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Us Open Champion Graeme McDowell has denied Tiger Woods his only chance of a win this year.
Irishman McDowell came back from a four stroke deficit on the final day after Tiger had his first disastrous round at the Chevron World Challenge, Thousand Oaks, California, including a double bogey at the 13th.
McDowell forced a playoff after he carded five birdies in his final round. On the first playoff hole, the 18th he birdie putted to win the tournament.
"Playing one of the greatest golfers who has ever played and to beat him like this I'm just ecstatic," said McDowell, but he still believes Tiger will once again be a force to be reckoned with
"He used to appear invincible. Of course he has made himself appear more human in the last 12 months, but there's something a bit special about his golf game and I fully expect that mystique to return." He said
It is McDowell fourth win of a year, which also saw him playing a major part in the Ryder Cup when he secured the winning point for Europe
"2010 has been the stuff of dreams" he said
Paul Casey came in third place with a final round of 69 to finish on 12 under 272
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Up Market Permaculture
Geoff Lawton taking a break while filing Up Market Permaculture in Montecito, California.
Re-Greening a Mountain
Re-Greening a Mountain video trailer. See the full version on Geofflawton.com When Geoff Lawton says this is the best Permaculture demonstration site on the planet, then you have to stop and listen. "Where is it exactly?" I asked, as I've never heard of this place. I didn't know the Chinese were even into permaculture. "Kadoorie… Read more »
500 Days of Food Forest
500 days in the growth of a food forest 2015 Jan update Permaculture Organic The idea started from sheer curiosity. I had always wondered, how fast does the food forest grow? I really had no idea. What better way to satisfy my curiosity than start taking daily photographs and then morphing those many photographic stills… Read more »
Varieties, Additives and Sourcing: What's Happening with your food?
Photography by Ingrid Pullen Eating: one of the most simple and basic human activities. Yet as our food systems become increasingly more mechanised and complicated, this simple act begins to carry with it a whole spectrum of messages. When you lift that juicy apple to your lips, do you think about which chemicals were used… Read more »
From Monoculture to Permaculture
How one man transformed his farm from Monoculture to Permaculture. When Warren Brush bought a run down orchard near Ventura, California, he knew he was in for the ride of his life transforming it into a Permaculture farm. From an original monoculture persimmon, apple and avocado orchard, it's a risky challenge to turn all this… Read more »
Permaculture in Paradise
Trailer only – watch full video here 34 Years ago Dano Gorsich asked his old permaculture teacher, Bill Mollison, what he should do with his land on the island of Molokai in Hawaii? Bill explained how he should design his tropical house, how it should face to capture the sea breezes, the sun angles, slope… Read more »
Permaculture for Profit – the STUN System (Sheer Total Utter Neglect)
Trailer only – watch the full video here! Imagine you owned your own farm planted full of apple trees. You used no herbicides, no fungicides, no pesticides and no industrial fertilizers. Instead, the trees were treated with Sheer Total Utter Neglect, and still bore copious amount of fruit. Sounds crazy, right?
Miracle Farms on TV (Canada)
Duration 11 minutes. English subtitles available. This is a feature on Miracle Farms on a French Canadian TV show called La Semaine Verte.
Jungle of the Red Spirit
This stunning piece of cinematography gives us a close-up view of the type of rainforest complexity and biodiversity we can only hope to imitate as permaculturalists.
How Fractal Patterns Perpetuate Through a Tree, and Then a Forest
How the same fractal pattern found in a tree is perpetuated throughout its home forest. Fascinating information for permaculture design. From the documentary, Fractals – Hunting the Hidden Dimension.
Guerilla Gardening in Rural Panama
A gnome (the author) in the Communal Garden Make no mistake, the war is on. The commodity is food, the source needs to be sustainable, and the community needs to know about it. If you are already into permaculture, or just gaining an interest, then congratulations and welcome to the peace-loving yet active front lines…. Read more »


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Hasbro has no shortage of Darth Maul figures, and this one was particularly tough to get at first. As one of the "Masters of the Dark Side," the set was quite scarce-- single figures came out later, and now it's cheap enough for you to get easily. Should you? Read on!
Science fact: fans love Natalie Portman. So it's no surprise we eventually would get more toys of her, like this Padme Amidala in a black gown thing from 2007. She can't sit, but hey, she can stand! Find out if she's a must-have, and read on.
He's small and fishy. Robonino was one of those figures fans started asking for, subsequently got, and didn't really buy. His Target-exclusive gift set is still available nearly 9 months after its introduction, which is a shame, as it's a nice set that should sell through. Should you get one? Read on!
It's another Battle Droid! This one's from Battlefront II and has limited articulation. The deco and giant gun make up for this, more or less, so read on!
It's the Riot Control Clone Trooper! Part of the most recent wave of The Clone Wars figures, it's a good mix of new and old parts. Should you go buy two? Probably. Read on!
It's Darth Vader! Or it's Anakin Skywalker-- Hasbro changed the name early in the run, so you can buy it with either name on the packaging. Is it any good? You'll just have to read on!
It's a Clone Pilot! This is the one that comes with the brand-new Y-Wing Scout Bomber, and has more than a passing resemblance to Warthog. With ball-jointed hips and great helmet deco, it's a nice figure-- but is it worth buying with the vehicle? Read on!
A slightly different version! This is a slightly redecorated version of Obi-Wan Kenobi as a spirit, as released in 2007. Any good? Sure! Read on!
While his articulation wasn't perfect, Hasbro did design their first Revenge of the Sith Clone Pilot to be able to sit and fit inside pretty much all the vehicles-- so it's a good toy, but didn't meet the growing standards of collectors. I think it's great-- but will you? Read on!
Repainted about three times inside 2 years, this Anakin Skywalker was the last and arguably best take on the mold. With a swinging arm action and a clone buddy, he was a pretty nifty release-- but do you need him for your collection? Read on!
This Princess Leia figure has a poncho and a display stand with a coin. It's similar to the Speeder Bike version, but... not. It's good, though-- so read on!


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Local Sports 4/10/14 — Kyle Hunter Talks Pro Ball
The Galesburg Silver Streaks baseball team takes its 6-and-5 record on the road this afternoon to play at Pekin.
Former Silver Streak pitcher Kyle Hunter joined us today on the WGIL Morning News. Kyle is in Arizona, awaiting his assignment by the Seattle Mariners to start the new season, after missing the opening days due to a groin injury suffered in spring training.
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HEPAP Confronts Funding Crunch by Judy Jackson
Like a spring that can be stretched only so far and still bounce back, the U.S. High Energy Physics program has reached the limit of budget stretching before irrevocable changes threaten its capacity for world-leading science. That was the message that members of the Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel heard from speaker after speaker at HEPAP's spring meeting, held at Fermilab on March 9 and 10.
Paradoxically, at a time when long-straitened budgets for basic science in the United States are facing the best funding prospects in many years, the budgets for high-energy physics laboratories, already eroded by a decade of inflationary effects, took a downturn in the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2001. The situation is particularly troubling, DOE and laboratory officials told the panel, because both Fermilab and SLAC are poised to begin using brand-new, multimillion-dollar facilities to carry out physics experiments whose potential for discovery is unsurpassed in the world.
"We have a fifty million dollar problem," said DOE's John O'Fallon, director of the Division of High Energy Physics. "In FY2001, Fermilab has a $33 million problem and SLAC has a $15 million problem. Now, we have to fix it."
O'Fallon, Fermilab Director Michael Witherell and SLAC Director Jonathan Dorfan all showed HEPAP members the same graphic illustration of the course of high-energy physics funding over the past decade.
The chart, which appears at right, shows a $180 million decline in annual funding for operations and equipment for high-energy physics at DOE from 1990 until the present year, using current-year dollars and totals supplied by DOE's Division of High-Energy Physics. These are the funds required to utilize the investment in physics facilities. Fermilab's Witherell explained that the inflation index used to calculate yearly levels almost certainly underestimates the real inflation rate that high-tech organizations have typically faced in recent years. The "Operations and Equipment" line results from subtracting construction funds, including funding for the U.S. contribution to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, from the total. The low level of construction funding in the years 1990-1993 occurred because the construction funding for the Superconducting Super Collider laboratory, now terminated, is not included in the total.
Witherell listed the central questions confronting particle physics in the year 2000: the search for a Standard Model Higgs boson, the search for evidence of supersymmetry, the question of neutrino mass, the investigation of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the possibility of new and unexpected discoveries.
"The Fermilab program is addressing all of these important issues with experiments that are the best, or among the best, in the world." Witherell said. "The best chance for a discovery in the period 2001-2006 that would change the direction of particle physics is at Fermilab."
Witherell described six major construction projects now underway at the laboratory: the CDF and DZero upgrade projects for Collider Run II at the Tevatron; the NuMI/MINOS and MiniBooNE projects to study neutrino mass; the U.S./LHC accelerator effort, centered at Fermilab; and the U.S./CMS project, also based at Fermilab, to build the nation's contribution to the Compact Muon Solenoid, a major LHC particle detector. In addition, Witherell cited ongoing work on accelerator upgrades to increase the Tevatron's luminosity and Fermilab's continuing involvement in astrophysics experiments. He described critical R&D on accelerators for the future of particle physics.
"We need to protect the resources needed for this accelerator research," he said.
The Fermilab director reaffirmed the laboratory's commitment to begin Collider Run II at the Tevatron in March, 2001, and described the steps he has taken to ensure that the schedule will be met.
"It is clear to everybody that we are committed to meet the March 1, 2001 date," Witherell said. "In Run II, we will deliver as much integrated luminosity as possible, with the assumption that LHC experiments will begin publishing results in 2006. Run II will be the longest period of pure collider running in the history of Fermilab."
Witherell described progress on the NuMI/MINOS project, which will send a high-intensity beam of neutrinos from Fermilab's Main Injector to a particle detector in northern Minnesota to search for evidence of oscillation from one neutrino flavor to another. He said the neutrino experiment was "the most sensitive" to the impact of proposed FY2001 funding cuts, and that the resulting delay "would significantly reduce the impact of the experiments."
SLAC's Dorfan told panel members of the excellent performance of the laboratory's new B Factory and BaBar detector, whose current physics run began in mid-January, 2000, and will continue through August. He said SLAC has set an ambitious luminosity goal of 12 inverse femtobarns, to break new ground in the understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry known as CP violation.
"The B Factory is running very nicely," Dorfan said. "We'd like the machine to run like this all the time. The BaBar detector is running at over 90 percent efficiency."
Dorfan also shared the good news of NASA's announcement on February 25 that the space agency had selected the SLAC proposal for GLAST, the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope. The project is a joint DOE/NASA effort for a space-based detector, to be launched in 2005. It will use technology developed for high-energy physics experiments to explore the physics of gamma ray bursts and many other aspects of forefront cosmology and astrophysics.
Funding Crisis Ahead
"If we don't improve the budget for FY2001," he said, "something will be irrevocably reset in this field. You don't recover from something like this in a year. Congress funded the B Factory at SLAC and the Main Injector at Fermilab. They did their job. And we did our job: we built them on time and on budget. Now we are ready to use them. Congress doesn't want to throw that away."
Witherell gave a similar view from Fermilab.
"We have successfully completed accelerator upgrade projects that renewed our research program without a very large new accelerator facility," he said. "We are now trying to take advantage of the scientific opportunities made available by the new accelerator complexes, but the funding level is not sufficient to do that."
Between a 20 percent cut in the base budget for the laboratories since 1992 and a five-plus percent inflation rate, driven by rising salaries for valuable scientific and technical staff, the laboratories are in real trouble, Witherell said.
"The staffs are too thin to operate the facilities, build the experiments and prepare for the future. Scheduled projects are not getting the funding they need to stay on schedule. The funding at SLAC is bad. The budget at Fermilab is even worse, worse than at any time in memory," he said.
Witherell showed HEPAP members a table, shown above, comparing science funding across federal agencies from FY93 to FY00, using numbers from the FY2001 Budget Request.
"If you're looking for a policy, this is the level at which policy is being made," he said. However, he expressed measured optimism that the final FY2001 budget passed by Congress for high-energy physics would show some improvement and said that Fermilab would develop plans for "all budget scenarios."
"These are extraordinary circumstances," Gilman said. "Years of flat-flat [not inflation-adjusted] budgets have come home to roost just as we turn on the Main Injector and the B Factory." "Is there a way to look at the process to see where we have failed?" asked University of Chicago physicist Mel Schochet. As one way to address the overall funding challenge, DOE's Peter Rosen, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics, requested that HEPAP review the 1997 Gilman Subpanel "Report on the Future of High-Energy Physics" and provide updated interim guidance on the direction of the field. "Some think that the high-energy physics community has no clear idea where it's going," Rosen said. "We must formulate a national plan, with expenditures, timelines and road maps for the three proposed new facilities at the energy frontier and for the muon storage ring at the intensity frontier. This is an important step in developing an adequate budget." Rosen requested a brief white paper, complete by the fall meeting, outlining the steps to move ahead on the most realistic of the proposed new facilities and explaining how to unite the community in support of it. He said that time did not allow for a new full-scale HEPAP subpanel report before a planned national workshop on future options in 2001. Gilman agreed that HEPAP would prepare the white paper. Presentations on Fermilab science, the Large Hadron Collider, U.S. support for computing for LHC experiments, international science collaboration, and R&D for proposed future facilities reinforced the theme of outstanding science now underway or in prospect, with resources not adequate to achieve the benefits. Witherell's summary distilled the case for Fermilab, but he could have been speaking for all of high-energy physics. "We have great opportunities for discoveries ahead," he said. "We are exploring how to build the next generation of accelerators in an affordable way. But the FY2001 budget request would make it impossible to reap the physics reward of the Main Injector or build for the future. The FY2001 budget will set the course of Fermilab's future for many years to come." |
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Putin: A Banana Republic Ruler?
The most provocative article I've read on Russia in recent days is this Washington Post op-ed by the always interesting Ralph Peters, a military intelligence officer turned novelist and strategic analyst. I don't always agree with Peters, but I always find him worth reading. In this article, he takes the typically unconventional position that while Vladimir Putin may be a bad man but a great czar—a leader who, like Peter the Great, has managed to maximize the power, wealth and influence of his country.
Peters is deft, and accurate, in exposing how Putin rules not with a Stalinist reign of terror but by forging an implicit social contract that Russians are free to grumble about the government in private as long as they don't do anything to try to change it politically. Those who violate this unwritten rule are either killed or thrown in jail—and most Russians either ignore or applaud the punishment meted out to these "troublemakers." I suspect Peters is particularly on the money when he writes:
Christie's "No" is Boost for Romney
The speculation about Chris Christie seriously considering a run for the presidency may be about to end if today's reports about the New Jersey governor finally telling backers that he won't do so are true. Given his stated reluctance, the obstacles to a late entry into the race and the plain fact Christie is clearly unprepared for either the presidency or a national campaign, this can't be considered terribly surprising to anyone but those pundits and other kibitzers who have been relentlessly plugging this story.
But if Christie is finally going to put us all out of our misery about his desire to sit in the Oval Office, it does raise one very interesting question about the major donors and other Republican big shots who appear to have gone all out to try and change his mind. Once Christie finally removes his name from consideration, where do those who believed he could be their guy go now?
Administration Refights the Battle of Gilo
Those who believed the Obama administration's attitude toward Israel has changed for the better got a rude wakeup call today when Washington condemned the start of a housing project in Jerusalem. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed "disappointment" about the planned building of 1,100 homes in the Gilo section of the city. The Palestinian Authority also attacked the project as yet another "illegal settlement" built on Arab land.
While the administration's defenders will say the comments from Foggy Bottom are nothing more than standard American criticism of settlement policy, attacks on the right of Jews to live in Gilo have a significance that may presage the outbreak of violence.
Obama Fundraising Down this Quarter?
This might explain those passive-aggressive donor solicitation emails. The White House Dossier's Keith Koffler catches some news buried in the New York Times write-up on Obama's town hall yesterday. According to Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, the president is on track to pull in $55 million when the filing deadline ends Friday – which is $30 million less than he raised in the previous quarter:
President Obama will raise substantially less in the second quarter of his campaign than the first, according to the New York Times.
CAIR Official Denied Florida GOP Spot
The Broward County Republican Party blocked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida spokesperson Nezar Hamze from joining its executive board last night, a decision that some see as a sign of anti-Muslim discrimination, reports McClatchy:
Islam and Tea Party activism clashed at a raucous meeting Monday night when a group of Broward County Republicans blocked a Muslim activist as a member of the party's executive committee.
Erdogan Due for a Comeuppance
What to make of reports Turkey is riding high in the new Middle East? If opinion polls are to be believed, its Prime Mnister, Recep Tayyip Erodgan, is one of the most admired figures in the entire region—though obviously not in Israel. Neo-Ottomanism is the talk of the day. Is this cause for celebration or concern?
Some of each, I think. The causes for alarm are obvious to any supporter of Israel: Erdogan has trashed Turkey's long-standing alliance with the Jewish state. Using as his excuse the Israeli response to the Turkish-organized Gaza flotilla in 2010, he has launched one over-the-top anti-Israeli tirade after another. He has stopped just short of war by threatening to send the Turkish navy to escort another aid flotilla to Hamas-controlled Gaza. Any suggestion that Israel is
equally to blame for the deteroriation of relations is ridiculous; Israeli leaders have consistently made clear how much they value the Turkish alliance. But all their entreaties have been slapped away by Erdogan who has been using anti-Israeli rhetoric and action (just like Nasser, Khomeini, Qaddafi, and other infamous predecessors) to establish his standing in the Arab world.
More Global Warming Baloney: Atlas Erased Greenland's Glaciers
In an era when even the most outrageous claims about global warming are treated by the mainstream media as "established science," it was refreshing to read in the New York Times over the weekend that at least some climate scientists aren't ready to let false claims go unchallenged. Apparently, a number of researchers are complaining the most recent edition of Britain's Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World contains misleading information about alleged melting of Greenland's ice-capped shores.
A news release issued by the publishers and echoed in much of the media asserted that the atlas illustrates how Greenland has lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover. Maps in the atlas show significant portions of the large island's shores are ice-free. The only problem is, as scientists — who are not warming skeptics– point out, it isn't true.
Comic Religious Novels
Ever since this morning's post on Peter De Vries stumbled uncertainly across the internet, Patrick Kurp and I have been putting together an imaginary anthology of comic religious novels. Talk about a special subgenre of the American novel!
To stand alongside The Mackerel Plaza, Kurp suggested J. F. Powers's Wheat That Springeth Green. I countered with Wilfrid Sheed (see his novel The Hack, for example). Space might even be found for The Ecstasy of Owen Muir by Ring Lardner Jr. Kurp and I both agreed that we needed a Jew, but the only comic novel about the Jewish religion that either of us could think of is unavailable for exasperating reasons.
Most Jewish humor is irreligious. Writing in COMMENTARY, the late Irving Kristol speculated that Jewish humor became possible only when the Jewish people were thrust into modernity, and began to lose their faith. Taking as its "frame of reference the complex structure of ghetto society, ghetto life, and Jewish tradition," Kristol said, Jewish humor was born out of a "God-forsaken religiosity."
Kurp asked me why Protestants and Catholics, but not Jews, seem to be able to laugh at their religion (while affirming it) in such interesting ways. I didn't have an answer for that question either. It's just too close to Rosh Hashanah to feel in a laughing mood.
Update: John Podhoretz can't believe my ignorance. "What about Herbert Tarr's Heaven Help Us?" he asks. "Or Jeremy Leven's Satan? Or Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath (ok, not a novel)." Jonathan Featherstone recommends The Rabbi of Lud by my old teacher Stanley Elkin.
Or, it occurs to me, Robert Cohen's Here and Now, in which a self-described "half-Jew" is attracted to Judaism by his attraction to a Hasidic chick.
Cut Presidential Candidates Some Slack
I'm in some sympathy with those who want New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to enter the Republican presidential race, for the same reason I was hoping Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, and Paul Ryan would. We're facing a crucial moment, and a crucial election, in the life of our country, and we should want the pool of candidates to include the finest lawmakers and politicians the party has to offer. And then they could battle it out.
At the same time, there is a tendency among some commentators (myself included) to view those who have not entered the field as figures of extraordinary and enduring strength and skill. It often seems that way, right up to the moment when a candidate enters the race, at which point they immediately become diminished, flawed, and mortal. It's very nearly inevitable, since candidates for president face tremendous scrutiny. Every word they have publicly (and sometimes privately) uttered and every word they have publicly (and sometimes privately) written is placed under a microscope. Past associations, from pastors to siblings, are considered fair game. Those who emerge as front-runners immediately become the object of fierce attacks by other candidates. As a result, the people who looked so impressive when they were on the sidelines are pounded, poked, prodded, dented, and clubbed. That would happen to Governor Christie if he jumped in, just as it would have happened to Messrs. Bush, Daniels, and Ryan.
Koch Flips Again Backing Obama on Israel
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch hadn't been getting much attention prior to his decision to use the special election in New York's 9th congressional district to make a point about the Obama administration's policies toward Israel. Yet now that he's gotten a great deal of the credit for that Republican upset, Koch is doing the only thing he can to maximize his time in the spotlight: he'll be enthusiastically backing President Obama's re-election next year.
Politico reports after spending the summer demanding Jewish voters punish the Democrats for Obama's brutal treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and attempts to pressure the Jewish state into dangerous concessions, Koch has decided all is forgiven. But it remains to be seen whether Jewish opinion, which polls have shown is tilting decisively against the president, will follow Koch's lead.
Progressive Activist Begs for Tax Hikes
In case you missed this story from the LinkedIn town hall meeting yesterday, President Obama took a question from a former Google executive who begged the president to please raise his taxes. Here's the video from the Washington Examiner, and a synopsis from Yahoo News:
Former Google brand manager Doug Edwards became an instant media sensation when he joined billionaire investor Warren Buffett in calling for those who had done well in America to do more to help the struggling masses. …
"I am unemployed by choice." "My question is — would you please raise my taxes?" Edwards said.
Edwards later told reporters that he had never met Obama, but was invited to the town hall event by a friend who had links to the Democratic Party.
Labor's Resurgence and Kadima's Future
Recent polls had indicated if Shelly Yachimovich prevailed in the Israeli Labor party's internal leadership elections, the party would make a strong comeback. Yachimovich did, and the polls have held steady. Haaretz gleefully proclaims the "Shelly Yachimovich Effect." And it might be real.
The poll, however, doesn't contain any bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party. Netanyahu's popularity seems to have received a boost from his eloquent, tough speech to the United Nations General Assembly late last week. And Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party is due to continue gaining seats in the Knesset, as previous polls have shown. So who loses enough seats to allow Labor to triple its Knesset representation (and allow left-wing Meretz to gain a couple)? Tzipi Livni's Kadima:
Peter De Vries
Over the weekend a friend asked why Peter De Vries seems to have disappeared from America's literary consciousness. A good question. I didn't have an answer.
De Vries is one of the best comic novelists that America has ever produced, and comic novelists do poorly over the long run of literary history. Other than Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, and perhaps Dawn Powell, Americans have tended to discard their humorists after a generation. Josh Billings, Petroleum V. Nasby, Ambrose Bierce, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Will Cuppy, James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, Harry Golden, S. J. Perelman, H. Allen Smith, Leonard Q. Ross — these are names from a textbook, not living writers (except for a few hardened followers).
Like many of the comic writers who were well-known in their day, De Vries wrote for the New Yorker. Unlike many of them, though, he wrote novels. Lots of novels — 25 in all. "Every good novel," he said, "must have a beginning, a muddle, and an end." He thought of himself as a novelist, and so he kept writing and publishing novels, nearly to the end. (His last novel, Peckham's Marbles, appeared when he was 76. He died, 18 years ago tomorrow, at the age of 83.)
De Vries also wrote a special kind of humor, filled with puns and plays on words and inversions of popular clichés and famous sayings. His literary reputation, in fact, consists mainly these days in lists of humorous quotations (here, for example, and here and here). De Vries developed a taste for verbal humor while working on a community newspaper in Chicago after leaving school. "The result," he told an interviewer:
I truly enjoy local, homespun philosophers. Right on top of that I actually did write Pepigrams [e.g., "To turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones — pick up your feet"], for use as wall mottoes and such. I got two bucks a Pepigram, and they got stuck in my blood.
As funny as he is in his quotable throwaway lines, DeVries is not a standup comic in prose. His plots are twisting and ingenious, and he is even funnier in phrasing that twists and shapes a scene. Finding himself on a bus next to "some damn secretary-treasurer" of "something like an organization of madrigal buffs, or the Society for the Prevention of Deplorable Conditions," the narrator of Consenting Adults; or, The Duchess Will Be Furious (1980) starts in chafing her:
"Going far?" I said to the woman I'll call Mrs. Fondue, striking up a "conversation."
"Just to Allentown."
"That's a nice town. I once met somebody who lived there, and if he was typical of your element, it leaves nothing to be desired."
When she fails to catch his meaning, he begins to deliver an impromptu lecture about Albert Tinkham Ryder, the late 19th-century painter. He goes on and on about Ryder's personal eccentricities ("he slept huddled beneath piles of threadbare overcoats on a floor heaped a foot and a half to two feet high, authorities differ, with assorted filth") and the "mystic quality" of his paintings. "The woman now looked as though she was definitely going to bolt out of her seat and report me to the driver," the narrator comments. "He would make a citizen's arrest and hustle me to headquarters, where I would be lucky to get off with any charge less than aggravated erudition."
There was a sharpened edge to his humor, especially in his later work, that was not kindly. But De Vries was aware of what he was doing. In his anti-feminist novel Sauce for the Goose (1981), he explains:
Mrs. Dobbin had once read an article on humor in one of the magazines with smooth complexions, which analyzed satire by sorting its practitioners into two classes. Satirists were either soft-mouthed or hard-mouthed. They both brought their pray back dead, true, but some mangled it in purveyance while others did not. Retrievers — such as Frank had been hilariously imitating . . . — retrievers were soft-mouthed, so trained.
De Vries never mangled his prey, but it was sure to be dead when he brought it back. He began his career in the Forties, but did not find his rhythm until the mid-Fifties, when he began to write about suburban Connecticut. The Tunnel of Love was his fifth published book, but his first "mature" work. It is about a "third-rate artist in whom a first-rate gagman is trying to claw his way out." Baffled in his efforts to create "serious" art, he jumps on the carousel of extramarital affairs. "Affairs are like watermelons," the narrator remarks. "They leave more mess than they are worth." The story was filmed in 1958 with Richard Widmark and Doris Day in the starring roles and Gene Kelly in the director's chair.
The best of his early novels is The Mackerel Plaza (1958), the send-up of a liberal Protestant clergyman who occupies the pulpit of "the first split-level church in America." (De Vries himself was born into the Dutch Reformed Church, and saw himself as the last of America's Puritan writers — although he was a Puritan who could not keep a straight face.) De Vries's pastor is uncomfortable around some of his parishioners. As he says of one: "He had one characteristic that I always find it hard to cope with, piety." De Vries has great fun dismantling the pastor's liberal pretensions. And in doing so, he turns out one of the greatest religious novels — one of the few truly religious novels — ever written in America. It was quickly followed by The Tents of Wickedness (1959), a masterpiece of parody in which Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas (to say nothing of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Proust, Dreiser, Joyce, and Kafka) get what is coming to them.
Everything changed for De Vries in September 1960 when his youngest child Emily died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia just a few days before her 11th birthday. Two years later he transmuted tragedy into desperately funny sadness. The Blood of the Lamb is like nothing that De Vries — or anyone else, for that matter — had ever written before. It has been nicely described elsewhere by Ian Wolcott.* The novel marked a change of direction, a change of tone, for De Vries. (Reissued by the University of Chicago Press, it is one of only two De Vries novels to remain in print.) The later novels are much harder on their satirical targets, although De Vries never lost a sense of charity even toward those he found ridiculous.
Four decades after her last book, Dawn Powell was honored with a two-volume edition of her novels in the Library of America. The series that exists "to preserve the nation's cultural heritage by publishing America's best and most significant writing in authoritative editions" also now includes the sentimental mediocrity Kurt Vonnegut Jr., De Vries's younger contemporary and a far lesser comic writer. Surely, then, it is time to reprint Peter De Vries. He should not have to wait another two decades for enshrinement. I will gladly volunteer myself to edit a two-volume edition of De Vries's early novels (The Tunnel of Love, The Mackerel Plaza, The Tents of Wickedness) and later novels (The Blood of the Lamb, Mrs. Wallop, Sauce for the Goose). Anything to keep one of America's greatest comic novelists from being reduced to pearls of amusing quotations scattered across the internet.
* In an essay published in the National Review but not available online, Terry Teachout describes The Blood of the Lamb as a "furious tract about the impossibility of religious faith written by a man who wanted desperately to believe. It is also, in places, howlingly funny. This is, to put it mildly, a jolting combination of qualities. . . . [It] reads as though it had been pounded out in a frenzy of grief and rage by a comedian who, for all his horrific suffering, never lost his eye for the grotesqueries and incongruities of human existence."
Barack Obama, Democratic Wrecking Ball
Here's yet more good news for Democrats. National Journal reports:
One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters [Stanley Greenberg] released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today, painting an ominous picture for congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being dragged down by an unpopular president who would lose to both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
Obama's State of Mind
At a town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, President Obama said, "Things have gotten so ideologically driven and everybody is so focused on the next election and putting party ahead of country that we're not able to solve our problems."
This formulation is priceless, if only because in a single sentence Obama is advancing three falsehoods, which may be a new indoor record.
No, Utilitarians Are Not Nice
The Economist reports two researchers from Columbia and Cornell have been studying the personalities of individuals who, in surveys, express a willingness to personally kill one human in the hope of saving more. Their conclusion is there is "a strong link between utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas . . . and personalities that were psychopathic." The Economist's conclusion, in its usual slightly tongue-in-cheek style, is utilitarianism is a "plausible framework" for producing legislation, and the best legislators are therefore psychopathic misanthropes.
But we don't need Ivy League researchers to conclude utilitarianism is a morally flawed framework for life as well as legislation. In her classic 1987 collection of essays on Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians, Gertrude Himmelfarb explored "Bentham's Utopia," or the scheme for "pauper management" the founder of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, set forward in 1798. The plan, in brief, was for all of England's paupers to be housed in purpose-built facilities, specified by Bentham in elaborate detail, and run on a strongly coercive basis, with all paupers held to work until they had paid off their accounts.
A SCOTUS Obamacare Decision?
The Obama administration has decided against asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc hearing, after a three-judge panel of the court struck down the president's health care individual mandate last month. Since other courts have ruled in favor of the administration, the case will now likely be appealed before the Supreme Court, reports Phil Klein:
And moments ago, the Obama administration's Department of Justice confirmed to the Examiner that it would not ask for the appeals court to hear the case en banc, or with all judges on the court present. Such a move was unlikely to change the ultimate outcome, but some speculated that the Obama administration may want to delay the case as long as possible so that it isn't decided by the highest court during the 2012 election. …
Netanyahu's "Incompetent" Diplomacy Scores a Diplomatic Coup
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often accused of diplomatic incompetence. And if you think the goal of diplomacy is to be loved, it's hard to dispute this: Netanyahu is loathed by leaders worldwide.
But if you think the goal of diplomacy is to get other countries to adopt your country's positions, then Netanyahu has had some surprising successes recently.
The Pundit-Public Disconnect on Perry
Commentators have been pretty harsh on Rick Perry this week, though he deserves most of the flak after his three consecutive sub-par debate performances. But according to the latest CNN poll, the candidate actually hasn't lost much ground with GOP voters. While he's dropped a couple of points and Romney's gained a couple of points, in the end the Texan is maintaining a comfortable lead:
According to the survey, which was released Monday, 28 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they support Perry as their party's presidential nominee, with Romney at 21 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is at ten percent, with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who's making his third bid for the White House, former Godfather's Pizza CEO and radio talk show host Herman Cain, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, all at seven percent. The poll indicates that Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is at four percent, with former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania at three percent and former Utah Gov. and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman at one percent. …
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Although opinions differ over the timing of the first claims that the development of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) were driving a 'revolution' that would propel societies worldwide into an information age what is clear is that these assertions have now been an ever more prominent feature of academic, political, journalistic and practitioner discourse for approaching two decades. This techno-optimist view – which basically sees technology as politically neutral and, more often than not, historically inevitable (and is therefore highly determinist) – allied with claims for a fundamental shift in economic and social relations, from terrestrial structures and communities of geography, to virtual networks and the 'space of flows', has proved symbolically and ideologically crucial to the dimension of the 'revolution' I focus on in this paper: e-government. In short, my objective is an analysis of where the current cultural and structural forms of e-government have come from.
Why is this important? Because e-government is an excellent example of the '…multitude of prefixes such as 'new', 'cyber', 'e' and 'virtual' that were [are] employed to distinguish the emerging novel economic, social and organisational forms from those deemed stuck in the obsolete past and thus condemned to the dustbin of history. (Knights et al 2007: 748). As Joseph argues, the overstatement of the theories of the information society/network society/economy of signs and spaces that underpin these forms creates the '…paradox of a theory being at once misleading and yet socially influential.' (Joseph 2008: 1). Thus a further objective of this paper is to illustrate the relevance of Joseph's argument to e-government, and government for the information age more generally.
E-government is defined as consisting of two sets of interrelated and interdependent cultural and structural properties. First, those that relate to the use of ICTs (primarily the Internet) to provide the medium through which interactions between states and citizens take place. Second, those that relate to the use of ICTs for intra and inter organisational change that it is argued (by the advocates of e-government) are necessary to the efficient, effective, and economic 'deliver' of the first form of e-government.
This paper identifies and discusses the properties of the cultural system (i.e. ideas, theories, beliefs, explanations, opinions, and so on) that it is suggested have acted, and continue to act, as mediatory mechanisms which condition and shape the development and application of particular forms of technology intensive government and public services and their reproduction globally. The starting point for this analysis is the largely technical literature of the 1960s and 70s that deals with the technologies that underpinned the development of the Internet and then broaden out to material relating to the Internet in general. The sections that follow then deal with the emergence of 'government for the information age' specifically, both in the USA and Europe, and the relationship between these and other structural and cultural phenomenon of government and public services. The closing sections of the paper focus on e-government in the UK specifically, before expanding out to briefly examine the globalisation of e-government.
The paper concludes by arguing that the cultural significance of the information age and network society paradigms has primarily been to provide what Archer (1995) refers to as the 'concomitant complementarities' necessary for the emergence and subsequent domination of neo-liberalism and the structures necessary to this political and economic project. Furthermore, and crucially, by emphasising the (claimed) inevitability of both the technological and social dimensions of the information age any attempt to question these ideas and the entities that emerge from them can be, and routinely are, dismissed as anti-progressive or plain Luddite.
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Keywords: | internet, e-government, e-democracy, information age/society, transformation |
Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing & Communications |
Item ID: | 11077 |
Depositing User: | Ivan Horrocks |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2008 08:52 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 20:09 |
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COLUMBIA — The city has plans for a 20-year contract to purchase wind energy from Iowa that would account for about 6 percent of its total electricity.
Ryan Williams, assistant director of Columbia Water and Light, said city representatives hope to finalize the details of the contract Tuesday in a meeting with NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida Power & Light Company, which owns the wind farm.
The purchase would give Columbia the rights to the output from 14 wind turbines in Winnebago County, Iowa, at a fixed price for an estimated 78,291 megawatt hours per year. The city's total electric system in 2010 was 1,185,352 megawatt hours.
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Water and Light Advisory Board member Tom O'Connor said federal incentives have made wind energy more affordable.
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The city solicited proposals for wind energy after noticing the favorable market conditions for the renewable resource. A 2004 voter-passed ordinance mandates that the city pursue renewable resources and expand its renewable energy portfolio by 5 percent every five years.
The city already gets wind energy from Bluegrass Ridge Wind Farm in northwest Missouri at $65.95 per megawatt hour. That wind energy accounts for 1.5 percent of the city's electricity.
Renewables account for slightly more than 5 percent of Columbia's total energy production this year, Williams said. He said he hopes the wind energy purchase could raise the city to near 10 percent before 2013, the next benchmark in the ordinance.
MU has expressed interest in up to half of the wind energy in the contract, but negotiations have yet to begin, Williams said.
The Water and Light memo states that the contract was scheduled for presentation at Monday's City Council meeting, but Williams said the purchase will not be complete by then.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that its flagship Panda Internet Security 2010 solution has been awarded the top spot by prestigious German testing laboratory AV-Test.org in its Q2 Product Review and Certification Report (http://av-test.org/). Panda's award-winning anti-virus solution also received AV-Test certification after surpassing all protection, cleaning and usability tests, as well as those designed to test the solutions' ability to repair computers infected with malware.
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The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Broadcast Schedule – Summer 2008
Sonata for Oboe & Piano (1962)
Allan Vogel, oboe; Marc Neikrug, piano
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825)
Pinchas Zukerman, Viviane Hagner, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Amanda Forsyth, cello; Miró String Quartet: Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violins; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello
Sextet in B flat for Piano and Winds, Op. 6
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Julie Landsman, French horn; Jon Nakamatsu, piano
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy
Suite Italienne from Pulcinella
Lynn Harrell, cello; Yuja Wang, piano
Mi palpita il cor
Courtenay Budd, soprano; Allan Vogel, oboe; Lynn Harrell, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano
Trio Sonata No. 4 in G Minor for Two Oboes, Bassoon & Continuo
Liang Wang and Margaret Butler, oboes; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord, Marji Danilow, Bass
Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus and Euridice
Yuja Wang, piano
Piano Trio no.1, d minor
Soovin Kim, violin; david Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
Ma mere l'Oye, Four Hands
Marc Neikrug, piano; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano
Frankenstein!!, a pan-demonium for chansonnier & ensemble
HK Gruber, chansonnier; Bart Feller, piccolo; Todd Levy, clarinet; Bill Barnewitz, horn; Stefanie Przybylska, bassoon; Charley Lea trumpet; David Tolen percussion; Giora Schmidt, LP How, violin; Carla-Maria Rodrigues, viola; Zuill Bailey, cello; Marji Danilow, doublebass; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor.
Milan Turkevic, bassoon; Miró String Quartet (Daniel Ching, Sandy Yamamoto, violins; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello).
Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano & Winds, Op. 16
Liang Wang oboe; Ricardo Morales clarinet; Julie Landsman, french horn; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Pinchas Zukerman, Vivianne Hagner, Daniel Ching, L.P. How, Sandy Yamamoto, Amaury Coeytaux, violin; John Largess, Lily Francis, viola; Joshua Gindele, Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Marji Danilow, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Concerto for Two Oboes in D Minor, Opus 42, No.2
Liang Wang and Margaret Butler, oboes; Daniel Ching, L.P. How, Sandy Yamamoto,& Amaury Coeytaux, violins; John Largess, & Lily Francis, violas; Joshua Gindele & Nicholas Canellakis, celli; Marji Danilow, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Syrinx for Solo Flute
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
An Idyll for the Misbegotten for amplified flute & percussion
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Gregg Koyle, David Tolen, Jeffrey Cornelius, percussion
Piano Trio in C-minor #2
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio: Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; and Sharon Robinson, cello
Alma MAHLER
Songs: Licht in der Nacht - Light in the Night (text by Otto Julius Bierbaum; Die stille stadt - The Quiet Town (text by Richard Dehmel;) Laue Sommernacht - In Summer's Warm Night Sky (text by Gustav Falke;) Bei dir ist es traut - With You I Feel Secure (text by Rainer Maria Rilke;) and Ich wandle unter Blumen - I Wander Among the Flowers (text by Heinrich Heine) Susanne Mentzer, Mezzo-Soprano, Craig Rutenberg, Piano
Divertimento No. 17 in D Major, KV 334
Giora Schmidt, violin; L.P. How, violin; Carla-Maria Rodrigues, viola; Zuill Bailey, cello; Marji Danilow, double bass; Julie Landsman, horn; William Barnewitz, horn
Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; L.P. How, Kathleen Brauer, violin; Kirsten Johnson, viola; Mark Brandfonbrener, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord; Marji Danilow, double bass
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 "Rasumovsky"
Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy
Fantasia in F Minor for Oboe & Organ
Allan Vogel, oboe; David Schrader, organ
Quartet for the End of Time
Soovin Kim, violin; Todd Levy, clarinet; Peter Stumpf, cello; Yuja Wang, piano
Etude #10 Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Yuja Wang
Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, K. 498 "Kegelstatt"
Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Kirsten Johnson, viola; Jeremy Denk, piano
Carnival of the Animals
John Rubinstein, narrator; Bart Feller, flute; Todd Levy, clarinet; Johannes String Quartet; Marji Danilow; John O'Conor, Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Gregg Koyle, David Tolen, percussion; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Clara SCHUMANN
Songs: Warum willst du and're fragen, op. 12 no. 3; Sie liebten sich beide, op. 13 no. 2a; Ihr Bildnis, op. 13 no. 1
Susanne Mentzer, Mezzo-Soprano, Craig Rutenberg, Piano
Piano Quartet no.1, g minor, op 25
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Leon Fleisher, piano
Requiem, Op. 66
Peter Wiley, Eric Kim, Joshua Gindele, cello; Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Trio in a minor, op. 50 for piano, violin, and cello ("In memory of a Great Artist")
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello; Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Welcome to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Radio Series
Since its beginning in 1972, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has been dedicated to presenting popular and lesser-known classical repertoire, as well as new works by contemporary composers. The Festival presents over 80 events during its annual summer season, including adult and youth education and outreach presentations, free open rehearsals, concert previews and roundtable discussions with composers and musicians, and of course, those absolutely fantastic performances on a daily basis. The Festival's goal always has been to provide listeners with the finest music of the ages performed by world-class musical artists in the timeless beauty of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Season 3 of the weekly radio series contains performances from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 2007 season (superbly recorded by Grammy-winning engineer, Mathew Snyder) as well as a few concerts from the Festival's archives.
Kerry Frumkin hosts the series, and for the most part, each broadcast contains commentary from Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug, and some of the musicians, too. Sadly, we just can't fit all that good stuff in there so this is where the conversation continues, so to speak... Scroll on down to listen to artists' comments about the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the music they play here. And please come back often, because we'll be adding more things as the series continues.
Louise Frank
Series Producer
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Rising at Dawn: Chamber Music with Brass by Carson Cooman (Katarzyna Sadej, mezzo-soprano; Chris Gekker, trumpet and flugelhorn; Rebecca Smith, harp; Mark Nelson, tuba; Marie Sierra, piano; Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - Metier Records (Catalogue #MSV 28538) – 2013 Check back for online purchase locations! |
The Welcome News: Choral Music of Carson Cooman (Cambridge Consonance; Jeffrey Grossman, conductor) - Gothic Records (Catalogue #G-49280) – 2012 Select an online location for purchase: |
Songs of Lightness and Angels (Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Margaret Kampmeier, piano; Jonathan Goodman, tenor; Daniel Grabois, horn; Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord) - Albany Records (Catalogue #TROY1353-54) – 2012 Select an online location for purchase: |
Cooman: A Trip to the Sky (Slovak Chamber Soloists; Members of the Zwiebel Quartet; Sarah Darling, viola; Nora Skuta, piano; Jeffrey Grossman, piano; Carson Cooman, piano) - MSR Classics (Catalogue #MS1387) – 2011 Select an online location for purchase: |
Keith Barnard: Nocturne / The Ascended Healing Rays of the Cosmic Light / The Palace of Hsi Wang Mu (Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - Metier Records - 1 Jan. 2010 Select an online location for purchase: |
Carson Cooman: Nantucket Dreaming (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Bohuslav Martin? Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, conductor;
Chris Gekker, trumpet/flugelhorn; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Jeffrey Grossman, piano;
Roman Mesina, bassoon and the Zwiebel Quartet) - Naxos Records – 2010 Select an online location for purchase: | |
Leland Smith: Piano and Chamber Music (Sarah Darling, viola and violin, and Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - Naxos Records – 15 Dec. 2008 Read reviews of this CD on my press quotes page. Select an online location for purchase: |
New Dawn: Song Cycles and Piano Music of Carson Cooman (Amanda Forsythe, soprano, and Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - Albany Records - 1 Oct. 2008 Read reviews on my press quotes page. Select an online location for purchase: |
There and Back (Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - October 2006 This disk explores connections among diverse styles of keyboard music from all eras, including music by fourteen composers from four continents and four centuries—-music ranging from Joseph Haydn to a jazz spiritual arranged by Joe Utterback! |
Reunion / Retrouvailles (Jeffrey Grossman, piano) - March 2007 [Click here for a PDF of the CD case.] An eclectic mix of composers from Elliott Carter to W. A. Mozart to Charles Wuorinen. The disc features several premiere recordings. Unlike most solo CDs, the disc does not attempt to present a common group of works of a single composer or period, but instead mixes all types of pieces together in what can be thought of as a meeting ("reunion") of composers who could never have actually mingled together. The word retrouvailles refers to a particular type of reunion, that intense reawakening of feelings (platonic or otherwise) that comes when you are with someone again. (Thanks to renowned coach Mary Dibbern for her thoughts on this.) Apart from referring to the title of Elliott Carter's piano work on the disc, Jeff finds this word particularly evocative of the disc's idealogy. |


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