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Surat Thani, ThailandKirsty Turner
Surat Thani Province is home to several great tourist destinations, including Ko Samui, Ko Pha-ngan, Ko Tao and the stunningly beautiful Ang Thong Marine National Park.
Although to many people the town of Surat Thani is simply a stop off point on the way to one of the area's beautiful tourist destinations, the town and surrounding area actually has a lot to offer and is worth looking at more closely.
Worth exploring is the tiny village known as Chaiya. In the village you will find Wat Suan Mokkhaphalaram, which is a tranquil forest temple founded by Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikku, who is perhaps Thailand's most famous monk. The temple holds monthly meditation retreats, and this is a perfect place to get in touch with your spiritual side and discover a sense of inner peace and harmony.
Also situated in the village is the Chaiya National Museum, which is a good place to discover the area's interesting history. Another interesting place is the Folklore Museum, which is located around 300 meters from Chaiya, whilst Ban Phumriang is a small handicraft village, which can be found 6 kilometres east of Chaiya.
The stunning Khao Sok National Park features 646 square kilometres of thick rainforest and mountains. With its sparkling waterfalls, mysterious caves and cool lakes, this area has an ancient feel about it. Elephant trekking is a great way to explore, and you can spend the night on a floating lodge if you find yourself reluctant to leave and return to the 'real' world straight away.
When it comes to eating, just about anything is possible in this province of plenty. If you love oysters, pay a visit to the Oyster Farms, where you can buy large fresh oysters for a bargain price.
The Chak Phra Festival is an interesting event which takes place each year immediately after the end of the three month rain retreat in October. Although widely celebrated, Surat Thani's festivals are particularly vibrant and long anticipated. The festival features elaborately decorated floats, which are pulled across the town by the eager participants. At the same time, a float decorated
with colorful Thai design carries an auspicious Buddha image across the water. The festival also features an exciting boat race and traditional songs, dancing and games.


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Zipbuds have been around for a few years, and their claim to fame is that their cord is integrated into a zipper. The company's 2012 models, dubbed "Fresh" and "Juiced," come in a variety of colors as well as versions that add a microphone/remote for making calls.
The $40 Zipbuds Fresh reviewed here is the premium model, with better sound and bass response than the
As with all noise-isolation style earphone, sound quality is affected by just how tight a seal you can get. The earphones come with three different-size eartips (small, medium, and large) and you'll want to pick the one that offers the snuggest fit (I went with the large).
In all, they sound pretty decent, though they're a little bright, which means they're pushing the treble a bit. I can't say they outperform other earphones in this price class or will wow you, but so long as you get a tight seal, they deliver respectable enough sound with good clarity and ample bass.
The zipper design really does help prevent tangles and it certainly will appeal to younger users who are after a cute, eye-catching design. To adjust how they hang, you simply unzip the cord to whatever length you desire. When you're finished using them, you zip the cord all the way up and then roll the cord up. Alas, no carrying case is included.


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... professional snowboarder Shaun White granted the wishes of five kids
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For half a century Ray Ives has essentially lived beneath the ocean's surface as a commercial diver. He's recovered wrecks, amassed countless trinkets and forgotten undersea lore
Now retired, the 75-year-old "pirate" divers recreationally, and adds to his collection of bottles, clay bottles, swords, guns, pipes, ammo boxes, cigarette boxes, pieces of silver and even a rapier engraved with Latin from the 17th or 18th century (he found it in a river). As you can see in the video, he's also managed to assemble an impressive array of diving suits representing the past century. This includes the 1900s-era diving suit that will have more than a few of you thinking Big Daddy from Bioshock.
In Amanda Blugrass's 15-minute short film, Ray: A Life Underwater, we get a brief but interesting glimpse at Ray's life so far, and even a peek at what's to come:
"As long as I can climb in and climb out I'm going to continue on doing it. At 80 I'll stop and take up real diving, which is done in a pub." [Vimeo via Daily What]
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|MRS. S. J. S. GARNETT -- An Appreciation
At her home in Brooklyn, N. Y., there passed from labor to reward, Mrs. S. J. S. Garnett, one of our most remarkable women. The subject of our sketch was the widow of the famous Henry Highland Garnett, clergyman and diplomat, and as distinguished as her renowned husband, having served in the highest degree, her day and generation. She was a member of an old and highly honored family of Brooklyn. She attended school, was an apt scholar and at an early age became a teacher, being one of the first of the race to adopt that profession. Her energy and ability were soon recognized. From the grades she was elected principal of a large number of teachers and pupils. She was always frail of body, never self-assertive, but possessed with a supreme faith and confidence in God and a dauntless courage in the face of the evil-doer. She belonged to that old school of heroines which crossed cudgels with the enemy and batled unceasingly for the full manhood rights of the Negro. When certain discriminations were made against colored teachers of New York, Mrs. Garnett, Bishop W. B. Derrick and Lawyer T. McCants Stewart, went to Albany, confronted the legislature with indisputable facts and won the contest.
After a long career in the schoolroom Mrs. Garnett retired on a handsome pension. She could have withdrawn from life's busy throng and lived in ease and comfort, but her zeal was not one whit abated for the great principles she had espoused. The cry of humanity and its needs rang clearer and stronger than a life of self-ease and inactivity. Duty called; she must obey! Her intellectual ability and nobility of character made her the center of attraction in any circle. Mrs. Garnett was founder of the Equal Suffrage League, the only colored organization in Brooklyn representing
Mrs. Garnett literally died in harness. While in London she gathered suffrage literature and twenty-four hours before her promotion to her Heavenly Home, was distributing the same among her club in Broklyn. She fell asleep without serious illness or a struggle.
What is the summary of this beautiful character? Mrs. Garnett's life has been as a bright shaft of light let down into the darkness round about her, which illuminated the furthest corner. A career full of good deeds and noble endeavor. Her example has been inspiring alike to the youth and the aged. She was a friend whose purse and door were open to the distressed and her hospitality was as boundless as the ocean itself. Her deep piety, her thorough learning and achievements, her great will-power, her high courage, with such frailty of body make her one of the remarkable women of the age. Her family lost a beloved companion and counselor, her friends, a confidante and sympathizer. The race, one of its foremost educators, a pioneer of the school room. The community in which she lived, a noble, inspiring God-fearing citizen, the world a benefactor, a valuable contributor to literary, domestic and State affairs. Women of the world, let us emulate the virtues of this mother in Israel.


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Image Stacking
Image stacking is the process of merging two or more registered images together in order to enhance detail, suppress noise, remove motion artifacts, or otherwise leverage data contained across multiple exposures of the same scene.
If you answered yes to the above questions, you might like Image Stacking! As a general concept it has many applications; for creative work the possibility of removing moving subjects - whether tourists at a busy site, or people milling around in the lobby mucking up your soon-to-be Architectural Digest cover shot - creates new opportunities for shooting *around* people, cars, and other obnoxious facts of life for photographers.
SAR is a shareware image editing application which - among other useful features (namely very sophisticated enlargement and deconvolution algorithms) - implements different image stacking techniques like Average, Median, Extended DOF and Multivariant Median. The latter is particularly useful to remove passing objects.
Current version (April 2007): 3.1, Registration 35$
Available from: http://www.general-cathexis.com/
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended version, currently (April 2007), has added Image Stacks to its Smart Objects feature. This feature allows adding 2 or more bitmaps to a Smart Object, and then applying an Stack Mode to perform a transformation across the images in the stack. CS3 Image Stacks come out of the box with a number of Stack Modes, including such useful functions as Mean and Median modes.
How to create an Image Stack in Photoshop CS3
- Choose "File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack" from the menu;
- Click the "Browse" button and select 2 or more images; if you need sample images, try the package I used by clicking here
- Check the "Create Smart Object after Loading Layers" checkbox
- Click "OK"
When the script completes you will have a new Photoshop document with a single Smart Object layer. This layer type may be saved in PSD, PSB, or Layered TIFF file formats from Photoshop CS3, and will only be readable by Photoshop CS3 and later.
How to use your image stack to remove motion artifacts
This is a very useful function for panoramic photographers working in situations like crowds where there is a lot of objects moving in the frame. With enough exposures of the same scene, with the same framing, you can remove all the people from a crowded street with this simple process, leaving only the unmoving parts of the scene - the street, the sky, etc.
- Select your Smart Object (it must have an Image Stack) in the layers palette in Photoshop
- Chose "Layer > Smart Objects > Stack Mode > Median" from the menu
This applies a non-destructive Media filter on all of the images contained within your Smart Object's Image Stack. If all went right you should have preserved only those parts of all the images which are least changing.
If you used my sample images for this tutorial you should now have a view of the freeway with no cars on it. Magic? No, just simple math, but it was never so easy in Photoshop until now!


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realclimate apologist Eli Rabett explained at Tamino why real climate scientists haven't updated the bristlecones:
You hike out to the ass end of nowhere, take a core (from the right tree, and bring it back. Now you have to analyze it. . . . . .
Sure sounds like a lot of work for a real climate scientist. Also that analysis thingee – that doesn't sound like something that's in the job description of a real climate scientist.
Of course, if you don't want to hike, you can drive to many of the bristlecone sites (though not the foxtails) – which also happen to be in scenic country: at least the Colorado ones were. Yeah, yeah, you burn some fuel driving to the sites, but not as much fuel as going to an international climate conference. I also understand that some of the IPCC delegates were a bit concerned that the food quality at the Ritz Carlton in Paris this year was not up to their expectations.


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Deen should be hung for saying the 'n' word
Racial Hypocrisy –
Are you as fed up with the racism double standard as I am? When defense witness Rachel Jeantel recently testified that use of the term "cracker" wasn't racist, the liberal media leaped to her defense, saying that anyone who didn't agree with her simply "didn't understand her culture."
But when cookbook author and TV personality Paula Deen admitted using the "n" word some time in the past, suddenly she was branded a racist.
Well gee, using the same logic as the left, maybe progressives just "don't understand Paula Deen's culture."
Because you can't have it both ways, you see. If it's racist to utter such derogatory remarks against one skin color, it's racist to utter them against the other, too. Condemnation can't be only one-sided and highly selective, otherwise it's just another form of reverse bigotry.
The term "racism" is losing its meaning due to rampant misuse
What we're increasingly seeing in society today is the tolerance of racism with one select group coupled with the condemnation of racism against whites only. This is a reversal of the same injustice that was long tolerated in America when blacks were the target of selective racism.
The point is that neither situation is justified.
But there's also something else that has been creeping into society today: The rampant use of "racism" against anyone who doesn't agree with Obama or the liberal agenda. The label "racism" has been used to attack people who defend the Second Amendment, for example, even though gun ownership has nothing to do with skin color.
It's also routinely used to attack anyone who reasonably disagrees with something Obama is doing, such as expanding secret military prisons or creating secret kill lists of Americans to be assassinated or drone-bombed. Thanks to the strongly liberal bias of the mainstream media, anyone who criticizes a policy of Obama (not his skin color, but his POLICIES) is immediately branded a "racist." (This is nothing more than lazy intellectualism by a media that has nothing truly intelligent to say.)
The net effect of all this is that the term "racist" is beginning to lose all meaning. It is being thrown around as a cheap, desperate attack by people who don't have any strength to their own positions, so they toss out the racism grenade and hope it explodes in a barrage of verbal shrapnel.
"Racism" is the terror weapon of modern-day language. It's purpose is to cause mayhem and fear, not to advance a coherence argument or reach an agreement on something.
Thankfully, the racism grenade is increasingly just a dud. More and more people are now recognizing that the "racism" accusation is counterfeit. Because disagreeing with the argument of someone who has dark skin isn't racism. Or criticizing the actions or speech of a person with dark skin color isn't racism, either. It's called a dialogue or a disagreement… or even a debate.
Because if a white person is debating a black person on some topic like abortion, for example, it doesn't make any sense to say, "The white person cannot challenge the black person's position because that would be racism." In fact, it was Martin Luther King who said, precisely, that we should judge people by the "content of their character," not the color of their skin.
Shockingly, it is increasingly the political left that wants to judge people by the color of their skin. This makes them racists by definition.
Latent racism among whites
Now, of course there is still something I call "latent racism" among some whites, although that percentage is already very, very low and has been shrinking for decades. I remember when I was growing up, I had all sorts of black friends as a kid and also black friends in school. They were some of my best buddies on the high school track team, and the thought of discriminating against someone based on their skin color seemed completely alien to me.
I especially remember the day one classmate named Matt (that's his real name, I remember this clearly), started telling me "ni%%er jokes" in the school hall. Apparently, he had been told these by his family and he thought they were appropriate to share. I remember feeling very uncomfortable hearing these jokes, and even thinking to myself how racist this guy was.
But that was the only time I heard such racism from classmates. All through high school and college, I never heard anyone else engage in such racist buffoonery. You might argue that's because I'm not the kind of person who hangs out with racists, and there's probably some truth to that. It's possible that more low-wage blue-collar workers might be more racist in their thoughts and their language, but I have no direct experience with that.
The simple truth is that there is a latent level of racism across all races. Jamie Foxx sounds a whole lot like a racist to me when he talks about "shooting whites" and how great that would be. If a white person celebrated the idea of "shooting blacks," he certainly would not get the applause Jamie Foxx received on Saturday Night Live for making his comment against whites. And that's the problem, you see: racism is socially acceptable when it comes from blacks while being socially condemned when it comes from whites.
This double standard will, of course, only further drive more racial hatred if it is allowed to continue. That's why I say we must condemn ALL racism, including racism from blacks and people of any race or skin color.
Why I will be called a racist for condemning racism
I will of course be called a racist for writing this article that calls for social justice and an end to racism — exactly some of the same things Martin Luther King stood for. But that only proves my point: as a white male, I will be labeled a racist for even discussing racism hypocrisy and pointing out inconsistencies and contradictions. That label is counterfeit, though, and I refuse to have my free speech shut down by racial bias and bigotry against whites.
As Natural News readers well know, I am clearly not a racist precisely because I believe skin color is irrelevant. What matters is the coherence of a person's argument and the principles upon which that argument is based. I'll hire a bright, well-spoken black man over a dumbed-down, ghetto-talking white low-life every single time. In my life and business, I am truly "color blind" when it comes to exercising discernment with people.
Skin color gets you no preferential treatment here at Natural News. You are wholly judged based on the merit of your ideas and the content of your character, as MLK says.
If agreeing with MLK makes me a racist, then so be it. The "racism" label has become meaningless when pop culture automatically assigns the term to anyone with white skin who happens to open their mouth.
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Whitney Houston was found face-down in a bathtub with cocaine in her system and drug paraphernalia on the bathroom counter nearby, investigators revealed in the singer's final post mortem report.
The report delivered a grim accounting of Houston's final hours nearly three months ago.
The singer complained of a sore throat before an assistant suggested she take a bath before the start of a pre-Grammy Awards gala.
By the time the assistant returned, Houston had drowned and was lying face down in the tub.
Investigators who scoured the room later found in the bathroom a "spoon with a white crystal like substance in it", and a white powdery substance in a drawer and on a mirror, according the report.
The report does not specifically identify those substances as cocaine, although toxicology tests discovered the drug in Houston's heart and extremities.
The report provides a sad footnote to Houston's life, revealing the toll the singer's drug use took on her body.
When coroner's officials said two weeks ago that Houston died from accidental drowning, they also revealed that cocaine had played a role in her death.
The office has said there were signs of both chronic and recent use.
An investigator noted a hole in the singer's nose, listed under "history of substance abuse".
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said he could not discuss how recently Houston may have used cocaine, or other details of the final report.
Beverly Hills police Lieutenant Mark Rosen said the investigation is still open and he could not comment on the findings.
The department has said there did not appear to be signs of foul play.
On her final day alive, Houston complained she had a sore throat for several days, and an assistant suggested she take a bath, according to the report.
By the time her assistant returned, Houston had been submerged for at least an hour, the report estimates.
Water soaked the floor, seeping into the bedroom area.
Investigators initially expected drugs or alcohol played a role in Houston's death, but no alcohol was found in her system.
They eventually ruled her death an accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use cited as contributing factors.
Houston's death came just hours before a pre-Grammy gala thrown by her mentor Clive Davis.
She was attempting another comeback by starring in a remake of the film 'Sparkle', in which she plays the mother of three girls who form a singing group and struggle with fame and drug addiction.
A trailer released on Monday featured Houston prominently, including a snippet of her performance of the classic gospel song 'His Eye Is on the Sparrow'.
Toxicology results also showed Houston had marijuana, Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril, and the allergy medication Benadryl in her system. None of those drugs were considered factors in her death.
The singer also had build-up of plaque in her arteries that can restrict blood flow. Mr Winter has said the condition is common in drug users. The report indicated a 60% blockage in the singer's right coronary artery.
The singer had battled addiction for years, but friends and family have said she appeared committed to making a comeback in the months before her death.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in a 2002 television interview with then-husband Bobby Brown by her side.


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Like religion and politics, a friendly conversation on the topic of money can quickly turn ugly, ruining an otherwise festive holiday gathering.
To help consumers with that opinionated uncle who's had too much to drink, Ally Bank has teamed up with author and original New York Times "Ethicist," Randy Cohen, to address common financial etiquette questions.
A six-week video series featuring Cohen launched Thursday on the Ally Bank "Straight Talk" blog, providing advice on how to gracefully handle what could be a financial faux pas. Topics to be covered include:
- How to handle cause-related requests from friends and family
- Whether regifting could be regrettable
- Rules for lending property to friends or family
- What to say when asked how much something costs
- What to do if a friend or relative asks for money
- Giving the gift of cash.
For each scenario, Cohen provides simple solutions and verbal cues that can help to transition a tricky conversation, while man-on-the-street style interviews offer everyday consumer perspectives on money matters.
"Knowing how to confidently handle an awkward money question before it actually occurs is invaluable," said Cohen. "In teaming up with Ally Bank, my hope is that we can continue to educate people on the dos and don'ts of money discussions, keeping the focus on friends and family, rather than finances."
In addition to its presence on the Straight Talk blog, Ally Bank's financial etiquette series will also be available for consumers to view on its Facebook and Twitter channels, as well as YouTube.
The series will run through the week of Jan. 21.


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"Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 on the initiative of Philippe Herreweghe. It was one of the first ensembles to use the then-new ideas about baroque practice in vocal music performances. Musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and Nikolaus Harnoncourt immediately took an interest in the Flemish ensemble's fresh, new approach, which led to intensive collaboration. In the mid-1980s the ensemble acquired international fame and was invited to all the major concert halls and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russian, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. .."
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"The ensemble Encantar was founded end 2006 by four young female singers.
They set themselves a target to study the rich polyfonic repertoire of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in order to present it in a contemporary way to the public. The ensemble investigates the possibility to perform with female voices this repertoire that was written originally for men's voices.
Encantar mainly focusses on religious repertoire of Flemish, Spanish and Italian composers, next to anonymous works and French and English compositions of the same period. Encantar made a special program for 'Jeugd & Muziek' entitled "Mix Méditerrané" featuring some great works of southern polyphonists such as Cristobal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Bernardo Pisano, Costanzo Festa and Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina. Encantar cooperated for this production with Hendrik De Smedt (actor) under direction of Maja Jantar.
Recently, Encantar has been on tour with "La déclinaison de la femme" a program featuring Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530).
In 2009, Encantar won the Klara Tandemtrofee 2009, together with the Audience Prize and the Radio Klara Prize.
Encantar followed masterclasses with Erik Van Nevel, Jean Tubéry and Marcel Pérès. Every year, the ensemble travels to Arezzo (Italy) to be coached by Jill Feldman and Kees Boeke.
Two recordings have been made so far, one together with the recorder consort Flanders Recorder Quartet (Aeolus) (release December 2010) and one with two lutes and renaissance harp for the label Phaedra (release May 2011).
In July 2011, Encantar won the York Early Music Festival Friends ' Prize."
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"graindelavoix (grain of the voice) is an art-collective formed by björn schmelzer. since 1999 he is looking for musicians who want to experiment between performance and creation. the necessity of autoproductive and physical art keeps them together.
graindelavoix is fascinated by voices that stop communicating, that have no message anymore but rather are the pure expression of their underground: the gritty, intense and instinctive...
graindelavoix uses early music repertoires to find the undercurrent that illuminates our own times: a timeless spirit that stretches out to embrace an interval, a space.
what preoccupies graindelavoix in early music is the bond between notation and what eludes it: the higher consciousness and savoir-faire that the performer brings to a piece (ornamentation, improvisation, gestures...). to graindelavoix, singers are 'spiritual automata'...
material they work with includes ockeghem's polyphony, the plainte, machicotage, mediterrenean practices, late scholastic dynamics and kinematics, the affective body, gesture and image culture...
graindelavoix gives performances (concert/music theatre) that are the accumulated fragments of a wider work and research process: this site makes an attempt at framing.
graindelavoix is 'special guest' of "music-centre de bijloke in" ghent and has an artistical partnership with the "cultural centre of genk". cd's are produced exclusively for glossamusic. .."
Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/graindelavoix
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"Founded by tenor Bud Roach in 2008, Capella Intima has carved out a niche for itself in the Toronto early music scene by presenting the vocal chamber music of the 17th century in exciting concerts of rarely-heard gems. With motets and cantatas for up to four voices interspersed with readings from composers, performers and critics of the period, audiences are given context to music that has only come to light in recent years, thanks to the renewed interest in historically informed performance.
With a flexible roster of singers and musicians, each programme has a developed theme, whether it be the rebellious Benedictine Nuns of Milan, the students and teachers at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, or the complex musical politics in Monteverdi's time in Venice. ..."
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" The Renaissance Singers were founded in 1972. The choir's early reputation was based on its polished performances of Renaissance a capella literature. Today, the choir sings music from the masters of all centuries. The Renaissance Singers have also commissioned and premiered the works of leading Canadian composers. Every year, the Singers perform four Saturday and Sunday concerts in the Waterloo Region.
The choir was the first Canadian choir to sing in the fringe of The Three Choirs Festival, the oldest music festival in the world. In 1989, the choir was invited to return, becoming the first Canadian choir to sing in the main festival. The choir has been on tour four times, and has sung n Westminster Abbey, Yorkminster, and the cathedrals of Canterbury, Chichester, Ely, Guildford, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester, St. George's Chapel, Lincoln, St. Alban's and Ripon. The highly regarded chamber choir has four recordings to its credit, with plans for more in the near future. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Formed in 2009 by co-artistic directors John Brough and Jolaine Kerley, the Scona Chamber Singers are a professional vocal ensemble, based in Edmonton Alberta, who specialize in the music of the medieval, renaissance and baroque eras. In their short existence, they have presented programs of rarely performed composers from these eras, including Christopher Tye, William Mundy, Orlando di Lasso, and Heinrich Schütz.
The ensemble is made up of highly skilled choral and solo singers from the Edmonton area, many of whom have advanced degrees in music, as well as in-depth research interest in early music performance practice. Each singer brings with them a unique blend of solo and choral experience allowing our concerts to showcase not only the choir as an ensemble, but also individual solo opportunities."
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"Internationally renowned, Acadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc has established an extraordinary career specializing in Baroque and Classical repertoire and exploring and recording a substantial amount of unpublished material while living in Europe. Her thirst and curiosity for new vistas now lead her toward the repertoire of French mélodies, lieder, Acadian folk music, contemporary music as well as exploring the art of improvisation with Helmut Lipsky and « Au parfum de Tango ».
Her contribution to Acadian culture with the CDs La Mer Jolie and Tout passe and with the documentary Suzie LeBlanc : A Musical Quest, directed by Donald Winkler, along with her performances of Early Music have earned her honorary doctorates from King's College University in Halifax and Mount Allison University in New-Brunswick. …
She has worked with many of the world's leading early music ensembles in concert and opera performances as well as on film and on disc. Concerts have taken her to Festivals all over the world as well as to the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. On the opera stage, she has performed for De Nederlandse Opera, Festival de Beaune, Opéra de Montréal, the Boston Early Music Festival, Tanglewood, Festival Vancouver and Early Music Vancouver.
In recent seasons, she recorded Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) with La Petite Bande (Bayer Records) and Mozart lieder with Yannick Nézet-Seguin (ATMA) and returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Bach's St-Matthew Passion as staged by Jonathan Miller. Other recent recordings include Lully's Thésée (CPO), Gluck's Orphée (Naxos), Buxtehude motets with Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey and the Purcell Symphony (Chandos), and a Handel Portrait (ATMA). …
Suzie LeBlanc is artistic director of Le Nouvel Opéra (www.lenouvelopera.com) which is ensemble-in-residence at the Montreal Conservatory and co-artisic director of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Festival (2011) in Nova Scotia (www.elizabethbishopcentenary.blogspot.com)."
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"TACTUS, an eight-voice vocal ensemble, specializes in repertoire of the European Renaissance and is dedicated to musical scholarship and excellence in performance techniques. Performing without a conductor and usually a capella, the ensemble's work emanates from their combined skills and experience and from their intuitive connections to each other and to their passion for early music.
TACTUS has sung at the Guelph Spring Festival, Toronto's Hummingbird Centre and has been featured on CBC Radio Two's Music Around Us and Choral Concert. TACTUS was featured in Soul Music, a Vision TV documentary hosted by Howard Dyck. Artistic collaborations with Dancetheatre David Earle, the Toronto Bach Consort, Tafelmusik's Charlotte Nediger and Sergei Istomin, Arbor Oak Ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet and NUMUS have enabled TACTUS to branch into Baroque, 19th century and contemporary repertoire. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Victoria IV is a four-member a cappella ensemble that specializes in singing Madrigal repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries.
McGill's Madrigal Ensemble, The Victoria IV, was formed in the fall of 2011 by Early Music Ensemble coordinators Valerie Kinslow and Betsy MacMillan, who has also been their coach. The ensemble has presented a number of concerts together in and around McGill and Montreal. Over its two-year history, the group has compiled an extensive repertoire list, a number of recordings, and is known for its engaging performances and unique vocal blend."
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"She was born in Huesca, Spain. At the age of nine she began studying voice and piano at the Miguel Fleta School of Music. From there she went on to study voice at the Conservatorio del Liceu de Barcelona where she specialized in opera and received an honours diploma. Subsequently she transferred to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where she studied with Dominique Vellard and Richard Levitt and began working as a soloist and chamber musician with various groups such as Gilles Binchois (medieval and renaissance music), Vox Suavis, (founded by her and Dominique Vellard, dedicated to traditional and medieval spanish music) and la Cecchina (baroque music). With these ensembles she has performed regularly at international festivals in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. She also has given introductory courses to the interpretation of old music at the conservatory of Huesca (Spain), in New Hampshire (USA) and at the Pigna University in Corsica. She has collaborated in several cd recordings with Gilles Binchois and la Cecchina."
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" The Ensemble was founded in the Galilee region of Israel by the bass and harpsichordist Elam Rotem. It is currently based in Switzerland, where all its members undertook further study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The ensemble has benefited both individually and collectively from the expertise of leading musicians, amongst them Evelyn Tubb, Anthony Rooley, Gerd Türk and Dominique Vellard. …"
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"Mixed chamber choir Cantio antiqua Praha was establish in the end of 80's by ex-members of student choir Cantus semper vivus, which was run by Grammar school Budejovicka in Prague 4 and which was conducted by Mrs. Vera Jankovicova. In the present structure Cantio antiqua Praha performs from cca 1999.
Cantio antiqua Praha is mainly concentrate on renaissance and early baroque polyphonic music. The repertoire is build from up to octovoiced secular and sacred vocal works from Italian, French, British, German and Spanish composers. The independent part of our repertoire are Christmas songs, which represent character of this music in Bohemia and Moravia from beginning of 15th century until works of early baroque composers.
Cantio antiqua Praha's chamber cast (four sopranos, one mezzo-soprano, three altos, one tenor and one bass) enables to approach to period interpretative practise, when every voice went about perhaps only one singer or instrumentalist. Cantio antiqua Praha occasionally collaborate with instrumentalists who play recorders, lutes, guitars, stringed instruments or harpsichords. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704 were founded by harpsichordist and conductor Václav Luks in 2005 on the occasion of the BACH – PRAHA – 2005 project. This marked the beginning of their regular collaboration with the Prague Spring International Music Festival.
Since 2007 Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 have been residential ensembles of the Saint Wenceslas Music Festival in Ostrava. The year 2007 was dedicated to the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka and his Missa votiva for which the ensembles received critical acclaim at La Chaise-Dieu and Sablé festivals in France. Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 are also frequent guests of festivals such as the Festival de Festival de Musique de Sully & du Loiret, Festival Baroque de Pontoise, Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay. …"
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"Ars Choralis Coeln – we call ourselves ACC for short – is genuinely a local product of Cologne. The idea to create the ensemble was born during meetings of the IFM (Proactive Group for Freelance Music in Cologne) together with Christoph Kuhlmann und Wilfried Kaets, both regional directors of church music. There was a trial run at the Festival "Ökumenisches Kirchenmusikfestival (Ecumenical Church Music) and the first important concert, our debut, took place in the concert series Romanischen Sommer 2004. Since then we perform regularly in Cologne's beautiful romanesque churches, but also throughout Germany and Europe. A real success story!
Our repertoire has focussed on the music of Hildegard von Bingen (meanwhile canonized and Doctor of the Church!) from the very start: for us it is the most interesting and best music there is. But also as a Rhineland-ensemble we feel close to Hildegard, and dedicated to her cause. ..."
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"Founded in 1992 by erstwhile members of St Thomas's Boys Choir in Leipzig, amarcord has since become one of the world's leading vocal ensembles. amarcord's hallmarks include a unique tone, breathtaking homogeneity, musical authenticity, and a good dose of charm and humour. amarcord performs a vast and highly diverse repertoire of music, from medieval plainsong to madrigals and Renaissance masses, to compositions and cycles of works of the European Romantic period and the 20th century, a cappella folksong arrangements collected from all over the world, all the way to rock, pop, soul and jazz charts. ..."
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"ensemble officium was founded by Wilfried Rombach in 1999.
In the past few years, ensemble officium has made an excellent name for itself with its interpretations of Renaissance music and Gregorian chant and has become internationally well-known. It usually consists of twelve singers.
ensemble officium carries out thorough research, performs scholarly interpretations of Renaissance vocal polyphony and pays close attention to the semiotics and nuance of Gregorian chant. The intense studies of the scores lead time and again to fascinating discoveries, such as "The Loreto Vespers" for 12 voices by Antonio Cifra (1629). By performing the music as authentically as possible, the ensemble creates a unique and absorbing atmosphere. Works of sacred music from the Middle Ages, based on liturgical texts and retaining original liturgical framework, are also part of the ensemble's specialties. In this way, the close connection between early vocal polyphony and Gregorian chant can ably be demonstrated.
ensemble officium not only experiments with integrating new music. Every so often, the group includes music of the Franco-Flemish School. Here, the focus lies in particular on Heinrich Isaac and his generation of composers. …"
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"Franz Vitzthum received his initial musical training as a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen. In 2007 he completed his degrees at the Musikhochschule Köln as a pupil of Kai Wessel. At present he is working with Stefan Haselhoff (Basel).
In addition to his ensemble work with groups including the Weser Renaissance under Manfred Cordes and Cantus Cölln under Konrad Junghänel, Franz Vitzthum focuses his attentions on solo engagements where he has worked with the conductors Christoph Poppen, Peter Neumann or Nicholas McGegan.
Franz Vitzthum has made guest appearances at international festivals including the Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz, Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, La Folle Journée Nantes, The Bach Festival Philadelphia (USA) and has performed with such orchestras as the Chamber Orchestra Basel Barock and The English Concert. .." Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Since its inception in 1995 in Hamburg, the solo vocal ensemble Himlische Cantorey became one of the most respected ensembles in the field of historical performance practice. Intensive discussion music and lyrics of the Renaissance and Baroque periods and highest demands on sound culture shape doing regular work of the ensemble.
The members of the Himlischen Cantorey are not only experienced ensemble singers but have all made as soloists in the concert world a good name so that despite a homogeneous overall sound of the specificity of each individual voice comes into play.
A busy concert schedule has the Himlische Cantorey already on renowned festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival and the Göttingen Handel Festival, as well as France, Italy, Luxembourg and Austria, where the ensemble at the Vienna Musikverein concerted. ..."
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"Julianne Baird, soprano, has been hailed as "one of the most extraordinary voices in the service of early music that this generation has produced. She possesses a natural musicianship which engenders singing of supreme expressive beauty." She maintains a busy concert schedule of solo recitals and performances of baroque opera and oratorio. Ms. Baird has also appeared as soloist with many major symphony orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnanyi, the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Lukas Foss, the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and, in the 2000-2001 season, the Philadelphia Orchestra. James R. Oestreich, in his comprehensive survey of New York's seasonal performances of Handel's Messiah for the N.Y. Times, recently concluded with special praise for Julianne Baird's interpretative skills: "in that respect, Ms. Baird remains the model". " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Countertenor Kai Wessel was born in Hamburg and studied music theory (Prof.R.Ploeger), composition (Prof.Dr.F.Döhl), and voice (Prof.U.v.Garczynski, concert examination passed with honours) at the Lübeck Academy of Music. During his Lübeck years Wessel was also an external student in the field of baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (René Jacobs).
Wessel received numerous prizes between 1984 and 1990, including the special prize of the German Theater Society for the best interpretation of a contemporary work (Berlin, 1988) and a prize at the Musica Antiqua Competition of the Flanders Festival in Bruges. He received fellowships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the DAAD (studying under Peter Kooj in Hilversum/Holland). Wessel has served as an assistant to René Jacobs in the production of operas by P.A.Cesti, F.Cavalli and C.W.Gluck for the International Festival Week of Early Music in Innsbruck, for the WDR Radio, and at the Hamburg State Opera.
As one of the leading countertenors Wessel is invited to music festivals all over the world (Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Schwetzingen, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Tokyo, San Francisco, a.o.) and to numerous opera houses (Freiburg, Basel, St.Gallen, Barcelona, Nice, Berlin a.o.) where he took part in stage-productions by Herbert Wernicke (in Theodora and Giulio Cesare by G.F.Handel, Aus Deutschland by Mauricio Kagel, Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste with the music by H.Schütz/M.Weckmann and Actus tragicus with the music by J.S.Bach), Joachim Schlömer (as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice by Chr.W.Gluck), Claus Guth (in Schwarzerde by Klaus Huber), Peter Oskarson (in Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino), Gilbert Déflo (in Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi), John Dew (in Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean Philippe Rameau) a.o. He has been involved in performances, radio broadcasts, amore than sixty recordings under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, William Christie, Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhard, Ton Koopman, Michael Schneider, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martin Haselböck, Reinhard Goebel, Konrad Junghänel, Michael Hofstetter, Nicholas McGegan, Sigiswald Kuijken, Michel Corboz, Hans-Werner Henze, Arturo Tamayo, Hermann Max, and others.
Kai Wessel is teaching voice and baroque performance practice at the Superiour Highschool of Music Cologne/Germany, and regularly giving summer-classes in Germany and Austria. "
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"Peter Kooij started his musical career at 6-years-old as a choir boy and sang many solo soprano-parts in concerts and recordings. He started his musical studies however as a violin student. This was followed by singing tuition from Max van Egmond at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, which led to the award of the diploma for solo performance.
He has been an active soloist in many concerts all over the world in the most important concert-halls like Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Wien, Carnegie Hall New York, Royal Albert Hall London, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Berliner and Kölner Philharmonie, Palais Garnier Paris, Suntory and Casals Hall Tokyo, where he performed with famous conductors like Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, René Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, Roger Norrington and Iwan Fisher.
His wide repertoire contains all kind of music from Schütz to Weill and he has made over 130 CDs for Philips, Sony and Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, EMI and BIS. He was invited by BIS to record the complete Bach cantatas, passions and masses with the Bach Collegium Japan under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki.
Peter Kooij is the artistic director of the "Ensemble Vocal Européen". From 1991 to 2000 professor at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. From 1995 to 1998 Lehrauftrag at the Musikhochschule in Hannover. Since 2000 Professor at the Tokyo University of fine Arts and Music. From September 2005 professor at the Royal Conservorium in Den Haag. He was invited to give master classes in Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Finnland and Japan. "
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"Ulrike Hofbauer was born in Bavaria and studied voice and voice teaching at the Universities of Wurzburg and Salzburg, and at the 'Schola Cantorum Basiliensis' in Basle. The teachers who influenced her most profoundly were Sabine Schutz, Evelyn Tubb and Anthony Rooley; further musical insights were provided by Christina Pluhar und Andrea Marcon.
Ulrike now lives in Basel and as a soloist has worked with conductors such as Christoph Hammer, Konrad Junghänel, Daniel Reuss, und Philippe Herreweghe. The soprano is a member of several vocal ensembles including the 'Collegium Vocale Gent', 'Cantus Coelln', 'L'Arpeggiata' and sang with the acclaimed German vocal sextett 'Singer Pur' for several years.
Her versatility as a singer is documented not only in recordings and live performances on the radio, but in a number of CD recordings.
Currently she is devoting much of her energies to her own baroque ensemble 'savādi...', with whom she won the Early Music Competition in York in 2003 and also the Van Wassenaer Concours in The Hague in 2004. (www.savadi.net).
Teaching is also an important part of her life and has taken her to, inter alia, the Universities of Bogota (Colombia), Minsk (Belarus) and the "Bayersische Theaterakademie" in Munich.
She enjoys exploring new and unusual repertoires covering different epochs and styles. Ulrike is particularly interested in the "recitar cantando" style as well as the use of dramatic theatrical techniques to heighten the emotional impact of the text and music. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The VOX WERDENSIS ensemble emerged from the Schola of the Folkwang University of the Arts and under the direction of its founder Stefan Klöckner has developed into a distinguished professional interpreter of Gregorian choral music and mediaeval music.
Established in its current form (consisting of 7 to 9 professional and semi-professional singers – most of them former or current students at the Folkwang University of the Arts) in 2009, VOX WERDENSIS organised several concerts with the music of Werden Monastery ("Musica enchiriadis") and the Essener Dom ("Essen Passion Play") as part of the participation by Folkwang University in a 2010 Cultural Capital highlight event."
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"Agnethe Christensen, originally from Sweden, studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory and specialized in renaissance and medieval singing with Andrea von Ramm in Basel and furthermore in Rome and Paris. Well known for her unconventional interpretations of modern and classical works, folk and early vocal music. Agnethe has worked with modern composers Luca Lombardi, Palle Mikkelborg, Wolfgang Rihm, Luciano Berio and John Cage, with opera, folk and film music.
Agnethe's expertise is within the field of early music and historically informed folk music and together with ULV where she performs medieval Nordic ballads and sacred music with singer Lena Susanne Norin and fiddle player Elizabeth Gaver, she presents Swedish traditional music in a historic perspective.
Home in Copenhagen she works together with the the medieval ensemble Alba and together with the Welsh harper Helen Davies with traditional music from Shetland, Orkney and the Hebridees searching the old norse influence and reconstructing the old poetry of the past. In the project Music of the Mysteries she collaborates with musicians from both the classical and world music scene."
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"ARS NOVA Copenhagen is widely recognized as one of the finest vocal groups in Europe. Founded in 1979, the ensemble today is busier than ever. In addition to its annual season of concerts in Copenhagen and throughout Denmark, the ensemble regularly appears across Europe, in North and South America, and Asia. Ars Nova is also building collaborations with creative artists in different fields such as drama, film and ballet, as well as cultivating new modes of concert performance and innovative repertoire.
At the heart of ARS NOVA Copenhagen's work is its equal dedication to early music and new music. Some programs explore the cross-currents between the two, while others form detailed portraits of individual composers or genres within a given period.
Each season, the group has a composer in residence: Toivo Tulev (Estonia) in 2007-8, Bernd Franke (Germany) 2008-9, Sunleif Rasmussen (Faroe Islands) 2009-10, Áskell Másson (Iceland) 2010-11 and Steve Martland (UK) in 2011-12.
The group has its own record label, ARS NOVA Records (distributed by Naxos) on which 'Taverner & Tudor Music II - Gloria tibi Trinitas Mass' is the most recent release. Other recordings – like 'Taverner & Tudor Music I', the voices-and-percussion version of Terry Riley's '60s masterpiece 'In C' and 'The Christmas Story' told through plainchant, motets and traditional folk carols - all received great reviews all over the world. …"
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