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The Sheriff is bound by statute for the responsibility of operating the County jail(s) which entails the care and custody of inmates, including but not limited to such activities as:
The Oakland County Jail is accepting donations for paperback books for the jail library. Please call (248) 858-2925 for further information. Please note that this number is for the jail library ONLY.
The Main Oakland County Jail, located at 1201 North Telegraph, was built in 1973. The jail is a
maximum security facility and has general inmate population housing of approximately 440 inmates.
The intake area for processing new arrests includes holding tanks and observation cells which accommodate a capacity of 156 inmates.A 24-hour, seven day per week
health clinic is operated at the jail and has seven single cells. In March, 1989, the Annex (a direct supervision facility) was completed, which is attached to the Main Jail and has the capacity to house an additional 487 inmates.In addition, the Sheriff's Office operates a Corrective Services Satellite Division consisting of:
Total inmate capacity for the East Annex 398.The Corrective Services Division admits approximately
25,000 new arrests into the facility per year. Overcrowding continues to be an issue within the Corrective Services Division. However, through legislative changes, innovative programs and focus of the Oakland County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council in conjunction with the Sheriff's Office, jail utilization is at a manageable level. The Sheriff's Office recently implemented an Electronic Monitoring (tether) Work Release Program which has replaced in-jail Work Release status. The tether Work Release Program uses GPS monitoring 24 hours, seven days a week which increases the supervision of the inmate by tracking the inmate's location at all times. Alcohol monitoring is available as well as mandatory random drug screening. The inmate pays the cost of the tether and all drug/alcohol testing.
Should you have any questions about inmate information, please email them to
Medication Hotline (248) 858-1809- The Inmate Medication Information Hotline is a place where relatives/loved ones can leave information pertaining to medication that an individual was taking prior to incarceration. The hotline messages are checked continuously by Clinic staff.
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'Game of Thrones' Season 2 primer: Who are the players?
Spoiler alert! If you have not caught up with "Game of Thrones," read at your own risk. As Season 2 of HBO's "Game of Thrones" begins Sunday, King Joffrey's beheading of Lord of Winterfell Ned Stark has brought war to the kingdom. So many factions are challenging Joffrey's right to the Iron Throne, viewers might need help keeping track of the would-be kings and their many supporters. That's where this who's who chart comes in handy. Here are just some of the major players this season on "Game of Thrones." Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol Read my non-spoilery review. Find more photos of the "Game of Thrones" major players.
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Rocker Trace Cyrus has stunned fans by unveiling a new sprawling tattoo on the side of his head.
Miley Cyrus' half-brother took to Twitter.com on Wednesday (09May12) to reveal his intentions for another piece of body art and told his fans that his father Billy Ray Cyrus was also going to have an inking.
He tweeted, "With my dad! He is getting his back tattooed! Gangster! Getting my head tattooed right now..."
And he returned to the site four hours later to show them a picture of the design he had inked - an American Indian complete with headdress.
He added, "Got my head tatted today! Excuse all the ink on my face. And yes this hurt!!! Thank you Chris Garcia for coming up from Vegas to tattoo my family and I. I cant (sic) wait till next week to tattoo the other side of my head!"
Trace Cyrus recently confessed his love of body art almost cost his former band Metro Station opening for his famous sibling on tour in 2009, because her managers didn't like the way he looked.


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Well, religion is fun to trounce but there are also other extraordinary and unsubstantiated claims out there. Aliens is a big one these days. From the History Channel's "ancient alien theorists" to your Billy Bob abductees and even some politicians. Take this guy:
Posted on May 16, 2013 at 8:09pm 10 Comments 2 Likes
I would like to compile a list of quotes from overrated religious leaders that highlight their ignorance and hateful theologies, any help?…Continue
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An ex-friend wrote this in his blog. Do you think he comforted this girl? What real answers does he give her?
Friday, May 10, 2013
Thinking About Gay Stuff.
It's 5:03 in the morning.
I was just laying in bed, about to sleep and feeling tired finally after a nights work and mental stimulation. I was comfortable and I was ready to sleep. However, I couldn't stop thinking about a conversation that I had with someone while at work…Continue
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This debate perfectly illustrates the difference between the Christian short sighted emotional appeals and atheist reason and free-thought. I hadn't heard of Dr. Richard Carrier before, but I'll definitely be watching more of his stuff. Enjoy.
Great icon you choose.
Raisin is a dehydrated grape.
Thanks for the comment. It's good to know our future is in good hands. Now if only we can get rid of those damn Republicans in D.C.!
Hey James!
Love that picture! Thanks!
School starts here in a week too.
Getting everything ready. Books and stuff.
Have a good one.
Hey James!
Thanks for the cool picture!
Very hot today - like 100. So trying to stay cool.
I love the Goth Kids from South Park - thanks!
Hope you have a good weekend.
Hey James! How are you doing?
Thanks for the wonderful quote on my webpage and thanks for the comment on my Furby cat.
How's your summer going?
I've been buying and playing video games. : )
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Personal RebelMouse front page
Last year I discovered RebelMouse. I know! Another time-stealing-social-media-toy!
Not so fast! The site has helped with blogging and family history research.
After I figured out what I wanted to accomplish with the site, it was a wee bit addictive. In fact more time has been spent with RebelMouse than Twitter, Facebook and Google+ combined.
On the RebelMouse Blog you will find this statement.
"RebelMouse organizes your social presence into a beautiful, dynamic and social site -- in minutes. It's based on the idea that people are proud of what they share on social networks, but are starting to feel embarrassed about their websites. RebelMouse is your social front page and automatically updates as you post on social networks as well as when you blog directly on your site."
Now, let me explain in my very "non-professional" way how I use the site.
I have created my own personal genealogy/family history newspaper. Pulling in tweets/posts/articles from around the Internet.
There are two ways I capture information for my RebelMouse page
The first method is very simple. I just copy the link and pop it into the little box with the camera. I have stored the link and can edit information to help with research.
The second method is setting up "social feeds" from Twitter. Added my account and selected hashtags for RebelMouse to bring into my page. You also have the option to connect with Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Flickr and Linkedin.
RebelMouse Draft page
I have set-up tweets to populate the"Draft" page. Some of the hashtags used are "familyhistory", #genealogy, #history and #civilwar. There you have the ability to review, retweet and/or post to your RebelMouse Home page.
Soom my Home page became a bit clunky. Too much information to navigate in one place.
Edit Rebel Pages
Not to worry! Rebel Page to the rescue. There I created pages for each type of content. So much easier to organize and keep like items together.
Now for a little secret. If you follow this blog you know that I post a weekly "Genealogy Blogs, News & Tidbits". Want to know how I bring together such amazing information? Using RebelMouse!
It is surprisingly easy.
During the week I select stories for the Home page. Anything that crosses my reading radar is gathered there. On Friday I simply scroll down to the bottom and work my way up, selecting ones for the post. Once done I file each under the appropriate Rebel Page.
Thanks, RebelMouse!
That is a brief over-view on becoming a RebelMouse. Most certainly hooked!
Folks must be enjoying my "family history newspaper" since yesterday there were 783 engagements!


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Bruins agree to long-term agreement with ProvidenceStaff report
August 27. 2014 9:24PM
With the likely departure of the Manchester Monarchs for the West Coast coming in the next few years, many local fans have harbored hope that Manchester might become the affiliate for the Boston Bruins.
For the foreseeable, that won't be happening. The Bruins announced Wednesday that they have agreed to a long-term extension with the Providence Bruins to remain the team's AHL affiliate. The length of the deal was not disclosed.
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli also announced that assistant general manager Don Sweeney has been named the general manager for Providence and that Jay Pandolfo has been hired as development coach.
Sweeney enters his ninth season in the Bruins front office and his sixth as assistant general manager. The 16-year NHL veteran was drafted by the Bruins in the 1984 draft (166th overall).
The former NHL blueliner is one of just two defensemen and four players in team history to have played in more than 1,000 games with the team.
Pandolfo appeared in 899 NHL games throughout his career, notching 100 goals and 126 assists for 226 points and retired this year.
The P-Bruins have been Boston's AHL affiliate since their inception in 1992 and the 23 consecutive season affiliation between is among the longest in either league's history.


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ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed confidence in Italy's capacity to deal with a national vote that failed to produce a clear mandate for government.
Kerry was meeting later Wednesday with outgoing Premier Mario Monti during a visit to Rome. Speaking to reporters, Kerry said he was "very confident about Italy's ability and desire to work through" the complicated results.
The Sunday-Monday vote left Pier Luigi Bersani's center-left coalition won control of the lower house, but the Senate is split after Beppe Grillo's civic movement and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition. Bersani is expected to get the first bid at forming a government.
Kerry says the election demonstrated that Italians "wanted change."


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European Pressphoto Agency (epa) photographer Zsolt Czegledi shares with us the most recent chapter of his long term project in documenting the living conditions of the Roma community in the shantytown called Craica in Baia Mare, Romania.
Baia Mare has a population of about 150,000 people and lies near the Romanian borders with Hungary and Ukraine. Originally, around 1,500 Roma people lived in Craica on the outskirts of the city. But they are considered as illegal squatters and plans to relocate them for the better are in abeyance.
The slum area has no clean water and only a limited electricity supply. Selling scrap iron salvaged from abandoned mines in the area is their main source of income.
Since 2011, local authorities have been demolishing shanties and rehousing Roma families in various types of accommodation, ranging from disused factories to old government offices.
The local government says it is trying to lift the Roma out of poverty by giving them better housing and improving their access to education and employment. But plans to build modern social housing for the Roma consisting of 500 light structure, modular homes are still in limbo. (EPA/ZSOLT CZEGLEDI)


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The Daily Word 8.6.2010: Poop my ride, lady bits, baby Hitler
There's a new lady holding court. Supreme, yo.
And you thought your VW was shitty...
Parents name their kids the darndest things.
Woo hoo! Less terrorism.
Conservatives mess with a news site that isn't Fox.
Sean Penn calls bullshit on Wyclef Jean's bid for president of Haiti. But why, Sean Penn? Wyclef already has a mistress whose been paid off by his foundation. He's perfect for politics.
Peeps be getting stabbed and shot in the face in New Mexico. Stay classy!
Little girl lemonade stand shut down. Lemonade is, after all, a gateway sales tool.
65 years ago a little city in Japan was decimated.


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Category: Start / Academies/Academia/Early Music Study/Institutions
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"... In 1994, I had the opportunity to study with Keith Hill, in Manchester, Michigan. Keith's reputation as a musical instrument maker is well-recognized and respected in the field. At that time, I learned the craft of early keyboard instrument making. As part of the experience, I not only learned the technical principles of construction, but also the functional, aesthetic, and artistic aspects that go into making a fine quality instrument. Today, I produce instruments, keyboards, and parts, from a workshop in Spokane, Washington. I also participate as a clarinetist in a local orchestra. ..."
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"Pro Corda is one of Europe's leading music organisations and it operates the International Chamber Music Academy for young musicians. An educational charity established in 1969, its mission is to provide musical training for a wide range of young people through ensemble training and performance specialising in chamber music. It was reconstituted as a charitable company limited by guarantee on 29 September 2006.
Pro Corda's activities range from "core" chamber music courses for ages 5-24, our nationwide Chamber Music Festival for Schools (known as CMF), Suffolk Schools programmes, residential performing arts "Create Together" courses for young people with special educational needs (SEN) and Adult courses."
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"Lammas medieval music duo are fast becoming known as one of the most popular medieval music groups in the UK, with not only their polished performances for music festivals which are mixed with readings and anecdotes about life in medieval England proving popular with audiences from all walks of life, but their ground breaking research into the history of their instruments in medieval England being the subject of Sarah's lectures and articles for fine arts and history societies and journals across the world. Sarah mixes her classical music expertise having been a graduate and prize winner from the Royal Academy of Music, with Phil's experience as a folk musician and dancer, creating a lively, atmospheric and inspiring blend of music, singing, dancing and medieval poetry, both accessible and at the same time of the highest quality. ..."
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"... Unprecedented in its scale, the Rameau Project is surveying all relevant musical, literary and archival sources pertaining to the conception, performance and reception of Rameau's operas. Their musico-historical contexts are being investigated for the rich possibilities they present for interdisciplinary study in areas of philosophy, literature, politics and history.
Jonathan Williams and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) are engaging in empirical research, undertaking comprehensive practice-led explorations of the operas' distinctive technical, artistic and aesthetic challenges, and of Rameau's highly idiosyncratic performance practices, in particular. Dance troupes are being trained by Edith Lalonger in historically-informed choreography seldom seen in productions today, with the aim of restoring the expressive power and dramatic thrust of Rameau's dance music. ..."
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"With 58,776 letters and documents and 7,114 correspondents as of March 2011, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Scholarship with added value
Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an "electronic bookshelf" of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.
But that's not all. The EE team have created an ongoing programme of expanding, linking and original scholarly research to give you:
- thousands of newly composed biographical notes;
- tens of thousands of corrections of minor errors;
- scores of thousands of expansions of abbreviations and sigles;
- hundreds of thousands of internal links and cross-references
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"The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies.
The AHA provides leadership for the profession, protects academic freedom, develops professional standards, aids in the pursuit and publication of scholarship, and supplies various services to sustain and enhance the work of its members.
The association's principal functions fall within four realms: publication, teaching, advocacy, and networking. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves historians representing every historical period and geographical area.
The nearly 14,000 members include academics at universities, two- and four-year colleges, museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, but also independent historians, students, K–12 teachers, government and business professionals, and countless people who, whatever their profession, possess an abiding interest in history. …"
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Music Division of the Royal Society of Sciences in Zeeland
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"Pegasus School for Early Music is a private school providing high quality education in music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, within a friendly atmosphere. Early Music is our passion, and we would like to pass this excitement on to you!
For all ages and levels, from children aged 4-5 to teenagers, adults and the general public who is curious about this music and its fascinating background, Pegasus School is here to provide the knowledge in an enjoyable way. Our vision is to expose a wide audience to the beauty and uniqueness of Renaissance and Baroque music played on period instruments and based upon knowledge of the corresponding styles. …"
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"Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history. The RSA brings together members from many backgrounds who are interested in a wide variety of disciplines related to this period.
The RSA actively encourages the continued spread of learning about the Renaissance. The Society organizes an annual meeting every year, which features the most distinguished Renaissance scholars in North America and beyond. The Society further encourages scholarship by offering prizes and research grants of up to $3,000 in three categories (pre-doctoral scholars, junior scholars, and senior scholars).
The RSA sponsors many publications. The Society publishes the journal Renaissance Quarterly, its electronic counterpart, the online edition of Renaissance Quarterly, and the newsletter Renaissance News & Notes. The RSA also sponsors its own text, bibliography, and special purpose series (RTS), a reprint series (RSARTS), and the program of the annual meeting with abstracts of all the papers, and subsidizes editions, translations, and research tools published outside the RSA series. The RSA's Directory of members is available on this website. Finally, through its partnership with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the RSA helps to make access to information about Renaissance scholarship broadly accessible."
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"Main research topics: music iconography; history of the lute and its music; historical and biographical reconstructions."
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"On 16 October 2008 the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century studies (SCECS) was launched at Chawton House Library. SCECS brings together specialists from a broad range of disciplines (English, History, Music, and Philosophy) and draws on a rich research culture at Southampton in eighteenth-century studies. …
Members of the group have expertise in areas including Jane Austen, gender theory, women's writing, Gothic literature, eighteenth-century fiction, political economy, eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics, Anglo-French female literary networks, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, gardens, landscape and aesthetics, education, crime and criminality, and writing for children. …"
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"The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women is a network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and website, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another's work in the field.
EMW welcomes scholars and teachers from any discipline who study women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period and whose interest in it includes attention to gender and representations of women."
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"Welcome to the Internet site of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, an independent academic and artistic organization which investigates and promotes the myriad of interactions between text and music. Lyrica was founded by Dr. Louis Auld, Professor of French Literature at Central Connecticut State University in 1981. Since then, it has grown to include nearly 500 members in North America, Europe, Turkey and Japan. After serving as Editor of our peer-reviewed journal, Ars Lyrica, and as Secretary-Treasurer for seventeen years, Professor Auld retired from those posts, but remains active as an advisor to the Society's Executive Board. Lyrica welcomes literary, musicological and performance-practice research into word-music issues crossing all historical periods, and enveloping all musical and literary genres and cultural frameworks. Chronologically through the academic calendar, the Society is present at the annual conventions of the American Musicological Society, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of Teachers for Singing, and the National Opera Association (alternating biennially), the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Comparative Literature Association, where our seminar explores a special topic each year.
Our annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard are held each spring. .."
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Portuguese Society of Music Research
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"The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world.
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The Center produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials. The Center conducts ethnographic and cultural heritage policy oriented research, maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, and provides educational and research opportunities through fellowships, internships, and training programs. The Center also produces major national cultural events consistent with its mission. In 2004 these included the National World War II Reunion and the First Americans Festival for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian."
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"Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär is a conference group dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary work on the culture, politics, and society of German-speaking Central Europe during the early modern period. The group sponsors a triennial conference organized around a theme intended to explore and integrate current research interests in the disciplines of literature, history, the history of science and medicine, music, art history, and historical theology and the history of religion."
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"The Royal Musical Association is the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of music. Founded in 1874, its principal objectives are the advancement of scholarship and scholarly publication. Membership is open to any individual interested in musical research.
The RMA supports a national programme of conferences and study days promoting excellence in all fields of musical enquiry including historical and critical musicology, practice-led research, music analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music and science in all its forms, and inter-disciplinary investigations. …"
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"Patrick Ayrton has always had a passion for keyboard instruments, first the piano, then the organ and the harpsichord. He studied with François Demierre in Switzerland, with Alfred Mitterhofer at the Vienna Academy, in Austria, where he obtained his virtuosity diploma "cum laude", before specialising with Ton Koopman at The Hague conservatory. Patrick Ayrton was a prizewinner at the organ competitions in Innsbruck (1983) and in Bruges (1985).
He has since been invited by leading ensembles, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orlando Vocal Ensemble of Fribourg (Switzerland), the London Royal Choral Society and Brandenburg Consort, as well as the Amsterdam Combattimento Consort. In France, he is a regular guest with the Orchestre d'Auvergne, whose musical director, Arie van Beek, has encouraged him to develop his conducting skills and entrusted him with the direction of several programmes.
Though born in London, Patrick Ayrton has now settled in Burgundy, near Chalon-sur-Saône, with his family. In recent years, he has become increasingly involved in French musical life. Among other engagements, he is the artistic director of the festival "Bach en Combrailles" in Auvergne.
Patrick is also an active pedagogue, teaching harpsichord, continuo and chamber music at The Hague Conservatory, in the Netherlands. He gives masterclasses in Russia (the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Gnessin School) and in Austria (the Summer Academy of the Salzburg Mozarteum). His recordings are published by the Dutch label Globe.
In 2004 he founded Ars Burgundiae, with a view to rehabilitating the works of Joseph Touchemoulin."
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"The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades. Complementing the Association's national and international activities are eleven regional chapters that carry out its programs on the local level.
MLA publishes the journal Notes, the world's leading journal in its field.
MLA's development program attracts individual and corporate donors whose financial support further the purposes of the Association —
- to promote the establishment, growth, and use of music libraries
- to encourage the collection of music and music literature in libraries
- to increase efficiency in music library service and administration
- to promote the profession of music librarianship"
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"The Giorgio Cini Foundation is a non-profit cultural institution based in Venice, Italy. It was constituted by Vittorio Cini, in memory of his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore (devastated after 100 years of military occupation) and of creating an international cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life of Venice.
«The Giorgio Cini Foundation's mission is to promote the redevelopment of the monumental complex on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and encourage the creation and development of educational, social, cultural and artistic institutions in its surrounding territory.»
The creation of the Foundation was one of the most considerable private initiatives of the 20th century. The importance of this undertaking was borne out by the initial investment committed to rehabilitate the Island and by the many events the Foundation has promoted or hosted since. It is further substanstiated by the cultural patrimony conserved on the Island and, since 1984, at the Gallery of Palazzo Cini at San Vio.
Alongside the Foundation's commitment to its own research and the conferences and seminars growing out of this work, the Island welcomes events sponsored by distinguished cultural and scientific organisations. It has even been the site of major international summits (inprimis the G7 in 1980 and 1987).
The role of the Giorgio Cini Foundation is attested by the many highly esteemed intellectuals, artists, politicians and economists who have been involved in its programme, and by the recollections of scholars and guests who have spent time on the Island."
Visit website for more information. The foundation offers many conferences and study days throughout the year. (ed.)
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"These pages have been written to explain a quaint aspect of French musical life under the reign of Louis XV. The hurdy-gurdy (Vielle à roue), which so far had been customarily an instrument used by beggars playing on streets corners (lira mendicorum), unexpectedly became the object of a sudden and powerful enthusiasm. From 1725 to 1765, with more than two hundred published pieces of music, it invaded the world of aristocracy and even conquered the royal family. In this study, we are making an attempt to understand the reasons for that sudden and ephemeral passion.
Our thesis is that the hurdy-gurdy became an instrument destined to serve the myth of Arcadia, commonly believed in during that period of time, by representing the image of the idealized countryman, a central character of the eighteenth century, with whom "personnes de qualité" tried to identify themselves. In order to remove and purify it from any memory of its association with beggars and to make it become the Lyre of Apollo, the manufacture, the playing, the repertory of the hurdy-gurdy had to be completely transformed. The challenge was also to promote an idealized country life so as to make the hurdy-gurdy an instrument worthy to enter the Pantheon of the noble instruments of the aristocrats. As to the repertory, is it possible to say that the hurdy-gurdy is suitable for any high-level music score? Or rather should we say that it could serve only the country repertory, which is then to be defined as music of a rustic and popular style, even though completely transformed by the highly technical task of adjusting music to the baroque taste, which we call "Baroquisation"
Let us add that we worked within the interdisciplinary framework not only of Musicology (by the study of performance techniques and repertory analysis), but also of Psychoanalysis, Mythology and sociology. .."
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"Language and Music for Life was born in Spring 1997 and is committed to providing training in both music and foreign languages to students of all ages, with a lower age limit of 10 years old for the main Summer course, from 3 to 10 years old for the Peter Pan Course and no upper age limit.
The first LMFL summer course was held in 1997 and has grown in size and quality ever since.
Our music and language project functions in a context which is rich in individual ability, motivation, language, culture and generations.
Learning is not to be restricted to its manifestation in performance, though this is an essential part, but is to be intimately linked to the dynamics of the whole individual who is able to learn while changing, and able to change while learning.
Our linguistic premise: a language is learned not just for its own sake but also for a purpose. Language is used to communicate, to organise music making with others, to facilitate professional development and because we want to enjoy exchanges with those whom we have chosen to be with, and like, and because we don't want to live like a "foreigner" in an English speaking environment.
We learn a language to live and, as the name of our organisation puts it, to survive. …"
LMFL offers summer music programmes with some early music instrument instruction. Visit the LFML website and summer workshop listings for more information. (ed.)
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"The Venice School of Early Music
(Scuola di Musica Antica di venezia, SMAV) is a non-profit organisation created in 1991 to promote the study of early music. It is the only school in Venice devoted to early music.
The main activity of the school is the organisation of specialist courses in early music performing techniques.
Besides its didactic activities SMAV also organises Early Music festivals, concerts and recordings: it was responsible for the International Festival of Early Music in Venice, in 1992 and 1994; from 1999 ito 2007 it has taken part every year in the Venezia Suona - Festa Europea della Musica; since 1997 it has been organizing every friday and saturday a series of concerts entitled Il Concertino in famiglia in association with the Querini Stampalia Foundation (more than 1000 concerts in twelve years).
In 1996 the teachers of the school recorded the CD La musica del Tiepolo (venetian music at the time of the painter Giambattista Tiepolo)
SMAV published the musical guide-book Venezia, i luoghi della musica (1995) by Aldo Bova, and I balli di Gaetano Grossatesta (2002), essaies on a recently discovered manuscript of Venetian Baroque dance.
SMAV promotes exchange projects with other associations and instutions: teachers of the school were invited to teach at the Conseravtories of Zwolle (Netherland), Potenza (Italy) and the universities of Graz (Austria) and Cremona (Italy). SMAV has been partner of MediMuses project, supported by the European Union. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is a new and fast-expanding research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century – from debates about tolerance and freedom of speech, questions of intelligent design and atheism, to issues of colonialism and commercial economy.
We bring together internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows, graduates and undergraduates in every major discipline across the Humanities – Classics, English, French, German, History, History of Art, History of Science, Music, Philosophy, Russian and Theology.
We are multi-lingual and multi-media. We work in all the major European languages and with manuscripts, books and images, as well an electronic database of letters written by the significant figures of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century.
The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is currently funded by the Voltaire Foundation."
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"The Age of Philosophy saw a surge of interest in empirical science, humanistic inquiry, and cosmopolitan societies. It also witnessed a surprising fascination with ancient mythologies, alchemy, divine arcana, and secret societies. Did this dark side of the Enlightenment have anything in common with the rational undertakings of the day, or was it a remnant from times past? This digital archive will allow students and scholars to explore the strange, yet uncannily familiar, writings of French authors who went beyond John Locke's famed "limits of human understanding," in order to investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge - but often progressed with the same wit and epistemological concerns as Parisian philosophes. The ideas and practices of these writers (often dismissed as "illuminist") may thus best be understood as constituting a sort of "Super-Enlightenment," a category which begs a larger, open question: did the more orthodox Enlightenment thinkers ever cross over to the other side themselves?"
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The reasons a retailer is behind the most successful mobile payments solution
Which mobile payments app has the most users? If you guessed Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay – hereafter referred to as the Three Pays – you guessed wrong.
Despite the efforts of three of tech's biggest names to drive adoption of their mobile payments solutions, it's a retailer that has the most widely used mobile payments solution as measured by users.
How can mobile payment actually improve customer experience?
Payment impacts customer experience more than anything else.
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Who would have thought those enormous blocks of plastic you could play Snake on back in the early noughties would end up completely transforming the way brands communicate with people?
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Q&A: Droplet on the mobile payments market
Mobile payments startup Droplet has just begun a third round of funding as it seeks to expand into new UK cities.
It is operating in a very competitive market that has already seen some of the major players try and fail to attract an audience.
Bitcoin or Bitcon? The challenges facing the crypto-currency sector
It's been a tumultuous month for the bitcoin community. A series of scandals has seen the price of the leading crypto-currency fall by over 50% from its peak of almost $1200 in December.
There's been no shortage of criticism of bitcoin from economists and leading business people who see its recent woes as the start of its decline.
Yet despite all of this, the price is rising again and advocates of digital currencies remain optimistic.
Their outlook has been boosted by other news such as HRMC's updated guidance that VAT is not chargeable on bitcoin transactions, which addresses a major spur to bitcoin-related innovation in the UK.
So is bitcoin real or still a passing fad? What needs to happen for it to move from its status as a water-cooler topic, to a genuine financial tool used by many people?
In February we surveyed 2,065 adults on their awareness and usage of bitcoin.
Our research identified three of the challenges facing these emerging currencies: security, usability and the language of crypto-currencies. Recent events have highlighted that these issues remain a challenge that the bitcoin sector needs to overcome.
Bakery chain Greggs launches mobile payment app. Is it any good?
Bakery chain Greggs has launched a new loyalty app that enables customers to pay in any of its 1,700 UK stores using their mobiles rather than cash or cards.
It aims to reward customer loyalty, with users getting offers, free coffee and prize draws as well as being able to see their purchase history.
Greggs is incentivising people to download the app by offering a free breakfast if people add £20 to their account, while the first 10,000 customers to sign up for 'Auto Top-Up' with PayPal will earn a £5 bonus credit.
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The time consumers spend on mobile devices is increasing every day, making mobile a central channel for business activity.
As a result, an mobile strategy that drives results is essential for today's businesses. Companies that don't effectively engage customers on mobile channels will fall behind more innovative competitors.
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Just 13% of people are happy to store credit card details on smartphones
Only 13% of consumers would be happy to store their credit card details on their smartphone, according to a new survey from The Logic Group.
The report again highlights the consumer mistrust of mobile technology, as only 30% of consumers trust major retailers to keep their personal information safe.
This is potentially a huge problem for online retailers as offering to store card details is seen as a way of improving the mobile checkout process and encouraging repeat purchases.
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Majority Leader Eric Cantor's humiliating defeat Tuesday sounded the opening gun for an unexpected Republican leadership scramble that could vault California's Kevin McCarthy to the House of Representatives' top spot.
But McCarthy, currently the chamber's majority whip and No. 3 Republican, is not the only GOP lawmaker seeing opportunity in Cantor's primary loss. Other ambitious up-and-comers are likewise counting votes and calculating odds in this real-life version of "House of Cards," or maybe it's "Game of Thrones."
"I think Kevin is well liked," said Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, "but that's why we have elections."
The immediate opening created by Cantor's primary defeat to David Brat, a previously unknown Randolph-Macon College professor, is the job of majority leader, the second most powerful post in the House, one rung below speaker. It's also the presumptive next step toward becoming speaker of the House.
Cantor indicated Wednesday that he would be stepping down from the majority leader's position on July 31. His replacement will be selected in private balloting among the 233 House Republicans on June 19.
Cantor spoke to reporters late Wednesday afternoon following an at-times emotional meeting of the House Republican caucus. Asked whether he would back anyone for the post he is giving up, Cantor said that if McCarthy seeks the job, he would support him.
Cantor also praised the tea party, which has celebrated his defeat because it has long viewed the majority leader, despite a solid conservative voting record, as too willing to compromise on issues like immigration and the government shutdown. Still, the Virginia lawmaker said, "I think this town should always be about striking common ground."
McCarthy hasn't officially said that he would seek Cantor's job, but it would be hard to find someone on Capitol Hill who believed otherwise. That would create an opening for the majority whip's position, and Republican Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Peter Roskam of Illinois have announced they will both seek the post.
Other openings could be created further down the leadership ladder, depending on what happens. The fact that McCarthy already has a whip operation in place could give him an advantage, since the election will be held in a week.
On a day rich in rumor and short on certainty, the names of other real or potential House leadership candidates include Texas Republicans Pete Sessions, chairman of the House Rules Committee; and Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
"These guys are all conservative," noted John Feehery, a former top aide to several House GOP leaders, while noting that "members don't necessarily vote on ideology, but on effectiveness."
Hensarling, presumed to be running by Capitol Hill observers, stopped short of saying he was entering the race.
"I am humbled by the many people who have approached me about serving our Republican Conference in a different capacity in the future," Hensarling said in a statement. "I am prayerfully considering the best way I can serve in those efforts."
The Texans have a built-in advantage with the size of the Lone Star State's Republican delegation _ 24 members_ but one that gets diluted with two candidates in the race. They also would benefit from a clamoring among many members for a red state leader, since all the other people in leadership come from blue or purple states.
Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the House Republican Conference chairwoman and fourth-ranking GOP lawmaker, took herself out of the leadership shuffle. McMorris Rodgers is the GOP's highest-ranking woman in Congress.
Still, "it's a seismic shift that will create interesting dynamics in the Republican caucus," noted Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif.
The dynamics are all the trickier because of recurring questions about how long current House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio will keep his physically and politically exhausting job. The 64-year-old Boehner has struggled to corral a sharply divided caucus.
One major fissure is the split between mainstream Republicans and conservatives aligned with the tea party movement, newly emboldened by the taking down of Cantor. His defeat has been attributed to a variety of reasons, including his willingness to entertain different approaches to solving the immigration problem, which the tea party and its allies in Congress strongly oppose.
With a congressional district in California where Hispanics make up 37 percent of the population, McCarthy, too, could face pressure: from the tea party to toe its line, and from constituents to push reform. Until now, his caution on immigration has frustrated some of his constituents, including agribusiness leaders who have been urging more aggressive action.
McCarthy, assuming he seeks the majority leader's post, also could run into considerable pressure to give a leadership voice to the most vocal of Southern conservatives.
"I think there's been a geographic area of the country that has not been represented in leadership, and I think that would be determinative of what happens," noted Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.
Texan Sessions taps into the mainstream forces led by Boehner, who appointed him chairman of the Rules Committee, which determines what legislation and amendments go to the floor. He also had a successful two-term run as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
After helping lead the GOP to regaining the House majority in the 2010 elections, Sessions considered challenging McCarthy for whip but was rewarded with other perks and was asked to lead the NRCC for another cycle.
Hensarling has positioned himself as more conservative than Boehner.
"Hensarling is a little less unctuous than Cantor," said Southern Methodist University political science professor Cal Jillson. "Hensarling now has a chance. He's seen as going far enough to the right for the tea party."
McCarthy, a genial, prematurely silver-haired former member of the California state Assembly, first won election to the House in 2006. The 49-year-old lawmaker entered the House leadership in 2011 with his selection as whip, the party's chief vote counter.
With a safely Republican district that stretches from Bakersfield north through rural Tulare County, McCarthy has been secure enough at home to funnel the money he raises back into other Republican coffers. This has become a common means of rising through House ranks.
During the 2012 election cycle, his Majority Committee Political Action Committee steered $1.2 million to GOP candidates.
Hensarling's Job, Economy and Budget Fund distributed $651,000 among his fellow Republicans, records show, while Sessions' Pete PAC contributed $415,000.
McCarthy is also a reliable conservative vote, scoring 100 percent on the vote ratings compiled by groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Right to Life Committee.
Unlike Hensarling and Sessions, though, McCarthy last October joined Boehner, Cantor and McMorris Rodgers in voting for the measure that raised the national debt ceiling, reopened the federal government and avoided a government default.
Stephanie Haven and Rob Hotakainen of the Washington Bureau contributed to this report


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ATLANTA — Frank Wren is facing a dilemma that general managers covet but also dread.
ATLANTA — Frank Wren is facing a dilemma that general managers covet but also dread.
The Atlanta Braves must make room in an already deep rotation as Brandon Beachy is almost set to return from elbow surgery. Beachy was perhaps Atlanta's top starter when his 2012 season ended as he led the National League with a 2.00 ERA.
Wren said Thursday the difficult part of the decision is moving a starter — Tim Hudson, Mike Minor, Kris Medlen, Paul Maholm or Julio Teheran — to the bullpen. The bullpen needs help after losing left-handers Jonny Venters and Eric O'Flaherty to season-ending elbow injuries.
"The good news is our starters are all throwing the ball well," Wren said. "Fortunately for us to this point we've been healthy and our guys have been able to make their starts. In that regard it's a good problem to have, but you also are always mindful of there's going to be somebody that comes out of this probably in a role they'd like not to be in. That's the difficult portion of it."
Beachy was to make what is expected to be his final rehabilitation start for Triple-A Gwinnett at Rochester on Thursday night. Wren said Beachy could join the Braves' rotation as early as Tuesday's doubleheader against the Mets.
"We're real happy to get Beachy back and get him healthy and see where he is in the process of helping our club," Wren said. "At the end of the day, the decision is going to be based on what's best for our team. That's really the only factor."
The Braves, off on Thursday, open a home series against San Francisco on Friday night. Entering Thursday's games, the Braves led the National League East by six games despite being swept in a three-game series at San Diego.
The performance of the starters has been a key to Atlanta's success. Braves starting pitchers rank third in the majors with their 3.40 ERA, according to STATS LLC. They've also been durable, ranking fourth in the majors with their 410 innings.
Minor is a lock to remain in the rotation. The left-hander is 8-2 with a 2.44 ERA.
Even so, there have been some struggles. Hudson, the veteran of the staff, has lost five straight decisions to fall to 4-6 with a 4.41 ERA. Teheran, only 22, gave up only hit in eight innings of a 5-0 win over Pittsburgh on June 5 before showing inconsistency by allowing five runs in six innings of a 7-6 loss to the Padres on Monday.
Maholm has been strong at Turner Field, where he is 4-1 with a strong 1.64 ERA. But the left-hander is 3-4 with a 4.89 ERA away from Atlanta.
Maholm can become a free agent after the season, making him perhaps the most probable trade candidate in the rotation. Wren said he's not expecting a trade so early in the season.
"I think it's a little early for the trade market," Wren said. "There's just not a lot going on there just yet. I think this is going to be one of those decisions that's made primarily with the players we have on hand."
Medlen has experience as a reliever. He had success in a setup role early in the 2012 season as he made his return from Tommy John surgery. Medlen was even more dominant last season when he moved into the rotation and has said he doesn't want to return to the bullpen. He is only 3-6 but has a strong 2.87 ERA, the second-best on the staff behind Minor, entering his start on Friday night.
Beachy was 2-0 with a 2.84 ERA in four rehab starts with Class A Rome, Double-A Mississippi and Gwinnett before Thursday night. Beachy said a key was returning to a normal routine of pitching every five days.
"I can tell the difference," he said recently. "It feels good. I've been throwing all my pitches."
Beachy could return almost exactly one year after suffering the injury. Beachy's ligament-replacement surgery was performed by Dr. James Andrews on June 21, 2012.
"Fortunately for him and for us he's had a fairly uneventful rehab through the whole process for nearly a year," Wren said. "He's had some starts where he was pretty sharp and he's had other starts where he would tell you he didn't feel quite himself. That's the up-and-down cycle you have coming back from a major surgery like this. That's why we have to just continue to monitor and watch what happens."


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WASHINGTON (AP) For their first seven years, filled with on-field losses and off-field gaffes, the Washington Nationals merely existed, barely mattered.
That's why so much that happened in 2012 felt new and significant to them. All the regular-season wins - a best-in-baseball 98 - and the NL East title, the postseason highs and lows, the intense attention to the decision to shut down Stephen Strasburg in September.
And when it ended, in as difficult-to-digest a way as possible, the soft voices in the quiet Nationals clubhouse kept repeating the same word in the wee hours of Saturday, saying they would ``learn'' from what happened.
Learn from what for nearly every member of a young roster was a debut trip to the playoffs.
Learn from a 9-7 loss to the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of their NL division series - a game Washington led 6-0 early, then 7-5 with two outs in the ninth inning. So close, yet so far. No team in baseball history had blown a lead of more than four runs en route losing a winner-take-all postseason game.
Manager Davey Johnson: ``We proved our worth and we just need to let this be a lesson and ... learn from it, have more resolve, come back and carry it a lot farther.''
Closer Drew Storen, who five times threw a pitch while one strike from a victory but each was called a ball: ``It's the best job when you're good at it. It's the worst job when you fail. Just got to learn from it.''
General manager Mike Rizzo: ``Just knowing the character and the makeup of the core guys in this clubhouse, I think we'll use it as a learning tool, as a learning experience, and have a burning desire for it never to happen again. I think in the long run it'll be something that we look back on and say, `It was an experience, it was a tough experience, but it's one that makes you grow.'''
It was Rizzo who made perhaps the most talked-about personnel move in all of baseball this year, leaving Strasburg off the NLDS roster after making the prized right-hander stop pitching with about 3 1/2 weeks left in the regular season. This was Strasburg's first full season following reconstructive surgery on his right elbow, and Washington wanted to protect him for the future.
``I stand by my decision, and we'll take the criticism as it comes,'' Rizzo said, ``but we have to do what's best for the Washington Nationals, and we think we did.''
The feeling around the club is its best days are on the horizon, that winning will now become a regular occurrence. Those 100-loss seasons and worst-in-the-majors finishes in 2008 and 2009? Long in the past, the thinking goes.
With a core of All-Stars Strasburg and Gio Gonzalez, plus Jordan Zimmermann, in the rotation, and Bryce Harper, Jayson Werth, Ryan Zimmerman and Ian Desmond in the everyday lineup, the Nationals like the way they've set themselves up.
``Somebody once said to me, `When you look back at years of losing, you just smile, because when it gets to the winning, it's awful sweet.' I think we've reached that stage,'' said Mark Lerner, son of Nationals principal owner Ted Lerner, ``and we'll be good for a long, long time to come.''
That very well may be.
In the interim, though, there are a string of questions facing the Nationals as they head into the offseason:
-How will Strasburg react to the way his season ended and what kind of numbers can he produce with no restrictions at all?
-Will Adam LaRoche, the first baseman who led Washington with 33 homers and 100 RBIs, leave as a free agent?
-How much longer will the 69-year-old Johnson, whose contract as the skipper is done, manage?
-How much better can Harper get? He turns 20 on Tuesday; in Game 5, he became the only teen in baseball history with a postseason triple and one of two with a postseason homer.
-What will it take for Storen and the rest of the group to put the meltdown against the Cardinals behind them?
``Come spring training next year, we'll be more battle-tested. Our young players will have grown up and they'll be veterans,'' Rizzo said. ``And we'll know how to react to the playoff atmosphere.''
His team arrived in the playoffs a year earlier than anyone really expected. After never finishing better than third in the NL East, the Nationals took over first place for good in May and eventually gave the nation's capital its first taste of postseason baseball since 1933.
Pretty much everyone associated with the Nationals expect the wait for the next October journey to last 12 months, not 79 years.
``We were right there. We were one out, one strike, away a couple of times. We've come a long ways, and I think that's why it hurts even more - because of what we've been through,'' said Zimmerman, the third baseman who was the club's first draft pick after it moved from Montreal to Washington in 2005. ``We're the first team in this organization ever to be to this level, and its hurts. We put ourselves in a great position and had a chance to do something special, but we all should be proud of what we did this year.''
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Katy Perry has warned fans her fun-loving pop music is about to get "dark" as she channels her emotions from her split from comedian Russell Brand into her new work.
The I Kissed A Girl hitmaker is known for her light-hearted catchy tunes, but she admits her failed marriage has inspired her to vent about the break-up through her lyrics.
In a candid chat with Interview magazine, for which she is photographed as a sexy burlesque dancer, Perry says, "My music is about get real dark. I'll be shoe-gazing. You'll never see my face because my hair is in my face."
Perry recently performed her new song Part of Me at the Grammy Awards and was said to have changed the line "You can keep the dog/I never liked him anyway" to "You can keep the diamond ring/it don't mean nothing anyway" to reflect her newly-single status.
The star insists the single was written in 2010, before her marriage, but it has taken on a whole new meaning now she's no longer Mrs. Brand.
She says, "I wrote Part of Me two years ago and I always knew that Part of Me was a special song.
"It feels like my life plays out with these songs. I feel like I'm in some kind of weird Truman Show (Jim Carrey film), where I'm like, 'Why is this single appropriate now and it wouldn't have been appropriate then?' It's just so crazy.
"I guess the universe is kind of... we're kind of like, dancing together in some weird way... I think it's really important for me to write songs that are still honest and relatable because that's what everyone else is going through."
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Three for a Song is a performing trio with a love for the 1930s, during which some of the greatest songwriters who ever lived wrote music that would enter the canon of American popular song. But the group has recently added a quirk to its repertoire: performing songs that were never popular.
"You will always hear Burton Lane's 'How Are Things in Glocca Morra?' " says the trio's pianist, Alex Hassan, who is also a pop-music archivist. "But you will not hear an incredible torch song that he wrote for a 1935 MGM flick that never got made."
That Burton Lane tune, "Blue Serenade," is just one of many to appear in The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard, a traveling production created by Hassan, tenor Douglas Bowles and soprano Karin Paludan. The three found their material in a trove of virtually unknown music by Lane, Vernon Duke and other luminaries; it came to light recently when the Library of Congress digitized it.
Some of these songs were hitched to movies that were never filmed or Broadway musicals that flopped. Others appeared in entertainments so strange, the stories might have overshadowed the music. Take, for example, "Low Down," originally performed by Lillian Roth in an over-the-top 1930 film called Madam Satan.
"Lillian plays the female plaything of an aristocrat who has become bored with his wife," Bowles says. "The wife realizes he's messing around. She introduces herself to Lillian Roth's character — who's named 'Trixie,' of course — and Trixie teaches the wife what she's doing to fascinate the husband. The wife redefines herself as Madam Satan and attends an orgiastic party on a blimp. She seduces her own husband back into her arms — at which point the blimp catches fire."
The members of Three for a Song spoke with All Things Considered host Robert Siegel and performed selections from The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard live in the studio. Click the audio link to hear their full conversation.
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And I'm Robert Siegel. And this is a song that's you've probably never heard. It's called "Two Heads In The Moonlight." It's performed by Alex Hassan on piano. He's part of a trio. We'll meet the other two later. But this is a solo piano piece from their show, "The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard."
SIEGEL: And now, let's introduce all the members of Three For a Song.
ALEX HASSAN: On the piano, Alex Hassan.
KARIN PALUDAN: I'm Karin Paludan. I'm originally from Lawrence, Kansas.
DOUG BOWLES: And I'm Doug Bowles. I'm a tenor, singer, sing with these crazy people.
SIEGEL: And the three of you perform - the whole point of the songs you're playing is these are songs often by great songwriters and songs we've probably never heard of.
HASSAN: That's the idea. I mean, you will always hear Burton Lane's "How Are Things In Glocca Morra," but you will not hear an incredible torch song that he wrote for a 1935 MGM flick that never got made.
PALUDAN: (Singing) Nights are getting lonely. My life's become a blue serenade. Lost my one and only and now I am a blue serenade.
SIEGEL: Okay.
PALUDAN: We have a little bit of fun.
SIEGEL: Bravo.
HASSAN: "Blue Serenade" from the unfilmed MGM extravaganza in 1935 elegance.
SIEGEL: And we've truncated that for time. One of the other songwriters whom you've discovered some obscure songs by is Vernon Duke, who someone might think of as one of the great songwriters. "I Can't Get Started," "April In Paris," Autumn In New York," "Taking a Chance On Love," these are really some of the best songs, I think, ever written and you manage to find something by Vernon Duke that didn't see the light of day?
HASSAN: This one that we do in our show is called "This Is Romance." It is a 1933 real sort of deco-type pop tune. "This Is Romance" exists in two different versions in 1933, one of which was a little bit too dark. It got yanked really quickly in favor of a second version and it's a little bit sunnier.
SIEGEL: Well, which of the two lyrics are we going to hear right now?
HASSAN: We're going to hear the one that actually got recorded at the time.
SIEGEL: Okay.
BOWLES: (Singing) This is romance. There's a sky to invite us and a moon to excite us, yet you turn from my kiss.
PALUDAN: (Singing) This is romance. It's a moment of splendor, yet you fail to surrender to a night such as this.
DOUG BOWLES AND KARIN PALUDAN: (Singing in unison) The dreamy magic of your eyes enchanted my heart, but will the magic of your love be granted my heart. I'm in a trance, dear.
BOWLES: (Singing) Let us be (unintelligible)
PALUDAN: (Singing) This is paradise found, dear.
BOWLES: (Singing) This is paradise, dear.
PALUDAN: (Singing in unison) Sweetheart, this is romance.
SIEGEL: Very nice. Alex Hassan, you know, is it more likely that you'll turn up a forgotten song that was written by a terrific composer, Vernon Duke or Burton Lane, than it is by a terrific lyricist like Ira Gershwin or Oscar Hammerstein II?
HASSAN: I would agree there. They're more likely probably to be overshadowed by the Lorenz Harts and the Ira Gershwins, but there are a ton of tunes by thems as well.
SIEGEL: Let's hear another gem.
BOWLES: Sure. This is a number that was introduced by Lillian Roth called "Low Down." It's from a 1930 film called "Madam Satan."
SIEGEL: "Madam Satan."
BOWLES: And in this film, Lillian plays the female plaything of an aristocrat who's become bored with his wife. The wife realizes he's messing around. She introduces herself to Lillian Roth's character, who's named Trixie, of course, and Trixie teaches the wife what she's doing to fascinate the husband.
SIEGEL: Is this before the Hays Code? Is this one of the movies, yes, before they began censoring movies? Okay. Now, I understand.
BOWLES: The wife redefines herself as Madam Satan and attends an orgiastic party on a blimp.
SIEGEL: On a blimp.
BOWLES: On a blimp, yeah.
SIEGEL: Even before the Hays Code, before the Von Hindenburg.
BOWLES: Yeah, exactly. Oh, but get this. Before the Hindenburg, this party goes crazy, right, and the wife is wearing this very - it's very easy to see that this is the wife. Anyway, she seduces her own husband back into her arms at which point, yes, the blimp catches fire and conveniently, all of the cast members in this movie happen to have parachutes and they jump to safety and everything's happy in the end.
SIEGEL: Doug, I don't think you have to sing the song, right. No, go ahead. No, go ahead and sing the song.
BOWLES: It's all over now. It's all over now.
BOWLES: (Singing) Don't send them away. Tell them to stay. Tell them to play that sweet love melody. Do it for me. I want to be just low down, low down, don't tell me to slow down. I now and then get up again, fall right into new sensation. Bach and Chopin can't give me what Jess can. No new kick. I like my music low down. (Scatting)
SIEGEL: Alex Hassan on piano, Doug Bowles and Karin Paludan, that is to say Three For A Song, thanks so much for performing some of the greatest songs we've never heard.
BOWLES: Thank you.
PALUDAN: Thank you so much.
HASSAN: Delighted.
HASSAN: This is James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith composed this song.
BOWLES: (Singing) Our love was just like a rhapsody. That's how I thought it would always be. (Unintelligible) I concentrated all my love on you, but little did I know, my reward. Oh, your love and kisses make me believe that every night would be just like a New Year's Eve. And then you brushed me right off your sleeve. How could you put me down? Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Didn't realise these guys were back:
Probably deserves it's own thread.
Would make one myself, but I'm off to wander about Glasgow with my trousers around my ankles, drunkenly moaning about Lan Di.
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Tahoe Twins | Hildebrandt blanks Hustlers in playoff matchup
August 27, 2012
Jesse Hildebrandt tossed a three-hit shutout to lead the Tahoe Twins to a 4-0 home win over the Reno Hustlers in the opening round of the Reno/Tahoe NABA playoffs Sunday.
The 6-4 right-hander was on his game, fanning nine hitters while allowing only one walk. He faced two batters above the minimum and needed only 100 pitches to get through nine innings.
While Hildebrandt mowed down opposing hitters, his offense supplied a run of support in the fourth and added three more in the fifth on 12 hits total.
Shortstop and leadoff hitter Bobby Habeger, who returned to the lineup after suffering from a knee injury in recent weeks, provided a spark with three hits and an RBI.
Steve Derby had an RBI on two hits, including a double, while Gabe Sandersius doubled and had two hits, and Kevin Decker had a double and RBI. Jesse Brown contributed a hit, RBI and two stolen bases, and Drew Lipnosky, Joe Thomas and Cory Munoz had a hit apiece.
The Twins (17-2) entered as the top playoff seed after winning the league title with a 16-2 record. The Hustlers were seeded eighth, at 7-11.
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In the first game on Sunday, which was Fan Appreciation Day at North Tahoe Regional Park, the fifth-seeded Tahoe Braves were eliminated from the playoffs with a 9-0 loss against the fourth-seeded Reno Creepers.
The Twins will now host the Creepers, who improved to 12-6-1 with their win over the Braves, in the second round of the postseason on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 1 p.m. The Reno Assassins and the Reno Hornets will square off in the other second-round game.
Winners advance to the Reno/Tahoe NABA championship, which is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 16, at North Tahoe Regional Park.
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