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I started the morning at Forward Air in Aurora, Colorado, picking up the IT document. No problem there. The poor girl at the desk apologized at least five times for being disorganized when she couldn't immediately put her hands on the IT for me. She found it in good order. I headed off to an obscure building near Denver International Airport, home to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Port of Denver. I was ready. I had forms for the EPA, DOT, and customs ready, all filled out and signed, as well as a Power of Attorney to sign documents for my wife, who couldn't come along today.
I seem to have found the most helpful guy in the CBP office. He started out asking for the Bill of Sale and Invoice, the IT document and my drivers license. He disappeared for a few minutes. I was ready with the rest of the documents when he come back. He didn't ask for any. He just grabbed the stamp, stamped my IT, and sent me on my way. No EPA forms, no DOT forms, and no customs duty to pay, either!
Within an hour I was back at the customs warehouse with my clearance. Unlike the port, the warehouse folks were happy to take my money. They brought out the crate. I checked it over, and found it had several small fist-size holes where something had smashed through. I looked inside one of the holes, to figure out which was the front of the bike and which was the back. I asked them to load it back end first onto my trailer, so I could get the bike off the crate bottom easier later. If I thought there were lots of holes in the top and sides, you should have seen the bottom! It was a real mess. The crate last year was a mess too, despite being built from better plywood, but the bike inside was fine last year, so I was hopeful. I noted the damaged crate when I signed for the shipment, and went my merry way.
As it happens, ScrambledBen (you'll find him over on the Rockies forum) wanted the crate, and he lived only a couple miles away, so I headed for his place to dismantle the crate. Geek couldn't join us, but Ben and I made short work of it. The bike looks great. (Pictures to come) It is nearly identical to the one above, only the pinstripes are red instead of white. It is a sidevalve engine, four speed tranny with reverse, electric start and kicker. It came with the usual array of spare parts they know you will need eventually. Since spares are hard to come by in the U.S., Shao Yiqi is in the habit of providing a number of wear items when he ships bikes: brake shoes, a spare of each cable on the bike, extra plugs and wires, spokes, sidecar cover, a complete set of gaskets and seals, and a few items I haven't figured out yet.
We attached the battery cables and tried the key. The headlight came on strong, and the starter spun the engine over. We checked and found the crankcase full of clean oil. I added a few gallons of gas, tickled the carbs, primed the intake, closed the choke, and gave it a kick. Hmmm, maybe another kick. Nothing. I tried spinning it over with the electric starter, and it soon fired up. It idled well, and generally sounded good.
While it warmed up, we freed the wheels from the crate bottom. (They build small rails around each tire to make sure the bike doesn't move around in the crate.) When it was free, I backed it up so the rear wheels were off the crate bottom, and we pulled the bottom out from under the front tire.
After Ben and I got our fill of checking over every little part of the bike, we strapped it down for the ride, and I headed off to class.
I can't wait to get it home on Friday and take it for a spin.
PIctures will be coming as soon as I can get them uploaded, then I'll take you through the (state-specific, so maybe not so useful) process of getting the bike titled and registered in Wyoming.
If any of you guys are around Denver want to check out the bike before I head for Wyoming tomorrow night, I'll be near DU with it during the workday Thursday. Shoot me a PM.
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Sounds Great. You had a fairly easy day. A little tuning and a long break in and it looks like you are set to go. I hope DMV works as well.
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I suspect DMV will go just fine. The biggest hang up at DMV last time was relatively minor: When they tried to pick the manufacturer from a drop-down menu in their computer, there was no "Chang Jiang" there to choose! It's been added to their system now, so this time should be easy. (Knock on wood) I've been preparing for this process for a long time. Every time I'm in the DMV, I I joke with the clerk who helped me through it last time. It wasn't difficult, but it sure wasn't routine either. She remembers me!
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Black with red pinstripes? I like that combo. I've got to come over and check it out!
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The guys at the customs warehouse use two forklifts to get the crate onto my flatbed. It's inspiring to watch guys work who are clearly good at what they do.
I arrive at ScambledBen's house to start the uncrating, and he's ready with a wrecking bar!
The crate is half gone, and the motocycle starts peeking out from under the foam sheets
All gone but the crate's bottom now. The bike is wrapped in foam to protect the paint.
The bike is unwrapped now, and whatever caused those holes in the crate apparently caused no damage to the bike. Those bundles still wrapped in foam are the second saddlebag, the pillion seat (which bolts to the luggage rack) and the miscellaneous spare parts.
Time to add some gas and see if it will start:
Better connect the battery cables. The battery lives in a dedicated box in the sidecar trunk. Ben is tickled by the pint size battery. My Austin America has a similar half-size battery. Shao hid the keys in the trunk.
I tickle the carbs to make sure the fuel level is right, then fire up the bike. I really like the exhaust note on these bikes. It's throaty, but nice and quiet. Dig the reverse brake and clutch levers:
No pushrods on this engine. It's a sidevalve (flathead) engine, similar to the 1938 BMW design.
The speedo on this bike is a bit friendlier than our other Chang: it has markings in both KPH and MPH.
This bike has Shao Yiqi's patented saddlebags: leather with a steel frame inside. They are destined for our older Chang, since it will get used without the sidecar more often. This bike has a brake on the sidecar, which is lacking on our other bike. The added brake cable would probably only add five minutes to the process of removing the sidecar (which only takes 15 minutes, if you have a friend to help.) It felt funny when I sat on the bike, as if the tank was wider than I expected. When I got home tonight, I measured. Sure enough, this tank is about two inches wider than the one on our other bike.
Old iron and alloy puts a smile on my face every time!
We tied the bike down well for the trip to Wyoming. I arrived home late tonight, and got the bike tucked away in the garage for the night. I'll get some more pics over the weekend. Anything in particular anyone wants to see or know?
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great looking bike!i'm glad you have figured out the import/registration process for the cj's.i have one coming from a different factory(re-builder)and i'm anxious to compare notes.all of the paperwork is being handled by the dealer that i am working with-greg at scooter bobs in w. va.mine is an afrika corps tan,military.i hope to have it soon.again,congrats on your cj's.
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How about some action photos .
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Lighten up, Francis.
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Living in the middle-of-nowhere, Wyoming, I've never seen another Chang Jiang. I suspect ours are the only two in the state. It would be interesting to see another up close. It's been fun going over this one and picking out all the differences. They ahd a very long production run in China, so there are very few parts that weren't made in several different styles through the years. I get the sense the rebuilders use whatever parts are still good when they dismantle the bikes, so there are lots of possible variations.
Here's the list differences I've found so far:
different lower fork legs (new ones are chrome)
wider fuel tank, and non-locking cap
new head castings are much rougher
Knee pad in the new sidecar
sidecar rubber floor is bolted down in the new one, loose in old one
both the forward and reverse shifters are different, and kind of hard to find!
hand shifter is longer on the new bike.
Dipstick is so long you can barely get it out, as it hits the botom of the tank
Same coffee can taillight, but the old one is chrome, this one is painted
Speedo face has mph markings
MUCH brighter headlight on the new bike!
new bike has electrical components mounted in a "tool box" near the rear axle, while the old bike has them hidden under the seat.
pinstripes are in slightly different locations on the fenders.
new driveshaft is chrome plated, and a different style as well
new sidecar has a brake! bonus!
the frame has an unused bracket near the driveshaft that is not on the old bike. (maybe for a bike-mounted battery?)
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Congrats on the new ride! Very nice looking.
So do you have a total out the door cost with all the import fees, customs, etc?
What is the performance envelope like? Comfortable cruise speed, etc?
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Great looking bike. Congrats on it!!
I have been followint the thread. Correct me if I am wrong, the bike is $1500.00 from China and according to his website another $1500.00 to ship it here with all the customs paper work done on it.
So I could have the bike here at my work for 3k total?
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Ceteris non Paribus
Joined: Feb 2007
Location: Elizabeth, Colorado
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Bike + restoration +shipping: $2100
miscellaneous "Expediter" fees: $172
Customs warehouse fees: $60
Total: $2332 (can you spell "bargain"?)
As for performance, well, one Chang Jiang website says it very well: If you're asking how fast the bike can go, you're probably not suited to this type of bike. These bikes were designed as military transport, to move troops and materials over bad roads, through fields, and generally to get through places cars and trucks can't go. They are good at what they were designed for, but modern high speed was never part of the design.
They keep up with traffic ok around town and on most backroads. I would absolutely never, ever, take one on any freeway. The top speed (for the 22 or 24 HP sidevalve engine) is probably about 65-70 mph, but they can't keep that up for long. They are happiest cruising down the highway at around 55-60. If you order a pushrod version, they are apparently happier at slightly higher speeds, but still have only 34 HP.
In short, they are fabulous bikes for crusing around town and through the forest and backroads. They are not entirely at home on modern American highways, and they are completely out of place on any Interstate highway.
In my mind, they are much like an old VW bus: quirky, endearing, and capable of causing a shift in your whole outlook on the pace of modern life. I suspect your heartrate actually slows down and you become more relaxed when you spend much time driving one. It wasn't just the pot that made hippies so mellow, the gutless hippie buses played a role too. They make you more aware of what's happening around you in traffic, because you are aware that you are something of a rolling traffic hazard. You become more couteous as a result, often pulling onto the shoulder so people with high blood pressure can get past you easier. It feels perfectly safe to pull over onto the shoulder when you are only driving 55 MPH.
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Congratulations on a(nother) sweet looking hack. Looking forward to seeing it regularly in the Ride Reports section...
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Hey Hakatan!
Now that Geek is riding a Beemer too, maybe we should all plan a ride to the BMWMOA gathering in Wyoming this summer. I'm planning to take one of the Changs (and hope the real BMW riders won't run me out of town for riding a replica!).
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18.07.04 - By Janne Romppainen: When Roy Jones defeated John Ruiz for the WBA heavyweight title in 2003, big headlines were made. Jones was only the second light-heavyweight champion who had won a heavyweight title and the first middleweight in over hundred years who had achieved that. The accomplishment was fine no matter how it is put, but the factor that made it historical was that Ruiz had a title belt. However, apart from WBA nobody considered Ruiz to be the best heavyweight in the world at the time, but he was rather in the lower part of top-10. A smaller man beating that is not as new thing as winning a title: in fact there once was a former welterweight world champion who beat several heavyweight contenders. That champion was Irish-American Mickey Walker, The Toy Bulldog.
Edward Patrick Walker was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1901. His father had got to know the legendary heavyweight world champion John L. Sullivan and even trained with him, but he had denied all the offers to turn to a professional boxer himself. He didnt really accept either that his son, who was called Mickey since he was a child, got into the sport, which he did for the first time in 1913.
When Walker was 18 he saw a and advertisement of professional boxing competition. Boxing had just become legal in the state of New Jersey and Walker wanted to participate. Walker got paid ten dollars for his four-round fight so he never fought an official amateur contest. Even though he didnt know much of anything about boxing technique, he managed to knock his opponent Domenico Orsini out with a furious attack.
Aggressive attacking style also became Walkers trademark in the future and audience loved him from the beginning. His face got reshaped during his career as he was always willing to take punches to land his own but Walker didnt care about that. The nickname Toy Bulldog suited him totally both because of his fighting style and because of his looks. Walker knocked out his first seven opponents, but then one Phil Delmont stunned him and in turn knocked out Walker. Walker learned from his mistakes in the bout and realised that against the biggest of punchers he wouldnt be able to walk through everything.
When Walker had just turned 20 he already met a top opponent as he fought the reigning welterweight champion Jack Britton who in during his whole career was champion for three different times. Walker fought well and controlled the bout, but it was a 12-round fight where there was no scoring and Walker could only have become the champion by knocking out Britton. He wasnt able to do that, but he impressed the spectators so that he got a new chance the next year in Madison Square Garden. This time the bout was an official 15-rounder and the challenger Walker took home a clear decision.
Walker became the world champion for the first time in the young age of 21 and he was a celebrated and popular star the land over. Walker loved to celebrate and have good time himself and that in turn increased his popularity furthermore. It often happened during his title reign that he came to the morning weigh-ins straight from a night club or a brothel. At the time the title was not at stage in most fights so the bouts were not as important for the champion as they would be today, but Walker also kept winning despite his questionable training routines. In his welterweight title defences he was in biggest trouble against Lew Tendler, a man who had also almost knocked out the legendary lightweight champion Benny Leonard, but Walker barely survived full ten rounds against him.
In 1925 Walkers career, which had been more quiet after his first years as a champion, took another lift. The legendary Jack Doc Kearns became his manager and together the two great boxing personas made eight million dollars with their co-operation, although neither man was as good in saving money as getting it. In the same year Walker also stepped up to middleweight to face the supreme champion of the division Harry Greb. Greb is still regarded by many as the greatest middleweight of the history. He was the only man ever to beat the heavyweight world champion Gene Tunney. Also he was very much alike Walker both in- and outside of the ring. He loved good time, strong drinks and especially women, who, according to stories, kept him company also in his dressing room right before he made his walk-in. Inside the ring he was a furious windmill who gave and took brutal punishment just like Walker.
When these two warriors faced each other, everybody knew that it would be a war for ages. Little wonder, then, that the Polo Grounds stadium of New Your was jammed with 60 000 spectators. Walker and Greb went after each other like demons and fired away with all the legal and illegal punches of the book, even the referee got knocked down during the fight. The bout was all-even before the last round. In the final stanza, Greb proved to be just a bit more brutal: he blatantly thumbed Walker with his left and at the same time crashed his right to Walkers chin. The shot was so hard that Greb broke his hand. Walker did not go down, but he was forced to retreat and the decision went to Greb. According to a legend the two fought an unofficial rematch in the very same night. They met each other in a night club and went out to the street to finish their fight. This time the winner was Walker: he managed to hit Greb as he was taking off his coat
Walker went back down to defend his welterweight crown which he lost a year later to a fighter named Peter Latzo. Walker had beaten him before, but now he was suffering from weight problems which had troubled him already earlier and thus it was time for him to move up to middleweight for good. Still in the same year 1926 Walker fought for the middleweight title again, now against Tiger Flowers who had defeated Greb. Greb had died a couple of weeks earlier and Walker never got a chance to rematch him officially. Walker won Flowers narrowly on points and also Flowers died accidentally soon after before the supposed rematch could be made. At this time Walker was reaching his prime as a fighter. He defended his new crown often and never lost it in the ring. He also tried to wrestle the light-heavyweight championship from Tommy Loughran, a legendary champion too, but couldnt quite make it. The bout was only a ten-rounder and Loughran was exhausted at the end of it but he survived with a decision victory. Apart from him Walker didnt lose to anybody in five years.
In 1931 Walker gave up his title and moved up to heavyweight. Kearns saw a good opportunity to make money with Walker against the big men and Walker himself had no doubts of his own skills. Walker beat twice Johnny Risko, a fine heavyweight contender, and he also bested Bearcat Wright who weighed a whopping 270 pounds and was over a hundred pounds heavier than Walker. Walker still was the same aggressive fighter as he had always been, so overcoming this size of opponents with that style was quite extraordinary, especially considering that Walker stood only at 59. Still in the same year Walker held the future world champion Jack Sharkey to draw and according to most spectators he would have deserved to win. In 1932 he defeated among others the former world title challenger Paolino Uzcudun and rose to fifth spot in The Rings heavyweight ratings. All the fighters mentioned might well have been some kind of titlists is the times had been different.
The same year his skills started to erode however. Johnny Risko beat him in their rubber match and the former world champion Max Schmeling gave him a hellacious beating. His right crosses were just too much for attacking Walker, but the Bulldog never gave up trying though even the audience demanded the referee to stop the contest.
That would be Walkers farewell fight in heavyweight and his career began to slide. He fought once more for the light-heavyweight title but lost on points to a fine champion Maxie Rosenbloom. Walker did not want to give up boxing even though he started to lose more and more often and when he finally hung up his gloves in 1935, he had fought as a professional for 17 years, averaging almost nine fights per season. His final ring record was 93 wins, 18 defeats, 4 draws and 33 no-decisions.
Even though his boxing career ended, Walker still never wanted to rest. He owned a restaurant, he wrote columns to newspapers and he painted pictures. He was a talented artist actually, and some of his paintings were good enough to get into art exhibitions. However, as the case had been during his boxing years too, Walker never knew how to control his property. He lost the money that his art earned him and when he died in 1981, he was almost as poor as he had been when he stepped in a boxing gym for the first time.
While it is obvious that boxing has changed from the 1930s and that these days it would be impossible to train with whiskey, Mickey Walkers achievements are quite extraordinary. Just imagine this scenario: a tough welterweight champion, lets say Antonio Margarito, steps up to middleweight, goes full rounds against Bernad Hopkins and later wins the title against another great champion, then challenges Antonio Tarver for the light-heavyweight title and gets the better of it although loses the decision, then he gets up to heavyweight and beats top-10 contenders, say Lamon Brewster and Jameel McCline. Ludicrous, isnt it? It is, but the Toy Bulldog made all that happen. What a fighter!
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ClassicsOnline Home » STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 9
Johann Strauss II
100 Most Famous Works
Vol. 9
Johann Strauss II, the
most famous and enduringly successful nineteenth century light music composer,
was born in Vienna on 25 October 1825. Building upon the firm musical
foundations laid by his father, Johann Strauss I (1804-1849) and Joseph Lanner
(1801-1843), the younger Johann (along with his brothers, Josef and Eduard)
achieved so high a development of the classical Viennese waltz that it became
as much a feature of the concert hall as of the ballroom. For more than half a
century Johann II captivated not only Vienna but also the whole of Europe and
America with his abundantly tuneful waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and marches.
The appeal of his music bridged all social strata, and his genius was revered
by such masters as Verdi, Brahms and Richard Strauss. The thrice-married
"Waltz King" later turned his attention to the composition of
operetta, and completed 16 stage works (among them Die Fledermaus, Eine
Nacht in Venedig and Der Zigeunerbaron) besides more than 500
orchestral compositions - including the most famous of all waltzes, The Blue
Danube (1867). Johalm Strauss II died in Vienna on 3 June 1899.
The Marco Polo Strauss
Edition, from which these recordings were selected, is a milestone in recording
history, presenting, for the first time ever, the entire orchestral output of
the "Waltz King". Despite their supremely high standard of musical
invention, the majority of the compositions have never before been commercially
recorded and have been painstakingly assembled from archives around the world.
All performances featured in this series are complete and, wherever possible,
the works are played in their original instrumentation as conceived by the
"master orchestrator" himself, Johann Strauss II.
[1] Eine Nacht in
Venedig (A Night in Venice) Overture
The sixteen stage
works which Vienna's Waltz King was to complete were all first performed in his
native city - with one exception: the three-act comic operetta, Eine Nacht
in Venedig. In contrast, this was first produced in Berlin at the Neues
Friedrich Wilhelmstädtisches Theater (the former Woltersdorff-Theater) on 3
October 1883. The work, which had endured a troubled beginning was, however,
ultimately a success.
The overture to Eine
Nacht in Venedig is a masterpiece of variety, although it contains only a
fraction of the splendid melodies in the operetta. The opening Allegro commences
with a series of fifth leaps, a figure probably based on the beginning of
Annina's Act 3 'Spottlied' (No. 16), to the words "Ein Herzog, reich und
mächtig". After a link passage, the Temo di marcia, quasi
maestoso features music from the chorus section of the Act 2 Finale (No.
13), "Horch! Von San Marco der Glokken geläut"', while the Allegro
which follows is untraceable in the published score and may perhaps
comprise material discarded before the Viennese production of the stage work.
The Tempo di Valse passage quotes almost complete from the duet for
Annina and the Duke in the Act 2 Finale (No. 10), commencing with the words
"Ach, was ist das?". A further link passage leads to the Andante
mosso taken from Caramello's famous 'Gondellied' (Gondola Song: "Komm'
in die Gondel") from the Act 1 Finale (No. 7a). Agricola's "So
ängstlich sind wir nicht" from Act 2 (No. 8a) provides the theme for the Allegro
moderato section, which is followed by a repeat of material used earlier in
the overture: the untraceable Allegro, the Tempo di Valse, the Quasi
maestoso and the Allegro moderato (now marked Allegro), and
these all combine to form an effective and rhythmical conclusion to the
(The above analysis is
based on the definitive original version of Eine Nacht in Venedig as
established by the first performance in Vienna, published in the Johann
Strauss Gesamtaugabe (Complete Edition), Doblinger-Universal Edition,
Vienna 1970.)
After he himself had
conducted the Viennese première of Eine Nacht in Venedig on 9 October
1883, Johann Strauss left it to his brother Eduard to introduce the first
concert performance of the operetta's overture. Eduard lost no time in
scheduling the piece for his opening concert of the 1883/84 season with the
Strauss Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein building on Sunday 14
October 1883. Moreover, Eduard took this opportunity to play some couplets from
Eine Nacht in Venedig, arranged by himself in polka form, while the
concert also featured more serious music by such composers as Rossini
(Overture: The Thieving Magpie), Mozart (Quintet from Cosí fan
tutte), Moszkowski (Serenata, concert piece for piano,
orchestrated by Eduard Strauss) and Charles Oberthür (Bonnie Scotland, Fantasia
on Scottish folk songs, for harp).
[2] Motoren, Walzer
(Motors, Waltz) Op. 265
Despite the growing
musical stature of his younger brother, Josef, Johann Strauss once more reigned
supreme over the numerous festivities of the busy 1862 Vienna Carnival. Among
more than sixty balls at which Johann conducted during the season was that of
the technical students at Vienna University, held in the Sofienbad-Saal on 10
February. The wide vocabulary employed by the ever-innovative engineering
profession provided an unending source of apposite titles for Vienna's dance
composers and for his new waltz, dedicated to the technical students, Johann
lighted upon one of the more
obvious - Motoren.
By the close of the
l862 Carnival 'campaign' Strauss was physically drained. Soon afterwards
Vienna's newspapers carried the news that Eduard Strauss, Johann's youngest
brother, was to make his début with the family orchestra that April as a
conductor of concerts. It is clear that Johann desired Eduard, rather than
Josef, to deputise for him at the head of the Strauss orchestra during his
absences abroad, and to be the interpreter of his (Johann's) music.
[3] Éljen a Magyar!
Polka schnell (Long Live the Magyar! Quick polka) Op.332
Immediately after the
close of the official 1869 Vienna Carnival calendar, Johann and Josef Strauss
began preparations for their joint Russian summer season of concerts in
Pavlovsk from 9 May (= 27 April, Russian calendar) until 10 October (= 28
September). But a number of concert engagements had to be fulfilled before
their departure, including a journey by the Strauss orchestra under the
direction of all three brothers, Johann, Josef and Eduard, to the Hungarian
town of Pest on the banks of the Danube. To coincide with the opening of Pest's
imposing new Redoutensaal building, the brothers had organised two concerts
there on 16 and 17 March. It was at the first of these that Johann conducted
his quick polka Éljen a Magyar!, composed especially for the occasion
and dedicated "to the Hungarian Nation". From his early days as a
composer Johann was as much at home with the music of Hungary as he was with
that of his native Vienna, and this exciting work, further enhanced at its
première by the participation of the Budapest Men's Choral Association, was
triumphantly applauded and had to be repeated several times. The Coda of the
work features a fleeting quotation from the Rákóczi March, which Berlioz
had earlier utilised in his Damnation of Faust (1846), but which owes
its origins to the patriotic Magyar Rákóczi song.
[4] Wo die Citronen
blüh'n! Walzer
(Where the Lemon-Trees
blossom! Waltz Op. 364)
On 1 May 1874 - barely
a month after the successful première of his operetta Die Flederaus – Johann
Strauss left Vienna for a series of twenty-one guest concerts throughout Italy
at the head of the Langenbach Orchestra from Germany. The Strauss Orchestra,
under Eduard Strauss, was at that time fulfilling engagements in Vienna, and so
was unavailable for the tour.
At the Teatro Regio in
Turin, on 9 May, Johann gave the first performance of an "especially
composed" new waltz entitled Bella Italia (Beautiful Italy)
which, for its Viennese première on 10 June that year, was renamed Wo die
Citronen blüh'n! The new title of this lovely work derives from the first
line of Goethe's famous poem in his novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -"Kennst
du das Land wo die Citronen blüh'n?" (Do you know the land where the
lemon-trees blossom?)
[5] Banditen-Galopp
(Bandits Galop) Op. 378
The wild Banditen-Galopp
belongs to those orchestral numbers which Johann Strauss arranged from
tunes in his comic operetta Prinz Methusalem (Première: Carl-Theater
Vienna, 3 January 1877). The galop's title derives from the appearance in the
stage work of a bandit gang intent on overthrowing the reigning Prince, and its
principal melody is to be found in the Act 3 duet with chours, "In der
stille ganz verstohl'n werden wir Schätze hol'n". The Act 1 Finale
provides the source of the galop's remaining themes.
Almost immediately
after the operetta's première Johann, accompanied by his wife Jetty, left
Vienna to fulfil engagements in Paris. The return trip was made via Baden-Baden,
where Strauss had enjoyed great success in 1871, that the composer gave the
first performance of his Banditen-Galopp (played under the title Sapristi).
[6] Schatz-Walzer
(Treasure Waltz) Op. 418
By the early 1880s
Johann Strauss, who already had about a dozen operettas to his credit,
including the French versions of Indigo und die vierzig Räuber and Die
Fledermaus, felt free and secure enough to venture into the realm of high
operatic art, which he had always regarded with somewhat respectful awe. As
early as March 1883 the management of Vienna's prestigious Hof-Operntheater
('Court Opera Theatre') had announced: "If he [Strauss] were to decide to
compose a comic opera, there would be an endeavour to obtain a suitable
libretta which would satisfy the requirements". Behind the scenes,
however, Strauss had already decided upon the composition of an Hungarian
opera, based on the novel Saffi, about a young gypsy girl, written by
the one-time Hungarian freedom fighter Jókai Mór (1825-1904). The great author
declined to undertake the stage treatment of his story himself, instead
entrusting the work to another Hungarian, Ignatz Schnitzer (1839-1921).
Composer and librettist worked closely together for two years on the
adaptation, entitled Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), from the
outset intending it as an opera for the Hof-Operntheater. Strauss was
subsequently to encounter certain obstacles which forced a reshaping of the
work as an operetta and, after a good deal of contractual wrangling between the
managements of the Hof-Operntheater and the Theater an der Wien, Der
Zigeunerbaron eventually received its triumphant première at the latter
venue on 24 October 1885 - the eve of the composer's sixtieth birthday.
One of the highlights
in the operetta is the moment when Sándor Barinkay, the young exile recently
returned to his ancestral home in Hungary, locates the hoard of treasure that
his late father had hidden on the estate. Joined by Saffi and Czipra, Barinkay
sings the Act 2 trio "Treasure Waltz" ("Ha, seht es winkt, es
blinkt, es klingt"). The melody of this number also features in the
entrancing orchestral waltz which Strauss compiled from themes in Der
Zigeunerbaron and which he entitled, appropriately, the Schatz-Walzer. The
sources of the material used in the waltz may be summarised as follows:
Introduction -
Act 1 Finale (No.
7): Czipra,
"Du kannst den
Zigeunern ganz vertrau'n"
Waltz lA & 1B -
Act 2 Finale (No.
13): Arsena and Mirabella,
"So voll
Frohlichkeit "
Waltz 2A -
Act 2 Trio (No. 9):
Saffi, Czipra and Barinkay,
"Ha, seht es
winkt, es blinkt, es klingt"
Waltz 2B -
Continuation of the
same number to the words
"Nun will ich
das Lebens mich freuen"
Waltz 3A -
Act 2 (No. 12):
Morality Commission's couplets,
"Nur keusch und
Waltz 3B -
Act 1 (No. 2):
Barinkay's entrance aria (waltz section),
"la, das Alles
auf Her"
Waltz 4A -
Act 2 (No. 9) Trio:
Final section,
"Doch mehr als
Gold und Geld "
Waltz 4B -
Act 1 (No. 1)
Introduction: Chorus,
"Das wär' kein
rechter Schiffersknecht"
Coda -
Comprises material
from the aforegoing numbers
[7] Fledermaus-Polka
Op. 362
Even when Johann
Strauss turned his attentions to the composition of operetta he maintained a
presence in the ballroom by arranging melodies from his stageworks as
individual orchestral numbers. Die Fledermaus [Première: Theater an der
Wien, Vienna, 5 April 1874], the third and most enduring of all his operettas,
was no exception, and Strauss arranged six separate dance pieces from its
tuneful score.
[8] Flugschriften,
Walzer (Pamphlets, Waltz) Op. 300
The Vienna Carnival
('Fasching') of 1866 witnessed a previously undreamed of abundance of new
dance compositions by the three Strauss brothers, and at their traditional
'Carnival Revue' in the Volksgarten on 18 February the triumvirate presented a
total of 22 novelties, comprising seven by Johann, ten by Josef and five by
Eduard. Only in the 1867 Vienna Carnival would their joint tally exceed this
figure, when they created a record number of 25 new dance pieces for the
various festivities.
One of the loveliest
of Johann's three waltz contributions to the 1866 Vienna Fasching was that
written for the annual ball of the Vienna Authors' and Journalists'
Association, 'Concordia', held in the Sofienbad-Saal ballroom on Sunday 21
January. The piece, dedicated to the 'Concordia', was aptly entitled Flugschriften
('Pamphlets'), and its first piano edition, bearing the composer's
dedication to the 'Concordia' and depicting a winged Pegasus being ridden across
the skies over Vienna by a carnival character gleefully strewing pamphlets
behind him as an owl flees for its life, actually went on sale the day before
the Concordia Ball. Unusually, however, FIugschriften was a rare example
of a dedication work which did not receive its première at the ball for which
it was written: four days earlier, on 17 January, Johann had conducted the
first performance of the waltz at a Court Ball in the Rittersaal of the
Imperial Hofburg Palace attended by the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I
and the Empress Elisabeth.
While the title of
Strauss's Fiugschriften Walzer may be unfamiliar, audiophiles and
ballettomanes alike will doubtless recognise an arrangement of the plaintive
melodies of Waltz 2 and part of the Coda as comprising the music for 'The
Opening of the Ball'dance in Antal Dorati's 1940 pastiche ballet, Graduation
Ball. A recapitulation of Waltz 2A is also to be heard towards the close of
the ballet's 'Finale'.
[9] Egyptischer Marsch
(Egyptian March) Op. 335
The formal opening of
the Suez Canal – linking Port Said, on the Mediterranean Sea, and the Egyptian
port of Suez, on the Red Sea – was celebrated on 16 November 1869 by an
inaugural ceremony at Port Said. On the following day sixty-eight
vessels of various nationalities began the passage, arriving at Suez four days
The opening of this
artificial waterway created considerable interest around the world, and in
Vienna gave rise to Anton Bithler's burlesque, Nach Egypten (Into
Egypt), presented at the Theater an der Wien on 26 December that year. It
was here as a processional march for Egyptian warriors before the final scene,
that the Viennese public first became acquainted with the sinuous themes of
Johann Strauss's Egyptischer Marsch. The composer, ever mindful of
current affairs, had in fact written the piece for his 1869 summer concert
season in Pavlovsk – shared that year with his brother Josef – and had
conducted its première at the Vauxhall Pavilion there on 6 July (= 24 June,
Russian calendar) at a benefit concert for the two brothers.
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BERLIN In a city filled with grand monuments to a tragic past, some here say the tiniest are the most powerful: the thousands of brass-topped cobblestones that are spreading over Berlin's sidewalks.
Six new ones showed up on one street the other day. Five more on another. Each one marks a victim of the Holocaust, placed in front of that person's home. Together, they form an expanding constellation of lives that were lived in this city before it turned against its own.
This elegant capital has a grim, concrete-slab memorial covering five acres next to the Brandenburg Gate that is used for official events to commemorate the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. But today, thousands in Berlin have their markers, placed there by an artist who has installed similar stones across Europe.
The blocks, which artist Gunter Demnig calls stumbling stones, have spread across Germany at a time when the country's basic relationship with its past has quickly been changing. Even the grandparents of many schoolchildren were born after World War II. The country's postwar bonds with Israel, once unchallenged, have been fraying as more people question whether they have any special obligation to atone for the sins of their ancestors.
But the stones can still provoke powerful reactions.
On a recent drizzly afternoon, groups of people greeted Demnig as he laid more than a dozen new stones around Berlin.
"This is the exact opposite of what the Nazis wanted," said Thomas Berens, 46, a building manager in the Hansaviertel neighborhood of Berlin, which was leveled by bombing during World War II.
At least 1,030 Jews in this area of less than a quarter square mile were killed by the Nazis, and Berens has been part of efforts to research the lives of some of the victims.
"Here it's bringing back the names," Berens said, as he waited for Demnig to pry up a pavement stone and replace it with six blocks, each with a name on it, along with a birthday and information about deportations and deaths. When they were sent to Auschwitz, the youngest in the family was 3 years old. The eldest, Margarete Hartstein, was 51.
Demnig, 65, who was born in Berlin shortly after World War II ended and who habitually wears a black-denim-and-leather outfit reminiscent of Indiana Jones, has made laying the stones his full-time work since 1997. Locals and family members commission them for $160 each, and the waiting list to install them stretches two years. So far, there are 38,000 scattered across Europe.
"They read in a book, '6 million,' that's abstract," Demnig said. "But they see one family, they really think about what happened. They read, 'he was old as me, and he was murdered.' "
The stones stir passions far out of proportion to their size. Other cities have banned them, including Munich, Germany's third-largest city, in part because local Jewish organizations objected to them. On the Nov. 9 anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, all the stones in the northeastern town of Greifswald disappeared overnight. Authorities suspect far-right groups.


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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Saxophone legend Branford Marsalis is headlining a jazz festival in Haiti.
Marsalis arrived in the impoverished Caribbean nation Friday to perform several shows at the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival.
The first show for the Branford Marsalis Quartet will be Friday night in the coastal town of Jacmel. The second show will be Saturday in Port-au-Prince at a concert venue that was once a sugarcane plantation.
Marsalis will also perform a private show Tuesday at the residence of U.S. Ambassador Pamela White.
"It's really cool to be here," Marsalis, 52, said by telephone from an oceanfront hotel in Jacmel. "The people are beautiful to me."
The annual festival, now in its seventh year, runs from Friday through Jan. 26. More than two dozen jazz musicians are coming from Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Cameroon and elsewhere.
Marsalis' trip was organized by the U.S. Embassy.
He was supposed to perform in Haiti two years ago but several days of rioting over a contested election scuttled those plans. The festival, however, went on a month later.
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On an average day, school nurse Holly Bertram sees 60 students in her office at Highland Elementary School.
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"There's always some sort of medical need or potential student concern about something going on. It's all hours," Bertram said. "After I leave, any nurse visit is referred to the office. That's the only real option the students would have."
When a nurse is not at school, the building principal is responsible for determining who will assume responsibility for duties ranging from dispensing bandages to handling medical emergencies.
"Asthmatics aren't getting asthma attacks from 8 to 12," Bertram said. "The hours were cut, but the responsibility to keep your students safe didn't change."
This is the fifth year the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp. has operated with part-time nurses.
Budgetary woes prompted a cut in funding from $1,122,780 for 35 full-time nurses in the 2002-03 academic year to $660,168 for the same number of part-time nurses in 2003-2004.
The $201 million 2008-09 budget, to be finalized this month, includes $679,732 for 35 part-time nurses. However, EVSC's part-time staffing of school nurses could change in the future.
"That's one of the things I'm collecting data from our schools, from nurses, looking specifically at what our needs are and any gaps that we may have," said EVSC Superintendent Vincent Bertram, no relation to Holly Bertram.
The superintendent said he is examining the corporation's needs and available resources in order to establish priorities and develop a strategic plan.
Vincent Bertram — who heard EVSC nurses' concerns during a back-to-school meeting — anticipates completing the strategic plan in December.
"We're definitely meeting children's needs, but it is becoming increasingly difficult with the four hours to meet those needs," said Diana Butler, EVSC supervisor of health services and wellness. "I think, in the best interests of children, it would be wonderful if we could reinstate full-time nurses in the corporation."
In addition to caring for students, Holly Bertram's responsibilities include conducting health screenings, maintaining records, keeping medication logs, making referrals, contacting parents and coordinating health-related grant programs.
After conducting vision screenings last week, Bertram said many EVSC nurses put in more hours than they are paid for.
"They all work very hard," Butler said. "I think it's unfortunate they have to put that extra time in, but they are all very dedicated. They do that to get the job done."
Harrison High School nurse Christina Miles, polite but with no time to spare, had only a brief comment Tuesday after the three-day weekend.
"I have 15 kids waiting for me at 9 o'clock in the morning," she said. "There's just no time to get everything done that needs to be done."
The School Board would like to fund full-time nurses, according to board President Dana Willett. The question, Willett said, becomes what other program or service should be cut in order to employ full-time nurses at every school.
"It's a concern that we've expressed as a board ourselves. Not only have we heard it from others, we've been keeping an eye on it, too," he said. "Right now, we use the dollars we're given and we try to use them the most efficiently we can, but we're constantly reexamining it because it's important for us to do that."
The state, Willett noted, requires one school nurse per school corporation, regardless of corporation size.
"It makes me wonder, too, if this isn't really as much a state Legislature issue as a local school board issue," he said.
In Warrick County, the school corporation employs five full-time nurses who work in three schools. Warrick Superintendent Brad Schneider said the corporation also employs 10 health aides, so each school has either a nurse or a health aide in the building at all times.
The North Gibson School Corp. has a full-time nurse in every school building, said Cindy Whitehead, coordinator of school health services.
"We are very fortunate in what we have in the staffing," she said. "I think the fact of not having nurses full time I think that school systems are setting themselves up for liability issues. I think it's a real danger, and I don't think it's fair to our kids."
EVSC's new superintendent said the health, safety and security needs of students are a primary concern.
"What makes it even more complicated is that our children come to school with such unique and significant health issues and some that extend beyond the ability of non-medical professionals' capabilities," Bertram said. "Historically, there's belief that people can administer some medications and so forth. The expectations in schools have changed dramatically over time, and it's really become more complex."
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New Media also increased its quarterly dividend which yields investors 4 to 5 percent annually. And the company's shares were up more 6 percent for the day and nearly 50 percent in the last six months.
Besides offering the generous dividend, New Media targets smaller papers that have been less affected by digital competition than metros. After the acquisition of Stephens Media, announced a week ago, is completed in March, the largest circulation titles in its roster of 125 dailies will be the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Providence Journal. Read more
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Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.
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Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.
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A resurgent Prayag United SC halted the winning run of Pune FC, downing the latter with two second-half goals, in the 15th round of the I-League at Kalyani on Wednesday. Lalkamal Bhowmick and Nigerian Ranty Martins found the target to help the home side post its second successive win.
Pune, which had reached the top of the standings after victories in the previous six rounds, faltered against the resolve of the Kolkata opponent. Prayag, which earned a morale-boosting win against Dempo SC in the previous round at the same venue, regrouped well to avenge the 1-3 loss it suffered while visiting Pune in the first phase of the two-tier tournament.
Close shave
Douhou Pierre came close to scoring twice, in the 21st and 38th minutes, but the Ivory Coast midfielder of Pune FC found both his attempts going wide of the Prayag goal. Pune had another opportunity after the break but the crosspiece came in the way of Sudanese striker James Moga's 66th-minute attempt.
Prayag replied strongly with a series of attacks and found the goal in the 68th minute thanks to a brilliant finish from centre-half Bhowmick. Showing a good sense of opportunism, on receiving a loose clearance from the Pune defence, Bhowmick fired in a spectacular pile-driver from around 25 yards that beat the Pune goalkeeper Abhra Mondal all ends up.
The second goal came in the 85th minute when Dipak Mondal set up a nice cross, which was neatly collected and placed home by Ranty Martins.
The win helped Prayag improve its tally to 20 points from 14 matches, while Pune FC remains on 28 points from 13 outings.
The results:
At Kalyani: Prayag United SC 2 (Lalkamal Bhowmick 68, Ranty Martins 85) bt Pune FC 0.
At Mapusa: Churchill Brothers 3 (Henri Antchouet 60, 63; Gurung 65) bt Pailan Arrows 1 (Prathamesh Maulingkar 56).
At Gangtok: United Sikkim FC 2 (Nadong Bhutia 15, Lineker Machado 17) drew with Mumbai FC 2 (Yusif Yakubu 11, 90+4).
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February 9, 2007
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February 9, 2007
William & Mary board says president made mistakes but declines to reverse him, opting to await report of new committee.
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LONDON (AFP) - English Premier League club Everton on Tuesday announced a new five-year kit manufacturing deal with British sportswear firm Umbro.
It will be Everton's fourth contract with Umbro, which first began making kits for the Merseyside club in 1974.
Umbro will take over from Everton's current kit manufacturers, American sportswear giant Nike, on June 1.
"The club is delighted to be entering into this new and exciting partnership and looks forward to working alongside the Umbro team over the next five years," said Everton chief executive Robert Elstone.
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What is a game club? Think of it as a book club, but for video games. Together we'll play, watch, and discuss a selected title (following the schedule listed below) each week at the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Our first series will explore the experimental video games of thatgamecompany's Jenova Chen, starting with this year's critically-acclaimed Journey, a digital pilgrimage that can be taken alone or with a fellow wanderer online.
We continue with 2009's Flower, in which the player guides a gust of wind, using gesture controls to collect flower petals.
Next is Flow from 2007, an abstract aquatic life simulation with motion controls, which was thatgamecompany's first release for the PlayStation Network.
And lastly, we will explore the zen-like flying game Cloud, which Chen created with fellow students at USC in 2005 and released for free online, eventually accumulating over 500,000 downloads.
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George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
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The history of a 350+-year-old city south of Portland, the Scarborough site was constructed by representatives from Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Middle School, and Scarborough Public Library. Exhibits include the marsh, transportation and roads, shipyards and shipwrecks, clamming and lobstering, famous residents, and education.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Severe flooding and landslips have completely cut off rail routes to large parts of south-west of England as storms continue to batter southern Britain.
Some areas of Somerset in south-west England have been underwater for over a month in the wettest January on record, and the government has come under pressure for not putting enough resources into preventing flooding.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced extra funding for flood defence repairs earlier this week after high tides and stormy seas destroyed a large section of sea wall at Dawlish in Devon, washing a stretch of railway into the sea.
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text: Home // Training // Sports Skills // Soccer 2 Drills to Improve Late-Game Soccer Ball Handling July 9, 2013 | Valerie Prause Must See Soccer Videos Coming Up U.S. Men's National Team Midfielder Graham Zusi on Preparing for the World Cup Summer is a great time of year for soccer players to improve their individual fitness levels and technical abilities. Players typically work on their fitness level separately from working with the soccer ball. Although any type of practice will help you improve, you can achieve greater fitness while working with the ball. The extent and depth of your fitness is only as good as how well you can work with the ball when you are tired. So it's important to get touches when you are fatigued. You need to practice being focused and composed with worn out legs. Here are two drills to use. Doggies/25's A common interval workout among soccer players is called "Cones" or "Doggies" or "25's." Place six cones five yards apart in a straight line for 25 yards. Start at cone #1, sprint to cone #2, turn and sprint back to cone #1, turn and sprint back to cone #3, back to cone #1, and so on. Once you have reached all five cones and are back at cone #1, take a 55-second rest before starting the next set. Repeat this until you complete ten sets. Most players should be able to complete a set in under 35 seconds. Ball Skills A simple variation of "Doggies" can be done with the soccer ball. Instead of using six cones, use five covering a total of 20 yards. Rather than just running, add a ball to the mix going back and forth cutting at the cones. This will test your ability to dribble and cut with the ball effectively and quickly so that you can complete a set in the least amount of time possible. Complete the first five sets using only your right foot and the last five using only your left foot. Add variations in terms of the surface of the foot you use—inside, outside or bottom of your foot. As you get further into the workout, it forces you to focus more on the ball and getting good touches as you get more tired. Players who perform this exercise will deepen their fitness base, plus add difficulty by completing it with a ball. Since this workout is game-realistic, it will enhance your ability to keep the ball under pressure in the final minutes of a game. Adding it to your repertoire this summer will effectively and efficiently improve both your fitness level and your technical abilities with the ball. Hone your soccer skills and conditioning with these drills: Abby Wambach's Goal-Scoring Technique Tobin Heath's Closed-Space Dribbling Drill Shoot, Pass and Dribble Better With C.J. Sapong's Favorite Soccer Drills D.C. United's Game-Day Endurance Test Topics: SOCCER | SOCCER DRILLS