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Meaningful partnerships can transform the lives of people with asthma.
In December 2008, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) convened the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Coordinating Committee and other interested stakeholders to announce the National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI). At that meeting, the NHLBI invited interested organizations to commit to working with the NACI to forge strategic partnership activities that would advance the recommendations of the NAEPP's Expert Panel Report 3—Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3) and its companion Guidelines Implementation Panel Report (GIP)—Partners Putting Guidelines Into Action.
A number of leading nonprofit, scientific, professional, academic, government, and voluntary organizations responded to the NHLBI's call to become NACI Strategic Partners. The NACI Strategic Partnership Program focused on establishing a shared vision among these key stakeholder organizations to align their resources with those of the NACI to implement interventions targeting the six GIP messages that would have sustained impact on improving asthma control in the United States. Moreover, these organizations extended the NACI's reach by sharing information and tools with their members, constituents, and priority populations and with other NACI programs and stakeholders through the NACI's national communications infrastructure.
The Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) piloted the Great American Asthma Challenge (GAAC)©: Real Strategies for Living and Breathing the NIH Guidelines, a self-paced program to educate individuals with asthma and their families on how to incorporate the key GIP messages into their daily asthma management practices through culturally compatible and results-oriented guidance, structure, and problem-solving tools. To engage families in the GAAC, AANMA's volunteer Outreach Service Coordinators, backed by AANMA's Patient Support Center, conducted informational meetings and other recruitment strategies in collaboration with local health care and social service providers and community and faith-based organizations in urban neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, and Richmond, VA. [Full Profile]
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) teamed up with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) National Research Network to adapt AAAAI's Web-based "Asthma Specialist Tool to Help Manage Asthma and Improve Quality" (ASTHMA IQ) for primary care use. The resulting ASTHMA IQ for Primary Care Physicians is a HIPAA-compliant clinical decision support tool that helps clinicians learn about and integrate the EPR-3 guidelines and the six priority GIP messages into their busy practices. Moreover, it allows users to collect, review, graph, and report performance and quality improvement measures to enhance the quality of care they deliver to their patients with asthma. [Full Profile]
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), as part of its continuous maintenance of certification (MOC) process, used trained faculty to guide small groups of family physicians through an asthma self-assessment module (SAM) updated with the six priority GIP messages. The ABFM compared changes in knowledge and clinical practice between physicians in the group asthma SAM and their counterparts that completed the asthma SAM through the standard online MOC process. The ABFM worked with several state chapters of the American Academy of Family Physicians to extend the group SAM, successfully piloted in Virginia, to additional physicians in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Virginia. [Full Profile]
The American School Health Association (ASHA) aimed to create more asthma-friendly schools across the country by promoting an online continuing education training on asthma management for school nurses, physical educators, coaches, athletic trainers, and school health coordinators. ASHA energized these asthma champions by presenting face-to-face trainings at its annual meetings and by hosting a Web-based booster session to reinforce key EPR-3 and GIP messages presented in the online and face-to-face sessions. Through these trainings, ASHA aimed to increase the number of school-based personnel who can assist students with asthma to manage their disease and who are able to identify quickly, and to respond appropriately to, asthma episodes in schools. [Full Profile]
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) incorporated the NAEPP's six priority GIP messages into its Asthma Management and Education (AME) program, designed to educate nurses, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other health professionals on the current NAEPP guidelines and strategies for educating patients on asthma self-management. AAFA also published several newsletter articles with tips to encourage patients, family members, and other caregivers to partner with their health care provider to put these messages into action to control asthma. In addition, AAFA worked collaboratively with the NAEPP to include its Student Asthma Action Card among several sample asthma action plans in the NHLBI's updated Asthma and Physical Activity in the School. [Full Profile]
The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) established a Pediatric Asthma Education (PAE) Train-the-Trainer Program to strengthen the abilities of primary care providers to improve the health outcomes of children with asthma. In a two-day conference, NAPNAP trained at least 50 national pediatric asthma trainers (NPATs) from across the country, with special emphasis on recruiting trainers from medically underserved areas and areas with high asthma prevalence. The curriculum, created with pediatric asthma experts from NAPNAP and other professional organizations, focused on the six priority GIP messages and included strategies for rural, school, and adolescent populations and various cultures. Upon their return home, NPATs used the PAE modules to train additional pediatric health care professionals. [Full Profile]
To ensure that clinicians, patients, and caregivers have the knowledge and the skills necessary to control asthma, the National Asthma Campaign Foundation (NAC) developed a series of online education interventions to promote awareness and understanding of GIP priority messages. Each continuing education module for health care professionals was matched with a patient module. NAC's dual approach helped strengthen the partnership between health care physicians and patients by providing them with consistent messages and by encouraging a dialogue between them. The NACI disseminated and promoted these modules through its Web site and through other stakeholder organizations and health communication channels. [Full Profile]
The National Environmental Education Foundation's (NEEF) Pediatric Asthma Initiative aimed to integrate comprehensive asthma management into pediatric health care in a sustainable manner. NEEF expanded the reach of its Initiative to increase the number of health care professionals who are successfully integrating the six priority GIP messages into the care of their asthma patients, with special attention given to environmental management. NEEF utilized its network of Pediatric Asthma Faculty Champions across the country to train faculty, medical students, residents, and clinicians. NEEF adapted its program content and tools to include the priority GIP messages and created additional tools to further promote the GIP messages to health care providers. [Full Profile]
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is a federal agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was established to help ensure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. NIOSH and the NHLBI committed to working together to identify collaborative opportunities to promote the GIP priority messages to clinicians, patients, and employers with a focus on the environmental message. Together, they worked on ways to encourage clinicians to include occupational and other environmental exposures when obtaining a comprehensive health history and to use spirometry (lung function testing) in the diagnosis and monitoring of asthma. Both activities are key quality indicators for asthma care. NIOSH and the NHLBI also explored opportunities to enhance state-of-the-art spirometry training programs and to extend these programs to primary care physicians and other appropriate health disciplines.
The National Medical Association (NMA) expanded its education and outreach efforts through its Asthma and Allergy Rescue Project to reduce asthma disparities by enhancing the delivery of quality asthma care in African-American communities. The project developed and tested a training program for physicians that integrated the GIP priority messages with culturally competent approaches to patient education that improved asthma self-management behaviors. To facilitate putting the training into practice, the NMA provided toolkits for physicians and patients with educational materials and other useful resources that reinforced the GIP messages. The NMA piloted the training program at its regional meetings, annual convention, and in the cities of Washington, DC, and Detroit, MI. [Full Profile]
The University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease (CMCD) integrated GIP messages throughout the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) Program. PACE is a multifaceted seminar developed by physicians and public health professionals at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. In multiple trials, PACE improved long-term asthma outcomes, even though PACE-trained physicians spent no more time with their patients than other physicians. CMCD developed additional materials and a PACE webinar to enable clinicians, particularly those who practice in high-risk communities, to serve as PACE trainers. [Full Profile]
Following an online outreach effort to raise awareness among health care providers on using spirometry (lung function testing) as recommended by the EPR-3 guidelines for the diagnosis, assessment, and monitoring of asthma, the University of Washington (UW) delivered its Spirometry 360 training and feedback program throughout the United States to clinicians and other staff at 30 primary care safety net practices that serve vulnerable populations. Spirometry 360 was an evidence-based program that combined the power of in-person quality improvement methods with the advantages of distance training by using a computer-based, self-paced tutorial; interactive case-based teaching led by expert clinical faculty; and customized feedback reports from clinical experts summarizing the quality of spirometry performed in the participating clinics. By furthering the effective application of well-performed spirometry technology in the primary care setting, the UW facilitated the use of priority GIP messages to improve asthma control within high-risk groups. [Full Profile]
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According to Mississippi law, a person may own the banks of a waterway, the land around a body of water, the land under the water, and even the trees growing in the soil under the water. However, that same landowner does not legally own the water or the rights to use it.
That apparent crinkle in the law is fueling a battle in the state between landowners and non-landowners, and in many cases, native Delta hunters and fishermen and their visiting Jackson and Memphis counterparts.
"It's a messy and difficult issue, but the bottom line is this is a fight about duck hunting," says Chuck Barlow, general counsel for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality in Jackson, Miss.
Barlow, who spoke at an April 24 Delta Council committee meeting in Stoneville, Miss., says the Department of Environmental Quality has no authority to decide if a waterway is public under the state's common law. The agency does, however, have a say in determining if a waterway meets the state statute designating what is considered a "public" waterway.
The state statute Barlow refers to is Mississippi Code Annotated Sec. 51-1-4. Written in the mid-1980s, the statute says that "such portions of all natural flowing streams having a mean annual flow of not less than 100 cubic feet per second shall be public, and shall have the right of free transport in the stream and its bed, and the right to fish and engage in water sports."
While that legal description may sound like it covers only very large waterways, Barlow says, "An annual flow of 100 cubic feet per second is not a wall of water. You can have a fairly small stream of water, and it can meet the statute."
Further complicating matters, the common laws of Mississippi read somewhat differently, and are far less precise. According to common state law, a waterway can be considered "public" if it is used in any way in interstate commerce; if it is navigable "in fact;" if it is any part of the Mississippi River tributary system; or if it has been used by the general public for at least the last 10 years.
If any of these conditions have been met, then it may be possible for a waterway to be considered "public," enabling the general public to use it at their "own risk."
Unfortunately, however, the confusion does not end there. State law only applies to water in its "normal streams and banks." It does not make floodwaters public.
"It gets very difficult to tell what is flood water, and what is not, when it comes to swampy areas. It is relatively easy to tell where the bank of a stream or river is located, but determining where the banks of a swamp are located is easier said than done," says Barlow.
Confused? You're not alone. The issue of which bodies of water in the state are public, and which are not, has been building for years, and those on both sides of the argument appear convinced their rights to the water supercede those of their opponents.
On one side of the debate are the non-landowners who say they have used a waterway for decades and should be allowed to continue to do so. They also complain about what they consider to be an inadequate number of public recreational areas in the state.
Many landowners, however, want to protect their right to privately hunt and fish the land and included bodies of water they pay taxes on as property "owners."
"It's a convoluted and complicated issue, and unfortunately, it's a problem that DEQ is stuck in the middle of," Barlow says.
What it all boils down to, Barlow says, is if a waterway is designated as "public," then the public must have access to it for recreational use or otherwise. "The state owns the water itself, and the people of the state have the right to use that water. However, private individuals may own the beds and the banks of streams, or any other sort of waterway," he says. "While people cannot trespass on your property to get on that water, they can use the waterway because it is part of public domain."
The question remains, however, as to which Mississippi waterways are considered "public," and which are considered "private." While there does not appear a decisive answer one way or the other at this point, recent state legislation could prove indicative of future rulings on the issue.
A recent ruling by the Mississippi state legislature regarding the Buffalo River declared that when a waterway is taken off the Department of Environmental Quality's list of public waterways, under common law it is still presumed to be public until a court decides otherwise.
Barlow says that tells him that whatever the Department of Environmental Quality does regarding its list of public waterways "really doesn't matter." What really matters, he says, is the final disposition of a case in court.
"There are five other ways a waterway can be made public that have nothing at all to do with the state statute concerning public waterway designations," Barlow says. "There are several arguments that could be made about the common law of Mississippi in court, and a judge could find in favor of any one of those arguments, no matter what the Department of Environmental Quality decided on the issue."
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:50 am
Post subject: Too many capers?
I received a 12th Night/Epiphany gift of a liter jar of imported capers. I love the flavor of capers, but a little goes a long way & a small jar usually lasts quite awhile. Do any of you have recipes for using an abundance of these little buds? Can you freeze them successfully?
Charlotte, if you save me some of that chicken, I'll bring caper & parsley sauce for it! (that's about the extent of my experience cooking with them, other than as a salad garnish.)
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My favorite way to enjoy capers is with lox and cream cheese on dark rye.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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I use capers fairly regularly....in butter sauces for fish or chopped up in cold tarter-like sauces (mayo, a bit of catsup, some pickle or cornichons)..they lend an element of "secret ingredient"
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You could try one of my favorite ways to have a burger. After you quickly pan sear both sides, you add a tiiny bit of liquid like water or broth and braise it under a lid for a few minutes to a finish. Next you remove the burger to a warmed plate and put the pan over high heat to deglaze with a splash of vermouth and balsamic, a dab of dijon and a spoonful of capers. When it's a thick, caramely syrup, spoon it over the burger.
I think I got this from a demonstration of Steak Diane some years ago but I've never had Steak Diane and don't know how accurately I remember what I saw back then. However authentic (or not), I really like this and lived off it when I was on the Atkins diet. It's good with a few chopped up sundried tomatoes tossed in in the last minute too.
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my husband makes a nice pasta with a simple cream sauce, prosciutto, sundried tomatoes and capers. it's very easy and always tasty.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:34 am
Post subject: Re: Too many capers?
brighidsdaughter wrote:
I received a 12th Night/Epiphany gift of a liter jar of imported capers. I love the flavor of capers, but a little goes a long way & a small jar usually lasts quite awhile. Do any of you have recipes for using an abundance of these little buds? Can you freeze them successfully?
Charlotte, if you save me some of that chicken, I'll bring caper & parsley sauce for it! (that's about the extent of my experience cooking with them, other than as a salad garnish.)
Come on by! I love capers and I have a lemon tree, too!
I buy in large jars, but it takes me a while to go through it. I eat more in summer with tomato-type salads - salade nicoise, panzanella (see my food blog for my recipe), and Greek salad. It keeps forever in the fridge in the brine, though.
In the winter I like fish baked with lemon and some capers to finish off ... piccata style. Hadn't thought of it with the chicken, thank you for the idea. Pam Anderson has a lemon-caper pan sauce for seared chicken or fish in "How to Cook without a Book" that I liked, but I haven't seared fish in a while.
I also put a big spoonful in my tapenade ... you can do that without waiting for real tomatoes.
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I like to add capers to my tuna fish. Yum.
I've also recently made a really good flank steak dish (from South Beach Diet) that uses a marinade which includes capers and onions. You reserve some of the marinade to put on the finished dish.
I always enjoy it with fish.
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Parts of Strivers' Row were designed by the noted architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White. Strivers Row below Sugar Hill named by Harlemites for it's ambitious residents.
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Jessica Ng of Forest Hills defeated former North American Muay Thai champion Rhea Fontanilla to capture the New York State Amateur Muay Thai championship.
Ng got the best of Fontanilla in three two-minute rounds at the 7 Train Theater in Jackson Heights on Friday, December 16, to earn the previously vacant title.
"She had really strong hands," said Ng of Fontanilla, who flew from the West Coast for the bout. "A right had to the side of my temple left my head pretty bruised."
Muay Thai differs from kickboxing in that Muay Thai fighters grapple more, or "clinch," which means fighters tie up their opponent and try to elbow or knee them, as well as throw them to the ground.
"Muay Thai is about doing as much damage as possible," said Ng. "But she [Fontanilla] was in more of a kickboxing style and it was really hard to catch her."
Ng, who grew up in Corona and attended St. Adalbert Elementary School in Elmhurst, eventually prevailed, earning the state amateur title.
This was Ng's sixth official fight, and said it is hard finding suitable matches in her weight class. The bout against Fontanilla was fought in the 102-pound weight class, and both fighters weighed in at just around 101.5 pounds the day before the match.
However, most female Muay Thai fighters weigh between 115 and 120 pounds, which means they would have to drop weight and Ng would have to gain weight to make a fight possible.
Ng trains at Sitan Gym on Steinway Street in Astoria, and gives credit to her trainer, Aziz Nabih, for sticking by her, despite the current lack of competitive opportunities.
"He really tries to get my name out there for more fights," she said. Ng hopes to get back in the ring sometime in March in a bout at The Beacon Theatre in Manhattan.
The fight on December 16 was promoted by Take On Professional & Amateur Muay Thai, which is run by Eddie Cuello.


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Letter of President Barroso to the European Council on the contribution of trade to growth and jobs
The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso has written to his colleagues in the European Council ahead of their meeting later this week (7-8 February) to underline the contribution that trade can make to boost growth and jobs in the European Union.
Attached to the President's letter is a detailed paper that summarises the rationale behind the EU's trade policy, the changing nature of the trade agenda and sets out the main policy orientations the European Union should consider for the future.
President Barroso states: "Trade is an essential lever in our strategy to boost growth and jobs in the EU… In the future, 90% of world-wide growth is expected to be generated outside Europe. Grasping the opportunities offered by these external sources of growth will be critical for the future dynamism and sustainability of our economy… We are also well-placed to tap into the vast potential for future global growth... What is at stake is not just the capacity to maintain or expand market shares but also the ability of the EU to compete; to attract global investment and join global value chains; and to help our citizens and businesses to take up opportunities across the world."
He goes on to add that: "While preserving and reinforcing the centrality of the multilateral trading system is in our long-term strategic interest, in the current environment we must also be more proactive in our bilateral relationships."
"Working together closely, we have already concluded and implemented landmark agreements such as the EU - Korea Free Trade Agreement. We have also concluded negotiations with Singapore, expect to conclude soon with Canada and we hope to do likewise with India. We will shortly start negotiations with Japan and look forward to a positive outcome of the High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth for a possible comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the United States. The importance of these strategic partners cannot be overstated."
"While the EU overall is doing well in terms of global trade, the situation inside the EU differs from one Member State to another and between sectors and regions. We need to address these issues in our economic and structural policies, namely in the framework of the on-going reforms for competitiveness. And our commitment to open markets will continue to be upheld by our capacity to act against anti-competitive trade practices, through the appropriate instruments."
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Last Saturday afternoon at Philadelphia University's Gallagher Center, the postseason phase of the basketball season started with a bang for Mount St. Joseph Academy.
Holding fourth-seeded St. Basil scoreless during the second quarter while building their lead, the top-seeded Magic stormed to a 42-20 victory in the second semifinal game of the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies tournament. Second-seeded Villa Maria advanced to meet the Mount by winning the first of Saturday's semifinal contests, letting a 19-15 halftime lead slip away but ultimately persevering against number three Villa Joseph Marie, 43-33.
Mount St. Joseph (20-3 overall) received strong performances from experienced players. Seniors Bridget Higgins (seven rebounds, three steals) and Cailin Schmeer (four assists) logged 12 and eight points, respectively, and the Magic also got eight points from junior Meg Geatens, starting for a second straight game in place of injured sophomore Carly Monzo.
Earlier in the week, the Mount had wrapped up the regular-season championship in the AACA, finishing 12-2 thanks with a win at Nazareth Academy. However, the final score of that game was 45-39, whereas the Magic had beaten the Pandas by more than 20 points in their first clash this winter. Also among their last five AACA bouts were losses at St. Basil and Villa Joseph Marie. Obviously, the Mounties got their mojo back in time for the playoffs last weekend.
"We had sort of the same thing last year, losing a couple league games late in the season and then coming back for playoffs," explained Schmeer, whose buzzer-beater won the league tourney for the Magic in 2011. "I think that experience helped us this time to be confident that we could refocus and get back to the way we want to play."
The loss at Basil's had come in overtime in the Panthers' quaint little gym, and by comparison, the court at Philly U. seemed as expansive as the African veldt.
"They know their gym, so they're very good at trapping you and there's nowhere to go," Schmeer related. "It was much better for us playing here today where we could get out in the open floor."
In round two, Schmeer stuck a pair of baseline shots, and Geatens hit from the foul line, both on a jumper and a pair of free throws. That eight-point effort actually put the Magic in control of the game, because the Panthers produced no points at all during the period. The Magic forced a 10-second half-court call in the middle of the quarter, and played hard-nosed defense all-round. The halftime count was 19-10.
"I'm not even sure what happened; I don't think we realized they hadn't scored for such a long time," said Schmeer. "We just concentrated on playing really tight defense."
St. Basil's lead guard, senior Erin Fenningham, had scored six points in the first quarter, but the Mount held her to just four the rest of the afternoon.
After Schmeer broke the ice in the second half, guard Alex Louin scored all of her six points for the day in succession, making it 27-10. Throughout the game, the sophomore used her height (5'11") and leaping ability to help the Mount make connecting passes up the floor.
Finally, a lone free throw by Molly Greenberg (three points total) ended a St. Basil scoring drought of more than 12 minutes. A field goal by Higgins was matched by the Panthers' Fenningham, creating a 29-13 tally for the start of the fourth quarter. Six straight points pushed the lead to 22 points for the Magic, who could pretty much coast from there on in.
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Early game today. Ilya Bryzgalov gets the start again. Boyd Gordon is out due to injury. This doesn't bode well… not that it boded well before. Too be honest, the Oilers have taken a back seat for me the past couple of games. Just can't watch them. I think they've been better, aside from the CBJ game (perhaps? I wouldn't know..), but the season is just too far gone for me to really care. The GDT threads are clinging to a thread here…
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The First Festival was held at Easter 2002 with support of the Moscow government and blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexei II. It was a resounding success and the decision was quickly taken to make the Festival an annual event, with the Russian Ministry of Culture as co-promoter.
The musical programme and the international dimension of the Festival have grown steadily richer year by year.
The XV Moscow Easter Festival runs from 1 to 17 May 2016 with the support of the Moscow City Government, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and with the blessing of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Intense in its geographic scale and the number of exclusive artistic events, the anniversary festival will be dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Prokofiev. In line with tradition, the tempo of the festival will be set by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev as well as outstanding contemporary musicians, winners of the Tchaikovsky Competition and the world's finest instrumental and choral ensembles.
The grand opening of the XV Moscow Easter Festival takes place on 1 May on Easter Day at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. The performances by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev commence on 29 April and will take place over nineteen days in twenty-one Russian towns: Tula, Oryol, Kursk, Smolensk, Vladimir, Moscow, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Magnitogorsk, Perm, Votkinsk, Izhevsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov on Don, Sochi, Krasnodar, Vladikavkaz, Astrakhan and Saransk. The concert programmes include works by Sergei Prokofiev. For younger audiences in the regions there will be performances of the symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf. In line with tradition, the musicians will travel on the Moscow Easter Festival's specially chartered train.
The choral programme opens on 2 May at the Hall of Church Assemblies of the Church of Christ the Saviour where there will be a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata and the cantata for mixed chorus and symphony orchestra Prosper, Our Mighty Country. Among those participating in the programme are musicians from Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Serbia, Armenia, Greece and Sweden. The festival will feature twenty choral ensembles: the State Academic Sveshnikov Russian Chorus (Moscow), the State Academic Yurlov Cappella of Russia (Moscow), the Patriarchal Chorus of the Church of Christ the Saviour (Moscow), the Vesnianka concert chorus (Moscow), the Russian Rhapsody ensemble of soloists (Moscow), the Overcoming chamber chorus of the rehabilitation centre for people with limited abilities (Moscow), the Mariinsky Chorus (St Petersburg), the Optina Pustyn male chorus (St Petersburg), the Vladimir Choral Boys' and Young men's Cappella (Vladimir), the Russian Partes chamber chorus (Tver), the Symbol of Faith male chamber chorus (Voronezh), the Chorus of the First Belgrade Song Society (Belgrade, Serbia), the Zero Eight male chorus (Stockholm, Sweden), the Dragostin Folk National Chorus (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Gerard Convent Women's Chorus (Yerevan, Armenia), the Rosarte children's chorus (Athens, Greece), the Mtskheta ensemble (Tbilisi, Georgia), the Byzantine chorus Thessalonikis Imnodi (Salonika, Greece), the Northern Russian Folk Chorus (Arkhangelsk) and the vocal ensemble Pomorskie Kruzhaniya (Arkhangelsk). The concert programmes will be held in Moscow, the Moscow Region (Korolyov, Balashikha, Mytishchi, Khimki, Dmitrov, Serpukhov, Istra, Zaraysk, Yegorevka and Kolomna), Tver, Staritsa, Tula, Murom, Alexandrovo, Kaluga, Ivanovka and Arkhangelsk.
The chamber programme will take in Moscow, Murmansk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Belgorod, Tolyatti, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma and Yaroslavl. Soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers and its director Larisa Gergiev will present special programmes dedicated to the anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev's birth. The programme will also feature the Russian-German Youth Academy.
The bell-ringing programme will be held at twenty-six churches in Moscow, St Petersburg, Ramensky, Sergiev Posad, Istra, Zvenigorod and Rzhev. The open-access bell-ringing concerts will be held at historic and modern sites and at bell-towers in Moscow and the Moscow Region, including Red Square, Taganka, the Danilov Monastery and Sokolniki, the estate-museum Kolomenskoe and the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery in Zvenigorod and the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra. This year the programme will see an increase in the number of participants; forty campanologists will be arriving from St Petersburg, Vologda, Veliky Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Tyumen, Petrozavodsk, Nyandoma, Samara and Rzhev as well as in Minsk and Kalinkovichi (Belarus), Riga (Latvia), Pavlograd and Alchevska (Ukraine) and Bad-Laasphe (Germany).
There will be charitable concerts as part of the XV Festival at officers' homes, children's homes and shelters, homes for the disabled and homes for veterans. On 9 May (Victory Day) on Poklonnaya Hill there will be the traditional open-to-all concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev.
Over the years since it began as a musical celebration, the Moscow Easter Festival has turned into a cultural symbol of national significance. It is a spiritual symbol like the consecration of Holy Easter, a patriotic symbol like Victory Day; and finally for a great many Russians it symbolizes spring, hope and renewal.
This immense Russian musical forum attracts tens of thousands of listeners each year. The Festival, which is meant to reach the widest possible audience, offers programmes that range from classical masterpieces to rarely heard works–all of them performed by the finest artists of the day. Nevertheless, this Easter forum continues its policy of offering tickets at affordable prices and giving a large series of charitable concerts.
From its very inception in 2002 as the brainchild of Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre, and Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, the Easter Festival immediately won the hearts of the public and the critics. The First Easter Festival had both support from the Moscow City Government and also the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. The accolades it received soon determined its future: it was to be an annual event. In 2003 with the support of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, it was granted nationwide status.
The Moscow Easter Festival holds a distinguished position among such western European Easter musical forums as those in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Lucerne, and London.
The Festival has become the annual culmination of the musical season in the capital and all across Russia as it presents a series of 150 events during two to three weeks.
From the very beginning the Moscow Easter Festival was set apart from others by its social priorities–charity, education and enlightenment–that are advanced in each of the four main Festival categories: the symphonic, chamber, and choral programmes as well as Bells Week.
Through the years the Moscow Easter Festival has been host to several thousand artists from all over the world, among them both world-class stars and promising young artists. The Festival's concerts have been graced by such fine vocalists as Anna Netrebko, Olga Borodina, Natalie Dessay, Vladimir Galouzine, Bryn Terfel, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Ildar Abdrazakov. There have been violinists such as Vadim Repin, Viktoria Mullova, Nikolaj Zneider, and Leonidas Kavakos; violist Yuri Bashmet; cellists such as Mischa Maisky, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, and Sergei Roldugin; pianists Denis Matsuev, Mikhail Pletnev, Lang Lang, Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Toradze, and Yefim Bronfman along with many, many more.
The symphonic programme, which began as a series of concerts in Moscow, has now reached more than 30 cities in Russia and surrounding countries.
The choral programme started in 2002 with concerts in Moscow by 7 choirs, but in the very next year choral performances were heard in 6 cities. In each subsequent season the programme covered more and more territory. Through the generous cooperation of the Russian Orthodox Church, for the first time in history it became possible to give concerts of liturgical choral music in active places of worship. Choral groups from countries near and far are another important part of the choral programme.
From the very first days of the Festival, a broad segment of the public was drawn to the art of Easter bell ringing as the best Russian practitioners of it came each year to Moscow for the Bells Week programme. In 2002 for the first time since 1917 a garland of bells was recreated in the historical centre of Moscow with the bells ringing out from one church to another.
As part of the chamber programme in 2003 the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre directed by Larisa Gergieva performed in 7 cities. Artists from the Academy have now travelled all across the country.
The Festival's charitable concerts in municipal hospitals, veterans' and children's institutions, and children's music schools give those who might be unable to go to a concert hall the opportunity to hear fine musical programmes. Each season there is also a free concert for students and faculty at Moscow State University.
A constant feature in every Easter Festival is the free concert at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on Victory Day which draws about 300,000 listeners each year.


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Matt's life was reflected on in song, scripture and word as coaches, teammates, family and Lipscomb faculty trumpeted the powerful impact the heralded athlete left on the campus.
During the hour-long service, Lipscomb announced that the Matthew Richard Deery Memorial Scholarship has been established and will be awarded annually to the track and field team member that most exemplifies Matt's spirit. A Princeton American elm tree has also been planted in his honor on campus.
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In a surprise move, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy the Washington Post and other properties for $250 million.
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Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of Washington Post Co., said the board of directors decided to sell the company's newspaper publishing business "only after years of familiar newspaper-industry challenges made us wonder if there might be another owner who would be better for the Post."
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Slate magazine, TheRoot.com and Foreign Policy are not part of the transaction and will remain with Washington Post Co., as will the WaPo Labs and SocialCode businesses, the company's interest in Classified Ventures and certain real estate assets, including the headquarters building in downtown Washington.
Washington Post Co., which also owns Kaplan, Post-Newsweek Stations and Cable ONE, will be changing its name in connection with the transaction; no new name has yet been announced.
The deal is expected to close later this year.
The Washington Post began publishing Thursday, Dec. 6, 1877, when the newspaper contained four pages and cost 3 cents a copy.
The Post is the third major news publication to be sold in as many days. Over the weekend, Red Sox owner John Henry bought the Boston Globe for $70 million. And Newsweek announced it had sold itself to digital news company IBT Media for an undisclosed amount.
In a letter to employees, Bezos reiterated that "the values of the Post do not need changing."
"The paper's duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners," he said. "We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, and we'll work hard not to make mistakes. When we do, we will own up to them quickly and completely."
As of March 31, the Post had an average total circulation of 474,767, making it the seventh-largest daily newspaper in the U.S., according to the Alliance for Audited Media. That was down 6.5% from a year earlier.
The deal was announced after the markets closed. In after-hours trading, shares jumped 4.4% to $593.95 as of 2 p.m. PDT. During regular trading, shares rose $8.75, or 1.6%, to $568.70.
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April 15th in history:
The ocean liner Titanic hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage, and sank in the North Atlantic on April 15th, 1912. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 people aboard the ship died in the disaster. The wreckage remained undiscovered until 1985, when undersea explorer Robert Ballard and others came upon the remains of Titanic, more than two miles below the ocean surface. Ballard was working for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution based in Massachusetts.
April 15th of 2013 was Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, the day of the annual Boston Marathon. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Marathon, killing three persons and injuring more than 200 others. The attack led to a week-long manhunt, as police closed in on two brothers suspected of planting the bombs. One was killed by officers, while the other was discovered hiding inside a boat kept outside a house.
When Patriots' Day falls on April 15th, Massachusetts residents do not have to file their federal income tax returns on that day. This is the tax deadline day for most Americans, and has been since 1955. Before that year, taxes were due in March.
Actress Elizabeth Montgomery made her movie debut in 1955, in "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell." Montgomery was born on this date in 1933, and is best known for her TV role as suburban witch Samantha Stephens on "Bewitched."
This is also the birthday of another actress known for playing a character with special powers…Emma Watson (born 1990), who portrayed Hermione in the "Harry Potter" movies. Watson played herself in the apocalyptic comedy "This Is the End," written and directed by actor Seth Rogen, born April 15th, 1982. Rogen is also known for the movies "Knocked Up" and "Superbad" and the TV series "Freaks and Geeks."


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"I have read the biography of Judge Tuttle, written by one of his former law clerks . . . and I commend it to everybody in the room to learn about what kind of a judge Elbert Tuttle was. He was really a surprisingly fine judge."
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No doubt most, if not all, of you here have been following the debt-ceiling all-in brawl (I can't think of anything else to describe it) going on in Washington. We've got politicians of all stripes posturing, screaming, saying things that have outraged one side or the other. It's pretty much a big-league game of chicken, even with a deal having been reached last night.
There's been so much said about it from the usual suspects, but hardly a peep, it seems, from the man and woman in the street - the ones who, as usual, will bear the brunt of whatever deal comes down the pipe. What will it take to get the people rising up, taking to the streets and demanding that changes be made and those who REALLY are responsible be held to account for what's been going on, even way before this current crisis?
My good friend David 2, co-host of ShockNet Radio's American Heathen (8 ET/5 PT Fridays) and host of BRUTALLY HONEST (7 ET/4 PT Saturdays), has an idea about what perhaps SHOULD happen. It may sound extreme, he admits, but maybe it's about the only thing that would wake up the masses: http://brutallyhonestcolumn.blogspot.com/2011/08/week-of-08012011.html
As always, your thoughts and opinions are more than welcome, either here or on David's page. I'll be forwarding the comments made here to David, and he does appreciate you reading his commentaries.
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Yes the deal arrived and it contains deeper cuts, but also no new taxes. Don't get me wrong, I don't want any new taxes either, but collection of taxes that are already on the books would be nice. It's time for the multi-billion dollar corporations to pay their share instead of just the working class.
The corporate tax credits that were put in place years ago to "stimulate" the economy and then never rescinded have got to go. All they have done is make for larger profit margins for the corporations and their stockholders without "trickling down" to the working class who bear the brunt of the tax paying duties.
Another fine example of this corporate welfare state has arisen right here in Pennsylvania over the last year or two. Drilling companies have been moving into the state to drill for natural gas from the Marcellus shale deposits found mostly in the western and central parts of the state. You would think "great, that's a lot more revenue dumping into the Pennsylvania state coffers", but sadly that isn't the case. Newly elected governor Tom Corbett promised to veto any budget bill that contained taxing revenue from this drilling. Needless to say, the new budget recently passed did not contain any taxes related to the Marcellus well drilling, but it did contain some healthy cuts to education. Schools and universities throughout the state have had to raise tuition and make cuts to staff and programs for the coming year.
Anyone want to guess who was a major campaign contributor to the newly elected governor?
With the ever increasing gap between upper and middle class, it seems the wise decision to me would be to move some of the taxes from the middle class to the upper class, generating a huge wealth from the upper class, and alleviating some of the strain that's destroying the middle class.
Provided of course the loop-holes the upper class uses to evade taxes are eliminated.
I know if I were in the top 2%, I'd have little issue with being taxed. I'd consider it a civic duty really. To me it's a matter of loyalty to the nation.
I think the economy is doing just fine. I bought 2 pieces of ham steak at the grocery for about 5.00. A few potatoes and some corn. Fed my family of four for 10.00. A man in front of me bought some steak, a case of soda, a few other items and paid it with his food stamps. Last week I took my family to Olive Garden. I was told there was a 35 minute wait to get a table. We left and went to Cracker Barrel. Guess what? The wait was only 25 minutes. I can go on and on. What am I missing? You're going to save the economy by cutting spending and adjusting the debt ceiling? Please be honest.
Let me tell you my secret about the economy. I get up in the morning and look at the DJIA. If the Dow Jones is above 12,000, I go to Starbucks, life is good. If it is under 7,000, I go to McDonalds and get the senior coffee, life is not so good. Everything else is my doing. By the way, today was a very good day.
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VIENNA — The objective is two-pronged, like a tuning fork. The three brothers will write songs. The accompanying journalist will write about them writing songs. But how does this process begin, exactly?
It's unclear how the Moreno brothers will embark on this 10-day creative adventure, this lengthy overseas road trip. The sites are laid open, three of the most picturesque and artistically enriching cities in the world to serve as songwriting inspiration: Vienna, Florence and Venice.
The expectation is that Stratosphere headliner Frankie Moreno, who is working vigorously on a self-titled album, will gather his brothers Tony (who plays bass) and Ricky (who plays no instrument but is inherently playful) and get to work. But it doesn't work that way. Not quite. We have been in Vienna for a little more than a day, and the creative process is, to be blunt, flatlining. Ricky, at the moment the most energetic of the group, suggests doing some late-night sightseeing. So, we venture out from the Grand Hotel Wien to the intertwining streets of Stephenplatz, the cultural hub of Vienna.
Vienna is an ominous city, imposing in every way. Even sunny afternoons are not so bright, the light blocked by towering, ornately designed structures, and tonight is particularly dreary. A bracing breeze cuts through the heart of the city, and a drizzle stops and starts.
As if shaken back to consciousness, the brothers begin ping-ponging an idea for a song that has been in their stack of concepts. The title is "Angel Town," the theme revolving loosely around the concept of geographical relocation. In this case, the destination is LA, City of Angels.
"It's the lure of a new place, a new city, how seductive that can be," Frankie says, then starts calling out, "Hey kid, I can make you a star, I see you can play the guitar."
"Let's talk about this," Tony says. "Bang-boom-boom. 'Sign on the dotted line.' We'll do the chord pattern later. Let's get the rhyme scheme down."
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- Frankie Moreno
- Wed-Sat, 8 p.m., $20-$40
- Stratosphere, 800-998-6937
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The pace quickens, and the temperature—at least creatively—rises. We cut back to Grand Hotel Wien, to a lounge overlooking the street. The windows are wet with rain, and candles are set on small, round tables to give the room a needed sense of warmth. The half-dozen patrons, all speaking German, turn their gazes toward the trio of excited visiting songwriters.
"It's an attack song, like Michael Buble doing a Temptations song," Ricky says, then sings, "Everybody wants to be a star, you can kill the air in this funky bar."
"Actors, agents, sell their soul to pay the debt," Frankie sings, then asks. "Should it be the debt? Or your debt?" This leads to a protracted conversation about the difference between "the" and "your." "The" wins out, because it's slightly easier to sing.
The bar is about to close, and an implied deadline emerges: Finish "Angel Town" before the stroke of midnight.
"Everybody wants to be a star, while the devil makes his way though Angel Town," Frankie sings. Ricky punches lyrics into his omnipresent iPhone, and at 11:46, a version of the song is finished—40 minutes after the conversation began in Stephenplatz. "One down," Frankie says, chuckling.
"Angel Town" will appear on Frankie's new CD, set for release by the end of the month. The Morenos have uncorked the first song of this trek. They made it look easy.
The Moreno brothers have been making overseas trips to write songs for the past six years—a highlight reel of these sojourns, produced by Ricky, plays at the midpoint of Frankie's show at the Stratosphere. But this trip, planned by Ricky and funded by Moreno family friend and investor in Frankie's career Peggy Ann Armstrong (who co-owns a nightclub near Houston) is different. People are paying attention. Frankie and his burning 10-piece band are finishing work on Frankie Moreno, an album being co-produced and mixed by guitar great Pat Thrall at the Studio at the Palms. The disc will be out by the end of August, and at least four of the songs planned for the upcoming independent release were written on this trip, which took place in late April.
Frankie is the frontman of what might be the hottest show in town at the moment. After spending a decade playing various lounges all over Vegas, he signed a two-year contract with the Stratosphere in November. In June, that contract was extended another two years. Thus, the hotel and performer are contractually bound until 2015. The Stratosphere is investing totally (and lavishly) in Frankie, an investment in entertainment increasingly rare in today's Las Vegas. Headliners around town are paying attention, watching eagerly to see if the Moreno model can be duplicated elsewhere on the Strip.
Though he seems to have arrived suddenly, Frankie has enjoyed a long and prosperous career as a singer, songwriter and musician since he appeared on Star Search at age 10. Singing and playing the Jerry Lee Lewis classic "Great Balls of Fire," Frankie lost in his appearance on the TV show, in its Junior Division competition, to the still-active performer Lance Callahan. Despite the loss, Frankie's appearance on the nationally syndicated series led to regular gigs at county fairs and on cruise ships, and Frankie, now 35, has worked solely in the entertainment industry ever since.
"Just a Memory"
For Frankie Moreno, the career path always leads to Vienna. It's his favorite city (the vanity plates on his black BMW read "VIENNA"), and it's easy to understand why. Some of history's most prominent and influential composers made Vienna their home. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss and Haydn all lived in the city, and Beethoven moved 67 times during his 35-year Vienna residence (leading to our comic and futile search for any of his authentic homes).
One day during the early Vienna segment of the trip, we visit the home of Mozart, known as Mozarthaus, where he lived from 1784-1787. It is the great composer's only surviving residence in the city, the place where he wrote his most famous operas and his Requiem. On the second floor, Frankie pushes his face close to a window facing the narrow row of dwellings that lead to the house and says, "This is what Mozart looked at when he was composing. I can't believe we are here."
We visit three homes professing to have been occupied by Beethoven, but at some point during each tour, a plaque or proprietor informs us, "This might not have actually been Beethoven's home, but he lived in one similar to it near here." Later, we find a genuine Beethoven artifact at the museum Haus der Musik, a piano displayed behind velvet ropes with keys protected by a long slab of Plexiglas. As a legion of school kids make its way past us, Ricky lifts the lid on the instrument, and Frankie plays a swift melody across the aged keys.
Ricky records the two-second tune on his iPhone's Voice Memo app, and the urgency to write has suddenly returned. We trudge several blocks to a second-story café looking out toward St. Stephen's Cathedral. Ricky plays back the tune, and in its embryonic form, it reminds of the first two notes in the theme for Jeopardy—a thought that dissipates as the brothers begin nurturing the song.
The brothers hum the melody, adding notes and creating lyrics as they glance across the table at one another. "A gentle touch little smile, once made everything okay," Frankie sings. "Now not so, much it's been a while, since we've been on the same page," Ricky sings back.
It's becoming clear that Ricky, whose contribution to his brothers' show is to be tossed offstage while claiming he writes all the songs, is invaluable to the creative process. He has a very good singing voice, and Frankie has tried unsuccessfully to persuade his 23-year-old sibling to learn an instrument and join the band for real. But as the songs blossom, Ricky is as immersed in their development as either brother, in this case asking, "Should this be a song about loss? About a broken heart? It sounds like that to me."
The group decides to move. We pick up bags of plums and nuts at a market near the hotel, then cab it over to Stadtpark, Vienna's city park, where Mozart was known to have composed when he sought inspiration from the region's rich botanical trappings. Tony produces the guitar he lugs everywhere during these songwriting junkets, a Little Martin that's three-fourths the size of a full acoustic.
"A goodnight kiss, before we'd dream, seems so ordinary now," Frankie starts, following Tony's guitar lead. The instrument's neck is slightly warped and requires continual tuning, but it's carrying this song to fruition. "Remember when, it used to be something we couldn't live without."
"It's a broken heart song," Frankie says. "Everyone has had their heart broken." The song is, "Just a Memory," featuring the melancholy line, "If I could hold you one more time, I'd never let you go."
Moreno has been a familiar presence in Las Vegas since the Venetian opened in 1999, where he was the first artist to play La Scena Lounge. He was living in Nashville at the time, having worked as a staff songwriter for a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records (Ty Herndon, Alan Jackson and Alabama are among those who have recorded Frankie-authored songs). He'd also performed with country artist Deborah Allen, worked as a session musician, started his own small recording label (Primo Records), and toured with country artist Billy Currington.
In the late '90s, playing a lounge at the Venetian was a lucrative lifestyle. Frankie and his band were paid $10,000 a week—a fairy-tale sum that even those who play showrooms today don't command. And so, eyes dancing with dollar signs, Frankie moved his family to Vegas in 2001. Tony joined the band (looking a lot more mature than 14 years), and the Morenos' father, Frank, played guitar while Uncle Joe played sax. Frankie became so busy that, at one point, he was playing 11 four-hour sets each week around town, working himself into a form of artistic insanity.
At various times, he could be found at the Hilton's Shimmer Cabaret, Sinbad's Lounge at the Aladdin, Brendan's Irish Pub at the Orleans, the Courtyard at House of Blues and Crazy Armadillo bar at Stratosphere. He became acutely self-destructive, playing the crudest songs in his repertoire and insulting fellow headliners and resort officials—anything to get fired and lessen the burden on his schedule.
In one infamous episode several years ago, execs at Green Valley Ranch warned Moreno not to play a notoriously profane song about cyber-sex at an outdoor gig. The band started the song anyway, and a security officer yanked the power cord from the electrical generator—literally pulling the plug on the band.
"I was just overworked, totally overworked," recalls Frankie, who remarkably survived that period of his career. "It was crazy. I just didn't care."
"I Think About You"
After three days in Vienna, it's time for a change in scenery—and cuisine. There's a theory that the residents of Vienna seem downtrodden because they were raised on schnitzel. (That might just be my own theory, but it's a theory nonetheless.)
We fly to Florence, where the group's caloric intake reaches farcical proportions. We start to employ unhealthy reasoning: "We have not eaten since that double-scoop of pistachio gelato an hour ago." Or, "We'd better get to some pasta, fast, to get that tiramisu taste out of our mouths."
In Florence we also meet Las Vegas-based photographer Denise Truscello, traveling separately. Truscello found the idea of shooting this leg of the trip more appealing than photographing red-carpet nightclub arrivals in Vegas. We spot her in the Duomo, the Florence Cathedral, and it is again drizzling. So we sword fight with umbrellas as Truscello happily snaps away.
The brothers take up their suite in a boutique hotel just off the square, and the guitar comes out. The improvised melody feels slightly twangy. A little hillbilly. "Is it too country?" Frankie asks. "How's it sound? We want it to be conversational."
The brothers all sit up and start poking again at their iPhones. Lyrics materialize, "Every night before I shut my eyes to fall asleep, I think about you." A line that sounds far better than it reads is added: "Every morning when I make myself something to eat, I think about you."
The song is revisited later, during one of our frequent pasta dinners, and finished off as the three Morenos sit on a concrete bench near Palazzo Veccio. Ricky finds a quick rhyme: "I hear your name and get excited. Sometime it's too hard to fight it."
It's a funny place to knock out a song that's a little bit country, but "I Think About You" is soon complete, another entry in the Frankie Moreno collection.
In 2006, a gig opened for Moreno at the Golden Nugget's Rush Lounge. For those who saw Moreno and his then-four-piece play that lounge, the booking on its surface made little sense. Moreno was an established singer-songwriter performing his own original material almost exclusively. But hotel owner Tillman Fertitta was a fan and came up with an offer too enticing to refuse.
Moreno played Rush Lounge for five years, during which time he and his band worked as the studio and touring band for Air Supply. He wrote five songs on the band's most recent album, Mumbo Jumbo, including the song, "Dance With Me," which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, one of the many songs for which he is still receiving songwriting royalties.
Between tours, Moreno and his band still played the Golden Nugget lounge, up to four nights a week. And one night more than three years ago, members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic told renowned violinist Joshua Bell about a great piano player and singer/songwriter playing the Downtown casino. Bell came, and he and Moreno talked during a break in one of Moreno's runaway, four-hour sets. Bell invited Moreno to perform on his upcoming At Home With Friends disc, the two teaming up on "Eleanor Rigby," which reached No. 1 on both Billboard's Classical and Classical Crossover music charts.
From there, more opportunities opened up. Moreno moved to the Lounge at the Palms for two months (he also played occasionally at Ravello Lounge at M Resort, Mizuya Lounge at Mandalay Bay, Mandarin Oriental's Mandarin Bar and Garfield's in Summerlin) before Stratosphere officials, eager to remake the hotel's image into a hipper, more contemporary resort destination, started showing up at the Palms.
Moreno remembers the days when he masked the fact that he was playing originals, saying, "This song is by Matchbox Twenty," before playing one of his own tracks. But that's no longer the case. The Stratosphere show is heavy with original songs, and rare is the audience member who leaves saying, "I wish he'd played 'Superstition.'"
"Missin' You"
A train ride to Venice is in the offing, a morning trip that seems only to be that—and a chance to catch up on sleep. The brothers fall in line, occupying aisle seats. During the ride, Frankie returns to a line he's used earlier in the trip—"I'm missing Mozart." Maybe it's a song title, maybe just a joke, but it's suggested that "Mozart" could be changed to "baby," as in, "I'm missing you, baby."
Or, "darling."
"It's a great word," Tony argues.
"It's too Beatles," Frankie answers. "We can't be The Beatles."
Frankie wards against being too commercial. "It sounds familiar, like you've heard it before, but it is original," Frankie explains. It's an innate gift, to write a song that feels as if you've heard it before, but is entirely original. Moreno has written dozens of such songs. His show at the Stratosphere is filled with them.
For this song, the "missing" theme survives, with Tony suggesting a thumping bass line that brings to mind Motown classics. "Da, da-da-da, da-da," he sings. "Now you're gone, gone baby gone," Frankie adds, "baby" in, Mozart out.
"Memories keep hanging on," Ricky says. "I hear your name … in every song," Tony answers. With the three speak-singing lyrics to each other, passengers nearby crane their necks to hear what is being created in this suddenly enlivened train car. Frankie snaps his fingers, then plays an air trumpet, "ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da. That's it!" Later he says, "You have to imagine the horns in this song. Big horns. I really like it."
He likes it so much that for much of the afternoon and deep into the night, he and his brothers play the song repeatedly as Truscello records video and takes photos of their mini-performances. Soon, we've booked an unexpected overnight stay in Venice, with Truscello recording multiple renditions of the song.
"And now you're gone, gone baby gone!" Moreno sings, repeatedly, working out the song as Tony plays the Little Martin. The sun sets, most of the tourists scurry away and the tide washes into the city. Many of the walkways are now immersed in several inches of water. So is our hotel lobby. You can hear the "squish-squish" of galoshes worn by hotel execs as they splash along the cramped sidewalks and hallways.
The city of Venice is far less celebratory at night than during the day. You sense, during the day, a far healthier appetite for an American singer to test an under-development song than there is after sunset. At night, the audience largely comprises residents of Venice, and most of them are trying to get to sleep. But Moreno sings, anyway, "Now you're gone, gone baby gone!" in alleys and on the bridges built across the city's innumerable interlocking canals.
We walk to one of these bridges, and at its apex the brothers stop once more. Ricky opens the song with the unintentionally ironic lyrics, "Late at night, when the world's at peace, I lie awake and think about you! I hear your voice, talkin' in my sleep. Don't wanna wake up, here without you!"
Then Frankie, blasting, "And now you're gone, gone baby gone! The memories keep hangin' on! I hear your name in every song! I'm still missin' you!"
A woman several stories up leans from her open window, peering down like a hawk at the source of disruption. She's either peeved or pleased, and just when it seems she's about to toss a bucket of water or a rolling pin on the performance, the song ends. The woman claps, then waves—an appreciative reception for "Missin' You."
Waiting to enter Accademia in Florence, where we are minutes from viewing Michelangelo's "David," Tony produces the Little Martin again and plays a tune the brothers have tabled for a few months.
"Clouds are spelling out your name … the wind is like your perfume." Frankie sings, thinking aloud. "The wind carries your name, and it lingers …
"Not 'lingers,'" Tony snaps. "That's so 10 years ago. That's so Cranberries."
The exchange is suspended for the walk through the cathedral, and if you have not seen "David"—the genuine Michelangelo masterpiece, not the statue at Caesars Palace—you must. To see this work for the first time is to understand whence the term "breathtaking" originated. You are swept up in that feeling the first time you walk into the Duomo, or approach Venice's Grand Canal.
We are the last group of the day to leave the Duomo, and as we walk back to the square and take a table at an outdoor café, the lyrical debate resumes.
"It's an invisible love," Ricky says as cannolis and espresso are delivered. "Across the cold and lonely sky. You're not able to let go."
Both brothers are reading lyrics and singing into their phones as if they are microphones.
"Drifting, further, hiding all my empty love," Frankie sings. "Waiting, wishing, for a sign from up above." The brothers discuss how to insert words that evoke power and pace and debate the value of "take" or "get."
Frankie sings the line, "There's nothing left to say," twice, which ends the song. "I hear a piano, cello and violin," Tony says, removing his own instrument from the arrangement.
"Mine" is the song, featuring the lyric favored by Ricky, "Chasing sunlight 'cross a cold and lonely sky. Searching, hoping, but I can't find that goodbye."
The street performers in each city are legendarily skillful. We happened upon amazing opera singers and classical musicians in Florence, peerless performance artists in Venice's St. Mark's Square and even an interpretative dancer dressed as a king, moving to music from a portable CD player. In Vienna, at an intersection near Grand Hotel Wien, we're drawn to a large group of pedestrians watching a distinctive Russian folk act called Artlang Trio. The instrumentation consists of an accordion and two antiquated stringed devices, including an oversize, triangle-shaped three-string guitar called a balalaika.
We gaze at the group, transfixed by this authentic Russian folk music. Passers-by dump Euros into a little wicker basket set in front of a case of CDs for sale at 10 Euros apiece.
The group is small, hardly a Strip headlining act, and the instruments aren't amplified in any way.
But there is power in the music.
Frankie Moreno, who traveled halfway across the globe to be right here, right now, stares at the performance and says only, "This is great."
There is a light in his face. He's thinking of something, clearly. Probably a song.