【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/2UnZbEK 'Reading Rainbow' star LeVar Burton wants to livestream reading books amid coronavirus pandemic LeVar Burton, star of "Reading Rainbow" and of "Star Trek" fame, plans to livestreamed his popular reading times to help ease the coronavirus blues. March 29, 2020 at 07:46AM
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【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/2UGRCIe Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus -- How badly is the COVID-19 crisis hurting our health care system? Here are some facts to consider as we move forward in the coronavirus crisis. March 28, 2020 at 11:24PM
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'''Lucius Anicius Gallus''' was a Roman [[praetor]] who led the conquest of [[Illyria]] during the [[Third Macedonian War]] (171–168 BCE).
== Biography == Lucius Anicius Gallus belonged to the [[Plebs|plebeian]] [[Anicia (gens)|Anicia]] family.<ref></ref> He led the Roman conquest of [[Illyria]], taking control of the region in twenty or thirty years in 168 BCE, following the defeat of [[Perseus of Macedon]], ally of the Illyrian king [[Gentius]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Anicius Gallus brought back its king Gentius and his children to Rome as a prisoner. At the end of 167, he celebrated his victory at the festival of [[Quirinus|''Quirinalia'']] in an absurd manner according to [[Polybius]], having constructed an enormous stage in the [[Circus (building)|circus]] where he invited the most celebrated scenic artists from Greece to play.<ref></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
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【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/3aBrDc1 Brian Brenberg: Coronavirus -- Responsible crisis leadership includes putting Americans back to work The road through and beyond coronavirus is going to be long. The only way we can persevere as a nation is by honestly recognizing and wisely addressing the full set of challenges Americans are facing. March 28, 2020 at 06:00PM
【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/2WMtHtk Annapolis Film Festival shifts to online-only to avoid large crowds Over 10,000 people were supposed to be in Maryland's capital this weekend for the eighth annual Annapolis Film Festival. March 28, 2020 at 10:41AM
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President Donald Trump plans to go to Norfolk, Virginia, Saturday to send off a U.S. Navy hospital ship to New York Harbor to help relieve local hospitals overrun with coronavirus patients.
The USNS Comfort is expected to arrive in New York on Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday. The ship will provide up to 1,000 beds for noncoronavirus patients, freeing up local hospital beds and local medical professionals so they can devote more of their resources to isolating and treating those with the highly contagious COVID-19.
'Weeks and weeks and weeks'
Cuomo spoke in a news conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has turned into a makeshift hospital facility for treating thousands of coronavirus patients.
"This is going to be weeks and weeks and weeks," Cuomo told service members at the center. "This is going to be a rescue mission that you're on … as hard as we work, we're not going to be able to save everyone."
In this March 27, 2020, photo provided by Office of Governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, walks the corridor of a nearly completed makeshift hospital erected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.
Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lieutenant General Todd Semonite said the final plan is to have 2,910 hospital rooms in the Javits Center by Monday morning.
Two Army hospital units, capable of providing 300 hospital spaces, will be able to start seeing New York patients on Monday, Army Chief of Staff General James McConville said earlier this week.
New York has been desperately trying to increase its capacity for patients as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. Cuomo said the state has a capacity of 53,000 beds but projected that 140,000 coronavirus patients would come to hospitals in the days ahead.
On the West Coast, the USNS Mercy hospital ship arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to support the city's response to an overwhelming number of coronavirus cases. Like its sister ship, the Comfort, it will provide up to 1,000 hospital beds for noncoronavirus patients.
Another Army hospital unit will soon deploy to Seattle. It is capable of setting up about 250 hospital bed spaces once the location is chosen.
General John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Friday that the city of Chicago and the states of Michigan, Florida and Louisiana have been identified as some of the coronavirus hot spots that would soon require additional military help.
Chicago to convert convention center
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build hospital bed spaces for 3,000 COVID-19 patients in Chicago's McCormick Convention Center by late April, according to Semonite.
In total, Semonite's teams are looking at 114 facilities across the country in which to build hospital spaces, with 81 of those assessed so far.
More than 12,000 U.S. National Guard personnel are responding to the coronavirus pandemic in all U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia, according to officials. Tasks range from delivering meals to screening symptoms at testing facilities.
As of early Friday, 613 coronavirus cases around the globe were related to the U.S. military — 309 service members, 134 civilians, 108 dependents and 62 contractors — the Pentagon said.
One U.S. defense contractor and one Army spouse, both in Virginia, have died from the virus.
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Within hours of the U.S. House's overwhelming approval of a $2 trillion bill to blunt the economic destruction caused by the coronavirus, President Donald Trump signed the legislation into law.
The rare and speedy bipartisan consensus in Congress to back the bill, the largest emergency aid package in American history, underscored the price of the pandemic.
"I want to thank Democrats and Republicans for coming together and putting America first," Trump said as he signed the bill.
The bipartisanship did not extend to the Oval Office, with only Republican lawmakers present, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"It's a proud moment for all of us," McConnell said, praising the speed with which his fellow lawmakers worked for passage in record time.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill, March 27, 2020, in Washington. President Donald Trump signed the bill later in the day.
The president was also surrounded in the 75-square-meter room in the era of social distancing by Vice President Mike Pence, four members of his Cabinet and several other officials.
Checks, loans
Checks will be sent directly to individuals and families, unemployment benefits are to be greatly expanded, overwhelmed hospitals and health care providers will get government funding, and hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and loans will go to small businesses and big corporations.
With the legislation enacted, the focus returns to what is happening on the front lines of the battle against the disease, which has infected more people in the United States than in any other country, according to statistics compiled by epidemiologists tracking the global spread of the virus.
More than 94,000 people in the United States are known to have been infected by the virus and nearly 1,500 have died, including at least 366 in New York City alone.
Health care workers in New York City, New Orleans and Detroit, among others, have spoken of watching patients go within hours from seemingly not seriously ill to gasping for air and needing assistance to breathe.
More ventilators
Trump on Friday demanded increased production of ventilators, a day after he questioned whether so many were required during the pandemic.
"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," Trump said on Fox News. "You know, you're going to major hospitals sometimes, they'll have two ventilators. And now, all of a sudden, they're saying, can we order 30,000 ventilators?"
In tweets on Friday morning, however, the president blamed automaker General Motors from backing off a promise to produce 40,000 ventilators very quickly and attacked the corporation's chief executive officer, Mary Barra, accusing her of wanting "top dollar" for such work.
As usual with "this" General Motors, things just never seem to work out. They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, "very quickly". Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke "P".
Later in the day, GM said in a statement with Ventec that the two companies would deliver their first ventilators by next month and would eventually ramp up to a manufacturing capacity of more than 10,000 per month.
That wasn't good enough for the president.
Later in the day, in a statement, Trump said he had invoked a wartime law and directed the secretary of health and human services "to use any and all authority available under the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to accept, perform and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators. Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course."
The president accused GM of "wasting time," saying his order "will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives."
Another American automaker, Ford, says it is in "active conversations with the administration, seeking guidance about approvals, scope and distribution relating to a series of products, including ventilators."
Thea D'Adamo of TradeMas Inc. works with fellow NYSE-AMEX floor traders in an offsite trading office they built in her home when the New York Stock Exchange closed because of the coronavirus, in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 26, 2020.
Wall Street remained worried. The Dow Jones industrial average on Friday closed down 915 points, a drop of 4 percent, snapping a winning streak that for the week saw the key index gaining 13 percent for its best week since 1938.
Stock prices overall, however, remain far below the levels of late February, when concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus began to create widespread anxiety among traders.
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From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares as airlines cancel flights and countries close their borders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of tourists escaping cold weather in Europe were scrambling this week to find alternative ways to return home from the Thai island of Phuket in the Andaman Sea.
Ksenia Vostriakova and her friends were scheduled to fly back to Moscow on an April 3 Singapore Airlines flight, but it was among those canceled when the airline slashed its operations. They have booked a flight on Qatar Airways for April 6 and are hoping nothing else changes.
"Now we're really worried that this flight also might be canceled," Vostriakova said, adding that their Thai visas run out in mid-April. "We might still stay here because everything changes."
Thailand
Thailand went under a state of emergency this week as the government gives itself new powers to deal with the virus crisis. The country, which last year welcomed 39 million tourists, announced it was closing its borders to nearly all foreigners. Its national airline, Thai Airways, said it was suspending almost all of its flights.
It's a trend seen around the region and the world. The Airports Council International Asia-Pacific said Friday that 12 major hubs in Asia-Pacific had seen an average decrease in air traffic of more than 80% in the second week of March versus the same period last year.
Up to 10,000 tourists are believed to be stranded in Nepal after the government ordered a complete lockdown that halted all flights and road travel to prevent the spread of the virus, the country's tourism board said. Most businesses and government offices were also shut.
Nepal
Spring is the tourist season for Nepal when thousands of visitors come to hike the mountain trails.
At the Lukla Airport, the only gateway to the Mount Everest region, there were more than 200 trekkers stranded, according to Dhurba Shrestha, an airport official. Even if the highways were open, the closest road is three days trek downhill.
Officials were working on arrangements of special flights to at least get tourists back to the capital, Kathmandu.
The German government on Friday arranged a rescue flight — a Qatar Airways charter — that left the capital with 305 people on board, mostly German nationals.
In Kathmandu's tourist enclave, visitors could still be found wandering around empty streets. A handful of restaurants and hotels were still open, but most shops were shuttered. Police were blocking locals from moving around but not tourists.
"We were supposed to leave on March 21 but we are still in Nepal and waiting for our embassy to help us arrange a flight," said New Lee Kuan, from Malaysia.
Sri Lanka
The Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka said that it was ready to help an estimated 18,000 tourists return home either via scheduled flights that are still operating or special charters if required. The country is under a nationwide curfew until at least next week.
In Indonesia, more than 2,500 foreign tourists were stranded in Bali, the most famous of the country's more than 17,000 islands. The government has granted all tourists automatic visa extensions, a move made after long lines formed at immigration offices.
"This is good news that helped us a lot," said Ruben Evert Ernst, a German on vacation with his partner whose visa had been set to expire in a few days.
Visitors to Thailand haven't been so lucky. Hundreds of tourists seeking visa extensions were crowded Friday under a row of awnings next to a makeshift immigration office that's been set up on the outskirts of Bangkok after throngs formed at the main building. There wasn't enough room for the tourists to keep their distance and stay in the shade so most were pressed up almost against one another.
"I woke up today at 5:30 to get here on time so it's very stressful," said Murdoch Baghaie, from Sacramento, California. "I'm supposed to be a tourist enjoying the scenery. Nothing like enjoying Thailand anymore."
Shopping malls, bars, sit-down restaurants, public swimming pools and many other places have all been ordered closed in Thailand.
At least for now, Phuket's beaches remain open. That's good news for Russian tourist Vitaliy Kurikov, who has been spending his days playing with his son on the white sands of Bang Tao beach.
"If they close the beaches, I really don't know what to do," he said.
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New York's governor said Friday that he was continuing to shop "around the globe" to purchase 30,000 ventilators, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's statement that he thought the figure was overblown.
"Maybe you don't need 30,000. Well, I don't have a crystal ball," Andrew Cuomo said at his daily news conference. "Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. But I don't operate here on opinion. I operate on facts, and on data, and on numbers and on projections."
President Donald Trump talks with host Bill Hemmer during a Fox News virtual town hall with members of the coronavirus task force, at the White House, March 24, 2020, in Washington.
Trump questions numbers
In a phone interview with Fox News late Thursday, Trump appeared to dismiss the New York governor's effort to acquire the breathing machines for patients seriously sickened with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," Trump said. "You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes and they'll have two ventilators, and now all of a sudden they're saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?' "
New York state has 19.5 million residents. On Friday, there were nearly 45,000 confirmed cases of the respiratory virus, more by far than in any other state. Nearly 6,500 people were ill enough to be in the state's hospitals, and nearly 1,600 were in intensive care unit beds, which are equipped with ventilators.
Patients wearing face masks and personal protective equipment wait on line for COVID-19 testing outside Elmhurst Hospital Center, March 27, 2020, in New York.
Death toll on the rise
Friday was the second consecutive day that the state's death toll exceeded 100. In all, 519 New Yorkers have succumbed to the virus.
Cuomo said that projections from experts, including a major New York hospital and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, predict the peak in cases, which is expected in his state in about three weeks, could see 140,000 people hospitalized and 40,000 of them requiring breathing machines.
"Those are numbers — not I feel, I think, I believe, I want to believe," the governor said. "Make the decisions based on the data and the science. And we are following the data and the science, and that's what the data and the science say."
A COVID-19 testing tent is setup on a sidewalk in a predominantly Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 27, 2020.
Help is on the way
The state is continuing to ramp up its hospital capacity, currently working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Guard to build four field hospitals. Cuomo said he would ask Trump to approve four additional field hospitals for New York to more evenly distribute health care coverage.
New York state is also looking at converting hotel rooms and university dormitories into care facilities. On Monday, the U.S. naval hospital ship Comfort will arrive in New York Harbor. The ship has 1,000 beds as well as 12 operating rooms and is likely to take on noncoronavirus cases to relieve the burden on overwhelmed hospitals.
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Sorry parents, 'Baby Shark' is making a comeback for a good cause. Pinkfong's "Baby Shark," that jingle earworm that every toddler seems to know, is being reworked to teach good hygiene to combat COVID-19. The company has debuted the "Wash Your Hands With Baby Shark" video and started a dance challenge to encourage families to upload videos of their children washing hands to the song. In other entertainment news Friday, the Television Academy has adjusted its calendar ahead of the Emmy Awards following disruption from the coronavirus.
From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover from but can cause severe illness in the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions.
'Baby shark challenge: Wash your hands, doo doo
Sorry parents, 'Baby Shark' is making a comeback — for a good cause.
Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" — that jingle earworm that every toddler seems to know — has been reworked to teach good hygiene to combat COVID-19.
The company has debuted the "Wash Your Hands With Baby Shark" video and started a dance challenge to encourage families to upload videos of their children washing hands to the song.
"Wash your hands/doo doo doo doo doo/Wash your hands," go the new lyrics. "Grab some soap/doo doo doo doo doo/Grab some soap." Videos are tagged with #BabySharkHandWashChallenge.
Pinkfong uploaded its original version of "Baby Shark" with an accompanying dance and colorful cartoon video to YouTube in June 2016. It has now been viewed over 4.6 billion times, making it one of YouTube's top five watched videos of all time.
Emmy season adjusts to virus scramble
The Television Academy has adjusted its calendar ahead of the Emmy Awards following disruption from the coronavirus.
According to the calendar, June 5 will be the new entry deadline, nominations will be voted on from July 2-13 and nominations will be announced July 28. Final voting will take place from August 21-31.
There is also modification of the hanging episode rule for series and limited series.
But the academy stressed that there are no changes to the Sept. 20 Emmy telecast or the Sept. 12 and Sept. 13 Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies.
【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/2vU5579 Mathias Spahlinger
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'''Mathias Spahlinger''' (b. 15 October 1944) in [[Frankfurt]] is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between the most diverse musical influences and styles: between [[Renaissance music]] and Jazz, between [[musique concrète]] and [[Anton Webern]] [[minimalism]], between noise, improvisation and notation, between aesthetic autonomy and political consciousness, Spahlinger's works carry out conflicts for which there are no fixed models.
== Life == His father was a cellist. He taught him fiddle, viola da gamba, recorder, and later cello from 1951. In 1952 he got piano lessons. In 1959 he began to study jazz intensively, took saxophone lessons and wanted to become a jazz musician. In 1962 he left school and took an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During this time he took private composition lessons with [[Konrad Lechner]]. After finishing his apprenticeship he continued his studies with Lechner at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In 1968 he became a teacher at the Stuttgart Music School for piano, theory, early musical education and experimental music. From 1973 to 1977 he studied composition with [[Erhard Karkoschka]] at the [[Musikhochschule Stuttgart]]. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer for music theory at the Berlin University of the Arts, and in 1984 professor for composition and music theory at the [[University of Music Karlsruhe]]. From 1990 he was professor of composition and director of the Institute for New Music at the Freiburg University of Music. Since 1996 he is a member of the [[Academy of Arts, Berlin]]. In 2012 he declined the grant for his commissioned composition "off"(1993/2011) for the Swiss festival "usinesonore".<ref>https://ift.tt/2JhdMv5>
== Prizes and awards == * 2014: Großer [[Berliner Kunstpreis]]
== Work == Orchestra * 1975 morendo - for orchestra * 1981 Rou a GH i FF (strange?) - for 5 jazz soloists and orchestra * 1986 inter-mezzo, concertato non concertabile tra pianoforte e orchestra * 1988-1990 passage / paysage - for orchestra * 1993 ''und als wir'' - for 54 strings * 1997-1998 act, descending a staircase - for bass clarinet, trombone and orchestra (after [[Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2]] by [[Marcel Duchamp]]) * 2009 double affirmed. etudes for orchestra without conductor - for orchestra * 2011 lamento, protocol - for violoncello and orchestra
Chamber music * 1969 five movements - for two pianos * 1972 phonophobia - for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon * 1975 Four pieces - for voice, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano * 1976 128 fulfilled moments systematically ordered, variable playing - for soprano, clarinet, and violoncello * 1977 éphémère - for percussion, veritable instruments and piano * 1979-1980 extension - for violin and piano * 1981 refusal to testify / counterstatement - two counter contexts for double quartet * 1982 apo do (from here) - for string quartet * 1982-1983 adieu m'amour Hommage à Guillaume Dufay - for violin and violoncello * 1983 musica impura - for soprano, guitar and percussion * 1991 furioso - for ensemble * 1992-1993 presentimientos variations for string trio * 1993, revised 2011 off - for six small drums * 1995 towards infinity - for bass clarinet, trombone, violoncello and piano * 1995 about the early death of fräulein anna augusta marggräfin to bathe - for five male voices, five trombones, 3 female voices and 3 wind instruments * 2000 lost path version 1 and 2 - for ensemble * 1997-2005 colours of the early - for seven pianos * 2006 fugitive beauté - for oboe, alto flute and violin, bass clarinet, viola and violoncello * 2010 rundweg - for recorder, violin, and cello * 2012 removed addition - for four (also three or two) guitars
Vocal work * 1969 drama – for 12 Solo voices * 1974 sotto voce – für Vokalisten * 1979–1980 el sonido silencioso Trauermusik für Salvador Allende – für 7 Frauenstimmen und Tonband * 1983 signale – Chorszenen ohne Gesang * 1983–1985 verfluchung – für drei Vocalisten mit Holzschlaginstrumenten * 1985 in dem ganzen ocean von empfindungen eine welle absondern, sie anhalten – für Chorgruppen und Playback * 1993 vorschläge, konzepte zur ver(über)flüssigung der funktion des komponisten
Solo instrument * 1974 ''entlöschend'' – for großes Tamtam * 1992 ''nah, getrennt'' – for alto recorder solo
Tape * 1974 ''wozu noch musik, ästhetische theorie in quasi-ästhetischer gestalt'' – Hörspiel * 1975 ''störung''
Music theater * 1980 pablo picasso: wie man wünsche beim schwanz packt – Drama in 6 acts
== Publications == chronological * ''der widersinn von Gesang. zu theodor w. adornos liedkomposition'', in ''[[MusikTexte]]'' 1, Februar 1983, 37–39. * ''das starre – erzittert. zu nicolaus a. hubers 6 Bagatellen'', ''MusikTexte'' 2, December 1983, 15–18. * ''offener brief. an die teilnehmer des symposiums „Theodor W. Adorno – der Philosoph als Komponist"'', in ''MusikTexte'' 26, October 1988, 59–60. * ''gegen die postmoderne mode. zwölf charakteristika der musik des zwanzigsten jahrhunderts'', in ''MusikTexte'' 7, January 1989, 2–7. * ''wirklichkeit des bewußtseins und wirklichkeit für das bewußtsein. politische aspekte der musik'', in ''MusikTexte'' 39, April 1991, 39–41. * ''offener brief. die donaueschinger musiktage und der öffentlich-rechtliche rundfunk'', in ''MusikTexte'' 65, July–August 1996, 72–74. * ''easy to love [Umfrage zum Irakkrieg]'', ''MusikTexte'' 97, May 2003, 16–17. * ''für gisela und reinhard. zwei jubiläen: 110 Jahre NM, 100 hefte MT'', in ''MusikTexte'' 100, February 2004, 33. * ''Bewegliche Reaktion auf das, was uns täglich umgibt. Nicolaus A. Hubers „Sphärenmusik" für Orchester'', in ''MusikTexte'' 108, February 2006, 61–65. * ''dies ist die zeit der konzeptiven ideologen nicht mehr'', in ''MusikTexte'' 113, May 2007, 35–43. * ''Offener Brief. An Olivier Membrez, Association Usinesonor, Malleray-Bévilard, Schweiz'', in: ''MusikTexte'' 132, February 2012, 85–86. * ''mein freund reinhard'', in ''MusikTexte'' 141, May 2014, 5. * ''for musicians only?'', in ''MusikTexte'' 142, August 2014, 14. * ''thesen zu schwindel der wirklichkeit'', in ''MusikTexte'' 142, August 2014, 15. * ''politische implikationen des materials der neuen musik'', in ''MusikTexte'' 151, November 2016, 57–72.
== Conversations == * ''„alles aus allem entwickeln". Gespräch mit Reinhard Oehlschlägel über „passage/paysage"'', in ''MusikTexte'' 39, April 1991, 23–32. * ''Geschichte der Musik als Gegenwart: Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht und Mathias Spahlinger im Gespräch.'', Musik-Konzepte Sonderband, hrsg. von Heinz-Klaus Metzger und Rainer Riehn, München: edition text + kritik, 2000. . * ''„Ich sehe im Free Jazz ... die fortgeschrittenste Entwicklung." Gespräch mit Wolfgang Stryi'', in ''MusikTexte'' 86/87, November 2000, 62–65. * ''Maßstäbe außer Kraft setzen. Gespräch mit Reinhard Oehlschlägel'', in ''MusikTexte'' 95, November 2002, 73–79. * ''Von der schlechten Unendlichkeit. Gespräch mit Mark Barden, Johannes Kreidler und Martin Schüttler über „gegen unendlich"'', in ''MusikTexte'' 137, May 2013, 19–25.
== Secondary literature == Chronological * Claus Henning Bachmann: ''Ins Offene. Der Impuls zur Freiheit bei Mathias Spahlinger'', in ''MusikTexte'' 39, April 1991, 22. * Jean-Noel von der Weid: ''Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Frankfurt & Leipzig 2001, 408f. * Werner Klüppelholz: ''Obduktion der Ordnung. Zu Mathias Spahlingers „extension"'', in ''MusikTexte'' 95, November 2002, 69–72. * Rainer Nonnenmann: ''Bestimmte Negation. Anspruch und Wirklichkeit einer umstrittenen Strategie anhand von Spahlingers „furioso"'', in ''MusikTexte'' 95, November 2002, 57–69. * Reinhard Oehlschlägel: ''Radikalität und Widersprüchlichkeit. Variationen über Mathias Spahlinger '', in ''MusikTexte'' 95, November 2002, 33–35. * Dorothea Schüle: ''„... dann wird offenbar, daß alles auf Vereinbarung beruht". Zur Idee der offenen Form in Mathias Spahlingers „verlorener weg" (1999/2000)'', in MusikTexte 95, November 2002, 36–48. * Jakob Ullmann: ''... im vorgefühl der dämmerung. Zum Streichtrio „presentimientos" von Mathias Spahlinger'', in ''MusikTexte'' 95, November 2002, 49–54. * Rainer Nonnenmann: ''Wider den Utopieverlust: Mathias Spahlingers „doppelt bejaht" auf neuen Bahnen'', in ''MusikTexte'' 124, February 2010, 57–63. * [[Ulrich Tadday]] (ed.): ''Mathias Spahlinger''. Musik-Konzepte 155. Munich: edition text + kritik, 2012, * Rainer Nonnenmann: ''Musik aus und alle Fragen offen: Auskomponierte Perspektivwechsel des Hörens am Beispiel von Werken Mathias Spahlingers'', in ''MusikTexte'' 140, February 2014, 45–53.
== References ==
== External links == * * [https://ift.tt/2y8onpW Text by and about Mathias Spahlinger] in the journal ''[[MusikTexte]]'' * [https://ift.tt/2Jm5kL8 Homepage of Mathias Spahlinger]
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Nancy A. Hewitt is a [[Professor emeritus|Professor Emeritus]] at [[Rutgers University]], winner of the [[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005|Guggenheim Fellowship]], and a leading expert on [[gender history]] and [[feminism]].<ref> Nancy A. Hewitt|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref>
== Career == After a Bachelors' degree at the State University of New York, Brockport, she obtained her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. From 1996 to 1997, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford. Professor Hewitt was [[Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions]] at the University of Cambridge in 2009-2010. She also taught at the University of South Florida and Duke University.<ref></ref>
== Research == Hewitt's research focuses on [[American women's history]], nineteenth century U.S. history, women's activism and [[feminism]] in comparative perspective. She has published and edited several books. Her work has been cited in the press including in Slate<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)</ref>, The Conversation<ref></ref> and there is an interview of her on History Matters.<ref></ref>
== Selected biography ==
* Hewitt, Nancy A. (2001). Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s. University of Illinois Press. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-252-02682-9</nowiki>.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> * Hewitt, Nancy A. (2010). No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Rutgers University Press. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-8135-4724-4</nowiki>.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> * Hewitt, Nancy A. (2018). Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872. Cornell University Press. <nowiki>ISBN 978-1-5017-2175-5</nowiki>.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/39o7kNq Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis donates $400G worth of products to Feeding America: 'It's about leading by example' Two-time Super Bowl champion Terrell Davis is stepping up to help those impacted by the coronavirus, vowing this week to donate around $400,000 worth of products from his sports performance beverage and wellness company. March 28, 2020 at 12:10AM
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The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, and Congress is on the verge of action to relieve the outbreak's economic toll.
As of late Thursday, a count by Johns Hopkins Medical Center shows more than 85,000 cases in the United States, followed by China with more than 81,000 and Italy with about 80,500.
New York state is the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, with New York City the hot spot. There were more 21,000 cases in the country's largest city, with officials saying that number is growing by at least 3,000 a day.
On Friday, the U.S. House plans to pass the $2 trillion economic relief package that the Senate passed Wednesday night, and President Donald Trump has indicated he will sign it.
A statue of a Sioux Indian scout wears a face mask as it stands on a bluff overlooking Kansas City, Mo., March 26, 2020.
The centerpiece of the bill is direct cash payments to individuals who have lost their jobs and businesses forced to close their doors because of the outbreak.
Although the U.S. now has the largest number of cases, Trump said Thursday the government will be able to announce in the next two days what he calls good statistics and facts, "which will make your lives easier."
He also plans to go to Norfolk, Virginia, to see the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort leave for deployment in New York Harbor.
Canada is balking at a U.S. proposal to deploy hundreds of Americans troops along the U.S.-Candian border, which is closed to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
"Canada is strongly opposed to this U.S. proposal, and we have made that opposition very, very clear," Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. "The public health situation does not require such action."
South African Defense Forces patrol downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, March 27, 2020 amid a 21-day coronavirus lockdown.
In their first-ever remote vote, the EU Parliament members approved a $41 billion package of economic aid to members whose economies have also taken a beating because of the outbreak.
"From one day to the next, our lifestyles changed. Our streets emptied. Our doors closed. And we moved from a daily routine to the fight of our lives," the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen, told the lawmakers. Nearly all of them were under lockdown across the 27-member bloc.
Italy and Spain have been particularly hard hit by the outbreak.
Elsewhere, a second U.S. soldier stationed in South Korea has tested positive for the coronavirus. Officials at Camp Humphrey said she is isolated as they clean all areas she was known to have visited. They are also trying to determine who else has been exposed.
A man removes his mask to stretch and take a deep breath across from cherry blossoms at the Yuyuantan Park in Beijing on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
China is temporarily closing its borders to all foreign visitors. Nearly all the new coronavirus cases in the past week in China have come from people arriving from overseas.
The outbreak appears to have eased in China, and authorities don't want a resurgence.
South Africa and the Saudi cities of Riyadh, Medina and Mecca — the last are two of Islam's holiest cities — are the latest to go under lockdown.
And the Associated Press reports U.N. ambassadors from eight countries under United States sanctions — China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela — are asking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to press the U.S. to lift the sanctions so they can effectively fight the outbreak. The ambassadors accused the U.S. of politicizing the pandemic.
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The White House has tried to clarify President Donald Trump's stated belief that an American who went missing in Iran in 2007 is still alive, saying it believes Robert Levinson "may have passed away."
In a statement issued late Wednesday, White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said Iran "must provide a complete accounting of what occurred with Bob Levinson before the United States can fully accept what happened in this case."
In its first substantive comment on Levinson's fate, the Trump administration statement also said: "While the investigation is ongoing, we believe that Bob Levinson may have passed away some time ago."
Levinson disappeared March 9, 2007, while visiting southern Iran's Kish Island as a private investigator. He had retired from a 22-year career with the FBI nine years earlier. In 2013, several U.S. news outlets reported that Levinson had been part of a rogue CIA intelligence mission, a claim that U.S. authorities have not confirmed.
Today, with aching hearts, we are sharing devastating news about Robert Levinson, the head of our family. We recently...
Hours before O'Brien's Wednesday statement, Levinson's family shared what it called "devastating" news on Facebook and Twitter, saying it had "received information from U.S. officials that has led both them and us to conclude" that he had died "while in Iranian custody."
"We don't know when or how he died, only that it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic," the family added. "It is impossible to describe our pain. Our family will spend the rest of our lives without the most amazing man we have ever known, a new reality that is inconceivable to us."
Trump response
Minutes after the Levinson family's statement appeared online, a reporter asked Trump about it at a White House press briefing.
"It's not looking good. He wasn't well for years anyway, in Iran … Robert Levinson, who was outstanding, he was — he's been sick for a long time. And he had some rough problems prior to his detainment or capture. And we feel terribly for the family," Trump responded.
The seven children and wife of Robert Levinson, an American missing in Iran since 2007, appear outside U.S. District Court in Washington, Dec. 4, 2019, as they sue Iran for damages for his disappearance.
Pressed on whether he believed Levinson was dead, Trump repeated that "it's not looking great" but added: "No, I don't accept that he's dead. … They haven't told us that he's dead, but a lot of people are thinking that is the case. I feel badly about it."
Iranian officials consistently have denied knowledge of Levinson's whereabouts in their public statements.
Alireza Miryousefi, a spokesman for Iran's U.N. mission in New York, maintained that position in a Wednesday tweet almost two hours after the Levinson family issued its statement.
There was no comment from the Levinson family Thursday regarding Trump's stated belief that Levinson was alive or O'Brien's statement that fell short of confirming Levinson's death.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed support for the Levinson family in a Thursday statement. He said the family had "bravely shared with the world the heartbreaking conclusion that Bob died in Iranian custody."
Pompeo's statement did not explicitly say whether he or the Trump administration reached the same conclusion that Levinson had died.
"Only Iran knows for certain what happened to Bob since his abduction more than 13 years ago," Pompeo wrote. "We call on the Iranian regime to provide a full accounting of Bob's fate and will not rest until all Americans wrongfully detained by Iran are back home."
Levinson family lawsuit
The Levinson family has been suing Iran in a U.S. court for $150 million in compensation and $1.35 billion in punitive damages for Levinson's disappearance.
In a March 9 ruling, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Iran was "liable to them for the dastardly acts of taking Levinson hostage and torturing him." It also said it would grant the Levinson family's motion to render a binding decision known as a "default judgment" at a later date.
Levinson's wife and seven adult children gave two days of sometimes tearful testimony to the court last December. His children spoke of how the long disappearance of their father traumatized some of them with panic attacks, attention deficiency, eating disorders and nightmares of their father being beheaded.
The testimony was "one way to keep reminding the Iranians that we're not going away," eldest son Dan Levinson told VOA Persian's Late Newsprogram in a December 6 interview, a day after completing the two-day court session.
"They know exactly where my father is," he said of the Iranian government. "It's been almost 13 years [since the disappearance] and we're just suffering terribly. It's time for them to send my father home. And this [court testimony] is one way to hold them accountable and to pressure them to get this resolved."
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North Korea needs to publicly admit there is a coronavirus outbreak inside its borders and officially ask the international community for help fighting COVID-19 before any sanctions are lifted, experts said.
"North Korea has not even acknowledged a single case of coronavirus," said Christopher Hill, a chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea during the George W. Bush administration. "Until [the North Koreans] acknowledge that they have a problem, I cannot see any relaxation of sanctions."
Workers of the Ryongaksan Soap Factory make disinfectants in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 19, 2020.
North Korea's all-out efforts against the virus raised speculation that a possible outbreak has occurred in the country that shares a porous border with China, where the virus originated in Wuhan.
International aid groups working inside the country have been calling for the waiver of sanctions because shipments of medical supplies have been delayed. The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions in 2016 that, among other things, limit the country's import and export of certain goods that could support its nuclear weapons program.
FILE -- In this file photo taken on June 30, 2019, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea.
However, on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a news briefing after a virtual meeting he held with G-7 leaders that nations must continue to pressure North Korea.
"The G-7 and all nations must remain united in calling on North Korea to return to negotiations and stay committed to applying diplomatic and economic pressure over its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programs," Pompeo said.
Robert King, who served as special envoy for North Korea human rights issues under the Obama administration, said sanctions should not be lifted until Pyongyang is willing to work with the international community.
King said, "If there's no problem, why do we need to lift sanctions?" He continued, "I think the North Koreans have to be more willing to work with the United Nations and with other countries if they want to receive assistance."
On the contrary, Joseph DeTrani, a former special envoy for nuclear talks with North Korea, thinks the international community should lift sanctions to help North Korea.
People wear masks to protect from a new coronavirus as they walk through the Kwangbok Street in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 26, 2020.
"Although North Korea says [it's] not affected … those sanctions should be lifted," said DeTrani.
"In countries like Venezuela — North Korea would be in a similar situation — we're doing our best to ensure that humanitarian assistance can make its way," said Pompeo. "In some of these countries, when humanitarian assistance is offered — we have offered assistance for Iran — they'll often reject it."
Although the two leaders have been exchanging letters, nuclear talks have been deadlocked since October, when the working-level talks in Stockholm collapsed because of their differing demands. Since then, Washington has offered to resume the working-level talks, but Pyongyang has not responded to the offer.
Christy Lee contributed to this report from the VOA Korean service.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Thursday he has directed the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to expand its use of home confinement for inmates in appropriate cases, as the coronavirus has continued to spread in the federal prison system.
A total of six inmates and four prison staffers have tested positive for COVID-19, Barr said, adding that several federal facilities including two in New York City are now on lockdown as a result.
FILE - In this March 16, 2011, file photo, a security fence surrounds inmate housing on the Rikers Island correctional facility in New York.
The First Step Act, signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in late 2018, expanded the BOP's powers to maximize the amount of time that lower-risk inmates can spend in home confinement, when possible.
"I've asked and issued a memorandum just today to the Bureau of Prisons to increase the use of home confinement," Barr told reporters during what he said was the department's first "virtual" press conference in order to practice social-distancing.
"One of the things we have to assess is whether that individual ... will be more safe in the particular circumstance in which they are going to find themselves. And in many cases, that may not be the case."
He added that any inmate released on home confinement will still face a 14-day quarantine before they leave prison.
The plans by the Justice Department to increase the use of home confinement comes as criminal justice advocates and union officials representing prison workers have called on Barr to implement tougher measures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading throughout the federal prison system.
Some local jails and prisons in states such as New Jersey, meanwhile, have taken more drastic steps by releasing "low-risk" inmates serving county jail sentences.
The BOP has not signaled it would take such a step, though it has stepped up safeguards, including through the implementation of a policy requiring all new inmates to be quarantined for 14 days.
In a statement, the Justice Collaborative, a non-profit criminal justice group, called Barr's memo a "false promise" that contains more red tape for inmates and will take too long for deserving prisoners to be released.
"The DOJ's plan is far too slow to save lives," the group said, noting it would be better to fast-track the release of non-violent offenders who qualify based on age and pre-existing conditions.
It added it is "unclear" why inmates would need to serve the 14-day quarantine behind bars if home confinement is an option.
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Spain is reeling under the onslaught of the coronavirus, with fatalities surpassing those of China, the health system collapsing and retirement homes becoming open graves.
Hospitals are running out of critical supplies, and about a third of medical staff have been contaminated by the highly contagious virus, carried by tens of thousands of infected people cramming clinics in Madrid, Barcelona and other large cities.
"Intensive care units and hospitals are on the verge of collapse," Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told Congress on Wednesday evening, when he asked for his emergency powers to be extended until April 12.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holds a videoconference with some of his ministers over the coronavirus outbreak, at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, March 13, 2020.
He also asked Congress for $350 billion in emergency funding to confront the crisis and cushion the country against the economic consequences of confining people to their homes for a month.
The government expects three months of economic paralysis, which could cause a 9.7% drop in GDP this year and a 10% rise in its deficit, according to Goldman Sachs.
"There are more dark and uncertain days ahead," Sanchez said before an almost empty congressional chamber. Most lawmakers could not attend because of quarantines and other travel restrictions. Several leading ministers have caught the virus.
Spain's coronavirus cases have risen to 48,000 this week, according to the health ministry. But Social Security Minister Jose Luis Escriva has said that almost twice that number could yet be infected, as there are 83,000 workers reporting coronavirus symptoms who have not yet been diagnosed.
Twenty-five percent of hospital workers have contracted coronavirus, according to the health ministry, which reports that 5,400 medical staff have been contaminated on an accelerating scale, with 2,000 falling ill in the past two days.
Patients are being neglected at Madrid's Gregorio Marañon hospital, where videos broadcast over national television have shown patients strewn across the floor. A nurse at the hospital told reporters that they are out of essential supplies and that she and other medical staff are using garbage bags as protective gowns.
Despite overstretched resources, health workers in Spain have managed to cure more than 5,000 coronavirus patients, who have been discharged, according to the health ministry.
Spain's King Felipe VI visits a military hospital set up at the IFEMA conference center in Madrid, March 26, 2020.
The daily death toll was reported to be dropping Thursday, although Spain's deaths have surpassed the 4,000 mark, well above the 3,200 reported in China, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Italy remains the worst-hit country with more than 8,000 fatalities and more than 80,000 confirmed cases, almost equal to China's figure.
Coronavirus deaths have mostly struck people older than 70, considered the most vulnerable age group. Military emergency teams inspecting retirement homes in Madrid and other cities have found them abandoned by staff and with most of the residents dead in their beds.
"Survivors mingled among cadavers," an army officer told reporters.
Army engineering units have set up field hospitals in parks and turned empty warehouses, fair pavilions and other public spaces into makeshift clinics to relieve the overcrowded hospitals.
This has led to ugly scenes in some neighborhoods, where protests have erupted over the busing-in of potentially contaminated people. A youth gang in the city of La Linea, which has until now been a zone of low contamination, fought police in an attempt to block buses bringing groups of elderly citizens from badly hit regions.
In a first-ever electronic vote, Congress unanimously passed the 15-day extension of emergency powers and funding requested by the government. But Sanchez faced strong criticism from opposition parties, which accused his administration of "dithering" and being late to act despite clear warning signs from health experts weeks before the pandemic broke out.
Far-right leader Santiago Abascal held separatist authorities in Catalonia responsible for the spiraling number of coronavirus cases reported in Barcelona, where they tried to block a deployment of the army.
【Move to another page】 Quote https://ift.tt/2xvSOpC Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Europe's Myriad Cultural Sites Thrive Online
The Louvre is closed tight, but visitors can still see its most popular masterpieces — including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — without being sandwiched between selfie-snapping tourists.
The Berlin Philharmonic is similarly shuttered, but classical music buffs can relive Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, under chief conductor Kirill Petrenko's baton.
The Berlin Philharmonic's website announcing its temporary closure and offering free online concerts. (Lisa Bryant/VOA)
And anyone stuck at home and longing for some exercise can log into the Dutch National Ballet's dance class on YouTube.
As the coronavirus forces Europe's cultural institutions under lockdown, artistic expression is nonetheless thriving — online and free of charge.
From a virtual tour of the Gustav Klimt paintings at Austria's Belvedere Museum to chamber music livestreamed by the Bavarian State Opera to rock, jazz and amateur balcony concerts in Italy, the offerings amount to a massive, movable feast.
Yet even as the pandemic indirectly opens new opportunities for creative expression and expansion of audiences, it is delivering a financial tsunami to the industry.
"For a lot of museums, it's a very sad moment. And for private museums, it's an economic tragedy, because they can't sell tickets," and in many cases, they can't access public emergency funds, said David Vuillaume, executive board chairman of the Berlin-based Network of European Museum Organizations.
More than entertainment
But Vuillaume also points to a raft of museums now promoting online visits, thanks to technology as ubiquitous as a smartphone.
"Right now, visiting a museum online is entertainment for those with time on their hands," he said. "But I think art can really help people to go further, to think about very important values for the community and society."
The Paris Philharmonic is seeing new audiences joining its online concerts under France's lockdown. (Lisa Bryant/VOA)
In the French capital, the Paris Philharmonie has joined European counterparts in rebroadcasting some of its greatest concerts.
"A concert is different than just going online to find music. You really feel the atmosphere and the tension. It's an activity families can share," said Hugues de Saint Simon, the Philharmonie's secretary-general.
The philharmonic has seen new audiences accessing the virtual concerts, "and when they come to Paris, they may go to a real concert," he added.
Still, the lockdowns are devastating Europe's cultural industry, despite a smattering of financial lifelines to date.
French cinemas across the country are shut because of coronavirus. (Lisa Bryant/VOA)
The Italian government, for instance, approved $143 million in emergency aid for the country's film and TV sector. In France, Culture Minister Franck Riester, who contracted coronavirus, announced an initial $24 million for culture.
Industry members say such sums are a small fraction of what will be needed, although the size of the impact will depend on how long the lockdowns and the pandemic last.
"It's going to be tough," said de Saint Simon. "The major point for us is what to do so artists are not too fragilized."
The Philharmonie has reimbursed audiences for canceled concerts, but compensation for guest orchestras and others is unclear. Most events cannot be rescheduled; the next season already is planned out.
And while the French government promises to cover losses, "we're not sure exactly how and when," de Saint Simon said.
Coronavirus has shut down Europe's cultural institutions like this Paris cinema, but audiences are finding a raft of offerings online. (Lisa Bryant/VOA)
Financial hit
Vuillaume of the European museums network said he also was worried about the financial hit, especially on freelance workers.
"It could be very hard for them in the coming weeks," he said.
For Paris-based actress and dancer Claire Tran, France's lockdown that started mid-March came as a shock. It caught her wrapping up final rehearsals for a lyrical opera at the Champs-Elysees Theater. Hours later, she got notice the show was off.
"I honestly did not imagine for a second that we would shut down," she said. "I was hoping we would do the show in front of fewer people, but it would go on."
Tran has been promised full compensation, but friends working at smaller, less prestigious venues may not get paid for canceled performances.
Her homebound colleagues are now powering up computers and smartphones to express themselves.
"The principle is solidarity," Tran noted. "They're offering classes and artistic pieces on social media and Zoom for free, because nobody is making money right now. There's a good spirit in all of this."
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'''''Moler''''' is an [[orchestral work]] written by the American composer [[Arlene Sierra]]. The work was commissioned by the [[ Seattle Symphony]], [[Ludovic Morlot]], Music Director. It was first performed at [[Benaroya Hall]] on October 26, 2012.
== Composition ==
=== Background === ''Moler'' was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony as part of Sonic Evolution project: A showcase of new works from the younger generation of composers that would take inspiration, but no quotations, from popular music with a Seattle connection. Sierra composed "Moler" — Spanish for "to grind" — after selecting [[Alice in Chains|Alice In Chains]]' 1995 hit "Grind" as the inspiration for her contribution. Sierra states, "The band has a hard, visceral sound, which is something I try to do with my orchestral music,... I expected 'Grind' to be sexy, but it's about anxiety. So I was imagining the orchestra's teeth grinding in a certain way."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
=== Structure === Moler is a single-movement orchestral work with a duration of approximately nine minutes.
The title is Spanish for "to grind," and the piece was inspired by the composer's habit of grinding her teeth while sleeping. ''Moler'' is a dance-infused piece that uses the "grinding" idea to suggest unusual combinations of instrumental timbres and textures. Its overall musical narrative was partly suggested by the varying tensions and relaxations of sleep and dreaming.<ref></ref>
The composer writes:
Moler is the Spanish word for "grind," and this work takes its compositional impulses from a particular form of grinding, [[bruxism]], that is the involuntary phenomenon of teeth grinding that occurs during sleep. When reading about bruxism I came across medical research that revealed that a sleeper's heart rate increases with the onset of bruxism and that fluctuations coincided with phases of dreaming. Using the resources of a large orchestra, ''Moler'' replicates these characteristics, together with associated qualities of roughness, nervousness, and energy. Reflecting the relationship between bruxism and sleep patterns, the music shifts its energy levels, sometimes abruptly, between the frenetic and the relaxed, and back again. In addition to rhythmic parameters, orchestral motifs are made to "grind" against each other with starkly contrasting pitch and timbral materials. Timbral roughness is achieved through various contrasts including the pairing of muted trombones with low oboes, using [[flutter-tonguing]] in the brass, glissando effects in the timpani, and giving solo material to instruments including contrabassoon and muted bass trombone, among other orchestrational and compositional choices. A constant, quick pulse is implicitly present throughout ''Moler'', but [[syncopation]]<nowiki/>s and gaps in the texture add instability and drama. A two-note [[Motif (music)|motif]], short-long, and its slightly longer short-short-long version recur throughout. Otherwise the surface of the music constantly changes via orchestration and dynamics. Strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion, deployed in distinct layers or in combinations of instrumental sections, vie for the foreground. Sharp attacks in piano and percussion are offset by sustained music in strings or winds, low sounds contrast with high, unpitched with pitched, all coming together in a satisfying, powerful narrative.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
=== Instrumentation === ''Moler'' calls for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, percussion (two players: marimba, vibraphone, crotales, ratchet, cowbell, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, gongs [medium and high], woodblocks [medium and high], sand blocks, guiro, vibraslap, glockenspiel, snare drum, bass drum), timpani, harp, and strings
== Reception == In 2014, ''Moler'' was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in the [[Latin Grammy Award|Latin GRAMMY awards]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
''Moler'' appears on Sierra's second portrait CD with [[Bridge Records]], Game of Attrition: Arlene Sierra, Vol. 2, released in 2014 that includes four orchestral works recorded by the [[BBC National Orchestra of Wales]], [[Jac van Steen|Jac Van Steen]], conductor.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> As part of his review of the orchestral disc, Simon Cummings described ''Moler'' as "surely one of the best concert-openers of recent years."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)</ref>
== References ==
[[Category:Compositions by Arlene Sierra]] [[Category:Compositions for symphony orchestra]]
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'''''Weatherwise''''' is a short comedy in two scenes by [[Noël Coward]]. It was written in 1923 and first produced at the [[Festival Theatre, Malvern]] in 1932.
The play portrays the turmoil caused by a mentally deranged aristocratic dowager who imagines she is a dog.
==Background== The circumstances in which Coward wrote the play are unclear. He does not mention it in his autobiography ''Present Indicative''. In 1923 he had had two modest successes with ''I'll Leave It to You'' and ''[[The Young Idea]]'', but his first box-office triumph, ''[[The Vortex]]'', was yet to come.<ref>Hoare, pp. 85, 108, 135 and 149</ref>
The play was first performed by The Noël Coward Company at the [[Festival Theatre, Malvern]] 1932. The company was formed in 1932 as a touring ensemble, headed by [[Kate Cutler]] to present Coward's plays around Britain. ''Weatherwise'' was given as a [[companion piece|after-piece]] to ''[[Home Chat (play)|Home Chat]]''.<ref>Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 60 and 381</ref>
==Roles and original cast== *Lady Warple – Marjorie Haywood *Monica (her daughter) – Agatha Carroll *Cynthia (''ib'') – Joyce Wodeman *Violet (''ib'') – Marjorie Taylor *The Rev Harold Bassett (Monica's husband) – Keith Shepherd *Reggie Whistler – [[James Mason]] *Maid – Janet Burnell *Dr Twickenham (a psychoanalyst) – Farries Moss
==Synopsis== Lady Warple and her daughters discuss [[spiritualism]] – her latest fad. She tells them of a sceptical woman who went to a séance and became possessed by a malignant spirit. Their cynical young friend Reggie suggest holding an impromptu séance, at the end of which Lady Warple is discovered in a trance. They revive her, and at first she seems normal, but any mention of the weather causes her to growl like a dog and rush about on all fours, before suddenly returning to norma. After a week of this, a psychoanalyst, Dr Twickenham, is summoned. He recommends that at a signal from him all the family should pretend to be dogs. They so, while Lady Warple watches calmly and goes on with her knitting. Twickenham declares her cured, but then makes a casual remark about the weather, at which Lady Warple springs at his throat and worries him to death.<ref>Mander and Mitchenson, p. 61</ref>
==Critical reception== Coward's biographer [[Philip Hoare]] makes brief mention of ''Weatherwise'' noting it as a precursor to ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' in showing the author's fascination with spiritualism.<ref>Hoare, p. 60</ref>
==References and sources== ===References===
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[[Category:1923 plays]] [[Category:Plays by Noël Coward]]
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A record 3.3 million U.S workers filed for unemployment compensation last week as thousands of businesses shut their doors or curtailed operations in the face of the deadly coronavirus and laid off their employees, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.
The wave of claims by the newly unemployed has overwhelmed some state agencies that handle the paperwork, with the jobless workers forced to wait hours in line at offices or online if they were filing electronically. Jobless claim websites in some states, including New York and Oregon, crashed.
The vast number of claims easily surpassed the previous one-week record in the U.S. — 695,000 in 1982 as the U.S. battled high inflation at the time.
Economists say the huge number of new unemployment insurance claims is just one indication of the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus. Some suggest the U.S. might already be in a recession, even if the technical definition of a recession, two straight quarters of declining growth, is not met.
FILE - An empty restaurant is seen in Manhattan borough following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, March 15, 2020.
Last week's jobless benefit claims could be an indicator of millions more to come as many businesses are reassessing their plans by the day. They are faced with the question of whether to continue to pay employees when they have little or no work to do as would-be customers stay home in self-isolation to avoid public contact with others who might have contracted the virus.
Normally, laid-off workers claiming unemployment compensation are paid a fraction of their regular salaries, a sort of stop-gap personal funding.
But the massive $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package that was approved by the U.S. Senate late Wednesday includes $250 billion for bigger jobless payments that will benefit the newly unemployed at a time when the U.S. economy, the world's largest, is facing unparalleled challenges.
The legislation, when likely approved Friday by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Donald Trump, extends jobless insurance from 26 to 39 weeks and increases the payouts to the jobless by $600 a week for four months above what states would normally pay the unemployed.
In addition, for the first time, freelancers and gig workers, such as Uber drivers, will be eligible.
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The contrast could hardly be more stark. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has said that if all of his sweeping, expensive measures to stem the coronavirus saved one life, it would be worth it. President Donald Trump has another view: The costs of shutting down the economy outweigh the benefits, frequently telling Americans that 35,000 people a year die from the common flu.
Though it may seem crass, the federal government actually has long made a calculation when imposing regulations, called "the value of a statistical life," that places a price tag on a human life. It has been used to consider whether to require seat belts, airbags or environmental regulations, but it has never been applied in a broad public health context.
The question is now an urgent one given that Trump in recent days has latched on to the notion that the cure for the pandemic should not be worse than the disease and argued that "more people are going to die if we allow this to continue" if the economy remains closed. He has targeted a return a semblance of normalcy for the economy by Easter Sunday, April 12.
Critics say he's presenting the nation with a false choice at a moment when deaths and infections from the virus are surging.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference alongside the National Guard at the Jacob Javits Center that will house a temporary hospital in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, March 23, 2020, in New York.
"We're not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable," said Cuomo, whose state has seen far more infections and deaths from COVID-19 than any other state. "And we're not going to put a dollar figure on human life."
For decades, the federal government has made calculations on how policies intended to safeguard American health could impact the economy. Since the Reagan administration, federal agencies have been required to perform analysis of any proposed regulations that are expected to have $100 million or more impact on the economy.
The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, conducts cost-benefit analysis to estimate in dollar terms how much people are willing to pay for reductions in their risk of death from adverse health conditions caused by pollution. The Transportation Department estimates the additional cost that consumers would be willing to bear for improvements in safety at $9.6 million.
Now, the push-pull of when to re-open the economy during the coronavirus crisis centers on a similarly bleak question: What's an economically acceptable death toll? Putting dollar figures on the value of life and health is inherently uncomfortable, one expert said.
"People hate that question," said Betsey Stevenson, an economics and public policy professor at the University of Michigan who served on the White House's Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration. "By laying out the math in such a crude way, people cringe when they see it."
FILE - An empty restaurant is seen in Manhattan borough following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, U.S., March 15, 2020.
Days into his own call for Americans to dedicate themselves for 15 days to social distancing, including staying home from work and closing bars and restaurants to help try to stall the spread of the disease, Trump has changed his tune.
Trump has grumbled that "our country wasn't built to be shut down" and vowed not to allow "the cure be worse than the problem."
"The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!"
He also pushed back against suggestions that he is being cavalier about the prospect of more deaths being caused by a premature of reopening of the economy. "How many deaths are acceptable to me?" Trump told reporters Wednesday evening. "None."
But Democrats say that Trump was prioritizing the economy over the health and safety of Americans.
"I'd like to say, let's get back to work next Friday," said former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. "That'd be wonderful. But it can't be arbitrary."
Trump certainly has his defenders. Fox News commentator Britt Hume has called it an "entirely reasonable viewpoint" that older Americans would be willing to sacrifice for the good of the economy, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has said he's "all in" on lifting social distancing guidelines in order to help the economy.
Mike Leavitt, a Health and Human Services secretary in the George W. Bush administration, said the battle against the virus is shaping into a "supremely local fight" and communities may need to periodically adjust as the crisis unfolds.
"Each jurisdiction may not come to the same conclusion — because each jurisdiction may have different situations about shopping and businesses reopening," Leavitt said in an email.
In the recent past, the government has also put a dollar figure on American life in the aftermath of man-made calamities, including the 9/11 attacks and the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 and devastated the regional economy, to compensate victims.
Kenneth Feinberg, who administered the victims' funds stemming from those events, said the formula used in the nation's courts was a simple one: What would the victim have earned over the course of their life at work but for the tragedy that took their life? On top of that, there was some added compensation for pain and suffering and emotional distress, he said.
"It is a rather straightforward calculation," Feinberg said.
But when it comes to the current pandemic, Feinberg said calculating the impact is not so simple.
"When somebody says, 'You know the risk of the virus is not as great as the risks to everybody through a deteriorating economy,' that's a choice that everybody will have to make," Feinberg said.
Workers construct what is believed to be a makeshift morgue behind a hospital during the coronavirus pandemic, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 25, 2020.
In the case of the coronavirus crisis, some economists and policy experts say the pandemic continues to present too many unknowns to employ the sort of coldly calculated, cost-benefit analysis that's been used to evaluate the impact of policies such as federal highway and air quality rules.
"It doesn't help to save the economy if a tremendous number of people have died or fallen ill and their lives are changed forever," said Lisa Heinzerling, who grappled with regulatory impact on the economy as the head of EPA's policy office at the beginning of the Obama administration.
Northwestern University economists Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo and German economist Mathias Trabandt said in a working paper published this week that optimal containment efforts would lead to deeper economic damage and that recession in the U.S. was inevitable. But the economists also projected that maintaining social-distancing measures before the U.S. hits its peak in infections "saves roughly half a million lives."
Stepping back from efforts to preserve human life in the midst of an event of this scale could also have enormous impact on the trust of institutions for generations to come, said David Ropeik, a former instructor of risk communication at the Harvard School of Public Health,
"The benefit of an all-out fight against a virus includes reassuring the public that the government is on their side. Backing off that fight reasonably questions whether the government we have created to protect us from things like this crisis will do so," said Ropeik, the author of the book "How Risky Is It, Really?"
"The loss of that to protect the economy is undermining that faith. How can you price that?" he asked.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. The vast majority of people recover.
