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The music of distinguished American composer Charles Wuorinen is notable for its compositional wit, dynamic virtuosity and intellectual rigor. This CD features vocal chamber works from the late 1990s to 2007, a new piano work, and Wuorinen's 'remakings' of music by Josquin des Prés. Ashberyana, a major new work commissioned by Da Camera of Houston, sets the dazzling poetry of John Ashbery for a tour-deforce ensemble led by the composer. Fenton Songs I and Fenton Songs II offer contrasting poems by James Fenton, ranging from lyrical confessions of love to the horrors of Tiananmen Square. Two personal solo piano pieces – one dedicated to conductor James Levine – and Josquiniana, composed for the Brentano Quartet, complete this compelling portrait of one of today's most important musical voices.
By David Denton
Charles Wuorinen has become an evangelical advocate of cutting edge modernity, having spent his early years in the world of conventional tonality.
Only history will judge whether he has chosen the right road, and I readily confess that I find difficulty in coming to terms with his style of composition. The present disc concentrates on three of his song cycles: Ashberyana and the first and second Fenton Songs. Despite the very differing emotional content of the poems, Wuorinen's response is very similar, and even with the small group of instruments that accompany, there is always an active density in his music that I wish he would calm down. If you are just sampling the composer, try track 11 where Wuorinen's style is in accord with the events that once took place in China's Tiananmen Square. Ashberyana, dating from 2004, I find the most impenetrable, largely because I am not intelligent enough to understand John Ashbery's poetry, but I am sure it makes sense to somebody. The disc is complemented by two short piano pieces, Praegustatum and Ave Christe of Josquin, and the string quartet, Josquiniana. The performances from Da Camara of Houston in the songs, with soprano Lucy Shelton and Leon Williams, baritone, have that rather unemotional quality that is the way modernists perform their music. The fine Brentano String Quartet play Wuorinen's tribute to the the 15th century composer, Josquin Desprez, which I hope Josquin would have enjoyed. Reliable sound engineering, but you might have to use Internet sales for a disc on limited geographic circulation.more....
Charles Wuorinen (b.1938)
Ashberyana • Praegustatum • Fenton Songs I • Fenton Songs II
Josquin: Ave Christe • Josquiniana
In 1996, the poet John Ashbery and I lived just a few blocks from each other in Chelsea, at the time a somewhat marginal New York neighborhood that was in the process of transforming itself into an art world and sports destination. I stopped by John's one afternoon, and as we debated the various flaws and merits of struggling new restaurants, lamenting the closings of a few of our favorites, he brought me into the room off the kitchen where his typewriter sat. Gesticulating towards the window which looked westward to the Hudson River, John complained that he used to be able to catch a glimpse of the river from his desk, but now, he said irritably, the view was completely obscured by an odd, somewhat menacing, tower of dark nets. The bizarreness of his view being blocked by a multi-story Japanese driving range, perched on the edge of Manhattan for frustrated city-dwelling golfers, was something too absurd, too unthinkable, and yet – there it was, out the window – too real to elicit only annoyance. I don't remember where we finally had lunch, but afterwards I went home to practice the piano and later learned that John had written a poem, "Outside My Window the Japanese …"
Several years later, the Guggenheim Works & Process series contacted me about a program they were producing for which five composers were invited to write musical settings of John Ashbery's poetry. John Ashbery and David Kermani had suggested that I moderate the conversations between poet and composers, one of whom would be Charles Wuorinen. At the festive dinner following the concert, Charles told me that he had an idea for a much larger chamber work based on Ashbery's poems, and asked if Da Camera of Houston might be interested. I was immediately enthusiastic. Unknowingly, (and with a truly Ashberyan sense of coincidence), Charles added to my pleasure when, once the commission was underway, he chose the poem "Outside My Window the Japanese …" to open his cycle.
With Ashberyana, Wuorinen brings his compositional wit and sharp intelligence to the audacious poetry of John Ashbery. The resultant work, verbally and musically virtuosic, is abundant in the singular inventiveness that characterizes each man's creative output. Scored for baritone, trombone, string quartet and piano, Wuorinen pairs the baritone and trombone as unexpected partners in duet. The songful opening trombone solo, which forms a brief introduction, wordlessly forecasts the baritone's first entrance. Once the singer is present, the trombone continues to perform his vocalise, sometimes functioning as double, joining the voice in punctuated unisons, or offering commentary. The two are intertwined in a virtuosic, interdependent game of counterpoint that is supported by the pointillistic writing for piano and strings. The solitary trombone acts as mediator between poetry and music, his haunting shadow forming the necessary bond between loquacious texts and a world without words.
It is clear from the start that Wuorinen enjoys language and revels in the sumptuousness of Ashbery's vocabulary, which bounces effortlessly from the banalities of everyday life – including commonplace clichés and quotations from vintage television shows – to the arcane and the sublime. Ashbery makes us notice words as though they were unknown artifacts from another planet, rather than tools that we use to simply get through the day. This shimmering poetry describes a surreal world, but unlike the nocturnal surrealists of the past, Ashbery basks in sunlight. We recognize the bizarre disconnects and surprising juxtapositions as vaguely familiar occurrences from our own post-modern lives. There is a bright aura of wakefulness, and only in finding that word do I realize that it is the title of the collection from which these four poems are drawn.
Charles Wuorinen's music moves us into a universe that can never be simply categorized; he does not paint moods or illustrate. He is fascinated by what music can do, and this fascination pulls the listener into an unusually concentrated state of listening; one must pay attention. The focus of Wuorinen's investigations in music is music itself.
Herein lies a deep affinity with the poet John Ashbery, who never ceases to be amazed by language. In Ashberyana, music and poetry each retain their identity, and there is a sense of space around the words that is surprising for a setting of so many of them. But "set" is exactly what Wuorinen does, as a jeweler with a gem. The poetry seems to be sculpted, raised in relief, etched in sound, but never weighted down by interpretation.
The rhythmic tension of the silences, the subtle underscoring of shifts in syntax and mood, the occasional playful mirroring of the poetic line ("jumping up and down on tiptoe"), the musical repetition of the Proustian phrase "… so far back in the mothering past" – with ingenious precision, Wuorinen creates a dramatic musical structure to support Ashbery's poems, building with assurance and inevitability to the powerful climax of "The Laughter of Dead Men". The final two lines, "so fearful of the firstperson singular/and all the singular adventures it implies", are a telling statement expressed with the casual humility typical of this poet. A less attentive reader might miss the depth of meaning, but here Wuorinen pulls out all the stops. Allowing himself the liberty of setting "so fearful" three times, each with increasing intensity, he then creates a stunning melisma on the word "all", until the instruments, with trombone in the lead, emerge with resounding force. The thrilling close of Ashberyana reveals a master of musical architecture – and a reader of rare acuity – at the height of his powers.
Praegustatum was written in 2005 for James Levine, with whom Charles Wuorinen has had an especially fruitful relationship. Levine has conducted the premieres of several major Wuorinen works: the Fourth Piano Concerto (in honor of Levine's first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Theologoumenon (commissioned by Ronald Wilford for Levine's sixtieth birthday and given its première by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) and the Eighth Symphony (BSO 125th Anniversary Commission).
Composed as a gift of gratitude, Praegustatum, only three minutes in length, is an expressive and self-assured piano work which maintains its parlando character even when its sonorous legato textures are interrupted by staccato interjections. It gives the impression of being a private piece, a kind of personal letter, and in this sense connects to a tradition of intimate piano pieces by Schumann, Brahms and Schoenberg. The title literally translates from the Latin as "foretaste", and this small piano work is conceived as "something that precedes a larger meal".
In 2001, Charles Wuorinen completed an opera based on Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. The libretto was by James Fenton. Four years earlier, in preparation for this major collaboration, Wuorinen had set four poems from Fenton's collection, Out of Danger. This first set of songs for soprano, violin, cello and piano was followed five years later, after the completion of the opera, with a second group, giving us Fenton Songs I and Fenton Songs II. Although using the same instrumentation and inspired by the same poet, the two sets are quite different in content and character.
Fenton Songs I describe an emotional journey in a relationship, from fear of commitment ("out of danger, out of love"), to an awakening to the seriousness of the new love ("I'm serious! That's why I cartwheeled home"), to a previously unknown state of commitment ("Stay true to me and I'll stay true to you"). Wuorinen writes, "I see the sequence of poems as proceeding from public to private, from agitation to repose, with local ups and downs along the way." He sets these love poems with infinite sensitivity, picking up on the, at times, Elizabethan cadence of the poetry.
In fact, one imagines that the echoes of an earlier English tradition were part of the attraction for Wuorinen, for if we were to look for the roots of Wuorinen's uncanny clarity in setting the English language, we would be sent right back to Purcell. (These songs also exist in a version with two guitars replacing the piano, a textural reference to the lute that further underscores the stylistic connection to the love songs of the English renaissance.) The surface simplicity of both poetry and music do not belie the depth of personal emotion in these beautiful works. The poems were dedicated to Darryl Pinckney, and Wuorinen dedicates the musical settings to Howard Stokar.
Fenton Songs II, from 2002, find both composer and poet in a very different frame of mind (although the poems come from the same Fenton collection, Out of Danger). From the opening lines of Blood and Lead ("Listen to what they did. Don't listen to what they said"), which Wuorinen sets abruptly, without any instrumental introduction, we have moved from the languid intimacy of Fenton Songs I to the public forum, and it is a world condemned.
The shift in subject matter brings about a corresponding shift in style. Theatrical in character, the soprano takes on the role of extroverted actor, and within the complexity of the accompaniment Wuorinen allows himself such literal illustrations as drumbeats in the piano and a brief dies irae in the vocal tour-de-force, The Ballad of the Shrieking Man – probably the most horrific of them all in its evocation of an out-of-control mad universe. As Wuorinen himself notes, "Fenton's poetry is ideal for setting as its language is simple and straightforward; but beneath its surface is a rich layered structure and complex of meanings …" Indeed, Fenton limits himself almost entirely to one and two syllable words, a notable exception being the repeated "Tiananmen" in the second poem (which the poet actually wrote in Hong Kong in 1989, the year of the massacre).
Wuorinen purposely selects a quiet scene from nature to close the cycle. He writes, "the fourth and last of [Fenton II's] songs is ambiguous, with its invocation of phosphorescences of fireflies of the sea. Are they explosions?" Musically, with this last movement, we are once again in the lyrical sound world of Fenton Songs I. However, following on the heels of such intense portrayals of violence, the sudden calm has an eerie effect. The return to nature after the horrors of the city is, after all, not a return to nature immune to destruction. The composer seems to have not forgotten the last lines of the preceding movement ("Have primed the bomb and pulled the pin/ And we're all together when the roof falls in!"). This is not beauty that one can trust, and in my mind we are far from out of danger.
This CD closes with two of Wuorinen's 'remakings' of music from the past. Ave Christe of Josquin for piano, written in 1988 as a gift for Stephen Fisher, then president of C. F. Peters Music Publishing, and Josquiniana, written at the request of the Brentano String Quartet in 2002.
Characteristic of Wuorinen, these returns to the past are not sentimental journeys, but continued explorations of thought. An intensely prolific composer who works constantly and with great rapidity, one imagines that these transpositional exercises, approached with meticulous fidelity to the original, offer Wuorinen a kind of pleasurable cleansing of the spirit in between his more ambitious musical projects. One finds in Josquin's music attributes that our twenty-first century composer clearly admires: directness of expression, rhythmic inventiveness and a combinatorial virtuosity. In removing the texts and remaking the vocal works for instruments, the music is stripped down to its compositional essence. Wuorinen compels us, once again, to listen.
Sarah Rothenberg
The sung texts may also be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/559377.htm.
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VH1's So Jewtastic is a case of the lady who doth protest too much
If I didn't know any better, I'd think Jews are a bunch of insufferable narcissists who need not only to keep telling themselves they're as good as everyone else but also forever and loudly assert it in pop culture. How else to explain something like So Jewtastic, VH1's vapid appreciation of Natalie Portman, Jon Stewart and others who walk the red carpet?
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I give you So Jewtastic for Dummies (which is, arguably, redundant): Look!! There's Rick Rubin. He proves Jews are down with black people! Good for us. Over here! Adam Brody from The OC is cute, and way cool too! Wow! We're cute and cool and on TV, where we talk about being Jewish…but don't worry, it's only with a wink. Did you hear Seth's dad say the word "mensch?!" Aren't we so lovable!!! Hey, everyone, even Madge is Jewish now, but how about we reduce Kabbalah to a one-liner, 'cause two lines might require an actual explanation and nobody wants that! Too. Much. Thinking. Okay, gang, that's a wrap. See you at Passover, when we tap-dance about bread cravings and mistake Exodus for a Bob Marley song.
The two speakers with a modicum of insight who don't trade on empty clichés are Scott Ian (a personal fav) and Ben Lee. The rest of the moronic enterprise is a strange, up-with-people parade of interchangeable pundits that isn't about anything at all.
It's not that I'm against the notion of Jews being hip or being on TV or being proud. But stop the yammering already: calling yourself hip is hardly that.
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This paper is concerned with the robust quantized feedback stabilization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear large-scale systems with dead-zone nonlinearity in actuator devices. It is assumed that state signals of each subsystem are quantized and the quantized state signals are transmitted over a digital channel to the controller side. Combined with a proposed discrete on-line adjustment policy of quantization parameters, a decentralized sliding mode quantized feedback control scheme is developed to tackle parameter uncertainties and dead-zone input nonlinearity simultaneously, and ensure that the system trajectory of each subsystem converges to the corresponding desired sliding manifold. Finally, an example is given to verify the validity of the theoretical result.
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Other researchers had already produced systems that use electricity to split water molecules but, as the team explained in a Paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the difference is that here the system is based on biology, using sunlight to power the reaction directly rather than by using electricity.
The approach that proved the best was to mimic the processes that take place in plants, rather than simply borrowing their components and re-adapt them like others had done before. In plants, chlorophyll absorbs sunlight while catalysts promote the water-splitting reaction. The team decided to engineer a bacterial virus called M13 so that it became wire-like and could very efficiently split the oxygen from water molecules.
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But according to Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics Thomas Mallouk, who was not part of the research team, there are still problems to be tackle before artificial photosynthetic systems such as this could be useful for practical energy conversion. To be cost-competitive with other approaches to solar power, the system would need to be at least 10 times more efficient than natural photosynthesis, be able to repeat the reaction almost indefinitely, and be built from cheaper materials. While achieving these objectives will take time, this first apparatus from MIT is undoubtedly still a big step toward solving the problem.
In the current system, the hydrogen atoms from the water get split into their component protons and electrons, but a second part of the system, which the team hopes to develop within the next two years, would combine these back into hydrogen atoms and molecules so that hydrogen could be both produced and stored.
Does this consume the Hydrogen in the process of energy production? Will this impact future water creation? In other words, are we interrupting the water cycle with this invention?Tanya Meyer
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to V-4-Vendetta, You would have to fall into a vat of the M13 solution first!Will, the tink
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When O'Malley announced Wednesday he was stepping down as Dodgers board chairman at the end of the year, few knew he was still around, given Fox's heavy-handed first season running the club.
But in a week in which two different groups flew to the NFL owner's meetings in Kansas City trying to get an expansion franchise for Los Angeles, O'Malley added a few comments that had a stinging resonance about what might have been.
Although he basked in memories of Fernandomania, Kirk Gibson and two World Series titles after replacing his father Walter as club president in 1970, O'Malley acknowledged not bringing professional football to Chavez Ravine was one of the reasons he sold the club.
Today, the final chapter of O'Malley's 46 years in baseball are getting boxed up along with the pictures of Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax.
Many thought Peter O'Malley was nothing more than a caretaker for the empire created by his father. He mixed a great gin and tonic and had the best pension plan in the business but never had the hell-fire and brimstone to help shape the game.
But the NFL, America's true national pastime? That would have been all his.
The money generated from pro football also would have enabled O'Malley to keep the Dodgers. Mike Piazza could not be reached for comment.
``Our interest in football was very keen,'' said O'Malley, who added he is watching the Kansas City meetings very closely. ``The deeper we looked, the clearer it became that it truly would have worked on the property. But when we were asked not to compete with the Coliseum, we did that. There is a saying, `You don't fight city hall.' ''
The NFL badly wanted O'Malley, whose reputation running the Dodgers was exemplary. It didn't want to put a new franchise in the Coliseum.
O'Malley became good friends with Carolina Panthers president Jerry Richardson, head of the NFL expansion committee. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue twice flew to L.A. to meet O'Malley.
O'Malley was lining up investors, including Fox, to cover the $500 million expansion fee.
Plans drawn for a football stadium were staggering. It had a walkway to Dodger Stadium near the right field line and overlooked the downtown skyline. Monday-night football at dusk would never have looked better.
But after two years and a $1 million feasibility study filled with positive data, O'Malley was told by Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan to throw his support toward the Coliseum.
``When we were asked not to compete, that was a big disappointment,'' O'Malley said. ``I couldn't deny that was one of the factors (for selling).''
Now, the Coliseum group, bankrolled by Kings owners Ed Roski and Philip Anschutz, has competition from the Hollywood crowd, headed by former superagent Michael Ovitz. Shaquille O'Neal is involved. So is actor Kevin Costner.
And there was nothing Riordan could say to make them go away.
The division could swing the expansion vote toward Houston, which has the money in place and is ready to break ground on a retractable-roof stadium.
``Nothing against a great city like Houston, but if Houston gets that expansion ballclub, the leaders of the city of Los Angeles have to feel very badly,'' O'Malley said. ``The sports fans should feel badly. I think we will win out over Houston. We should get it.''
Not only did the Dodgers lose out on pro football, the process changed club history.
When O'Malley went digging for NFL gold, he dispatched executive vice president Bob Graziano to be the corporate pitbull. For almost two years, Graziano spent nearly every waking hour trying to soothe nervous neighbors in nearby Echo Park.
He attended committee meetings, discussed freeway on- and off- ramps and made assurances eight home games would not cripple the community.
It was during that time Graziano flew past Fred Claire in the Dodger line of succession.
Claire, once ripped for not being a baseball man, would have been a better choice to immediately succeed O'Malley as club president and help with the transition to Fox.
Claire, O'Malley's top lieutenant for 30 years, was fired last June along with manager Bill Russell. O'Malley has extended an olive branch to Russell, who visited the owner's box several times after he was fired.
Claire and O'Malley twice had lunch after the firing, but the relationship remains strained.
``I really don't know what he is doing now,'' O'Malley said.
But O'Malley does know where he should be this week - in Kansas City getting a yes vote on a project that would have moved him from behind his father's shadow.
``I can never see myself rooting against the Dodgers,'' he said when asked about his future.
The same cannot be said if the NFL comes to town.
Photo: Former Dodger's owner Peter O'Malley left, with new owner Rupert Murdoch, had big dreams of bringing an NFL franchise to Los Angeles.
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Marathon founder Fred Lebow and his strategically temporary statue
If you're running the New York City Marathon this weekend, it's all thanks to Fischel Lebowitz. The native Romanian, who changed his name to the slightly less Jewish Fred Lebow, transformed it from a small race with just 127 entrants in 1970 to the internationally recognized event we all know and love (or hate if you're actually from New York and need to be anywhere on Sunday). According to the 2004 biography Anything for a T-Shirt, the Holocaust survivor was raised in an Orthodox home, and when it came to the race, he made sure the marathon's path went through the Hasidic area of Williamsburg (as it still does, up Bedford Avenue) where he would reportedly even shout out "Di loifer darfen vasser"—Yiddish for "the runners need water"—from his official's car. (A screening of the requisite documentary about Lebow, Run For Your Life, will be this Thursday at the Brooklyn Museum.)
Also! Through a loophole that would make any Talmudist proud, Central Park figured out a way to include a statue of him even though, at the time of his death in 1994, there was a moratorium on new monuments there. An article in today's Times explains that instead of finding another location, each year a parks worker moves the 600-pound bronze some token distance, technically qualifying it as temporary. Thus it's able to stay in the park, where every year it is a good luck charm for runners.
Lebow, already a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, will be inducted into the inaugural class of the New York Road Runners Hall of Fame on Friday.
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I received your print yesterday, most exquisite! I really enjoy this image as a 4" X 5" print, to my eye it's the perfect size for it. Thanks for sending it.
I'm hoping to get mine in the mail the first week on January.
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I am in the process of developing film and hope to have decided which negative to use soon. I will post again when I have sent out my prints.
I received Fred's print today too. Sadly, the prefolded cardboard backing flopped around a bit in postage so I have a slightly bent, beautiful 8x10 print. I'll just need to find a book big enough to squish it flat again ;)
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Glad you received your print, that was quick, I had expected some time after Christmas for delivery.
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Heather, sorry, the print has been bent. An alternative to a big book, is if you have a dry mount press, to wet the print again, dry on a screen, the press in the drymount press between two pieces of mat board. That is how I originally flatten them for mailing.
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Investigators are piecing together the life of a sailing instructor who they believe used his position of authority to groom and sexually assault boys he was supposed to be teaching.
Halton police said Wednesday that two more alleged victims have come forward.
They called police after learning last week that four former sailing students — all now adults — had gone to police together. And Detective Sergeant John Mans believes there are more victims.
Sean Hewson remains in custody and is scheduled for a bail hearing in Milton Thursday.
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The 31-year-old Ancaster man is facing more than 18 charges related to the alleged sexual assaults of boys between 2003 and 2009. The charges include counts of sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation.
Police have uncovered a "clear pattern of grooming," Mans said. He alleges the boys – who were at a "very vulnerable age" – were befriended, given alcohol, and taken out for movie nights.
The alleged incidents took place during Burlington Sailing and Boating Club race trips in Burlington, Oakville, Kingston and Nepean. The boys were between 10 and 16 at the time.
Hewson was an instructor in Burlington for roughly a decade, before moving to the Bronte Harbour Yacht Club two years ago. He was asked to leave Bronte when they were informed of the investigation last week. He was also employed as a life-saving instructor at the YMCA in Burlington, and as regional manager of first aid for the Canadian Red Cross. He was put on leave from both jobs. He also worked for the City of Burlington from 1999 to 2010.
Police are planning to meet with his past and current employers to get a better history of his work and any interaction with minors.
Mans said the investigation so far has not uncovered any early warning signs that something was amiss. The accused was not previously known to police.
He said it was clearly difficult for the victims to come forward; some had never even told their families what happened.
"Just speaking with them on the phone, you can hear how difficult it is," he said. "We tell them they're not alone."
Halton police work with SAVIS (Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Services) of Halton. It offers free counselling, support groups, public education, advocacy and a 24-hour crisis line at 905-875-1555 for all victims of violence.
Only about 10 per cent of sexual assaults are reported, said Kathryn Baker-Reed, SAVIS' executive director, adding there are often added layers of complication for male victims because of unfair societal questions of masculinity and homophobia.
Often victims – bolstered by strength in numbers – only agree to speak if other victims have already come forward, she said.
Baker-Reed said when it comes to abusers who are in positions of authority – such as coaches – people need to ask questions.
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Kentucky Oaks hopeful Dixie Strike tops Sunday's Grade 3, $150,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes on the turf at Gulfstream Park. The Mark Casse pupil raced exclusively over Woodbine's Polytrack as a juvenile, capping her 2011 campaign with a 5 1/2-length triumph in the Ontario Lassie. Trying turf for the first time in the February 4 Florida Oaks at Tampa, she got up in time for a last-gasp victory. Jose Lezcano will attempt to go two-for-two aboard Dixie Strike, who has drawn post 5.
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A strong mix of accomplished stars headed by major stakes performers Grace Hall and On Fire Baby and exciting newcomers led by the Bob Baffert-trained trio of Eden's Moon, Princess Arabella and Mamma Kimbo comprise the list of 94 3-year-old fillies nominated to compete in the 138th running of the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) on Friday, May 4 at Churchill Downs.
Agave Kiss will face just four rivals while making her graded debut in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Cicada Stakes going six furlongs on Aqueduct's inner dirt.
The unbeaten daughter of Lion Heart hasn't competed since taking the Ruthless Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths on January 14, and was originally scheduled to go in the February 11 Dearly Precious Stakes.
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Churchill Downs Racetrack will be aglow in pink again for the 138th running of the Kentucky Oaks – America's premier race for 3-year-old fillies on Friday, May 4 and annual celebration of food, fashion and fun – as the springtime event welcomes a new beneficiary in Stand Up To Cancer ("SU2C") to raise vital funds and awareness for cancer research.
Although fans of the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) made the "All Others" (#24) betting interest the overall favorite in Churchill Downs' 2012 Kentucky Oaks Future Wager ("KOFW"), they recognized Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's opportunities to win America's premier race for 3-year-old fillies for a second consecutive year by placing his young stars Princess Arabella (#18) and Eden's Moon (#9) among the individual favorites when the Oaks Future pool ended its three-d
Martha Washington Stakes winner Amie's Dini showed she's ready for a showdown in the Grade 3, $125,000 Honeybee Stakes with fellow top filly On Fire Baby with a quick half-mile breeze Sunday at Oaklawn Park.
Under jockey Jon Court, the quick-footed daughter of Bandini sizzled through five furlongs in a bullet :59 2/5. As fast as the drill was, trainer Ron Moquett believes there's more in the tank.
Millionreasonswhy is slated to make her next start in the Grade 3 Comely at Aqueduct on April 7, trainer Ignacio Correas IV confirmed Sunday.
Eden's Moon was an easy winner of Saturday's $250,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita Park, but the talented bay miss had to survive an objection lodged by runner-up Reneesgotzip's trainer before she could give owner Kaleem Shah his first Grade 1 victory.
Sagamore Farm's Millionreasonswhy made her sophomore bow a winning one on Saturday when capturing the $77,750 Wide Country Stakes at Laurel Park by 1 1/4 lengths with jockey Horacio Karamanos in the irons.
The bay miss went ran three wide around the turn after stalking the pace on the backstretch, grabbed command on the outside of 4-5 favorite Dance to Bristol and drew off under a hand ride to complete seven furlongs on the good dirt in 1:24.
On Santa Anita's Big 'Cap undercard on Saturday, the unbeaten Reneesgotzip tops a cast of eight three-year-old fillies for the Grade 1, $250,000 Las Virgenes Stakes going a mile.
For the second consecutive year America's reigning champion 2-year-old filly is missing from the 24 wagering interests in Churchill Downs' lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager ("KOFW") pool, a development that has left "All Others" (#24) as a strong early favorite over a wide-open group of 23 promising 3-year-old fillies included in the three-day betting pool that opens on Friday, March 2.
Peras International's Yara was sent off the 64-1 second longest shot in Saturday's Grade 2, $350,000 Davona Dale Stakes at Gulfstream Park, but dueled 4-5 favorite Grace Hall into a neck loss when crossing under the wire first. The Put It Back filly paid out huge to her backers, returning $131, $38 and $14.40 for the victory under jockey Jesus Castanon.
Summer Applause earned even-money favoritism in the January 21 Silverbulletday Stakes following an dominating seven-length victory in her Fair Grounds debut against optional claiming rivals on New Year's Eve, but could do no better than second on that day while making her first start for new trainer Bret Calhoun. One month later and the public jumped ship on the bay lass as she was sent off the 3-1 third choice in Saturday's Grade 3, $194,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes.
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Saturday's Grade 3 Rachel Alexandra at Fair Grounds lost an entrant Monday when the undefeated sophomore filly Applauding was withdrawn following a four-furlong breeze in :50 4/5 over the fast main track at Fair Grounds.
"She didn't work to my satisfaction and I'm going to scratch her," trainer Al Stall Jr. said. "She just wasn't herself. I don't know if something's bugging her internally or what. She just wasn't right."
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Grade 3 winner Now I Know, the Oklahoma-bred gray who saw her undefeated status snapped in the $75,000 Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park last Saturday, has been retired after exiting the one-mile race with a fractured left knee.
Trainer Don Von Hemel, who co-owns and co-bred the three-year-old filly with Wayne Stockseth, told Daily Racing Form that Now I Know would be sent to Oklahoma City for possible surgery. She will eventually be bred.
Amie's Dini was the second choice in Saturday's $75,000 Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn Park, but ran like a favorite when holding previously unbeaten 1-2 choice Now I Know by 1 3/4 lengths on the wire.
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Because the organism that causes Q fever is so highly infectious, Coxiella burnetii has been researched as a bioterrorism weapon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rate Coxiella burnetii as a class B priority agent, in a classification scheme where class A agents have the most potential for harm and class C agents the least.
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Excellent information about Q fever can be found at the web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/qfever/.
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There's no telling who will pop up on a given track off SMKA and The Flush's forthcoming A3C compilation; previously-released joints Turn Around, Swisha and The Sparks have featured emerging artists from everywhere on the map brushing shoulders with the likes of veteran crew Slum Village. There is, however, one ironclad rule: "no fake n**gas allowed." U.S. Virgin Islands duo Planet Vi (whose latest project, American Nightmare, is available now for streaming and download in The DJBooth), Chicago rhymesayer G-Scott (whose 1983 tape will be released soon via the Booth) and Inglewood spitter Shawn Chrystopher act as enforcers on new song release Doin' Here, turning away all suckers and lames over SMKA member Kato's street-ready production. Stankonia Sessions: A3C Edition 2012 will be released on Tuesday, November 27.
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