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Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's Tony Award-winning musical An American in Paris will make its West End debut at the Dominion Theatre in March 2017.
The stage adaptation of An American in Paris is based on Oscar-winning film starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron and features the music of songwriting brothers George and Ira Gershwin, including hits including 'I got rhythm', ''S Wonderful', and 'They can't take that away from me'.
Former First Artist of The Royal Ballet Leanne Cope reprises her role as Lise Dassin for the London production alongside New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan.
The production had its world premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before moving to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it won four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography.
Wheeldon trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with the Company from 1991–93. Since his retirement from dancing in 2000, he has created several works for The Royal Ballet including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 2011 and the critically-acclaimed The Winter's Tale, which is currently being performed at the Royal Opera House.
Wheeldon's one-act ballet Within the Golden Hour returns in May 2016 in a new mixed programme of works by choreographers closely associated with The Royal Ballet, Obsidian Tear / The Invitation / Within the Golden Hour.
The Winter's Tale runs 12 April–10 June 2016. Tickets are still available.
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Following the announcement last week that Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from Norma, the role will now be sung by Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva.
Director of Opera Kasper Holten expressed his gratitude to the Metropolitan Opera, New York: 'A huge thank you to the Met for releasing the brilliant soprano Sonya Yoncheva from her scheduled performances there as Mimì in La bohème. They have announced today that Ailyn Pérez will sing Mimì for them in the autumn. We are delighted and appreciative that Sonya will be able to join our excellent cast and creative team for The Royal Opera's new production of Norma. She has had much success at the Royal Opera House in recent Seasons and we look forward to welcoming her back in the autumn for Norma and as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.'
Sonya Yoncheva made her Royal Opera debut in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Winners' concert in July 2012. She has subsequently sung Musetta in La bohème, Marguerite in Faust, Violetta Valéry in La traviata and Micaëla in Carmen for the Company. Her other recent engagements include Desdemona in Otello for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the title role in Iolanta for Opéra National de Paris, and Mimì in La bohème and Violetta Valéry in La traviata for Berlin State Opera.
The rest of the cast remains unchanged.]]>
Principal casting has been changed for three performances of Frankenstein and is now confirmed as follows:
Friday 6 May: Sarah Lamb, Tristan Dyer, Nehemiah Kish
Tuesday 17 May: Sarah Lamb, Tristan Dyer, Ryoichi Hirano
Friday 20 May: Ryoichi Hirano
Friday 27 May: Laura Morera, Federico Bonelli, Steven McRae
The rest of the casts remain the same.
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#rohtannhauser Christian Gerhaher, ensembles, men's chorus & orchestra all excellent tonight. Gerhaher was humblingly wonderful.
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Great choral singing at #ROHTannhauser tonight. Oh my God (literally!), I forgot how pompously religious Wagner can be.
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The story of how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein came to be written is well known. It was 1816; Mary and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley had followed Lord Byron to spend the summer months in Switzerland. During the long, often wet and stormy evenings, so the story goes, they recited poetry and read to each other spine-tingling tales. Eventually bored of the stories, Byron proposed that they should each write a supernatural story of their own.
The Frankenstein idea came to Mary in a waking dream. She imagined a student, who had pursued forbidden science to discover the 'cause of generation and life', finally bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. Mary developed the idea, nurturing it over nine months, and finishing it in the spring of 1817. Frankenstein was published the following year.
A preface to the first edition of the novel, purportedly by the author but actually penned by Percy, declared: 'The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed by Dr Darwin… as not of impossible occurrence.' Dr Darwin was Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather, and the 'event' was a series of strange experiments he described in 1802, in which he had apparently caused inanimate matter to move of its own accord.
But did another nightmare inspire Frankenstein too? Early in 1815, Mary had given birth to her first child by Percy – a daughter – but the child was born prematurely and lived for only a few days. Mary was devastated. The feelings of helplessness in the 17-year-old mother haunted her dreams. She wrote in her diary: 'Dreamt that my little baby came to life again; that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lived. Awake and find no baby.'
Had discussion of Darwin's experiments given her a glimmer of hope that science could one day discover how to reanimate a dead human? And what was the vital need, the vital spark that separated the animate from the dead?
Mary was acutely aware of many of the cutting-edge scientific debates and discoveries of her time. The second half of the 18th century was alive with scientific debate and discovery. Notions of 'vitalism' became newly controversial and, in the 1790s, respected scientists publicly challenged each other on the subject of the nature of life, of what lay at the heart of the vitality of all animals.
But Mary may also have been exploring another principle of life that the pioneering male scientists of the age had overlooked. Her sensitivities to nuances of character and the valencies of human interaction brought to vivid life the real significance of the thrilling and terrifying knowledge she absorbed, and her novel became a profound reflection on the complexities of human nature. Reflecting, in part, her own world, her characters combine features of the real people she met, knew and loved.
When Mary and Percy first eloped to Europe in 1814 they caused scandal at home and embarrassed her father, William Godwin. Financial and legal concerns brought them back to England but Godwin would have nothing to do with his daughter, ordering family and friends to shut her out of their lives. Such glimpses of Mary's private anguish resonate powerfully in the exchanges between Victor and his creature in the novel: 'Begone! I will not hear you', Victor tells his creation. 'There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies.'
Perhaps Mary's imagination stitched together her nightmares of the dead being alive, her fears and responsibilities as a sister and as a mother, her needs and joys as a daughter, a friend and a lover, to create something deeply and humanly ambiguous; at once childlike and gigantic, fatally clumsy yet sensitive and erudite; monstrous and vulnerable at the same time. As her father had written in 1791, 'The points in which human beings resemble are infinitely more considerable than those in which they differ.'
This is an edited extract from Will Richmond's article 'Principles of Life and Death', available to read in full in The Royal Ballet's programme for Frankenstein.
Frankenstein runs 4–27 May 2016. Tickets are still available.
The production is a co-production with San Francisco Ballet and is generously supported by The Taylor Family Foundation, Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman, Simon and Virginia Robertson, Will and Beth Gardiner, Karl and Holly Peterson, The Shauna Gosling Trust, The Constance Travis Charitable Trust, The American Friends of Covent Garden, the Frankenstein Production Syndicate, Bently Foundation, The Hellman Family and E. L. Wiegand Foundation.]]>
The story begins…
Oedipe's parents' happiness at his birth is destroyed when the prophet Tirésias announces that the child will kill his father Laïos and marry his mother Jocaste. Oedipe is sent away to be killed. However, a shepherd rescues him and he is reared in ignorance of his origins by King Polybos and Queen Mérope of Corinth, as their son. Twenty years later, Oedipe learns of the prophecy. His ensuing actions bring about rather than prevent its fulfillment.
An epic retelling of Greek tragedy
Romanian composer George Enescu's only opera, with a libretto by Edmond Fleg, was inspired by the Greek myth of Oedipus. The opera recounts over four acts the Greek hero's life from birth to death. Acts I and II present events from the legend of Oedipus previously undramatized. The principal sources for Acts III and IV were Sophocles' great tragedies Oedipus Tyrannus (Oedipus the King), which was adapted by many great playwrights as well as by Stravinsky in his Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus, a lesser known work that shows Oedipe making peace with Fate and the gods, then dying serenely.
Enescu's masterpiece
Oedipe was Enescu's most ambitious work, and many consider it his masterpiece. He began to make sketches for it in 1910 after he saw a production of Oedipus Tyrannus; he completed the opera some twenty years later in 1931. Oedipe's premiere in 1936 was a success, but World War II halted its progress as a repertory work. Oedipe began to be more regularly performed in Romania from the 1950s; performances in Western Europe are growing in number. This is The Royal Opera's first production.
Dramatic and humane
Enescu's score is richly varied. He makes expressive use of folk music in Act I, and in the Shepherd's pipe music in Act II. There are eerie orchestral effects for the riddles scene and the Sphinx's death – including the use of a musical saw. Finally, there is radiant music for the closing scene, in which Oedipe realizes that he has come to terms with Fate.
Primeval clay and the nature of time
This production by Àlex Ollé and Valentina Carrasco explores the nature of time, showing that our notion of temporality is limited. Oedipe is an 'eternal' figure who exists outside traditional concepts of time, and who correspondingly moves through different epochs as his life progresses – from the antiquity of the first scene to the contemporary inflections of the opera's conclusion. Throughout the production, red clay – symbolizing not only the myth of man's creation from clay, and classical statuary, but ecological disasters such as the chemical spill in Hungary in 2010 – plays a major role in the designs and staging.
Oedipe runs 23 May–8 June 2016. Tickets are still available.
The production was originally made for La Monnaie, Brussels, and is given with generous support from the Monument Trust, Richard and Ginny Salter, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Friends of Covent Garden.]]>
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn with regret from Bellini's masterpiece, Norma, due to open The Royal Opera's 2016/17 Season in September. Tickets for the production have not yet gone on sale.
In a message to her London fans Anna Netrebko has said: 'As I have begun to prepare the role, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion my voice has evolved in a different direction. This is something I could not have anticipated when Maestro Pappano and I planned this project four years ago, as we singers have to make decisions about roles and projects several years in advance. It pains me greatly to disappoint him, the Royal Opera House, and audiences in the UK. Knowing that tickets will soon go on sale and not wanting to mislead anyone, I feel I must now be honest with myself as an artist and make this very difficult decision.'
Kasper Holten, Director of Opera added, 'We are working hard on finding a new leading soprano to join Tony Pappano, Joseph Calleja, Sonia Ganassi and Brindley Sherratt in the rehearsal room later this summer. We are, of course, very frustrated that Anna has felt it necessary to cancel a major role debut with us for the second time. We have done everything we can to avoid this situation. Whilst we regret that her withdrawal has come at such a late stage, we do respect her decision and understand how difficult this is for her as well. We are sorry for the disappointment this may cause some of our audience.'
Antonio Pappano, Music Director added, 'I am of course saddened not to be doing this iconic opera with Anna. We had planned this project around her ambition to take it on some time ago but we all have to accept that things sometimes change. After all, it is a hugely challenging role. We have a superb creative team led by Àlex Ollé and a fantastic line up of world class singers and we will announce our new Norma shortly.
Anna and I have some other plans for the future at Covent Garden, in particular one of the major roles in which she has recently triumphed.']]>
Katie Mitchell's Royal Opera production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor was relayed live to cinemas around the world on 25 April 2016.
During the interval audiences saw several short films featuring interviews with the cast and creative team as well as footage of the opera in rehearsal.
If you missed the screening or simply want to watch them again, here's another chance to watch the films:
The power of the female in Lucia di Lammermoor:
'The main themes of this opera are love, death and despair,' says Katie Mitchell who directs The Royal Opera's new production of Donizetti's tragedy.
Mitchell is joined by the cast of her latest production to introduce the story of Lucia – an aristocratic woman who is forced to marry a wealthy landowner after she falls in love with her brother's enemy.
'It's a very demanding, frightening role but it is fantastic', says German soprano Diana Damrau who sings the title role. 'She fights like a man. She does not give up.'
This new production is a feminist take on Donizetti's opera and focuses the audience's attention on the central female character.
'I'm excited to take an opera like Lucia and make it live for women and indeed men today, which gives more sense of the power of the female – as a opposed to being seen as a female without power,' explains Mitchell.
The sound of the 'mad scene' – the glass harmonica:
The glass harmonica is the unusual instrument used to create the eerie sound of the 'mad scene' – the moment Lucia realizes that she can never be reunited with her lover Enrico.
Glass harmonica player, Philipp Marguerre, shows how the instrument makes its haunting effect.
'I use still cold, still [tap] water because it produces the best effect. Mineral water doesn't really work.' The best tone and dynamic is produced with cold water,' says Marguerre.
The instrument also known as a 'bowl organ' or a 'hydrocrystalophone' can play a huge range of notes from a C1 to an E Flat which allows the player to follow melodies or more polyphonic music.
'Donizetti searched for a sound that could describe Lucia's madness', explains Marguerre. 'For this opera he wanted an uncanny, crazy sound.'
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It started out as something of a dinner party crowd-pleaser. After hearing musicians in England playing an arrangement of water-filled wine glasses, Benjamin Franklin (of American 'Founding Fathers' fame) experimented with creating his own version.
The result was the 'armonica': 37 glass bowls of different sizes, threaded together on an iron spindle and colour-coded with paint to identify the notes. In contrast to the wine glass version, the bowls were positioned horizontally, allowing the player to sound up to ten notes at the same time. With its delicate sound and unusual appearance, the instrument soon became popular – even French queen Marie Antoinette took lessons – and thousands were built and sold.
So far, so ordinary, until reports from delighted party guests gradually gave way to something altogether more perplexing. Hearing the singing glasses, listeners credited the instrument with mind-altering affects. Princess Izabella Czartoryska of Poland, who met Franklin and his armonica in 1772, wrote an account: 'I was ill, in a state of melancholia, and writing my testament and farewell letters... [Franklin] opened an armonica, sat down and played long. The music made a strong impression on me and tears began flowing from my eyes. Then Franklin sat by my side and looking with compassion said, "Madam, you are cured." Indeed in that moment I was cured of my melancholia.'
Soon, regular players reported unusual side-effects from playing. Tinnitus, disorientation and even 'madness' struck the players with alarming regularity. The instrument was credited with causing evil and endangering the public, and the health warnings were clear: 'If you are suffering from any kind of nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it,' German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz wrote.
Reports of mental instability and hysteria soon saw this eerie instrument relegated from the realms solo performance. Opera, however, with its frequent flights of fancy and multiple 'mad scenes', is where this instrumental anomaly found its home.
Its most famous outing is during Donizetti's bel canto tragedy, Lucia di Lammermoor - unsurprisingly, during the 'mad scene', cementing the glass harmonica's place as the soundtrack to unusual or other-worldly activities. It's these unique qualities which Beethoven had used to his advantage in a similarly disconcerting scene written 20 years before, in an unpublished extract from Princess Leonore, incidental music composed for a play, Op.202/WoO 96. The play itself is unremarkable, but, unusually for Beethoven, there is a short 'melodrama' for glass harmonica and narrator, at at the point in the play when the heroine Leonore is speaking to her true love from beyond the grave.
If only the players had listened to the steadying voice of science a little earlier. A quick analysis of the tones produced by this maddening instrument reveals they are produced between 1,000 and 4,000 hertz. Sounds of this frequency are difficult for the ear to place, and the result is that listeners are unable to work out where the music is coming from: 'beyond the grave', unsurprisingly, no longer stands up as a credible answer.
But it wasn't just the sound that caused players and listeners alike to lose their wits. The lead crystal used in the manufacturing of the instrument reportedly had an effect on all those who spent hours in its company, causing them to hallucinate or even faint. One such player, Marianne Kirchgessner, died at the age of 39, with the instrument being blamed for her untimely death. Science, again, debunks this theory: lead poisoning was common in the 18th and early 19th centuries for both armonica players and non-players alike.
Nowadays, with science on its side, the glass harmonica has a small but devoted fan base. It's not hard to find plentiful examples of the instrument on YouTube or Spotify, where the likes of Björk, David Gilmour and Tom Waits are among those to have offered it a guest spot on their albums. But even despite a celebrity following, it's fair to say the instrument hasn't yet shaken its dangerous reputation. After years in the shadows the glass harmonica enjoyed its time in the operatic limelight in George Benjamin's 2013 work, Written on Skin, but the associations were clear. As the singer descended into madness, the eerie song of the glass harmonica could be heard from somewhere imperceptible. Science tells us it was the orchestra pit, but you never can be sure...
Lucia di Lammermoor runs 7 April 2016–19 May 2016. Tickets are still available.]]>
Oedipe has been a 'neglected masterpiece', says conductor Leo Hussain ahead of The Royal Opera's first-ever production of George Enescu's only opera.
After its premiere in Paris in 1936, the opera has received only sporadic performances and has been seen rarely outside the Romanian composer's home country, something that puzzles Hussain. He believes that the piece has not only been forgotten for too long, but that it quite rightly deserves to become part of the operatic repertory: 'I find it very difficult to find any artistic reason for its neglect', he says.
'[Such reasons] are mainly practical', continues the British conductor, who is making his Royal Opera debut with Oedipe. A properly published and edited orchestral score doesn't exist; busy star singers and conductors don't often have the time nowadays to do even read-throughs of such rarely-staged operas; and the 'epic-size' orchestra written in the piece – lots of percussions, four keyboard instruments, and huge brass, woodwind and string sections as well as an eerie sounding musical saw – can only mean that Enescu's work is quite expensive to put on, 'particularly for a middle-size opera house'.
But when such challenges are eclipsed, as will be the case next month in Covent Garden, Hussain is certain that many in their seats will also soon be baffled by how long it's taken them to discover Oedipe's 'extraordinary' music.
'From lush Wagnerian to translucent Debussyan', the conductor explains, 'it really encompasses almost every style of 20th century music - even styles that had not been written in when Enescu was writing the piece'.
The score calls for saxophone solos that sound 'plaintive and haunting', orchestral passages that resemble the 'slightly faded grandeur of early Hollywood epics', and 'quite extreme, quite chromatic' harmonies that lend a 'very eerie, very strange colour'. The icing on the cake comes at the end of the opera, which features a piece of music that according to Hussain is 'one of the most beautiful, moving and thrilling arias that exists. It's half Pelléas et Mélisande and half Götterdämmerung. It's an extraordinary piece of music'.
Enescu's musical genius apart, Hussain believes that Oedipe's exquisite melodic phrasing and rich orchestral writing were also the results of the long gestation period of the opera. The composer made his first sketches of the piece in 1910 but it was only in 1932 that the opera was finished, partly on account of its creator's obsession with detail. His instructions on how to play notes, for example, don't simply employ the customary range of six dynamics, from pianissimo to fortissimo. For Enescu that wasn't enough - he also wants the music to be heard ben [quite] piano, ben forte or poco [little] forte. 'There's barely a note in the 500 pages of the score which doesn't have an individual marking on it', summarizes the conductor.
Moreover, Hussain believes that Enescu spent 22 years writing the opera because, quite simply, he was a 'very, very busy man' who also had to juggle a demanding schedule of concert tours all over the world. He wasn't only the composer who created 'a national music of Romania'; he was also a 'real virtuoso' at the violin, an 'extraordinary' conductor, a proficient pianist and a music writer – in short, 'one of the most complete musicians of the 20th century'. Enescu may indeed have struggled to find the time to write another opera, but Hussain is pleased that Oedipe is the one he did.
Oedipe runs 23 May-8 June 2016. Tickets are still available.
It is a co-production with La Monnaie, Brussels and is generously supported by the Monument Trust, Richard and Ginny Salter, The Romanian Cultural Institute and The Friends of Covent Garden. Find out how you can support the Royal Opera House.]]>


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Jupha Som Net in a file photo. Perlis hope she will bag the gold medal in the criterium and 120km road race at Sukma.
KANGAR: Perlis' hope for Sukma gold in cycling rests on the shoulders of Jupha Som Net. But over-reliance on the 21-year-old could be costly.
Jupha, who recently won the points race bronze medal at the Asian Cycling Championships in Kazakhstan, will only return from there on May 29. Her event at the Malaysia Games (Sukma) will start on June 1.
Perlis coach Muhd Afandi Abdullah is hoping Jupha will have enough recovery time before her first event, the 55km criterium. "She is in good form right now and exactly where I want her to be. But I just hope she recovers fast enough for the race because she is our clear hope for a gold medal," said Afandi.
Jupha hogged the limelight at the 2011 Sukma in Kuala Lumpur when she was crowned the Best Female Athlete after winning four gold medals. However, at the 2012 Games in Pahang, she was a big letdown as she ended up with no gold medals.
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"I believe she can do it. But as I said, it all depends on her recovery. We will fly her straight to Alor Setar from Kuala Lumpur on May 29 and drive straight to Kangar from there.
"I'm really anxious about this. Until she is here with us, I can't sleep easy," said Afandi.
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As a rumor floats around Truman High that Meghan is pregnant, Cameron gives Kenny advice on how to get "to the next level" with Rebecca Peabody (Taryn Manning) in return for Kenny's help in getting the school to relax a skateboarding ban. Meanwhile, Mitch, who's been depressed since his friend's death, decides to change careers. And Elizabeth fears that Dr. Carlisle (Steven Gilborn) is losing interest in her. Meg O'Donnell: Jenny Lewis. Jody Garrow: Natalie Ramsey. Sedgwick: Amy Carlson.
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Now here are some excerpts from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer which is a good read:
The poor unfortunate had starved to death. In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead. The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick -- a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. That drop was falling when the Pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was "news." It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion. Has everything a purpose and a mission? Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect's need? and has it another important object to accomplish ten thousand years to come? No matter. It is many and many a year since the hapless half-breed scooped out the stone to catch the priceless drops, but to this day the tourist stares longest at that pathetic stone and that slow-dropping water when he comes to see the wonders of McDougal's cave. Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it.
{So does everything have a purpose? I think so!}
"In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity! Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.' Her graceful form, arrayed in snowy robes, is whirling through the mazes of the joyous dance; her eye is brightest, her step is lightest in the gay assembly.
"In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, and the welcome hour arrives for her entrance into the Elysian world, of which she has had such bright dreams. How fairy-like does everything appear to her enchanted vision! Each new scene is more charming than the last. But after a while she finds that beneath this goodly exterior, all is vanity:
the flattery which once charmed her soul, now grates harshly upon her ear; the ball-room has lost its charms; and with wasted health and imbittered heart, she turns away with the conviction that earthly pleasures cannot satisfy the longings of the soul!"
{Spoke to me anyway}
{Now, there's also a passage in Tom Sawyer that has the famous phrase "cellar door":}
"Don't talk about it, Tom. I've tried it, and it don't work; it don't work, Tom. It ain't for me; I ain't used to it. The widder's good to me, and friendly; but I can't stand them ways. She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a
for -- well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat -- I hate them ornery sermons! I can't ketch a fly in there, I can't chaw. I got to wear shoes all Sunday. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell -- everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it."
{This was said by Huck Finn, and of course was referenced--at least the cellar door bit, although not a mention of Tom Sawyer, tis True--in the movie Donnie Darko, but still I can't help but to make a connection to this Novel, since Huck is one like the Boy in Catcher in the Rye who can't stand all the pretentiousness and whatnot. And if this Thread gets Pinned, another connection I'll make (which is in addition to the Other thing I was wanting to Reveal).
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A Prague court has sentenced the influential businessman Roman Janoušek to three years in prison for grievous bodily harm in connection with a hit-and-run incident in 2012. He fled the scene after knocking down a female driver with whom he had become involved in an altercation and later failed a breathalyser test. Mr. Janoušek can appeal Wednesday's verdict. The hit-and-run incident came just days after a newspaper published transcriptions of wiretaps giving the impression that he had held such influence over politicians and officials in Prague that he was a kind of "shadow mayor".
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Calling for a Media Focused Protest on 9/11/09!
By John Bursill — Australian Activist and Engineer
August 15, 2009
As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches once again it leads us to reflect on
what we have achieved and what is yet to be achieved by the 9/11 Truth and Justice
Campaign. One thing we all might agree on …