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On August 1, 2014 the 7 day entrance pass for Pinnacles National Park will increase to $10 for passenger vehicles and motorcycles; bicycle and pedestrian entry will increase to $5.00. The Pinnacles Annual Pass will increase on August 1 to $20.00. More »
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Raptors - birds of prey - are a common and beautiful sight at Pinnacles National Park, especially during the breeding season from January to August. Raptors are specialized hunters, with powerful beaks and talons for tearing apart prey, and exceptional eyesight for locating food from great distances. Most raptors can see even small birds like swallows clearly from almost 2 miles away, thanks to their telescopic vision.
Over 20 species of raptors have been documented at the park, with 10 species nesting on a yearly basis, including the highest density of nesting prairie falcons in the country. The geography of the park provides raptors with ideal nesting sites, both on the inaccessible cliffs and rock formations used by prairie falcons, golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, and American kestrels, and on the oaks and pines along the riparian corridors used by Cooper's hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, and red-shouldered hawks. The location of the park also provides raptors with plentiful food sources. Small raptors like kestrels and sharp-shinned hawks primarily eat animals as small as grasshoppers and as large as lizards and mice; these prey items are readily available within the park boundaries. Larger raptors like prairie falcons, red-tailed hawks, and golden eagles feed on larger prey, from small birds to larger rodents including squirrels and rabbits. These are readily available in the agricultural areas surrounding the park, and often falcons and eagles can be seen soaring beyond the park boundaries in search of food.
Diurnal raptors - birds of prey active during the day - make up only a part of the assemblage of birds of prey found at Pinnacles. These include the falcons, hawks, and eagles listed above. As twilight fades into night, owls - the nocturnal raptors of the park - become active. Owls have well-developed night vision and hearing, as well as feathers specially adapted for silent flight, to aid them in hunting for rodents and other birds at night. At Pinnacles, owls are most often heard rather than seen. Great-horned owls hoot loudly in the spring near the reservoir and Balconies, and western screech-owls vocalize from near the Bear Gulch Nature Center with a whistling hoot that increases in speed as the birds call. Occasionally, long-eared owls call from the riparian corridors along Chalone Creek and in the Bench area; listen for a monotonous, single note repeated slowly over and over.
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Sweets Workshop
You should try and visit here. Sweets Workshop has opened in my old stomping ground of Summer Hill. (More on the special Sydney suburb another day). Opened a few weeks ago, the retail art gallery stocks a range of art, jewellery and gift ware. I left with a book of Anney B's 'Cornycopia' illustrations, and I still have my eye on the screen prints by Kate Banazi. The workshop's identity/postcard is a work of art in itself - created by the very talented owners, Emma and John. It also looks as if they like rubber stamps as much as I do.
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thats my mate John's place, Ive yet to visit the finished product,ReplyDelete
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Free agent return specialist Devin Hester was never the sharpest crayon in the box during his time with the Chicago Bears and that is a trait that Hester will take with him to his new team.
While speaking with a Florida radio station about his impending free agency, Hester did not hold anything back when analyzing himself as a player.
"Me," Hester stated bluntly when asked. "I can go and play corner, I can go and play receiver, I can play running back, and I can play a little bit of safety, as well as kickoff and punt returner."-Devin Hester, Pro Football Talk
Hester is far from the best all-around player in the NFL. Hester started his NFL career as a cornerback though the Bears had to quickly move him to offense due to his inability to cover receivers. As a receiver, Hester had game-changing speed but the speed did not make up for the fact that he couldn't run routes. By failing on defense and failing on offense, the only thing Hester is productive at is as a special teams player.
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Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "With nearly 70 people, Montfort Media is a simple and complex reality, capable of producing newspapers and magazines as well as books on catechism for the benefit of those parishes that need them" says to Fides Agency Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfort missionary.
The typography of Montfort Media is also appreciated by non-Catholic publishing houses. The typography, as well as printing publications in various languages of Malawi, prints in Portuguese for Mozambique and in Shona for Zimbabwe.
Montfort Media publishes Mkwaso, a newspaper in Chichewa language with 2300 copies sold mainly in rural areas of the Country, Together Youth Magazine that prints 5,000 copies and is able to reach all secondary schools and universities of Malawi, and The Lamp, a monthly magazine, which has 3000 readers.
Luntha TV is the latest of the medial structures promoted by the Montfort in Malawi. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides03/04/2014)
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WHOOO I worked on this pretty much all day and my hand hurts like mad. A 1920x1080 wallpaper-sized painting for Risk of Rain. BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT (also, I had a decent mental image to go off of and a decent chunk of motivation to do something fairly big-ish for once, which almost never happens).
The two versions are what I originally worked on it as using the game's general palette as a base, and one where I just took that piece and hit "Auto Levels" in Photoshop, which makes it rather trippy and I kind of like it.
I hope Tumblr uploads these full-size. If not I'll just upload them elsewhere and provide links. Tumblr broke them, excuse me while I go look for a place to upload them full-size everywhere is shrinking them wehOkay, Google took them, so here are the full-sized original and level-edited.
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I just downloaded and tried Risk of Rain for the first time and man, was I surprised by how enthralled by it I was.
Simple gameplay elements that let you learn how to play on your own and get increasingly more difficult the farther you progress? And it's got great pixel artwork, diverse enemies and bosses and a chiptune soundtrack?
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US firm Molex has designed a prototype miniature HDMI connector for use in portable gadgets, it's been reported. According to website Tech-On, the cable's been designed for use with the likes of phones, compact and DSLR cameras, camcorders and laptops in mind. For example, several HD mobile phones have already been announced – …
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Two more games in the NBA Playoffs on Friday night, and we've got a quick game preview for both match ups here. You can check them out below. Previews courtesy of Sports Illustrated.
Indiana Pacers @ Washington Wizards
Tip off @ 6:00 p.m. MST
Series tied 1-1
Recap from last game
Wizards center Marcin Gortat heard the question and waited several seconds before speaking. He took a deep breath. Cleared his throat.
Asked whether he anticipates seeing Indiana's Roy Hibbert show the same sort of energy Friday night in Game 3 of the teams' Eastern Conference semifinal that he did in an outcome-altering Game 2 performance, Gortat opted not to go there.
"I ain't going to talk about him," Gortat eventually said after practice Thursday. "Next question."
And yet, all of a sudden, the Wizards were talking plenty about Hibbert, trying to figure out how to slow him down. His role in the best-of-seven series, tied at 1-all, sure changed quickly.
The 7-foot-2 All-Star shot 10 for 13 and finished with 28 points and nine rebounds in the Pacers' 86-82 home victory Wednesday. In the first 56 seconds alone, he won the opening tip, hit a jumper from near the foul line as the shot clock expired, then turned in a three-point play for a 5-0 lead. Fittingly, the game ended with the basketball in Hibbert's hands on a rebound.
"He started to run the court a little bit. We saw on film where he kind of outran all of us. That showed him wanting the ball," Wizards guard Andre Miller said. "He wanted to win, and it kind of rubbed off on the rest of the team."
In Game 1, Hibbert had zero points and zero rebounds, his second time in these playoffs with those stats.
The NBA, citing the Elias Sports Bureau, said Hibbert is the fifth player in league history to go from having no points in one postseason game to putting up at least 28 in the next.
"Definitely, that's not what we expected," Gortat said, relenting on the topic.
After all, Hibbert scored a total of 37 points in Indiana's first eight playoff games, an average of 4.6.
"This is just a start," Hibbert said after Game 2.
He's aware that Washington will see what it can do differently against him. Wizards coach Randy Wittman spoke primarily about working to keep Hibbert away from the basket.
"I don't expect to put up 28 points a game, but I expect to contribute," Hibbert said. "I want to be a part of something on both ends."
On Friday, he'll be on the court where he played most of his college home games at Georgetown.
The Hoyas' coach, John Thompson III, attended Game 2 – and another former Georgetown player, Wizards rookie forward Otto Porter, said he wouldn't be surprised if the man known around these parts as JT3 played a role in Hibbert's resurgence.
"He definitely knows how to motivate you. He probably said something to Roy to tick him off; he probably took it out on us," Porter said with a smile. "At the same time, Roy is Roy. He (was) definitely going to get out of his slump and come to play in these playoffs."
Setting aside Hibbert's breakthrough, Wizards point guard John Wall called Game 2 "probably the worst game we've played in the playoffs" – and he might as well have dropped the word "probably."
Washington made only 5 of 21 attempts on 3-pointers, hit 5 of 12 free throws, and did not have a single fast-break basket.
"We lost our pace from an offensive standpoint," Wittman said, "and that hurts us in the long run."
He and Wall both rued one particularly quick 3-pointer the guard missed instead of being patient and looking for a better shot while trailing by three with about 1 1/2 minutes left.
"It almost felt like desperation on a couple of those possessions," Wittman said.
Summing up the game, Wittman pointed to a theme echoed by his players: "We didn't play as well as we're capable of."
Hibbert did, for once, and all eyes will be on him in Game 3.
Oklahoma City Thunder @ Los Angeles Clippers
Tip off @ 8:30 p.m. MST
Series tied 1-1
Recap from last game
Jamal Crawford got emotional in accepting his NBA Sixth Man award and, like Kevin Durant this week, it may have buoyed the Los Angeles Clippers in what has been a turbulent playoffs so far.
Crawford didn't cry or talk as long as Durant did when the Oklahoma City star picked up the league's MVP award. But he thanked everyone he could think of on Thursday, especially his teammates and Clippers coach Doc Rivers for keeping them together in the wake of owner Donald Sterling's racist comments that led to his lifetime ban from the NBA.
Crawford's award was some of the best news the Clippers have had in the last 1 1/2 weeks, and the feel-good atmosphere during his acceptance speech could provide some necessary fuel heading into Game 3 against the Thunder on Friday night at Staples Center. The Western Conference semifinal series is tied 1-1.
Durant's widely replayed, touching speech in which he credited his single mother for keeping their family together through tough times gave the Thunder an emotional boost going into Game 2. They responded with a 112-101 victory that wasn't as close as the score suggested.
"They just beat us in every way," Rivers said.
Now the Clippers will be out to grab back the momentum. First, they'll have to contain Durant and Russell Westbrook.
Durant had 32 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists, and Westbrook had 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists to help the Thunder outrebound the Clippers for the second straight game.
"We have to take that and then add to that," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "You can't be satisfied. The intensity as the series goes along improves and it becomes greater, and we have to make the next jump."
Rivers' staff always asks him what his biggest fear is going into a game. His response before Game 2 was Westbrook's offensive rebounding.
"Then he comes up with six of them," Rivers said. "We can box him out. We got to keep him off the glass."
With his teammates cheering him and playfully mocking the suit and tie he wore, Crawford accepted his trophy as the league's best reserve. He averaged 18.6 points as the NBA's top-scoring reserve this season, and the Clippers will need his offense after he was held to seven points on 2-of-13 shooting in Game 3.
The Thunder's defense didn't allow Crawford room to operate. J.J. Redick, who finished with 18 points, was another key focal point for Oklahoma City.
"You're talking about two of the quickest triggers in basketball in Redick and Crawford," Brooks said. "I thought our guys did a good job of closing that gap."
Both teams took Thursday off, when the Clippers heard that Sterling's estranged wife Shelly wants to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team as the NBA tries to force new ownership on the franchise.
Mrs. Sterling's attorney said she hasn't been asked to stay away from games and she plans to attend Friday.
Rivers brushed off the latest chatter, something he's done since the scandal broke.
"We need to be uneasy about Westbrook and Durant," he said. "That's who we need to be really uneasy about because they're putting more pressure on us right now."
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That's right! More Olympic sports, but this time we'll have a whole week to participate. Animate at least 3 of your favorite activities hosted during the olympics, such as: fencing, swimming, table tennis, archery, track, and more!
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Olympic Sports
Animate a character of your choice performing an olympic sport of your choice, such as: swimming, table tennis, fencing, track
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Definition of mountebank in English:
mountebankLine breaks: moun¦te|bank
Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊntɪbaŋk /
1A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
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- He has been described as a 'a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler' by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist.
- He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
- Epithets of 'statesman' were thrown around, but charlatan or mountebank might have been more appropriate.
swindler, charlatan, confidence trickster, confidence man, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, quack, rogue, villain, scoundrel
informal conman, shark, flimflammer, sharp
British informal twister
Australian informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker
rare defalcator
1.1 historical A person who sold patent medicines in public places.
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- Additional evidence indicates that it was a term used among medical mountebanks in Tudor times.
- The word toady comes from 'toad-eater': a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
- There had always been mountebanks and charlatans operating in the public squares, but they now dominated the marketplace.
late 16th century: from Italian montambanco, from the imperative phrase monta in banco! 'climb on the bench!' (with allusion to the raised platform used to attract an audience).
mountebankery noun
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- So some two decades later he set out to transform the securities industry with a report that he hoped would expose its mountebankery and lead to a miraculous transformation.
- There was one explanation as to why he was able to pass off mountebankery as art for so long; the myth of impressionism.
- This is not a business where mountebankery is to be encouraged.
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"They started by seeding the walls of a rustic cabin of a hilltop medieval village in Northern Italy (The Other Side project). After figuring out how to grow grass vertically up the walls of a room, then moved on larger canvases… They decided to "grassify" the walls of a cathedral - the Dilston Grove church in London.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The same script has played out over and over for Indiana this season: build a lead on the road and watch it slip away into a loss.
It happened on Saturday, once again.
After the Hoosiers built a 10-point lead in the first half at the Crisler Center, a 12-turnover second half saw the Hoosiers' lead evaporate. And in the regular season finale, the Michigan Wolverines (23-7, 15-3) emerged with an 84-80 victory over the Hoosiers (17-14, 7-11) in front of an announced crowd of 12,701.
"There's times this year, hence our record, that we haven't been as consistent," Indiana coach Tom Crean said following the game. "Even though we lost the game today, we did a lot of good things that we can build on.
"But it's still the same things."
Throughout Saturday afternoon's game, though, the Hoosiers' offense clicked. Against the conference's No. 10 defense in league play, Indiana averaged 1.23 points per possession — its most since a 102-84 win over Washington on Nov. 21.


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CHARLES TOWN – Despite formal requests from area legislators and Jefferson County commissioners for a sweeping general investigation, the state's Public Service Commission says it will continue to address Potomac Edison customers' billing complaints on a case-by-case informal basis.
[cleeng_content id="580685896" description="Read it now!" price="0.15" t="article"]The PSC has not ruled out a larger general investigation of the utility's billing practices, however.
The Public Service Commission came under heavy criticism at a meeting on May 22, when scores of ratepayers related stories of electric bills that were completely unpredictable. After several months of estimated bills, they said, they would suddenly face a massive "shock bill" that was sometimes more than 10 times higher than their bills in previous months.
While the PSC had been invited to send its representative Susan Small to the meeting, she sent a letter in her stead.
"If we were in Putnam County, it might be a little different," Delegate Stephen Skinner said after the meeting. "I still have hope that the PSC is going to open an investigation. But I am very disappointed that they haven't been more engaged here on the issue because it is real and it is palpable. And just because we are 330 miles away doesn't mean that we don't have a say."
Small said she had not understood her presence had been so greatly desired at the meeting.
"The invitation I got was a form email," she said. "I was invited to attend and told I would be given three minutes to address billing issues. I tried to put the situation at the time as I understood it in the letter. I sent it a week in advance of the meeting. No one contacted me to encourage me to attend the meeting."
She said that she was shocked when she heard how large the meeting had been.
"I thought I had answered sufficiently," she said. "I was quite dismayed to learn that people were dissatisfied with the response."
At last week's meeting organizers placed an empty table in the middle of the stage with placards bearing the names "PSC" and "Potomac Edison" stood for both the utility and the Public Service Commission.
Skinner, who was the first of the legislators to call for a formal investigation, said that he found the absence of a Potomac Edison representative far more outrageous.
"I think it is a total joke," Skinner said after the meeting. "Potomac Edison was able to send somebody to today's Chamber of Commerce lunch to sit there, and they couldn't make it out here tonight? At the Berkeley County Chamber lunch last month, they sent seven people to sit there and have lunch with the legislators. They can't send one person here? Give me a break.
"The more I hear, the worse it gets. It is shocking. It is appalling. I can't believe that, in this day and age, a regulated utility is treating its customers the way that Potomac Edison is treating these folks," Skinner said.
"They are making excuses for their inability to do what they promised they would do that are the same excuses they used in Maryland," Skinner said. "When you go back and look at this letter they sent to the PSC in Maryland, they blamed the weather, they blamed the storm. And then, when they come to West Virginia, they just change the name of the storm."
But Sen. Herb Snyder strongly criticized the PSC for failing to send a representative.
He said radical reforms are necessary for the commission.
"I firmly believe that the Public Service Commission should be elected," Snyder said, adding he is also pushing for the Legislature to investigate electrical companies' billing practices.
"I still have a formal request to [Senate President Jeff Kessler and House Speaker Rick Thompson] to formally study in my committee, through the summer and the fall, the billing practices of electric companies," he said. "It would entail find out what caused this with Potomac Edison. Is it a lack of employees? Is it a bad computer system?"
Snyder said he had been in subsequent communication with PSC officials since last week's gathering.
"They have been led to believe by Potomac Edison that they have corrected this and it should be addressed some time in late April. In the next billing, this should be corrected," he said.
"Now, we will just have to wait and see."
Snyder encouraged ratepayers who receive "shock bills" to first call Potomac Edison and then to file an informal complaint with the PSC.
"If people get these bills or have them now, call the power company. If they don't get any satisfaction in working out a payment plan, call the Public Service Commission," Snyder said.
"Having your electricity shut off because of this should not be an option," he said.
Small said the informal investigation system can quickly resolve individual complaints, while formal investigations are more cumbersome, resembling court proceedings.
"In cases where people received multiple bills that were estimates that were much lower than their actual usage and then, all of a sudden, they get socked with a whopper of a bill, we have gone in and asked FirstEnergy to work out a deferred payment plan. I think that in all cases we have been successful with that," Small said. "We get about 10,000 requests for assistance each year. We are able to resolve about 98 percent of those on the informal level before it turns into a formal investigation. In that case everyone has to lawyer up."
"We are addressing individual complaints. When you have someone who has received a bill that they are not able to pay, the most efficient thing is to address it individually," she said.[/cleeng_content]


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Whilst Liszts piano music derived from music for plays is a much smaller body of work than his catalogue of operatic pieces, the approach in his methods of composition, elaboration and transcription remains broadly the same. As far as present Liszt scholarship permits one ever to be categorical, this recording contains all of Liszts works in this genre.
The quite extensive scores for the theatre commonly written in the nineteenth century eventually overpowered both the plays they accompanied and the time limit for an audiences concentration. Today few would relish an uncut performance of Ibsens Peer Gynt given with the entire Grieg score if they knew beforehand that the evening would take at least one hour longer than Götterdämmerung, and it has been only rarely that Mendelssohns Shakespearean efforts have been produced in tandem with the complete play. But much incidental musicwhich can take the form of overture, dances, songs, intermezzos or entractes, choruses or melodramas, as well as shorter flourishes and fanfares, entrance and exit fragmentshas always had an independent life in the concert hall, and for Liszt, to whom the propagation of all kinds of music was a sacred duty, selected several works for re-working as recital pieces.
For some reason the piano transcription of the ever-popular Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens disappeared from view, to be replaced in pianists affections by the well-known transcription by Anton Rubinstein. Liszts versionevery bit as interestingis one of his rarest works. The identical pages stand at the head of the score of Capriccio alla turca, a much more extensive piece in Liszts virtuoso manner, in which the March (No 4 in Beethovens score) is succeeded by the Dervishes Chorus (No 3 in Beethovens score; also, at one time, known in a piano transcription by Saint-Saëns) in a section marked Andante fantastico, full of diabolical trills. Eventually the March returns, much transformed, and both themes are used to produce a triumphant coda. Possibly because of its difficulty, the Capriccio gave way to Liszts last work on the same material, the Fantasie, which started life as a work for piano and orchestra but which was substantially revised and reissued together with versions for solo piano, piano duet, and two pianos. The Fantasie begins with a transcription of the orchestral part of the March and Chorus (which form Beethovens No 6, and which Beethoven reissued as opus 124 with minor changes for the music to Die Weihe des HausesThe Consecration of the House) which breaks out with a cadenza in octaves into a much more fantastic working of the material, which then subsides into the Dervishes Chorus. From this point, there are many resemblances to the Capriccio but the atmosphere is rather more controlled and the fireworks held in abeyance until the coda. There, closing passages of the March and Chorus lead into a final peroration upon the other two themes.
Liszts own contribution to the literature of incidental music comprises just two worksVor hundert Jahren, which is an overture-cum-melodrama for spoken voice and orchestra for a play by Halm (S347, unpublished to date), and an overture and choruses to Herders play Prometheus Bound, which was among those works too large to be accommodated on the same evening as the play for which it was intended. In the end, Liszt revised the Prometheus work thoroughly, transforming the overture into what we now know as the independent symphonic poem Prometheus. The symphonic poem could still serve as an overture to the choruses, which were now punctuated with a poetic oration by Richard Pohl to get through the gist of Herders play in indecent haste to allow room for well over an hour of music. Amongst the choral sections of the work, the Reapers Chorus proved instantly popular and Liszt issued versions of it for piano solo and for piano duet. Among an output so vast as Liszts it is perhaps an inevitable pity that this attractive trifle has fallen into oblivion.
Quite why Liszt described Webers music to Preciosa as an opera must remain a mysteryindeed, the shape of the piece is not greatly different from Liszts Prometheus Chorusesbut we can only thank him for bringing this charming aria to our attention.
At one time, Liszts often witty interpretation of the famed Mendelssohn Wedding March was a regular recital war-horse. It could be that familiarity with Mendelssohns originalnot to mention innumerable versions of bits of it encountered in so many parish churches and Hollywood filmshas stifled interest. But the idea of performing this work, along with Liszts fiendish arrangement of the Introduction to Act III and Bridal March from Lohengrin at a marriage ceremony remains a Schwarzenplan of the present writer. Liszt furnishes Mendelssohns work with a ghostly, almost satirical introduction, and then a rather light-hearted version of the main material before he gets to the piece proper. Then the main section is subject to variation whenever it reappears. Mendelssohns first interlude is faithfully transcribed, but the F major section with its flowing theme ends up flowing into very strange harmonic waters in order to prepare for the interpolation of the Dance of the Elves. Liszt is loth to let go the elvish music, so he allows it to permeate the return of the march before the triumphant coda is given a triumphalist transcription.
Liszts elaborations of three works by Eduard Lassen call for some special comment. Lassen (18301904) succeeded Liszt as Kapellmeister at the Weimar court in 1858, and held the post until 1895. As well as the works presented here, Liszt made transcriptions of two of Lassenss songs. Lassen, who was an ardent Lisztophile and Wagnerite (as one can instantly tell from his music) was responsible for several of the chamber-music versions of Liszts later works which have come down to us as Liszts own because he used Lassens version as the basis for his own revisions. Now sadly relegated to one of the footnotes to the history of music, Lassen is almost unrepresented in print or on record except in Liszts transcriptions.
As the title suggests, the Symphonic Intermezzo is a large-scale orchestral work. Its long-flowing melodies are constructed from smaller cells, and Liszt sometimes sequentially extends the material in the way characteristic of his later works. The proud opening music leads to an Andante amoroso and an absolutely splendid and memorable melody which is worked out at some length. The final section of the work, Feierlich ruhig (Proudly peaceful), opens with a series of chords and arpeggios which recall the prelude to Parsifal, and this passage occurs four times in different keys, alternating with fragments of the Andante and rounded off with a bell-like coda that refers to the opening as well as to the bell-motif from Parsifal.
Liszt used the fifth and eighth numbers of the eleven pieces in Lassens music to Hebbels drama Nibelungen, which has some story-line in common with Wagners Ring. In both cases, Liszt extends the original material. Kriemhild, somewhat transformed into Gutrune in Wagner, is memorable in the Nibelungenlied for despatching the villain Hagen after the death of her husband Siegfried. Bechlarn (Pöchlarn in the Nibelungenlied) is the location where the noble minstrel Volker sings a public serenade of tribute to Gotelind. Lassens Serenade, in Liszts hands, is of a touching and naive simplicity.
Goethes masterpiece has attracted a great many composers, and Lassens contribution is a substantial one. His Faust score has some sixty-four numbers to it. The Easter Hymn (Lassens Part 1, No 2), the hearing of which interrupts Fausts resolve to kill himself, is straightforwardly transcribed, but the Hoffest (Court Celebration) is Liszts own combination of two numbers (2 and 3) from Part Two of Lassens work. Here Liszt greatly varies and elaborates Lassens themes in an introductory march and a very gallant and ornamental Polonaise.
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