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Edwardian Fruit: Pear Diamond Ring
A pear shaped rose cut diamond of an estimated .52 carats (J-K color; SI2 clarity for clear inclusions especially in the top rounded section) is visually perceived as about a carat. The rose cut has a flat underside and consequently weighs less yet it is showier in both length and width than a brilliant cut diamond. A small rose cut diamond of an estimated .02 carats adds just the right exclamation point to an Edwardian finger ring. The rose gold setting of 14k gold is unusual with opposing sweeps of the shank. In addition, please note the incised accents on the edges of the bezel.
Date: Circa 1910.
Measurements: 7/16 of an inch (1.1 cm) in length north to south on the hand and rises 1/8 of an inch (0.3 cm) in height off the finger. Weight of 2.0 grams (1.3 dwt).
Ring Size: US 6 (UK L-1/2; Euro or Int. Circum. 51.8 mm; Int. Dia. 16.5 mm; Japan 11) and easily can be sized to fit most. Ring sizing information.
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Royal Rivalry - Art Deco Amethyst Ring
Cabochons are usually rounded at the top and have a flat surface below. A twist on that classic gem cut dating back to ancient times is this royal natural amethyst. Beneath the smooth, curvaceous top are a multitude of facets. Color is reflecting up and out with a subtle play of light. With a carat weight of approximately 7.5 for the amethyst, the color blend and contrast of regal purple and soft buttery yellow is indescribably alluring.
Made by the firm of Jones and Woodland (later purchased by Krementz) the mount is weighty and substantial in size. Of 14k yellow gold, the detailing is deep and fine with acanthus leaf motifs on each shoulder. Originally designed as a man's ring, this easily can be worn by either sex.
Date: 1925.
Measurements: 3/4 of an inch (1.9 cm) in length north to south on hand and rises 5/16 of an inch (0.7 cm) in height off of finger. Weight of 20.2 grams (13.0 dwt).
Ring Size: US 9-1/2 (UK S-1/2; Euro or Int. Circum. 60.8 mm; Int. Dia. 19.4 mm; Japan 19) and can be easily sized to fit many. Ring sizing information.
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Mme Vieux walks to work. She commutes maybe 15 minutes down the road, and another 10 off of it, through a creek where people wash their bicycles and up a steep, informal road to her school's perch on top of a hill. It's a workout every day, she says, but she can't complain–the view from the yellow gate of the southern coast is breathtaking.
220 primary school students share this view, though the don't necessarily share the climb. The Madame's school serves mostly communities from inland–kids from up to 3 km away who nonetheless have the special privilege of attending the only free private school in the Jacmel area.
Posted by Karl Johnson on Jul 24, 2010
Four people crammed in the back of a pickup truck cab doesn't make the river stone road climb any easier. I sat by the window with my daypack weighing in my lap. I had overpacked, and on jostles the bag kept pinching my hand against the door. At one point I opened the whole window and stuck my shoulder into the whistling air and rain pellets to give David more room. I lowered my SOX cap over my brow. All the people along the roadside gave me the same look. It's strange but true: you can't make a white guy sticking halfway out a charging pickup to blend in in Haiti. I indicated a series of gabion retaining walls along the roadside. Gabions are basically rock-filled cages that stack into massive but effective walls. These looked new. Linda remarked that the roads actually used to be better. On a jostle the daypack bit the web of my hand.
Posted by Mike McCaffrey on Jul 22, 2010
A message from Bernardo Maldonado of our Monterrey chapter:
Last month, Hurricane Alex dropped 616mm of rain in 60 hours taking 15 lives. Early damage calculations estimate $800-$1,000 Million USD for reconstruction of main infrastructure, not including housing. This numbers will easily go up 2 or 3 times for Nuevo Leon. The other two states adjacent to NL affected were Coahuila and Tamaulipas that together probably sum another $2 billion.
No official final numbers have been published yet but so far 43 out of 51 municipalities are in a state of disaster. Most of the poorest ones are located outside the metropolitan area and south of the State. These are counties like Arramberri, Montemorelos, Zaragosa, Hualahuises, among others. North of the state communities were affected by the Rio Bravo flooding. Anahuac was completely flooded with 20,000 people displaced. Initial damages are estimated around $160M USD, a county with an annual Budget of $9 million.
Posted by Karl Johnson on Jul 22, 2010
They say it will take a thousand trucks a thousand days to remove all the rubble from Port-au-Prince, and that estimation seems conservative as you drive around town. Rubble removal will be an enormous undertaking. Parsons may have landed the huge rubble removal contract-meaning the overall operation will likely be big-budget, fast and loud-but that's not stopping smaller groups from working more intimately with communities and operating with a surgical finesse.
Delmas 32 requires this sort of special attention. An extremely dense neighborhood pressed from all sides by a still-growing Port-au-Prince, Delmas 32 raised some heads as the MTPTC (Ministry of public works, transportation and communications) began tagging damaged buildings there.
Posted by Karl Johnson on Jul 21, 2010
It was like being in an espionage movie–We were meeting with a local correspondant to receive a document that she no doubt had to cunningly wrest from the municipal bureaucracy. A low-key restaurant in the middle of Jacmel that serves three dishes (chicken, goat and fancy-goat*). A ceiling fan twirling above us. Sunlight shooting through the overhead windows to the back of the tiny dining room, landing right above the head of the only other patron (a quiet, bespectacled figure in a canary dress shirt). Just on the other side of the front wall, trucks and motos went screaming down the narrow street. Tamsin sips a radioactive pink Tampico out of a glass mug through a ridiculously long straw. Our contact and her driver were sitting across from us and she pulls a folio from her bag. She clears her throat.
Posted by Sarah Bush Brady on Jul 21, 2010
Millions of refugees and internally displaced people live in deplorable conditions, and thousands more have lost homes from natural disasters, such as the earthquake in Haiti. Rafael Smith wants to change that. He runs the Uber Shelter Project, and he attended our weekly Lunch and Learn session to tell us about his organization's prototype for emergency relief housing.
Rafael designed the first Uber Shelter as part of his senior thesis while studying at Purdue University. Now he works with two other Purdue grads to design and produce emergency relief houses. Their prototype is portable, recyclable and easy to assemble--no power tools required. In fact, all you need is four people, a wrench and a ratchet. Watch it grow in this video clip: http://www.youtube.com/ubershelterproject.
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Rebuilding Haiti
By Karl Johnson
Small victories on the ground
There is no typical day in Haiti. Our team wakes up to the crow of roosters. Most days revolve around site visits and assessments as we try to guide our partners in planning. Driving anywhere in Port-au-Prince takes two hours. We get an early start but it will be 9 am before we arrive at the site of a potential project–a school for the camp in Pétionville. The camp, located on a former golf course, is currently home to 50,000. The school is little more than a tarp supported by two-by-fours, and shelters 350 learners. The school–and the camp, for that matter–is sited on a steep grade. We discuss alternatives and settle on a transitional school plan as it's not clear if the camp will remain at this location. In the meantime, we promise to come back to build better temporary supports for the school.
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Several organizations assembled Monday morning on a shady patio in Port-au-Prince to discuss a series of reactions to the new school construction standards released by the Haitian Ministry of Education in May (download the English translation here)(or the original document in French). This is the School Standards sub-group [of the UN Education Cluster] dedicated to the standards' review–sitting in the back yard of PARQE–"Programme d'appui au renforcement de la qualité de l'education" ("Program to support the strengthening of quality in education"). An air conditioner unit and a colony of unseen insects jostled for control of the ambiance. Somebody asked, in broken French, for the chairwoman to speak up.
Posted by mokryg on Jul 19, 2010
Distressingly little repair or rebuilding has occurred since the Gaza War (2008-2009). The Gaza strip is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and residential zones suffered significant damage during the war. Over 15,000 homes sustained extensive damage during the War, displacing over 100,000 Palestinians and leaving thousands of families living in sub-standard conditions. The conflict left approximately 1,400 Palestinians dead and countless families without income due to loss of wage earner, multiple disabled family members, and increasingly high unemployment rates. The vast destruction calls for more than hasty, temporary solutions; in order to effectively help the communities in need, we must understand the importance of alternative, innovative, and sustainable solutions.
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National Parks in the Carpathian region are places of legends and legendary sights, some of them listed by UNESCO and unmatched for bird life. Several unique species of our hoofed friends roam the extensive plains the roll up to the mountains in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia.
Thanks to slower urban spread and development in Poland, some species and habitat types which have disappeared in the West still exist here, such as the great European primeval forest – Puszcza Bialowieska (Bialowieza Forest). Living in this forest are elik, red deer, and Poland's biggest animal, the European bison. Did you know that all European bison have ancestors from Bialowieza? Poland is a migratory bird magnet; you can observe rollers on fallow fields, ruff on the stubble, cranes on the wetlands and eagles over the meadows. It can also be a pleasure to encounter members of the daintier species: the Pieniny mountains are the habitat for the most beautiful Polish butterfly, the Parnassius apollo. You may meet a dark-olive Aesculapian snake or a bright blue (the guy) or orange (the gal) moor frog.
Hungary's majestic Lake Balaton is home to pike-perch, bream, carp, eel and razor fish, while its reed beds harbour various species of waterfowl, making it an exceptional bird watching site. Up to 20,000 bean geese alight here during their migration, and the lake also holds all species of European heron, the great white egret and large numbers of nesting greylag geese. Elsewhere, the dolomite slopes of the Keszthely Hills feature steppeland and dry scrub forest of Hungarian oak. Keep a look out for the rare leopard's bane as well as orchids in the volcanic hills of Badacsony, Csobánc and Szent György, Nearby you can view native Hungarian animal breeds at the Salföld Nature Conservation Site .
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This course has two purposes: first, to provide the student with the necessary synthesis, sound design, and electronic creative tools to be competitive in the contemporary writing industry; and second, to enhance and further develop the student's compositional skills in a variety of contemporary music styles with a particular emphasis on electronic genres. Through a detailed and thorough hands-on experience the students will begin studying the basic concepts of analog synthesis, moving on to advanced synthesis techniques such as FM, sampling and physical modeling, all the way up to the most advanced sound design and sound shaping techniques. The course will cover processing methods and effects (such as loop creation/editing/slicing, creative use of EQ, delay, compression and convolution reverbs, etc.) targeted specifically to enhance and improve the production of contemporary electronic music. Topics will be contextualized with references to specific contemporary music styles and trends and practically applied by the student to originally composed projects that feature different electronic styles and techniques. Using these concepts and techniques the students will create original compositions based mainly on sounds they have programmed and designed themselves, and by the end of the course they will have an original sound library at their disposal.
This course covers advanced creative, technical, production, and business aspects of writing for music and media libraries. Its main purpose is to expose and train students to be proficient in writing and producing for a variety of media-related music libraries through style-specific assignments and scenarios. The course focuses on writing genre-specific music cues for reality shows, soap operas, talk/variety shows, documentaries, title sequences, infomercials, and web media such as miniseries, web advertising, and web-based tutorials. Students are guided through a thorough analysis and critique of each style and individual original writing assignments based on real case examples. For each style students master the creative process, library-specific production techniques, how to support different moods with appropriate music, how to communicate with media producers, and how to develop original material inside the boundaries set by the style and by the production team. This course focuses on how to compose and produce mood-based music libraries and cues that are not written to a specific picture. Each assignment is critiqued, assessed, and revised according to creative directions and style specific production guidelines. Discussions of business aspects include working with music libraries producers and companies, demo preparation, positive and quick response to feedback and comments from the music library producer and licensing scenarios. Through various projects students will have frequent opportunities to write music in different moods, styles, and lengths. Students must have a strong working knowledge and experience with hybrid production techniques and with MIDI systems and sequencing programs.
Monitored and evaluated professional work experience in an environment related to the contemporary writing and production major. Placement is limited to situations available from or approved by the Office of Experiential Learning and the Contemporary Writing and Production Department chair or designee. To apply for an internship, students must see the internship coordinator in the Office of Experiential Learning prior to registering. Note: Equivalent credit for prior experience is not available due to the requirement of concurrent contract between the employer/supervisor and the college.International students in F-1 status must obtain authorization on their Form I-20 from the Counseling and Advising Center prior to beginning an internship.
As part of the Contemporary Writing and Production concentrate requirements, this proficiency must be completed in order to graduate. Information can be obtained from the Department Chair.
Individualized instruction designed to guide students majoring in contemporary writing and production in the preparation of their graduation projects. Students will be allowed to schedule time in the Professional Writing Division MIDI Lab to meet the portfolio requirements.
A non-credit, tuition-free marker course in which Contemporary Writing & Production majors must enroll in the semester during which they plan to submit their required portfolio to the department chair. A mark of of P (Pass) is awarded when the portfolio receives a positive evaluation.
This course examines the folkloric music from Latin America that informs today's contemporary music. Topics include traditional musical styles, forms, instrumentation, arranging techniques, melody, and harmony. Folkloric music from the following countries is studied: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. The course focuses on applications of these styles in contemporary arranging and composition.
This course examines the concepts and techniques of writing flamenco music, which is a vital and growing genre in contemporary music. The course covers the origins of the various styles of flamenco, their individual influences, primary composers of flamenco, overview of popular lyrics, and common composition and arranging techniques in flamenco styles. Students will investigate the various aspects of writing flamenco music: use of improvised structure; binary, ternary, and polyrhythm rhythmic styles; traditional harmonic approaches and concepts; melodic approaches; and the use of microtones. A variety of compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations will be analyzed, including examples of contemporary compositions and new stylistic variations in flamenco that feature the use of electronics and flamenco without guitar. Students will create compositions and/or arrangements for a flamenco music ensemble.
An advanced study of writing in a variety of Latin styles, including modern and traditional orchestration concepts, style-specific aspects of form and structure, score analysis, score and part preparation, and production tips that will give the composer, arranger, or orchestrator the proper tools to get the best results either in the studio or in a live performance. Styles covered include mambo, guaguancó, bomba, timba, bolero, danzón, tango reggae, samba, and partido alto. Students will create arrangements of existing works and original pieces for a variety of ensembles of different sizes and instrumentation.
This course presents an expanded development of material introduced in CW-216. Important concepts include: production and direction of vocal rehearsals and recording sessions; advanced production techniques including layering, stacking, compressing and mixing vocal tracks; study of diverse song styles and musical concepts that comprise them; observation of text/language and cultural influence in relation to vocal writing; further development of multi-part background writing; more refined utilization of harmonic tensions and reharmonization. Rubato and groove-oriented a cappella techniques will also be explored.
A brass quintet that performs a mixture of traditional and 20th-century music. Instrumentation: two trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba.
This course is designed to focus on vocal performance for brass principals. Students may or may not have experience as vocalists. All classes will be geared towards the styles the individuals are interested in, emphasizing both singing and playing. Students will be asked to learn and perform new songs each week with the main emphasis being on the selection of correct keys, tempos, and styles. There will be a comparative analysis between vocal and instrumental phrasing, improvisation, and physiology. Students will also be exposed to performers who have been recognized and respected as both singers and horn players.


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Once a year, Helen O'Conor read the same letter to herself on her birthday. But seven years ago, her 80-year-old eyes couldn't do it anymore and she asked Raymond, her son, to read it to her privately. Unexpectedly, the New York banker had a revelation, and the beginning of a quest.
O'Conor knew Helen had been married to another man, who'd died, before marrying his own father. He'd known little else of the man. What he read to her, he discovered, was a love letter written to Helen for her birthday, on Sept. 5, 1944. The next day, both her birthday and their wedding anniversary, the young pilot's B-17 crashed in Europe. All the crew but the tail gunner died.
The pilot's name was Clarence R. Stephenson Jr.—the initial stood for "Raymond"—and O'Conor discovered he had been named, unbeknownst to the family, for his mother's first husband. Helen Gregg Stephenson had always called her pilot by his middle name.
Thus did O'Conor's history book, She Called Him Raymond, begin.
Helen grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, and the couple met by chance in the city in the summer of 1942 when the Ironton, Ohio, native visited the city during his stateside flight training. It was love at first sight. When Helen turned 18, the couple married and she accompanied him around the country as training continued.
"In April 1944 Raymond and his crew left to combat the Nazis," says O'Conor, "and Helen returned to Hell's Kitchen and her Irish immigrant parents' tenement apartment that she shared with seven siblings, four of whom would also fight." In July Helen gave birth to Ann Marie, O'Conor's sister. That September, after a series of harrowing missions, the crash killed Stephenson.
"Raymond would never get to see his daughter," says O'Conor, "and Ann Marie would only see pictures of her dad."
Helen remarried a decade later. When Ray O'Conor was named, family assumed it was after one of his dad's relatives, not the dead first lieutenant and flight commander.
The banker had done some writing about personal finance and about mountaineering, but never anything like a full-length historical non-fiction book. But he was moved by the love story, the story of the two families surviving the Great Depression and then entering World War II, and Helen's later life, in light of the new facts. He resolved to put it all on paper.
But first, a great deal of research had to be done. O'Conor, now 58, began that a bit over two years ago. And in early 2012, he determined to retire from full-time banking and became chairman of his bank, Saratoga National Bank & Trust Co., so he could concentrate on She Called Him Raymond. (He had been chairman, president, and CEO.)
The realities of the "Greatest Generation" drove part of O'Conor's decision to start sooner rather than later. He knew that to understand service in the B-17s—the four-engine bombers you've seen in the movies "12 O'Clock High" and "Memphis Belle"—he would have to seek out people who had been there—folks who are dying off. So he began interviewing those he could find, including Keith Clinton, 90, the tail gunner who survived the crash. Interviews with other veterans, aircraft experts, and his own mother and sister Ann Marie would also be necessary. And O'Conor realized that he had a mountain of research to do in libraries and obtained elsewhere to get all the technical and historical details right. He delved into technical manuals about B-17s.
And he's traveled too, including trips to Ironton, Ohio, to learn more about Raymond's town and family, and to Savannah, Ga., where the historical society devoted to the Eighth Air Force—the unit that handled daylight strategic bombing over France and Germany—is based. For feel, he's been up in a restored B-17 operated by the Collings Foundation, trying out the different positions aboard.
O'Conor had to handle his quest tactfully, as well. "No one ever wanted to hurt my father's feelings," he explains, and though he knew immediately there was a book to be written, he held off until his dad passed away two years ago. He says Helen loved her second husband very much, "but in some ways she never really got over Raymond's death."
"The more I have dug, the more interesting this story and this period became," says O'Conor. For instance, the daughter of one of Raymond's sisters found, and provided, a trove of about 100 family letters from the World War II period. "Some of the stories in the letters are fairly mundane," says O'Conor, "yet such letters are invaluable to telling the story of the power and strength of faith, family, and patriotism."
In tackling the project, O'Conor has come up with more and more material and found guidance in a book called Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life, by Marion Roach Smith. One of the most valuable lessons is the author's advice to write what she calls the "vomit draft"—a put-it-all-down rough exercise to get the writing going.
O'Conor completed this draft, and submitted it to his son, Brian, an avid reader, who told him it needed more color and anecdotes.
"He said it lacked a certain emotion," says O'Conor.
This sent O'Conor back to such people as Keith Clinton—who had also served as a ball turret gunner—and his mother to get more about life at that time, and about specific incidents such as the crash and about Raymond's fellow crew members. He also read books about the period—Unbroken, Flags Of Our Fathers, Hard Times, and The Greatest Generation are some—to gain more historical context.
Getting the project done has required discipline. O'Conor rises most days at 5:30 or so to exercise and then begin a half-day in his home office to organize and write. Not every day goes according to plan. "When people hear that you are 'retired,' they think you don't have anything to do," says O'Conor. He still has advisory and board duties at the bank that occupy time, as well.
Along the way, he has also learned about "the cutting room floor" part of writing. He's consulted with sister Ann Marie along the way to avoid anything that wouldn't pass muster with the family. Already, he says ruefully, he's cut an entire chapter that he worked especially hard on. Some details from the chapter survived, to be woven into other chapters.
Heeding his son's advice, O'Conor says the next draft of She Called Him Raymond will be a much more personal story. He's aiming to complete it by yearend. Down the road are the equally daunting chores of finding an agent, and then a publisher.
"It has been a heck of an adventure," says O'Conor, "piecing this story together."
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The music world lost some of its most talented and accomplished musicians this year. Here is a short list of several artists whose works can be found and enjoyed here at the library.
Alex Chilton (Big Star)
Solomon Burke
Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse)
Ari Up (The Slits)
Lena Horne
Gregory Isaacs
Pete Quaife (The Kinks)
Doug Fieger (The Knack)
Teddy Pendergrass
Guru (Gangstarr)
Teena Marie
Captain Beefheart
I've listened to Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Chet Baker and others associated with cool jazz for some time now but I've only recently taken to the lyric warmth and catchy melodies of Stan Getz, aka The Sound. Getz was a prominent tenor saxophonist during the fifties and sixties. In addition to his accomplished recordings, he is credited, along with his one-time collaborater Joao Gilberto, for helping to turn American audiences on to Brazillian bossa nova in the early sixties. The library owns several of Getz's albums. Check him out.
Now that we are firmly grounded within the download era, many music lovers choose to bypass the purchasing of a full length album and elect instead to add individual songs or hit singles to their digital libraries. Here are a few songs released during 2010 that struck a chord with my ears. How about you? Let us know which tracks resonated with you throughout the year.
Zebra by Beach House
Revenge by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Slow by Twin Shadow
Dark Fantasy by Kanye West
Heaven and Earth by Blittzen Trapper
Does Not Suffice by Joanna Newsom
Sex Karma by Of Montreal
Blue as Your Blood by The Walkmen
Carolina by Girls
Heart in Your Heartbreak by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Our Deal by Best Coast
Animal by Jenny and Johnny
I was not terribly impressed with the musical output from 2009, but after compiling my Top Ten CDs from 2010 I discovered a bunch more that were better than most of last year's list.
Since I could only offer ten selections for the official KPL Top Ten page, I present ten more great CDs from the past twelve months.11. Lady Killer by Cee Lo Green12. Body Talk Pts. 1 & 2 by Robyn13. Adrift by The Red Sea Pedestrians14. Majesty Shredding by Superchunk15. Of The Blue Colour of the Sky by OK Go16. The Guitar Song by Jamey Johnson17. Transference by Spoon18. I Learned the Hard Way by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings19. Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine by Various20. Maya by M.I.A.
When it comes to music my heart is with the ladies, particularly indie/rock ladies who write their own songs and aren't afraid to experiment with sound. My penchant for women in rock began in middle school with the discovery of my perennial favorites Tori Amos and PJ Harvey. In college came my serendipitous discovery of Kate Bush, whose album The Dreaming (available via MeLCat) perfectly epitomizes the weird, experimental sound I like so much. More recent favorites of mine include Regina Spektor, Neko Case, and The Fiery Furnaces (though Matthew Friedberger in this brother/sister group writes the music, I love lead-singer Eleanor Friedberger's vocals). I am especially fond of Bat for Lashes; her melodic voice and storytelling tendencies remind me very much of both Tori Amos and Kate Bush.
My latest discovery is Florence + the Machine. Florence Welch's voice is soulful, while her lyrics range from catty to literary to contemplative. Lungs, Florence + the Machine's debut album, topped the charts in the UK for weeks in 2009, and although it didn't make a dent on the US charts, I've heard a number of their songs pop up in movies and television shows. If you're fond of any of the musicians that I've mentioned, I recommend giving Florence + the Machine a listen.
The album Dark Night of the Soul will certainly be in my top ten of best of the year. Sadly, Mark Linkous, the primary writer of this brilliant piece of moody, pop music textured with hints of electronica and whimsical folk, took his life in March of this year prior to the album's release. Linkous is at his songwriting best here and by forming collaborations with other guest artists (The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Director David Lynch, The Strokes' front man Julian Casablanca, Vic Chesnutt, Suzanne Vega, and The Shins' James Mercer, Nina Persson), including the music industry's most in-demand producer--Danger Mouse, each song's singer provides a fresh meditation on Linkous' grim lyrics and buoyant songs.
Fans of this album should look into Linkous' previous musical project Sparklehorse in addition to the work of those he collaborated with over the years including Daniel Johnston, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, and Fennesz.
I recently discovered the Israeli pianist and composer Anat Fort and found that I have a great affinity for her and her trio's hybrid sound that deftly weaves together both the rhythms and instrumentation of jazz with the plaintive austerity and minimalist ambiance of music akin to classical works or even touches of New Age. Her eclectic influences span from John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, and Elvis Costello to piano master Bill Evans. This collision of influences and styles works in fresh and innovative ways through her newest album And If. The attentive listener will appreciate the ways in which Fort merges the beautiful with the bleak, gentle melodies with avant garde timing, and romantic touches with flashes of emotional exuberance.
This month's jazz display (see it at Central) only scratches the surface of KPL's vast collection of jazz materials – not just the music, but writings and film on the subject as well. Navigating over a hundred years of jazz history is a challenge for all but the most dedicated jazz musicologists. Thankfully, for those of us who are novices, KPL owns a substantial number of CD box sets, which provide succinct overviews of jazz in all its variations, including:
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz: one of the best aural introductions to American jazz in the 20th century, this set opens with the birth of jazz, by way of Scott Joplin's ragtime piano, moves into the hot jazz best exemplified by Louis Armstrong's '20's sides, then sails through swing, bop, cool jazz, and the avant-garde. While it stops short of exploring jazz during, and beyond, the fusion period pioneered by Miles Davis in the early '70's, it's a great spot to get acquainted with seminal jazz pieces and performers before that time.
Big Band Renaissance: a sequel to the Smithsonian's earlier Big Band Jazz set (also available at KPL), this set takes listeners past "the big band era" by focusing on post-WWII jazz combo configurations. Classic big band auteurs such as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman still figure, but the set's scope is greatly broadened by the inclusion of bands led by Sun Ra and Henry Mancini.
The Erteguns' New York: Atlantic Records founders Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun were avid jazz afficianados (younger brother Nesuhi oversaw the label's earliest jazz signings, including John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and the Modern Jazz Quartet). This set of '50's cabaret jazz numbers showcases vocalists such as Bobby Short, Chris Connor, and Carmen McRae, who wowed audiences at the cozier NYC clubs the brothers favored after hours.
Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar: the influence of jazz on the guitar (and vice-versa) gets its due with this set that generously makes room for artists such as Chet Atkins, Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana, nestled side by side with jazz guitar greats such as Eddie Condon, Wes Montgomery, and Bill Frisell.
The Savoy Story: storied as much for its gospel recordings as for its jazz releases, Newark, N.J.-based Savoy Records was influential in the popularization of bebop music in the late '40's and early '50's. Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Errol Garner were just a few of the great musicians who cemented their reputations during their time at the label – all are featured, alongside other legends, on this set that focuses on Savoy's early jazz output.
This is just a small sampling of the jazz music KPL has to offer – check out our display this month, and our AV collection at any time, to dig even deeper.
I have attended many concerts but there are still a few bands that are on my "must see before I die" list. When the Canadian power pob collective, The New Pornographers announced they were going to play at Calvin College in Grand Rapids on October 15, I was thrilled. It seems that some indivduals were not as happy as I was because the show was canceled because "to some, (the band's name) is mistakenly associated with pornography. Consequently, Calvin, to some, was mistakenly associated with pornography. Neither the college nor the band endorses pornography."
By rescinding the invitation to the band, Calvin earned a storm of negative media attention (Pitchfork, The Huffington Post, Christianity Today, and Chronicle of Higher Education) with many criticizing the college for not understanding the irony behind the band's name. Luckily, the band was able to find a new location for their show and I will be able to cross them of of my list.
In the meantime join me in "freeing" The New Pornographers from the shackles of shackles of censorship and close-mindedness by checking out one of their most excellent CDs from KPL. Their newest Together is filled with great hooks, melodies, and lyrics that you come to expect from this great band.
A friend recently introduced me to the music of a singer-songwriter she repeatedly heard on the radio during a trip to Italy a couple of years ago. Turns out the performer is not Italian at all, but rather Australian. Her name is Gabriella Cilmi (chil-mee) and her first album, Lessons to be Learned was released in the UK in 2008. A second, "Ten," came out in March of this year, also in the UK. "Lessons to be Learned" includes both acoustic and more plugged-in arrangements, all of which suit her smoky voice well. The first time I heard her, she reminded me of Amy Winehouse. Apparently, I'm not alone; that comparison is often made. Other female singers who might come to mind when listening to Cilmi include Sara Bareilles and Colbie Caillat .
I have to say that at first listen Plastic Beach went in too many different directions for me. However, by the end I more than appreciated the analogy between the album's title and its musical landscape. Now, I spend a little time each day soaking up the sounds of this album. Gorillaz had already established itself as an institution where pretty much anything goes, but with Plastic Beach the "band" blends about as many musical styles as it does songs on the album (16 tracks with a running time of just over 56 minutes). Not to say that each track sticks to any kind of formula whatsoever, it absolutely does not in the most refreshing ways. Damon Albarn, the Gorillaz' driving force, is able to convince the listener to blindly accept the transition within and between each song. You almost wonder if this capacity for persuasion was necessary to convince the eclectic group of artists that make the Plastic Beach what it is. Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Sinfonia Viva, Mark e Smith, and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble all join the regular cast of mysterious cartoon Gorillaz to create an album that will spend a lot of time on my playlist. Take a walk along the Plastic Beach and you will pick something out of the sand that's worth your while.
The Raveonettes are a Danish rock duo who compose infectious, fuzzed out pop songs that pay homage to the early sixties girl groups like The Ronettes as well as a reverential nod toward the reverb drenched tunes of eighties shoe gazers, The Jesus and Mary Chain. Their album Lust Lust Lust is a fantastic introduction to their sound, one that clearly draws its inspiration from earlier rock and roll pioneers but that does not come off as derivative or self consciously retro. You'll be humming these catchy tunes all summer long as you trek west for some fun under the sun.
I am certain that friends, colleagues, and assuredly my own family have grown tired of my consistent response when the conversation turns to music and the inevitable "what are you listening to" question pops up. My answer, since its early May release, has been that I can't get enough of the latest by the Akron, Ohio blues rock duo The Black Keys. In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I am a real fan of the band and I have loved and continue to listen to everything that they have put out, but their latest record Brothers is just so good that I have found myself listening to it almost daily. The Black Keys music continues to be a perfect mix of the elemental power of traditional guitar blues with cool indie rock sensibilities and, on Brothers, bits of soul thrown in for good measure. From my perspective the band, six albums in, has matured in all the right ways, adding a bit more production and instrumentation on its last two records, Brothers and 2008's Danger Mouse produced Attack & Release, and singer Dan Auerbach tests out a falsetto on a couple tracks on Brothers, including the great Everlasting Light - great live version posted below, that I never saw coming and weirdly comes close to sounding Antony and the Johnsons like, but the band never takes this experimentation too far, always keeping the song structure tight and holding firm to what makes them such a great band in the first place.
When I was putting together my previous post(s) about Patti Smith, I ran across a video of John Cale doing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Cohen's writing was stark and hauntingly beautiful; certainly well worth checking out. But watching the video reminded me of how truly interesting John Cale is.
A former member of the legendary Velvet Underground and a producer for the likes of Patti Smith, The Stooges, and a bazillion others, Cale's solo work runs the full spectrum of style and emotion; from lovely dark ballads (I Keep A Close Watch) to neo-classical ambience (Words For The Dying) to full on anger-induced rage (Leaving It Up to You).
KPL stocks Artificial Intelligence, commonly regarded as one of Cale's worst solo efforts and admittedly not none of my own favorites. If you really want a concise discovery of Cale's earlier solo work, scrounge around for a copy of his 1977 Guts compilation. Nary a single loser among the nine tracks and the cast of characters is impressive; Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Richard Thompson, Chris Spedding, Phil Collins (yep, back when Phil was a drummer), and a host of others. Close Watch - An Introduction To John Cale is an updated and re-mastered version with some of the same tracks. Island Years (1996) is even better; a two-disc set that pulls together 36 essential tracks, including everything from Guts. (This has since been re-released as a budget disc called Gold.)
A personal favorite of mine is Honi Soit from 1981. You won't find any tracks from it on the compilations (it's a different record company), but no matter. Everything here is as powerful and immediate as it was when it was released nearly 30 years ago (ack!).
If you want to read more about John Cale, check out What's Welsh for Zen: the Autobiography of John Cale. The book is a dozen years old now but an interesting read with loads of great photos and drawings. And Hans Werksman's Fear Is A Man's Best Friend website is an essential resource if you're hooked.
Here's Cale in a lighter moment… Hallelujah.
Bob Parlocha was born to have a radio show. Richly textured and oozing with experience and knowledge, Parlocha's voice is as smooth as the jazz singers and musicians he features on his radio show. Regrettably, I seldom listen to his fantastic playlists, mostly because he hits the airwaves at 10pm, nevertheless, I rarely ever steer away once I've tuned in. Parlocha's program is well balanced in that it draws attention to both the seminal musicians from the past (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Stan Getz) as much as it highlights current artists and their new releases. If you can stay up later than I can and you love jazz, be sure to check out Nocturnal Transmissions. Don't forget to drop by the library to browse our large collection of jazz compact discs.
Patti Smith has been one of my faves since a roommate back in the 70s once forced me (kicking and screaming) to listen to Radio Ethiopia, for which I'm now eternally grateful. Raw, immediate, surreal… yet truly real. Soon after, I discovered her first album – Horses – and I was hooked.
Patti actually created much of the groundwork for New York's CBGB's scene of the 70s, inspiring bands like Television, The Ramones, and Talking Heads. "Like her hero Jim Morrison she wrote absurd verses more fit for a diary than a rock 'n' roll record, but could also follow them with lines that genuinely terrified." (Chris Dahlen, Pitchfork) Lovingly dubbed "Poet Laureate of Punk" by NPR, Patti layered her cutting poetry with a killer band to create a blend that continues to inspire fans and artists alike.
As I was rummaging through the library's collection the other day, I was happy to find a copy of the Legacy Edition of Horses, the 2005 reissue of her seminal 1975 album that was named by Rolling Stone as one of the top 50 rock albums of all time. Expanded to two full discs, the 30th anniversary edition includes the original album as produced by John Cale, that's been newly remastered by Greg Calbi with amazing results. The set includes a bonus track, Patti's gutsy remake of My Generation (originally released as a B-side) and… a bonus live performance of Horses, recorded in its entirety at London's Meltdown Festival in 2005. "These things, these relics, are alive in the fists of memory. We search for them in close-up as we search for our own hands in a dream." (Patti Smith)
Just for fun, here's an amazingly clean video from 1976 – the title track from Horses, leading into another classic remake, a cover of Hendrix' Hey Joe from the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test. As the commercial says… "priceless." Enjoy.
It took two tries, but I'm hooked on the music of the Fruit Bats on their cd The Ruminant Band. I hear touches of Neil Young and country rock "Waiting on a Friend" era Rolling Stones accompanied by a prog rock-voiced lead singer.
I was thinking that I should mention something about what the songs are about, but I realize I have no idea. I mostly listen to music while I'm doing something else so it's the music that affects me more than the words.
Check it out, maybe twice. It grows on you.
If ever I was hard pressed to name a favorite song or piece of music, Samuel Barber's masterpiece Adagio for Strings would likely top the list. Like many, my first exposure to Barber's famed work, with its evocative and emotionally charged beauty, came from its inclusion within Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon (winner of Best Picture of 1986). One of the twentieth century's most recognized songs, Adagio for Strings elevated Barber's reputation, placing him alongside other notable American 20th Century composers like Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. Barber's lesser known work Knoxville: Summer of 1915, developed for soprano (with lyrics) and orchestra, is a romantic and nostalgic work often played during the summer months for its suggestive and wistful feeling.
NPR recently took a look at Barber's Adagio for Strings, analyzing its musical structure in order to better appreciate and understand its power to move and stir human emotions.
I am always surprised when I "discover" a new, at least to me, musical artist whose talent is so great and whose music is so amazing that they beg to have the word genius attached to their work, yet I have been completely unaware of their music until that point. I suppose it should not be so shocking given the time I have available to devote to searching out great music and the vast number of artists out there in the world working in a wide range of genre's that I have interest in. But with very little effort, I consistently find new and shockingly great artists to check out. I believe this to be a very positive result of the increasing interconnectedness of the world. I also believe that these discoveries have been helped along and often facilitated by the KPL music collection's fantastic breadth and depth. Listening to Michigan Radio on Sunday evening I had such an experience when I first heard the music of Japanese jazz composer and pianist Hiromi Uehara. Not only a virtuosic technical player, Hiromi's passionate and genre bending style is truly unique as witnessed in the video below.
One of the founding fathers of power pop, Alex Chilton died on March 17 of a heart attack in New Orleans. Chilton has been cited by many as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century.
He began his career as the 16-year-old lead singer of the Box Tops, a late 60's "boy band" who first hit the charts with the song "The Letter" (1967). Chilton had felt the music industry exploited the Box Tops and eventually the band broke up in 1970. Soon he found his way to Memphis and hooked up with Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel to form Big Star. Although Big Star never achieved much commercial success, their sound which combined equal parts Memphis soul and British Invasion pop sparked a power pop movement that inspired musicians such as R.E.M., The Replacements, The Posies, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub, Cheap Trick and The Bangles.
Chilton was immortalized in the song "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements on their 1987 album Pleased to Meet Me. After recording three albums (1971-1974) Big Star disbanded and Alex Chilton went on to record many solo records. He briefly reunited with both the Box Tops (1989) and Big Star (1993). Chilton will live on as a talent who helped define a musical genre that continues to inspire.
When people ask how long my morning drive to work is, I often say "about three songs." This got me thinking about what others might hear when they commute to work each morning. So I asked a few friends to begin posting on Twitter the first three songs they hear every morning on shuffle. If you are someone who uses Twitter and loves music, post your what you hear using the #1st3shuffle hash tag. The second track this morning on my iPod was "Seaweed Song" by Passion Pit. This Boston electronic band's debut release, "Manners" was one of my top ten from last year. Passion Pit was originally a solo project of Michael Angelakos while a student at Emerson College. He wanted to create a musical Valentine for his girlfriend and produced an EP on his laptop. The effort led to the formation of a band and one of the best dance CDs of the year. Listening to the infectious beats of Passion Pit combined with a few cups of coffee always seems to get me ready for work.
The San Francisco-based two-piece Girls (comprised of two men) came out of nowhere last year, landing on several end of the year lists for best album. Their debut, unimaginatively titled Album, is a tender yet bratty collection of catchy pop psychedelia coupled to a restrained self consciousness that never comes off as posturing or derivative. An apt description might be that their songs sound like Beach Boys hymns filtered through the bombastic noise of My Bloody Valentine and sung with a nasally baritone who summons comparisons to Elvis Costello. This was one of the few contemporary bands that stayed on my radar last year.
As a senior in high school I heard a cover of Madonna 's "Like A Prayer" by the singer John Wesley Harding and was immediately hooked by his version of folk, or as he sometimes calls it "gangsta folk." I immediately dived into Harding's catalog and discovered a plethora of brilliant songs that were intelligent, witty, tender, historical and sardonic. In college, I was fortunate to see him live and experienced not just a concert, but what felt like a dialogue between Harding and me. I scraped up the money to purchase a concert shirt (I still have it) and that summer my future wife approached me while I was wearing it because she was also a fan.
Throughout the years I have traced the path of who I consider one of the most underrated musicians of the past 20 years. I have read the two fabulous novels he has written under his real name, Wesley Stace, and purchased every new CD. Imagine my surprise when he agreed to participate in our long running concert series and speak about his books the following night.
I encourage you to come to hear Wes speak about his music and books on February 17 and 18 . You will discover an extremely talented musician who has shared the stage with such greats as Bruce Springsteen and has been praised by literary critics for his writing. Space is limited at both FREE events, so come early.
A mix of Santana and Yanni (and likely some Pink Floyd in there, too), Kitaro was a random pick of mine when I was recently browsing the popular music section in our audio-visual department at Central library. He is touted as a master of the New Age music movement, but I simply appreciate the music as being a combination of sounds and styles. It isn't the space music/under the sea sound of something like Paul Winter's Callings, but is instead a nice melding of all sorts of things right about music: orchestral flow, digital sound, traditional instrumentation, and long blues-based guitar strains.
A winner of numerous Grammy Awards, Kitaro's music will be on my MP3 player for a long time to come. Downloads are available on his personal website.


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I have decided to buy a Nikon D5000 as my first digital SLR, can I have your recommendations of a good zoom lens for wildlife photography, priced up to around £500.
You'd probably be looking at a 55-200mm lens, although I'd recommend a Sigma or Tamron rather than Nikon's own as they seem to perform slightly better overall. You might be able to pick up a 70-200mm Sigma lens with constant f2.8 aperture, which would be excellent for wildlife photography, secondhand if you're lucky, and there are a few kicking around eBay for under £500. Be careful when purchasing lenses secondhand as perished seals can lead to mold on the lens, which creates spots of poor focus.
Do the Sigma lens have some form of VR built into them, and is this as important as people say?
VR is very useful because it reduces camera shake which can ruin your pictures (even a small amount will degrade the image quality) and enables you to shoot at lower shutter speeds without getting it.
The suggestion of the http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...n-fit/p1027429 (or the http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...n-fit/p1027468version) is a good one because both are superb quality lenses with fast maximum apertures, which makes viewing and focusing esier and faster, and enables lower light shooting. Neither has VR though and both are above your budget (between £600-700), though you could almost certainly find secondhand ones under £500.
However, I would actually be tempted to recommend http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/equ...6-af-s-vr.html lens, first because it has VR built in, and secondly because 200mm is not really long enough for a lot of wildlife subjects. It's around http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...-lens/p1014102. The downside is the relatively small maximum aperture which would in low light force you to use slower shutter speeds and, as a consequence, makes the VR more essential. Or you'd have to shoot at a higher ISO than you would with the faster lens.
You don't say what kind of wildlife you have in mind but for birds, African safari and many other subjects even 300mm may not be long enough, in which case you could look at even bigger beasts such as the http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...n-fit/p1025303 or http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-...n-fit/p1025306, both of which are Image Stabilised. Again, they're both above your budget (up to £750) but you may find used ones.
Thanks very much for the advice Nigel, as being a newby to all this does get a little mind boggling at times.
I will be traveling to the jungles of Borneo to photograph Orangutangs some of which will be in the trees, I was thinking the 70-200mm f/2.8 sigma may be enough for this, but am still a little wary of purchasing a lens without OS or VR. Is camera shake a major problem generally or would it be more of a problem with longer lens. I like the thought of the f/2.8 but at the expense of the OS it makes it a tough decision.
As Nigel says, 200mm may not be enough for your chosen field.
As for the lack of VR, the f2.8 aperature will allow more light to hit the senso, allowing a faster shutter speed, and hence removing the need for VR in many cases.
If i had the budget for sports, I would definitely sacrifice VR for a fast, f2.8, lens. Both however would be great
A fast f/2.8 does compensate somewhat for a lack of VR. Because at the tele end the max aperture is about two stops wider than the 70-300mm f/4-5.6, for example, that will enable you to use a shutter speed two stops higher, thus reducing shake. However, its not always best to shoot at the widest aperture due to the very shallow depth of field you will have. Raising the ISO may be a better option.
However there are other benefits to wide maximum apertures besides higher shutter speeds. These include a brighter viewfinder and faster focusing, and the likelihood of generally superior image quality.
It's all swings and roundabouts, with pros and cons for each option but for these reasons I too would proably sacrifice the VR for the f/2.8 lens as you have a much better quality optic. And 200mm will hopefully be long enough for the Orang Utans. Sounds like a great trip!
Thanks for all the advice,it's been a big help. I think i'll hunt out a Sigma 70-200mm.
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The homeschooled 12-year-old, whose nickname is "Kitty," spent two weeks working on her quilt under the guidance of grandmother Judy Martin of Chester. Martin began teaching Kaitlen and her sister Tiffany, 11, to quilt last year.
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January 7, 2014, Tuesday
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November 4, 2013, Monday
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Two white men of Irish descent topped the balloting on Tuesday in the crowded race for mayor of Boston, and they will face off in November.
September 25, 2013, Wednesday
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Boston's Police Chief Plans to Step Aside
Edward Davis, who rose to national prominence after the marathon bombings, said he was leaving voluntarily, but critics pointed to a lack of diversity among commanders on the force.
September 24, 2013, Tuesday
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September 20, 2013, Friday
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September 7, 2013, Saturday
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