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Today a trailer for a documentary film about a band I have never heard of reminded me of something I've been meaning to write down. Since the thought was too long to fit into twitter. Here we go.
First, this band LCD Sound System apparently came into being, published its body of work, and flamed out prematurely before I had even managed to obtain any hint whatsoever of its existence. I think this says more about me than the band, or the music scene, but I found the situation a bit disturbing.
Second, while I was watching the trailer I decided that it didn't matter that I'd never heard of the band, because this film will inevitably be better than having seen the last show live.
At this point you are saying "that psu, he's nuts like always." But bear with me.
In my mind, rock and roll shows are primarily about two things. First, there is the visual and physical spectacle of the stage show itself. Second, there is the auxiliary ritual pleasure of hearing the band play songs you know over again for you, even though you have heard them dozens of times.
I say films do both of these things better.
Consider another concert film from a long time ago about another band that I had barely heard of until I had already lost the opportunity to see them live at their peak. Stop Making Sense, which documents the Talking Heads tour behind the album Speaking in Tongues has become one of the iconic films of the genre. There are two reasons why.
1. The film lays down a visual tapestry that you can only capture by being allowed to carry a camera around on stage and through the crowd. The Heads shows were renowned for a lot of lighting and on-stage effects, but the way they are captured on film and then edited together into pleasing sequences simply destroys anything you'd be able to see while stuck to a single seat in the room.
2. The film sounds better. Let's be clear: rock and roll shows sound like shit. I have admittedly only been to maybe a dozen shows in my life, but the only one of those dozen that did not sound like shit was put on by They Might Be Giants at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum last year. Why did it not sound like crap? They had to save the kids' ears, so they did not turn the sound system up so high that the sound actually distorts off the walls of the room.
A year later I saw TMBG live in Downtown Pittsburgh at a show for large children (adults). This time they played full blast, and it sounded like shit. Even the words of songs I've heard dozens of times were so frazzled and broken apart by the distortion that I could not really hear them at all. This all served to mask undeniably great musicianship (in particular, the band made Jonathan Coulton sound like a semi-amateur geek dilettante). So it's sad. Why do they not want to allow me to hear how well they play?
Anyway, I am sort of sad I never heard of LCD Sound System. They sound kind of interesting. But, I'm glad I'll be able to actually hear what their music sounds like if I see this film. Because I'm pretty sure I'd have missed it seeing them live.
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I was at both of those They Might Be Giants shows, and you're absolutely right. I actually walked out of the adults' show after the first intermission, because I couldn't fucking hear anything beyond a vague undifferentiated muddy roar.
It totally depends on the venue (and the sound technician). I love live music, and one thing that the concert films don't capture is the intensity of being there. It's similar to going to a play or watching one on Masterpiece Theater — the version on PBS may allow you to pause or see a different view, but sitting there in the theater also has its advantages.
And I *was* at that final LCD Soundsystem concert. Madison Square Garden is a shitty venue in so many ways, but it was still hands down my best live concert experience last year. I went to more than 60 concerts in 2011 and it easily trumped them all. (Runner up: the first Wild Flag show at the Black Cat in DC, before their album came out and the audience didn't know what to expect.) I'm eagerly looking forward to their concert film as well as this documentary, but they'll supplement rather than replace my memory of that experience.
They Might Be Giants learned how to play their instruments?
They played in the UC at CMU when I was a grad student. I had never heard of them before going to the show, but my friends assured me they were good.
Now, the show was a lot of fun — everyone in the room got jumping up and down, and we learned what it was like to destroy a sprung ballroom dance floor (while it flexed up and down by 4″ or more…). But the musicians in the band? I've heard better amateurs. They had trouble singing in tune, and could barely pick out a simple melody. Doug B. played one of their recordings for me after the show, and I didn't recognize the songs I had just heard — their recordings are way better than anything they did live.
That is, except for the bass player. He was a ringer, and quite skilled. In one song they made the mistake of giving him a solo — and he started thrashing, totally schooling the other members of the band. Until the lead singer glared at him, and he switched to cheesily picking out a variant of pop goes the weasel as his solo.
Stop Making Sense is an awesome movie, but I saw David Byrne live a few years ago. It was probably the best show I've ever been to and it blew the socks off the movie.
I'm a "rock concert guy." I've seen hundreds of them. Adam R touched on this briefly, but the truth about concert sound is this: Good sound is *possible* in virtually any venue. Good sound is *expensive* and *very difficult to achieve* in all but the very best venues (typically Opera House/Theater type places). This state of affairs is made even worse by the fact that many acts/engineers try to make up for inferior sound, or a bad room by increasing the volume. I have an interesting example:
(As a preface to the rest of this, I should mention that I've worn earplugs at almost every concert I've seen after Page & Plant in the summer of 1998 when I didn't hear right for 4 days afterwards. I've had my hearing tested by an audiologist recently (2011) and thankfully I still have "above average" hearing.)
I saw Bob Dylan open for a Phil & Friends (a Grateful Dead offshoot) at the Civic Arena in 1999. It was the most awful sounding show ever — a muddy, unintelligible assault on my ears. The backslap in that building was astoundingly bad. I concluded that the Civic Arena just had irreparably awful acoustic properties (which it probably did). I had to wear earplugs, and the sound was so bad that I actually considered leaving the show (but didn't.)
Then, four or five years later, my housemates offered me a ticket to go see the Rolling Stones in the same building. I was blown away by how good the sound was. I took my earplugs out, and found it very comfortable to listen without them. The volume was entirely reasonable, still extremely present, and very listenable. There was NO detectable backslap at all, and every instrument was easily identifiable with great separation and clarity. Of course, the sound system that the Stones toured with was way oversized for that room, which is one part of it (it's always better to have an oversized PA than an undersized one). But it also had clearly been deftly tuned to compensate for all the room effects.
There's good news and bad news here. The good news is that the march of technology increases the "quality per dollar" of sound systems. Some acts will take advantage of that to put on shows with better sound. The bad news is that many others will take advantage of it to cut touring costs and boost their touring profit margin. I suspect that truly awesome sound will continue to be limited to top-eschelon touring acts and stationary installations (like big festivals, etc.)
First off, if you're in your seat at the rock concert, you're doing it wrong. Either it's good so you should be moving to the music, or it's bad so you should be moving to somewhere else.
Second, most of the US cranks the volume stupidly high. Wear earplugs so you can still hear your kids when you turn 50. And put earplugs in their ears.


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Inspirational Ashley Kean - who was told he will be blind within eight years - is holding a football tournament to raise money to help others who are visually impaired.
Mr Kean, 22, has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes the retina to deteriorate.
He was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 11 and told he would "be lucky" if he still had his sight at 30 .
The former Castleford High School student has organised the tournament to raise cash for Wakefield District Sight Aid.
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There are a lot of people who claim that stock prices are a random walk, meaning that they're completely unpredictable. But the folks who espouse this view normally don't have much experience managing money. I don't have a problem with the so-called random walk hypothesis. There are a lot of economic models that back it up. But as any economist will tell you, those are just models. They exist to help academics explain reality, not represent it. And in the real world, companies and stocks tend to follow patterns, patterns you can much more easily recognize if you've seen them before.
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I have a challenge for the people who claim you can't use history to help inform your stock picking decisions. Let's find some proof, and we can start with FirstMerit. We think this Ohio bank will take advantage of the weakness of its competitors to buy troubled banks from the FDIC and take market share. And, of course, we think that will ultimately lead the stock to go higher. This call is based on the fact that FirstMerit reminds Cramer of Fleet, which came out of nowhere and became the dominant bank in New England thanks largely to the S&L crisis and the Resolution Trust Corp., before it was acquired by Bank of America .
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Cliff Mason is the Senior Writer of CNBC's Mad Money w/Jim Cramer, and has been that program's primary writer, in cooperation with and under the supervision of Jim Cramer, since he began at CNBC as an intern during the summer of 2005. Mason was the author of a column at TheStreet.com during 2007, which he describes as "hilarious, if short-lived." He graduated from Harvard College in 2007. It was at Harvard that Mason learned to multi-task, mastering the art of seeming to pay attention to professors while writing scripts for Mad Money. Mason has co-written two books with Jim Cramer: Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Richand Stay Mad For Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer). He is 100% responsible for any parts of either book that you did not like.
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Getting ready for the Holidays. Just finished this adorable flip style cascading photo album last night. This album measures 41/2 by 81/2 and has tons of real estate for photos. This album is soooo pretty in person - the photos never do it justice.
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Villa Kokoros Apartments
Beach apartment with 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom in Dassia, Corfu
From £324 per week
Apartment to rent in Dassia, Corfu
Recently renovated family run one bedroom apartments set in the small and unspoilt village of Agios Vasileios. In the heart of the island but very relaxing and quiet.
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Apartment overview - owner's description
Villa Kokoros holiday apartments are a family run business, situated in the small, quite and unspoilt village of Agios Vasileios. The apartments are 14 kilometres from Corfu Town and the airport and 2 kilometres from the island's esplanade road, which runs close to some of its most beautiful beaches located in the East side of the island. The nearest beach of Dassia lies just about 2kms away. The apartments are situated in a 2000 square meters land scape. The rich garden planted with olive, orange, mandarin, lemon and mulberry trees, as well as many ornamental flowers and bushes. All these provide various shady nooks, ideal for rest and relaxation.
All apartments have been recently renovated. They have individual entrances and are fully equipped. Each one of them covers an area of 40 m², and consists of a unified open-plan sitting room and kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a balcony. Kitchens are fully equipped with appliances and utensils for the preparation of meals. Each apartment can accommodate two adults in the bedroom, and one adult and a child at the two sofa-beds in the sitting room (except for one apartment that can accommodate up to three adults). They are divided into ground-floor and upper-floor.The ground-floor apartments are easily accessible through the veranda, suitable for families with younger children and for the elderly. The first-floor apartments are also easily accessible through short staircases of two or six steps (depending on the apartment) with veranda and balcony.
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The location for my standards was very good. Quite place, surrounded my nature, trees all over the area, nice garden. The room was quite big! Large living room, spacious kitchen, very large bathroom and normal bedroom. Wi-Fi Access was working properly at all time of my stay that was 8 nights. I liked the garden, it is quite relaxing. I even had pizza delivery :) The owners, a couple around 40s were very friendly, spent time with me answering my questions and giving my directions to enjoy as best me Easter period in Corfu and I am very thankful of this. I would suggest Villa Kokkoros to Families with children and couples the want quite time in the nature.
Very good service and large apartments very beautiful landscape. The apartments look recently renovated. The kitchen is very convenient for families. Also the protected area of the garden is ideal for children to play.
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Outside this apartment in Dassia, CorfuThis apartment is in the countryside and in a quiet area near the beach and mountains. It has a balcony, a barbecue, a garden and a shared garden. Car hire is recommended as the apartment is less than a 15 minute walk to at least a couple of shops, bars and restaurants; however parking is available if required.
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Two new exhibitions and a new artist's residency : impossible to get bored this weekend ! As Spring approaches, the Parisian artistic scene is boiling! Artsper invites you as well, to Metz for the last days of an exhibition that you should not miss, while the fans of video art have an appointment in Florence.
KIEFER – RODIN at the Musée Rodin
Anselm Kiefer, Les cathédrales de France © Anselm Kiefer, ph. Georges Poncet, private collection
For the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin, the Rodin Museum gives carte blanche to a contemporary artist, Anselm Kiefer, affirming his will to display a contemporary program. It is their similar career paths and creative processes that connect Auguste Rodin and Anselm Kiefer, which the exhibitions perfectly emphasizes. With these crossed paths, discover two artist seeking for the truth.
Where? Musée Rodin, 79 Rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris
When ? From March 14 to October 22, 2017
Robert Mapplethorpe at the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery
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From March 10th, the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery is presenting "Objects", a collection of unique and rare pieces by Robert Mapplethorpe exhibited for the first time in Paris. Known for his famous photographs in black and white, Robert Mapplethorpe did these 3 dimensional objects at the beginning of his career. He tells us more about his artistic approach, and reveals his fascination for subjects such as mysticism, esotericism and fetishism. Thus, the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery invites us to discover another facet of this genius photographer.
Where? Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris
When? From March 10 to April 29, 2017
The Villa Molitor, a new meeting place for artists in Paris
There is something new going on in the Parisian artistic scene! A new artists' residency opened its doors in the capital, at the Villa Molitor. A particularity about this project, is that this artists' residency can be visited, the opportunity to discover and preview the work of young contemporary artists, or even observe the artists in the process of creating. The opening of this space of creation is a continuation to the past of the Molitor Pool. In fact, after it was abandoned in 1989 and until its rehabilitation in 2014, the pool became a reference point of Parisian street art, a real ground of expression for international artists, from the New York legend "Seen" to Parisian "Psyckoze". A renaissance that you should not miss for any reason, especially because the Villa Molitor will host the famous duo of artists from New York, FAILE, for its first exhibition.
Where? Villa Molitor, 2 Rue de la porte de Molitor, 75016 Paris
When ? Opening Thursday March 16, 2017, visits by appointment from Wednesday to Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm
Exhibitions in other places
METZ. An imagined museum- Three European collections: Center Pompidou, Tate, MMK, at the Center Pompidou in Metz
Daniel Spoerri, The Shower (détrompe-l'œil), 1961 Photo credit: © Philippe Migeat – Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Dist. NMR-GP© Adagp, Paris
There are the last days to take advantage of this exhibition at the Center Pompidou in Metz. An experience that you should not miss, since this exhibition will immerse you in an scenario of science fiction where art seems doomed to disappear. To compose this scenario and challenge the memory of art, three prestigious collections are gathered, that of the Tate Liverpool, the MMK Frankfurt and that of the Center Pompidou, making this unusual exhibition another way to approach modern and contemporary art.
Where? 1 Parvis des Droits de l'Homme, 57020 Metz
When? From October 19, 2016 to March 27, 2017
FLORENCE. « Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance » at the Palazzo Strozzi
Bill Viola is exhibiting in Florence, for the first time. The Palazzo Strozzi has indeed dedicated an exhibition to this undisputed master of video art. An immersive experience that will makes us discover the works of the artist, from the beginning of his career in the 70s to today. Exploring spirituality, experience and deception, the artists approaches humanity with a poetic and strongly symbolic style. An opportunity to experience something new and discover a famous artist and a contemporary Florence.
Where? Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Firenze, Italia
When? From March 10 to July 23, 2017


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App sales went very well in January this year. I am getting within sights of my next goal.
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In the past, I have always listed my profits as the total amount paid into Google Play, rather than the actual amount I receive (don't ask me why - I don't know!) I don't normally show the chunk Google takes out. From now on, any profits will be shown as the actual amount I receive (before tax) - i.e. the amount that goes into my bank account.
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I was intrigued by this recipe. I like the way Middle Eastern food has the subtle interplay of savory and sweet with the use of fruits in savory dishes. I am also a lifelong fan of lentils so any recipe that uses lentils is a recipe that I want to sample. The results I am afraid to say were rather disappointing. The overall dish was rather bland. I found myself continuously adding salt and pepper to try to give it some taste. Other than the occasional hit of date or raisin the dish was totally tasteless. There was way too much rice for the dish and the rice was very mushy due to the pre-cooking of the rice and then the rather long cooking of the dish after it is assembled. The lentils seemed to disappear into the dish and they also became mushy because of the pre-cooking and then cooking of the assembled dish. This could really benefitted from some garlic and nutmeg. I was also stumped when the recipe says it serves 4. I ended up with an amount that could have easily served 10. I assume that this is a sort of pilaf and is meant to be served as a side dish. All in all I was disappointed but I may try it again and jazz up the spices as well as cut the recipe in half.
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About the German Pavilion
On the initiative of the German Industry Association for Optical, Medical and Mechatronical Technologies Inc. (Spectaris), with the support of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and in cooperation with the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) a German Pavilion will be organized at analytica China 2018 again.
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This time we are going to share this year's men's modern haircuts which are going to be popular all season long. Here are presented regular, crew cut, pompadour, curtained hair, cool undercuts, quiffs, etc. It's obvious, many men appear wearing classic, tailored looks. It's no secret every guy wants an impressive appearance that will underline his personality and individuality, that's why we have gathered these ultra modern haircuts will for sure update your look and make you stand out the crowd and bring a fresh impact. As you can see there is a mix of classic and barbarian styles almost in each of the presented images. One thing unites all these looks: precision and masculinity. The great thing of these examples is the easy styling and sophisticated touch. We hope you will find your next amazing inspiration which will update your casual days.
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Many television shows are based in colleges or high schools, but most of them prefer to focus on the social lives of students as opposed to their academic lives. Backstabbing, betrayal and general debauchery abound.The Gilmore Girls was a different kind of youth-focused show. While it did chronicle the social failures and victories of its main character, Rory Gilmore, it also closely followed her intellectual journey, beginning at a public high school in her small hometown of (fictional) Stars Hollow, Connecticut to the prestigious (and also fictional) prep school Chilton, and finally on to Yale University.
Credit: ShmoopLike most TV starlets, Rory Gilmore (or the actress who played her) was thin and pretty, but unlike many other teenagers on television, she was also brilliant. Fans of the show learn that she read Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, a classic WWII novel, while she was still "in feetie pajamas." Rory loves literature and current events. She idolizes Christiane Amanpour, and pursues her goal of becoming a foreign correspondent despite many obstacles.
Gilmore Girls also shows Rory's struggles with friends, family and dating but also realistically depicts the difficulty of gaining admission to an elite university like Harvard (where Rory applies and is accepted before she ultimately chooses Yale). After gaining admission to the exclusive Chilton Academy, Rory learns that being a strong student is not enough to be a competitive applicant at Harvard. To improve her chances of admission, she not only takes challenging courses like AP English Literature, but also becomes student body vice president and volunteers for Habitat for Humanity.
The show is also aware of the fact that wealth and privilege play a large role in a student's chances of being admitted to a top university. Rory's grandfather is a prominent Yale alumnus and "just happens" to be good friends with the dean of admissions. Other students at her expensive prep school talk about being "legacies" at top campuses: students who hail from a long line of alumni from the same prestigious college. In addition to having these kinds of advantageous connections, these students are also able to afford things like pricey ACT prep courses and college counselors.
Though Rory is technically a part of this world of privilege (her grandparents are extraordinarily wealthy and active participants in New England high society), her mother works hard to keep her humble and grounded. She supports Rory's dreams and goals, but clearly wishes that the Ivy League, and, indeed, the world at large, was more a meritocracy than an exclusive good old boys club. Rory's struggle to reconcile her blue-blood heritage with her more modest upbringing is a frequent theme in the show and makes her a compelling character instead of a stereotypical spoiled rich girl.
A shy, quiet girl who prefers reading novels to gaining social standing may not seem like a compelling protagonist for a television show, the Gilmore Girls enjoyed critical acclaim and relative longevity, hopefully proving that viewers are interested in watching a young woman of integrity and intellect as much as (or more than) the alternative.


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We were given a bottle of vintage 2002 Dom Perignon as a wedding gift that was meant to be drunk on our first anniversary. Our anniversary was the day after we returned from our whirlwind Italy trip, so we postponed drinking it until we were in the right mood.
As the sun was setting over San Francisco, we popped the cork and toasted to an amazing first year. Accompanied by some smoked gouda, triple creme brie and a fresh Acme French baguette, we sipped our champagne and recounted our favourite memories from the wedding. I never wanted the moment to end.


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less: today starts a week without milk, wheat and sugar. I tried this before, it is -- interesting. I love coffee with milk, and so you can find me at the shelves for almond, soja, oat.
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...following: Three array multipliers capable of multiplying two 3-bit numbers One adder capable of adding two N-bit by N-bit numbers including a carry in. The output of the adder has N-bits for the sum and a carry out bit. Determine the minimum number of N required by the adder for the overall circuit to work. 21-bit shift register. Before starting the
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Contraband artists
New Paths is honoured to host the very first ever performances given by exceptional new baroque group Contraband. Under the direction of harpsichordist Christopher Bucknall they will give three performances during the festival and also lead a masterclass for talented local string players.
Christopher Bucknall | harpsichord & director
Conductor and harpsichordist, Christopher Bucknall, is a rising star both on the concert platform and in the opera house, sharing his passion for bringing music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries alive.
Christopher made his conducting debut in 2012 with Handel, Apollo e Dafne at the Wigmore Hall and has since gone on to conduct critically acclaimed productions of Handel, Agrippina (Iford Arts), Haydn, Il Mondo della Luna (English Touring Opera), Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Silent Opera), Handel, The Choice of Hercules (Bampton Classical Opera), Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona (Vestfolds International Festival, Norway) and Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (Silent Opera). In January 2014, Christopher made his Scandinavian debut conducting Handel, Alcina for Den Norske Opera.
On the concert platform, Christopher has appeared conducting B'Rock (Belgian Baroque Orchestra Ghent), Real Filharmonie de Galicia, Norwegian Wind Ensemble, International Baroque Players in varied repertoire ranging from Monteverdi through to Mozart. He also regularly collaborates with the UK's finest vocal ensembles including performances of Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium with the BBC Singers, and highly praised preparation of the Glyndebourne and English National Opera choruses in works by Purcell and Rameau.
Christopher frequents many of Europe's top concert halls and festivals as harpsichordist and continuo player appearing with groups including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Kings Consort, Brecon Baroque, Academy of Ancient Music, Early Opera Company, and The Classical Opera Company.
Christopher studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and the Royal Academy of Music, studying harpsichord and fortepiano.
Hear Christopher in: Introduction to the Baroque, Late-night Bach Cantatas, Promised Land: Italian Hour, For the love of coffee, Gourmet baroque
Lucy Russell | baroque violin
Lucy Russell was born in Germany of Scottish/Norwegian origin, but has lived mainly in London. She was a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music, going on to take music degrees at the University of York, where she gave the first British performance of the Norwegian composer Alfred Janson's violin concerto Forspil, based on Hardanger violin traditions. While still a student she was invited to play with London Baroque and the English Baroque Soloists, and by the City of London Festival as a solo violinist in their production/recording of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea.
She has been a member of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet since 1988, becoming its leader in 1995; with them she has played all over Europe, North America, the Middle East, and South Africa, as well as making recordings for Linn Records, Divine Art, the BBC, and various foreign radio stations. She has recorded for Channel Classics, Hyperion, DG, and Decca with other ensembles, having been leader of Florilegium, Concerto Caledonia, Classical Opera Company, Retrospect Ensemble, the Finchcocks Quartet, The King's Consort, Dunedin Consort and the New Chamber Opera Band of Players, as well as a director of the Scottish Early Music Consort and a solo violinist in the New London Consort. She has been leader of The Yorkshire Baroque Soloists for approaching 30 years and has also toured and recorded with them. She is also a regular visitor with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. With her 'modern' hat on she has been guest leader for the City of London Sinfonia playing under the late Richard Hickox.
She has taught and given masterclasses all over the world – including the Czech Republic, the United States, South Africa, and Russia. Closer to home, she has worked at the Royal Academy of Music with the Modern Instrument Baroque Orchestra, and at Trinity College of Music, Royal Holloway College London, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, Birmingham Conservatoire, York University, the Royal Northern College of Music, St Mary's Music School Edinburgh, and Pro Corda. She is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music and visiting Professor of violin at St Andrews.
Her recent recording of Bach's Obbligato violin sonatas with John Butt has received very positive reviews across the board: "Russell's beautifully polished playing reveals an affecting relish for the music's searching expressivity…" (Sunday Times).
Lucy likes to divide her time between performing on period instruments and their "modern" counterparts, exploring music from Purcell to the present day. She plays on a violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, made in Naples, Italy, in c1789. Her baroque violin is by Charles Harris of Adderbury. She is increasingly in demand as a teacher and director, with a special interest in the use of Mindfulness around performance.
Hear Lucy in: Introduction to the Baroque, Late-night Bach Cantatas, For the love of coffee, Gourmet baroque
Magdalena Loth-Hill | baroque violin
British-Polish violinist Magdalena Loth-Hill studied at Chetham's School of Music with Jan Repko and at RCM with Itzhak Rashkovsky, Lucy Russell, Adrian Butterfield and Laura Samuel, graduating both Bachelor and Master's with Distinction. She was awarded the 2015/16 Mills Williams Junior Fellowship at the RCM, a post she held alongside studying for an Artist Diploma in baroque violin. In March 2016, Magdalena was presented with the Mills Williams Medal.
At RCM, Magdalena was soloist in Bach's E major concerto, Brandenburg's 4 and 5 and the Bach Double Violin Concerto. She led the RCM Baroque and Classical Orchestras and performed live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune. Magdalena has performed with the OAE, AAM and Florilegium and has toured in Europe, the United States and Bolivia, where her two solo recitals as 'Artist of the Festival' officially opened the 2016 Misiones de Chiquitos Baroque Festival. Magdalena performed the Mendelssohn and Bruch concerti with the City of Carlisle Orchestra, recorded for the British Library 'Georgians Revealed' exhibition and for the most recent ABRSM syllabus. With her quartet, Consone, she won the 2016 ROSL Ensemble Prize, Century Fund Prize at RCM, EUBO Prize and a place on the EEEmerging programme at the 2015 York Competition.
Magdalena was Orpheus Scholar at the RCM, supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Award and the Countess of Munster Trust.
Hear Magdalena in: Late-night Bach Cantatas, For the love of coffee, Gourmet Baroque
Aliye Cornish | baroque viola
Aliye Cornish is much in demand as a period viola player, and enjoys a full touring and recording schedule with many of the leading directors and ensembles of the early music world.
Aliye studied the viola at the Royal College of Music with Ivo Van Der Werff and Jonathan Barritt from 2004-2008, where she played a principal role in the RCM's Symphony, Opera and Baroque Orchestras. She began Baroque Viola lessons with Annette Isserlis in her second year of study and subsequently participated in the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra for several years, and the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2007, returning as Principal Viola in 2008. She was also invited to be a member of the World Youth Orchestra in 2008.
She was awarded a scholarship to study the Baroque Viola at the Royal Academy of Music in 2008-2009 where she was taught by Jane Rogers. This year of study formed a springboard into the profession, playing to many established and respected musicians.
Since graduating she has appeared regularly with the English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner), the Dunedin Consort (John Butt), Arcangelo (Jonathan Cohen) and Cercle de l'Harmonie (Jérèmie Rhorer). Future plans include two performances at the BBC Proms 2017, under John Butt and John Eliot Gardiner and an extensive Monteverdi opera tour with the English Baroque Soloists across Europe and the USA.
Hear Aliye in: Introduction to the Baroque, Late-night Bach Cantatas, For the love of coffee, Gourmet Baroque
Kate Bennett Wadsworth | baroque cello
Kate Bennett Wadsworth (formerly Kate Bennett Haynes) studied modern cello with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory and baroque cello with Jaap ter Linden at the Royal Dutch Conservatory in the Hague, after completing a bachelor's degree in Scandinavian studies at Harvard College. She has appeared at festivals throughout North America and Europe with baroque ensembles such as Arion, Tafelmusik, B'Rock, Apollo's Fire, Aradia, Masques, and the Theatre of Early Music, and her continuo playing can be heard on the Naxos, ATMA, Artemis/Vanguard,and early-music.com labels. As a soloist, she has appeared with Arion Baroque Orchestra, Les Bostonades, and Norwich Baroque, and her recording of the CPE Bach A minor concerto with Les Bostonades was released in 2015.
Kate is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD under Clive Brown at the University of Leeds, looking at the notoriously marked-up editions of the cellist Friedrich Grützmacher as a window onto 19th-century performance practice. Drawing on similarly marked-up editions, as well as treatises, memoirs, early recordings, and other historical sources, she has also prepared annotated editions of the Brahms cello sonatas, in collaboration with Clive Brown and Neal Peres da Costa and published by Bärenreiter.
Hear Kate in: Introduction to the Baroque, Late-night Bach Cantatas, For the love of coffee, Gourmet Baroque
William Hunt | violone
Starting his professional career as a viol player, William Hunt was a founder member of the viol consort Fretwork and for many years a member of the chamber ensemble London Baroque, in which he developed his interest in violones. He is now principal violone with the Dunedin Consort and has frequently made guest appearances as a specialist violone player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Taverner Consort and many other period instrument orchestras and ensembles.
Over the years he has held teaching posts at several music conservatories. In 1989 he launched Fretwork Editions, a specialist publisher of viol-related music, of which he is director and general editor, with a particular interest in researching the history and performance practice of the English verse anthem. In recent years he has directed residential courses and workshops both in the UK and in Europe and in 2016 he devised and organised Fretwork's 30th anniversary project to record the complete Gibbons consort anthems.
Hear William in: Late-night Bach Cantatas, Gourmet Baroque
Matthew Wadsworth | theorbo
Matthew Wadsworth has earned a reputation as one of the worlds finest lutenists. Working in the UK, Europe and North America as a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at most major concert halls and festivals, and can often be heard on radio, both in live performance and recordings. Matthew was born in 1974 and studied lute at London's Royal Academy of Music with Nigel North, after which he spent a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.
Matthew has recorded for Avie, Deux-Elles, Linn, EMI, Channel Classics and Wigmore Live. His CD recordings have all received international critical acclaim, and have been featured as Gramophone Editors Choice on several occasions. His forthcoming CD 'Late Night Lute' will be released in June 2017.
Matthew has given concerts at the Bruges festival, the Klara festival, the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, The Sam Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeares Globe, the Georgian Concert Society (Edinburgh), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and the Lufthansa, York, Beverley, Warwick, Spitalfields, Holt, North York Moores, Budapest, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal Baroque, Mitte-Europa and Innsbruck festivals.
Matthew is passionate about working with singers. Collaborations include Sopranos Carolyn Sampson, Julia Doyle and Emma Kirkby, counter-tenor Christopher Ainslie, tenor James Gilchrist and baritone Peter Harvey. He has also worked with The Academy of Ancient Music, English Touring Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, Independent Opera, The Netherlands Bach Society, I Fagiolini, The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, The Musicians of the Globe, Arion, Constantinople, The Theatre of Early Music and Les Violons du Roy.
Hear Matthew in: Gourmet Baroque
Georgia Browne | baroque flute
Flautist Georgia Browne began her musical life in Perth, Western Australia where she was given the opportunity to try replica historical flutes. Smitten with the sound and history of these instruments she decided to make the pilgrimage to The Netherlands, to specialise with flute teachers Kate Clark and Barthold Kuijken.
After graduating with distinction from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Georgia was launched onto the European concert scene in style, with an exciting performance of a Vivaldi flute concerto for live radio broadcast at the Palazzo Quirinale in Rome.
Since that momentous debut in 2004, Georgia has been in demand as a soloist, orchestral musician and guest tutor across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. She has performed with most of the established UK period instrument ensembles and is regularly invited to play principal flute with the more recently formed Ensemble Pygmalion in France and Capella Cracoviensis in Poland. She is also a member of progressive Icelandic chamber ensemble Nordic Affect with whom she released a recording of flute music by Carl Friedrich Abel.
An enthusiastic educator, Georgia has taught at the University of Southampton, Birmingham University and Birmingham Conservatoire alongside a successful private teaching studio. Each year she hosts a residential Baroque Flute Summer School.
Hear Georgia in: For the love of coffee, Gourmet Baroque
Rachel Chaplin | baroque oboe
Rachel Chaplin works with many of the leading period instrument ensembles in the UK, including the English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, King's Consort, Classical Opera and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. With these and other groups she has performed and recorded numerous works on French and German oboes from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Her academic specialism is eighteenth century German music, particularly the instrumental music of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, which was the subject of her doctoral research. Formerly a lecturer and tutor at the Royal Academy of music, Rachel continues to be involved with music education, lecturing at public events and participating in orchestral projects with schools and community groups. She lives in London with her husband, Sam and their three young daughters.
Hear Rachel in: Late-night Bach Cantatas, Gourmet Baroque
Zoe Shevlin | baroque bassoon
Zoe Shevlin studied modern and historical bassoons at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She now enjoys a busy and varied career as a London-based freelancer, playing regularly with English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort, the Sixteen, the Academy of Ancient Music, Early Opera Company, Arcangelo, English Baroque Soloists, Kings Consort, Florilegium, Classical Opera and Music For Awhile, among others. She has toured extensively in the U.K., Europe, America and South East Asia, recorded for a variety of record labels, broadcast on TV and radio and makes occasional appearances as a concerto soloist, most recently with English Concert.
Zoe gave the world premiere of Graham Sheen's piece for Baroque Bassoon and Harpsichord, "Goodbye Mr Galliard", which was written for her, has taught historical bassoon classes at the Royal College of Music, is a specialist external examiner at the Royal Academy of Music, and works extensively in education and outreach for Classical Opera and OAE (most memorable highlight: recording in Brighton Sewer as part of a homelessness project). She also enjoys swimming outdoors in all seasons and recently completed the Dart 10k swim in aid of WaterAid, as part of the OAE's Watercycle project.
Hear Zoe in: Late-night Bach Cantatas, Gourmet Baroque


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Inclement Weather Policy
The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce's inclement weather policy regarding cancellations of meetings and events will be made on a case by case basis. Changes to the event operational status will be posted here.
Regarding cancellations of Member Exchange Meetings, we follow the operational status of Montgomery County Public Schools:
Note: The Chamber office may also close if other emergencies arise that force the closure of the office. If you have RSVP'd to an MCCC event, MCCC will notify you directly via email regarding any changes or cancellations.
Regarding cancellations of Member Exchange Meetings, we follow the operational status of Montgomery County Public Schools:
- If Montgomery County Public Schools are closed, all MCCC Member Exchange Meetings will be cancelled.
- If Montgomery County Public Schools open two hours late, all morning MCCC Member Exchange Meetings will be cancelled.
Note: The Chamber office may also close if other emergencies arise that force the closure of the office. If you have RSVP'd to an MCCC event, MCCC will notify you directly via email regarding any changes or cancellations.
Emergency Safety Tips
- Have adequate prescription medicines or infant supplies on hand.
- If you or someone you know uses life-support equipment that requires electricity to operate, identify a location with emergency power capabilities and make plans to go there during a prolonged outage.
- Assemble an emergency storm kit. Include a battery-powered radio or television, flashlight, a first-aid kit, battery-powered or windup clock, extra batteries, special needs items, an insulated cooler and a list of important and emergency phone numbers.
- Keep at least a three-day supply of non-perishable foods and bottled water and have a hand-operated can opener available. If you have a pet, make sure there is a supply of food available for them. Be sure to take you pet with you if you have to leave home. Identify pet-friendly motels ahead of time.
- Have a telephone with a cord or cell phone to use as a backup. Cordless telephones require electricity to operate, and won't work if there is an outage.
- Protect your electronic equipment. Unplug sensitive electronics or plug computers and other sensitive equipment into surge suppressors, and consider a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) for temporary battery backup power.
- Turn off power to flood-prone basement appliances if it is safe to do so. However, if you have an electrically operated sump pump, you should not turn off your power.
- Fill your gas tank so you can run your automobile to charge mobile devices. Be sure to open garage doors using manual controls to run the vehicle safely.
Generator Safety Tips
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- Always follow the manufacturer's instructions when using a generator.
- Locate your generator in a well-ventilated area. Never run it inside, even in your garage. Gasoline powered generators produce carbon monoxide and the fumes can be deadly. Store gasoline or other flammable liquids outside of living areas in properly marked approved containers. They should also not be stored in a garage if a fuel-burning appliance is located there.
- Plug appliances directly into the generator using heavy-duty, properly grounded extension cords. Make sure extension cords are not frayed or worn.
- Use the generator only when necessary, and don't overload it. Turn it off at night while you sleep and when you are away from home to avoid a possible fire hazard.
- For your safety and the safety of employees working to restore power, do not connect your generator directly into your home's main fuse box or circuit panel. Improperly connected generators can feed electricity back into the electrical system, endangering field personnel working to restore your power. Consult a qualified electrical contractor if a permanent generator installation is desired.
Other Safety Tips
- Tune in to local news broadcasts for the latest weather and emergency information.
- Follow the advice of your local emergency management officials.
- Take cover if necessary.
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Chimneys and Pots
Hornsea Museum-I want them all!
Salts Mill, Saltaire-Brilliant!
Betty's Tea Room-Yum!
Three highlights from a mini break in Yorkshire this week. Back to work tomorrow!
The lovely tea box is by Emily Sutton. Was gutted to discover that we had just missed Emily and Mark Hearld's Open studio-details here.


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Not quite two years ago I somehow sneaked in the back door at frog, the global product strategy and design firm that started when Steve Jobs convinced Hartmut Esslinger to create a firm in the US to create a product design language for the Macintosh.
Today was my last day.
It has been quite a ride. Oddly enough, the actual client work was, for the most part, not terribly interesting. It's not that frog doesn't do amazing work, I think, but that I was the new guy. I did get to do some cool stuff, and I definitely learned a ton doing client work, but it was, by far, the unbilled work that I did at frog that got me excited.
I've blogged about most of it, and will blog more of it soon.
I thrived at frog. It was an amazing place to work. I got to work alongside people like Jared Ficklin, Joshua Noble, Michael McDaniel and many more... It was the kind of workplace in which you can't help but hone your skills and practice your craft, surrounded all the time by people giving it their all. It's what I imagine it would be like to play professional sports.
It would take something pretty big to pry me away from such an environment. That thing was Reaction (site update coming very soon). Reaction was founded by Michael McDaniel, with whom I got to work quite a bit while we were both at frog. Reaction is a company that Michael started about 8 years ago, just days after Katrina made landfall in the U.S. Michael is from Mississippi, and he was compelled to do something to help those affected. Being a designer, with an industrial design background, he found his problem to solve in the short-term housing options available to FEMA when assisting those displaced from their homes. He designed The Exo as a better solution to the short-term housing problem. He explains it a heck of a lot better than I can (so far), so I'll step aside:
I'll be serving as technology director at Reaction, working on the hardware and software that will make these smart temporary houses that keep occupants safe and comfortable. You'll definitely be hearing more about all of this in the near future. I'm elated to be working on a product that I know is going to make a difference in the world.
That said, it is just now hitting me that I have left frog. I will miss frog, and all my colleagues, dearly. I have written frequently about the difficulty of creating and sustaining a culture of innovation and quality in a corporation, and I will probably spend a few years trying to figure out how frog did it.