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Filed under: Afghanistan, Democrat Corruption, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military, National Security, Politics, Progressivism, Russia, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: Middle East Afire, Russia & NATO, The Iran Deal
To Briefly Sum Up:
On Monday, the Obama White House dismissed the Ayatollah Khamenei's "Of course Death to America" rhetoric, telling CNN that it was just something "intended for a domestic political audience," and thus can reasonably be ignored. Josh Earnest had just explained that such rhetoric provided even more reason for negotiating a deal with Iran.
How does that work? Iran has been proclaiming themselves an implacable enemy of America ever since 1979 and the Iranian revolution. If you think that although they are a major oil-producing state, they just want nuclear energy to keep the lights on, ask yourself why they also have been developing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
In spite of every effort made by the White House to prevent Bibi Netanyahu's reelection, the Israelis gave him a significant vote of confidence and reelected him resoundingly. Obama is furious.
Obama has a bucket list of accomplishments that he expects will prove to the world that he did too deserve that Nobel Peace Prize, and go down in history as one of the greatest presidents. It's not going too well. Getting the troops out of Iraq was a big one, and that has gone sour. Closing Guantanamo has not gone well, but he's still determined. He's just given in a little on getting the troops out of Afghanistan, but only till the end of the year — politely letting the Taliban know just how long they have to wait, with his usual lack of understanding of basic strategy.
He was determined to be the American president who made peace between Israel and Palestine with a two-state solution, forcing Israel to give up their borders, their safety, and their future to a bunch of terrorists supported by the peaceful state of Iran.
And now he's determined to make a completely worthless deal with Iran, and will obviously give up anything and everything to get a deal, any deal. Iran has no intention of accepting any restraint on their activities. They have refused surprise inspections, or any inspections for which they cannot easily prepare. Since Obama reduced the sanctions, they have no reason to agree to anything. They don't need to.
We're told in the meantime that they could probably have a nuclear bomb within 45 days, but the UN nuclear inspectors have said that there is not much that they are actually sure of.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening the Baltic states with Russian submarine activity and a rising cruise-missile threat, Obama has been unable to find the time to meet with NATO's new Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The new idea is that he only has time for our enemies, but not for our allies.
Stoltenberg was twice prime minister of Norway, and is well aware of increasing Russian bomber patrols that include mock attack runs on NATO members' warships. Our nation is pledged, as a NATO member to defend other NATO members. A meeting with the prime minister might be in order, but then Obama has dumped the eastern Europe missile defense and refused to send lethal weapons to Ukraine. And Stoltenberg might remind him of America's binding NATO pledge.
Yemen has melted down. We got our people out, but apparently left $500 million worth of advanced weapons for al Qaeda, along with secret files about U.S. counter-terrorism operations. Saudi Arabia has launched military operations against the Iran-backed Houthi Rebels in Yemen. The Royal Saudi Air Force has bombed the positions of Yemen's Houthi militia and destroyed most of their air defenses. In a joint statement Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait will repel Houthi militias, al Qaeda and ISIS as the coup in Yemen represents a major threat to the region's stability.
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Foreign Policy, Freedom, History, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Politics, Progressivism, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: Free Democratic Elections, Israeli Election, Muslim Envy
We take regular elections for granted, as do most countries in the West, as does Israel, even if we find their multitude of political parties more confusing than enlightening. But in the Middle East many were envious that it even took place. Remember triumphant Iraqi's holding aloft their purple-stained fingers to show that they had voted, and how the votes cast by Iraqi women shook the Middle East?
Evelyn Gordon writing at Contentions raises the issue:"Nowhere was this truer than among Palestinians who haven't had an election in 10 years—not because Israel is preventing them from doing so, but because their own leadership is. And anyone who actually cares about the peace process ought to be far more worried by the Palestinian elections that didn't happen than by the outcome of the Israeli one that did."
A veteran Palestinian journalist from Ramallah summed up the prevailing sentiment succinctly. "We say all these bad things about Israel, but at least the people there have the right to vote and enjoy democracy," he told Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh before the election. "We really envy the Israelis. Our leaders don't want elections. They want to remain in office forever."
Ghanem Nuseibeh, an East Jerusalem Palestinian now living in Britain, put out an illuminating series of tweets throughout Election Day, including, "Over a million Arabs take part in Middle East's most democratic elections today"; "The Arabs in Israel are the only Middle East Arab group that practices true democracy"; and "Israel is secure not because it will elect Bibi or Buji, but because of what it is doing today." He was rooting for Isaac Herzog ("Buji") and deplored Benjamin Netanyahu, but after acknowledging that his candidate had lost, he nevertheless tweeted, "Israel is the world's most vibrant democracy" …. "If an Arab country had the same wide spectrum of political parties as Israel does, it would be fighting a civil war unseen in human history."
Astoundingly, even Hamas in Gaza issued numerous tweets urging Israeli Arabs to vote for the Arab parties' Joint List. One can only imagine what Gaza residents must have felt at seeing Hamas urge Palestinian Israelis to exercise a right Palestinians in Gaza are denied by their own Hamas-run government.
Evelyn Gordon adds: "If Western leaders are serious about wanting Israeli-Palestinian peace, working to rectify; the lack of Palestinian democracy would be far more productive than wringing their hands over the choices made by Israel's democracy."
The media is incorrectly trumpeting that Mr. Netanyahu said he wasn't interested in any peace process or two-state solution with the Palestinians. He said not right now. When the Palestinians quit shooting rockets and making suicide attacks on Israel policy, and are willing to recognize the Israeli state, then they would be interested. in a two-state solution.
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Democrat Corruption, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: Israel Is Our Ally, Obama's "Legacy", The Netanyahu Victory
Senator Marco Rubio called out President Obama for his shameful treatment of the Prime Minister of Israel, and for his treatment of the Israeli nation.
Obama did finally call Benjamin Netanyahu today to congratulate him on his overwhelming victory in the recent Israeli election. Obama's childish, petulant response has been embarrassing. Israel is the only free market democracy in the Middle East, and the envy of many Palestinians.
I think Obama has depended on an Israeli Peace Plan with Palestine, a two-state solution, to be one of the crowning achievements of his legacy and his presidency, something Bush couldn't get done, and proof that he really did too deserve that Noble Peace Prize. He should have known better, but foreign policy is not one of Obama's strong points. It's a naive, foolish vision, but nothing he planned as his foreign policy triumphs is working out — ending the War in Iraq has turned sour; people are laughing at Cuba declaring victory over Obama's surrender to them; Republicans in the Senate wrote a despicable letter to the Ayatollahs in Iran and may have messed up his much desired nuclear deal. Even killing bin Laden and having al Qaeda on the run doesn't seem to be working out. He hasn't much time left to secure a legacy.
ADDENDUM: Some wording changed to clarify what I was attempting to say.
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iran, Islam, Israel, Middle East, National Security, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: "Dignity and Self Esteem", Nuclear Negotiations, President Hassan Rouhani
President Obama, in his most direct response to the Republicans about their open letter to Iran, said that he's "embarrassed for them."
"For them to address a letter to the ayatollah — the supreme leader of Iran, who they claim is our mortal enemy — and their basic argument to them is: don't deal with our president, because you can't trust him to follow through on an agreement… That's close to unprecedented," he said in an interview with VICE News.
Back in 2008, the Bush administration, along with the "six powers" was negotiating with Iran about their country's nuclear arms program. The Bush administration's objective was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. On July 20, the headline in the New York Times read "Nuclear Talks With Iran End in a Deadlock." According to the Times, Iran responded with a written document that did not even address the main issue — demands that it stop enriching uranium. Iranian diplomats considered the issue nonnegotiable.
On June 3, Barack Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination. At some point around that date, but before the election, he secretly let the Iranians know that he would be easier to bargain with than the current president. Michael Ledeen reported on it in August:
The actual strategy is detente first, and then a full alliance with Iran throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It has been on display since before the beginning of the Obama administration. During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies. The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah's rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine. Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the 2008 campaign. …
The central theme in Obama's outreach to Iran is his conviction that the United States has historically played a wicked role in the Middle East, and that the best things he can do for that part of the world is to limit and withdraw American military might and empower our self-declared enemies, whose hostility to traditional American policies he largely shares.
So in the face of Iran's struggle to obtain nuclear weapons, and the depredations of ISIS in the Middle East, Obama's core strategy is to create a U.S.−Iranian alliance that makes Tehran the major regional power and leaves America as a friendly adviser. Assuming that we still exist after Iran develops nuclear weapons. Did you know that Iran has a major national holiday called "Death to America Day?" We have Christmas and the Glorious Fourth, they have "Death to America Day" celebrated on the day they took fifty-two American diplomats and citizens hostage, November 4, 1979, whom they held for 444 days.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described his country's diplomacy with the United States as an active "jihad" that is just as significant to Tehran's advancement as the slew of new weapons and missiles showcased by the Islamic Republic's military.
Rouhani praised the country's military leaders for standing "against the enemy on the battlefield" and said as president, he would carry out this "jihad" on the diplomatic front.
Why does Mr. Obama assume that when Iranians have made their triumph over America into a national holiday, that they don't mean it? The Shiia believe that the return of the hidden imam will bring about Armageddon followed by heavenly bliss for believers.
Foreign Minister Jarad Zarif said that Iran is the winner, whether the negotiations yield results or not. "The capital we have obtained over the years is dignity and self-esteem, a capital that cannot be retaken."
Dignity and self-esteem come from sitting down at the same table to negotiate with the Great Satan America and the other major countries. To the people who were once the most advanced civilization in the world and controlled a vast empire and have fallen so far behind, that is a very big deal indeed. Not likely to be satisfied with minding the Middle East and being "advised" by America.
ADDENDUM: Here are some links to articles about Iran that may help a little in trying to understand what is going on.
"Trust Iran Only As Far as You Can Throw It" by Michael Weiss @ Foreign Policy.com
"Obama's Secret Iran Strategy" by Michael Doran in Mosaic
"The Obama-Khamenei alliance" by Michael Ledeen in The Hill
"Obama's Inner Nixon"by Michael Ledeen at PJMedia.
Follow Michael Ledeen at PJMedia. He writes often about Iran and the Middle East, and is deeply knowledgeable.
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Foreign Policy, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Media Bias, Military, National Security, Politics, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: A Clash of Cultures, Intercontinental Missile, Iran
Iran on Sunday unveiled their new cruise missile that it claimed would extend the Islamic Republic's potential range to 2,500 kilometers, placing cities like Budapest, Warsaw and Athens within striking difference. Their intercontinental ballistic missiles are not part of the nuclear talks with Iran, we are told. Tehran has refused to include their growing missile-development program as part of the negotiations. It is not any part of the deal, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded us last week in his speech to Congress.
The Soumar missile, as it is known in Iran, is a copy of the Soviet Kh-55 which was stolen from the Ukraine in 2001 and apparently reverse engineered in Iran. It flies at low altitude and is thus hard for radar to detect. The payload is reportedly in the 200-kilogram range, not yet capable of delivering a nuclear device. It does, however raise the question of U.S. plans to station missile defense systems in Europe. Russia has long contended that Iranian missiles threaten neither Europe nor the U.S.. This is an interesting development, if it was taken without Russian consent.
Back when he as a mere candidate, Barack Obama said that diplomacy with rogue regimes was an important issue "The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them… is ridiculous,' he declared in 2007. "If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us," he told Al-Arabiya. He has been so determined on a deal that he hasn't let anything stand in the way — not Congress, not our allies, and especially not the facts.
Unfortunately, the State Department does not conduct after-action reports, forcing participants to confront their mistakes, like the Army does. The State Department has no clear metrics for such measurement. Michael Rubin notes that:
Too many American diplomats dismiss the need to consider mistakes. Instead, many are committed to the belief that talking is a cost-free, risk-free strategy. Testifying before the Senate in support of Obama's outreach to Iran, Nicholas Burns, the second undersecretary of state for foreign affairs under George W. Bush, promised, "We will be no worse off if we try diplomacy and fail."
We project our American understandings onto other countries with different cultures — who see entering into discussions as a weak response, and lifting the sanctions as complete surrender. Ignorance of an adversary's true intentions can kill. Obama seems to believe that Iranians are reasonable people who really want the same things we do. Obama's foolish rush into a deal with Iran would be disastrous.
Every U.S. administration has attempted to bring Iran into the family of nations in spite of its rhetoric and in spite of its actions. It's hard for nations who yearn for peace to understand those that yearn for the apocalypse. In the year before Obama agreed to talks with Iran, the Iranian economy had shrunk by 5.4 percent. To bring them to the table, Obama has released more than $11 billion to Iran. The only two times Iran has reversed course after swearing to a course of no compromises have been when Iran was close to collapse. Michael Rubin says — Only one thing will deter Iran: "forcing the regime to choose between its nuclear ambition and its survival." Pretending to delay them for ten years is pathetic.
Does Obama think his deal will deter Iran? Does he believe that ten years will let him off the hook? Or does he simply have no understanding of the consequences of his actions nor consider the possibility that he might indeed be wrong.
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Freedom, Intelligence, Iran, Islam, Israel, Military, National Security, Politics, The United States | Tags: An Historic Speech, Israel and America, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Victor Davis Hanson made the decisive comment on the Obama response to Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech yesterday, back on February 10, almost a month before the speech was delivered.
Snark is a popular word used for a particular sort of off-putting sarcasm. Snarkiness can manifest itself as adolescent cheap shots, snide condescension, or simple ad hominem patronizing — a sort of "I know you are, but what am I?" schoolyard name-calling. Its incessant use is typically connected with a peevishness born out of juvenile insecurity, and sometimes fed by an embarrassing envy.
Israel's Prime Minister was eloquent, moving, determined, and humble. He expressed his gratitude to America, and to President Obama for his aid to Israel. He delivered a detailed indictment of both Iran's intentions and the sellout deal that the Obama administration is drafting in Geneva.
Obama had done everything in his power to cancel, delay and undermine the speech before it was delivered, including putting out the idea that the Netanyahu appearance was somehow "disrespectful" to the president, and had offended by ignoring the customary protocol between nations. The White House was carefully notified before the Prime Minister accepted the Congressional invitation, and there was nothing disrespectful about his appearance. He emphasized the close relations between the two nations and his gratitude for all that America has done for Israel.
After the speech President Obama, in an arranged photo-op, spent eleven minutes claiming that he didn't even watch the address, though apparently Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei did, and then Obama snarkily added that "there was nothing new in it" anyway.
It's too bad that Obama didn't listen. This was the third time that Mr. Netanyahu had addressed Congress, a record shared only with Winston Churchill, whom Obama didn't like either. The Prime Minister was interrupted with thunderous applause some 40 times. Extra folding chairs were set up in the chamber to accommodate the overflow crowd. Thanks to administration pettiness, the speech drew intense international interest, and was broadcast around the globe. It was an historic speech.
Our two nations, Netanyahu said, share" the destiny of promised lands that cherish freedom and offer hope."He traced Iran's history since the revolution in 1979:" America's founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran's founding document pledges death, tyranny and the pursuit of jihad. And as states collapse across the Middle East, Iran is charging into the void to do just that."
The Israeli Prime Minister's speech may make the Iran deal a tougher sell for Obama. The President was hoping to slip it in under the claim that it was not "a treaty" but merely a minor deal that didn't require Congressional approval, so wouldn't be presented to Congress. He is really going way too far with this executive order stuff. It is not just about him — its about the safety of America and of Israel. Iran is not going to notify anyone that they have completed their search for a bomb. Israel and Washington D.C. will just be smoking holes in the ground. It's not about Obama's "legacy" — it's about survival.
If you didn't watch the speech, take the time to watch it now or again. Or read the transcript. It was a stirring, historic, and thought provoking address that will enter the catalog of the world's great speeches.
Filed under: Africa, Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Freedom, History, Iran, Islam, Israel, National Security, Progressivism, Russia, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: President Barack Obama, Secretary John Kerry, The Deal with Iran
Matthew Continetti has written an excellent column at the Free Beacon on why Bibi's speech matters. "It exposes the Iran deal as indefensible—and Obama's politics as bankrupt."
The emerging nuclear deal with Iran is indefensible. The White House knows it. That is why President Obama does not want to subject an agreement to congressional approval, why critics of the deal are dismissed as warmongers, and why the president, his secretary of state, and his national security adviser have spent several weeks demonizing the prime minister of Israel for having the temerity to accept an invitation by the U.S. Congress to deliver a speech on a subject of existential import for his small country. These tactics distract public attention. They turn a subject of enormous significance to American foreign policy into a petty personal drama. They prevent us from discussing what America is about to give away.
And America is about to give away a lot. This week the AP reported on what an agreement with Iran might look like: sanctions relief in exchange for promises to slow down Iranian centrifuges for 10 years. At which point the Iranians could manufacture a bomb—assuming they hadn't produced one in secret. Iran would get international legitimacy, assurance that military intervention was not an option, and no limitations on its ICBM programs, its support for international terrorism, its enrichment of plutonium, its widespread human rights violations, and its campaign to subvert or co-opt Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria. Then it can announce itself as the first Shiite nuclear power.
Do read the whole thing: Matthew Continetti zeroes in on the specific points on why the Obama administration is trying to do such an impossible deal, why Obama wants it, and why he's deeply mistaken. The greatest danger is that the world perceives Obama as a weak president who cannot be depended on at any. Urgently needed weapons may or may not be delivered, rescue may or may not happen, decisions may or may not be made, or may endlessly be postponed.
Obama believes he was elected to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He was not. He was elected to be the first black president. He is terrified of being a 'war' president, and wants to avoid confrontation at all costs. Which results in the Ukraine, Cuba, Chinese adventurism, ISIS and Libya, Syria, and the potential return of Afghanistan to Taliban control.


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the swedish solution
This morning's NY Times has a column by Gail Collins in which she describes what the Swedes did with their banks' toxic assets, the so-called collateralized debt obligations that Alan Greenspan admits he does not understand.
First, they nationalized the banks that own them. Then they hired unemployed bond brokers and charged them with reviewing these toxic assets, figuring out what they were worth, if anything, and selling them on the open market. Problem solved, or at least a giant step toward solution.
There are all kinds of Wall Street types walking the pavement these days, and they could be employed for a fraction of the excessive salaries they used to earn.
So why don't we follow their example?
Answers: (1) We never do what they do in Sweden. (2) There is a deep fear that the size of the CDO debacle is so huge it would have even more destructive effects on the markets worldwide if the extent of the problem were verified and made public. (3) Winston Churchill was right when he said that Americans can be counted on to do the right thing, after they've tried everything else.
We may be coming close to another big crumble. So keep your seatbelts on.
I agree that the comparison, for this or for anything else, is not entirely appropriate because Sweden is a much smaller country and of course it's traditions differ from ours in many ways and its population is much more homogeneous.
But the approach that they used might still be worth considering here, if we astutely select, say, the ten biggest banks, or whatever number that the numbers crunchers say will "save" our financial system if they are fixed, and let the other fail, merge, or whatever.
Take a look at the top common stockholders in the banks you want to consider nationalizing. If you nationalize, you wipe out the stockholders forever. Yes, stock values are down but if nationalization is avoided, then the various retirement plans, governments etc have a chance to recoup some of the losses.
See Bloomberg this morning for discussion of what might happen.


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Edward Gardner - Principal Guest Conductor
Recognised as one of the most talented conductors of his generation, Edward Gardner began his tenure as Music Director of English National Opera in May 2007 with a critically acclaimed new production of Britten's Death in Venice. Under his direction, the ENO has presented a series of stellar productions, including Damnation of Faust, Boris Godunov, Punch and Judy and Wozzeck. His eighth season at ENO includes productions of Fidelio, Peter Grimes, Thebans and Benvenuto Cellini. In recognition of his talent and commitment, Edward received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2008 for Best Conductor and in 2009, the Olivier award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. In June 2012 Edward was awarded an OBE for his Services to Music in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Equally successful as an opera conductor outside ENO, Edward received immediate re-invitations from Metropolitan Opera, New York and La Scala, Milan after his début appearances of Carmen and Britten's Death in Venice. This season he returns to the Met with Der Rosenkavalier for a run celebrating the 100th anniversary of the work's New York premiere. Prior to his appointment at ENO Edward was a regular at Paris Opera and in 2008 he returned to Glyndebourne Festival Opera for Britten's Turn of the Screw.
In October 2015 Edward will take up his new appointment as Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra leading their 250th anniversary gala concert. He became their Principal Guest Conductor in August 2013 and has many exciting projects planned including recordings with Chandos and touring.
Edward has been Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra since 2011. Highlights with the CBSO have included the UK premiere of Weltehos by Jonathan Harvey to mark the opening of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and Britten's Spring Symphony in Birmingham and War Requiem in St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate Britten's centenary year. The 2013/14 season will see the completion of a Mendelssohn cycle which will also be recorded for Chandos.
Edward enjoys a flourishing relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Proms and in 2011 conducted the Last Night of the Proms, which was televised live to audiences worldwide, followed by the First Night of the Proms in 2012. His other ongoing relationships in the UK include the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Edward also works regularly with young musicians including the CBSO and Barbican Youth Orchestras and in 2002 founded the Halle Youth Orchestra. He conducts at the major music colleges in London every season and in September 2013 leads the opening concert of the new Milton Court Concert Hall for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Internationally, the 2013/14 season and beyond will see Edward conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Frankfurt Radio, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Orchestra and Danish National Symphony. During recent seasons Edward has also worked with the NHK Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Houston Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
An exclusive recording artist for Chandos, Edward has most recently released critically acclaimed discs of Lutoslawski, Britten and Berio vocal and orchestral works. He has also made a number of recordings for EMI Records; Alison Balsom/Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Kate Royal/the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Kate Royal/English National Opera Orchestra.
Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music where he studied under the instruction of Colin Metters. He graduated in 2000 and went on to assist Mark Elder at The Hallé Orchestra for 3 years before being named as Musical Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 2004, a position he held for 3 years.
Michael Seal - CBSO Associate Conductor
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Michael Seal has established a reputation as one of the UK's most versatile conductors, his career going from strength to strength, conducting orchestras both across the UK and abroad.
In March 2011, he was appointed Associate Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The appointment recognised his work as Assistant Conductor, the first in their history, and the special relationship he has built between himself and the orchestra.
Michael has conducted the CBSO in numerous highly acclaimed projects. He has conducted them in a performance of Lutoslawski's 'Chain I' at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, given world premieres of music by Richard Causton and Jonathan Girling, appeared with them at the Aldeburgh and Malvern Festivals, as well as venues in London, Manchester and the Midlands. His first Subscription Concert in March 2007, with a programme including Hugh Wood's Piano Concerto, with Joanna MacGregor as soloist, and Walton's Symphony No.1, was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. Michael has also collaborated with Saregama and the CBSO in projects featuring Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sonu Niigaam, culminating in the release of the ground-breaking CD, Rafi Resurrected.
In March 2012, Michael stood in for CBSO music director Andris Nelsons, when family circumstances forced Nelsons to return to Latvia at short notice during the Orchestra's prestigious European tour. To great media and audience acclaim, Michael conducted concerts in Dortmund, Heidelberg and Baden-Baden with soloists Jonas Kaufmann and Rudolf Buchbinder, as well as a Birmingham matinée performance of Sibelius's Second Symphony.
Michael has special bond with the CBSO Youth Orchestra, conducting them on numerous occasions, and being involved with them since its foundation. He is also Artistic Advisor and Conductor for the CBSOYO Academy, a chamber orchestra formed in 2007, and conducted them in Birmingham and the Three Choirs Festival.
Michael has conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. In 2010 - 11, he made his debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and in 2011 he has debuts with both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In September 2011 he returns to Buenos Aires to conduct the Orquestra Academica del Teatro Colon.
Michael has been Principal Conductor of the Sinfonia of Birmingham since 2002, frequently performing concerti with CBSO members and leading them on highly successful tours of the Rhine and Mosel valleys, Tuscany, Holland and Poland. He has also been a regular guest conductor with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra since they gave him his conducting debut in 1996. Michael has also conducted the Midland Concert Orchestra, Birmingham University Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Schools Symphony Orchestra, including tours of the Czech Republic in 2008 and Barcelona in 2010.
His future work with the CBSO includes Cartoon Classics on 9 Nov alongside TV personality and all-round entertainer Sue Perkins and Schools and Family concerts.
Michael studied violin and composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire and has studied conducting with Jonathan Del Mar, Sakari Oramo, Andris Nelsons and Jorma Panula.
Simon Halsey
Chorus Director: City of Birmingham Symphony Choruses
Simon Halsey is a sought-after conductor of choral repertoire at the very highest level and an ambassador for choral singing across the world. Since 2001 he has been Principal Conductor of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the permanent partner of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In the UK, Halsey has been Chorus Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Choruses for over 30 years and, in 2012, was appointed Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus. In this new position, Halsey leads choral activities across the LSO's performance and education programmes.
Simon Halsey is also Artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker's Youth Choral Programme, as well as Director of the BBC Proms Youth Choir. Since 2014 he has been Artistic Advisor of the Choir Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Making singing a central part of these world-class institutions, Halsey has been instrumental in changing the level of symphonic singing across Europe.
In addition to its work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Halsey's CBSO Chorus is in high demand, working with other first-rate orchestras and leading conductors. Recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and John Storgårds and with the Czech Philharmonic and Jirí Belohlávek. With the CBSO in Birmingham, the 2014/15 season includes the UK premiere of James MacMillan's St Luke Passion and a concert performance of Wagner's Parsifal. At the CBSO Halsey has also founded a Youth Chorus and Children's Chorus, as well as two community choirs in Birmingham and the surrounding area. In February 2015 Halsey brings together the CBSO Chorus and LSC to perform Mahler's Symphony No.2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker at London's Royal Festival Hall, celebrating Sir Simon Rattle's 60th birthday.
Since becoming Choral Director of the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus in 2012, Halsey has been credited with bringing about a "spectacular transformation" (Evening Standard) of the LSC. In 2014/15 the LSO and LSC perform Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with Sir Simon Rattle. In addition to its work with the LSO, the choir joins the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Alan Gilbert for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the BBC Proms, and the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena for Beethoven's Fidelio in Manchester. In 2014 Halsey also conducted the LSC in a series of a cappella concerts across the UK, including Tallis's Spem in alium and Rachmaninov's Vespers. In August 2014 Simon Halsey was invited by the British Government to conduct a combined choir from the LSC and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival at a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I at St. Symphorien Military Cemetery.
Under Halsey's leadership, the Rundfunkchor Berlin has gained a reputation internationally as one of the finest professional choral ensembles. Halsey has also initiated innovative projects in unconventional venues and interdisciplinary formats, such as human requiem (after Brahms) in collaboration with dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests, which - in addition to performances at Radialsystem V in Berlin - tours to Rotterdam this season. Other highlights of 2014/15 include performances of Szymanowski's Stabat Mater and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Together with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Rundfunkchor Berlin tours Bach's St Matthew Passion to New York as part of the Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, in Peter Sellars's acclaimed staging, following performances at the Lucerne Festival and BBC Proms.
As Artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker's Youth Choral Programme Vokalhelden ('Vocal Heroes'), Halsey leads a long-term education and performance project that brings together children from diverse backgrounds from all over Berlin. This season they perform the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's Was lauert da im Labyrinth (The Monster in the Maze), conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. In London, the LSO Youth Choir and Community Choir perform the UK premiere of Dove's new opera, as part of Halsey's LSO Sing programme. In June 2014 Simon Halsey conducted the world premiere of David Lang's Crowd Out, a community work for 1,000 voices, with performances in Birmingham, Berlin and London. Halsey's BBC Proms Youth Choir, which is formed of young singers from all over the UK, performed Britten's War Requiem with the CBSO and Andris Nelsons in August 2014.
Simon Halsey is Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Birmingham, where he directs a postgraduate course in Choral Conducting, in association with the CBSO. Halsey is in great demand as a teacher at other universities and has presented masterclasses at top universities such as Princeton and Yale. In 2011 Schott Music published his book and DVD on choral conducting, Chorleitung: Vom Konzept zum Konzert, as part of its 'Master Class' series.
Halsey has worked on numerous recording projects, many of which have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d'Or and Echo Klassik. He has won three Grammy Awards for his recordings with the Rundfunkchor Berlin: 2007, 2008 (Best Choral Performances) and 2011 (Best Opera Performance). As part of a new relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, Halsey and the Rundfunkchor Berlin recorded Spheres with violinist Daniel Hope, as well as Morgenlicht, a choir-only recording of German hymns, both released in 2013. Highlights of his discography with the CBSO Chorus on EMI Classics include Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with CBSO, Sir Simon Rattle, Dame Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle; and Mahler's Symphony No.2 with CBSO, Sir Simon Rattle, Dame Janet Baker and Arleen Auger.
Born in London, Simon Halsey sang in the choirs of New College, Oxford, and of King's College, Cambridge. He studied conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1987, he founded with Graham Vick the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company). He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir from 1997 to 2008 and was also Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia's Choral Programme from 2004 to 2012. Halsey was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to choral music in Germany, and holds three honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom.
Alpesh Chauhan - Assistant Conductor
Alpesh Chauhan is the Assistant Conductor at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, mentored by Music Director Andris Nelsons, Principal Guest Conductor Edward Gardner and visiting guests. In addition to assisting Maestro Nelsons with performances at the Grafenegg and Lucerne Festivals, as well as the orchestra's recent tour to Germany, Alpesh conducted the CBSO for a Family Concert at Birmingham's Symphony Hall and is scheduled to conduct the Summer Showcase in 2015. Highlights of Alpesh's career so far include engagements with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and a last minute step-in to conduct students from the Royal Northern College of Music, performing Steve Reich's Double Sextet at the Southbank Centre, London. By way of background, in 2005, Alpesh joined the CBSO Youth Orchestra and became their principal cellist. In 2007 he began taking conducting master classes as part of the Youth Orchestra Academy. He joined the RNCM in 2008 to study the cello with Eduardo Vassallo before deciding to pursue the prestigious Masters Conducting Course, mentored by Clark Rundell and Mark Heron. Alpesh has participated in master classes with Juanjo Mena, Vasily Petrenko, Jac van Steen and the Ulster Orchestra, and has studied with conductors of renown including Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.
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KOLKATA: GSM operators, including Bharti Airtel , Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, have written to communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for "partial allotment of 3G airwaves in the 2100 MHz band" immediately, if the telecom department is unable to thrash out the earlier suggested spectrum swap deal with the armed forces. "Partial allotment will enable mixed use of 3G spectrum by reserving such bandwidth for defence in some geographies and putting it to commercial use elsewhere since the 2 x 40 MHz of 3G spectrum held by the armed forces is being used only in a few areas," says Cellular Operators Association of India, the lobby body representing GSM operators, in a letter to Prasad seen by ET. Failure to do so, it warns, "would be a national waste since defence usage of 3G spectrum is restricted to a fraction of the total geography and much of its 2100 MHz holdings is lying vacant and unused".
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NEW DELHI: Rural subscriber base for GSM telephony services grew marginally to 300.63 million users in May this year compared to the previous month, industry body COAI said today. The all-India GSM rural subscriber figures grew 1.1 per cent with the addition of 3.47 million new subscribers from a userbase of 297.16 million in April, according to the data released by Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI). The country's largest telecom operator Airtel added the highest number of subscribers in May at 1.43 million, taking its rural userbse to 96.18 million.
GSM Association asks government to include road map of 3G spectrum auctions in telecom policy
June 25, 2014
Kalyan Parbat , ET Bureau
KOLKATA: London-based global mobile operators' lobby group GSM Association has asked the new government at the Centre to include the road map for the next round of 3G spectrum auctions in its upcoming telecom policy for the first 100 days. "Additional spectrum to mobile operators in the 2100 MHz band is critical to ensure Indian citizens fully enjoy the benefits of 3G mobile services, considering that none of the operators has managed to obtain nationwide coverage in these frequencies," the GSMA has written to telecom secretary MF Farooqui in a letter, a copy of which has been seen by ET. Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had recently said that the BJP-led government's road map for the initial 100 days would include timelines for auction of airwaves in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.
Bharti Airtel, Uninor top GSM user additions in May: COAI
June 17, 2014
ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel added the largest number of GSM subscribers - 1.66 million - in May followed by Birla Group's Idea Cellular and UK-based Vodafone with 1.16 million and 0.98 million new users, respectively, GSM industry body COAI ( Cellular Operators Association of India ) said Tuesday. Of the total 22 telecom circles, UP (East) circle has shown a maximum growth of 2.01 per cent subscribers in net additions while Bihar and Gujarat circles added 1.36per cent and 1.17 per cent new users in May as compared to previous month.
GSM industry lobby asks telecom ministry to relax M&A norms
June 17, 2014
Muntazir Abbas & Gulveen Aulakh , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: GSM industry lobby Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has asked the telecom ministry to relax merger & acquisition norms to encourage consolidation in the sector, while rival CDMA lobby group Auspi has sought retrospective implementation of a scheme that could reduce fines from radiation norm violations . In a recent meeting with Union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad—which was attended by ...
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June 10, 2014
Kalyan Parbat , ET Bureau
SHANGHAI: China's telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE Corporation plans to launch six new smartphones this year and establish a world-class handset research and development centre in India, moves aimed at bolstering its handsets business that generates nearly a third of its revenues in the country. The phones, a mix of 3G and 4G devices, will be priced at Rs 7,000-Rs 18,000 and cater to different segments of the market, a top company executive told ET. The company, however, refused to divulge details of the potential investment in the handset R&D centre, which could be modelled along the lines of its Shanghai facility.
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June 9, 2014
Kalyan Parbat , ET Bureau
SHANGHAI: China's telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE Corporation plans to launch six new smartphones this year and establish a world-class handset research and development centre in India, moves aimed at bolstering its handsets business that generates nearly a third of its revenues in the country. The phones, a mix of 3G and 4G devices, will be priced at Rs 7,000-18,000 and cater to different segments of the market, a top company executive told ET. The company, however, refused to divulge details of the potential investment in the handset R&D centre, which could be modelled along the lines of its Shanghai facility.
CDMA players hope wi-fi to bring life back to dongles
June 4, 2014
Danish Khan , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: CDMA operators like Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices are betting on Wi-Fi enabled dongles and routers to revive the dongles market where they are otherwise losing the battle with the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and after GSM players cut 3G data rates. Analysts say CDMA companies need to get their acts together fast to capture a meaningful share of the fast-growing demand for data, and stave off competition with a new player, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm, set to enter the market with high-speed 4G services.
Bharti Airtel adds maximum rural subscribers in April: COAI
May 28, 2014
ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: India's GSM rural subscriber base grew 0.88% in April to 29.71 crore, with Bharti Airtel leading the way, industry body COAI said on Wednesday. During the month, mobile phone operators on the GSM technology added 25.8 lakh new subscribers in rural parts of the country, which is slightly slower than March, when it grew by 1.49%. No. 1 carrier Bharti Airtel, which has the maximum rural subscribers, added 9.9 lakh new users during the month, taking its overall base to 9.74 crore in the hinterland.
CDMA-GSM war of words escalates over 800 Mhz auctions
May 20, 2014
Kalyan Parbat , ET Bureau
KOLKATA: CDMA operators have fired a fresh salvo at their GSM rivals, accusing them of trying to stall the next 800 MHz airwaves sale, escalating a war of words between the two rival technology groups days before a new government assumes office. In a letter to telecom secretary M F Farooqui, the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (Auspi), the lobby body representing CDMA operators like Sistema Shyam Teleservices and dual tech operators such as Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices , has rubbished a recent GSM operators' demand for auction of contiguous, or continuous, spectrum in the 800 MHz band on grounds that it is available in 15 circles.
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