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The SMP Console reports task failure even though it is executed on the clients.
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We have read the following articles over the issue and checked the following:
Checked the above and we are running the same version of the CTDataLoad.exe on both the NS and SS servers and registry keys are correct.
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I have experienced this - To resolve we did a Rollup V4 to our CMS 7.1 SP2 NS server. Then had to cleanly uninstall the Agent and reinstall the Rollup V4 Agent. I had a subsequent issue with the Agents not communicating back to the NS server after the Rollup and found that the Altiris Client Task Data Loader service was not running. I started it and the clients began communcating their stats again.
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So plese go ahed and upgrade and this issue will be resolve.
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THE BEAST known as Wack Wack East befuddled the talented Solaire Open field yesterday and triggered a shakeup in the leaderboard that left four foreigners sharing a one-stroke lead after 36 holes.
And American Dodge Kemmer, the hottest player in the first round, was not among them. He came down to earth with a big thud.
When the massive overhaul ended, Elmer Salvador stood as the top Filipino contender by gutting out one of the day's best round—a 3-under-par 69—at the heavily wooded layout to trail the leaders by a shot.
Thailand's Thammanoon Sriroj, a five-time Asian Tour winner, and Kwanchai Tannin fired a 69 and a 71, respectively, to share top spot at 142 with Australian Matt Jager and Taiwanese veteran Lin Wen-tang.
Jager returned a level 72 and Lin had a 73 marked by six birdies and seven bogeys.
"Today was really difficult, the wind might have changed on us five or six times," Jager said. "With the conditions like that, the course plays a little bit harder."
Salvador, the taciturn Davao native who has never won an event this big, gunned down five birdies against two missed green bogeys and vaulted into contention at 143 after an opening 74.
He was deadlocked with Korean Kim Gi-wan and Richard Lee of Canada, who both carded 71s, and Thai Pawin Ingkhapradit, who added a 75 to a 68.
"My putting and pitching around the greens saved my round," the 43-year-old Salvador said in Filipino.
Kemmer, who had bogey-less opening round of 66, couldn't buy a bird this time while taking seven bogeys. The 25-year-old Q-School graduate slipped to 145.
Angelo Que, the 2008 PH Open champ, also at Wack Wack, also floundered on his closing holes, dropping two shots each on Nos. 7 and 8, to return a 77 for 149.
Meanwhile, Juvic Pagunsan, who matched par on Thursday, didn't show up for the second round, phoning organizers he had to attend to his pregnant wife.
Also bowing out of the tournament was Frankie Miñoza, the Filipino legend who fired a second round 78 for 155, four strokes off the cut line.
Mardan Mamat of Singapore, the reigning PH Open champ, made the cut on the dot with 75 for 151—the highest cutoff mark on the Asian Tour this season.
Six players were at level 144 counting Fil-Am Carl Santos-Ocampo, who scored another 72, and the celebrated Japanese Tetsuji Hiratsuka, who fired a 73.
Teener Miguel Tabuena was another stroke back in the company of Kemmer after assembling a 73, with Mars Pucay, the scrappy Filipino veteran, ballooning to a 76 after firing a 69, the best by a local on Thursday.
The scores (Filipino unless stated): 142—T. Sriroj (THA) 73-69, K. Tannin (THA) 71-71, M. Jager (AUS) 70-72, L. Wen-tang (TPE) 69-73; 143—K. Gi-whan (KOR) 72-71, R. T. Lee (Can) 72-71, E. Salvador 74-69, P. Ingkhapradit (THA) 68-75; 144—T. Hiratsuka (JPN) 71-73, G. Charoenkul (THA) 73-71, U. Park (Aus) 73-71, C. Santos-Ocampo 72-72, P. Muenlek (THA) 74-70, R. Gangjee (IND) 75-69; 145—Y. Tsukada (JPN) 72-73, D. Kataoka (JPN) 70-75, M. Tabuena 73-72, D. Kemmer (USA) 66-79, M. Pucay 69-76, J. Higginbottom (Aus) 74-71; 146—H. Mong-nan (TPE) 74-72, P. Karmis (RSA) 73-73, S. Supupramai (THA) 75-71, T. Khrongpha (THA) 72-74, C. Phadungsil (THA) 75-71, J. Bayron 74-72, S. Cyr (USA) 76-70, C. Tze Huang (Sin) 76-70; 147—C. Plaphol (THA) 72-75, C. Yih-shin (TPE) 75-72, S. Griffiths (ENG) 72-75, P. Pittayarat (THA) 75-72, A. Lohan (IND) 76-71, C. Rodgers (ENG) 73-74, S. Hussin (MAS) 73-74, R. Hie (INA) 72-75; 148—Z. Moe (MYA) 74-74, D. Chia (MAS) 72-76, M. Tunnicliff (ENG) 77-71, W. Jueng-hun (KOR) 72-76, M. Hu (CHN) 74-74, M. Joong-kyung (KOR) 71-77, S. Brazel (Aus) 73-75;
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SPOKANE, Washington — The states of Washington and Colorado legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in the November elections, but it is unclear if any cigarette makers plan to supply either market.
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. President Barack Obama indicated last week that going after individual users won't be a priority, but there's no firm indication yet what action the Justice Department might take against states or businesses that participate in the nascent pot market, which has the potential to be large. For example, analysts have estimated that a legal pot market could bring Washington state hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new tax revenue for schools, health care and basic government functions.
Bill Phelps, a spokesman for Philip Morris USA, maker of Marlboro, based in Richmond, Virginia, was vague when asked about the future intentions of the nation's largest tobacco company.
"We have a practice of not commenting or speculating on future business," Phelps said, adding "tobacco companies are in the business of manufacturing and marketing tobacco products."
Less mysterious was Bryan Hatchell, a spokesman for the second-largest cigarette maker, Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel and Pall Mall, among many others.
"Reynolds American has no plans to produce or market marijuana products in either of those states," Hatchell said. "It's not part of our strategy."
But if major tobacco companies are not going to supply the new markets, it appears there are some ready to step in.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board is receiving plenty of applications from people who want to be certified to be able to grow pot legally, even though the agency is not yet soliciting such applications. Agency spokesman Brian Smith said Tuesday that some applications so far have come from people who have long been growing marijuana when it was against state law.
"We're getting a lot of interest from people that want to be producers," Smith said. "Some say they have been growing it illegally until now."
Indoor growing operations appear to be the most productive and secure for marijuana, Smith said.
"But we could have outdoor grows in eastern Washington," he said.
Since no state had previously legalized marijuana possession, Washington must invent a production system from the ground up, Smith said. Colorado did have a licensed system for growing medical marijuana, but that was very tightly regulated and probably more stringent than Washington needs, Smith said.
"We don't need to get to the level of oversight Colorado has in medical marijuana," he said.
Washington's new law decriminalizes possession of up to an ounce of pot for people over 21. But selling marijuana remains illegal for now. The initiative gave the state a year to come up with a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores, with the marijuana taxed 25 percent at each stage.
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Posted: 02/21/2013 - Climate experts say the drought affecting 56 percent of the country is likely to linger in Plains and Western states this spring and expand in northern California, Texas and Florida.
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Posted: 02/21/2013 - Snowstorm or not, growing cattle must be fed.
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6. Trading for outfielder-first baseman Alex Dickerson: The Padres love the potential of the left-handed-hitting graduate of Poway High. The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Dickerson hit 30 homers the past two seasons in high Single-A and Double-A. The cost was outfielder Jaff Decker and reliever Miles Mikolas, who were being dropped from the Padres 40-man roster. Grade: B.
7. Trading for infielder Ryan Jackson: With Kyle Blanks, Xavier Nady and Tommy Medica available to be the Padres right-handed-hitting outfielder-first baseman-pinch hitter, the Padres gave up productive veteran Jesus Guzman to get the versatile and good fielding Jackson, who figures to be the solid defensive reserve at shortstop that the Padres lacked last spring. Jackson hit .275 with 13 homers in 238 games at Triple-A. Grade: C.
8. Trading for left-handed reliever Patrick Schuster: Very significant at the time because the Padres had no left-handed relievers on their 40-man roster or at the top two levels of their farm system when they sent right-handed reliever Anthony Bass to Houston for the Astros Rule 5 draft pick. But the addition of Torres and minor league free agent Zach Braddock has greatly reduced Schuster's chances of making the Padres – meaning he will likely be waived at the end of spring training. Grade: D.


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Reading Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
21 Tuesday Jun 2011
Posted Karl Barth Readingin
21 Tuesday Jun 2011
Posted Karl Barth Readingin
16 Thursday Jun 2011
Posted Christmas, Karl Barth Reading, Theologyin
In my earlier post Jesus Christ Very God Very Man, I struggled with Barth's argument about completed event and completed event which are part of the mystery of God's revelation. Barth notes, "God's revelation in its objective reality is the incarnation of His Word, in that He, the one true eternal God, is at the same time true Man like us" (CD I.2, 172).
Barth next set forth to examine the mystery of Christmas though the dogma of Christmas in I. 2.§15.3. The Miracle of Christmas. He argues that both the Virgin conception and birth, and 'being conceived by the Holy Spirit' represent the miracle of Christmas. That both are a miracle cannot be denied because the normal mode of conception is through the sexual act though nowadays reproductive technologies, like in vitro fertilization (IVF) allow conception without the sexual act. 'Being conceived by the Holy Spirit' is a fascinating concept. Obviously 'conceived' does not refer to the fertilization of the ovum but the question to be asked is why should the Holy Spirit be mentioned at all? Interestingly, Barth uses this to booster his theological construct of the mystery of God (which is the theme of this section §15 ) by giving two reasons why the Holy Spirit is mentioned. Firstly, he notes that it refers "refers back the mystery of human existence of Jesus Christ to the mystery of God Himself" (199) which refers to the mystery that God himself as the Holy Spirit works amongst his creature as mediator and reconciler. Secondly, it refers to the connection the work of the Holy Spirit.
The miracle of Christmas reveals the mystery of Christmas. The miracle is the virgin birth. The mystery is that Jesus Christ Very God Very Man is conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
This is part of the Barth Synchroblog reading Karl Barth's Dogmatics
Daniel Kirk on Mystery Christmas
14 Tuesday Jun 2011
Posted Jesus Christ, Karl Barth Readingin
I. 2.§15. The Mystery of Revelation
In this section, Karl Barth writes,
The mystery of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ consists in the fact that the eternal Word of God chose, sanctified and assumed human nature and existence into oneness with Himself, in order, thus, as very God and very man, to become the Word of reconciliation spoken by God to man. The sign of this mystery revealed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the miracle of His birth, that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary.
Barth takes on the challenge of understanding what it means to be 'fully God, fully human'. He uses the term 'Very God Very Man' to describe Jesus Christ, God incarnate and 'Word made flesh'. He suggests that this may be considered in two ways; as a completed event or as a completed event. In the former, God incarnate in the historical Jesus is a completed event in human history with all its implications for us. The latter shows that the 'Word made flesh' is just one of the actions of the Word. The human and divinity is not static but always changing, not fixed by any event in time. Typical of Barth, he raises the question but never offers an answer. With some difficulty, one may perceive both ways to be correct. Again, reading Barth reminds me that God's way will always be a mystery to me.
Interesting article here about the difference between Lutheran and Reformed Christology as discussed above as a completed event and completed event.
This is part of the Barth Synchroblog reading Karl Barth's Dogmatics
13 Monday Jun 2011
Posted Karl Barth Readingin
This little book tells the story of Barth's theological journey from liberalism to a new form of theology. He sought to resist the assumptions and conclusions of liberal theology while at the same time avoiding the temptation to simply return to some supposedly pristine, premodern form of Christian orthodoxy. Instead Barth took the intellectual traditions of the Enlightenment and Protestant orthodoxy with upmost seriousness while at the same time subjecting both to critical scrutiny. The result is an approach to theology that is deeply immersed in the Bible and the faith of the church while also being significantly engaged with the questions and challenges of contemporary life and thought.
Excellent introduction to the man and his theology. I love the way Barth thinks. He writes theology not for the academics but for the church and its members. Theology is for the people and not for some hair-splitting exercises. Unfortunately he is way ahead of his time and very few people understood what he wrote. I believe only now are we beginning to recognize the genius of the man.
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human however, and so cannot speak of God, We ought therefore to recognise both our obligation and inability and by that recognition give God the glory…
the impossible possibility…
From the standpoint of human beings, theology is an impossiblity. Theology becomes possible only where God speaks when God is spoken of. Since human beings have no control over this self-revelatory speech, they are always dependent on God in the task of theology.
19 Thursday May 2011
Posted Karl Barth Readingin
21 Thursday Apr 2011
Posted Barth, Karl Barth Readingin
§ 1.11.1 and § 1.11.2 of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics discusses God the Son: "The one God reveals Himself according to Scripture as the Reconciler, i.e. as the Lord in the midst of our enmity towards Him. As such He is the Son of God who has come to us or the Word of God that has been spoken to us, because He is so antecedently in Himself as the Son or Word of God the Father" in the section on the Revelation of God (§11). Karl Barth affirms the New Testament and early church dogma that Jesus is God, the same God who is a reconciler and the revealer of Himself.
As I meditate on this during the Holy Week of 2011, I have this image of God moving towards Jerusalem as Jesus of Nazareth, well aware that he is walking into a trap. Yet he continue to walk to his own murder. The supreme irony of this is the Creator walking towards a murder, organised by his own creations, in the name of a religion based on his revelations about himself.
Unlike many religious traditions where either man is an avatar of a god or man himself becomes a god, the Christian tradition maintains that Jesus is already truly God and truly man. That is Barth's main thesis in this section. The deity of Jesus is important because it gives so much significance to the horrors of Good Friday and the joy of Easter Sunday.
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted Baptism, Karl Barth Readingin
Discovered that Travis MacMaken, a PhD candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary has been organizing Karl Barth Blog Conference (KBBC) on his blog Der Evangelische Theologice (DET) since 2007. I am made aware of this by following the links provided by another promising PhD student, Sivin Kit from Malaysia (HT Sivin) who have just started his PhD journey. Since reading this I am looking forward to the KBBC 2011.
Much has changed over the past few years. When I organized the first KBBC back in 2007, it was a much more parochial undertaking. Students at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) have, from time to time, joined together to form "reading groups" as a supplement to the official course offerings. Such groups are comprised of like-minded individuals who want to tackle a certain theological text or thinker, and who expect to come to a better understanding of the material through communal discussion rather than mere independent reading. The first KBBC was simply to be an online, blog-y version of this phenomenon. Thus, a number of my friends and colleagues took turns writing on the various chapters of Barth's Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century (index).
The second KBBC in 2008 was much in the same vein (index). This time the text up for consideration and exposition was Jüngel's God's Being is in Becoming. However, something important began to happen. Whereas the first KBBC was authored almost exclusively by PTS folk, the second KBBC saw contributions from authors from other corners of the theological education and theo-blog worlds. Although PTS folk have remained central to the subsequent KBBCs, I'm glad that this trend toward wider participation has continued. Also, the plenary posts this second year began to be more exploratory and innovative – no longer content to explicate the text in question, KBBC authors were deploying complex arguments, often with constructive goals. Finally, this second KBBC was when the theo-blogosphere stood up and took notice. Traffic increased significantly and, consequently, so did the number of comments.
One of the themes to which the discussion surrounding the 2008 KBBC repeatedly returned was that of natural theology. So, I set the 2009 KBBC (index) theme as Romans 1 and the possibility of natural knowledge of God. For the first time in KBBC history, the theme was not bound to a particular text by or about Barth. Once again, plenary writers and respondents were drawn from various spheres, although some mainstays also returned. The plenary posts and responses were well done, the conversation in the comments section was heavy, and this KBBC continued to surpass its previous records for traffic and comments. It was an unqualified success, and I began to plot and scheme to ensure that the trajectory continued to trend upwards.
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Der Evangelische Theologe: 2010 KBBC: Welcome and Introduction
04 Monday Apr 2011
Posted Barth, Karl Barth Reading, Theologyin
From Ben Myers' Faith and Theology blog Karl Barth's Comic Theology
check out the wonderful essay by Jessica DeCou of Chicago Divinity School: "'Too Dogmatic For Words'? Karl Barth's Comic Theology", Religion and Culture Web Forum February 2011. She argues that Barth's legendary combativeness and his legendary humour are two sides of the same coin: a "comic" theology. I think Eberhard Jüngel once described Barth as "the happiest theologian of our age" – and this essay shows that laughter and comedy are important for understanding Barth's thought.
And while you're at it, here's another interesting piece on Barth: John Parratta, "Barth and Buddhism in the Theology of Katsume Takizawa", SJT 64:2 (2011).
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30 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted Asian Theology, Barth, Karl Barth Readingin
Myers in his blogpost
in Faith and Theology gave a fascinating perspective of Karl Barth and his influence on Korean theology.
There's an extremely valuable analysis of all this in the excellent study by Young-Gwan Kim, Karl Barth's Reception in Korea: Focusing on Ecclesiology in Relation to Korean Christian Thought (Peter Lang 2003). Kim provides a broad account of the institutional and denominational contexts of Barth's reception in Korea. He argues that the distinctiveness of Korean Barth-reception has much to do with the culture's deep Confucian heritage, and with the intimate connection between Confucianism and the rise of Christianity in Korea. (It was Confucian scholars who first translated the Bible into Korean: Confucianism is already entwined with the roots of Korean Christianity.) After tracing the broad history of Barth's reception in Korea, Kim provides an extensive analysis (pp. 225-324) of the work of Sung-Bum Yun. Although he is critical of Yun's tendency towards philosophical abstraction (it becomes hard to see where the salvation-event fits into his elaborate system of Tao, jen, and filial piety), he concludes: "we cannot deny Yun's insistence that Korean Christianity is strikingly a Confucian-influenced Christianity and that therefore the indigenization of Karl Barth's theology within the Korean Confucian context is a viable theological enterprise" (p. 324).
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23 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted Alkitab, Barth, Karl Barth Reading, Malaysiain
§ 7.2 Dogmatics as Science and § 7.3 The Problem of Dogmatic Prolegomena are the conclusion of Karl Barth's section § 7 The Word of God, Dogma and Dogmatics. In this long introduction to the series (prolegomena which means long long long introduction) Barth sets out his thoughts on the Word of God and Church proclamation. His concern is how closely does Church proclamation matches the Word of God. He took issue with the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox traditions who presume that both are identical.
Is Karl Barth a mystic? No one who has read his readings will in any way link him with the great mystics of the Church. Yet there is a sense of mysticism in the reverent and distance he places on mystery of the Word of God and how it is inadequately proclaimed and interpreted by the Church. At one stroke he shook the epidemiological and ontological foundations of systematic theology like the recent 8.9 earthquake in Japan.
Barth divides dogmatics into regular and irregular. Regular are the curriculum-based approach in theological schools and colleges. Irregular dogmatics is what happens out of these formal institutions of learning and happens at the grassroot levels. Barth seems to be more sympathetic to irregular dogmatics being done by the people of God in the context of their communities in their space and time.
For example, I wonder what Barth will do concerning the situation in Malaysia. In Malaysia, Islam is the dominant religion while the constitution guarantees the freedom for people to practice other religious traditions. Muslims makes up approximately 70% of the population while Christians about 10%. Most Christians are living in East Malaysia and are mainly of indigenous tribal people. The government is lead by a Muslim dominated political party and its officials are mainly Muslims. There is a steady erosion of the freedom for other religious systems in the years following the nation's independence.
The Christian community is represented by the Christian Federation of Malaysia (which includes Protestants and Catholics). The Christians is also represented in another multi-religious committee in dealing with the government. The interactions can be described as firefighting. The Malaysian government will propose an action that impinges on the religious rights of others. The representatives respond often by press statements and then some backdoor negotiations. The government offers a compromise which is accepted by the representatives. Often the compromise involves the religious bodies giving up more than they receive.
One notable case is the use of the word "Allah". For the last 31 years, the Christian community has been fighting for the right to use the word "Allah". My review of Miroslav Volf 's Allah: The Christian Response. The Muslims claimed that Allah refers to their God and no one else can use this term except them. In fact, Allah has been used by Arab Christian before the Islam was founded. This has resulted in the government seizing and impounding Bibles and Christian books with this word. The Malay Bible (Alkitab) uses Allah and all shipments were impounded and detained by the Home Ministry. The matter come a head when the government refused a license for the Catholic Church to print its Malay language weekly gazette Herald which uses the word Allah (see timeline here). The Catholic Church took the case to court. The Catholic Church won, allowing the Herald to use the word Allah.
The government appeals against the court's ruling and the appeal is still pending. After waiting patiently for another year, the Christian community applied pressure on the government to release the Alkitab. The government responded by releasing it after unilaterally placing a stamp on the inner cover of the Alkitab notifying that is for Christian use only by "order of the Home Ministry". There are various reactions from the Christian community from "Praise the Lord" to cries of desecration of the Bible (see here and here).
What will Karl Barth do?
I will suggest the following that Karl Barth will advocate for the following:
(1) The Christian community should stand for God
Karl Barth will be careful to point out that a printed text such as what is call the Bible is distinct from the Word of God though it is a means by which the Word of God is revealed. However, he will be the first to point out that any attempt to restrict or insult the Word of God is not acceptable. Note his response to the Bible burning in Nazi Germany.
(2) The Christian community should address injustice
Social justice figured prominently in the Word of God. Though church proclamation has understood social injustice in different ways and hence their different responses, their commonality is to address social injustices. Justice includes the right to choose. The Word of God reveals a God who offers humankind the right to choose even though they may choose to reject him. Though Barth was dealing with the State Lutheran Church in Germany, his principles of social justice is applicable in Malaysia. Citizens of Malaysia have freedom of worship as guaranteed by their constitution and this freedom includes the freedom to have copies of their sacred texts without any addition by the authorities.
(3) The Christian community shall be proactive and visible.
The Christian community is often perceived by the other communities as being negative by usually taking a stand against but rarely taking a stand for. The Christian community must be seen to be united and be proactive in nation building. In response to the Alkitab banning and detention, the Christian community should make visible their protest. While emails and a few blog posts are helpful, a mass Christian prayer rally will make a greater impact and create greater public awareness of the Christians' plight. The Word of God directs Christians to pray for those who are against them. The Church proclamation should involve not just itself but also the other communities it is part of. Barth's involvement with the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany is an example of this.
This is how I would envisage Karl Barth's response to the situation in Malaysia by trying to see his response through the prolegomena of the Church Dogmatics.


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Watch: Alan Osmond Says The Osmonds Brought in Chuck Norris to 'De-Feminize' Their Dance Moves
Eldest Osmond brother Alan says in a new interview that the Osmond Brothers' dancing was too effeminate, so they brought in Chuck Norris, who basically taught them how to add karate-style moves to make it more manly.
Says Osmond: "Chuck, we need to toughen up our dance. Can you help us? And he said 'well let's learn some karate and you can apply the moves' cause there's stomps, and HOOO, YEAH. You know, it was very boyish, and that's what we wanted."
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Check out some of their manly moves here (that karate chop at 0:21 says Chuck Norris to me):
Guess the Osmonds didn't know that Chuck Norris is a gay homophobe trapped in his closet of self-hate and self-denial.
Posted by: Chip | Sep 13, 2010 9:25:53 AM
My goodness, time and donuts have not been kind to Alan Osmond.
Posted by: Jimmy | Sep 13, 2010 9:33:33 AM
OMG SRSLY?! A Mormon family had homophobic panic about their dance moves? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
Posted by: BrianDoh | Sep 13, 2010 9:35:03 AM
Alan has some kind of illness - and should stop eating yes, hard to believe he was a sex symbol once :)
Posted by: tony x | Sep 13, 2010 9:47:30 AM
You mean to tell us their "magical undies" didn't help them "man-up". I am shocked-i tell you -shocked.
Posted by: Nick | Sep 13, 2010 10:02:37 AM
What is he even talking about? He looks too young to be rambling already...
P.S. I have never had the sincere pleasure of being exposed to the Osmonds before the additional ciip you posted below the interview: is there a verb that combines "vomit" with "laugh"? Vough, maybe? Because I just did that.
Posted by: Andalusian Dog | Sep 13, 2010 10:05:41 AM
P.P.S. Oh dear, Moroni, please save us all from these idiots.
Posted by: Andalusian Dog | Sep 13, 2010 10:06:39 AM
Well then, mission: accomplished. Not a bit gay. Nope. All 100% super butch, just like Mittens Romney--they should all go hunting varmints.
Posted by: Rebel | Sep 13, 2010 10:32:19 AM
Those silk pocket squares really flounce nicely to their butch dance moves.
Posted by: voet | Sep 13, 2010 10:38:46 AM
yes the long flowing "woman-like" do's and the Pastel silk like pants with the bouncing silk scarves scream BUTCH!!! No i want to wear the baby blue pants, no you'll wear the orange ones and like it!!!
Posted by: alexInBoston | Sep 13, 2010 10:46:29 AM
I hope Chuck Norris's wig didn't come off while he was teaching them his moves. I think it would have ruined the moment.
Posted by: dang | Sep 13, 2010 11:00:37 AM
I just thought of that scene in the movie "In and Out" where Kevin Kline is trying to learn how to dance "macho" to a tape....how ridiculous is that?
Fear makes people do stupid things.
Posted by: Steve | Sep 13, 2010 12:33:34 PM
How very ironic since the Osmonds have had to come face-to-face with homosexuality in very tragic ways recently.
Posted by: Chris | Sep 13, 2010 12:45:38 PM
I have NEVER watched an Osmond Brother's performance all the way thru to the end and I still haven't. I stopped watching the above video at 1:34 minutes.
Based on the 1:34 minutes I did watch, I have an idea why the Osmonds never could compete with the Jackson Five.
Posted by: elg | Sep 13, 2010 1:27:15 PM
Alan looks like and angry munchkins from the Wizard of Oz!
Posted by: Steven | Sep 13, 2010 1:29:15 PM
Alan often posts anti-gay comments on his FB page. One time I put one of his comments on the "8 The Mormon Proposition" page & hundreds of people were insulted & left comments for Alan! He really is a vile, hateful person. On his latest rant he was asking his "fans" to help him in is attempt to get Judge Walker impeached.
Posted by: Dave | Sep 13, 2010 1:38:26 PM
Sickening. This kind of comment is absolutely revolting in its ignorance. I see I'm going to regret having liked Osmonds music as a teenager. I'll never be able to listen to "One Bad Apple" again without feeling nauseated.
Posted by: Stuffed Animal | Sep 13, 2010 1:53:40 PM
What a corpulent sack of shit. As far as I'm concerned he is personally responsible for Marie Osmonds son jumping to his death. The sooner his corpse is rotting in the ground the better.
Posted by: B | Sep 13, 2010 3:46:14 PM
First.... why is this a story worth our LGBTQ time????
Second, ....Mormons...need I say more...!!!!!!
Posted by: Brains | Sep 13, 2010 4:52:48 PM
Their outfits are very MANLY!
Posted by: jaragon | Sep 13, 2010 6:13:24 PM
I haven't paid attention to the Osmond's for ages! I used to 'be' one of those screamin' mimi's you heard in anyone of their concert footages. My aunt [who was the same age as me] and I would go to one any time they came close to our town and I would go home bruised to hell and gone cause my aunt was what we lovingly refer to in our family as a 'whacker'. "Oh my g-d did you see that???" *whack, whack* upside my arm.
I think about those times today and cringe out of embarrassment... that's why I laugh at all the generations after and think how they too one day will be embarrassed...
Btw... Alan is not the eldest... Virl and Tom are, they took care of the business end of things.... both being deaf, they didn't sing with the others.
Posted by: aleabeth | Sep 14, 2010 1:56:22 AM
all I can say is WTF!! and Shut the fuck up!! When I think of maculinity...I certainly do not think of the Osmonds!! Give me a break!!
Posted by: Paul | Sep 14, 2010 11:41:37 AM
Butched them right up, Chuck did.
While doing other research in The Rolling Stone, I came across an article, from the time, about the Osmonds. It noted that mama Olive Osmond examined every official photo of the group, and nixed any that even hinted at a bulge in one of her boys' pants.
Wonder what Chuck thought of that.
And BTW, I hate those dogs that look like Alan.
Posted by: Soren456 | Nov 20, 2011 4:40:27 PM
To be fair (because otherwise we are no better than he): 1)the Osmonds were born into this religion, and taught this from infanthood (just as other religious people were) 2) it was 1963, the era of the song-and-dance man,and they were young children on the Andy Williams show. They sang & danced what they were told to and they were, by the way, amazingly talented, see youtube Andy Williams Osmonds clips 3)everybody dressed like that in the70's, see Elvis, J5,etc, it was an embarrassing time for fashion, they were right on trend and adored by millions of girls 4)Alan has MS and that is what causes him to look that way 5)the Osmonds truly were nice people and 50 years later still are (Alan excepted now)it wasn't just a public image 6)they truly do try to live according to their religious beliefs, ie they try their best to live right 7) a lot of people use the Bible as an excuse to hate and bully, not just Alan Osmond. That being said, it is truly sad to see him have deteriorated into this ranting, hateful person. I can't believe that he really can't see the wrong in it, especially growing up in show biz where he must have known so many diverse people. A Christian spreads the love of Christ, period. Anyone spreading hate and intolerance is not a Christian, by definition. What about his own nephew and the other gay children growing up in his extended family and ward, what message does this give them? It is just so disappointing to see an Osmond fall to this level. The MS may be affecting his brain, truly. And interesting to see all the "gay insults" toward the Osmonds on this site, as if it's a bad thing. But Alan aside, I really don't think any of them were. They didn't choose show biz, it was forced on them. I don't think they loved wearing the outfits they had to wear or dance the way they had to dance, according to their autobiographies. That is all.
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Pats' Harvey steps into spotlight against Cougars
ESCONDIDO -- At the start of the high school football season, Mack Harvey was working as a defensive tackle.
In the biggest game in a decade for the Orange Glen football team, Harvey, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound junior, will start at quarterback tonight in a key Valley League showdown against Escondido at Wilson Stadium on the Cougars' campus.
Harvey jumps in for senior Ricardo Pacheco, who is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL in last week's win over San Marcos.
That win -- with Harvey at the helm for the second half -- pushed Orange Glen to 4-1 overall, 1-0 in league.
Escondido is 4-2, 2-0 in league and ranked No. 10 in San Diego County.
"Mack Harvey is our guy now, without a doubt," said Orange Glen coach Kraig Broach. "We needed someone to back up Paco (Pacheco). Mack was playing third base for the varsity baseball team as a sophomore, so we knew he was athletic and had a good arm. So we asked him to move to quarterback. …
"We're going to miss Paco's explosion and athletic ability, but we're confident Mack can get the job done. Mentally, he's there. So we can run the offense just like we did with Paco. We don't have to eliminate anything for Mack. Nothing will change, and we may even spread the ball around a little more.
"Is there pressure on Mack to perform in a big game? Not more than any other player on the team."
The last time Escondido and Orange Glen entered this cross-town showdown with a combined eight wins was 1995 when both were 4-1. Since then, one team or the other has been subpar. Orange Glen hadn't won more than three games in a season since 1997.
Escondido has won the past eight meetings after Orange Glen had a streak of 13 wins in a row. The Cougars lead the series 22-17 and have outscored the Patriots 232-119 over the past eight seasons.
"Without a doubt, Orange Glen is playing good football, playing as a team," said Escondido coach Paul Gomes. "They believe in themselves again.
"Pacheco is a darn good player, and they'll miss him, but Mack Harvey throws the ball really well, has a great release."
Escondido started the season with two wins, then slipped against Oceanside and Rancho Buena Vista. But the Cougars bounced back to beat San Marcos and Ramona to open Valley League play.
"We played a weird game against Oceanside," Gomes said. "Then we were flat as we could be against Rancho Buena Vista, and it bit us in the rear.
"I think we've figured it out, though. I think we're ready to start doing what we're supposed to do, start playing great football."
Michael Zapien, the Cougars' starting nose tackle, has been battling hamstring problems. He is expected to be at full strength tonight and could even play some at fullback.
Darrell Catchings, perhaps the best receiver in the county, is 100 percent after nursing an ankle sprain for the last month.


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Will Congress act decisively to end unconstitutional executive branch overreach?
TPP dismisses American interests, American sovereignty, and American exceptionalism.
The decision further delays Obama's immigration order, which was first blocked by a Texas lower court judge.
Senior lawmakers are scrambling this to agree on a change to legislation that would rein in the dragnet of phone records.
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A line of severe thunderstorms that crossed through the region on Thursday afternoon brought with it at least one tornado that touched down in Columbus County.
DUBLIN – Eighth-grade students from East Arcadia School participated in a biology lab field trip to Bladen Community College on Monday, May 18.
DUBLIN – Bladen Community College remembered Essic McCauley Williams Jr. on Thursday, May 14, with the planting and dedication of a dogwood tree near the Essic Williams Administrative Building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If U.S. Congressman David Rouzer (R-NC) has his way, the federal Department of Educatyion will soon be a thing of the past.
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Board of Commissioners and the Bladen County Board of Education will have a special joint meeting on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m.
Bladen County businesses and government offices have announced closings for the Memorial Day holiday.Those include:
CHAPEL HILL — Dr. Robin Cummings has been named the next chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Bladen County Sheriff Jim McVicker spoke about the importance of trust during the 23rd annual memorial service held by the Robeson County Executive Law Enforcement Officers Association honoring fallen law enforcement officers on...
DUBLIN — During the month of June, the Small Business Center of Bladen Community College is offering the following seminars to the public.
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Board of Commissioners were briefed by Health and Human Services Agency Director Cris Harrelson regarding the Bladen County Health Department on Monday.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Historical Society and Harmony Hall Plantation Village have decided it's time for an amicable divorce.
In Greek mythology there was a mighty king named Sisyphus. In his day he was an entrepreneur with a Trump-like self-image, and presided over his territorial and commercial empire like a cagey Wall Street tycoon. His tactics, however, more resembled...
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Domestic consumers are to get some relief from their possible commitment to pay additional deposit amount with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) hiking interest rate on security deposit of consumers lying with the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco).
The relief will come in the wake of the Commission determining the interest rate at nine per cent as against six per cent hitherto.
It has been the practice of the power utility to credit the interest amount to the security deposit accounts of consumers.
In other words, there is no cash payment by the utility to consumers.
As the adequacy of the security deposit amount is due for review by April this year, the increase in the interest rate will mean that the consumers may have to pay less towards security deposit even it goes up.
For domestic consumers, the security deposit amount is maintained at one and a half times the average power bill. For the purposes of calculation, the Tangedco takes into account six bimonthly bills raised during the preceding financial year and arrives at the average value of the power bill.
The TNERC has arrived at nine per cent for the interest rate as the weighted average bank rate is about nine per cent for the period from April 2012 to January 2013.
For the Tangedco, the upward revision in the interest rate means that the power utility has to set apart about Rs. 100 crore more towards its liability of interest payment, which is only notional. At present, the annual liability is around Rs. 320 crore.
The Commission's order also states that the interest rate on meter caution deposit will be nine per cent.
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Azimuth Systems Marks the First Half of 2009 with Record Growth and Expansion into the MIMO and Cellular Markets
Leading Provider of Wireless Broadband Test Equipment and Channel Emulators Achieves Gains in Revenue, Customer Base and International Presence in 2009
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– Azimuth Systems, Inc., a leading provider of wireless broadband test equipment and channel emulators, today announced that it has achieved record growth and expansion in 2009 thus far, setting the foundation for a record-breaking year for the company. At the heart of this growth is the company's continued momentum in the LTE, WiMAX and 2G/3G markets, which is largely due to the release of Azimuth's third-generation MIMO channel emulator, the ACE™ MX. As of mid year, Azimuth has experienced a 50% revenue growth for channel emulators as compared to the first half of 2008, and dramatically expanded its customer base and international presence with the addition of key LTE and 2G/3G customers and partners worldwide.
During its profitable first half of 2009, Azimuth expanded sales of channel emulator systems for LTE and 2G/3G testing to wireless semiconductor, infrastructure and mobile equipment vendors, and service provider companies, including four of the leading multinational base station vendors. The company also expanded operations in Europe, as well as expanded its international channels with the introduction of new distributors including EHS Electronic Systems GmbH, which will be distributing Azimuth's products in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and RDT Equipment and Systems, Israel's leading supplier of best of breed professional test solutions and support services. In addition, Azimuth further expanded its distribution channel in China with the addition of Barbus Technology, a provider of first-class distribution services for wired and wireless telecom test equipment and test solutions.
Azimuth has continued to strengthen the company's active presence in the wireless industry. In early 2009, Azimuth announced it had joined LSTI (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution Trial Initiative) a global, collaborative technology trial initiative focused on accelerating the availability of commercial and interoperable next generation LTE mobile broadband systems. Additionally, Azimuth participated in the year's three leading international wireless industry trade events in Europe, US and Asia – Mobile World Congress in February, CTIA Wireless 2009 in April, and CommunicAsia 2009 in June.
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On Monday night, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Greg Little tweeted out the following picture of himself, Browns cornerback Joe Haden and Ramsey, apparently after partaking in a little BBQ.
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Wagner's music is eminently quotable. There's something about short musical fragments repeated with ever-mounting intensity that, not very surprisingly, breeds some formidable earworms. Tristan und Isolde is arguably the greatest culprit of all, with its highly distinctive opening Prelude and the overwhelming passion of its closing 'Transfiguration'. Artists ever since have inserted anything from a covert homage to a clear quotation in their own works for stage, concert hall and screen.
One of the first to jump on the Tristan bandwagon (maybe somewhat incongruously) was Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. He mined Tristan for the opening of the overture of the G&S parliamentary fairytale Iolanthe, which had its premiere in 1882. Muted strings feel their way to a 'Tristan chord', but instead of Wagner's endless melody they quickly resolve into a Mendelssohnian parody – surely something of a send-up.
Sullivan wasnt the only one to mess around with Tristan. Debussy deftly mocks the Prelude's intensity in his playful piano piece 'Golliwogg's Cake-Walk' – that distinctive rising motif becomes a crude grotesque repeated over and over again at inappropriate intervals in Debussy's cruel parody. Samuel Barber makes similar use of Tristan's sense of licentious excess in his song Nuvoletta; matching the wordplay of James Joyce's text as Nuvoletta 'sighed after herself as were she born to bride with Tristis Tristior Tristissimus', the last three words mapped on to Tristan motifs of increasingly heated fervour.
Luis Buñuel similarly draws on Tristan's overt erotic overtones, also with an occasional sense of mockery. Buñuel and his co-writer Salvador Dalí managed - in the 1927 film Un Chien andalou - that rare task of upstaging the Tristan chord, where the opening of the Prelude follows the image of a razor slicing an eye as clouds bisect the moon. But their true tour de force came three years later with L'Age d'or, where the music of Tristan follows two lovers who attempt to get it on despite society's interventions. In one infamous scene an onscreen orchestra accompanies the frustrated woman as she sucks a statue's toe, out of sight of the bourgeois audience who calmly sit through the music's erotic histrionics.
So overt is the romantic passion of Tristan that it wasn't long before it became a Hollywood shortcut for lovers, preferably the doomed kind – just as much as Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries' has come to represent war. In fact, Frank Borzage's excellent 1932 film adaptation of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms manages to fit them both in. Milan Roder's score 'borrows' swathes of Wagner, drawing on the 'Ride of the Valkyries' in the film's breathtaking war sequence (at 1:01:35 below), and the 'Liebestod' to make sure we don't miss the extreme tragedy of stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes's very tragic ending.
A few of Roder's Hollywood successors have found more imaginative ways of adapting Wagner. Franz Waxman created a whole Wagner violin fantasia for Humoresque, a 1946 Joan Crawford melodrama where the Tristan sounds are used, unsurprisingly, to represent her doomed love affair with violinist hero John Garfield. And Bernard Herrmann's acclaimed score for Hitchcock's Vertigo makes more than a passing nod to Tristan in its theme for doomed lovers James Stewart and Kim Novak.
In recent years Tristan has meant more to movies than doomed love affairs. Bernard Rose's 'Hollywood tragedy' Ivans xtc. draws lengthily on the score in its opening credits and closing sequence, representing not the ecstasy of love but the enormity of death. A similar impulse lies behind the opening of Lars von Trier's extraordinary apocalyptic drama Melancholia, which uses the Prelude in its entirety to encapsulate the inevitability of death and destruction.
What are your favourite Wagner quotations?
Tristan und Isolde runs 5–21 December 2014. Tickets are still available.
The production is a co-production with Houston Grand Opera and is given with generous philanthropic support from Peter and Fiona Espenhahn, Malcolm Herring, Bertrand and Elisabeth Meunier and Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson.]]>
Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Inspired by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais' Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro
Beaumarchais's three satirical 'Figaro' plays guaranteed him lasting fame – particularly the first two, immortalized in opera by Rossini and Mozart. The irrepressible energy of Le Barbier de Séville (the first and most lighthearted of Beaumarchais's comedies) proved irresistible to Rossini, who in Il barbiere created a comic masterpiece. In Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart focussed primarily on the most human aspects of Beaumarchais' second 'Figaro' drama (while keeping plenty of the original's humour), to create one of the warmest and most life affirming works in Western art.
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Inspired by Friedrich von Schiller's Maria Stuart
In his great political drama Maria Stuart, Schiller criticizes monarchical absolutism and highlights the dangers of power, embodied in the character of Elisabeth I, who sends her cousin Maria Stuart to death without a fair trial. Donizetti and his librettist Giuseppe Bardari kept much of the play's essential message in Maria Stuarda; but they also removed the complicated political subplots, and created a love triangle between the Duke of Leicester and the two queens. Schiller's explorations of the dangers of absolute power, the benefits of democracy and the heroism of freedom-fighting also provided inspiration for Rossini (in Guillaume Tell) and Verdi (in Don Carlo).
Verdi's Rigoletto
Inspired by Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse
Hugo's great drama depicting the amorous exploits of King Francis I of France was banned after just one performance in 1832, due to its unflattering depiction of a French monarch. When Verdi came across the play in 1850 he described the subject as 'grand, immense' and the character of the crippled jester Triboulet (who became Rigoletto) as 'one of the greatest creations in theatre'. He and his librettist had to fight energetically with the Italian censors to get permission to use Hugo's play – necessary amends included changing the King into a lower-ranking Duke and moving the action from France to Italy. However, much of the play's plot and dramatic tone remained intact. Rigoletto was a sell-out success and is still one of the most popular of all operas.
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande
Maurice Maeterlinck's fantastical Symbolist plays are rarely performed today, but his Pelléas et Mélisande was hugely popular in the 1890s. Maeterlinck's aesthetic – the exploration of characters' inner feelings through elements of the natural world, often in a fairytale-like setting – was regarded as a welcome contrast to the naturalism prominent in Parisian theatre of the time. Debussy described the effect of seeing the play in 1893 as 'like dynamite' for him. He treated Maeterlinck's text with great respect when he wrote his opera, leaving much of it intact and only omitting a few short scenes. He also ensured that every nuance could be clearly conveyed, with a predominantly syllabic word setting, almost like 'sung speech'.
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's much-loved comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired one of Benjamin Britten's most popular operas, composed in less than nine months. Britten and his partner Peter Pears (who took the comic role of Flute/Thisby in the opera's premiere) wrote the libretto, skillfully compressing and reorganizing Shakespeare's text while sticking faithfully to the Bard's words – Britten noted that they added only one line of their own. Britten heightened the supernatural strangeness of the fairy scenes by making Oberon a countertenor (a voice rarely used in opera at the time) and Puck a spoken role, and added to the comedy of the rustics' Pyramus and Thisby play by deftly parodying grand and bel canto opera.
Maria Stuarda runs 5–18 July 2014. Tickets are still available. The production is a co-production with Polish National Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, and is given with generous philanthropic support from Lord and Lady Laidlaw, Susan and John Singer and Michael Hartnall.
Rigoletto runs 12 September–6 October 2014. General booking opens on 15 July 2014.
Il barbiere di Siviglia runs 19 September–5 October 2014. General booking opens on 15 July 2014.]]>
Claude Debussy, one of the most influential composers of his era, was born in the western suburbs of Paris in 1862. From an early age, the composer was as argumentative and radical as he was talented, challenging the rigidity of his formal training at the Paris Conservatoire and striving to create a new music: 'Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?' he wrote. 'The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.' A self-taught and brilliant pianist, he favoured dissonances and developed a unique sound world. Though he was often identified as an Impressionist, it was a term he despised, dubbing those who appropriated it 'imbeciles'.
To celebrate Debussy's birthday, we've picked out a few examples of the composer's music that have inspired choreographers:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun)
Originally conceived as a symphonic poem for orchestra inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune has become one of Debussy's most famous works, alongside his iconic symphony La Mer and sole opera Pelléas et Mélisande. Its opening, chromatic flute solo remains one of the most famous passages in musical modernism. It was made into a short (and controversial) ballet for the Ballets Russes by Vaslav Nijinsky in 1912, with staging and choreography reminiscent of ancient friezes. This overtly erotic work is considered one of the first modern ballets. The work was reinterpreted by Jerome Robbins in 1953, who transposed the setting to a sunny ballet studio. It was later referenced in Queen's video for I Want to Break Free, in which Freddie Mercury danced the role of the faun alongside Royal Ballet dancers, with choreography by Wayne Eagling.
Although somewhat eclipsed by the infamous premiere of The Rite of Spring that took place two weeks later, Jeux (Games) with its erotic subtext added to a controversy-filled 1913 for the Ballets Russes. With a narrative based on a game of tennis and a lost ball that leads to a departure into the garden bushes, the score was Debussy's last completed work for orchestra. It changes speed every two bars and is striking for almost never repeating any musical material – the composer described how he created the work for 'an orchestra without feet'. Like L'Après-midi d'un faune, Jeux was also choreographed by Nijinsky, who originally intended it to be a flirtatious exchange between three male dancers. However, company impresario Sergei Diaghilev insisted it be danced by one male and two females.
Debussy's 1896 orchestrations for his friend Erik Satie's 3 gymnopédies catapulted Satie to fame – much to Debussy's later chagrin. Debussy orchestrated only the first and third, believing the second did not lend itself to orchestration; Satie acolyte Alexis Roland-Manuel later completed the triptych with his own orchestration. Discovering the music years later, Ashton was struck by its form and hypnotic purity, and went on to craft a masterpiece of other-worldly beauty.
Alastair Marriott created Sensorium in 2009, setting it to Debussy's Préludes, orchestrated by Colin Matthews. The Préludes, originally written for solo piano, were written late in Debussy's life. They were divided into two books of twelve each, published in 1910 and 1913. Marriott opted to use seven préludes, including two for solo piano, which he set as mesmerizing pas de deux.
Which Debussy works do you love?
Or, if you could create a ballet scored by one of the composer's works, which would you choose and why?


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