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The Augustine House in rural Ladner has moved a step closer to being able to expand, although no formal plans are in the works.
Delta council held a special meeting earlier this month to decide whether to give conditional approval to an application by the Augustine House Society for a zoning amendment and lot line adjustment.
It will pave the way for a future expansion of the seniors' care facility on the agriculturally zoned land.
The application involves the entire site in the 3800 and 3900 blocks of Arthur Drive, which includes four properties that are to remain in the Agricultural Land Reserve. The parcels contain the Augustine House Residence for Seniors, Augustinian Monastery and agricultural fields, as well as Sacred Heart Church and Sacred Heart School.
Chilukthan Slough runs through the area.
The application by the owners is to adjust the lot lines of the four parcels to reflect the current uses as well as a possible expansion of the seniors' facility. The expansion would be at the monastery buildings.
Council also agreed the McKneely Residence at the site, now the Augustinian Monastery, be placed on Delta's heritage register.
Following the meeting, Hector Herbert, vicepresident of the Augustine House Society, told the Optimist the application is simply a housekeeping matter to make the current uses on the properties all conforming, something he said should have been done years ago.
He noted there's no proposal in the works to expand the seniors' facility, as that's something they'll look into at a future date.
Architect Brian Hart said the original layout of the site has four properties and there will still be four properties once the application is approved.
The Agricultural Land Commission has already approved the lot line adjustments to reflect the boundaries of the institutional and agricultural uses.
Future conversion of the monastery buildings or construction of a new building for use as a community care facility, seniors' congregate housing and/or seniors' congregate care facility would require a new application for a non-farm use.
Council still has to give final approval, which will likely take place at an upcoming meeting at municipal hall. Metro Vancouver's approval is also required to extend sewer service the monastery, which is now outside Delta's sewer area.
The Augustine House Society is a non-profit group created in 1992 from members of the Knights of Columbus Council 7916.
Augustine House was opened in the summer of 2003. The facility has 102 suites as well as 20 assisted living suites. A separate wing has a secured area for 13 residents that require round-the-clock nursing care.
A resident opposed to the current application wrote to council asking why the building of religious centres and care facilities has been deemed an appropriate use of agricultural land.
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Accuracy. Accuracy in writing involves an editing and revision process which most of us find somewhat difficult. After the initial fast write, the students read their papers out loud in response groups. The response group members are trained to ask questions designed to help the writer clarify the work. The writer notes the questions and may choose to answer them or not in the revision. Usually, a first draft is not graded. The second draft (first revision) is edited for mistakes in grammar, spelling, usage, and punctuation. Then a final draft is prepared. In theory, the oral reading-response process is supposed to get the writers to edit one another's work (and to correct their own work). In practice, this is extremely helpful. The teacher should structure the conference in such a manner that the student is responsible for correcting his or her own work. Conferencing is much more beneficial than writing comments on papers because it allows for personal contact.
Alaska 2000 Goals. Goals for an educated graduate of Alaska's public schools established by the State Board of Education.
Alaska Teacher Education Standards. The accepted measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value in an educational setting.
Assessments. Processes of appraising or evaluating student work. (See Evaluation below.)
Assumptions. While in mathematics, these are concepts that are taken to be true without proof or demonstration, those made in the framework are based on current educational research and practice.
Audience determination. Identifying for whom a piece is intended as well as the needs of that group in terms of content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence structure, and conventions.
Authentic assessments. Assessments applying the components of reading, writing, speaking, viewing and listening to real-life situations.
CD-ROM. A disc, similar to music CDs, used to hold permanent information that can be accessed electronically and which provide rich, non-linear text.
Cognitive processes. The mental faculties by which knowledge is acquired.
Collaborative work. Shared project work by group of students.
Comprehension. A process of gaining meaning on three levels:
1) literal level of reading for explicit meaning,
2) interpretative level of reading for implicit meaning,
3) evaluative level of reading for critical insight.
Constructivist. Referring to an educational theory (constructivism) that posits that people construct personal understanding by modifying their existing concepts (or schema) in light of new evidence and experience in order to reduce discrepancies between past knowledge and new observations. This implies that students do not simply accept what has been taught, but rather shift their understanding in response to what has been taught.
Content Area. The subject area: the arts, civics, English/language arts, geography, history, math, science, skills for a healthy life, technology, and world languages.
Conventions. The "rules" of English grammar, punctuation, usage.
Cooperative Learning. Instructional strategies that develop cooperative group behaviors including the division of tasks, peer teaching, and individual and group accountability for products. Cooperative learning strategies explicitly teach students how to be productive and supportive group members.
Cueing systems. Systems of reminders or prompters to read successfully. (See chart at the end of Chapter 2.)
Curriculum Framework. A document that provides information, guidelines, suggested resources, and models for districts as they revise curriculum.
Curriculum. Curriculum is what students should know, be able to do and be committed to (content), how it is taught (instruction), how it is measured (assessment), and how the educational system is organized (context).
Developmentally Appropriate Practice. The use of content, instruction, and assessment that meets the student's ability to reason, interpret, focus, communicate, and interact, both socially and academically. These abilities change significantly as a result of age and experiences.
Educational Equity. The provision of equal access to courses, facilities, and programs regardless of national origin, race, gender, sexual orientation, disablities, first language, etc.. Meeting the diverse educational needs of students, some of whom will require specific skills to be able to access the school curriculum.
Embedded Assessment. Assessment that occurs during the course of instruction and is indistinguishable from instruction. A test at the end of a unit is not embedded. Maintaining a checklist that is recorded by the teacher at any time when the teacher witnesses the student reaching an expectation is embedded.
Equity Evaluation. Inventories and assessments of the behaviors at sites or in districts that support or discourage equitable participation and success by students of all cultures. These can include collecting data on the participation and tracking of diverse students in particular classes, the cultural representation among visible learning partners in the schools, common instructional strategies, text analyses, library collection analyses, and attitude inventories among students, faculty and staff. (See sample Equity Checklist in the framework's Reference Kit.)
Evaluation. The process of testing, appraising, and judging achievement, growth, product, and process or changes in these using formal or informal techniques.
Expressive. Those areas of language in which the communicator is conveying, rather than receiving, observations, thoughts, and/or feelings, i.e., speaking and writing.
Expressive Writing. Writing which is personal, e.g. diaries, personal letters, autobiographies.
Fluency. Being able to put pen or pencil to paper and write without worrying about grammar, spelling, and punctuation. This is accomplished through a variety of pre-writing and fluency activities. Prewriting might include brainstorming, verbal responding to pictures or a film, word games, a story-anything to get the mind in gear for using language. The most common type of fluency exercise is the fast write, usually a timed (short, depends on group) writing period in which the class free-writes about a given topic. This helps get the words down on the paper so that further writing can take place.
Form. Form gives shape to writing. It may be an essay or a poem, or whatever you choose. Whatever the form, it is vital to provide students with a model. Models help the students see how to shape their work. The insecure students will generally adhere closely to the model, while the more creative students can learn to stretch themselves. Analyze the model for the students and give them clear directions for constructing their work.
Framework. Skeletal support used as the basis in an object being developed. In the case of Alaska content standards, the frameworks provide support for curriculum development committees and preservice institutions as they help teachers move students toward meeting the standards.
Grapho-Phonic Cues. Reading cues that appear through letter shape, sound and phonics.(See Cueing Systems chart at the end of Chapter 2.)
Hands-On Learning. Instructional activities in which the students manipulate the materials as contrasted with activities in which the students simply read about or hear about phenomena.
IEP. Individual Education Plans developed by professionals and parents to lay out a course of study suitable for the student.
Implications. The implied or understood consequences of a set of concepts or assumptions.
Indigenous People. The original or natural inhabitants of an environment.
Inquiry-Based Learning. Instructional activities that are initiated through central questions or investigations. In inquiry-based learning students often determine the answers by collecting and synthesizing their own data.
Integrated, Interdisciplinary Instruction. Instruction that addresses standards from more than one content area. This can occur in a variety of forms: applied projects, thematic instruction, service learning projects, social-issue investigations, science-technology-society investigations, simulations, etc.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum. Topics and concepts tied together, i.e., thematic instruction.
Key Elements. Itemized lists that further describe the content of each standard. Key elements identify the major component parts, features, traits, or dimensions of the Alaska student content standards.
Learner-centered Instruction. Teaching and learning focused on the students' needs, interests, and abilities.
Learning Partners. Parents, elders, primary care givers, other family members, the business community, mentors and other volunteers that work with students both in and out of the classroom.
Learning Styles. People tend to have preferences in their approach to learning tasks. Some prefer to make random associations. Others are more comfortable with structured interpretations. Some prefer abstract interactions with ideas, while others require a concrete experience to introduce a concept. Research suggests that most of us learn best when information is presented in a way that matches our preferred learning styles. Research also suggests that our learning style preferences can be broadened.
Limited English proficiency. The ability to use English to communicate, but at a lower level than is usually expected for a native speaker of English of the same age.
Measurement Yardsticks (Processes, Instruments). The tools of assessment (including, but not limited to, checklists and other rubrics, portfolios, and tests).
Metacognitive Development. Thinking and applying thinking to problem-solving, and also thinking about the thinking application and problem-solving process in order to make them more efficient.
Modality. A generic term referring to ways of thinking, including both learning styles and multiple intelligences.
Multiple Intelligences. Howard Gardner proposes that all humans are endowed with seven forms of intelligence: mathematical/logical, linguistic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, and kinesthetic. Schools usually emphasize the linguistic and mathematical/logical intelligences.
Performance Indicators. Expectations in the form of lists of abilities that are appropriate for students at different benchmarks. The Department of Education & Early Development is currently developing Alaska performance indicators for students at ages 8-10, 12-14, and 16-18.
Preservice. Training prior to being employed as a teacher.
Psycholinguistic Guessing Game. A term used by Ken Goodman describing reading as occurring at the intersection of the author's knowledge and the reader's knowledge.
Reading Development. Emerging (K-1st grade) developing (2nd -5th grade), independent (6th -8th grade), developing critical (9th and 10th grade), critical (11th and 12th grade).
Reading Cueing Systems. Syntactic, semantic, graphophonic. (See Cueing Systems chart at the end of Chapter 2.)
Reading Process. Pre-reading, reading, post-reading and extending reading. (See Reading Process chart at the end of Chapter 2.)
Receptive. Those areas of language which the communicator is receiving, rather than expressing, observations, thoughts and/or feelings, i.e., reading, listening and viewing.
Reference Kit. Collection of reference books, articles, and tapes for English/language arts curriculum development committees to use during the curriculum revision process. These can be borrowed from the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development.
Regents. An organized body of members serving on the governing board of the University of Alaska.
Reliable. The consistency of assessment results from an instrument over time or over a number of trials.
Rubric. A scoring guide including a summary listing of the characteristics that distinguish high quality from low quality work.
Running Record. An assessment tool used to analyze what a student does in reading by observing and recording the reader's exact oral reading. (See Running Record in Chapter 3.)
Scaffolding. Instruction that is organized in a way that identifies the students prior knowledge about a topic and creates connections between past understandings or experiences and new knowledge.
School to Work Opportunities Act. A national act that will bring together partnerships of employers, educators and others to build a high quality School to Work system that prepares young people for careers in high-skill, high-wage jobs.
Standards. Broad lists of what students should know, be able to do, and be committed to. The State of Alaska has created content standards in the following areas: English/language arts, history, geography, civics/government, science, mathematics, arts, world languages, healthy life skills, and technology.
Statutes. Laws enacted by the legislative branch upon which educational regulations are based.
Student Questionnaire. A statewide questionnaire requesting such information as student demographics, activities, plans for the future.
Syntactic Cues. Reading cues that sound right within language construction. (See Cueing Systems chart at the end of Chapter 2.)
Syntax. The frame or grammatical structure of language and the arrangement and interrelationships of words, phrases, clauses in sentences and paragraphs.
Talent Bank. A list of educators willing to share their specific areas of expertise with others.
Technology. In this document technology refers to a variety of new and emerging electronic technologies such as computers, CD Roms, LCD panels, the Worldwide Web, etc.
Thematic Instruction. A specific form of integrated instruction in which students investigate many factors related to one topic or theme through many lenses.
Utility. The degree to which assessment information is useful, understandable, easily obtained, and affordable.
Validity. The degree to which an assessment instrument measures what it intends to measure.


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More than a year ago, a group of people upset with the bank bailouts decided to occupy Wall Street. In major cities across America, #occupy movements popped up like McDonald's franchises. There were murmurs that maybe this was some kind of American version of the Arab Spring. Unlike the Tea Party movement, which was born of the same disgust with government waste and financial abuse but leaned towards the other end of the political spectrum, the #occupy movement garnered a lot of positive press. Even meetings publications started talking about how we should #occupy our old meetings format to drive change.
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With the arrival of Italian soccer player Alessandro Del Piero in Sydney yesterday, the first Sydney A-league derby game at Parramatta Stadium looks set to be the match of the year.
Del Piero was greeted at Sydney Airport by a sea of black and white, and sky blue — the colours of Juventus and Sydney FC.
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"It's going to be an exchange of cultures. We are looking forward to a unique relationship with them," said Bill George of People for Care and Learning.
The connections between the two places may be more than one would think. Phnom Penh Governor His Excellency Kep Chuk Tema enjoyed the music of Elvis Presley when he was younger, and was excited to visit the state where the king of Rock and Roll lived. He also has a KitchenAid refrigerator. The visiting group had a chance to tour the Whirlpool Cleveland Division plant during their visit.
"We have developed some lasting friendships, I hope, over the last few days," said Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland at the Rotarian gathering. "I look forward to visiting your country."
"These have been friends of mine for some time and I am always telling them about my hometown. It's just great to be able to show them Cleveland," said Fred Garmon of People for Care and Learning.
During the noon gathering, the foreign governor spoke through an interpretor, saying he was enjoying his visit to Cleveland and the opportunity to speak about his country.
The Phnom Penh leader said progress is being made through the government's partnership with People for Care and Learning. This partnership has allowed the organization to begin the Build a City project to revitalize the village of Andong. As part of the Build a City project, People for Care and Learning is providing job training and educational opportunities to the people of Andong.
"It is our job to have jobs and a decent living set up," the visiting dignitary said.
He said the Build a City approach is like "giving them (Andong) a fishing line."
"Thank you to all of you and hope to see you in Cambodia," the Phnom Penh governor said.
Part of the project includes negotiating with potential companies to build near the site to provide jobs for the 8,000 people who live there. George said about 45 percent of the population of Cambodia makes, on average, less than $1.25 a day.
Garmon said the organization employs locals to do the construction and development of the city.
"We try to employ Cambodians first. ... We want to give ... the poor a working chance, so if they can build them, we want to pay them the hourly wage to do that," Garmon said.
Cambodia's history has had an impact on the economic well-being of many.
"From 1975 to 1979, a radical communist government took control of Cambodia and the results were fierce," George said.
He said during this time the government worked to return Cambodia to an agrarian society.
"So they evacuated all the cities and destroyed the infrastructure," George said.
According to the Phnom Penh governor, it was after the first national election in 1993 that people began moving to the cities in large numbers. Today, Phnom Penh is a thriving city again. However, poverty continues to be an issue in some areas, including Andong.
Garmon said many of the Rotarians present had been a part of trips to Cambodia. He said he hoped all of them would take an opportunity to become a part of the project.
Rotarian Johnathan Cantrell and state Rep. Kevin Brooks are already planning to join the organization on their next trip.


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A doctor (Tom Conti) and his wife (Teri Garr), recently divorced, are kidnapped and brought to South America by an inept jewel thief (Paul Rodriguez), just in time to help cure a tribal chief's daughter of appendicitis. Then, a series of circumstances brings the entire family together. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken ball, a funeral is held and she is mourned, but then everyone goes on with their lives and forgets about her. Everyone, that is, except her sister Zelda (Judith Ivey). Zelda runs an occult bookstore and as she peruses one of her books of incantations, she discovers a magical chant that can raise the dead. Obeying the rules of the incantation -- it has to be performed a year after the person dies and the resurrected person must find love within 30 days or the person will die again -- she brings back Lucy to life. Lucy immediately proceeds to her husband's home and finds that he is married to her best friend Kim (Sela Ward). She now has to deal with the changed circumstances of her husband, along with a burgeoning love affair with Kevin Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne), the emergency-room doctor who had tried to save her life. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. One night at a glamorous dinner party, Ruth (Roseanne Barr), the frumpy housewife of Bob (Ed Begley Jr.), accidentally spills wine over Mary's pink evening gown. Bob rushes to Mary's assistance, they look into each other's eyes, and it is lust at first sight. After a few clandestine interludes, Bob abandons his wife and his two smart-aleck kids to live with Mary at her palace by the seaside. As a result, Ruth goes into high gear to seek vengeance. She deposits her kids with Bob and then, with the help of a collection of other abused women -- including Ruth's mother (Sylvia Miles), nursing home attendant Hopper (Linda Hunt), and dim-witted secretary Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) -- she systematically sets out to destroy Bob's life. Bob calls Ruth a she-devil, and Ruth plays the role to the hilt; first she destroys his home life, then his career, then his freedom. And when he has nothing left, she proceeds to haunt and stalk him, bringing Bob to his knees. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who immediately falls in love with her. After the marriage, Sam's well-meaning but obnoxious insistence on insinuating himself into every aspect of Renata's life rubs the rest of her family the wrong way. Though the script occasionally veers into both cliché and sentimentality, Once Around ends up a thoroughly charming experience, thanks to Hallstrom's knowing direction and the marvelous chemistry between Hunter and Dreyfuss. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman is the story of Frank Slade (Pacino), a blind, retired army colonel who hires Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a poor college student on the verge of expulsion, to take care of him over Thanksgiving weekend. At the beginning of the weekend, Frank takes Charlie to New York, where he reveals to the student that he intends to visit his family, have a few terrific meals, sleep with a beautiful woman and, finally, commit suicide. The film follows the mis-matched pair over the course of the weekend, as they learn about life through their series of adventures. Though the story is a little contrived and predictable, it pulls all the right strings, thanks to O'Donnell's sympathetic supporting role and Pacino's powerful lead performance, for which he won his first Academy Award. Scent of a Woman is based on the 1975 Italian film Profumo Di Donna. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Paul Schrader's brilliant study of another alienated urban denizen skirting the borderline of madness stars Willem Dafoe as John Le Tour, a rich, upscale drug dealer for Manhattan professionals -- "White drugs for white people," as he puts it. John is a recovering addict and for him it's the perfect job, as he can relate completely with the self-absorbed eccentrics he services. But when his boss Ann (Susan Sarandon) tells John that she is planning to abandon the drug business for herbal cosmetics, John's life is thrown into disarray. With no future plans, he sees black clouds heading his way. Coincidentally, he runs into Marianne (Dana Delany), an old girlfriend and former addict who has returned to New York to be with her dying mother. John sees Marianne as his redemption and starts to pursue her, but she doesn't want to be reminded of her past. When the murder of an Upper West Side woman involved in a drug transaction has the police scouring the town for suspects, John thinks they are following him, and the strain upon his life and his hopes for the future become harder and harder to bear. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Small-time Texas businessman Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) can never shake the memory of his father's (James Caan) wasted life. What particularly sticks in his craw is the murder committed years earlier by his father and a teenaged accomplice. While going through the by-rote motions of his job (he supplies vending machines), Arlis strikes up a friendship with hardcase hitchhiker Kay Davies (Meg Ryan). Slowly, Kay helps Arlis put his life in order. And then, Arlis suddenly realizes where he's seen Kay before. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Harvard University graduate Alek Keshishian directed this tale about a homeless man who teaches some snotty Harvard students a thing or two about real life. Monty (Brendan Fraser) is a self-absorbed graduate student who is obsessed with finishing his thesis on government so that he can satisfy his demanding teacher, Professor Pitkannan (Gore Vidal). When Monty loses his precious thesis in the basement of the library's heating plant, it is found by a homeless man living there, Simon (Joe Pesci). Simon agrees to return the thesis one page at a time in return for certain favors. The relationship with the bearded vagabond changes Monty's view of life, and it also affects his housemates, who include Everett (Patrick Dempsey), a wisecracking radio host; Courtney (Moira Kelly), who is immature and sex-obsessed; and the studious nerd Jeff (Josh Hamilton). Simon becomes something of a father figure to Monty, argues history with Professor Pitkannan, and provides an earthy balance to the overly academic viewpoint of the students. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
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Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance and courtship into the electronic age of the World Wide Web via e-mail and chat rooms. Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) live and work blocks from each other on New York City's Upper West Side. Their lives are practically intertwined. They both shop at the same place, frequent the same coffee shop, and even own competing bookstores on the same street. They also both have significant others of their own. Joe has the overly hyper book editor Patricia Eden (Parker Posey), while Kathleen lives with the scholarly newspaper columnist Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear). Then they meet in a chat room. Though they keep their identities secret (they're known only by screen names "NY152" and "Shopgirl"), they tell each other everything about their lives, including their private feelings, which slowly turn into affection for each other. When Joe decides to open a new branch of his "Foxbooks" chain that risks putting Kathleen's "Shop Around the Corner" out of business, the tension between them escalates. Surely her boutique business will be lost to the conglomerate with a built-in newsstand and coffee bar. When Joe sees Kathleen waiting for him in the restaurant where they agreed to meet up, he puts two and two together, but cannot face her, given their agreement not to reveal each others' names and professions. How can he reveal himself to her now, knowing that he is the cause of her misery? Hopefully, love will conquer all. ~ Chris Gore, Rovi
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Director Sidney Lumet has remade the 1980 movie by his contemporary, John Cassavetes, casting Sharon Stone in the role of Gloria (portrayed in the original by Cassavetes' wife, Gena Rowlands), a street-toughened woman sliding into middle age. When the neighbors are murdered by a group of mobsters, one of which is a former boyfriend, Gloria takes the couple's seven-year-old son (Jean-Luke Figueroa) on the run. In time, she learns why the boy's parents were killed, and maybe just a little about herself. Sidney Lumet, director of '70s classics Network and Dog Day Afternoon, focuses more on the relationship between Gloria and the boy than did the original. Coincidentally, this would make the film very similar to the Brazilian Central Station, released at virtually the same time. ~ Ron Wells, Rovi
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The true story of Anna Leonowens' experiences as a governess to the children of an eccentric Asian king has been adapted into a book of memoirs, a biography, a stage play called Anna and the King of Siam -- which was adapted into a 1946 film, a stage musical called The King and I -- made into both the live-action The King and I (1956)) and the animated The King and I (1999) feature films, and a short-lived 1972 TV series. Now the story is brought to the screen yet again, as Jodie Foster stars as Leonowens, hired by the king of Thailand (Chow Yun-Fat) in the 19th century to help care for his children. The king wants the best for his children, but Anna soon discovers that he is a strong-willed but quixotic leader, and her stay in Thailand becomes a struggle for power with romantic overtones, as they decide who will have authority over the royal youngsters. Anna and the King was directed by Andy Tennant, best known for his 1998 variation on the Cinderella story, Ever After. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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While lots of people dream of winning the lottery, one man hatches a more ambitious plan than just buying a ticket and hoping for the best in this satiric comedy. Russ Richards (John Travolta), a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter. Russ's girlfriend Crystal (Lisa Kudrow) appears on the State Lottery's weekly televised drawing, pulling the numbered balls out of the rotating bin. With the help of a few of his less scrupulous friends - among them sleazy strip joint proprietor Gig (Tim Roth), small time hood Dale The Thug (Michael Rappaport), and Crystal's sleazy cousin Walter (Michael Moore) - Russ figures out a way to rig the drawing and have Crystal pull numbers that they happen to own. However, Russ discovers that making the scheme work and keeping everyone quiet about it is more trouble than it's worth. The supporting cast includes Chris Kattan, Ed O'Neill, and Bill Pullman; Nora Ephron, who previously worked with Travolta on the comedy hit Michael, directed. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked windstorm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a handsome young Frenchman carrying a huge stack of books. Connie has a bad scrape on her knee, and is unable to get a cab, so Paul invites her up to his apartment. Paul is quietly flirtatious as he gives Connie some ice and a bandage for her knee. Connie phones home and explains to her son, Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan), that she's running late. Before she leaves, Paul gives her a book of Persian poetry, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. She mentions the encounter in passing to Edward (Gere), her husband, but it's clear that she's obsessing about Paul, and soon she's back in the city, with a pretext for calling him up. Soon, they are lovers, and they grow bolder and bolder in their passion. Edward begins to suspect, and eventually gets a private investigator (Dominic Chianese of The Sopranos) to follow Connie. His worst fears confirmed, Edward decides to confront Paul, a decision that will come to haunt him. While the screenplay for Unfaithful is credited to Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People) and William Broyles Jr. (Cast Away), the inspiration for Lyne's film came from Claude Chabrol's acclaimed 1969 film La Femme Infidele. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
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'Susan Tomes's sprightly piano is in its element, leading the dance in these three mature trios … Moods change at a flick of Mozart's wrist, and Tomes, Anthony Marwood and Richard Lester have all the flexibility needed' (The Times)
'These are beautifully judged performances, generally fleeter of foot, airier of texture and more intimate in tone with an ideal balance between the instruments' (Gramophone)
'Superb execution … another feather in the Florestan Trio's cap' (International Record Review)
'As in all their artistic endeavours, this outstanding disc of Mozart piano trios from the acclaimed Florestan Trio demonstrates a delightfully unforced lyricism coupled with the most exquisite, long-lined phrasing … Sample the luminous performance of the central Andante grazioso of the E major trio K.542 to hear chamber music playing of the very highest order' (HMV Choice)
'the Florestan Trio's accounts of the Third, Fourth, and Sixth trios set reference standards for stylish perception, textural transparency, and the kind of sophisticated articulation and motivic interplay that may be preplanned, yet never seems intellectualized...Hyperion's clear, full-bodied, and impeccably-balanced engineering deserves its own rave review.' (Classicstoday.com)
'The Florestan Trio makes this lovely music shimmer with dazzling facility. These are seasoned Mozart interpretations of high order' (Audiophile Ausition) 'The Florestan Trio, whose recording of Mozart Piano Trios prove an unmitigated delight.' (Secrets)
'A delight ... Its virtues, of course, were no surprise. Susan Tomes' Mozartian credentials were richly established with her 2004 recording of the Piano Concertos K413-415 on Hyperion CDA67358 ... Performances as fine as anything ever released of these enchanting works. She is a pianist, and artist, of the front rank' (Piano Magazine)
'The Florestan Trio, with pianist Susan Tomes at her moist beguiling, give a scintillating account of three mature Mozart piano trios on this disc … Whatever the technical intensity of the constituent roles Mozart demands of them, Antony Marwood and Richard Lester are well aware of how to make the best of their contributions. This is musical team-work of a very high order' (The Magazine of the Cambridge Society)
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The piano trio had thrived as a genre suited to amateur music-making in eighteenth-century parlours, but it was only when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turned his hand to the medium that it was transformed into the 'art form' we know today. Emerging from the home into the concert hall, piano parts became significantly taxing (Mozart wrote them for himself to play) and the violin and cello were elevated from accompanying roles to positions of equal prominence. The three trios on this disc were written at the zenith of Mozart's powers, K502 in 1786, K542 and K564 in the second half of 1788. All three are masterpieces, a sense of profound musical thought ever-present beneath their tranquil exteriors. Performances by The Florestan Trio are every bit as committed and polished as we have come to expect from their many previous acclaimed recordings. |
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In Vienna in the late eighteenth century there was a large market for what we now call Piano Trios, but which were then described as Sonatas for harpsichord or forte piano, with the accompaniment of a violin and violoncello. They were written to be played at home by amateur keyboard players and their friends, and composers included Clementi, Kozeluch, Pleyel, Hoffmeister, and, above all, Joseph Haydn. In most of Haydns trios, the violin and cello do indeed act as accompanists to the piano, supporting the melody and bass. Haydn and Mozart, the two greatest composers of the late eighteenth century, had immense respect for each other, becoming close friends, and had considerable influence on each others music. But the piano trio began to take on quite a new character in Mozarts hands. Unlike earlier works of this type, almost all of Mozarts trios were written to be played at his concerts in Vienna, with himself on the piano, rather than the harpsichord, and the piano parts are tailored to his own exceptional skills as a pianist. At the same time, Mozart created a new relationship between the piano and the stringed instruments, in which violin and cello began to take on independent lives of their own.
In 1786, when he wrote the Piano Trio in B flat major K502, Mozart was at the height of his powers and enjoying the only period of real success in his adult career. The previous year he had completed the six string quartets dedicated to Haydn, and The Marriage of Figaro received its premiere in May 1786. He had now been living in Vienna for five years. When he had first moved there, pianos were not yet the dominant keyboard instrument (as they already were in London and Paris), and it was Mozart more than anyone who awoke the Viennese to the possibilities of the piano as a concerto and chamber instrument. 1786 was the year of three of his greatest piano concertos (K488 in A major, K491 in C minor, and K503 in C major) and of three triosthe sublime Kegelstatt Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (K498), and the first two of his mature trios for violin, cello and piano, in G major (K496) and B flat major (K502). These are quite different from the contemporary accompanied sonatas, giving the violin and cello an independence on which Beethoven was later to build. Despite this new independence of the string parts, the B flat Trio has a particularly flamboyant character in its piano-writing which makes it seem almost like a concerto. The first-movement Allegro is constructed virtually throughout from the opening phrases, in which piano and stringed instruments answer each otheran economy of means that is much more characteristic of Haydn than of Mozart. Only at the start of the central development section does Mozart venture further afield, with a new theme first on violin then on cello. The Larghetto is a movement of highly decorated lyricism, with a simpler and more poised middle section. Again the style of the elaboration seems to suggest homage to Haydn. The finale is a wide-ranging rondo. Its opening phrase has a rather antique character, like a subject for an organ fugue. From time to time Mozart does treat it to learned counterpoint, but always with his characteristically light touch, and interspersed with dashing passages of virtuoso piano-writing. These are combined in a brilliant way as the movement draws to a close. But it is the unassuming little second theme that ends the work, wittily played in counterpoint, as violin and cello answer each other like two characters vying to be the last to leave the stage. In May 1788, Mozarts Don Giovanni finally reached the Vienna Court Theatre, following its successful premiere in Prague the previous October. After its first Viennese performance there was a gathering in one of the aristocratic homes of the city at which ladies, gentlemen and connoisseurs exchanged views of the new opera, its virtues and its shortcomings. Among those present was Haydn, who, according to a published report of the occasion, remained silent during this discussion. At last they asked the modest artist for his opinion. He said, with his usual fastidiousness: I cannot settle the argument. But one thing I knowhe added very energeticallyand that is that Mozart is the greatest composer that the world now has. The ladies and gentlemen were silent after that. Despite the run of performances of Don Giovanni, by 1788 Mozarts fortunes had changed for the worse. He had still not been rewarded with the post of Kapellmeister at court, and had to make do with the relatively minor position (and salary) of Court Chamber Musician, which he had been granted in 1787, the year which also saw the death of his father, who, though often a burden to him, was the greatest supporter of his life. But the most serious hindrance during this period was the outbreak of the AustroTurkish war. Early in 1788 Emperor Joseph II of Austria joined Russia in declaring war on the Ottoman Empire. Joseph, who had been a liberal ruler at home and a supporter of the arts, led Austria into a disaster. Nothing was gained by the war, and over two years it put a heavy burden on the Viennese through taxes and rapidly rising prices. The nobility were less able to support the arts, and Mozart, like everyone else, suffered the consequences. In addition, his wife Constanze was ill and needed expensive treatment at a spa. In April Mozart advertised for subscriptions to a manuscript edition of three string quintets. But there were so few subscribers that he was forced to postpone the publication until the following year. He was running up substantial debts, and the family had to move from their apartment in the centre of the city out into a suburb. A fortnight later, the Mozarts fourth child, Theresia, died at the age of six months. But a snapshot of Mozart at home gives no hint of all of this. A Danish actor visited him on 24 August 1788, and wrote in his journal: There I had the happiest hour of music that has ever fallen to my lot. This small man and great master twice extemporized on a pedal pianoforte, so wonderfully! so wonderfully! that I quite lost myself. He intertwined the most difficult passages with the most lovely themeshis wife cut quill-pens for the copyist, a pupil composed, a little boy aged four [Karl Mozart] walked about in the garden and sang recitativesin short, everything that surrounded that splendid man was musical! Despite his difficulties, Mozart wrote some of his greatest music over the summer of 1788. His last three symphonies were composed, and may have been performed at a series of three concerts organized for Mozarts benefit. It was around the same time that he composed two of his piano trios, in E major and C major. On 17 June he wrote to his friend and fellow-mason Michael Puchberg, asking for another loan, and adding as a P. S.: When are we going to make a little Musique at your house again? I have just composed a new trio! This was the Piano Trio in E major K542, and it was probably the same work he referred to in a letter to his sister Nannerl in August, when he asked her to play some of his new pieces to Michael Haydn (brother of Joseph), adding that he couldnt possibly dislike this trio. As in the preceding Trio in B flat, the piano-writing is at times almost like that of a concerto. But in other ways the character of this trio is quite different. The key of E major is highly unusual for Mozart, and the first movement in particular is full of harmonic twists and surprises. The opening theme on the piano seems uncertain whether it is joyful or melancholy, drooping chromatically downwards in its second bar. Rushing scales as the strings join in seem to tilt the balance away from melancholy, and the music proceeds serenely on its way, until one of the pianos rising scales unexpectedly hits a B sharp, abruptly generating a modulation to bring us to B major for the second theme. As this theme draws to a close, we suddenly find ourselves in G major and then G minorvery remote from E major. But Mozart equally quickly recovers to end the first section in B major, rounding it off with an extended version of the chromatically drooping second bar. Characteristically, Mozart follows with a development based not on the most prominent material, but on an apparently insignificant falling interval from the middle of the first theme, followed by a new phrase with a turn and a rising scale. The three instruments answer in fugal style, continuing in genial conversation until the piano suddenly bursts into a passage of flamboyant concerto arpeggios. Equally abruptly this comes to a halt, and we are back at the reprise of the opening theme. The second movement is a graceful Andante, with dotted rhythms and pointed off-beat phrasing suggesting the poise of a formal dance. Again, sudden harmonic surprises give an occasional dark hint of what lies below the surface. Most poignant is the middle section in the minor, with the violin answered by questioning phrases in the bass of the piano. Mozart had two attempts at writing the finale for this trio. He wrote more than sixty bars of a first version before abandoning it: just as he was embarking on a fugato passage, he decided to start all over again. The new theme which he then wrote is, as Alfred Einstein puts it, almost childlike. It owes part of its character to the fact that, as the piano begins the melody, the accompanying left hand avoids playing the keynote, E, until the strings come in. This has the effect of making the theme seem to float in the air, unsupported. The finale echoes elements from the first movement: a second theme begins with a falling chromatic scale, and in later episodes the piano breaks into brilliant runs and arpeggios, answered on one occasion by a dashing display from the violin. But the simple main theme seems quite unaffected by all this; and as the movement draws to a close, Mozart presents us with not so much a climax as a distillation of the mood of the whole piece. And this impression is reinforced by the final bars, where each instrument reiterates the little turn and rising scale that had figured prominently in the central section of the first movement. In October 1788, Mozart wrote his last work in the genre, the Piano Trio in G major K564. It is a sign of the times that it was first published in England, not in Vienna. And it is a sign of the conservative tastes of publishers and public that, when it was finally issued in Vienna the following year, it was still advertised, like its predecessors, as being for harpsichord or forte piano with the accompaniment of a violin and violoncello. Mozart may have led the new fashion for the piano, but many households still had their harpsichords, and the predominant model for piano trios was still the accompanied sonatas, which Haydn was to continue writing long after Mozarts death in 1791. Indeed, this trio has a rather more domestic feel than those Mozart wrote earlier in the year. It is simpler and shorter, perhaps aimed deliberately at the amateur market rather than for Mozart himself to play. Some writers have been disappointed to find this lighter work at the end of Mozarts sequence of trios, and it is true that it says what it has to say without unnecessary complication. But Mozart at his most direct is just as difficult to play as Mozart at his most subtle and complex. He gives the impression of having put every note in precisely the right place, creating elegant and lyrical structures that require absolute clarity and precision. And if one imagines eavesdropping on friends playing at home, rather than the formality of concert presentation, this elegant and charming piece seems completely in its element. The first movement is a fluent and rippling Allegro, with a second theme which is very closely related to the first, and a middle section that, rather than develop existing material, starts with an entirely new theme (as in the earlier two trios). These are examples of the subtle ways in which Mozart subverts expectations, even in an apparently straightforward piece of music. The Andante is a set of variations on a melody almost like a slow minuet, though with a hint of sadness in the harmonies of its last few bars. And the finale opens with a naïve little tune in the dotted rhythm of a siciliano. Its very simplicity enables Mozart to suggest shifts of mood with the deftest of touches: a move to a minor key clouds the atmosphere while maintaining the lively rhythm; another episode swings the music into a peasant dance. And the ending is a delight, with the instruments answering each other in wistful counterpoint, suggesting, as so often in Mozart, that deeper thoughts were all the time lurking beneath the tranquil surface. Robert Philip © 2006 |