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Classical music: This Saturday night brings both the Escher String Quartet to the Wisconsin Union Theater and the UW-Madison Choral Union and UW Symphony Orchestra to the Hamel Music Center
CORRECTION: The Ear received the following correction to the story he posted yesterday about the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and apologizes for the error:
"There was a change to our rollout in Brookfield. We are only repeating the fifth Masterworks concert on Saturday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts. We are NOT repeating this Friday's concert in Brookfield.
"We will perform a Family Series concert of "Beethoven Lives Next Door" on Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m. at the same Brookfield venue."
The upcoming weekend is a busy one for classical music.
The busiest night is Saturday night when two major concerts will take place: a performance by the Escher String Quartet and the postponed concert by the UW Choral Union and UW Symphony Orchestra with soloists.
Here are details:
ESCHER STRING QUARTET and DAVID FINCKEL
The concert by the Escher String Quartet (below) with cellist David Finckel (below bottom. formerly of the critically acclaimed Emerson String Quartet) takes place on this Saturday night, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Shannon Hall of the Wisconsin Union Theater.
The performance is part of the special season celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Concert Series.
The program includes the sublime Quintet in C Major, D. 956, with two cellos, by Franz Schubert and the String Quartet in A minor by the great early 20th-century Viennese violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler (below).
Tickets are $30-$50. For more information and to reserve tickets, go to: https://artsticketing.wisc.edu/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=CFC3765F-5F1D-4663-BCA0-985BE3049CF5
For more information about the Escher String Quartet, including a video performance and detailed background, go to: https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/escher-string-quartet-with-david-finckel/
UW CHORAL UNION
Also on this Saturday night at 8 p.m., in the Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall in the new Hamel Music Center at 740 University Avenue, the UW Choral Union and UW Symphony Orchestra (below top), along with two vocal soloists – soprano Chelsie Propst (below middle) and baritone James Harrington (below bottom) — will perform a concert originally scheduled for Dec. 7 and then postponed.
The program, without intermission, is one 80-minute work: the epic and influential "A Sea Symphony" by the great 20th-century British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (below).
General admission tickets are $18 for the general public and faculty or staff; and $10 for UW students. To reserve tickets, go to Campus Arts Ticketing at: https://artsticketing.wisc.edu/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=412623A4-4FB9-40D6-BC23-A425360713EA
Beverly Taylor (below), the longtime director of choral activities at the UW who will retire this spring, sent the following note:
"The text by American poet Walt Whitman presents four symphonic scenes of great breadth and imagination, with lush harmonies and constantly varying tempos and dynamics." (You can hear the Waves section, or third movement, from "A Sea Symphony" in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
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Classical music: The successful centennial celebration of the Concert Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater continues this Friday night with a concert by the Kalichstein, Laredo and Robinson piano trio
This season marks the centennial of the Concert Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater (below are photos of the Memorial Union and Shannon Hall).
And so far, so good.
The anniversary features a variety of genres, and both individuals and ensembles, during the season-long event. Plus, many of the performers are returning to what The Ear calls "The Carnegie Hall of Madison."
The anniversary started with a sold-out performance of the a cappella singing group Chanticleer and continued with a close to sold-out house for pianist Emanuel Ax in an all-Beethoven recital.
The first semester winds up this Friday night, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. with the acclaimed piano trio of pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson (below).
The trio will be returning to Shannon Hall for the third time, this time as part of the new David and Kato Perlman Chamber Music Series.
The program features both the familiar and the unfamiliar.
It starts with the rarely heard Canonic Etudes by Robert Schumann. Then it continues with two of the most popular piano trios in the repertoire: the Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor by Felix Mendelssohn and the "Archduke" Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven. (You can hear the trio play the slow movement and finale of the "Archduke" Trio in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Tickets are $10 to $50. For more information, go to: https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/kalichstein-laredo-robinson-trio/
The trio will also give a FREE and PUBLIC one-hour master class TODAY – Thursday, Dec. 5 — at 1:30 p.m. in the Collins Recital Hall of the new Hamel Music Center, 740 University Ave.
Such an activity is not unusual. Not only are the members of the trio active performers, they are also devoted to teaching and music education.
For more information about that side of the trio, read: https://union.wisc.edu/visit/wisconsin-union-theater/the-green-room/kalichstein-laredo-robinson-trio-shapes-future-performers/
And to learn more about the history of the trio, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, here is a link to its home website: http://www.kalichstein-laredo-robinson-trio.com
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Classical music: This Saturday night, pianist Emanuel Ax returns to the Wisconsin Union Theater in an all-Beethoven recital, and also is in a FREE and PUBLIC Q&A that afternoon. That same night, UW-Madison professor Alicia Lee gives a free clarinet recital
This Saturday night, Nov. 2, brings two separate but noteworthy recitals by Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax and by UW-Madison clarinetist Alicia Lee.
EMANUEL AX
Emanuel Ax and Madison go way back.
Since 1974, the Wisconsin Union Theater has often seen Emanuel Ax (below, in a photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco) perform both as a soloist and a chamber musician with the legendary violinist Nathan Milstein and the superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who is also a close friend. (Ax has also performed with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra at the old Civic Center and with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in the Overture Center.)
This Saturday night, Nov. 2, Emanuel Ax returns again to help celebrate the centennial of the Union Theater's Concert Series and to help kick off the Beethoven Year in 2020, which marks the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in Shannon Hall with a pre-concert lecture, given by Andrea Fowler, a UW-Madison graduate student in musicology. Her lecture is at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union's Play Circle.
The program centers on the first three piano sonatas, Op. 2, by Beethoven (below) plus two rarely heard sets of theme-and-variations. In addition, he will start the performance with the popular "Für Elise" Bagatelle known to so many piano students, their parents and the public. (You can hear "Für Elise" and see a graphic depiction of it in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Tickets run from $15 for UW-Madison students to $70. For more information about tickets, Emanuel Ax, the program, sample reviews and links to Ax's website, go to:
https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/emanuel-ax/
NOTE: This time, there will also be a special event as part of his appearance.
On Saturday afternoon from 1 to 2 p.m. in Collins Recital Hall at the new Hamel Music Center, 740 University Ave., Ax will participate in a FREE and public Q&A.
Here is a publicity blurb about that event: "Join us for a Q&A with Grammy Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax. Now is your chance to ask how he selects repertoire, what his practice schedule is like, if he has any pre-recital rituals, or whatever you would like to know!"
"This event is intended for UW-Madison students and UW campus community, however the Madison community is welcome."
For more information about the Q&A, go to: https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/q-and-a-with-emanuel-ax/
ALICIA LEE
At 8 p.m. in Collins Recital Hall, UW-Madison clarinetist Alicia Lee (below), who also plays in the UW Wingra Wind Quintet, will give a FREE recital of chamber music.
The program includes music by Robert Schumann, Bela Bartok, Isang Yun, Eugene Bozza and Shulamit Ran.
Two faculty colleagues will join Lee: pianist Christopher Taylor and violinist Soh-Hyun Park Altino.
For more information about the event, go to: https://www.music.wisc.edu/event/alicia-lee-faculty-clarinet/
For an extensive biography of Alicia Lee, go to: https://www.music.wisc.edu/alicia-lee/
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Classical music: UW countertenor Gerrod Pagenkopf returns to sing on Sunday night with Chanticleer. Here's how he got there with the right teacher, hard work, good luck and a push from mom. Part 2 of 2
This coming Sunday night, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the new Hamel Music Center, the a cappella singing group Chanticleer (below) will kick off the centennial anniversary celebration of the Concert Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Tickets are $45 for the public; $40 for faculty staff and Union members; and $10 for students. For more information about the performers and the "Trade Winds" program, go to: https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/chanticleer/
Among the 12 members of Chanticleer is Gerrod Pagenkopf, who is in his fifth year with the group as both a countertenor and the assistant music director.
For a biography of Pagenkopf, go to: https://www.chanticleer.org/gerrod-pagenkopf
Pagenkopf is a graduate of the UW-Madison. When he performed as a student, his high, clear countertenor voice was a new experience and made those of us who heard him sit bolt upright and take notice. "He is going places," we said to each. And so he has.
But Pagenkopf's story is not only about him. It is also about the rediscovery of countertenors, about the changing public acceptance of them, and about the challenges that young musicians often face in establishing a professional performing career.
So The Ear is offering a longer-than-usual, two-part interview with Pagenkopf (below).
Part 1 appeared yesterday. Here is a link: https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/classical-music-uws-first-countertenor-gerrod-pagenkopf-returns-to-perform-on-sunday-night-as-a-member-of-the-acclaimed-choral-group-chanticleer-heres-how-he-got-from-here-to-there/
Here is Part 2:
Back when you were a student here, were you the only countertenor at the School of Music? How did you find out you were a countertenor and pursue that training?
As I recall, I was the only countertenor — certainly the only one studying in the voice department. I had been studying as a tenor with Ilona Kombrink (below, in photo by UW-Madison News Service) for a few semesters, and it just didn't seem as easy as it was supposed to.
I didn't sound like other tenors in my studio or on recordings. I remember that a famous countertenor had just come out with an album of Handel arias, and, upon hearing it, I thought to myself, "I can sing like that!"
I asked Professor Kombrink about it, and she told me to learn "Cara Sposa" from Handel's "Rinaldo" over the summer. When I came back in the fall, if it sounded legitimate she agreed I could pursue countertenor singing.
I remember that first lesson of the fall. After I sang this Handel aria for her, she sat back and mused in her sage-like manner, "Yes, this must needs be."
I never looked back. I think I was on the early edge of the re-emergence of countertenors. Certainly there were countertenors working professionally, but there weren't that many. There weren't any other countertenors in Houston when I went to grad school, and even when I moved to Boston, there were only a handful of working countertenors.
Since then, how has the treatment of countertenors changed in the academic and professional worlds?
By the time I left Boston a few years ago, you couldn't throw a stone without hitting a countertenor. We now see young countertenors winning major competitions and earning places in young artist programs around the country. The competition is fierce now.
I was lucky enough to be one of just a few fish in the pond, but now countertenors are everywhere—and a lot of them are really good! I also remember that there was a stigma so that it would be difficult to find a voice teacher who would teach countertenors.
A lot of pedagogy books by reputable technicians said that countertenors weren't real — they just sing in falsetto, which isn't a real voice. I was lucky that Professor Kombrink was willing to explore that with me. I think now that there are so many successful countertenors singing everywhere, I hope this antiquated view of the voice type has changed.
What would you like the public to know about the program you will perform here? Are you featured in certain pieces?
Our "Trade Winds" program explores several different aspects of the wayfaring sailor. They include Monteverdi madrigals about water and nature; a wonderful mass setting by a largely unknown century Portuguese composer, Filipe de Magalhaes; several charming folksongs from around the Pacific Rim; and even a few sea shanties.
It's a varied program that includes repertoire from as early as the 15th century up to just a few months ago. One of Chanticleer's missions is to further the art of live music through new compositions, and we've commissioned a fantastic young Chinese-American composer, Zhou Tian (below), to write a new multi-movement piece for us, entitled "Trade Winds," from which our program also gets its title.
Lots of listeners are scared of "new music," but Zhou has given us a gem. It's easy to listen to, and I think listeners will instantly understand what it's all about.
Personally, I can't say that I have anything coming up. As wonderful as Chanticleer is, the job pretty much limits any amount of outside freelance work. (At the bottom, you can hear Chanticleer singing "Shenandoah," its most popular YouTube video – and a piece with a prominent countertenor part — with well over 1.6 million hits.)
One of the truly fantastic parts of singing in Chanticleer (below, performing on stage) is all the places we travel to. We started off this season with a three-week tour of Europe, which was actually the ensemble's third trip to Europe in 2019.
We love traveling around the U.S., and as I've said, traveling back to Madison is certainly the highlight for me. The Midwest is always a special place for us to sing, as several of our members are from this region.
We're very excited to travel to Australia in June 2020. I think it's Chanticleer's first visit "Down Under." We will also be going back to the studio in January to record a new album for release sometime later in 2020. We have lots of exciting events coming down the pipeline.
Is there something else you would like to say?
Prior to singing with Chanticleer, I had been living in Boston for almost eight years, pursuing professional singing as a freelance artist.
To make ends meet, I had been working at Starbucks, which I actually started doing when I still lived in Madison, and my gigging was getting lucrative enough that I eventually decided to take a leave of absence from slinging lattes.
While I was in Wisconsin on Christmas vacation, I received a message from Chanticleer's music director, William Fred Scott, letting me know that there was an immediate vacancy in the ensemble, and would I be interested in singing for them.
I thought I was being spammed, so I didn't respond, and continued to enjoy the bliss of spending the entirety of the holidays with my family.
When I eventually got back to Boston a few days later, another email arrived from Mr. Scott: "Did you get my email? We'd really like to hear from you." Ok, how do I tell them I'm clearly NOT the countertenor they're looking for?
Well, after much soul-searching, calling my mother ("Just do it!" she exclaimed), and figuring out the logistics of liquidating a one-bedroom apartment, I decided to run away and join the circus. It was a complete leap of faith, but I think I made the right decision.
Don't give up on your dreams. Singing in Chanticleer was the first legitimate dream I remember having. Although my musical path took me in several other directions, that path eventually led me to where I am today, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
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Classical music: UW-Madison's first countertenor Gerrod Pagenkopf returns to perform on Sunday night as a member of the acclaimed choral group Chanticleer. Here's how he got from here to there. Part 1 of 2
ALERT: Madison Symphony Orchestra organist Greg Zelek did not announce his encore after he received a standing ovation at the MSO concert Sunday afternoon. It was the final movement from the Organ Symphony No. 1 by Louis Vierne.
This coming Sunday night, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the inaugural concert in the new Hamel Music Center's main concert hall, the critically acclaimed a cappella singing group Chanticleer (below) will kick off the centennial anniversary celebration of the Concert Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Among the 12 members of the San-Francisco-based Chanticleer is Gerrod Pagenkopf, who is in his fifth year with the group as both a countertenor and the assistant music director. (You can hear Pagenkopf singing music by Henry Purcell in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
For a biography of Gerrod Pagenkopf, go to: https://www.chanticleer.org/gerrod-pagenkopf
Pagenkopf (below) is a graduate of the UW-Madison. When he performed here as a student, his high, clear countertenor voice was a new experience and made those of us who heard him sit bolt upright and take notice. "He is going places," we said to each other. And so he has.
But Pagenkopf's story is not only about him. It is also about the rediscovery of countertenors, about the changing public acceptance of them, and about the challenges that young musicians often face in establishing a professional performing career. So today and tomorrow, The Ear is offering a longer-than-usual, two-part interview with Pagenkopf.
When were you at the UW-Madison?
I was a student at the UW-Madison from the fall of 1997 until I graduated in May of 2002. Although I received a bachelor's degree in music education, performing ended up being a huge part of my last few semesters.
Growing up in rural Wisconsin about 30 miles north of Green Bay, I always thought that if you liked music and were good at it, you were supposed to be a teacher. It wasn't until I was a junior that my voice teacher, the late Ilona Kombrink, and I discovered that I had a viable solo voice. Although I received the music education degree, embarking on a solo career became more important to me.
What did you do and how well did your studies and performances here prepare you for the life of a professional musician?
I was very lucky to have ample opportunities for performing during my time at the UW. Singing in choirs was very important to me. For many years I sang in the Concert Choir under Beverly Taylor (below top) as well as in the Madrigal Singers under Bruce Gladstone (below bottom,, in a photo by Katrin Talbot). I think there was one semester where I sang in just about every auditioned choir.
Beverly Taylor also gave me a lot of solo opportunities in the large-scale works that the Choral Union performed: Bach's "St. John" and "St. Matthew" Passions, and Handel's "Israel in Egypt." For a 23-year-old to have those masterworks, along with the B Minor Mass and "Messiah," on his resume was very impressive.
I was also lucky enough to perform with University Opera, singing in the chorus at first, but then singing a solo role in Handel's "Xerxes" my final semester, and then returning as an alumni artist to sing Public Opinion in Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld" and several years later Polinesso in Handel's "Ariodante." Director Bill Farlow took a lot of chances on my young, "raw" countertenor voice and gave me several opportunities to succeed.
I should also note the importance of the guidance and mentorship of Professor Mimmi Fulmer (below, performing at Frank Loyd Wright's Hillside Theater at Taliesin in Spring Green) after I graduated from UW. She afforded me the opportunity to sing in recital with her numerous times — usually Brahms and Mendelssohn duets. But she also was a catalyst in bringing me back to Madison several years later to sing with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble. Our continued relationship is actually the primary reason Chanticleer is singing in Madison this fall.
How do you feel about returning to perform at your alma mater with Chanticleer?
I'm over the moon about it. It still feels like a dream that I'm singing in Chanticleer. To be able to bring a group that I'm so proud to be a part of back to Madison feels like a great personal triumph. And to be the opening performance in the new Hamel Center (below) is such an honor!
Throughout my studies at UW-Madison, I was torn between the solo performance track and the choral career. I managed to straddle both, but my dream was always to make ensemble singing my career. Way back in the early 2000s, I heard Chanticleer sing at Luther Memorial Church, and I thought, "That's what I want to do!"
I went down several other paths since that concert — mostly in the realm of solo, operatic singing — but it's incredibly rewarding to be able to say I achieved my dream, and I'm coming back to place where the seed of that dream was planted almost 20 years ago.
Tomorrow: How countertenors re-emerged and were treated, the "Trade Winds" program and Pagenkopf's future plans
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Classical music: Personal experience, artistic excellence and historical importance drew pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel into planning next year's centennial season at the Wisconsin Union Theater
Now that Spring Break is over and subscription tickets are available for the Wisconsin Union Theater's special centennial celebration next season – which includes superstar soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Emanuel Ax — here is an email interview that pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel (below, in a photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco), the wife-and-husband consultants and planners of that season, granted to The Ear.
For more about the season and tickets, go to two websites:
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/classical-music-superstar-soprano-renee-fleming-and-pianist-emanuel-ax-headline-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-wisconsin-union-theaters-concert-series-next-season/
https://union.wisc.edu/visit/wisconsin-union-theater/seasonevents/concert-series/
Could you briefly introduce yourselves to readers and tell them both your past and current activities?
We have been performing on the world's many concert stages for almost our entire lives. In addition to our careers as concert performers, we serve as the founding Artistic Directors of Music@Menlo, the premier chamber music festival in Silicon Valley, as well as the Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) in New York City.
Our main responsibility as concert performers is to give the best concerts we possibly can, and we are constantly striving to achieve the highest possible level of artistry in our performances.
In our roles as artistic directors, our responsibilities lie in the programming, casting and designing of concert series and chamber music projects for our organizations. At CMS, this includes designing the programming for our seven different satellite series around the country, plus international partnerships in Taiwan, Korea and Europe.
We are also involved in chamber music programming endeavors beyond Music@Menlo and CMS, having just completed a first-ever chamber music residency at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida. Furthermore, Wu Han is serving as Artistic Advisor to Wolf Trap Chamber Music at the Barns, which entails thematically programming eight concerts per season for the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons.
As artistic directors, we spend much of our time putting ourselves in the shoes of our listeners, measuring their experience and receptivity to chamber music of all periods and styles, and putting together the best programs and artists who will move our audiences forward into ever-increasing engagement with and love of the art.
David was the cellist of the Emerson String Quartet for 34 seasons, and we have been performing together as a duo for about 35 years, and continue to do so as one of our main performance activities.
What are your personal relationships to the Wisconsin Union Theater, and what do you think of it as a concert venue?
Our engagement with the Wisconsin Union Theater goes back quite a few years, but certainly not even close to the beginning of the Theater's distinguished history. For any performer setting foot on its stage, there's a sense of slipping into an ongoing tradition of artistic excellence that makes us feel both privileged and obligated to do our best.
The Wisconsin Union Theater and its story in American cultural life is larger than any of us; only the music we play rises above and beyond it all, and as performers, our lucky moment is to represent that incredible literature in a venue as significant and storied as the Wisconsin Union Theater. (Below is the theater's main venue, the renovated and restored Shannon Hall.)
Why did you agree to be artistic advisors and artists-in-residence for the centennial season? Did your personal experiences in Madison play a role in that decision?
As seasoned artists, we deeply admire and respect the very special place in the classical music tradition and history that the Wisconsin Union Theater (below) inhabits, and the invitation to participate in the Theater's 100th anniversary was an honor for us to receive. Our experiences playing on this distinguished stage and forming a relationship with the local audience have made our pursuit of the common goal of artistic excellence in the centennial season incredibly fulfilling.
Of course, having performed there in the past gave us a hint of confidence through our familiarity with the place, but we must say we have learned perhaps double what we knew originally through this planning process. Without interfering, but at the same time sharing our uncompromised commitment to artistic excellence, we hope that our presence during the process has been useful, and we know that we look so much forward to seeing the careful thought and hard work of all involved come to fruition.
Is there a unifying or guiding principle to the season you have put together?
The guiding principle behind our work on this historic season is artistic excellence, which in our opinion is what most inspires audiences and best serves the art form of classical music.
Our area of expertise is chamber music, and, as we wanted to share the best of what we can do with the Theater, our focus has been on ensuring that the chamber music offerings during this historic season, and hopefully beyond, reflect the best of the world of chamber music.
In our suggestions, we looked for variety of instrumentations, of composers and periods—in other words, giving as much of an overview of the art as we could within a season.
What would you like the public to know about the Wisconsin Union Theater and the upcoming centennial season?
In the Theater's centennial season, the audience will have the opportunity to savor a variety of different genres of chamber music, from solo piano to vocal music, as well as a sampling of the very best works of the chamber music canon. Between these various genres, the great composers left a wealth of chamber music that could sustain the art form on its own, but that's still only the tip of the iceberg.
Our chamber music offerings will include the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, which has a long history of performing for the Madison audience. Their December program will include celebrated cornerstones of the piano trio repertoire, including Mendelssohn's D minor Trio and Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio. (You can hear the opening of the Archduke Trio in the YouTube video at the bottom.) Both pieces have achieved monumental historical significance through their influence in propelling the art form forward from the Classical period to the Romantic period.
The Escher String Quartet performance in January represents the best of the next generation of young string quartets. Their program includes a quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn—the father of the string quartet genre—and the sole quartet of none other than revered violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler, who performed in the Wisconsin Union Theater nearly a century ago. Kreisler set foot on the Theater's stage numerous times, and his rarely heard string quartet nods to the Theater's long, distinguished history. David will join the Escher Quartet for the beloved Schubert Cello Quintet, which is the "desert island" must-have piece for many music lovers.
Furthermore, in March, we will bring two of the most fantastic musicians in the world to join us for a program of Antonin Dvorak, Josef Suk and Johannes Brahms. This multigenerational cast of musicians includes the incredible young French violinist Arnaud Sussmann (below top, in a photo by Matt Dine) as well as the most important violist of our generation, Paul Neubauer (below bottom). This program is all about the passing down of the baton and the continuous investment in the next generations of artists: Brahms was the one who discovered Dvorak, and Dvorak in turn discovered Suk.
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Classical music: Superstar soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Emanuel Ax headline the 100th anniversary of the Wisconsin Union Theater's Concert Series next season
The Ear has received the following major announcement to post about the Wisconsin Union Theater, which The Ear calls "the Carnegie Hall of Madison" for its long and distinguished history of presenting great performing artists.
The Wisconsin Union Theater (below top, with Shannon Hall below bottom) is delighted to announce the schedule for its 100th Concert Series during 2019-20.
In this celebratory year, we introduce two exciting additions: A transformative gift by Kato Perlman establishes the David and Kato Perlman Chamber Series, ensuring the world's best chamber ensembles continue to perform as a regular feature of the Concert Series.
Additionally, two Concert Series performances will take place in the Mead Witter School of Music's new Hamel Music Center (below). We look forward to increased collaborations with the school of music.
The 100th anniversary series was curated by the Wisconsin Union Directorate's Performing Arts Committee, with wife-and-husband advisors pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel (below, in a photo by Tristan Cook), who are celebrated musicians and directors of several festivals of classical music and also serve as co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. (You can hear them performing music by Johann Sebastian Bach in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
The first season of this distinguished series was in 1920-1921, and featured soprano May Peterson, violinist Fritz Kreisler and pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch.
Nineteen years later, in 1939-1940, the series moved to the newly opened Wisconsin Union Theater. The first season in the Wisconsin Union Theater featured bass singer Ezio Pinza, cellist Emanuel Feuermann, violinist Joseph Szigeti, pianist Robert Casadesus and, the highlight, contralto Marian Anderson.
Through these 99 years, numerous renowned, accomplished and prominent classical musicians have played in the series, the longest continuous classical series in the Midwest. Some made their debut here and continued returning as their fame rose.
See this article for an interview with former WUT director Michael Goldberg about the history of the series.
The schedule for the 100th Concert Series, including the inaugural David and Kato Perlman Chamber Music Series, is:
Oct. 6 – A cappella choral group Chanticleer, Hamel Music Center. Program To Be Announced
Nov. 2 – Pianist Emanuel Ax (below), Shannon Hall. All-Beethoven program, including Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
Dec. 6 – The Kalichstein, Laredo and Robinson Piano Trio (below), Shannon Hall. "Canonic Etudes" by Robert Schumann; Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor by Felix Mendelssohn; and Piano Trio in B-flat major "Archduke" by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Jan. 25, 2020 – The Escher String Quartet (below), featuring David Finckel, Shannon Hall. Quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, Fritz Kreisler and Franz Schubert.
March 5, 2020 – Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – featuring David Finckel, Wu Han, Paul Neubauer and Arnaud Sussman, Shannon Hall. Sonatine by Antonin Dvorak; Piano Quartet by Josef Suk; Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Johannes Brahms.
March 7, 2020 – Wu Han with the UW Symphony Orchestra, Hamel Music Center. Program TBD.
March 28, 2020 – Violinist Gil Shaham (below) with pianist Akira Eguchi, Shannon Hall. Program TBD.
May 2, 2020 – Special Gala Concert with Renée Fleming (below). Shannon Hall. Mixed Recital.
All programs are subject to change.
Subscriptions will be available starting March 18, 2019. Subscribers benefits include: access to the best seats, 20% off the price of single tickets, no order fees, a free ticket to Wu Han's performance with the UW Symphony Orchestra, and the opportunity to be first to purchase tickets to Renée Fleming's 100th Anniversary Gala Concert.
Find more information about the series and the artists at www.uniontheater.wisc.edu. Subscriptions will be available on March 18 at www.artsticketing.wisc.edu.
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Classical music: This Friday night, the Wisconsin Union Theater presents a world-class Spanish string quartet and will also announce the special concerts to mark its centennial anniversary next season
Think of it as a two-fer, and then some, at the Wisconsin Union Theater this Friday night, March 1.
The main event is the Madison debut of a world-class string quartet from Spain.
The other event is the announcement of the schedule for the Concert Series' 2019-2020 season — the series' 100th season.
The first event is the concert by Cuarteto Casals (below) at 7:30 p.m. in Shannon Hall.
Prices for the event are: the general public, $25-40; for Union members, $25-36; for UW faculty and staff members, $25-38; for young people, $20; and for UW-Madison students, $10. Tickets can be bought online, by phone at 608-265-ARTS (2787) or in person. See locations and hours here.
The program includes the String Quartet in C Major "The Bird," Op. 33, No. 3, by Franz Joseph Haydn; the String Quartet No. 3 by Bela Bartok; selections from the Fantasies for String Quartet by Henry Purcell; and the String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, by Claude Debussy. (You can hear the Cuarteto Casals play a movement of a different Haydn string quartet in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Cuarteto Casals was founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid. They are named after great 20th-century Catalan cellist Pau (Pablo) Casals (below). Members of the quartet are Vera Martinez Mehner and Abel Tomas, violins; Jonathan Brown, viola; and Arnau Tomas, cello.
The group achieved international recognition after winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions. After receiving the prestigious Burletti-Buitoni Trust award designed to assist young musicians, the quartet acquired a matching set of Baroque and Classical period bows, used to distinguish between musical styles.
The year 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the quartet, and also the start of a commemorative project: a six-concert series of the complete Beethoven quartets, accompanied by six commissioned works from great composers since the 17th century.
The quartet was selected as ambassadors of Catalan culture by the Generalitat of Catalunya, and accompanies the King of Spain on diplomatic visits.
It is the quartet-in-residence at the Spanish Royal Palace through 2020 and the quartet-in-residence at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona.
Carol Carlson (below) will offer a free pre-concert lecture at 6 p.m. Carol holds both Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from the UW-Madison.
Carlson dedicates herself to music education as co-founder, co-director and teacher of Music con Brio, a non-profit organization that provides affordable violin lessons and equipment for students at Emerson Elementary School in Madison. Music con Brio (below, in a photo by Scott Maurer) will perform on the stage of Shannon Hall from 7 to 7:20 p.m.
This program was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. The media sponsor is WORT 89.9 FM.
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Classical music: Combining a ticket to a live music performance with a book or recording that is tied to the concert's program makes a great holiday gift
The holidays seem to arrive earlier each year.
The Ear isn't sure why that is.
Whatever the reason, a lot of holiday gift shopping can by now seem last-minute and somewhat frantic.
But if you are shopping for a classical music fan, you are in luck if you go local.
The best way to please the recipient and also to support the local arts is to give a ticket to a live concert – always the most powerful and exciting musical experience — perhaps coupled to a related book or recording. (Below is UW-Madison pianist Christopher Taylor in a photo by Michael R. Anderson).
This blog doesn't have room to list separately all the many musical groups in the area. But here are some samples that might interest you.
Through Monday, Dec. 24, the Madison Symphony Orchestra (below, in a photo by Greg Anderson) is once again offering a special deal for the remainder of the season. Tickets to both the "Beyond the Score" program and the remaining four season concerts, including Mahler's mammoth "Symphony of a Thousand," have been reduced to two price ranges: $10 and $25 for the former; $25 and $50 for the latter.
For more information, go to: https://madisonsymphony.org/concerts-events/buy-tickets/offers-discounts/holiday-tickets-sale/
If you want to see what other performers and presenters are offering – say, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (below), the Oakwood Chamber Players, the Madison Bach Musicians, the Middleton Community Orchestra, the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, the Willy Street Chamber Players, the Wisconsin Union Theater, the Overture Center and the Madison Opera, to name just a few of the more prominent names – just go to Google and type in their name to search and go to their home page on the web.
Many of them have all sorts of other discounts for students, seniors, subscribers, groups and others.
Don't forget that Madison features many FREE concerts, especially at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
True, a few of the most attractive and gift-worthy UW concerts are ticketed ($17 for adults, $7 for UW students) – including the annual Schubertiade, the yearly recital by pianist Christopher Taylor and the world premiere of the new Viola Sonata by John Harbison (below). But you could offer to take someone to a free chamber music or orchestral concert and provide companionship, transportation and maybe even dinner.
Here is a link to the very busy lineup and informative previews at the UW-Madison's Mead Witter School of Music: https://www.music.wisc.edu
To top it off, you could add one of two outstanding local books The Ear puts at the top of the holiday gift guide.
The first is John Harbison's "What Do We Make of Bach" (below top) which is short, very readable, thoroughly engaging and wonderfully informative in an autobiographical way that helps us celebrate both the 80th birthday of Harbison and the upcoming 334th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The second book, now in its second printing, is a comprehensive history of the Pro Arte Quartet (below) done by John W. Barker, who often writes for this blog as well as Isthmus.
Of course, a CD with one of the composers or works on a program also makes a fine complement, whether it is a Mahler symphony, a Bach suite or Schubert's "Swan Songs" from his final year.
Finally, The Ear wants to know: What are your suggestions for a for holiday gift of classical music?
It could be a live concert or a recording, either something new or an old favorite.
It could be a particularly informative and enjoyable or entertaining book, including biographies of Leonard Bernstein (including one by his daughter Jamie Bernstein, below), whose centennial has been celebrated this season.
Over the next few days, The Ear will post suggestions and Top 10 lists by professional critics. But in the end, it is the audience, the ordinary public, that many people want to hear from.
So perhaps you will leave your ideas in the COMMENT section.
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Early last week I posted something about boxer Gene Tunney's 1940 visit to the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace on the TRB Facebook page. I had stumbled across a photo of Tunney at the house on East 20th Street while reading old RMA bulletins at the New York Public Library a few weeks previously. It turned out serendipitously because I had just completed Rex Passion's The Lost Sketchbooks. Passion wrote text to go along with artist Ed Shenton's drawings from the Great War. Shenton's experiences included training in the Sweet Science while at Camp Hancock just outside of Augusta, Georgia. A little digging into the story reveals that over three million doughboys boxed as part of their training and preparation to fight in France. Those three million included Shenton–and Gene Tunney.
The Commission on Training Camp Activities had created and implemented the idea. They even produced a training film consisting of highlights from the bouts of such fighters as Gentleman Jim Corbett and Kid McCoy to show doughboys the proper technique. Keep in mind that moving imagery was still a fairly new medium at the time. It might well have been the first film many of these young men had ever seen. The training program was so successful that in the months just after the war's end the Knights of Columbus organized an A.E.F. tournament in Paris. This all came to pass in early 1919 with Tunney, a U.S. Marine at the time, walking away with the title. Soon, like all Americans marines and doughboys, he returned to the United States and civilian life. Less than a decade later he would beat Jack Dempsey and become heavyweight champ. He retired undefeated in 1928.
Tunney had come to the TRB in 1940 to help Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the upcoming presidential election. FDR was still wildly popular but many were upset that he was violating the then unwritten rule that presidents step down after two terms. Tunney and FDR, I recently discovered, went all the way back to late 1918. Roosevelt, in his capacity as assistant secretary of the navy, had made sure that the young marine could stay in Paris and train for the A.E.F. tournament. The two remained friends. He campaigned for FDR in 1932 and, obviously, continued doing so in ensuing elections.
Fascinating! TR was quite a boxer, too.
He was. I'm going to have something coming on that later this coming week. I have loved my time at the TRB so much.


Love a chicken burger? Then you will love these bad boys. Grilled free range chicken escalopes and a while slaw with a chipotle dressing between a Sonoma bun.
Finely slice the cabbage. Use a mandolin if you have one. Peel and grate the carrot.
Combine in a bowl.To make dressing, whisk mayonnaise together with finely diced chipotle (optional/to taste), juice of HALF the lemon and season with salt. Combine 3/4 of the dressing with the cabbage and carrot. The remainder will be for the buns.
Bring a fry pan to high heat with a drizzle of olive oil. Cook chicken for 3 minutes each side. Transfer to a plate then squeeze over juice of remaining lemon.
with remaining dressing. Place chicken onto burger then top with some slaw.
Serve burgers with a side of slaw. Enjoy immediately!


To tell you the truth, I wish I could remember where I originally found this example because I would like to give credit where credit is due, but I really don't remember. Anyhow, this person's example was a cool slider effect that stuck to the top of the page. Well I decided to take that and turn into into the same basic concept; only this time coded in JQuery. Oh Yes. I love JQuery.
The example is pretty straight forward. So if you have any comments or concerns, definitely drop me a comment and I will try my best to answer them.
I kept the same colors and such from the other example so if anyone knows where the original was from, please let me know.
Click Here to see this example in action.
Want to download the code? Of course you do, click here.


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Tit Mellil (en tamazight ⵜⵉⵟⵟ ⵎⵍⵍⵉⵍ, en arabe ) est une petite ville dans la banlieue casablancaise, se situant au sud-est de la métropole.

Étymologie

Son nom decoule du tamazight et signifie " œil blanc ".

Infrastructures

Elle dispose d'une importante zone industrielle ainsi que d'un aéroport régional, l'aéroport Casablanca Tit Mellil où la première aviatrice marocaine Touria Chaoui a fait ses études.

Voir aussi
 Aéroport Casablanca Tit Mellil

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Focus mostly on protein, fruits and vegetables. Studies have shown that following a lower carbohydrate diet can not only help you lose weight quickly, but specifically decrease the amount of stomach fat you have.
But then, he knew that this is more about helping other people rather than just earning money. So this program is priced at $27. And what's even better is that it also comes with a 60-day money guarantee. This is because he is very much confident about the program and that it really works.
Hi everyone. I was wondering if someone could help me. I'm a 15 year old 5'3 petite female. And last time I weighed myself I was about 131 pounds. I do cardio 4-5 times a week for 40-60 minutes and I also like to walk around my neighborhood. I'm a vegan so I don't eat any dairy, meat etc.
Using these foods and movements, we're told that Lean Belly Breakthrough guarantees you'll lose at least 10% body fat loss in just the first 2 weeks. Given that the average person has between 18% and 31% body fat, this amounts to a fairly significant loss in just 14 days.
I've always had trouble getting with belly fat. It seems like no matter what I would do, my upper body would never get ripped and muscular. Until one day I discovered a new style of training called "Afterburn Training" that finally helped me burn off my belly fat and get me the ripped V – Shape body and abs I've always wanted.
Thanks for this awesome article Mike. I was doing some reasearch on Yohimbine and found that it can have some side effects. Some of which sound a little scary. In your opinion would it be likely to still be able to get down to as low as 6 or 7% body fat without this supplement or related supplements?
In the second component, you will learn about 2 minute ritual which helps you flatten your belly. This is actually the meat of the lean belly breakthrough pdf. It triggers specific group of muscles so that you will get the lean and toned belly as the end results.
A simpler at-home exercise to burn fat, White says, is: Get a broom, hold it straight up over your head, then lean to the right and the left. You should feel the effort in your so-called love handles.
Some research even suggests that surgery to remove subcutaneous fat will not improve health, and may even be a risk factor for more visceral fat—particularly if surgery is not accompanied by healthful lifestyle changes.
Over the years, I have realized if you want to achieve your fitness goals fast and efficiently, make the journey as much fun as possible. The designer of this program also understands this too well and so has developed it to accommodate as many helpful foods as possible which you can work with to achieve your desired results. So if you were worried you would need to eat tasteless things while on it then worry no more.


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Q: How to create Naive Bayes in R for numerical and categorical variables I am trying to implement a Naive Bayes model in R based on known information:
Age group, e.g. "18-24" and "25-34", etc.
Gender, "male" and "female"
Region, "London" and "Wales", etc.
Income, "£10,000 - £15,000", etc.
Job, "Full Time" and "Part Time", etc.

I am experiencing errors when implementing. My code is as per below:
library(readxl)
iphone <- read_excel("~/Documents/iPhone_1k.xlsx")
View(iphone)

summary(iphone)
iphone

library(caTools)
library(e1071)

set.seed(101)
sample = sample.split(iphone$Gender, SplitRatio = .7)
train = subset(iphone, sample == TRUE)
test  = subset(iphone, sample == FALSE)

nB_model <- naiveBayes(Gender ~ Region + Retailer, data = train)
pred <- predict(nB_model, test, type="raw")

In the above scenario, I have an excel file called iPhone_1k (1,000 entries relating to people who have visited a website to buy an iPhone). Each row is a person visiting the website and the above demographics are known.
I have been trying to make the model work and have resorted to following the below link that uses only two variables (I would like to use a minimum of 4 but introduce more, if possible):
https://rpubs.com/dvorakt/144238
I want to be able to use these demographics to predict which retailer they will go to (also known for each instance in the iPhone_1k file). There are only 3 options. Can you please advise how to complete this?
P.S. Below is a screenshot of a simplified version of the data I have used to keep it simple in R. Once I get some code to work, I'll expand the number of variables and entries.

A: You are setting the problem incorrectly. It should be:
naiveBayes(Retailer ~  Gender + Region + AgeGroup, data = train)

or in short
naiveBayes(Retailer ~ ., data = train)

Also you might need to convert the columns into factors if they are characters. You can do it for all columns, right after reading from excel, by
iphone[] <- lapply(iphone, factor)

Note that if you add numeric variables in the future, you should not apply this step on them.

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INAMI / RIZIV is National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance which is a public sector Enterprise that has the highest budget in Belgium (~114 billion).
Experienced enterprise architecture team of Knowledge Experts helped the subjects below for RIZIV/INAMI transformation processes.
Defining, review and advocate Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture and define coherent roadmaps for each teams.


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Q: TemplateSyntaxError without "with" keyword I'm trying to implement a simple restaurant menu website that shows a list of restaurants and their menu items.
newMenuItem is the function that adds a new menu item in a restaurant. MenuItem is the table of menu items, Restaurant is the table of restaurants, and restaurantmenu is the function that just displays the list of menu items in a restaurant.
@app.route('/restaurants/<int:restaurant_id>/new', methods = ['GET', 'POST'])
def newMenuItem(restaurant_id):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        newItem = MenuItem(name = request.form['name'], restaurant_id = restaurant_id)
        session.add(newItem)
        session.commit()
        flash("new menu item created!")
        return redirect(url_for('restaurantmenu', restaurant_id = restaurant_id))
    else:
        return render_template('newmenuitem.html', restaurant_id = restaurant_id)

The restaurantmenu function is
@app.route('/restaurants/<int:restaurant_id>/', methods = ['GET', 'POST'])
def restaurantmenu(restaurant_id):
    restaurant = session.query(Restaurant).filter_by(id=restaurant_id).one()
    items = session.query(MenuItem).filter_by(restaurant_id=restaurant.id)
    return render_template('menu.html', restaurant = restaurant, items = items)

The menu.html template displays the list of menu items, which is where I try to show the flash message. Its code is

{{restaurant.name}}

    {% with messages = get_flashed_messages() %}
        {% if messages %}

            {% for message in messages %}

{{message}}

            {% endfor %}

        {% endif %}
    {% endwith %}
    Create New Item
    {% for i in items %}

{{i.name}}

{{i.description}}

 {{i.price}}

        Edit
        Delete

    {% endfor %}

I understand that the "with" keyword is used to clean up resources like filestreams, but in this case, if I remove that keyword, I get a TemplateSyntaxError when trying to display the menu items.
TemplateSyntaxError: Encountered unknown tag 'messages'

I don't understand how the "with" keyword is making it all work. Without it, shouldn't the array of flashed messages simply be saved into the messages variable, to be accessed by the succeeding for loop?

A: No. This is Jinja2 template language, not Python; with is how you define a variable. There is no direct assignment in the template language.


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Q: Scan a file for values and convert into columns I have an ldif file that contains millions of records and some of them start with the value dn: serv=CSPS. After that value could be a random number of rows that start with APNIDx: (being x a number from 1 to 40) and a number. I want to convert those three values into a row separated by commas.
I have these:
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three
structuralObjectClass: CP1
objectClass: CP1
objectClass: CUDBServiceAuxiliary
objectClass: CP2
objectClass: CP3
objectClass: CP4
objectClass: CP5
objectClass: CP6
objectClass: CP7
objectClass: CP8
objectClass: CP9
objectClass: CPA
objectClass: CPB
objectClass: CPC
objectClass: CPD
objectClass: CPE
objectClass: CPF
objectClass: CPG
SUBSRSAVERS: 24
APNID10: 1
APNID11: 144
APNVERS11: 1
EQOSIDV11:: AA0B
EQOSIDV12:: AA0B
APNID12: 124
APNVERS12: 1
APNID13: 126
APNVERS13: 1
APNID14: 125
APNVERS14: 1
APNID15: 2
APNVERS15: 1
EQOSIDV13:: AA0B
EQOSIDV14:: AA0B
EQOSIDV15:: AA0B

I want a file that contains this for each dn: serv=CSPS:
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID10,1
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID11,144
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID12,124
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID13,126
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID14,125
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID15,2

Please can someone help?

A: If you are open to using awk, you could try the following:
$ awk '/dn: serv=CSPS/ {r=$0} /APNID/ { sub(":","",$1); printf "%s,%s,%s\n", r,$1,$2 }' src.ldif
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID10,1
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID11,144
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID12,124
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID13,126
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID14,125
dn: serv=CSPS,mscId=000070a852934078a32d08af1bb78c45,ou=multiSCs,dc=three,APNID15,2

Details:
/dn: serv=CSPS/ {r=$0} -- capture row into 'r' variable if matches the 'dn: serv=CSPS' string.
/APNID/ { sub(":","",$1); -- if a row matches the 'APNID' string, then remove the ':' colon from the first field in the row and then use printf "%s,%s,%s\n", r,$1,$2 to output the data in CSV format.


Most homeowners are aware of the importance of insulation, though they may not know exactly why it's so important. Insulation basically slows the transfer of heat between the inside and outside of your home. In the summer, it keeps the heat outside, and in the winter, it keeps the heat indoors. Attic insulation provides the most bang for your buck, and also happens to be the easiest to install. Proper attic insulation will boost energy efficiency and home comfort.
Why Is Attic Insulation So Effective?
In most homes, heat energy tends to rise toward the attic, and then escape through the roof. In the winter, this means you're losing heat that your furnace or heat pump is creating, and the heating equipment has to work harder to compensate.
In the summer, heat builds up in the attic, and then radiates downward into your home. Your A/C has to work overtime to make up for that additional heat.
In each case, attic insulation with the correct R-value (thermal resistance) for your climate will slow that transfer of heat. Air sealing in attic walls and roof, as well as the attic floor and hatch, is also an important step in the process, since most common insulation types do little to slow air movement.
What Happens With Poor Insulation?
When your home has inferior insulation, including in the attic, your HVAC equipment will run more often, wasting energy, stressing parts, and requiring more maintenance and repairs. Your home will feel chillier in the winter and muggier and warmer in the summer.
When insulating the attic, you have a choice of loose-fill or batts (fiberglass rolls). While batt insulation is the easiest to lay down in the attic, installing loose-fill may require a professional, since it requires a special blowing machine (you can rent one yourself if you feel comfortable with the job). You can often mix the different types of insulation. In general, you'll want to make sure the attic insulation rises to the tops of your floor joists.
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The goal came from defender Junaid Mashamaite.
It was just the second away win in the 2008/09 season for the Clever Boys, and coach Roger De Sa will be delighted to end the year safe in the knowledge that his team is well placed as far as challenging for the title is concerned.
In contrast, Swallows' Julio Leal will be frustrated at a second successive loss and the fact that his team seems to have an inability to win games at home; the Birds have won just one of the eight matches they have hosted in the Absa Premiership.
Wits dominated the early exchanges, with Sibusiso Mahlangu shooting just wide off the left hand upright in only the second minute after good build-up play by Sifiso Myeni.
Just before the midway point of the first half, Brazilian attacker Fabricio Rodrigues whipped a shot wide of Greg Etafia's goal from a free-kick on the edge of the 18-yard area, and on 24 minutes Mahlangu was desperately unlucky to see his effort rebound off the post.
Former Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Rene Richards tested Etafia with a shot from a free-kick in the 29th minute, but it was mere catching practice for the Nigerian.
Swallows, who had rarely troubled the Wits defence in the first half hour, finally got their attacking game going in the 36th minute, youngster Phumelele Bhengu heading wide of goal after meeting David Radebe's cross. Radebe himself was guilty of missing a good chance just before half time, shooting wide of stand-in keeper Darren Keet's goalposts.
Three minutes after the restart, Mahlangu's bad luck in front of goal continued when Greg Etafia made an excellent parrying save to keep out the midfielder's goalbound header.
However, less than ten minutes later, the Wits deservedly broke the deadlock when Mashamaite rose highest to convert Richards' free-kick and put the visitors 1-0 up.
On the hour mark Swallows' Cecil Oersen had the chance to test Keet from a set-piece, but the midfielder's shot was easy pickings for the goalkeeper. Nine minutes later Oersen blazed a shot wide of goal, much to the frustration of Leal on the sidelines.
On 77 minutes Keet made a fine reaction save to tip Radebe's header over his crossbar, this after the striker had managed to get on the end of Lefa Tsutsulupa's cross from a free-kick.
In the end Swallows' best efforts were simply not enough to prevent their third home loss this season, while Wits will be pleased to end the year near the top of the League standings.


Real-life drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event. This is an excellent, tense and gripping film!
Viewer Quote: " A THOUSAND HEROES is one of the best true-life airline disaster survival stories ever made. It details the events leading up to the crash of United flight 232 in Iowa and the incredible survival stories in the aftermath. The Sioux City area emergency services teams drilled for just such an event and their efforts resulted in many lives being saved. These stories of survival are what make this film special and quite moving at times. This movie blew me away! This story is one you won't forget."
Starring: James Coburn, and Charlton Heston.