes and by letting them mooch off of them. It sounds very much like what you hear around here about the welfare state and about the corrupt government. I have never thought of folks here as being "racist" against government because they hate the corruption of government. I have never accused anybody here of trying to burn down mosques because they say that Mohammed took an 8-year-old wife and his followers do the same. In this writing Luther says the Jews were doing the same thing that the papists, Muslims, some other Christians, Isreal of the Bible, etc have done. If he is bigoted against Jews by hating what they are doing then he was a bigot against his own self also, since he calls himself a worm, etc. His point is that we are all sinners with nothing to boast about before the Lord, and he is very clearly tired of the lies and deceptions. Really ironic that those who call Luther anti-semitic have apparently fabricated quotes from him.
The left-hand kingdom is the earthly kingdom. It deals with justice. The right-hand kingdom is God's Kingdom; only there can a person find real life. Luther said the two are separate.
I don't know what LIFERs you're talking about, and there is no temple in Seward.
To be quite frank I am tired of trying to follow your cryptic comments that never come right out and say anything. I've spent most of the afternoon scouring the cited writing of Luther, trying to find quotes that aren't there, and I'm not going to waste any more time on this.
To believe that a people is deceived - which is the ultimate conclusion that Luther reached regarding the Jews, in that writing - is not the same thing as being "racist" against them. I believe that most Americans, including my own siblings and parents, are deceived, and have said so openly on this board - but I love them with all my heart and they love me with all their hearts. Jesus Christ called the Jewish leaders of His day "white-washed tombs". Why would He who is perfect love say something like that? Because it is the truth and they needed a swift kick in the pants - to try to wake them from their sleep while salvation was still available to them. Any parent who has ever had to rebuke a child understands this.
>>Where are you finding that?
Same place you are.
Certainly NOT anywhere in the LCMS curriculum.
Why is that this particular work of Luther's has been left for blind sided discovery by the unsuspecting instead of being confronted and disarmed?
The network of schools and teachers the LCMS formerly had at its disposal certainly would've been an ideal instrument for doing so.
Didn't the LCMS know about it?
Chapter 11
What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we convert the Jews. With prayer and the fear of God we must practice a sharp mercy to see whether we might save at least a few from the glowing flames. We dare not avenge ourselves. Vengeance a thousand times worse than we could wish them already has them by the throat. I shall give you my sincere advice:
First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly_and I myself was unaware of it_will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know....
[they have been blood thirsty bloodhounds and murderers of all Christendom for more than fourteen hundred years in their intentions, and would undoubtedly prefer to be such with their deeds. Thus they have been accused of poisoning water and wells, of kidnaping children, of piercing them through with an awl, of hacking them in pieces, and in that way secretly cooling their wrath with the blood of Christians, for all of which they have often been condemned to death by fire.][For these Jews are much holier than were those in the Babylonian captivity, who did not curse, who did not secretly shed the blood of children, nor poison the water, but who rather as Jeremiah had instructed them [Jer. 29:7] prayed for their captors, the Babylonians. The reason is that they were not as holy as the present-day Jews, nor did they have such smart rabbis as the present-day Jews have; for Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel were big fools to teach this. They would, I suppose, be torn to shreds by the teeth of today's Jews.]
[In history, therefore, they are often accused of poisoning wells, stealing children and mutilating them; as in Trent, Weiszensee, etc. Of course, they deny this. Be it so or not, however, I know full well that the full, ready will is not lacking
with them if they could only transform it into deeds, in secret or openly. Know this for a certainty and aut accordingly]
["not as holy as the present-day Jews"]
[the unjust God lets such holy people curse (I wanted to say "pray") so vehemently in vain against our Messiahand all Christians. He does not care to see or have anything to do either with them or with their pious conduct, which is so thickly, thickly, heavily, heavily coated with the blood of the Messiah and his Christians.]
It's an acronym. Look it up.
Oh, it calls itself a University these days.What's the current retirement payout for a tenured L.I.F.E.R.?
I'm not interested in playing whack-a-mole with you. You've tried to imply that Luther was anti-semitic, that Lutherans are anti-semitic, and that Lutheran pastors like my husband are "wolves" in the pulpit - all based on texts that may or may not be genuine (you tell me after I spent most of the afternoon reading the entire text at fordham.edu). All of this as a distraction from the issue of the Syrian Free Army slaughtering Christians. This is a stupid game and I'm not going to play. I don't agree with the theology of those who deny Christ. But I will serve their well-being as best I can because their lives are precious to their Creator. You can go pick a fight with somebody else.
"This page can't be displayed"
Meanwhile here's an interesting alleged translation that's dated 1948:
1948 being 11 years before the one you linked that's only available in Google Cache - was allegedly translated by Martin H. Bertram and published by Concordia in 1959.
The one you linked on a subject that's, curiously, NOT even mentioned on the LCMS Website:
So, again "What does this mean?" -- which version is the LIE and why hasn't the LCMS put ANY, let alone "the best possible" construction on the subject?
>>all based on texts that may or may not be genuine
The texts that have evidently existed at least since 1948; texts and a subject that the LCMS has evidently chosen to ignore? Those texts?
>>Im not interested in playing whack-a-mole with you.
Well then put the Ordained "head" of the household on the keyboard - and let him wear the pants... assuming it hasn't been neutered.
All of this as a distraction from the issue of the Syrian Free Army slaughtering Christians.
Nah, all of this as a question of whether or not some Nazi Wolves and their Muslim pals...
...are cooking up another ERRANT batch of instigated historical, sacrificial, golden bovine excrement.
But we won't find anything on THAT subject in the LCMS' curriculum either, will we.
Well, evidently Y(LCMS)MMV:
"In November 1998, on the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Lutheran Church of Bavaria issued a statement: "It is imperative for the Lutheran Church, which knows itself to be indebted to the work and tradition of Martin Luther, to take seriously also his anti-Jewish utterances, to acknowledge their theological function, and to reflect on their consequences. It has to distance itself from every [expression of] anti-Judaism in Lutheran theology."[9]"
9^ "Christians and Jews: A Declaration of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria", November 24, 1998, also printed in Freiburger Rundbrief, 6:3 (1999), pp.191-197. For other statements from Lutheran bodies, see:
- "Q&A: Luther's Anti-Semitism", Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod;
- "Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community", Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, April 18, 1994;
- "Statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada to the Jewish Communities in Canada", Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, July 1216, 1995;
- "Time to Turn", The Evangelical [Protestant] Churches in Austria and the Jews. Declaration of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church A.B. and H.B., October 28, 1998.
Hmm. Bavaria? Where is that? Was it a little closer to the action back circa 1933 than Nebraska circa 2013? Yep.
in the case of Moslems, no. What you quote is for civilised religions, not murderous philosophies like Islam
>>in the case of Moslems, no
Islam is nothing but a state-established system of temporal punishments and burthens — precisely NOT what Jefferson was advocating ala the Virginia Act for the Establishment of Religious Freedom and its embodiment in the 1st Amendment.
Which is exactly what the Islamofascists HATE about America.
>>>>Strange world, ain't it? I'm in the same boat as you. As bad as these dictators like Assad, Saddam Hussein, Kadaffy, etc., were, at least religious minorities were fairly protected under them although I admit the exception was with the Kurds under Saddam. Still, these dictators were cut from a different cloth than the mooselimb brotherhood rebels, they were more secular, basically 1950's era Pan-Arab socialists. Assad is the lesser evil here.<<<<
To be honest, Kurds weren't that docile. They are dominated by communists (Kurd worker's party) who widely used terror to reach their goal of carving pieces of Iraqi and Turkish territory into their separatist state. Turkey was as brutal to contain them as Saddam, and it still defend itself in a brutal way but none of it is reported by the press.
IMHO, alleged Saddam's brutality against the Kurds is in class of half-truths used to justify 'humanitarian' NATO bombing of Serbia.
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this would work right?. 6x9's on switches for different locations?
So my plan is to put these double toggle switches in line for my 6x9s so i can either have them behind my seats, off(never going to use but its in the switch) or at OTHER wires in my bed, (ill take the 6x9s out out put them in my bed). This way these wires wont be hot, and hitting stuff.
this way I can move my locations of my boxes for tailgating and get it all pointed at the bed of the truck.
Will this work? 1 switch per speaker, one side gets the negative, one side gets the positive?
This is a terrible diagram, but hopefully you'll get the idea. The empty wires will be in the bed, the 6x9s are behind the seat.
This is how they are/will be directed, this might help get my point across.
BLUE-front 6x9s(not questioned in this thread)
RED-where the 6x9s are currently facing
BROWN- where my subs are facing
GREEN- where the 6x9s will be facing when located in the bed
So last clarification. I can listen to music with the 6x9s in the cab with the switch at the UP position. Show up somewhere where I can put them in the bed. Put switch in OFF position, remove the wires from the box. place boxes in bed. Hook up wires. Place switch in the DOWN position and then have them in the bed.
Now the excess wires wont be hot and in harms way.
EDIT-- just to be clear, the wire WILL be actual speaker wire, not red and black wire.
************************just noticed that in the first diagram, I have the Up and Down backwards from each other. They SHOULD be at the same spots.
THIS is how they should be
In theory it could/should work, I mean sound carried through the wire is only an electrical current, however Id be curious if you would lose any sound quality going through the switch. Only way Id think is to test it out, if no loss in SQ, Id say go for it.
i did something similar to this when I went to the out door drive in movies, how ever I didnt use a switch, just some insulated quick connects. get to the movies and pull out the boxes, grab some wire and unplug the truck speakers, plug in the bed speakers and it was done. I just ran all the speaker wire into the glove box where I have the insulated connections. was easy to switch back and forth and amazed some people in the simplicity of it.
And yeah, the only thing that I could think of not working with is the sound quality.
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Władysław Rubin was born in Toki, Lviv, to Ignace Rubin and his wife Tekli Saluk. He studied at Jan Kazimiers University in Lviv and the University of Saint Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon. During World War II, Rubin was arrested and interned in a forced labour camp, joining the Polish Army after his release. Ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Rémy-Louis Leprêtre, OFM, on 30 June 1946, he then did pastoral work with Polish refugees in Lebanon until 1949. Rubin furthered his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1949 to 1953, when he resumed his pastoral ministry among Polish refugees, this time in Italy. From 1959 to 1964, he was rector of the Pontifical Polish College in Rome.
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Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata in the consistory of 30 June 1979, and appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on 27 June 1980. From 1980 to 1983, Cardinal Rubin was a member of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. He later stepped down as Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches on 30 October 1985, after five years of service.
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I was having trouble locating a bananas foster cake recipe. If you have one, do you mind sharing TIA
i don't have one, but i'd like too!
That sounds super yummy! I'd love to have the recipe too!
I had that same exact thought last night that I would like to do a Banana Fosters Cake... I know that it's a caramelized banana mixture with spiced rum.. so I came up with Banana cake...torted and filled with a caramel spice rum buttercream.. HTH... it's that or making the fosters banana's and pureeing the results into a buttercream or even a cream cheese filling
would you mind sharing how you made the caramel spice rum buttercream? it sounds wonderful!
thank you!
Banana's Foster Filling
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup finely chopped banana's (firm texture works best)
1/2 teaspoon rum extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Combine brown sugar and butter in a small sauce pan over medium-low heat.
Cook and stir until smooth.
Stir in 3/4 cup bananas, rum extract and cinnamon. Cook till mixture begins to thicken slightly. Cool before adding to cake.
For the actual cake I use chocolate and ice with whipped cream it is perfect that way but I am sure there are other creative ways to make this recipe yours.
Enjoy ...Miss Lizzy
mmm so i dont know if anyone noticed, but the recipe says 1/4 cup bananas and the instructions say 3/4 cup wich one is it? I've looked everywhere for a recipe and this one looks quite yummy i just want to be sure, and one more thing is it ok to use actual rum instead of extract?
This sounds good..
Have you googled through the blogs? Those recipes are tried-n-true.
Hi Ladies, so sorry for the typo... it is actually 3/4 of a cup banana.
Sounds good...I may have to try this soon...just bought a bunch of nanners!
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Thank you! Can't wait to try it!
Is it possible to use uncooked fresh bananas with a caramel frosting in between the layers? I'm wondering if the bananas will react funny if it's not going to be eaten right away. Thanks for your help!


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A lot of people make blogs about this. 90% of the time those people are wrong. A few months ago I said Hershel woud survive his amputation. I also said that T-Dog was the only one in the group who could go down via walkers. What do you know I was right. That's why I'm making this blog.
Andrea-safe you dumbasses
Hershel-I hope he survives. He could die, though. For those of you guys who think he's just there to get torn apart, that is absolutely ridiculous. Name another character like Hershel who has EVER been savagely torn apart. 50/50
Beth-I think safe. I hope safe. All in all I'm leaving it at 50/50
Carol-It depends. I heard she's been promoted. If so, safe. If not, she is going to die, unfortunately.
Tyreese-safe (for this season at least)
Morgan-50/50. You know how AMC is with more than one black guy.
Daryl-I don't know when, I don't know how, but he will die at some point in this arc. He will not live past the prison.
Merle-I have not f*cking idea. He is the joker in the deck of cards. I know that he wants to be on whatever side is not the governor's, so maybe he will be with Rick full-time.
The Governor-he will be killed by Merle either this season of next.
Glenn-safe for now. He might die at some point next season. Of he makes it past the prison arc, I believe he will die in the 100th episode.
Maggie-same as Glenn. If she makes it past the prison, she's probably here to stay.
The people of Woodbury (Milton, Haley, etc)-50/50 for everybody. I hope Haley, Milton, and Alice have more story.
Martinez-dead. I think he will play some sort of important part, but not as pivotal as in the comics.
Rowan-she might be a redshirt. She might've been a dropped concept entirely. she might be the game-changer 50/50
I know I'm forgetting someone. Please remind me who it is
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Judith-dead. Robert Kirkman said 3x13 is like a finale. That will be the season 3 Prison vs Woodbury episode. 3x16 will probably end with Judith's death by natural causes


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Asian efficiency is through the roof isn't it?
China is notorious for being the hugest copycat in the world and the startup scene is now shaken as Chinese businesses are stealing their ideas as well!
Yekutiel Sherman, an Israeli entrepreneur and product designer is the latest victim of the Chinese production market as his idea was completely and blatantly ripped off.
Sherman's idea came as he noticed a problem; people loved monopods (read: selfie-sticks), but people hated carrying them around. His company, STIKBOX, hopes to solve this.
The way they tackled this is by integrating a selfie stick into in iPhone case! It's a simple but elegant design where the 'sticks' protract from the case!
Sherman turned to crowdfunding and launched his Kickstarter campaign which ran rather smoothly, reaching around RM205,000. His plan was to launch the product for around RM200.
But within a week of launching the campaign, Sherman sees AliExpress, selling his product for as low as RM45! China efficiency to the max!
They even marketed HIS product with the same name, 'Stikbox'.
This sparked a flurry of his backers on Kickstarter to slam the product, calling it a sham and accusing him of setting the prices too high for what it costs.
"Creator's last update and comment was nothing but a hopeless excuse. Undoubtedly this is a scam project. We all got deceived. Take a deep breath and let go. I pray for the death of this project. And for the deceased creator. If they're not yet, my pray is hope they will soon."
"It's a really terrible experience. You failed our trust again and again. Maybe, I will never support any other project… Just because of you!"
"I want refund now… I can get the same product and cheaper from Taobao.
I want my money back!!!"
Truth is, this poor man is nothing more than another victim of China's "lightning copycat" industry. And even if people know his product was original, a lot of people would still turn to China products as they are much cheaper.
These Chinese 'lightning copycats' often scour the Internet, especially crowdfunding sites for ideas to build on and with their existing engineers and infrastructure, they're able to churn them out at an amazingly quick rate.
What's interesting is that he does have a Chinese patent.
But China is notorious for turning a blind eye to such occurrences, with companies like Apple and even Jaguar Land Rover falling prey to them.
The only difference and sad thing is that Stikbox is a startup and may actually go bust soon. No thanks China for ruining small thriving businesses.
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Advise About Contracts, Please.
Business By cakelady2266 Updated 1 Oct 2011 , 8:25pm by cakesbycathy
I'm not new to cakes but new to contracts. After some sticky situations lately I have finally decided to use contracts in my cake business. It is a business after all. I made up one based on some ideas I got from CC.
But I'm a little confused on what to do when you have a customer that commits to using you but is unsure of all the details? This seems to be pretty common for brides planning many (8-12+) months in advance. So if I don't know the exact size, shape, flavor, design at the time they give me a deposit how do handle the contract thing?
Page one of my contract is the work order with name, address, description etc and the second page is the price quote and terms of the contract outlined. Both pages require signatures. What is the protocol?
The contract I have my brides sign in very general. The only personalization is the name/date at the top and the signatures at the bottom. After the consultation, I type up the whole order on my computer (as well as set up all the other aspects of the file, baking list, address book, statistical info, etc...) and email that over. They read it and respond with "I approve" - it's sort of an addendum to the contract. When they make changes, I update and resend the order agreement.
Thanks for the help KoryAK. I couldn't figure out a way to make it seem legit if most of the blanks were well left blank. I'll catch on to it one day.
I was surprised to see only one response to this question since so many CCers are experienced in the contract/legal/business area. Oh well.
My contracts contain everything. During consultations, we go over ideas, colors, servings, etc. It is initialed at the bottom of each page and then signed. I have a line in the contract that lets brides know changes are allowed before a certain time, and that finalization of the contract will occur 30 days prior to the event, when the remainder of the balance is due.
If any changes need to be made, I have an addendum page specifying the changes. We make the changes in person, or I email it to the bride, letting her know that the changes are not official until I receive an email or signed copy stating she has received and approve the changes.
Hope the helps!
Did your customers put down a small deposit to just hold the date? Or did they make a larger deposit on their orders?
I guess in my head, if no details at all were agreed upon, I would not ask for more than a non-refundable deposit to make sure they have you for the day they want. That wouldn't require anything more than a receipt to the customer (and a note stating that details needed to be confirmed and other deposits/payments due by X date), and starting a folder for them and putting their date on your calendar. Once the specifics were in place, then and only then would I have them sign a contract, and begin work on the order.
Hope this helps,
~ Scott
I forgot to add...
If someone wants to definitely use me but does not have the details yet, they put down the 50% deposit to hold the date, and I give them an invoice that states details are to follow and how much was paid. If it is a wedding, the deposit is based on the number of people they are inviting to the wedding and the size of the cake I can provide based on that number.
I only take a $100 non-refundable retainer that's applied to the cost of the cake, so I don't have to worry about figuring out what 50% of the final design would be. If people are vague about what they want, I write a general description of the basic idea they're looking for just to get something as a point of reference down. That way if they come back later and change to a design that's a lot more complicated I can change the cost. If you leave the design area totally empty that can get complicated.
If they have no idea what they want, you can just price it out based on your base price, and make sure to write down something like "Pricing based on price for basic design work, any changes to the final design may incur extra fees" where the design would go on your contract.
This just happened to me recently, and I ended up increasing the cost of one girl's cake because she wanted something more complicated than what she started out with.
One thing I wanted to add is that you should make sure to have a contract attorney look over your contract. Every state has different laws about what is and isn't allowed in contracts, so you should make sure that things are worded correctly for your state. I had an attorney look at my contract and it came back a page longer, with smaller type, and with places that everyone as to sign and initial.
Thanks costumeczar. I had originally thought contracts would make life easier, especially the "make sure you pay on time" and "make sure all changes are made by so and so day". But when booking brides who don't know what they want and so far in advance, it stared seeming pointless if the blanks weren't filled in.
I added a page that explained the base price, everything that price included and stated the price is subject to increase based on flavor, filling and design of finalized cake. I figured that would take care of vanilla cake turns into carrot, simple into elaborate and so on.
Hopefully I will get the kinks worked out and this will simplify things. A friend of mine is an attorney, I think I'll have him take a look at it too.
I require a 50% non-refundable deposit, so for a bride who still doesn't know what she wants I have them put down a deposit based on their estimated guest count. I write TBD (to be determined) in any blank spaces.
They then have until 30 days before the reception to work out the details.
At the 30 day mark the remaining balance is due and all details are final.


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