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A travelogue by Gregory Mele, with photos by Nicole Allen
Part of the great fun in designing reproductions and interpretations of historical costuming is, of course, the research. Like all historical costumers, we began with secondary sources, only to quickly realize that we needed to rely solely on those primary sources available to us: painting, illumination, sculpture, relief and the handful of surviving garments still extant. But once you have an historical clothing company you find yourself in the position of being an authority: our customers are trusting in us to make sure that our research isn't just good enough to dress ourselves, it's good enough to dress them. And this means that even high-quality color photos aren't enough; you have to see these sources with your own eyes and immerse yourself in the details to truly get a feel for what medieval artists were depicting. When you live in North America, that means you have to hop a plane and head to Europe.
Now, if it seems like all of this self-sacrificing in the name of authenticity was a good excuse for a vacation, you are absolutely right! So, we did just that: a whirlwind, fourteen-day tour of central and northwestern France in June 2004. We returned tired, with our eyes and minds full, but hopefully wiser. In this article, we'd like to share with you a few of the sights and research finds we came upon on our adventure.
Two flights and 11 hours later, we found ourselves in Charles De Gaulle Airport, Paris. We immediately found our rental car and fled the city for our first destination - Chartres Cathedral.
Cathedrals were medieval skyscrapers, and nowhere is that more obvious that Chartres, one of the largest and most famous in Europe. A small town built on high ground in the otherwise flat plains outside of Paris, this magnificent cathedral is in turn built upon the town's highest point. Thus, as one drives towards the town, the Cathedral's twin towers appear to thrust up out of the wheat fields like mountain peaks. It is miles before the shape of the entire structure, let alone the town itself, comes into view. The magnificence of the view instantly re-energized our travel-weary minds. One can only imagine the impact such a magnificent sight must have had on medieval pilgrims, used to their daub and wattle homes and small parish churches.
Begun in 1194, following a fire that severely damaged the original cathedral, principle construction on the present building was finished in 1230 and it was consecrated in 1260, although surface decoration, woodwork and steeples were continuously added until the 17th century. Due to the speed with which the new cathedral was built, it is amazingly homogeneous, and through its extensive decoration gives us a fantastic look at late 12th and early 13th century clothing, arms and armour. While this is hardly France's best-kept secret - photos of the Cathedral's sculptures have been produced and reproduced in many costuming history books - being able to see these pieces firsthand and take high-quality color photography revealed a level of detail that two or three grainy, black and white photos in a book never could.
One of the original stained glass windows that line the side walls - another usual set of references to 'everyday clothes' of the period.
The Loire Valley
Having wistfully bid farewell to Chartres, we prepared to spend the next several days in France's Valley of the Kings, so named for the many castles and chateaus that still line the banks of the Loire. While many of the medieval castles now lie in partial or complete ruin, their names, and those of the towns between, are heavy with history, such as Amboise, Angers, Samnur, Orleans, Chinon and Blois. A journey through the Loire Valley is a voyage through the graveyard of the Middle Ages, the glory of the Renaissance and the excess of the French Enlightenment.
Cheverny is a small, 17th - 18th century chateau that is almost unique in France, for it is still owned by the same, noble family. Well-loved by their peasants, they were protected by them during the Revolution, and thus spared execution. Today, they still live in the upper floor of their ancestral home and support themselves through tourism and raising prized hunting hounds. (The feeding of this hundred plus pack by the master of hounds is a daily spectacle not to be missed.)
A shot of one wall in the small, but impressive, armour gallery. Many of these pieces have belonged to the family since the 16th century.
Detail of the hilt of a very nice and very substantial complex-hilted rapier.
Detail of the leg harness of a Maximilian-style suit in the armour gallery.
Greg and Nicole walking the grand path to the entrance of Chateau Cheverny.
The entrance hall of the chateau - the ceiling is painted and the walls are covered with tooled and painted leather.
Detail of an original polearm haft and butt cap that we liked, because it impressively preserved the detail often lavished on these simple weapons.
The next day we visited the royal hunting lodge of Chambord. Sitting in the middle of Europe's largest wild game preserve, Chambord is almost impossible to describe; it is a castle out of fairyland. Built for the ambitious Francois I in the early 16th century in the form of a fairytale castle, he only spent a total of thirteen days there during his long reign, although the chateau became a favored retreat amongst many of his successors. Begun in 1519 and completed a century and a half later, it was a massive undertaking; in 1533, the completion of the keep cost 444,570 pounds or 1% of the kingdom's annual budget. Chambord is filled with wonders, from its numerous, slate-tiled spires and domes to the double-helix central stairwell, the first of its kind, reputedly designed by Leonardo Da Vinci. A supposed place for many a tete-a-tete, it is actually two separate staircases intertwined so that a person going up one side can see another going down the other staircase but will never meet.
Looking up through an archway of the courtyard to one of the countless exterior stairway/turrets.
The bed chamber of Louis XIV.
The colossal chateau of Chambord - described by the tour books as 'the skyline of Constantinople on a single roof'.
The famed double helix stairway in the center of the chateau attributed to Leonardo DaVinci, and a view from the staircase.
On the way home from Chambord, we stopped at the far more modest chateau of Fougeres-sur-Bievre. Originally built during the 14th century, the castle was largely destroyed during the second phase of the Hundred Year's War, and became the rather shabby inheritance of a young noble woman in the court of the Duke of Blois. During the early years of the 15th century she successfully renovated and rebuilt Fougeres-sur-Bievre, which survived the succeeding centuries and the French Revolution, even when its noble family did not. The chateau passed into the keeping of the attached town. After serving as a work house and factory in the 19th century, in the early years of the 20th century the town determined to restore the castle to its former glory, and it is now a historical attraction that gives a nice look at the living conditions of a minor French lord during the late Middle Ages.
A wonderful demonstration of the layers of daub-and-wattle construction used on this building and all through medieval building construction.
A room that shows the timber part of the construction.
A smaller, but still imposing exterior.
A tower room showing the room support.
Looking down the narrowly spiraling staircase
Looking up the staircase at the circular support of the roof.
The ruins of Chinon Castle - the location of Henry and Eleanor's famed Christmas court that is the subject of the movie (and play) The Lion in Winter.
Now in ruins, the royal castle of Chinon has been tied to a number of great and infamous deeds of the Middle Ages. The honeymoon suite of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, it was the birthplace of the future Richard I (the Lionheart). In the early fourteenth century the castle fulfilled one of its grimmest functions as a prison of the Knights Templar, including Jacques de Molay, the Order's last Grandmaster, whose name can still be seen carved in the wall of his cell. A century after that, a certain young Maid named Joan appeared at Chinon to implore the Dauphin to take up the crown and the French cause against the English.
For a castle with so much history, it was truly tragic to learn that most of its ruin is not to be blamed on the Revolution (although it played its part), but upon its last noble owners, the Richelieu family, who intentionally allowed it to decay after it came into their possession for no reason other than revenge, as Chinon had long overshadowed their own hereditary keep. Nevertheless, these old bones still look down upon their lands with an undeniable majesty.
L: The moat and gate. R: A fragment of an original wall showing two stories with connecting fireplaces that share a chimney.
A reconstruction of the castle in its hey-day.
A reconstructed room in the castle decorated much as it would have been when it was in use.
A reproduction of a period piece depicting Joan of Arc confronting the
Dauphin and showing nice examples of 15th century clothing and Armour.
L: Inside the first floor of the tower with the missing roof. R: A lower chamber of the tower prison.
The great abbey of Fontrevaud was the final home of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who retired their as abbess in her final years. The final resting place of Eleanor, Henry II, Richard I and Isabelle of Angoulème (wife of John I), the convent church is oddly stark, comprised largely of plain, white stone - a result of the extensive restorations required after years of abuse; first in the Revolution, then in the generations it served as both a prison and a home for incorrigible women. While the effigies are famous, both for whom they represent, and as sources for late 12th century clothing, even with its damage and restoration, Fontrevaud as a whole is a rare glimpse into the sheer size, power and complexity of one of the great monastic houses of the High Middle Ages.
One of the exterior galleries of the convent looking out to the garden.
The church front, now heavily restored.
A detail of the wonderful door ironwork on the church
Above: The tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry I Plantagenet clearly showing clothing typical of the late 12th century
Below: A detail of Eleanor's effigy showing her barbette, veil and the quatrefoil pattern on her gown.
The massive, circular kitchens with their several chimneys.
Traveling west from Fontrevaud, we had time for a brief visit to Angers, seat of the Counts (later Dukes) of Anjou. Famed birthplace of the Plantagenet family, it was also the home of the 15th century nobleman, poet, author and tournament patron, Rene d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem (for whom a large statue stands in a nearby street intersection). Upon seeing the imposing castle of Angers, it comes as no wonder that it never fell in battle or siege; even with its 13th century towers cut down by twenty feet the walls of this great chateau simply dwarf the castles of Chinon or Samnur. Angers is also home to a unique treasure: the Apocalypse Tapestries. Commissioned by Louis I of Anjou in 1364, and completed in 1382, this amazing collection of 76 tapestries collectively represented the largest surviving tapestry from the 14th century and is an invaluable source of reference for clothing of the period.
Wandering away from the castle and into town, we also came upon the cathedral, which was another 12th century work that continued to grow and expand over the centuries that followed. While not of the size and scope of Chartres, its statuary also provided a number of wonderful sources, many reinforcing the examples found at its better-known sister to the north
The Tapestries of the Apocalypse in all of their glory.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Dragon fights the servants of God, Revelation XII'. This panel shows wonderful examples of cottes, hose, low shoes, a liripipe hood with the tail wrapped around the head to keep it out the way, a short-tailed, dagged hood and a green, quilted gambeson.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Whore on the waters, Revelation XVII'. A really nice depiction of a backlaced gown with front clasp style of belt decorated with rondel findings.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Mounted on the Beast, Revelation XVII'. Another depiction of a backlaced gown, this time with a repeated pattern of flowers in a thistle-like shape. She also wears a 'turret' hat decorated with jewels and pearls.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Sixth Trumpet: The Angels of the Euphrates, Revelation IX'. This panel has detailed depictions of plate and maille armour, a button front cotte, liripipe hoods, tunics and a plaque belt.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Dragon fights the servants of God, Revelation XII'. This panel shows wonderful examples of cottes, hose, low shoes, a liripipe hood with the tail wrapped around the head to keep it out the way, a short-tailed, dagged hood and a green, quilted gambeson.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Whore on the waters, Revelation XVII'. A really nice depiction of a backlaced gown with front clasp style of belt decorated with rondel findings.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Dragon fights the servants of God, Revelation XII'. This panel shows wonderful examples of cottes, hose, low shoes, a liripipe hood with the tail wrapped around the head to keep it out the way, a short-tailed, dagged hood and a green, quilted gambeson.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Whore on the waters, Revelation XVII'. A really nice depiction of a backlaced gown with front clasp style of belt decorated with rondel findings.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Mounted on the Beast, Revelation XVII'. Another depiction of a backlaced gown, this time with a repeated pattern of flowers in a thistle-like shape. She also wears a 'turret' hat decorated with jewels and pearls.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Sixth Trumpet: The Angels of the Euphrates, Revelation IX'. This panel has detailed depictions of plate and maille armour, a button front cotte, liripipe hoods, tunics and a plaque belt.
L: A detail of the panel showing 'The Great Mounted on the Beast, Revelation XVII'. Another depiction of a backlaced gown, this time with a repeated pattern of flowers in a thistle-like shape. She also wears a 'turret' hat decorated with jewels and pearls.
R: A detail of the panel showing 'The Sixth Trumpet: The Angels of the Euphrates, Revelation IX'. This panel has detailed depictions of plate and maille armour, a button front cotte, liripipe hoods, tunics and a plaque belt.
Leaving the Loire Valley behind, we turned north and raced across the French countryside to the border of Brittany. Brittany (Bretagne) is a land apart, with its own language (Breton, a Celtic language related to Welsh) and customs. It also has its own unique beverage, an amazing dark cider that came in more variants and varieties than we could keep track of. The capital of medieval Brittany was the walled city of Dinan. Although the Counts of Brittany began as English allies during the Hundred Years' War, Dinan gave birth to a hero often credited with preventing Edward III and his son the Black Prince from completing their conquest of France - Betrand du Guesclin, a common born guerilla fighter who went on to first be knighted and ultimately become the marshal of France. While his heart is buried with the other marshal's of France in St. Denys in Paris, du Guesclin's heart is buried in Dinan, and to this day the town places flowers at its tomb on his birthday and the anniversary of his death.
The castle of the Counts of Brittany is largely gone, reduced to the donjon, which now stands as a lonely sentinel with a half-open drawbridge leading nowhere. Today it is a small museum, below which is a rather dank, leaky crypt, which the museum lights for maximum moodiness. Most visitors skip the crypt (and our tour books said to skip the entire museum), but for we medievalists it was a real treasure, containing several detailed, and reasonably intact, funeral effigies from the 13th - early 15th centuries. With the dim light, getting decent research photos was no small task, but we persevered.
While its keep has been reduced to a single tower, Dinan remains a walled town, and it is possible to range along those walls to the several gates which still are the only routes allowing access to the old town. Near the keep is the square of Du Guesclin, which is cleared every Wednesday for market, just as it has been since the early 14th century. With limited car traffic, wandering the narrow, cobbled streets of 14th, 15th and 16th century buildings lined with heraldic banners it is simply impossible to not play tourist to the fullest and allow one's self to picture the city as it was centuries ago.
The medieval walled town of Dinan in Brittany
Effigies in the crypt - the far one shows a full suit of late 14th century harness.
An earlier effigy shown wearing a maille hauberk (complete with maille mufflers for the hands) and chauses.
Mont Saint Michele
Mont St. Michele as you come up from the man-made causeway.
Crossing from Brittany into Normandy, a short turn north leads out onto a long, narrow causeway juts out into miles of salty mud flats that fade into the English Channel, beyond which lies a small rocky island. On this island, which has been a religious sight since the late Neolithic era, is the famed monastery of Mont St. Michele. There is little that can be said about this place, which has been hermitage, monastic powerhouse, fortress, prison, and tourist attraction through its long history; it needs to be experienced. All of the kitschy stores filled with useless knick-knacks that line the single road spiraling up the rocky slopes do not take away from the place's majesty, nor do the more gothic than gothic 19th and 20th century renovations and restorations (including the famed statue of St. Michael that adorns the highest spire). Standing atop the monastery's walls, looking out to sea, and watching the tide come in with the speed of galloping horses (horses must have been slower then, nevertheless, five miles of mud flat fills in under an hour) is simply magic. As a stop along the way for costuming researchers, Mont Saint Michele was largely irrelevant. But as tourists, let alone medievalists, it was mandatory.
Nicole and Greg making the last leg of the climb up to the church.
Another one of the common rooms of the monastery that was used as a scriptorium at one point.
The pinnacle at the top of the church.
The tip of the steeple appears above a very medieval wall.
One of the common rooms below the church.
Leaving behind the magic of Mont Saint Michele, we drove the rest of the afternoon to Paris. A magnificent, fascinating place in its own right, it is a decidedly un-medieval city. Historic Paris is a city that the Enlightenment built, and both the Terror and Napoleon redecorated. Nevertheless, if one knows where to look, such as the breathtaking beauty of the 13th century Saint Chapelle or the famed Cluny Museum, glimpses of medieval Paris can still be found. After all, the old wall and foundations of the 13th century keep were literally discovered in the Louvre's basement; how more hidden can you get?
Notre Dame
The Revolution was particularly unkind to Quasimodo's famed home; after sending a number of the altarpieces (and according to legend, the altar itself) to the bottom of the Seine, the cathedral was declared the Temple of Reason. Since it turned out that no one had much use for a Temple of Reason, it then became a stable. It was only because Napoleon Bonaparte chose it as a coronation site that the Cathedral rose from its ignoble fate. As a very early example of Gothic architecture, the stained glass windows are high set and cast very little light into the nave. This may be just as well, as it obscures the cartoonish medieval artwork painted on the walls by the study of Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century to replace the original artwork that was lost. The real highlights of Notre Dame lies in climbing amongst its famed rooftop gargoyles, and for costuming mavens, in one of the relics on display in the treasury - the 13th century undershirt of Saint Louis!
L: The St. Louis shirt - it was very surprising how long it was and generously sized; really more of an undertunic than a shirt. R: A detail of the shirt - showing the frayed hem and gore.
Notre Dame on the Il de Cite - an island in the middle of the river Seine, and oldest part of the city.
Another detail of the shirt - showing the bound 'V' shaped neckline and the unique 'X' finish binding at the point of the 'V'.
The Cluny Museum of Medieval Art
Finally, we come to the wonderful Cluny Museum, built in the ruins of the famed abbey of the same name. The Cluny is considered without peer in the variety and depth of its collection, and a simple walk through (were such a walk through possible), demonstrates why. We lost most of a day in the Cluny, and would have been there longer, if time wasn't pressing.
A 15th century tapestry with beautiful examples of early Renaissance clothing
The inner courtyard of the museum
An amazingly intact pair of late 12th century polychrome (painted) wood sculptures depicting cloaks and clothing typical of the period. The man in wearing a long sleeved undertunic and supertunic with a ¾ length sleeve and wide bands if trim or embroidery.
Extant medieval shoes
A pair of late 14th c. St. Georges' Pilgrims Badges.
Paris held a few more wonders and lucky finds, not least of which was the Paris: 1400 special exhibit at the Louvre, which we happened upon by mere chance. I've never seen such an extensive special exhibit, which combined illumination, sculpture, metal work, enamels and ceramics in an amazing display (who would have thought to see four copies of the Duc de Berry's Hours all in one case?). Alas, this was one area where photography was strictly forbidden and the ban rigidly enforced. Thus, while we bought the extensive catalog for our library, we regret that we can't share those sights with you. After Paris, it was time to return home.
For the medievalist, France was an interesting journey. For a land so central to chivalric culture and so dominant in medieval history, many of the artifacts and locales of the period we love are badly scarred by the rage of the French Revolution. Especially in Paris, the researcher sometimes needs to squint and cock their head to imagine things as they might have been, while in places like Chartres Cathedral it seems as if the Middle Ages never ended. Besides an amazing vacation, this was a trip with a mission - to better immerse and educate ourselves in the material culture of the Middle Ages. Many of the things we saw and documented have already found their way into our designs, especially the 12th century line, which had begun design months before we left, but was already refining in the car-ride from Chartres Cathedral, and it was a delight to see many things we had already done be confirmed time and again, in new sources.


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Ask Matt Bevin how the year has gone since a fire destroyed his 180-year-old family business and he'll do something he has mostly avoided — look back instead of ahead.
"On the one hand it seems like it flew by, like it was yesterday, and on the other hand it seems like a decade," Bevin said. "It feels like progress, is what it feels like."
It is progress that seemed impossible exactly a year ago. Bevin Bros., the last company in the United States exclusively making bells, is much of the way back, operating at a formerly vacant factory building near the old site in East Hampton. Matt Bevin would like to rebuild on the original location, using some of the same bricks, but that's a ways off, he said.
"There's always things you'd love to have seen go more quickly, but the fact that I'm employing 21 people that were burned 100 percent out, and the fact that we're shipping goods to people all over the world…it's remarkable how much we've accomplished," he said.
Remarkable indeed. Late on the night of Saturday, May 26, an apparent lighting strike sparked the blaze that destroyed the historic Bevin plant. By daybreak on the 27th in the middle of the holiday weekend, the devastation was nearly total.
"One hundred-eighty years of history was gone overnight," Bevin told a luncheon gathering of the Salvation Army at the Marriott in downtown hartford this past Thursday. "Delivery wagons, photographs, patents…one of a kind patterns...gone. It was just a burned out wreck of twisted metal and charred ruins. And during those days, the only thing I had was prayer."
The Salvation Army, itself a religious group, was then and is now one of Bevin's largest customers for the red-handled bells that ringers toll in front of stores at Christmas-time. Its annual event, appropriately enough, it titled "Beyond the Bells."
Bevin told the story of how he gained hope and resolve through prayer those first three days.
"This is a room full of people that appreciate what hope does," Bevin told the Salvation Army staffers and volunteers. Bevin Bros., he said, "this little shell of a company that most people had little reason to think about, was symbolic of many things to a lot of people."
Symbolic, that is, of the promise of American manufacturing — not an easy thing to rebuild in Connecticut. It's basically a metal-stamping and assembly operation, not exactly in the competitive wheelhouse of a state known for high-end, precision manufacturing. But he sees the effort from the perspective of a person struggling with his or her life, who sees or reads an account of Bevin Bros. rebuilding.
"If that can happen, whatever I'm wreslting with in my life can happen," said Bevin, a Louisville, Ky. resident who is a former U.S. Army captain and serial entrepreneur, with several other companies.
But it's not just inspiration and symbolism. It's a business that employs people — some of them immigrants — who would have little hope of finding equivalent work.
He tells the story of Hadzika and Hasa Muminovic, Bosnian immigrants who speak little English, whose daughter is a recently minted 5th grade teacher, and whose sons are a recent college graduate and a student. Bevin asks for a show of hands of bell-ringers.
"Every single handle that you used was put on that bell by a man named Hadzika Muminovic," he said. "When they came here," he said of the couple, "They were a perfect example of thie kind of people that the Salvation Army reaches out to."
Unlike the Salvation Army, however, Bevin Bell, as the company is known, is a for-profit business and Matt Bevin has made it clear he's not running it as a charity. It may only seem that way based on the last year, when he has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into it. Buying and installing used presses cost $200,000 alone, he said, and each of the dies — the tools at the heart of the business — had to be rebuilt by hand.
Regular production resumed in the fall. So far, he said, the business volume is maybe halfway back, maybe a little bit more. The staff is almost back to its original size, including seven who work for PSI, a company co-owned by Bevin that makes pressurized gas cylinders under the same roof.
"We have people that we never let go, and others that we've been hiring back," Bevin said.
The state delivered a matching grant of $100,000 under the Small Business Express program, to help defray some costs, after Bevin announced he would rebuild.
In his personal life, Bevin and his wife have nine children ages 3 to 14, including four adopted from Ethiopia last year.
"The first one came home two weeks after the fire," he said. "It's been so seamless and wonderful."
Rebuilding the business, less seamless, includes a long-term plan to rise back up at the original site. "This is property that my ancestors decided to build on," he said. "It would be meaningful on many levels."
For now, Bevin Bros. is selling "Phoenix Bells," commemorative bells that are marked, "since 1832....with a short interruption on May 27, 2012."
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke began his semiannual monetary report before Congress today, where he confirmed that, if the U.S. job market continues to strengthen and inflation moves closer to the targeted range of 2 percent, the bond buying program would be moderated later this year. He added that that could change depending on incoming economic data. During the Q&A portion of the testimony, Bernanke shared his thoughts on why it was best to inform the market of the Fed's plans. He believes that if the plans were not shared, it could have created an uncertain financial market with investors possibly taking extremely risky positions. "Markets are beginning to understand our message and the volatility has obviously moderated," Bernanke said.
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FORTUNE -- There's going to be a lot Apple (AAPL) news to digest this Thursday, Dec. 6.
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- San Jose, Calif. -- Attorneys for Apple and Samsung will clash once again in Judge Lucy Koh's San Jose courthouse in a hearing that will address a wide array of post-trial issues, including jury misconduct, that will determine how much, if any, of those $1.05 billion in damages Samsung will actually have to pay. Decisions could come before the end of the year.
- New York City -- At 10 p.m. Eastern (9 p.m. Central) NBC's Brian Williams will air a conversation with Tim Cook -- Cook's first televised interview as Apple CEO and the first of any kind since November's management shakeup. The interview -- conducted in part at Apple's Grand Central Terminal Store and scheduled to air on Williams' Rock Center show -- will be for many Americans their first extended exposure to Steve Jobs' successor.
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The Bryant Hornets were down by four runs at one point, but battled back for a 5-4 victory in 10 innings over the North Little Rock Charging Wildcats on Tuesday in Bryant to start the 7A Central conference season. Two Wildcat errors in the bottom of the 10th led to the win.
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Great Luxury Sport Mix by Jeff from San Diego on 01/05/2013. Trim: 2013 Infiniti G Coupe 37 Sport 6MT, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: The exterior of the G37 Coupe is one of the best looking in its class. The car comes standard with features that are options on most of its competitors, such as leather seats, heated seats, navigation, and sunroof. It has all the sportiness that makes driving fun and the luxury that makes driving pleasant. All controls are well laid out and easy to use. The display screen is large and easily viewed while driving and when the car is parked can be used to watch movies via the integrated DVD player. While driving on the highway the navigation screen displays the legal speed limit, which is great when traveling through different states. Finally there is the sound of the exhaust, EXCELLENT!
Cons: The seatbelt assist lever could use some improvement, however it serves the purpose of making the belt easier to reach. Also the cup holders could use a redesign; they are square shaped now and I think infiniti could make them round, like most cups are. The back seats are tight and the headroom in the back is minimum, however this is a sports car. Trunk space is also limited but if you need more room there is always the G Sedan.
Overall review: If you want a fun to drive car with plenty of gadgets at a reasonable price, this is the car to buy. I was all set to buy a BMW 328i when I decided to look at the Infiniti, and am I glad that I did. I got the G37S, which is more closely matched to the 335i option wise, at the same price I would have paid for the 328i with leatherette seats, without power seats or sunroof. I was driving a BMW 750Li and thought I might miss some of luxury features but was pleased when I realized that the Infiniti had all of the ones that I actually used in it.
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BMW alternative by AlohaJoe 1960 on 03/11/2013. Trim: 2013 Infiniti G Coupe 37x AWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: At 6'2" I can easily enter and exit the car, plenty of room and plenty of seat adjustment. It is great knowing the power to weight ratio is among the best and lets me drive with confidence. Great handling, power, and braking.
Cons: So far nothing although an increase in torque would make it even more competitive with the BMW 335 series.
Overall review: I like a car to be a little less than common place. There are so many BMW's on the road that I shy away from them. In pretty much every category that matters the Infiniti G is the equal of a 3 series. 0-60 time, handling, comfort are all on a par with the 335. I feel confident when driving and know the car will do what I need it to do when I need it to do it.
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Fast, fun by dcfan on 08/21/2013. Trim: 2013 Infiniti G Coupe 37x AWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: Performance and handling are great. Very fun to drive fast when you can. Driving position very comfortable. First rate nav and sound system.
Cons: Interior is getting kind of old. Not up to par with competition or new Q50. Exterior styling still same as 2008.
Overall review: Performance that matches a 335i and smokes an A5 for about $200 less per month on a lease.
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The ultimate G by Imteyaz on 04/16/2013. Trim: 2013 Infiniti G Coupe.
Pros: nissan makes the best v6's in the world , styling is just like icing on a cake and the tech is just mind boggling , actually the tech doesn't bother me one bit , its the performance that i fell in love with , i'm gonna own one some day.
Cons: Can't tell untill i own one and there won't be any cons hopefully.
Overall review: I'm in love with it..!!
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Virginia Beach Friends at First Baptist of Suffolk, 7
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BD: It's definitely that. A mix of two types of behavior.
PN: But there are sneaky stealingsthere are sneaky stealings in the second part as well. Some of the vertical, some of the chordal material in the second part. We're not afraid to improvise on other people's music, say, from the classical or romantic period. In my mind, I know that Schubert was a huge improviser. You can tell he's one because he wrote two pieces with this one idea. So in my mind, he's drunk at midnight improvising, going "yeah, man, it's so fucking cool, what I did"so I figure, why can't we use that material in that way?
AAJ: There's that notion about classical repertory that has gotten confused over the last couple hundred yearspeople now think it's some static material.
PN: The improvisers were incredible. They were amazing. Bach, Schubertthey were amazing improvisers. That's how Beethoven wrote his sonatas, by improvising. Anyone who played the organ as wellanyone who was an organ player and who was writing for organ. You know these guys were spending the first hour of the church servicewhile everyone's walking inimprovising on their fugures or their ideas. Like Messiaen.
AAJ: Padma is credited for the lion's share of the composing on the earlier Clogs CDs, but on Lantern, all the pieces except the first two are "composed and developed by Clogs." Does this mean that the group's compositional procedures have changed?
BD: Not really. Padma does write the lion's share, and I usually get credit for a few things. Tom and Rachael contribute a lot, but they don't really ever get composition credit. So we kind of just made an egalitarian decision: "let's not stake our claim to this or that; let's credit it all to the band." Nothing's actually changed about the way that we work.
AAJ: The group's spread out geographically; no one lives in the same city. I'm curious as to how that affects your work.
PN: It's a big challenge. I mean, once we're in the same place, it's all good. But actually getting to the same place is sometimes difficult. Organizing tours is sometimes difficult. But regardless of any of those things, once we're sitting in that room, we're back to our old selves and learning how to play with each other again and getting excited by each other's playing and so on and so forth.
AAJ: All right, enough small talk. I really want to talk about your new CD Lantern exhaustively. This is your fourth album. Superficially, I suppose this is your electric guitar album, Bryce.
BD: Well, Lullaby For Sue [the group's second album from 2003] has a few electric tracksat least two, maybe three. But yeah, there are maybe ten electric tracks on this one.
PN: But some of this comes from a situation where you're gigging and you're just sick of picking up three instruments.
BD: I'd also gotten really into electric guitarplaying it a lot in my rock band [The National] and then in a lot of new music settings. There are just so many creative possibilities about it. That said it, in Clogs I play a lot of finger-style electric, so it's classical technique.
AAJ: Well, I don't find it jarringly different from your acoustic work; it seems very much of a piece. The album starts off with a piece by Johann Hieronymus Kapsburgernow, my advance copy calls the song "Kapsburger," but that can't be its title?
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BD: No, on the record it's called "Ostinato."
AAJ: I'll admit to not being familiar with Kapsburger's work, but I will guess that it was composed for lute.
BD: Bass lute.
PN: Beautiful, beautiful instrument, and this was his specialty; he was a virtuoso himself. Sixteenth-century.
AAJ: This one has a guest musicianLuca Tarantino on classical guitar.
BD: A baroque guitar, actually.
AAJ: And Bryce, you're on acoustic and electric?
BD: Just electric. There's an electric and a baroque guitar.
AAJ: I thought I heard two acoustic guitars in there.
BD: The baroque guitar is double-chorused, so that might explain what you heard.
AAJ: Fair enough. Is there any reason you start off this record of mostly originals with someone else's piece?
BD: Yeah, there's an interesting story. That piece was not part of the record for quite a long time. Luca's a musician from Italy that I met and worked with at a festival there, and we invited him for a residency in France last year with a French group that we were collaborating with there. We added Luca to the mix. He's just an amazing, interesting musician. I had been writing some music myselfactually, "Fiddlegree" is from this period of time when I was kind of riffing on Renaissance music and the idea of ornamentation. Padma's also dealt with that a lot in his own music. So Luca showed up with this piece and said, "I want you to hear this." He called it baroque minimalism. Because, you know, I did a tour with Philip Glass around this time and was reacting a little bit to that music.
So basically, this song is a set of chords and that's all it is; it's not written out. It's not at all done as a period piecewe did it in a weird way. Electric guitar, the arrangement is totally out, I'm playing these harmonies over Luca. So they sent us the recording from France probably eight or nine months after we did itit's a live recording, one takeand I thought it was such a lovely opening. And somehow it made everything else on the record make more sense. There's already the Schubert quote on the record and there's this other music we were relating to.
PN: We felt the record was too poised in a way. It felt very poised, so we chucked these others in and it opened the whole record up.
BD: Yeah, it felt like a great opening to me.
PN: Let's go back to what that piece is in its actuality. It's a chord chart. That's it. So there would have been ways they played that that probably we don't know about. But it's an improvising piece. There are lots of ways you could actually play that.


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I appreciate your comments. I agree with a lot of what you say, especially about the musicians on the Memphis sessions and the problem of time eras. The sound has improved greatly over the past 33 years. However, I still feel that Elvis at various times throughout his career did not have the backings he deserved and sometimes was crowded out by the vocal groups. For once in my life I would love to hear someone like ZZ Top backing Elvis on 'Steamroller Blues'. I think you will appreciate where I am coming from on this one. Personally I see nothing wrong with remixes as we will always have the originals in any case. It is interesting though how these remixes have created a schism within the ranks of the Elvis World. Hopefully, as you say, it will sell millions. We all want Elvis to be a success, even in death.
Personally I would prefer Eric Clapton
People have to remember except for some of the movie era soundtracks-Elvis ran his sessions, the backings and added vocal groups-were at his request, his idea for the sound he wanted. Considering that he is the biggest selling solo artist in the world.....or if you want to debate it lets say hes in the top 3 best world sellers.........his idea for the sound he wanted-was very very good.
Remixes cause problems for some of us-because of his lack of participation, just like colorizing black and white movies, or re-editing old films without the consent or contribution of the original creators. You do not repaint a classic painting, you don't change the smile from "Mona Lisa" into a frown IMO
Remixes used sparingly I agree with. But Sony has started down a slippery slope this last years since ALLC-more and more they look for the "gimmick" which will sell more product......I understand the corporate mentality, profit with low overhead.....they certainly have that with Elvis, no artist royaltees for most of his work, they have carte blanc to do as they wish. But just because you can do this-does not mean you always should. Frank Sinatra is a classic in music-I would very much doubt that they will mess very much with his originals....the respect for his work is too great...........................................at least I hope so.
We will alwasy have the original works of Elvis as you point out-but I also want the respect and appreciation to remain for those works.......by future fans and not for remixes.


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With Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie taking their talents from Athens to the LA Clippers, Georgia's Mark Fox knows that folks will be wondering where the Dawgs' scoring will come from in 2011-12:
"That's the question. We did lose a lot of scoring and I think any coach would tell you you're always looking for who's going to score field goals for you. We're all trying to build a defensive team that's good enough to win, but you also have to score and that's what we're looking for right now.
Obviously (you look at) the two senior guards back in Gerald Robinson and Dustin Ware. I think both those guys had games of over 20 last year. They understand where to get their shots. But I also think as seniors those guys understand how to control a team and get the other guys the ball. Hopefully they'll be able to make the transition easier for the other guys and help them find baskets. But it is an area of concern for us. When we start working out in the fall we'll have to get an understanding of where we can get our shots and how we can best score."
Fox quickly won over Georgia fans upon his arrival and led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament this past season. But that was with a pair of NBA-level players inherited from Dennis Felton. It will be interesting to see how Fox does over the next couple of seasons with his own players.
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