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Debussy's Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone Revisited

Nearly two years behind schedule and working late into the summer nights of 1903, Claude Debussy had only the oppressive heat to keep him company as Elise Hall, the lady from Boston, anxiously inquired about the status of her commission for et saxophone oblig?; all the while his first wife, Lilly, waited for him to join her for vacation in the countryside of Bichain. These circumstances, initially irksome and exasperating, became the perfect catalyst for a struggling composer who hadn't written a note of music in nearly a year. By August, the orchestral sketch of arabe, one of Debussy's most exotic and adventurous compositions, was complete. However, despite having been paid his fee on the commission from Hall in 1901 and from publisher Jacques Durand in 1903, Debussy inexplicably chose to retain the score of Rapsodie until his death in March 1918. After the composer's death, Debussy's second wife, Emma (nee Bardac), entrusted this manuscript, now entitled Esquisse d'une 'Rhapsodie Mauresque' pour orchestre et saxophone principal, to the com poser's close friend, Jean Roger-Ducasse, an experienced orchestrator and music editor who worked during the spring and summer months of 1918 to extract a solo saxophone part, a piano reduction, and a full orchestral score. Debussy's original and specific orchestration is the basis for this realization, with slight modifications made in strict accordance with his compositional techniques. After Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone was published by Durand and premiered in Paris in 1919, the holograph sketch was finally sent to Elise Hall. The following investi gation is a detailed account of this greatly misunderstood chapter of Debussy's life.

Megiddo's Shadow (review)

Reviewed by: Megiddo's Shadow Elizabeth Bush Slade, Arthur Megiddo's Shadow. Lamb, 2006 [304p] Library ed. ISBN 0-385-90945-4$17.99 Trade ed. ISBN 0-385-74701-2$15.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 6-10 News of his brother's death on a World War I European battlefield sends underage Edward Bathe off to lie his way into the army. The Canadian teen is promptly shipped off for training in England, where a friend of the family manipulates his orders to get Edward assigned to breaking horses, even through he aches to be at the front slaughtering Huns to avenge his brother. Edward is destined to see plenty of action, though; separated from his comrades and his nurse sweetheart, he's eventually reassigned to the cavalry and sent not to Europe but to Palestine, where he takes part in action against the Turks and witnesses atrocities on both sides that disabuse him of any lingering notion of the glory of war or the righteousness of revenge. This is a standard plot that has been altered many times to fit the war in question, but Slade does it justice with patient pacing that maximizes Edward's growing anger over being hobbled in his personal mission, near-palpable descriptions of the oppressive heat and filth of his ultimate assignment, and the contrast between Edward's eagerness for battle and his all too believable cowardice when it comes to facing a stricken comrade during his recovery. Readers in search of a rousing World War I story, but not quite ready for the irony and despair of Spillebeen's superb Kipling's Choice (BCCB 7/05), should be thoroughly engrossed. Copyright © 2006 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

No Refuge for the Ailing

The still, oppressive heat of the afternoon seems to magnify the queue of waiting patients. A young woman separates herself from the crowd.“Excuse me, Doctor, how long will you be?”I answer with a flicker of annoyance, “I am not sure, but I will see you.”An hour later, it is her turn. She looks far too well, I silently judge. The well worried. She springs from her seat at the sound of her name but moves away from me toward the stairs. There, she utters a rapid command in a foreign tongue before turning apologetically toward me. Before . . .

Health and the Environment after Hurricane Katrina

Health and the Environment after Hurricane Katrina

Human Thermal Climates in China

The clo index, which indicates the amount of clothing required to maintain comfort, is used to evaluate the human thermal climates in China. Daily clo values for 200 stations were computed using daily air temperature, wind speed, and cloud-cover data from 1960 to 1998, and they were reduced and grouped into seasonal values. In winter, the roughly zonal pattern of thermal stress reflects the influence of latitude. In summer, the spatial pattern becomes more meridional. In eastern China, seasonal monsoon and maritime effects are crucial factors determining spatial variations of physioclimates. In western China, altitude and local topography play an important role in shaping the bioclimatic patterns. For the regional patterns of severe thermal stress, during the winter months, the northeast and northwest experience the highest percent of stressful time. In summer, the most oppressive heat stress is located in areas east of the Sichuan Basin and south of Huaihe River.

The White Establishment and the Character of Change

In Spike Lee's 1989 movie, Do the Right Thing, an argument between the white owner of a pizzeria and a black customer who refuses to turn down his music escalates into racial name-calling and a brawl, followed by an over-zealous police response and, finally, a riot. Emotions run high, cultures clash and the right thing whatever that may be in the context of the movie is abandoned in a conflagration of rage and frustration. The scene is set in the oppressive heat of a summer night in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, New York, but the greater sense of oppression that pervades the movie emanates from the historical American reality: With regard to race relations, even when Americans know what the right thing is, they have frequently failed to do it. Each successive American generation is born into an inheritance of racial inequality. Each must grapple with the American dilemma,' and none leaves the racial culture unaltered. Yet real change in the personal and power

Year in Nam: a Native American soldier's story

In 1968 Leroy TeCube left his home on the Jicarilla Apache reservation to serve as an infantryman in Vietnam. Year in Nam is his story of that long, terrifying, and numbing year of combat, one that profoundly affected the men in TeCube's platoon and tested the strength of his own Native American heritage. Tecube was a respected point man and leader of his platoon. His memoir provides an intimate glimpse of the daily lives of infantrymen - the monotony of camp, the oppressive heat, the deceptively dull routine of patrols, the brief but furious eruptions of combat, the forging of platoon squads on the crucible of trust, a pervasive sadness and indifference, and a growing acceptance of the imminence of death. Particularly powerful are Tecube's observations and experiences from the perspective of a Native American soldier. Many aspects of TeCube's cultural heritage - his traditional religious beliefs, the farewell blessing from an Apache medicine man, the memory of special powwow dances held back home for soldiers - were a source of strength to him. Leroy TeCube works in the Environmental Protection Office of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe.

Frances Wright: First Female Civic Rhetor in America

unday, July 13, 1828, a day of Ohio Valley summer, with oppressive heat and humidity.1 Outside the brick Federalist-style Court House in Cincinnati, Ohio, a group of amazed citizens swirled, some seeking entrance, some there merely to gawk. Inside, the building was about half full; over two hundred men and a few women waited, murmuring about the extraordinary sight they had been promised. A woman was going to lecture, to a mixed audience of men and women, on a secular subject! She was known to some as a popular travel writer, to others as the founder of a notorious experimental community. Some of the audience members were excited, some were merely curious-but a large number were ready to sneer, jeer, and hiss. This woman, famous though she might be, was by her behavior offending some of their most dearly held ideals about the proper conduct of womanhood. At exactly seven o'clock, the crowd's babbling hushed as a tall figure in white made her way up the aisle to the platform. Frances Wright was thirty-three years old. She was unusually tall for a woman of time, over five feet ten inches, and was dressed in a white muslin gown simply cut in the neo-Grecian style was becoming popular. She wore no head covering and her dark hair was simply arranged, falling in natural ringlets. She stood for a moment facing her audience, which could see she held a small paper book with her lecture in it. She was, then, perhaps merely going to read without looking up. That would not be so bad. She might yet be ladylike. Frances Wright lowered her face for a moment, took a breath, and looked out at the sea of friendly and unfriendly faces. Who among us, she began, not glancing at the book she held, that hath cast even an occasional and slightly observant glance on the face of society, but must have

WHCLIS FOCUS: POLITICS AND PRODUCTIVITY

From July 9–13 in the oppressive heat and humidity of a Washington summer, more than 700 delegates and close to 300 alternates from all over the United States met in Washington for the Second White House Conference on Library and Information Services. They filled the quotas set by law—25 percent from the profession, 25 percent from the general public, 25 percent from government, and 25 percent from library supporters. Delegates at‐large offset any imbalance in representation. Occasionally, honorary delegates—like Members of Congress with an interest in libraries—were also seen in the corridors where a good deal of the negotiations were conducted.

The Boundaries of Mansfield Park

Research Article| July 01 1984 The Boundaries of Mansfield Park Ruth Bernard Yeazell Ruth Bernard Yeazell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 7: 133–152. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928460 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ruth Bernard Yeazell; The Boundaries of Mansfield Park. Representations 1 July 1984; 7 133–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2928460 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRepresentations Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1984 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

International Committee's action in the Yemen

There has been a recent intensification of military operations in various parts of the Yemen where the civil war continues between the Republican Government of Sanaa and the Imam El Badr, entrenched in the mountains which are difficult of access. This situation accentuates the importance of the task assumed by the International Committee of the Red Cross whose medical personnel sent to the spot is caring for the largest possible number of victims. Conditions of work, in view of the seasonal oppressive heat, are extremely hard, but the ICRC delegates are none the less continuing their mission of which the present events demonstrate the absolute necessity.