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Wind Band Music - MASLANKA, D. / PERRINE, A. / WALCZYK, K. (Freedom from Fear) (University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Popiel) (8.574169)

Contemporary American music for wind band continues to offer a rich combination of colour and variety. David Maslanka was one of the most prolific and admired of all wind band composers, and in Liberation he utilises plainchant in a moving exploration of death, the afterlife and the continuance of hope. Inspired by Walt Whitman, Aaron Perrine’s In the Open Air, In the Silent Lines creates a rich sense of space, while Kevin Walczyk’s moving Symphony No. 5: Freedom from Fear – Images from the Shoreline is unified by its themes of adoption, segregation and immigration.




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PIZAN, C. de: Book of the City of Ladies (The) (Unabridged) (NA0456)

Shocked and distressed by a male writer’s vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Heroines past and present form the foundations of this city—biblical and mythical heroines, ruling queens, Christian saints, and inventors are among them. Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defence of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist clichés, and serve to instil self-worth in its female readers of the time.




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Sounds Interesting. A witty ditty (Jan 03, 2020)

This podcast from the Naxos Sounds Interesting series highlights some humorous lines from the pens of the past masters. The presenter is Richard Kennedy. Listen to the podcast




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Orchestral Music - TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I. / STRAUSS, R. / STRAVINSKY, I. / SHOSTAKOVICH, D. (City of Birmingham Symphony, Nelsons) (9-CD Box Set) (C987199)




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Violin Concertos (Italian) - VIVALDI, A. / BONPORTI, F.A. / LOCATELLI, P.A. (Fanfoni, Ghidoni, C. Lazari, Martynov, Mezzena, Quarta) (CDS7861.10)




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VERDI, G.: Attila [Opera] (I. D'Arcangelo, Monastyrska, S. La Colla, G. Petean, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Repušić) (900330)




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SIERRA, R.: Cantares / Loíza / Triple Concierto (Trío Arbós, Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, Xalapa Symphony, Marcelletti) (8.559876)

Roberto Sierra’s refined compositional voice is subtly combined with contemporary musical techniques and his Puerto Rican heritage in the three works recorded here. Cantares, commissioned by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club to celebrate the university’s sesquicentennial anniversary, evokes ancient Peruvian, Aztec and Afro Caribbean voices lost in time. The virtuoso Triple Concierto transforms the popular Caribbean rhythms of salsa, bolero and merengue into complex contemporary expressions, while the polyrhythmic layers of Loíza conjure a Puerto Rican town known for its strong African traditions.




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DAUGHERTY, M.: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (Socolofsky, J. Daugherty, Dogs of Desire, D.A. Miller) (8.559889)

In This Land Sings, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912–1967). Traveling the backroads of America from coast to coast with a guitar and harmonica, Woody Guthrie performed folk songs of love, wandering and social justice during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Daugherty has composed his own original songs and instrumental interludes that give haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to political, social and environmental themes from Guthrie’s era. Under the baton of GRAMMY Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller, the Albany Symphony’s new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, joined by soprano Annika Socolofsky and baritone John Daugherty, give a poignant and rousing performance.




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Amanda St John - Made Myself A Name (Arvo Party mix)

Very well worth a few minutes of anyone’s ears.




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IBM RFE Community, Release 21

Find out what's new in the RFE Community. With Release 21, the RFE Community provides new features that keep you up to date on the requests you're watching and are interested in.




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The top ten security articles you need to read

In this article, I write about great resources that you should keep in your arsenal. I tried to get something for everyone, so whether you're a developer, an administrator, or even just someone who's interested in how security vulnerabilities occur and what can be done about it, this list covers all of this and more.




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Editor's picks: Top five WebSphere Liberty tutorials

If there is one thing that IBM WebSphere Liberty gives you, it's the freedom, and flexibility, to dynamically create applications both on-premises and in the cloud. This article highlights the top five tutorials in developerWorks for WebSphere Liberty.




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IBM RFE Community, Release 22

Find out what's new in the RFE Community. With Release 22, the RFE Community provides new features that keep you up to date on the requests you're watching and are interested in.




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IBM RFE Community, Release 23

Find out what's new in the RFE Community. With Release 23, the RFE Community provides new features that keep you up to date on the requests you're watching and are interested in.




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‘I never thought it would be a reality for me’

When Abbey was a little girl, sunshine flooded her soul when she kicked a ball with her brother, pivoted on a netball court, watched her sporting idols on TV and read novels for hours on end.




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The day our future Queen escaped to party with the people

The Queen has marked the 75th anniversary of the allied Victory in Europe remembering how she sneaked outside Buckingham Palace in 1945 to celebrate with the joyous crowds.




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Paramore star’s struggle for solo sanity

Every day has the potential to be a perfect storm for Hayley Williams.




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Nov 16, 2019: Carbon Tax & City Slogans

Charlie Demers and Glen Foster refuse to look fuel-ish when they discuss the carbon tax. Then, Evany Rosen and Todd Graham try to stay civil in their debate on city slogans.



  • Radio/The Debaters

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Searching for a coronavirus vaccine, the NFL's diversity problem, impeachment endgame, Michael Pollan & more

A Saskatchewan laboratory is working on a coronavirus vaccine, Michael Pollan on how caffeine rules our world, how to retrofit an '80s shopping mall, why the NFL hires so few black head coaches, the impeachment drama skids towards acquittal and more.



  • Radio/Day 6

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The Spark Guide to Life, Episode Two: Work Productivity

Decluttering our tech, understanding your workplace 'personality', the idea of a boss as a service, and reducing our focus on 'productivity' as a means to an end.




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The case against predictability

Everything we do is analyzed, measured, and quantified to create a model of us online, which then tries to influence our behavour. But how accurate is our quantified self?




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Disabled people want disability design—not disability dongles

People with disabilities want to be participants in design, not recipients of design




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'This century is crucial': Why the U.K.'s astronomer royal says humanity is at a critical crossroads

This week on Spark, we speak with Martin Rees, the U.K.’s astronomer royal and author of On The Future: Prospects for Humanity, about the challenges humanity will face in the future, and how we might harness technology to tackle them.




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Suggestions, subscriptions and no sense of community: Streaming is changing the way we watch TV

Who will be the winners and losers in the competitive streaming video market? And what can we, the consumers, make of all this dizzying choice?




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Truth decay: How digital technologies are helping shatter our shared sense of reality

Polarization and filter bubbles are destroying our shared sense of reality. Does this mean society is headed toward a state of psychosis?




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Thursday, April 2, 2020: Ty Burrell, Allan Rayman and more

Today on q: actor Ty Burrell, q screen columnist Kathleen Newman-Bremang, singer-songwriter Allan Rayman, writer and editor Lisa Moore.




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Meghan Trainor on overcoming anxiety and self-doubt to create her new album Treat Myself

The record breaking mega hit All About That Bass transformed Meghan Trainor into a chart-topping pop star before she turned 21 — but with sudden fame also came anxiety and self-doubt. Trainor put in the work to get back in a good place, the results of which can be heard on her new album, Treat Myself.




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Halifax Jewish community helps stranded plane load, baby whisperer, drag queen workshop and seal on a train

Plane stranded on Shabbat in Halifax and community comes to the rescue, Alberta man has talent calming babies in distress/fosters 88 babies over time, Winnipeg theatre company workshop for aspiring drag queens and St. John police officer deals with a rogue seal



  • Radio/The Story from Here

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Pandemic history,Kids paint utility boxes and Wild Goose families

St. John's history of pandemics, Calgary kids paint self portraits on utility box near school and Montreal conversation with family whose father/husband works in south Korea.



  • Radio/The Story from Here

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Quebec City food giveaway, wild rice harvesting and checking up on seniors

Quebec City store gives away leftover perishables, Lakehead University program helps teachers understand indigenous tradition of wild rice harvest and Bob Keating from CBC Nelson drops by seniors home with some groceries



  • Radio/The Story from Here

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Mar 21: COVID 19 vulnerability, COVID- and climate and more

Firing a cannonball at an asteroid and a fossil ‘wonderchicken’



  • Radio/Quirks & Quarks

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Immunity passes could be an 'interim measure' on the way to reopening society, physician says

Testing Canadians for immunity to the novel coronavirus — and issuing passes to those immune to the disease — could be a stepping stone to fully reopening the country’s economy, an Ottawa-area physician says.



  • Radio/The House

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Beauty: rocking the foundation

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? This episode examines the politics of appearance.




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The multi-talented Jonathan Miller: a life of creativity, curiosity and comedy

Eleanor Wachtel revisits her 2000 conversation with comedian, satirist, doctor and stage director Jonathan Miller. He died on Nov. 27, 2019.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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Bernardine Evaristo on black British identity and her Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other 

The award-winning British author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about amplifying the voices of marginalized people through literature.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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George Steiner on morality, his love of books and the marvels of language

Eleanor Wachtel revisits her 1995 conversation with the American literary critic and writer about the power of human speech. He died on Feb. 3, 2020.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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Adam Foulds on celebrity, solitude and the madness of desire

The Toronto-based British author talks about his love of film and society's fascination with actors and celebrity with Eleanor Wachtel.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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From Soviet Russia to Trump's America, Masha Gessen on the nature of power and morality

The Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about the abuse of power and rise of modern totalitarianism.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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The Dose: What you need to know about face masks and food safety

Dr. Goldman talks to 'the germ guy', Jason Tetro. They cover: How to don and doff a mask. The best material for making masks. Should a mask cover your nose? Can hospitals clean masks?  Should you worry about take-out food? Should you share homemade food? Does heat kill the virus on food? Do you need to disinfect every item from the store? Is it safe to handle money? What about pin pads?  Do gloves protect you from anything? 




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Higher education catches the virus; India and Australia's stymied relationship; The Pick - books, film and audio

Even as universities scramble to stay alive, there is no lifeline from the government. What's gone wrong?




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Can we cultivate social solidarity in a time of physical distancing?

Any meaningful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require imagination, risk, solidarity and vulnerability; it will mean refusing to ‘free-ride’ and a willingness to sacrifice. How can we cultivate this capacity for social solidarity in our time of social fragmentation and mutual distancing?



  • Ethics
  • Community and Society
  • Health
  • Epidemics and Pandemics

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How can we live with coronavirus uncertainty?

In little more than a month, the coronavirus has exploded the sense of certainty, confidence, optimism and control on which so much of modern life, the economy and politics are predicated. Were these always just illusions?



  • Ethics
  • Community and Society
  • Government and Politics
  • Health
  • Epidemics and Pandemics
  • Business
  • Economics and Finance

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Can we avoid cruelty in the face of COVID-19?

As societies, we are having to grapple with the question of whether some will be made to bear a disproportionate amount of the cost of our collective response to COVID-19.



  • Ethics
  • Community and Society
  • Health
  • Business
  • Economics and Finance
  • Government and Politics
  • Epidemics and Pandemics

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Ordinary vices: Is pride an affront to, or the basis of, dignity?

Can pride be ‘redeemed’, and form the basis of human dignity, or is pride as such a form of moral corruption, a debased form of moral vision?




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Photos & Video: Aries Center Celebrity Boxing

Aries Sports Center on the first floor at Windsor Place celebrated its first year of operation by giving back to the community, donating all of the proceeds from an event held today [July 28] to the Family Center. The day’s activities saw local ‘celebrities’ take part in short boxing matches, with Nadanja Bailey, Jah Simmons, […]

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Generation Next: Boxer Tyler Christopher

[Generation Next Youth Movement Series] Since early 2011, Tyler Christopher has been perfecting his boxing craft both locally and internationally. Since then, he has represented Bermuda in Mexico and Columbia. The 22-year-old is determined to make it to as far as the Olympics. “My main reason for starting boxing was to get better in fighting,” […]

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Benjamin Wins At Charity Police Boxing Event

The involvement of the Bermuda Police Service [BPS] in the sanctioned ‘Battle of the Badges II’ charity boxing event in Canada could not have ended on a better note, as 23-year-old Dejon Benjamin representing Police Gym out-boxed his more experienced opponent John McMullan representing the home town Halton Regional Police Service in Burlington, Ontario, Canada […]

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FUELLED Bermuda Launch Party On July 23

Former WBA Middleweight world boxing champion Teresa Perozzi and author of health & lifestyle book FUELLED, Agathe Holowatinc have announced the launch party of their company FUELLED Bermuda Ltd on Tuesday, July 23rd at Alchemy Fitness Studio on Reid Street from 6:30pm – 9.00pm. A spokesperson said, “Teresa Perozzi, former WBA Middleweight world boxing champion, […]

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Incognito - Positivity

Incognito’s joyous fourth album, full of smooth and authentic grooves.




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Various Artists - Sound City: Real to Reel

Dave Grohl and friends celebrate creativity and friendship on a mostly successful set.