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About the book: the contributors to this volume adopt a socio-cultural approach to understanding collaborative creativity across a wide range of domains such as music composition, business, school-based creative writing and art, fashion design, theatre production and web-based academic collaborations. Central to the socio-cultural approach to creativity is the recognition that it is a fundamentally social process. It thus follows that, if we are to understand and characterise human creativity, we need to examine the cultural, institutional and interpersonal contexts that support and sustain such activity. We also need to understand how cultural tools and technologies resource collaborative creativity. The volume offers a distinctive and valuable contribution to this growing field of scholarship by presenting new empirical findings, reviews and critiques of existing literature together with suggestions for how this field should develop.
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All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab
Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp. 1230-1235 (2006)
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We propose an optical flip-flop circuit composed of two-port resonant-tunneling filters based on a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab with a triangular air-hole lattice. This circuit can function as an optical digital circuit that synchronizes input data with a clock. In this report, we demonstrate that this circuit can achieve a fast operating speed with a response time of about 10 ps and a low operating power of 60 mW by employing a two-dimensional FDTD calculation.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(230.7370) Optical devices : Waveguides
(250.5300) Optoelectronics : Photonic integrated circuits
ToC Category:
Optical Devices
Original Manuscript: November 30, 2005
Revised Manuscript: January 26, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: January 30, 2006
Published: February 6, 2006
Akihiko Shinya, Satoshi Mitsugi, Takasumi Tanabe, Masaya Notomi, Itaru Yokohama, Hidehiko Takara, and Satoki Kawanishi, "All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab," Opt. Express 14, 1230-1235 (2006)
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August 13 is Raksha Bandhan. Make it a special occasion by making your own rakhee.
Gaurav, host of Disney Channel's Art Attack, shares some simple and easy ways to make a Rakhsa Bandhan.
Here is what you will need to make your rakhee very special:
Material required:
A silk thread reel (colour of
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Scissors; Glue; Small artificial
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Step 1 Take about 25 inches long thread strands of in a bunch, as shown in the image. You can also take threads in different vibrant colours to make the Rakhee look more attractive and bright.
Step 2 Take the bunch of thread in a loop, as shown in the image, and tie a tight knot with a cotton thread (preferable of the same colour) on the one-fourth part of the silken thread bunch. The rounded part will be made into a rakhee while the three-fourth will be the string to tie around the wrist.
Step 3 With the help of an adult, cut the thread in the loop. Make sure the heads of the silk threads of the one-fourth part of the bunch do not remain in loops.
Step 4 Once they are cut properly and not in the loop anymore, with the help of an old toothbrush rub hard on these threads and brush them with strong strokes by holding tight on the knot. Continue doing this till the ends become soft and fluffy, this will help make the rakhee look nice and big.
Step 5 Now we have to make the strings of the rakhee, to do this we have to divide the loose ends equally into two parts. Make plaits out of the ends on each part, as shown. This will make it easier to tie the rakhee on your brother's hand.
Step 6 Once this is done decorate it with beads or sequins. You can also ask an adult to cut colourful sponge into various shapes and stick them on the rakhee with glue. Similarly colourful threads can also be used creatively and stuck on the rakhee.
For cool arts and crafts by Gaurav, tune in to Disney Channel's Art Attack every Sunday at 11 am.
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, into a large and distinguished family of professional musicians. His father, named Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a violinist and trumpeter, employed by the city of Eisenach. His uncles were church organists, court musicians and composers. His mother and father died ...
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December 19, 2008
Cinema Treasures is site of the day
Today, Entertainment Weekly named Cinema Treasures the site of the day. Definitely a great endorsement.
August 8, 2008
Cinema Treasures is site of the week
Cinema Treasures is the site of the week on the AMCTV Blog, Future of Classic.
Whether you're looking for the best place to see The Dark Knight or trying to find out what happened to the Roxy in New York, Cinema Treasures can help. Film historian Ross Melnick and web designer Patrick Crowley started the site in 2000 to help save classical movie theaters, but it's really a celebration of moviegoing — past, present and future. "We learned that you can't classify anyone's theater as not important," says Melnick. Though many cinema lovers are preservationists, "People forge this weird bond with their theater no matter what it looks like or how historic it is," adds Crowley.
Check out the nice write up at the link above.
July 2, 2008
New Comment Policy
We're rolling out a new comment policy today.
Because our community continues to grow by leaps and bounds, it's now a good time to remind folks about the basic rules of posting comments here.
Many of these rules were actually created long ago. But, by posting our policy in public, we hope to cut down on any confusion about what is and is not acceptable.
Please take a moment to read the policy before making any additional comments. And, if you have a question about anything, please check out our frequently asked questions.
As always, with your help, Cinema Treasures will remain a great community!
Patrick Crowley and Ross Melnick -
March 3, 2008
Cinema Treasures reaches 20,000 theaters!
All of us at Cinema Treasures are excited to announce that we have just added our 20,000th theater! There are now detailed listings from over 115 countries.
Thank you to all of our wonderful, dedicated users. And, of course, without Bryan Krefft and Ken Roe, this milestone would never have been possible.
There are many wonderful things in store for Cinema Treasures in the coming months and we look forward to bringing them to you as soon as we can. In the meantime, please accept our heartiest thanks and appreciation for all of your support over the past seven years.
There's much more excitement to come in 2008.
Warmest Regards,
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February 14, 2008
Yesterday's outage
Our apologies to anyone who was unable to use Cinema Treasures yesterday.
We suffered a large power outage at our data center, and it took almost eight hours for all of the servers to come back online.
Power outages are rare in the hosting business, but they do happen. Thanks for your patience.
February 11, 2008
New Theater Editing Policy
In order to improve the consistency and quality of Cinema Treasures, we have crafted a new editing policy for the site.
If you're submitting new theaters or adding information to existing theaters, you should definitely take a moment to read the policy. And your suggestions are welcome, too. Please post any comments, questions, or suggested additions to this thread.
It is worth noting, of course, that we will do our best to retroactively edit our nearly 20,000 listings, but this will be a long process.
Thank you,
Cinema Treasures
January 22, 2008
Milan cinemas added to Cinema Treasures
There were NO Milan cinemas on Cinema Treasures, so recently (12-30), I added 17. Most interesting:
MANZONI, with links to photos of amazing 1950 lobby and auditorium, but sadly closed.
PRESIDENT with a sleek Moderne style lobby.Others:
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December 14, 2007
Many Brussels Cinemas added to Cinema Treasures
Earlier this month, I found only 15 Belgium cinemas on this website, of which 7 were in Brussels. So, I added 13 Brussels cinemas, many still open as arthouses near the Grand Place. Ken Roe added 9, historic, but almost all closed, cinemas from his 1995 visit. Ken added the PLAZA (1928 Spanish Baroque) with its linked photos showing it as a gorgeous hotel banquet hall, which I visited. I added the MOVY-CLUB (1934 blend of Art Deco & modernism, still single screen cinema) and discovered a 1950's Atomium era cinema, AUDITORIUM SHELL, long closed and functioning as an auditorium, has been reopened for movies while the building housing the MUSEE DE CINEMA is refurbished.
November 27, 2007
Madrid's Central Cinemas added to CinemaTreasures.org, but sadly closing
When I first visited in 1994, Madrid seemed to be the last city to have so many historic cinemas with daily movies on its main street, the Gran Via. Hand painted billboard sized movie posters proclaimed the features. Ushers wearing jackets and ties showed you to your reserved seat. A curtain opened and closed, for commercials, for trailers, and finally for the feature. Many had one or two balconies. Full houses greeted Hollywood blockbusters, dubbed into Spanish. I eagerly experienced movies in almost all of them. By the end of the 1990's, multiplexes were luring customers away and the historic cinemas began to close.
Cinematreasures.org listed only two of the historic cinemas on Madrid's Gran Via: theAvenida de la Musica huge & gorgeous, but may close to be a retail mall; and the Capitol, with its stunning Art Deco exterior and auditorium.
November 16, 2007
What are the ten most endangered theaters?
As this year draws to a close, Cinema Treasures is putting together a list of the ten most endangered theaters.
The purpose of this list is to publicize the plight of theaters at risk, alert local and national media, and keep our focus on saving these theaters before it's too late.
We've taken a first stab at the list, but we really want to get your feedback before making it official.
- [National Theatre](/theaters/799/) (Los Angeles, CA)
- [Boyd Theatre](/theaters/1209/) (Philadelphia, PA)
- [Wayne Theatre](/theaters/1650/) (Wayne, MI)
- [Port Theatre](/theaters/3114/) (Corona Del Mar, CA)
- [Isle Theatre](/theaters/20496/) (Cumberland, WI)
- [Uptown Theatre](/theaters/69/) (Chicago, IL)
- [Trylon Theater](/theaters/1941/) (Rego Park, Queens, NY)
- [NuWilshire](/theaters/1139/) (Santa Monica, CA)
If you'd like to nominate another theater, please add your theater in the comments below. Please make sure to include the theater's full name, location, theater page link (if available), and why the theater is endangered.
This is an invaluable opportunity for everyone to make their voices heard and help us shape this important list of the most endangered Cinema Treasures in America.
(We're also working on a separate list of theaters in the United Kingdom that will be published next Friday. Additional lists from Canada, France, China, etc. are welcome too.)


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There is something about a 2 game series I don't like. It just doesn't feel right, 4 games often seems too long while 3 games seems just right. Maybe it is just because the vast majority of the season is made up of 3 game series that I am just used to that.
Regardless I think that this 2 games series is even more annoying because the opponent is the Padres. I still have trouble seeing them on the schedule after all the crazy stuff that happened against them last season, they played Giants style baseball and it sucked to beat at your own teams game.
The one thing that at least last season I had to fall back on was that the Giants had the superior offense now that isn't even true. The Padres offense has been superior to the Giants by just about every measure, they have a better batting average, a better on base percentage, a better slugging percentage, more runs scored all while playing baseball in a pitcher's paradise.
It's depressing and to make matters even worse their offense is hot right now. In the month of August they are averaging over 5.6 runs per game. This is the freaking Padres and they have the second best offense in all of Major League Baseball for this month. Geez the Giants just can't catch a break.
The odds are not good considering that the Giants have their top 2 pitchers going and at this point I would feel pretty grateful to get a split anything more would be gravy.
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Game 2 | 51% | 49% |
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Perfect 10 | 21 | 40.38% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 19 | 36.54% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 9 | 17.31% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 2 | 3.85% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.92% | |
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One-Eyed Dragon
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Location: NJ, USA
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Interesting how Haqua who was the best in school is actually horrible at the real thing. I guess it's normal for her to be embarrassed about it. I can see why she lied to Elsie, but she didn't have to be men about. I wonder how she became section chief in the firs place.
Keima was good at figuring her out quickly. Didn't expect him to help her out though. I guess that information was helpful. At lest we know one thing Haqua is better at ad its using her raiment, that was a nice move being able to see into the past. Elsie was just adorable being so nice to Haqua. I can see she really looks up to her. Enjoyed her getting distracted by the fire trucks. I wonder if they'll team up now to take out the loose soul.
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alberta, Canada
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I forgot how much Hakua was so egotistical of herself when it came to Elsie, thanks to Keima though, those barriers are coming down. He's doing a capture without even really trying. =p
And they managed to get some plot out this episode too with the Old Hell/New Hell issue and why runaway spirits only choose to hide in girls. I do wonder if the series will ever get enough seasons to get to the point where this is expanded on. Also, with all of the shots of Hakua's legs, it's probably the first real time I noticed she wears high-heels.
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Tsundere! Only Kami could have figured this. Nice episode, while nothing really happened. Haqua seems successfully translated to the anime medium. She even got sexier. It's strange she got a neckline. In most of anime adaptation, the sexyness is toned down ( Hilda in Beelzebub). Well, she sure has long legs. And her gothic outfit (despite in SD) was nice too. Also the director knows how to put her in "perspectives", without falling in ecchi shots. The good news is this arc will only last 2 episodes. Which is the fine pacing IMO. With this, TWGOK finally enters in its main dish, while still away from the dessert.
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I dislike it because it betrayed the soul of the original manga. The manga is playful and lighthearted, while in the anime the atmosphere is too serious. They eliminated almost completely the superdeformed style and made poorly many funny moments. For example, where is Keima under the blanket, who says "it was too easy", after he had explained all his theory about the runaway spirits? Every time I'm waiting to see cute things like this, and every time I find out that they have disregarded them. Kami nomi is a very humoristic manga, but the anime takes itself too seriously...
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This episode provided us a little bit of backstory of old hell and new hell and somemore information regarding the souls hiding within girls.
It also reminded me how I used to dislike that personality of Haqua acting high and mighty though it was cute to see Keima breaking down that personality. That baseball scene was.. too long.. wish they could've use it for more chibi humors.. And lastly, only Keima could've thought of the Earth being tsundere, eh? Quote:
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Nice, this anime keeps getting better and better.
Wow, I thought Keima was just smart but after watching this episode he seems to have super genius intelligence. What waste that he's just spends his life away playing games. I look forward to see what this new seasons brings.
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Yes, that scene was just perfection of comedy in terms of execution .
The episode was plenty enjoyable with the dynamic going between Haqua, Keima, and Elsie. While it was interesting to see more on the hell and demon side of things to have it explained better.
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Be an Australia v Holland final won't it in the mens.
GB for bronze possibly.
WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
"People make me happy.. not places.. people"
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson
"Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself" - Tony Benn
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
GB through to the semis courtesy of a 1-1 draw with Spain.
Meanwhile, we're up 4-2 at halftime against Germany. Frustrating that it's taken us until our last game to play the way we can, though it could be argued that Germany aren't particularly fussed seeing as they've already qualified.
And we bomb a 5-2 lead to draw 5-5. FFS. Last German goal was bs though, was clear obstruction on our defender. But even then we had a simple chance to snatch it at the end, but missed twice.
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Code:47.3 W Coppinger to Heads Smacked the ball straight into the groin of Iwuajoku who has fallen over, miraculously with the ball still caught in his scrotal area! Out!
NZ up 2-1! Hope they can hold strong now for these last 20 mins.
2-2. Come on, NZ.
Whoa! Glynn back on the pitch - she had a pretty horrible head injury only about 20 min ago. Amazing to see her come back on.
Was a rubbish decision on the Dutch equaliser - their attacker took an air swing, therefore it's dangerous play.
Come on NZ!!
Penalty corner!! Come on, put it in.
Extra time then. Our PCs have been poor today (except the first one, obviously), haven't looked particularly dangerous from them.
Please win.
Brilliant defence - thought we were stuffed when Flynn got yellow carded. Down to penalties now, and it's the new format of dribbling from the 25. Have to back the Dutch here unfortunately, their skills are superb.
Noooooooo. Was always on the cards sadly, Dutch had a huge advantage there, for a start they play those penalties in the Euro League so they've had practice at it.
Michelsen was the only one of ours I was confident about tbh, she has amazing skills. Would have backed Sharland too, but unfortunately she made a meal of it.
Dutch the better team, but still feel a bit robbed - their second goal was horse****.
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Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, doyen of the Mewati Gharana of Hindustani music Pandit Jasraj said the four-day event will start with performances by Sabir Khan (sarangi) and Vidushi Sudha Ragunathan (Carnatic vocal). Apart from Niladri Kumar (sitar), Friday will have a performance by Sanjeev Abhyankar (vocal).
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The third day will feature Guru Kalyanasundaram and disciples (Bharatanatyam) followed by Rattan Mohan Sharma (vocal) and Pandit Kumar Bose (tabla solo). The event will conclude on Sunday with a morning concert at 10 a.m. by Hemang Mehta (vocal) and Dr. N.Rajam (violin), while the evening session will see Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan Veena) and Pandit Jasraj. The evening sessions will start every day at 7.30 p.m. Pandit Jasraj recalled his association with the city and how in his childhood enjoyed playing 'kabaddi', 'lattu' and 'goli' in the lanes of Hyderabad. "This city is my 'teerth sthaan' and here I come every year to perform," he said.
He rejected the perception that the younger generation was not very keen about classical music and said that a major part of his audience comprised young boys and girls. "Western music has its own limitations, while our music involves a lot of imagination," he said.
There was abundant young talent keen on classical music, he said and narrated how Ankita Joshi walked 100 km seeking to be his disciple.
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On the Performance of a Large-Scale Optical Packet Switch Under Realistic Data Center Traffic |
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 5, Issue 6, pp. 565-573 (2013)
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High-speed, submicrosecond-latency, large-port-count (thousands) optical packet switches (OPSs) for intercluster communication networks can become a key element in the deployment of cloud-oriented large-scale data centers. In this work we numerically investigate the performance of a large-port-count wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) OPS based on a Spanke-type architecture with highly distributed control. We analyze it under a data center traffic model to determine its suitability for this type of environment. Results indicate that the proposed architecture can be scaled to 4096 ports while providing packet loss below
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OCIS Codes
(060.4510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Optical communications
(060.4259) Fiber optics and optical communications : Networks, packet-switched
(200.6715) Optics in computing : Switching
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Original Manuscript: December 13, 2012
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Nicola Calabretta, Roger Pueyo Centelles, Stefano Di Lucente, and Harmen J. S. Dorren, "On the Performance of a Large-Scale Optical Packet Switch Under Realistic Data Center Traffic," J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 5, 565-573 (2013)
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Gian Carlo Menotti |
Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer.[1] It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.[2]
Composition history[edit]
Menotti was commissioned by Peter Herman Adler, director of NBC's new opera programming, to write the first opera for television. The composer had trouble settling on a subject for the opera, but took his inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi hanging in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
As the airdate neared, Menotti had yet to finish the score. The singers had little time to rehearse, and received the final passages of the score just days before the broadcast. The composer's companion Samuel Barber was brought in to complete the orchestrations.[3] After the dress rehearsal, NBC Symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini told Menotti, "This is the best you've ever done."[4]
Menotti distinctly wanted Amahl to be performed by a boy. In the Production Notes contained in the Piano-Vocal score he wrote: "It is the express wish of the composer that the role of Amahl should always be performed by a boy. Neither the musical nor the dramatic concept of the opera permits the substitution of a woman costumed as a child."[1]
The Genesis of "Amahl"[edit]
The booklet with the original cast recording contains the following anecdote:
This is an opera for children because it tries to recapture my own childhood. You see, when I was a child I lived in Italy, and in Italy we have no Santa Claus. I suppose that Santa Claus is much too busy with American children to be able to handle Italian children as well. Our gifts were brought to us by the Three Kings, instead.
I actually never met the Three Kings—it didn't matter how hard my little brother and I tried to keep awake at night to catch a glimpse of the Three Royal Visitors, we would always fall asleep just before they arrived. But I do remember hearing them. I remember the weird cadence of their song in the dark distance; I remember the brittle sound of the camel's hooves crushing the frozen show; and I remember the mysterious tinkling of their silver bridles.
My favorite king was King Melchior, because he was the oldest and had a long white beard. My brother's favorite was king Kaspar. He insisted that this king was a little crazy and quite deaf. I don't know why he was so positive about his being deaf. I suspect it was because dear King Kaspar never brought him all the gifts he requested. He was also rather puzzled by the fact that King Kaspar carried the myrrh, which appeared to him as a rather eccentric gift, for he never quite understood what the word meant.
To these Three Kings I mainly owe the happy Christmas seasons of my childhood and I should have remained very grateful to them. Instead, I came to America and soon forgot all about them, for here at Christmas time one sees so many Santa Clauses scattered all over town. Then there is the big Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza, the elaborate toy windows on Fifth Avenue, the one-hundred-voice choir in Grand Central Station, the innumerable Christmas carols on radio and television—and all these things made me forget the three dear old Kings of my old childhood.
But in 1951 I found myself in serious difficulty. I had been commissioned by the National Broadcasting Company to write an opera for television, with Christmas as deadline, and I simply didn't have one idea in my head. One November afternoon as I was walking rather gloomily through the rooms of the Metropolitan Museum, I chanced to stop in front of the Adoration of the Kings by Hieronymus Bosch, and as I was looking at it, suddenly I heard again, coming from the distant blue hills, the weird song of the Three Kings. I then realized they had come back to me and had brought me a gift.
I am often asked how I went about writing an opera for television, and what are the specific problems that I had to face in planning a work for such a medium. I must confess that in writing "Amahl and the Night Visitors," I hardly thought of television at all. As a matter of fact, all my operas are originally conceived for an ideal stage which has no equivalent in reality, and I believe that such is the case with most dramatic authors. —Gian-Carlo Menotti[5]
Menotti wrote Amahl with the stage in mind, even though it was intended for broadcast. "On television you're lucky if they ever repeat anything. Writing an opera is a big effort and to give it away for one performance is stupid."[2] The composer appeared on-screen in the premiere to introduce the opera and give the background of the events leading up to its composition. He also brought out director Kirk Browning and conductor Thomas Schippers to thank them on-screen.[6]
Amahl was seen on 35 NBC affiliates coast to coast, the largest network hookup for an opera broadcast to that date. An estimated five million people saw the live broadcast, the largest audience ever to see a televised opera.[7]
Performance history[edit]
For its first three telecasts, the program had been presented in black-and-white (there were two presentations of it in 1952, one on Easter and one during the Christmas season),[8] but beginning in 1953, it was telecast in color.[9] Because it was an opera, and commercial network television executives had increasingly little confidence in presenting opera on television, it later began to be scheduled, with rare exceptions, as an afternoon television program, rather than shown in prime time as had been done in its first few telecasts.[10]
For years, Amahl was presented live, but in 1963 it was videotaped by NBC with conductor Herbert Grossman and an all-new cast featuring Kurt Yaghjian as Amahl, Martha King as The Mother, and John McCollum, Willis Patterson, and Richard Cross as the Three Kings. When Menotti found out that NBC had scheduled the taping on a date when he was out of the country, he tried to get the date changed. The network refused and recorded the 1963 performance without the composer's presence or participation, telecasting it in December 1963, and twice more after that - in 1964 and 1965. Menotti never approved of the 1963 production, and in May 1966 when the rights to future broadcasts reverted to him, the composer refused to allow it to be shown again.[11] Because of this, Amahl was not shown on television at all between 1966 and 1978.
In 1978, a new production starring Teresa Stratas as Amahl's mother, Robert Sapolsky as Amahl, and Willard White, Giorgio Tozzi and Nico Castel as the Three Kings was filmed by NBC, partly on location in the Holy Land. As was the norm for filmed opera, the music was pre-recorded and the singers mimed their performances to the playback.[11] It did not, however, become an annual tradition the way the 1951 and 1963 versions had.
BBC productions[edit]
The BBC made several productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors in the 1950s. The first performance was broadcast on 20 December 1953 with Charles Vignoles as Amahl, and Gladys Whitred as his mother. The three Kings were sung by John Lewis (Kaspar), Scott Joynt (Balthasar), and John Cameron (Melchior). Edric Connor was the Page and Josephine Gordon was the dancer. The opera was produced by Christian Simpson and the conductor was Stanford Robinson.[12] This performance was so successful that it was repeated on Christmas Eve 1954 with substantially the same cast apart from the Page sung by John Carvalho and the dancer, Betty Ferrier.[13] Both performances were broadcast live. A telerecording of the 1954 performance was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1956 but this recording seems to have been discarded. An audio recording of the 1954 performance exists in private hands. Further performances followed in subsequent years. The 1955 performance was also produced by Christian Simpson, starring Malcolm Day as Amahl, with Gladys Whitred as Amahl's mother. Music was provided by the Sinfonia of London. It appears that this performance was also broadcast live. It was either not recorded or the recording was discarded. It does not reside in the BBC Archives at Windmill Road. The second production was broadcast on 24 December 1959. This version exists as a 35 mm telerecording in the BBC Archives. This version was again produced by Christian Simpson and starred Christopher Nicholls as Amahl and Elsie Morrison as Amahl's mother. This time music was provided by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Australian version[edit]
A version was broadcast on ABC on Australian television in 1957. It was aired live in Melbourne on 18 December 1957, and was kinescoped to be shown in Sydney on Christmas Day. It is not known if the kinescope recording still exists.
Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, December 24, 1951 (Conductor: Thomas Schippers) |
Amahl | boy soprano | Chet Allen |
The Mother | soprano or mezzo-soprano | Rosemary Kuhlmann |
King Kaspar | tenor | Andrew McKinley |
King Melchior | baritone | David Aiken |
King Balthazar | bass | Leon Lishner |
The Page | bass | Francis Monachino |
Dancing Shepherds | Melissa Hayden; Glen Tetley; Nicholas Magallanes | |
Shepherds and Villagers |
- Place: Near Bethlehem.
- Time: The first century, just after the birth of Christ
Amahl, a disabled boy who can walk only with a crutch, has a problem with telling tall tales. He is sitting outside playing his shepherd's pipe when his mother calls for him (Amahl! Amahl!). After much persuasion, he enters the house but his mother does not believe him when he tells her there is an amazing star "as big as a window" outside over their roof (O Mother You Should Go Outside; Stop Bothering Me!).
Later that night, Amahl's mother weeps, praying that Amahl not become a beggar (Don't Cry Mother Dear). After bedtime (From Far Away We Come), there is a knock at the door and the mother tells Amahl to go see who it is (Amahl ... Yes Mother!). He is amazed when he sees three splendidly dressed kings (the Magi), one of whom is black. At first the mother does not believe Amahl, but when she goes to the door to see for herself, she is stunned. The Three Kings tell the mother and Amahl they are on a long journey to give gifts to a wondrous Child and they would like to rest at their house, to which the mother agrees (Good Evening!; Come In!), saying that all she can offer is "a cold fireplace and a bed of straw". The mother goes to fetch firewood, and Amahl seizes the opportunity to speak with the kings. King Balthazar answers Amahl's questions about his life as a king and asks what Amahl does. Amahl responds that he was once a shepherd, but his mother had to sell his sheep. Now, he and his mother will have to go begging. Amahl then talks with King Kaspar, who is childlike, eccentric, and a bit deaf. Kaspar shows Amahl his box of magic stones, beads, and licorice, and offers Amahl some of the candy (Are You A Real King?; This is My Box). The mother returns (Amahl, I Told You Not To Be A Nuisance!). Amahl is told to go fetch the neighbors (All These Beautiful Things; Have You Seen a Child?) so the kings may be fed and entertained properly (Shepherds! Shepherds!; Emily! Emily; Olives and Quinces; Dance of the Shepherds).
After the neighbors have left and the kings are resting, the mother attempts to steal for her son some of the kings' gold that was meant for the Christ child (All That Gold). She is thwarted by the kings' page. ("Thief! Thief!") When Amahl wakes to find the page grabbing his mother, he attacks him. ("Don't You Dare!") Seeing Amahl's weak defense of his mother and understanding the motives for the attempted theft, King Melchior says she may keep the gold as the Holy Child will not need earthly power or wealth to build his kingdom. ("Oh, Woman, You Can Keep That Gold") The mother says she has waited all her life for such a king and asks the kings to take back the gold. She wishes to send a gift but has nothing to send. Amahl, too, has nothing to give the Child except his crutch. ("Oh, No, Wait") When he offers it to the kings, his leg is miraculously healed. ("I Walk, Mother") With permission from his mother, he leaves with the kings to see the Child and give his crutch in thanks for being healed.
Among other things, the story is that of a boy growing up. The relationship between Amahl and his mother is informed by the 1950s American family.
For several years it was assumed that the original telecast, preserved on kinescope, had been lost, but a surviving copy was found, transferred to video, and is now available at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) and online at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.[14]
There are also several audio recordings available, but the original 1951 production has never been re-broadcast, although bootleg recordings have been made. A kinescope of the 1955 broadcast starring Bill McIver as Amahl was digitized in 2007 and is available commercially on DVD. The 1955 and 1978 productions are the only ones released on video. Cast recordings of both the 1951 and the 1963 productions were recorded by RCA Victor, and the 1951 cast recording was released on compact disc in 1987. The 1963 recording of Amahl was the first recording of the opera made in stereo.
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Amahl and the Night Visitors was the first network television Christmas special to become an annual tradition. There had already been several television productions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol since about 1947, but they had not been shown annually or presented by the same television network, with the same general technical staff, as Amahl was. Until 1963, Amahl was nearly always presented with many of the same singers and production staff.[15] From 1951 until 1966 it was presented every year on NBC (which commissioned Menotti to write it) on or around Christmas Eve, as an episode of an existing anthology series, such as The Alcoa Hour,[16] NBC Television Opera,[17] or the Hallmark Hall of Fame.[18] The 1978 production of Amahl also premiered on NBC, before it went to cable television in the early 1980s.
- Notes
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amahl and the Night Visitors. |
- ^ a b Menotti, Gian-Carlo: Amahl and the Night Visitors (piano-vocal score), G. Schirmer, Inc., 1997.
- ^ a b Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, The Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2007. Accessed 11 December 2008
- ^ Paller, Rebecca (December 2001). "Liner notes to Amahl and the Night Visitors DVD". Opera Magazine (December 2001).
- ^ "Fred Rogers - Archive Interview Part 2 of 9".
- ^ Menotti, Gian-Carlo (1962). Amahl and the Night Visitors. RCA Victor LM-1701. pp. 5–6.
- ^ "Hallmark Hall of Fame: Amahl and the Night Visitors (series premiere)". collection. The Paley Center for Media. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- ^ Hadley, Mitchell. "Three Kings in 50 Minutes". TVParty.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- ^ "50 Years of Hallmark Hall of Fame", UCLA
- ^ "Hallmark hall of fame (Television program). Amahl and the night visitors (1953)". UCLA: Film and Television Archive. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- ^ Cinema TIME magazine
- ^ a b Barnes, p. 124
- ^ Radio Times December 18, 1953
- ^ Radio Times 24 December 1954
- ^ "The Museum of Broadcast Communications". Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- ^ http://old.cinema.ucla.edu/hallmark/
- ^ http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=alcoahourt
- ^ http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/NBCOpera.htm
- ^ http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=hallmarkhall
- Sources
- Barnes, Jennifer (2003), Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television, Boydell Press, ISBN 0-85115-912-5
External links[edit]
- Chet Allen (1951-1952 Amahl) at Boysoloist.com
- Bill McIver (1952-1955 Amahl) at Boysoloist.com
- Kurt Yaghjian (1963-1966 Amahl) at Boysoloist.com (Yaghiyan did not appear in a live version; the 1963 performance was videotaped and re-broadcast several times.)
- Robert Sapolsky (1978) at Boysoloist.com (Sapolsky starred in the made-for-TV film version shot on location)
- Pablo Strong (2002) at Boysoloist.com
- Video: Performed by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
- The full script in prose form This link is broken as of 8/22/2014.
- 1951 operas
- Children's operas
- Christmas television specials
- English-language operas
- Christmas operas
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Most of the songs performed on The Muppet Show were originally written for earlier productions, such as plays, movies, television shows, and popular albums. However, some songs were written especially for the show.
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- "The Muppet Show Theme" by Sam Pottle & Jim Henson
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Judge dismisses charges against three accused of October robbery of Winthrop student cell phones
A judge ruled there was not probable cause for prosecutors to move forward against three Rock Hill men accused of gang ties who were charged by police with an October armed robbery of cell phones from 11 Winthrop students, court officials said.
However, all three still face charges in other crimes, including one who faces a murder charge from a January killing.
After a court hearing Tuesday, a magistrate ruled there was not sufficient evidence against Dontavion White, 17; Marquis Glover, 17, and Robert Johnson, 18.
White, still being held without bond, faces murder charges in the death of Michael Giddens.
Glover, who was previously released on bond, faces attempted murder from a 2013 shooting incident.
Johnson still faces charges including attempted murder.
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