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Elland Road is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Premier League club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. The stadium is the 14th largest football stadium in England.

The ground has hosted FA Cup semi-final matches as a neutral venue, and England international fixtures, and was selected as one of eight Euro 96 venues. Elland Road was used by rugby league club Hunslet in the mid-1980s and hosted two matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Elland Road has four stands – the Don Revie (North) Stand, the Jack Charlton (East) Stand, the Norman Hunter South Stand and the John Charles (West) Stand – and an all-seated capacity of 37,792 The record attendance of 57,892 was set on 15 March 1967 in an FA Cup 5th round replay against Sunderland. This was before the stadium became an all-seater venue as stipulated by the Taylor Report and the modern record is 40,287 for a Premiership match against Newcastle United on 22 December 2001. Plans are currently afoot to increase the capacity of Elland Road to 50,000, to be achieved by demolishing the West Stand and rebuilding the area.

The stadium has hosted concerts, including performances by bands such as Queen, U2, Happy Mondays and the Kaiser Chiefs.

History

Early history

The site, at the foot of Beeston Hill beside the A643 road to Elland, was owned by Bentley's Brewery and was called the Old Peacock Ground, after the pub which faced the land, hence the nickname the Peacocks associated with both Leeds City and United. The first occupants were Holbeck Rugby Club (rugby league) who moved from Holbeck Recreation Ground after buying the Old Peacock Ground from Bentley's for £1,100. The first competitive football match at the ground was the West Yorkshire Cup final on 23 April 1898 between Hunslet and Harrogate, with Hunslet winning 1–0.

The club erected a new stand in readiness for the 1898–99 season. The ground eventually became known simply as Elland Road. For the 1902–03 season the Association football team, Leeds Woodville of the Leeds League, shared the ground with Holbeck RLFC in the 1902–03 season, but Holbeck went under in 1904 after losing a play-off against St. Helens and the ground was put on the market. After a meeting at the Griffin Hotel in Boar Lane in August, a new club, Leeds City, was formed and it was agreed that the Elland Road ground would be rented for the upcoming season. The lease was signed on 13 October 1904, for a rent of £75 per year. The club had an option to buy the ground for £5,000 in March 1905, but in November, the price was reduced to £4,500.

After City's first season in the Football League, the club built a 5,000-seater covered stand on the west side at a cost of £1,050. Attendances were rising, culminating in over 22,500 people cramming into the stadium to watch a local derby with Bradford City on 30 December, bringing in £487 of gate receipts. An expansion programme continued, and the club's directors ensured that the initial success was built upon, employing a "ground committee" to oversee developments. In February 1906, 3,961 square yards of land on the Churwell and Gelderd Road side of the ground was bought from the Monk's Bridge Iron Company at a cost of £420. The committee built a 4,000-seater grandstand which the Lord Mayor, Joseph Hepworth, unveiled before a match against Chelsea on 17 November. The project cost £3,000 and over half a mile of steel was used. There was a training track for the players that ran the length of the stand, dressing and official's rooms and a motor garage. Drainage work was carried out on the pitch to prevent it from becoming waterlogged.

City experienced financial hardships jeopardising the club's future but after much uncertainty, an offer of £1,000 and an annual rental of £250 was accepted for the ground. The ground was used during the Great War as a venue for drill and shooting practice until the 1919–20 season commenced. City started that season brightly, but scandal arose involving illegal payments to players during the war years and the club was expelled from the Football League after only eight games. This led some local businessmen to contemplate digging up the clay deposits under the pitch and turning Elland Road into a brickyard. Yorkshire Amateurs became the tenants, and that club played there for a brief spell saving the ground from development.

In 1920, Yorkshire Amateurs sold Elland Road to the newly formed Leeds United for £250.

1920–1974

In the 1920s, the South Stand terrace was covered with a wooden barrel-shaped roof and came to be known as the Scratching Shed. Another stand was built on the east side terracing called the Lowfields. Behind the goal at the north end was a terrace known as the Spion Kop, or simply Kop, from a hill in South Africa on which 322 British soldiers lost their lives in the Battle of Spion Kop, in January 1900, in the Boer War.

No significant changes were made to Elland Road in the 1930s, and 1940s, although it did see some large attendances. On 27 December 1932, 56,796 spectators attended for the visit of eventual champions Arsenal – a record that would last for almost 35 years. The last game of that season saw Leeds play Middlesbrough at home in front of 9,006 spectators. The stadium was chosen to host the all city of Leeds Rugby Football League Championship Final between Leeds and Hunslet in 1938, when a crowd of 54,112 saw Hunslet win the title. In the Second World War, the ground was requisitioned by the War Office for administrative purposes.

Floodlights were first used on 9 November 1953 for a match against Hibernian when the £7,000 lights, claimed to be the most expensive in the country at the time, were switched on. The game attracted 31,500 spectators who saw two goals each from John Charles and manager Raich Carter as Leeds beat the Scottish side 4–1. It was the first of several Monday night games against teams from north of the border and in successive weeks, Dundee and Falkirk were the visitors to Elland Road.

In the early hours of Tuesday 18 September 1956, a fire gutted the West Stand and scorched large sections of the pitch. The blaze consumed the entire structure, including offices, kit, club records, physiotherapy equipment, dressing rooms, directors' rooms, the press box and the generators for the floodlighting system. The roof of the stand collapsed into the seating area before the fire brigade arrived and the total damage was estimated to be £100,000, but the club's insurance cover was inadequate. The players helped clear rubble and wreckage, but the 2,500-seater stand could not be salvaged. After a board meeting, the directors decided to launch a public appeal to build a new stand with assistance from Leeds City Council. The appeal raised £60,000 and a £180,000 West Stand was opened at the start of the following season.

The new stand had of 4,000 seats mounted behind a paddock, which could hold 6,000 standing spectators. Two years later another fire started after a Central League match against Preston North End affecting the West Stand. Fortunately, Cyril Williamson, the club secretary, and several directors were on hand and the fire was extinguished and no significant damage was caused.

The 1960s saw the arrival of Don Revie as manager and the club were promoted to the First Division. The club finished in the top four places for the next ten seasons and Elland Road hosted its first televised game – a league fixture against Everton on 20 March 1965 – and Leeds were 4–1 winners. Great advances were made on the stadium during Revie's reign and a new attendance record of 57,892 was set on 15 March 1967, in a fifth-round replay of the FA Cup against Sunderland. In April 1968, the Spion Kop terracing was stripped away to make way for a new stand at a cost of £250,000. The roofed structure was built in less than six weeks and became known as the Gelderd End. When completed it left around  of land behind the goal which was turfed, and the pitch moved  north.

Further improvements in 1970 included the coupling of the West Stand and the Kop with a £200,000 corner stand, the North-West corner. To complement the upgrade, an almost identical stand was built, linking the Lowfields stand and the Kop, which cost £200,000. In 1972, when the Leeds United Sports and Souvenir Shop opened, featuring a programme collection. In 1974, Leeds won the league for the second time and the Scratching Shed was dismantled and replaced by the South Stand at a cost of £500,000. This state of the art development comprised a standing paddock capable of holding 4,000 fans, a row of 16 executive boxes, above which was an all-seater 3,500 capacity stand. Plans to link the South Stand with the Lowfields were curtailed when Leeds ran out of money. In the same year, the floodlights were replaced by the tallest floodlights in Europe, measuring . Initially, three floodlights were erected – two at either side of the Kop and another in the South-West corner – and the other was erected four years later.

1982–2000
The first match televised live was the rugby league Challenge Cup final replay between Hull FC and Widnes played on 19 May 1982. In summer 1982, Leeds sold Elland Road to Leeds City Council for £2.5m, and the council granted the club a 125-year lease. Ambitious plans to improve the stadium and neighbouring sporting facilities were designed in 1987 by Newcastle upon Tyne architects and promoted by developers Baltic Consortium and W.H. White. The estimated costs were between £50 million and £75 million to re-build the Lowfields with a 7,500 all-seater stand and construct a peripheral 2,000-seater sports stadium adjacent to the stand. Other plans included a shopping centre, ice rink, cricket hall, cinema, nightclub, café, restaurant, waterpark, leisure centre and shops. None of the designs were acted on.

In September 1991, the South-East corner was opened, joining the South and Lowfields Stands providing a full corner stand for away supporters. This section was used as the "family stand" until membership proved too big for its 1,710 capacity and a new home found in the East Stand. It is prominent because of its yellow seats, which have given its nickname, the "cheese wedge". A banqueting suite at the rear of the west stand, with a conference centre, was opened in April 1992. The biggest renovation project to date began in the summer of 1992, when the Lowfields was demolished and replaced by a new East Stand – a 17,000-seater stand with two tiers and no restricted views. On completion in 1993, at a cost of £5.5m, it housed 25 executive boxes, 10,000 seats in the bottom tier, part of which formed the members-only family section, and a further 7,000 seats in the upper tier. The East Stand was then the biggest cantilever stand in the world. For the 1994-95 season Elland Road became an all-seater stadium, with nearly 7,000 seats replacing the terracing in the Kop, as directed by the Taylor Report. The new-look Kop was officially opened in October by the club's president, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood and Elsie Revie, widow of the late Don Revie. The Gelderd End was renamed the Don Revie Stand in honour of the club's former manager.

On 16 November 1997, the third and deciding match of the Super League Test series between Great Britain and Australia was played at Elland Road before a crowd of 39,337.

In December 1997, £11.3 million plans to improve the West and South Stands were unveiled which would have raised capacity to around 45,000. A new structure mirroring the East Stand would have seated around 12,000 people. A three-tier structure would focus on hospitality with a 15,000-seater indoor arena at the rear of the West Stand. This venue would have accommodated basketball, ice hockey, pop concerts and other events. However, after naming an ice hockey team, Leeds Lasers, to play at the arena, the project was shelved. Earlier plans to create a 65,000-seater "Wembley of the North" at Elland Road also failed to materialise.

Leeds received the ownership of Elland Road once again in 1998, when the new owners, Leeds Sporting Company agreed to pay £10 million to buy back the stadium from Leeds City Council.

2001–2010
On 16 August 2001, chairman Peter Ridsdale sent a letter to season ticket holders and shareholders regarding the future of the club outlining two options, to improve Elland Road or to relocate. A ballot form was included but the letter was biased in favour of relocation. Less than 13% voted to stay at Elland Road and 87.6% of the 18,500 who voted were in favour of the move. On 7 September 2001, Ridsdale announced his intention to move the club to a 50,000-seat stadium at Skelton in time for the 2004–05 season. The plans never came to fruition as Ridsdale resigned in March 2003, leaving financial disarray and the PLC was soon to follow in March 2004.

Later that year, Elland Road was sold with a 25-year lease and buy-back clause to raise funds to pay an instalment of a loan to Jack Petchey. It emerged on 27 December 2006 that the stadium had been sold to the British Virgin Islands-based Teak Trading Corporation 15 months before.

In summer 2006, the South Stand was updated and closed for the first few games of the 2006–07 season while work was completed. The refurbishment included boxing in the concrete columns and alcoves; overhaul of the kitchen concourse area, a mezzanine-level office area, modernisation of the corporate facilities above and a restaurant, Billy's Bar, named after former club captain Billy Bremner.

Plans for development at Elland Road to include hotels, a shopping centre and health club were featured in the programme for the match against Huddersfield Town on 8 December 2007. There would be hotels on the site of the shop. Possible adjacent developments could include an arena, casino, police headquarters, cafés, bars and parking for 2,700 cars. On 27 October 2008, the club released plans for redevelopment behind the East Stand containing a 350-room hotel, a covered arcade with shops, bars, and restaurants; extended and improved facilities for business conferences and events, a megastore, office block and nightclub. On 6 November 2008, the city council announced it would not be building the proposed Leeds Arena on council owned land adjacent to the ground.

On 16 December 2009, the host cities and stadia to be used if England won the right to host the 2018 World Cup were revealed. Leeds was chosen and had the bid have been successful the John Charles and Don Revie stands would have been rebuilt, leading to increased capacity of over 50,000 however this never happened due to England not hosting the 2018 World Cup.

On 28 December 2009, chairman Ken Bates spoke about future plans to increase the capacity of the South Stand in the future by around 2–3,000. This would be achieved by removing the executive boxes and replacing them with seating, however, this work was never started due to Ken Bates selling the club in 2012.

2010–present

In March 2011, the East Stand Development began phase one of a five-phase redevelopment project which included an extension to the East Stand Upper's main concourse along with the addition of 25 executive boxes and a modern upgrade to the external appearance of the stand; whilst this created extra corporate facilities and more room on the concourse, it in-turn reduced the East Stand Upper's capacity by around 2,500 seats, thus leaving the overall capacity of the ground to stand at just under 38,000 seats. An arcade, hotel and megastore were planned to be built as part of the four further phases, however these plans did not take place following the sale of the club to GFH Capital who then sold the club to Massimo Cellino.

In June 2017, new Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani bought the stadium back from Jacob Adler's company Teak Commercial Limited for £20 million, using his own company Greenfield Investment Pte Ltd. The first game taking back control of the stadium was against Oxford United in a pre-season friendly on Saturday 29 July 2017 in which Leeds United won 2–0.

In July 2017 the club announced a number of internal and external improvements were in the process of being made to Elland Road to improve the general appearance of the stadium. The improvements consisted of a partial new roof and cladding on the West Stand, banners on either side of the East Stand, South Stand and Northeast Corner of the ground featuring Leeds United legends past and present. In addition, the inside of the West Stand, dressing rooms and hospitality suites all underwent cosmetic improvement.

In April 2020, following the death of Leeds legend Norman Hunter, the South Stand of Elland Road was renamed "The Norman Hunter Stand".

In January 2021, the club announced its plans to transform the adjoining 'Centenary Pavilion' into a large vaccination centre to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom.

Layout

Don Revie North Stand

Capacity: 7,000 (including north-east and north-west corners)

The Don Revie Stand is at the north end of the ground. It was previously known as the Gelderd End or Kop and was originally a standing terrace, it was renamed in 1994 in honour of the club's most successful manager and former player, Don Revie. The Revie Stand was officially opened in October by the club's president, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood and Mrs E. Revie, the widow of Don Revie. The design has 7,000 seats as stipulated by the Taylor Report, making Elland Road an all-seater stadium. There is a "ground control box" in the north-west corner which is the most advanced in Europe. Videos and photographs taken of everyone entering the ground are monitored and security operations are synchronised. Images and video footage are obtained by the security cameras located around the ground.

Jack Charlton East Stand

Capacity: 14,900

The East Stand is the most recently constructed stand in the stadium. The two-tiered structure was built in the 1992–93 season to replace the Lowfields stand and was opened in the 1993–94 season at a cost of £5.5 million. On completion, it was the largest cantilever stand in the world, holding 10,000 spectators in the lower tier and a further 7,000 in the upper tier. The family area was moved from the South Stand and originally spanned the full lower tier; however, this was altered by Ken Bates and there are now two sections, one at either end of the lower tier for club members and season ticket holders attending matches with children. Sandwiched in between are 25 executive boxes and a large concourse with merchandise outlets, food shops, betting booths and a restaurant. Due to the redevelopment, the capacity of the East Stand was reduced and the words Leeds United AFC were taken off the seats.

Norman Hunter South Stand

Capacity: 5,000 (including South-East and South-West corners)

The South Stand was built in 1974 at a cost of £500,000 to replace the Scratching Shed, which had been there since the 1920s. It comprises two small tiers intersected with a row of 32 executive boxes and an executive restaurant. There are a few seats in the South-West Corner, and a large video screen for the 2009–10 season. The South-East Corner seats 1,710 fans and was used to house the away fans until they were moved to the West Stand. In summer 2006, the stand was redeveloped and closed for the first few games of the 2006–07 season. The refurbishment included boxing in the concrete columns and alcoves to give the stand a more modern exterior; an overhaul of the kitchen concourse area; a mezzanine-level office area; a total modernisation of the corporate facilities above and a restaurant called Billy's Bar, named after former captain Billy Bremner. The club's superstore is nearby.  On 23 April 2020 the club announced that the stand would be named after Norman Hunter, who had died on 20 April.

John Charles West Stand

Capacity: 11,000

The John Charles Stand is on the west side of the pitch and was known as the West Stand until the fans demanded a tribute to former player John Charles, following his death on 21 February 2004. It is currently the oldest two-tiered stand at Elland Road, having been built in 1957 after the previous stand burnt down, ironically forcing Charles' sale as the club needed the funds to pay for a new stand. The corporate seats are located here and there is a commentary gantry and walkway for TV personnel. The radio and press have facilities in this stand. The West Stand houses the tunnel and the directors' box, where home and away team directors view the match, along with the club doctor. There are many suites incorporated within the stand and a banqueting suite and conference centre are attached to the rear, having been opened in April 1992. As of September 2011, parts of the West Stand became the new home for away fans following a £300,000 refurbishment. Future plans would see the John Charles Stand redeveloped to hold a two-floored, three-tiered 3500 square metre site along with executive boxes as part of the ambitions of turning Elland Road into a stadium further capable of hosting world class matches and events.

The pitch
The pitch measures approximately  long by  wide, with run-off space on each side. There is an under-soil heating system installed beneath the surface, consisting of  of piping. This, together with a good drainage system, means that only heavy fog, a blizzard or flooding would force the club to cancel a match. There are wells sunk approximately  beneath the West Stand and the North Stand and a pumping system is situated under the South Stand, meaning that the club can draw on its own supply of water, should the need arise. However, the first time the club used it, the pitch turned black as the water was too cold.

Billy Bremner and Don Revie statues
A statue for legendary captain Billy Bremner was erected outside the ground in 1999. A statue for Leeds' most successful manager Don Revie was also built in 2012, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the club winning the FA Cup.

Bremner Square XI
As part of the renovation towards the Bremner statue to take place in the summer of 2018, the following team was voted by the fans as 11 Legendary players (including Billy Bremner). They were voted to each have a stone engraved around the Billy Bremner statue outside Elland Road. They were described as '10 legend stones' in the area around the famous statue. Each stone will be engraved with the legends keys stats and achievements during their career's with Leeds United.
  Billy Bremner (statue)
  John Charles
  Jack Charlton
  Allan Clarke
  Johnny Giles
  Eddie Gray
  Norman Hunter
  Peter Lorimer
  Lucas Radebe
  Gary Speed
  Gordon Strachan

Future
In August 2001, when Leeds were still a leading Premier League side, chairman Peter Ridsdale unveiled plans for the club to relocate to a 50,000-seat stadium in Skelton. The following month, the club's 33,250 season ticket holders were asked to vote on the proposed relocation. 87.6% of them voted in favour of relocation, but the plans were abandoned within two years following the onset of the club's financial crisis and decline in fortunes on the field.

More recently in October 2019, Leeds United's managing director Angus Kinnear suggested that Elland Road's capacity could be expanded to 50,000 should they be promoted to the Premier League.

Other uses

Football

FA Cup semi-finals
Elland Road has hosted FA Cup semi-final matches as a neutral venue on nine occasions, the first being a tie between Barnsley and Everton on 26 March 1910 and the last on 9 April 1995 in a game between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. Other FA Cup semi-finals to have taken place at Elland Road had included Arsenal v. Hull City in 1930, Birmingham City v. Sunderland in 1931, West Bromwich Albion v. Bolton Wanderers in 1935, Charlton Athletic v. Newcastle United in 1947, Newcastle United v. Blackburn Rovers in 1952, Leicester City v. Sheffield United in 1961 and West Ham United v. Everton in 1980. In addition when Sheffield Wednesday faced Sheffield United in the 1993 FA Cup semi-final the venue was originally planned to be Elland Road but was switched to Wembley Stadium following protests from both clubs and their supporters that the stadium was too small to host such a fixture, the risk of crowd trouble were the fixture to be played at Elland Road and due to London clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal having their semi-final at Wembley it was perceived the London clubs would receive an unfair advantage for the FA Cup final.

Football internationals
The ground has hosted three England men's international fixtures and one England women's international. On 8 June 1995, England drew 3–3 with Sweden. This was the first England home international played away from Wembley in 22 years, and the first time since 1946 that a new ground had hosted an England international game. The second game was a friendly match against Italy on 27 March 2002 while the new Wembley was being built. In addition, Elland Road would have been a potential host stadium for the football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics had Manchester won its bid to host the 2000 Summer Olympics as well as in the failed English bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

England women defeated the Netherlands 5–1 at Elland Road in their final preparation match before winning UEFA Women's Euro 2022 as the host nation.

When England were picked to host Euro 96, the most recent men's international tournament held in the country, Elland Road was selected as one of the eight venues. It staged three Group B matches, all of them involving Spain. The first two were 1–1 draws with Bulgaria on 9 June 1996 and France on 15 June 1996. The third was a 2–1 win over Romania on 18 June 1996.

Two of Leeds' West Yorkshire rivals have also used Elland Road as their temporary 'home'. The first club to benefit from the facilities was Huddersfield Town, when a fire struck their ground on 3 April 1950. Leeds offered its services and Huddersfield played the last two games of the 1949–50 season there before returning to Leeds Road the next season, following extensive work to revamp the burnt main stand. Bradford City used Elland Road for three matches after 11 May 1985 when a fire consumed a stand at Valley Parade during a match against Lincoln City. Two months after the Bradford City stadium fire, the 1966 World Cup Final teams from England and West Germany met in a rematch at Elland Road and raised £46,000 for the Fire Disaster Fund, with England winning the game, 6–4.

When non-league team, Farsley Celtic, reached the first round of the FA Cup in 1974, the game was played at Elland Road. Farsley's opposition was Division Three side Tranmere Rovers and a crowd of 10,337 saw the League club win, 2–0. In 1990 Elland Road hosted the replay to the final of the FA Vase which Yeading F.C. won 1–0 against Bridlington Town A.F.C.

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said that Elland Road was "the most intimidating venue in Europe".

Rugby league
Hunslet rugby league club shared the stadium from the 1983–1995 after the ground at the Elland Road Greyhound Stadium in Beeston closed in 1982 (from 1980 to 1982 the club played at the Mount Pleasant ground in Batley). The 1982 Challenge Cup Final Replay between Widnes and Hull FC was played there. Rugby League was played at international level when a Great Britain v. New Zealand test match was staged on 9 November 1985.

The stadium hosted the Tri-Nations Final in 2004, when a capacity crowd saw Australia beat Great Britain, 44–4, and again in 2005, in a match where 26,534 people watched New Zealand beat Australia 24–0. The 2009 Rugby League Four Nations Final between England and Australia was played there with a 16–46 win for Australia. On 19 November 2011 the 2011 Rugby League Four Nations Final between England and Australia was also played at the stadium resulting in an 8–30 win for Australia.

Leeds Rhinos have played several matches at Elland Road. In the 1988 Yorkshire County Cup final, they beat Castleford Tigers 33–12. Due to the redevelopment of their traditional home of Headingley Stadium, the Rhinos will begin the 2018 Super League campaign with two league fixtures at Elland Road.

The record attendance for a rugby league match at Elland Road of 54,112 was set on 30 April 1938 for the Championship Final Replay between Leeds and Hunslet. The record for a Rugby League international of 39,468 was set on 20 November 1994 for the deciding 3rd Test of the 1994 Ashes series between Great Britain and Australia.

Rugby league internationals
Elland Road has also hosted 15 rugby league internationals. New Zealand's win over Australia in the 2005 Tri-Nations Final was Australia's first series or tournament loss since being defeated 2–0 by France at the end of the 1978 Kangaroo tour. A fifteenth international was played at the stadium when England played New Zealand in the 2018 Baskerville Shield. On 29 January 2019, it was announced that Elland Road would play host to a semi-final match in the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.

Super League
Elland Road hosted two of Leeds Rhinos' home Super League games during the redevelopment of Headingley Stadium.

Challenge Cup
In 2021, Elland Road was selected to host the 2022 Challenge Cup triple header on the men's semi-finals and women's final.

World Club Challenge
Elland Road has also hosted four of Leeds Rhinos World Club Challenge matches. The results were as follows;

* Melbourne Storm stripped of their 2010 WCC title in the wake of their salary cap breach.

Rugby union

A rugby union match between the South Africa national rugby union team and the North of England rugby union team was played at Elland Road on 10 November 1992 which saw South Africa beat the North of England in front of an audience of 14,000.

Rugby union internationals
Elland Road hosted two matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Other sports
American football made a brief appearance at the ground when the Leeds Cougars of the British American Football League switched from their old ground at Bramley to play at Elland Road in May 1986. The following year they had to relocate because improvements to the stadium were required. The ground hosted a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Mayo, organised by the Yorkshire County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, in 1987.

There was a greyhound stadium to the south-west of Elland Road which opened on 16 July 1927. It was owned by the Greyhound Racing Association and they eventually sold it to the Totalisators and Greyhound Holdings (T.G.H) who were bought out by Ladbrokes in 1974.

In 1979, the track kennels were closed followed by the track itself on 1 March 1982.

There was also a speedway track known as Fullerton Park, which operated between the two world wars, attracted audiences in the range of 10,000–20,000 people. Fullerton Park also held greyhound racing from 1927 to 1938.

Elland Road was to host a Twenty20 cricket game on 31 July 2009. The game was to be contested between a Leeds United International XI and the Lashings World XI, however was cancelled when a suitable artificial pitch could not be found.

On 23 January, it was confirmed that Boxer Josh Warrington would fight IBF world champion Lee Selby (26-1) in his first world title fight on 19 May. On 30 January Elland Road was confirmed as the venue for the fight. Josh Warrington secured a split-decision victory over Selby by thoroughly outworking him for the majority of the twelve rounds to claim the title, and hand Selby his second career loss. The match featured ex Leeds United legend Lucas Radebe as part of Warrington's ringwalk and band Kaiser Chiefs also played songs at the event.

Film and television

Older parts of the stadium were used in the 2009 film The Damned United, which was centred on the 44-day reign of Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen) at the club in 1974. Some shots of the 1974 Elland Road were shot at other locations to make the film look more in keeping with that era.

Elland Road was used as a substitute for the old Wembley Stadium for scenes in the 2010 film The King's Speech, which was nominated for 12 Oscars, three of which were for its stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.

The ground was also featured in a 1975 episode of BBC sitcom Porridge, "Happy Release", in which prisoners Fletcher and Blanco gain revenge on a fellow prisoner, Norris, by giving him a fake treasure map before his release. The episode ends with Norris being arrested by the police after being found digging up a section of the Elland Road pitch in the middle of the night; the scenes were actually filmed at QPR's Loftus Road ground.

Concerts

Religious events
In 1985, 15,000 Jehovah's Witnesses held a three-day convention at Elland Road stadium.<"Integrity Keepers" District Conventions Programme> Elland Road hosted the annual Jehovah's Witness conventions until 2013 when they moved to the new First Direct Arena.

Transport
The nearest railway station is Cottingley, although fans travelling will be more likely to arrive at Leeds Station, which is approximately  from the stadium. This is around a 35-minute walk, but taxis and buses run from outside the station to the ground. Visitors travelling by car can park in the ground's nearby car parks or make use of limited space in surrounding streets. On match days there are special bus services direct to and from the stadium, usually departing from Sovereign Street near Leeds Station as well as regular local bus services.

Leeds City Council have raised plans for a railway station on the Wakefield Line serving Elland Road but there are no time frames since capacity issues on the Wakefield Line and funding for a new station would need addressing.

Attendance

Leeds City
In Leeds City's brief history, attendances were among the worst in the league. The club competed in the league for 15 years, from the 1905–06 season until its expulsion in the 1919–20 season. The club was poorly financed throughout that period. Association football was a new concept in the area, which as traditionally a rugby league region. Nonetheless, the club were, until the 2009 relegation of Luton Town, the highest-placed team not currently in the league in the all-time average attendance figures for the Football League and Premier League. In total, 1,944,365 people attended Elland Road for all the matches played by the club, giving an average figure of 10,234.

Leeds United
Leeds United was formed shortly after City's dissolution and entered the league in the 1920–21 season. By this time, football had established itself and in its first season, the average attendance was over 16,000. As of the 2005–06 season, 42,339,944 have attended all of Leeds United's matches combined, which gives an average of 25,689. This figure is the 10th highest average in England. The table gives a summary of the attendance figures of all Leeds United's league games in every season since the turn of the century.

In popular media
The stadium was licensed in 2020 for EA SPORTS FIFA 21 video-game for the first time.

Gallery

Notes

References
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External links

 Official Leeds United website
 BBC Leeds 360 – Elland Road Stadium
 Photos of Elland Road – wafll.com
 Stadium Guide Article
 A brief history of Elland Road

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Take an afternoon and tour some of the fabulous and world famous wineries and vineyards dotting the hillside along the Gorge. Every winery offers something a little different and most offer tours and tastings.
This glorious falls is only 20 minutes West of Stevenson Washington on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. With cascading drops of 542 feet Multnomah falls is something not to be missed. View from a distance or from the 45 foot long long Benson Bridge.
Located in Cascade Locks, the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler offers riverboat cruises aboard an authentic triple deck paddle wheeler. The Sternwheeler is the ultimate getaway to view the Columbia river gorge. Meal cruises and sightseeing excursions are available.
Located 733 feet above the Columiba river, the Vista house offers beautiful views of the National Scenic area.The Vista House was built on Crown Point in 1916 as a memorial to Oregon Pioneers and as a comfort station for those traveling on the Historic Columbia River Highway. Open to visitors year round this is quite a site to behold.
Over 350 miles of trails dot the Columbia Gorge and are suitable for a variety of skill levels. From trecherous hikes up mountains to leisurely strolls along the banks of the river, there is something for everyone when hiking along the Columbia Gorge. Pack a lunch and a camera and discover the beauty this National Scenic Area has to offer.
The Columbia River and surrounding waterways offer a variety of fishing adventures. Trout, Bass, Salmon, and Sturgeon can all be found in the river. Tours and many local charters are also available.


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Enterprise je ve fiktivním světě Star Trek vytvořeném producentem Genem Roddenberrym jméno několika vesmírných lodí (hvězdoletů), které se postupně objevily v seriálech a filmech natočených na motivy Star Treku. Většina z těchto lodí je označena registračním číslem NCC-1701, které je doplněno písmenem v abecedním pořadí.

Historie jména Enterprise
V reálném světě je jméno Enterprise používáno již dlouhou dobu. První byla francouzská námořní fregata L'Entreprise zajatá Brity v roce 1705. Ti ji překřtili na HMS Enterprise a zařadili do Royal Navy. Po ní následovalo dalších devět britských válečných lodí tohoto jména. První americká Enterprise byla zařazena do služby v roce 1775 během americké války za nezávislost. Osmé plavidlo tohoto jména, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) z roku 1961, je první letadlovou lodí s jaderným pohonem.

Jménem Enterprise (1976) byl pojmenován také první americký kosmický raketoplán, který však sloužil pouze pro testovací lety v zemské atmosféře. Toto jméno bylo zvoleno po petici fanoušků Star Treku, původně se měl jmenovat Constitution.

Firma Virgin Galactic v současnosti (červen 2017) chystá turistické lety do vesmíru (suborbitální lety). Společnost pojmenovala svoji první loď VSS Enterprise na počest plavidel Enterprise ze Star Treku. Loď ale v říjnu 2014 postihla nehoda, při které byla loď zničena a jeden pilot zemřel.

Enterprise ve Star Treku
USS Enterprise (XCV 330)
 Třída: Declaration
 Ve službě: kolem roku 2130
 Velící důstojníci: neznámý
USS Enterprise (XCV 330) byla zmíněna ve snímku Star Trek: Film (1979) v rámci série ilustrací znázorňujících lodě pojmenované Enterprise. Podle knihy Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology se jednalo o první mezihvězdnou loď vypuštěnou roku 2123.

Enterprise (NX-01)
 Třída: NX
 Ve službě: 2151–2161
 Velící důstojníci: Jonathan Archer
Jednalo se o loď Spojené Země, jejíž osudy zachytil seriál Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
 Třída: Constitution
 Ve službě: 2245–2285
 Velící důstojníci: Robert April, Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk, Willard Decker, Spock
První Enterprise ve službách Spojené federace planet účinkovala v hraném seriálu Star Trek (1966–1969) a ve stejnojmenném animovaném seriálu (1973–1974). Po přestavbě (refitu) byla k vidění ve snímcích Star Trek: Film (1979), Star Trek II: Khanův hněv (1982) a Star Trek III: Pátrání po Spockovi (1984). Představila se také v úplném závěru seriálu Star Trek: Discovery (2018).

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)
 Třída: Constitution
 Ve službě: 2286–2293
 Velící důstojníci: James T. Kirk
Poprvé byla představena na konci filmu Star Trek IV: Cesta domů (1984). Již hlavní roli hrála ve snímcích Star Trek V: Nejzazší hranice (1988) a Star Trek VI: Neobjevená země (1991).

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)
 Třída: Excelsior
 Ve službě: 2293–?
 Velící důstojníci: John Harriman
Byla vypuštěna na začátku filmu Star Trek: Generace (1994).

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C)
 Třída: Ambassador
 Ve službě: ?–2344
 Velící důstojníci: Rachel Garrettová
Čtvrtá federační Enterprise se objevila v epizodě "Enterprise včerejška" (1990) seriálu Star Trek: Nová generace, kdy se dostala do alternativní budoucnosti; brzo se ale vrátila do své doby.

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
 Třída: Galaxy
 Ve službě: 2363–2371
 Velící důstojníci: Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Edward Jellico
Osudy Enterprise-D a její posádky byly natočeny jako seriál Star Trek: Nová generace (1987–1994), na který navázal film Star Trek: Generace (1994).

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
 Třída: Sovereign
 Ve službě: od 2372
 Velící důstojníci: Jean-Luc Picard
Nejnovější Enterprise se představila ve filmech Star Trek: První kontakt (1996), Star Trek: Vzpoura (1998) a Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

Alternativní časové linie
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
 Třída: Constitution
 Ve službě: od 2258
 Velící důstojníci: Christopher Pike, Spock, James T. Kirk
 Film Star Trek (2009) se z větší části odehrává v alternativní časové linii, ve které byla první loď Federace se jménem Enterprise vypuštěna roku 2258. Na tento snímek navázaly filmy Star Trek: Do temnoty (2013) a Star Trek: Do neznáma (2016).

Enterprise-D byla ukázána v alternativní budoucnosti v epizodě "Všechno dobré..." (1994) seriálu Star Trek: Nová generace.

V epizodě "Azati Jedna" (2004) seriálu Star Trek: Enterprise se v jedné z variant budoucího 26. století objevila Enterprise-J.

Zrcadlový vesmír
ISS Enterprise (NX-01) se představila v epizodě "V zemi za zrcadlem" (2005) seriálu Star Trek: Enterprise.

V epizodě "Zrcadlo, zrcadlo" (1967) původního seriálu Star Trek se vyskytovala ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701).

Reference

Externí odkazy

  USS Enterprise na Memory Alpha
  ISS Enterprise na Memory Alpha

Lodě Star Treku

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Kaptur Introduces H.R.2176 'To Restore Glass-Steagall Act'
April 10, 2019 (EIRNS)—Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), on April 9, as the House Financial Service Committee was holding a largely toothless hearing of major Wall Street bank CEOs, introduced a bill to restore the Glass-Steagall Act into the 116th Congress. The bill, H.R.2176, had 25 originating cosponsors, all Democrats, who are listed below. In addition, Kaptur was publicly supported by the AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America, Public Citizen, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, and Take On Wall Street.
Representative Kaptur said that among other provisions, "The Return to Prudent Banking Act amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to prohibit any insured depository institution from being an affiliate of any broker or dealer, investment adviser, investment company, or any other person or entity engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities."
The act would allow a maximum of two years for separation and divestiture. It "Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, or another appropriate federal banking agency to report to Congress a detailed description of the basis for its decision each time it makes a determination or grants an extension concerning such bank separation."
And it expands its prohibitions of the original 1933 Glass-Steagall Act against the transaction of deposit-and-loan banking activities by securities firms.
Originating cosponsors are Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3); Rep. Susan Wild (PA-7); Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-8); Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17); Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14); Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12); Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9); Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-4); Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-At-Large); Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-2); Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5); Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2); Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-9); Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7); Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-1); Rep. David Cicilline (RI-1); Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-18); Rep. Paul Tonko (NY-20); Rep. Peter Welch (VT-At-Large); Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13); Rep. Grace Napolitano (CA-32); Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-2); Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ-3); Rep. John Yarmuth (KY-3); Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40).

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Dave Walder is about to set foot on the road less travelled.
The diminutive fly-half, a Wasps player until the end of the season, is close to agreeing a move to Japan with Tokyo-based Mitsubishi, where he hopes to enjoy two more years of action while also furthering his coaching education.
As one of the league's most reliable practitioners, Walder has become part of the furniture in the Premiership. After a successful spell with Newcastle and glitzy introduction to Wasps in 2006, where Premiership titles and Heineken Cups were the order of the day, the 32-year-old now has one eye on life further down the road and a career marshalling the champions of the future.
First, he will make an assault on one of rugby's remaining frontiers. The Japanese top flight has grown in stature in recent seasons through exposure to the likes of Wallabies legend George Gregan and former All Black Tony Brown, while Springboks scrum-half Fourie du Preez will make the switch post-World Cup.
Big-money moves to Japan are commonplace for players plying their trade in New Zealand or Australia, but it is far less common for a northern hemisphere player to trade in. For Walder, Wasps' reluctance to offer him a two-year extension opened the door to experience something completely new.
"I've always wanted to make a lifestyle decision at the end of my career and try something new," he said. "Originally the plan was to go to France, sort of five or six years ago I was hoping I'd finish my career in France, but then the Japanese thing came along.
"I don't think the French market was quite as exciting or quite as appealing as it maybe was three or four years ago, with French clubs having had their fingers burned a little bit with some players and some players having had their fingers burned with French clubs.
"I didn't want to leave Wasps but I was at the stage where I said I wanted to do two more years and that would probably be me, and Wasps only offered me a one-year deal. The Japanese club came along and offered me a two-year deal, I bit their hand off really. It ticks all the boxes: a major city in the world, learning a new language, financially better off, the season is shorter. It's a chance to experience a new way of life and hopefully I can bring a few aspects of the English game to the Japanese."
A big part of the challenge for Walder is the opportunity to add to his coaching resume. This season he has been complementing his playing duties with Wasps with time spent learning the coaching ropes at National One side Rosslyn Park and his move to Japan could represent stage two of his plan.
"I've been asked to work with the backs coach over there," he said. "Rosslyn Park have been great to me, I've really enjoyed that. They've given me a taste for it. I'm not ready to hang the boots up yet but I'd be looking to do so after a couple of seasons. Coaching is very much something I want to go into. It's something I've always enjoyed doing. I like being outdoors, I like being able to watch people develop.
"I have to make sure it's the right thing, with all due respect I don't think anything below National One would appeal to me too much, that's where I've set my sights and I'd like to go higher, Championship, Premiership and beyond. Rosslyn Park have given me a grounding and given me an entry into it, I've learned a few good things this year that will hold me in good stead moving forward."
The second annual St George's Day Game between London Wasps and Bath Rugby will be staged at Twickenham on April 23. Four special causes will be celebrated, with Wasps donating £1 for every ticket sold to the charities. BLESMA (Limbless Veterans), the Parachute Regiment Charity, Combat Stress and SBSA (Special Boat Service Association) will all be involved. Tickets are on sale now by calling 0844 225 2990 or from ticketmaster.co.uk and are priced from just £15 for adults and £8 for concessions.


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1) What is your go-to re-watch drama and why?
2) What drama theme do you wish didn't exist?
Oh and evil mothers… why do so many male main leads have horrible mothers or grandmothers?
3) Who is your favourite actor/actress?
4) What is your guilty pleasure drama theme?
5) What drama would you recommend to somebody who has never seem an Asian drama?
I probably wouldn't recommend anything too overly 'dramaland-ish'. Dramas are like K-Pop, you have to start off gently. I would probably recommend Heart To Heart, God's Quiz (any crime drama really) or A Gentleman's Dignity.
6) Explain the plot of your favourite drama without naming it.
Oooh this is such a good question!
7) Where would you most like to travel?
8) What is your goal for the second half of the year?
My goal is to lower my anxiety and try to be outgoing and be less stressed as I am going to University!! And I will be living on campus for my new start.
9) What is your creative outlet?
This blog definitely. I like coming on here and recapping episodes and visually seeing the efforts of my time on the screen. I also have three tumblr's ^^" KworldReview (which I run with a friend), Cavernofdreams and Wordadventures.
10) What country do you blog from?
(I know this isn't 5-11, but I don't follow that many people just yet and I seem to follow blogs that have over the follower limit).
When did you start watching dramas and how did you find them?
What is your favourite genre of drama?
Do you pay special attention to OST's, if so what is your favourite?
Explain the plot of your favourite drama without naming it (this was such a good question I'm reusing ^^).
If you could be transported into any drama (as a main character) which would you choose and why?
If you could get a sequel to a drama, which would you pick and why?
How do you feel about idol dramas/ idols acting in dramas?
Why did you start a wordpress blog?
How best do you like to spend your free-time?


First, a great vote of thanks from all three of us to those who have so far participated in the survey. Roughly equal numbers have completed the academics' and industrialists' surveys. This gives us the ability to let you know that the average time taken to complete the industrialists' survey was just over nine minutes and the academics' survey just over four minutes so if you have not does so yet—it is not too late as the links remain open… please go to the survey links below.
As I started to look at the results I realised that some decisions would have to be made on how to weight and visualise the answers we were receiving. As the survey has been crafted to harvest as much information as possible whilst consuming as little of your precious time as possible, it does not dig deeply into the content of what is actually being taught or requested. At the extremes of the response scales there are obviously no problems—a subject being the topic of a compulsory course is clearly ranked the highest and a topic not being taught at all the lowest. However, how do you value the perceived importance being given to a topic which is covered only in a supplementary course which a student may well opt not to take, as opposed the same topic being mentioned—but not the main topic—in a mandatory course all students need to attend.
Interestingly, this mirrors, to a certain extent, the discussions around the types of analysts we are looking to recruit in the future. I am personally very much in the camp of looking for "T-shaped analysts". Stolen from the business concept of T-shaped managers, this has nothing to do with recruiting colleagues based on the hours per-day they spend in the gym. I like to look for people who can not only contribute to our teams by bringing new deeper insights on a specific field, but have the experience and personality to be able to contribute across teams and expertise areas sharing lessons learnt. In the past, I have often seen cases where a spectroscopist will continue to struggle with a complex problem using the tools at their disposal, sometimes for months, just because they were asked a specific question but did not have the experience or network to know that a different group even just down the corridor could actually solve the problem in a fraction of the time. So where does that leave us? I have concluded for this column, maybe a little controversially, that being exposed during your academic training to the strengths and weaknesses of many different analytical techniques will probably be of greater value later in your industrial career than spending too much time going deeper into only a few techniques. Sorry if you disagree!
So, if we look at Figure 1 you can see how I have assessed the responses to the first question for academics on the coverage of analytical techniques likely to be encountered in industry.
These results were somewhat surprising in that I would have assumed the main chromatography techniques would have been at the heart of all analytical chemistry teaching. The lack of priority given to some of the key sample preparation techniques which must be mastered as a matter of course, since spectroscopists are constantly driven to deliver lower and lower limits of detection, is worrying.
Focussing on the spectroscopic techniques, the results are probably a little less surprising for me with the exception of the weakness in the teaching of atomic absorption and emission spectroscopies.
Here again, I have imposed an arbitrary weighting on the responses for the visual representation of the importance of the topic shown in Figure 2. I have given particular weight to the techniques which are mandatory for a student to carry out in the laboratory during their education. I have applied somewhat less weight if this hands-on experience is not mandatory. Much less weight has been given if they only carry out the sample preparation steps and hand the sample over to be measured for them, or if they only have the method demonstrated to them and do not actually get to touch the equipment themselves.
As mentioned in the first column on this survey, we may now actually see the cost of running academic laboratories coming in as a bad, if unavoidable, influencing factor in the selection of topics being taught to students in the laboratory.
Figure 1. Weight given to teaching different analytical techniques.
Figure 2. Weight given to laboratory-based training in the different analytical technqiues.
Figure 3. Weight given by industrialists to knowledge in the different analytical technqiues.
Well, if we look at Figure 3—unfortunately in many areas they do not. I have not tried to weight these responses as I found I was effectively looking for answers which agreed with my prejudices! I have let the numbers speak for themselves. For me the biggest revelation is the strong preference for employers in a broad theoretical knowledge across pretty much all the techniques mentioned in the survey. This goes against what we see from the academics, where students may well not have been taught many of the subjects important in the industrial labs by the time they finish university.
Industrialists also clearly believe that a much greater level of practical skills is to be expected from students they are recruiting than is reflected both in the breadth and in the depth of what they receive at university.
As to the other skills being taught to future industrial analytical chemists, the prioritisation of the most wanted skills is not too different from the ranking placed by the educationalists (Table 1).
Table 1. Prioritisation of other skills between educators and employers.
Table 2 shows a summary of the weighted assessment of the different priorities given to different topics by industrialists, academics planning lecture courses and academic practical laboratory work.
As I feared there does seem to be a need to re-align priorities. More emphasis on the preparation techniques for handling samples in the academic arena is needed to ensure that graduates of the future are better suited to the world in which they will need to find employment. As to the availability of more expensive spectroscopic techniques, I think there could also be lessons to be learnt around industrialists understanding the financial pressures that universities find themselves under. They might decide to take concrete steps to help ensure access for students to facilities their universities can no longer justify maintaining on cost grounds. Additionally, the weighting between hard analytical skills and the softer work-place integration type of skills seems to be of concern.
Finally, if you have not yet completed the survey please find some time today to do so. As mentioned in the title, this is just a quick preliminary look at the results that have come in to-date and a much stronger statistical base from respondents from a wider geographical area would be greatly appreciated!


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One Night to Rememebr è il secondo album live del cantante britannico Seal, pubblicato nel 2006 dalla Warner Music UK.

Tracce

CD

Overture
The Beginning
Killer
Colour
Prayer for the Dying
Don't Let It Bring You Down
State of Grace
Violet
Love's Divine
Crazy
Everything Will Be Alright
Kiss from a Rose
Lullaby
Get It Together

DVD
Overture
The Beginning
Killer
Colour
Prayer for the Dying
Don't Let It Bring You Down
State of Grace
Violet
Love's Divine
Let Me Sleep Beside You
Crazy
Everything Will Be Alright
Still Love Remains
Kiss from a Rose
Lullaby
Get It Together
Bonus: Making Of...

Collegamenti esterni


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export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/bin

# Safety feature: exit script if error is returned, or if variables not set.
# Exit if a pipeline results in an error.

set -ue
set -o pipefail

## Automatic EBS Volume Snapshot Creation & Clean-Up Script
#
# Written by Casey Labs Inc. (https://www.caseylabs.com)
# Contact us for all your Amazon Web Services Consulting needs!
# Script Github repo: https://github.com/CaseyLabs/aws-ec2-ebs-automatic-snapshot-bash
#
# Additonal credits: Log function by Alan Franzoni; Pre-req check by Colin Johnson
#
# PURPOSE: This Bash script can be used to take automatic snapshots of your Linux EC2 instance. Script process:
# - Determine the instance ID of the EC2 server on which the script runs
# - Gather a list of all volume IDs attached to that instance
# - Take a snapshot of each attached volume
# - The script will then delete all associated snapshots taken by the script that are older than 7 days
#
# DISCLAIMER: This script deletes snapshots (though only the ones that it creates).
# Make sure that you understand how the script works. No responsibility accepted in event of accidental data loss.
#

## Variable Declartions ##

# Get Instance Details
instance_id=$(wget -q -O- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
region=$(wget -q -O- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed -e 's/\([1-9]\).$/\1/g')
server_name="tfp-heston"

# Set Logging Options
logfile="/var/log/ebs-snapshot.log"
logfile_max_lines="5000"

# How many days do you wish to retain backups for? Default: 7 days
retention_days="7"
retention_date_in_seconds=$(date +%s --date "$retention_days days ago")

## Function Declarations ##

# Function: Setup logfile and redirect stdout/stderr.
log_setup() {
    # Check if logfile exists and is writable.
    ( [ -e "$logfile" ] || touch "$logfile" ) && [ ! -w "$logfile" ] && echo "ERROR: Cannot write to $logfile. Check permissions or sudo access." && exit 1

    tmplog=$(tail -n $logfile_max_lines $logfile 2>/dev/null) && echo "${tmplog}" > $logfile
    exec > >(tee -a $logfile)
    exec 2>&1
}

# Function: Log an event.
log() {
    echo "[$(date +"%Y-%m-%d"+"%T")]: $*"
}

# Function: Confirm that the AWS CLI and related tools are installed.
prerequisite_check() {
	for prerequisite in aws wget; do
		hash $prerequisite &> /dev/null
		if [[ $? == 1 ]]; then
			echo "In order to use this script, the executable \"$prerequisite\" must be installed." 1>&2; exit 70
		fi
	done
}

# Function: Snapshot all volumes attached to this instance.
snapshot_volumes() {
	for volume_id in $volume_list; do
		log "Volume ID is $volume_id"

		# Get the attched device name to add to the description so we can easily tell which volume this is.
		device_name=$(aws ec2 describe-volumes --region $region --output=text --volume-ids $volume_id --query 'Volumes[0].{Devices:Attachments[0].Device}')

		# Take a snapshot of the current volume, and capture the resulting snapshot ID
		snapshot_description=$server_name"-$(hostname)-$device_name-backup-$(date +%F_%T)"

		snapshot_id=$(aws ec2 create-snapshot --region $region --output=text --description $snapshot_description --volume-id $volume_id --query SnapshotId)
		log "New snapshot is $snapshot_id"

		# Add a "CreatedBy:AutomatedBackup" tag to the resulting snapshot.
		# Why? Because we only want to purge snapshots taken by the script later, and not delete snapshots manually taken.
		aws ec2 create-tags --region $region --resource $snapshot_id --tags Key=CreatedBy,Value=AutomatedBackup Key=Owner,Value=TFP
	done
}

# Function: Cleanup all snapshots associated with this instance that are older than $retention_days
cleanup_snapshots() {
	for volume_id in $volume_list; do
		snapshot_list=$(aws ec2 describe-snapshots --region $region --output=text --filters "Name=volume-id,Values=$volume_id" "Name=tag:CreatedBy,Values=AutomatedBackup" --query Snapshots[].SnapshotId)
		for snapshot in $snapshot_list; do
			log "Checking $snapshot..."
			# Check age of snapshot
			snapshot_date=$(aws ec2 describe-snapshots --region $region --output=text --snapshot-ids $snapshot --query Snapshots[].StartTime | awk -F "T" '{printf "%s\n", $1}')
			snapshot_date_in_seconds=$(date "--date=$snapshot_date" +%s)
			snapshot_description=$(aws ec2 describe-snapshots --snapshot-id $snapshot --region $region --query Snapshots[].Description)

			if (( $snapshot_date_in_seconds <= $retention_date_in_seconds )); then
				log "DELETING snapshot $snapshot. Description: $snapshot_description ..."
				aws ec2 delete-snapshot --region $region --snapshot-id $snapshot
			else
				log "Not deleting snapshot $snapshot. Description: $snapshot_description ..."
			fi
		done
	done
}

## SCRIPT COMMANDS ##

log_setup
prerequisite_check

# Grab all volume IDs attached to this instance
volume_list=$(aws ec2 describe-volumes --region $region --filters Name=attachment.instance-id,Values=$instance_id --query Volumes[].VolumeId --output text)

snapshot_volumes
cleanup_snapshots

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Hey there bloggies! We're back at it today for our last installment of Kids Eat right Month. I apologize in advance for not getting this on up on Friday as usual. Last week was pretty hectic and Friday morning we received notice that my mother-in-law suffered a mild stroke. NOT to worry, she is on the fast track to recovery and is on her way back home today. We're all very grateful that she is doing better.
Today we're talking about Kid-Friendly Kitchen Tasks! I think it's so important for children to get involved in creating healthy delicious meals. It gives them a sense of empowerment and their more likely to eat foods they've helped prepare. It's also important to be sure they're not feeling overwhelmed and, as always, safety first!
My daughter just loves to cook and when we can, we're happy to have her join. Last week she helped prepare dinner by cooking our favorite cheat side dish…Mac n Cheese! Typically she would much rather chop vegetables or help grill our meats but, as you can see, we have a fractured radius. She's very excited about that oh-so-fashionable cast 😉 It only took two days back in school for her to have an accident. Oh the joys of back to school!
Here is this weeks infographic from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Kids Eat Right campaign. Be sure to visit their website for more information. Just click on the infographic below. How do you get your kids involved in preparing family meals? Share in the comments below!


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Gao's Grand Courtyard, the former Residence of GaoYuesong, is located at 144 of Beiyuanmen. It was built in 14 years of the reign of emperor Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty and is about 2310m. The construction of the courtyard is in the form of a quadrangle with wood and brick. Gao Yuesong's original family was Zhenjiang Jiangsu province. In his youth, he took the imperial examination and appointed as the second-place winner at palace examination by emperor himself. He was fairly loyal and diligent in his career and his character gave him a good reputation. His mother, the Queen, appreciated him very much and appropriated a large sum of money for the renovation of his residence. It was awarded to the family by a horizontal table with autographic inscription of Bang Yan Ji Di. (which means successfully passing the imperial examination and winning the second place at palace examination).
It was listed as a key Project of Sino-Norway Historical Districts Protection in 1999. Invested by Norway and headed by Mr. Zhang Xiyuan,the residence was thoroughly repaired, and won the "Prize for Cultural Heritage Protection in Asian Pacific Area of UNESCO in 2002." In the year 2003 the artistic department of the Chinese Art Academy in Xi'an took charge of a renovation of the residence, which was assigned as the teaching base for graduate students of architectural departments of both Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Truncheon, and as the researching base of the institute for Famous Historical and Cultural Cities Research of Chang'an University. The main contents are held under its administration.


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The story of innova® Recordings begins in 1982, when it was founded by the Minnesota Composers Forum (now the American Composers Forum) as a way to document the McKnight Composer Fellowship winners. In its early years, innova produced several sampler LPs featuring the works of a range of Minnesota composers, many of whom have since achieved national prominence, including Eric Stokes, Libby Larsen, Paul Schoenfield, Steve Tibbetts, and Steven Paulus. With the advent of the compact disc, innova began releasing selected highlights from the top ensembles (the Dale Warland Singers, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Alexander String Quartet, and others) that had been on the Composers Forum concert seasons.
Over its first ten years, innova built up a broad distribution network, far beyond the Forum's own membership circles, and in 1994, the label — always looking for ways to be of service to the new music community — opened its doors to artists who had their own finished masters and were looking for a helping hand in reaching a wider audience. Thus was born the Recording Assistance Program, an exceptionally artist-friendly business model that has allowed the label to grow to one of the most substantial in the nation. In recognition of the career benefits innova can bestow on its artists, the McKnight Foundation endowed it with a $1 million fund in 2002. Interest from that allows the label to keep costs relatively low to artists (who also keep 100% of sales income) and subsidize administrative costs so each title can receive greater bang for the buck.
In the last decade, the label's catalog has grown from 70 to over 550 titles, with innova producing 24-30 releases a year encompassing diverse genres, concepts, and approaches — all somehow non-conformist, individualistic, and groundbreaking. Original works receiving their recording debuts (Joseph Bertolozzi's Tower Music, Robert Moran's Trinity Requiem, The Crossings' Seven Responses, Kenji Bunch's The Snow Queen) sit next to reissues of long out-of-print classics (Talking Drums' Some Day Catch Some Day Down, William Bolcom's Open House) and definitive career retrospectives (archives of recordings by Harry Partch and Henry Brant). Bold reimaginings of classics (Darryl Brenzel's The Re(w)-Rite of Spring, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble's In C Remixed and Music for 18 Musicians) collide with expansive cultural time capsules (The NYFA Collection: 30 Years of New York New Music, Sonic Circuits Electronic Music Festival). Exploratory new music (Mari Kimura's Voyage Apollonian, Maya Beiser's Provenance and TranceClassical, and ETHEL's Documerica) mingles with modern twists on traditional music (Arcomusical's MeiaMeia, ETHEL's The River, and Emanuele Arciuli's Walk in Beauty) and hangs out with lo-fi garage pop (R. Stevie Moore's Nevertheless Optimistic). Field recordings from Vietnam (Stilling Time), Cuba (Habanera), and Belize (Lebeha Boys) cohabit with career collections of music by PRISM Quartet, Zeitgeist, Society for New Music, Fred Ho, Mark Applebaum, Barry Schrader, Andrew Violette, Eleanor Hovda, Robert Moran, Steven Miller, and many more. Not only does innova march to the beat of a different drum (the non-profit, artist centered philosophy, in this case), but the different drummer herself (and not just Susie Ibarra) is likely on the roster of artists.
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Major grants over the years from the National Endowment for the Arts (2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010) and the New York State Music Fund (2007) have boosted the label's growth, reputation, and visibility. In 2009 innova partnered with Naxos USA distribution to expand its reach even further and is constantly adapting to changing needs and embracing new technologies. Philip Blackburn took over the directorship of the label from Homer Lambrecht in 1996 and has been joined by Chris Campbell (2003) as Operations Director, and Publicist, Tim Igel (2017-, taking the baton from Steve McPherson (2010-16)).
In 2012 innova was awarded the prestigious Laurel Leaf Award from the American Composers Alliance "for its excellent support of the full range of contemporary American music."
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Having the opportunity to spend an hour talking with Jeanine Tesori is very hard to do these days. Having just finished working with Tazewell Thompson on Blue, an extremely timely opera about the aftermath of an African-American teenager being killed by the police which premieres next summer at Glimmerglass, she's been on-call all week for Steven Spielberg's new screen adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and, on the Saturday we did manage to catch up with her in her composing studio at New York City Center, she was about to fly to London where a new production of her 2004 musical Caroline, or Change is about to open that's running in the West End through February 9. Following its run earlier this year in Los Angeles, a New York production is in the works for her latest musical Soft Power, a collaboration with David Henry Hwang that takes place 100 years in the future after China has become the dominant world power as a result of the 2016 American presidential election. Plus, she's way behind starting work on her Metropolitan Opera commission.
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From Lisa Bielawa
Lisa Bielawa to be inaugural Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Institute.
The Philip Glass Ensemble will also debut as Ensemble-in-Residence at The New School with a concert on January 6th, 2019 at 4:30 pm.
Philip Glass by Timothy Judd
Lisa Bielawa – Daniel Clark
New York, December 5, 2018 – The New School's College of Performing Arts (CoPA) today announced a landmark partnership with the Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) and long-time PGE member, Lisa Bielawa, around the work of Philip Glass, one of the world's preeminent composers, musicians, and authors, to form a new learning and creative center. Building on Glass's enduring contributions to modern culture, the Philip Glass Institute (PGI) will offer students, faculty, and the public the opportunity to immerse themselves in the work of Philip Glass, other important artists within his circle, and the work of the iconic Philip Glass Ensemble. Renowned composer and long-time vocalist for the PGE Lisa Bielawa will become the inaugural Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Philip Glass Institute.
The institute will launch with a performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble and a panel discussion with Glass, Bielawa, and Richard Kessler, Executive Dean of CoPA on January 6, 2019 at 4:30 pm, at The New School's Tishman Auditorium. The event will also include a performance of an excerpt from Bielawa's made-for-TV opera, Vireo, which will be workshopped for live performance at the Institute in spring 2020.
Peerless in his originality as a composer and musician, Glass's work has been instrumental in breaking down barriers across genres. His work includes the groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach, Music in Twelve Parts, and Academy Award-nominated scores for three films. Glass has captivated audiences worldwide with his bold artistic vision, which fuses a truly original musical language and an unparalleled collaborative practice, all in a singular entrepreneurial spirit.
The idea for the Philip Glass Institute originated between Glass and Bielawa, who both felt that The New School would be the ideal setting for such an institute. Subsequently, Bielawa approached Kessler about the future of the Philip Glass Ensemble, Philip's legacy, the continuation of his work, along with her own work, and how this all might work together under a single umbrella. Both Kessler and Bielawa were struck by the ways in which Glass has built community throughout his career, a practice that Bielawa has honored in her own work and life as well. Together, Glass, Bielawa, and Kessler were drawn toward creating an institute to further that ethos.
"I can think of no better home for the Philip Glass Institute and the Philip Glass Ensemble than The New School's College of Performing Arts," said Kessler. "Over the past century, The New School has been a home to John Cage, Henry Cowell, Martha Graham, Aaron Copland, the Fluxus Movement, and scores of trailblazing artists and scholars. Today, the original, highly influential, and beloved work of Philip Glass will become accessible for a long time to come to new generations of students and audiences through this exciting new partnership."
"I am very pleased about the Philip Glass Institute at The New School," Glass said. "My own legacy flourished in a wide garden of music going on all at the same time. In my lifetime I was contemporaneous with all kinds of music, and I rejoiced in it…In terms of range and variety of modern music, it is important to be unafflicted by prejudice. The music stands by itself. At the new PGI we can prioritize a curriculum which doesn't require critical approval of any period or style…Young composers need to be true to their voices. 'Coming up' can be very independent, and this is what will be guiding our work at The New School."
As the inaugural Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Philip Glass Institute, Bielawa will serve not just to preserve Glass's legacy, but to further it by creating new works, curating concerts, and creating new courses and curricula that build on the ethos and vision of Philip Glass. Bielawa, an award-winning multidisciplinary artist-composer, is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
"It is a huge honor and pleasure to spearhead this new initiative at The New School, which has a long history of charting new territory in the way that artists share their work and lives with the next generation," said Bielawa. "The Philip Glass Institute is a new and lasting way to celebrate Philip's ethos: an NYC incubator for the sharing of ideas, among a multi-generational community of composers, performers, and music industry professionals."
The Philip Glass Institute at The New School will create new learning opportunities rooted in Glass's contributions to modern musical and cultural life. Students across CoPA's three schools — Mannes School of Music, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, and School of Drama — will learn composition, sound design, musicology, and arts management, among other disciplines, from members of the Philip Glass Ensemble and CoPA faculty who are frequent collaborators with Glass, including Matt Haimovitz, Jennifer Koh, Bob Hurwitz, and Dennis Russell Davies.
As Ensemble in Residence, the Philip Glass Ensemble will base its extensive touring and performance operations out of The New School. Recognized as the premier performers of Glass's compositions, the Ensemble has been exclusively devoted to performing Glass's iconic works in some of the world's most prestigious music festivals and concert venues. At The New School, the group will integrate its rigorous practice-performance methodology into CoPA's innovative curriculum, hosting workshops, leading masterclasses, and welcoming the public to select rehearsals. This first-of-its-kind residency at CoPA will be instrumental in preparing students to succeed in the 21st century musical landscape.
Philip Glass Institute Launch Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019, 4:30-5:30pm
The New School's Tishman Auditorium
63 5th Ave., New York, NY 10003
Admission is free, RSVPs required. RSVP here.
Press RSVPs: Will Wilbur – wilburw@newschool.edu
The Philip Glass Institute will launch with a performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble and a panel discussion with Philip Glass; Lisa Bielawa, Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Philip Glass Institute; and Richard Kessler, Executive Dean of The New School's College of Performing Arts. The event will also include a performance of an excerpt from Bielawa's made-for-TV opera, Vireo, which will be workshopped for live performance at the institute in spring 2020.
The Philip Glass Ensemble
Established by composer Philip Glass, the Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) held its first performance in May 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Since its inception, the Ensemble has been exclusively devoted to performing Glass's iconic works. The members of the PGE are recognized as the premier performers of Philip Glass's compositions and the group has performed on four continents in some of the world's most prestigious music festivals and concert venues.
The PGE is continuing into the future as a performing and educating organization, exclusively performing Philip Glass's catalog of music written or arranged for the PGE, using the authentic performance practice that the members of the Ensemble have developed over their decades of touring and recording with Glass. The Ensemble is eager to help the next generation of musicians learn this tradition during their touring activities and at their home base in New York City.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar's Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, The Perfect American (co-commissioned by Teatro Real, Madrid and the English National Opera), a new touring production of Einstein, the publication of Glass's memoir, Words Without Music, by Liveright Books, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass' opera Appomattox, in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, by the Washington National Opera in November 2015.
Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured programming around the globe, including the U.S. premieres of operas The Trial and The Perfect American, and world premieres of several new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3, String Quartet No. 8, and Glass' first Piano Quintet.
In 2015, Glass received the U.S. National Medal of Arts and the 11th Glenn Gould Prize. He was honored with the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair from Carnegie Hall for the 2017-2018 season. Glass will receive the 41st Kennedy Center Honors in December 2018.
On January 10th, 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the world premiere of Glass' Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie's album Lodger and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. Glass continues to perform solo piano and chamber music evenings with world renowned musicians, and regularly appears with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
Lisa Bielawa
Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. Gramophone reports, "Bielawa is gaining gale force as a composer, churning out impeccably groomed works that at once evoke the layered precision of Vermeer and the conscious recklessness of Jackson Pollock." Her music has been described as "ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart," by The New York Times, and "fluid and arresting … at once dramatic and probing," by The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Lisa Bielawa recently completed her unprecedented, made-for-TV-and-online opera Vireo:The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser with librettist Erik Ehn and director Charles Otte. Vireo was produced as part of Bielawa's artist residency at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California and in partnership with KCET and Single Cel. The opera was filmed in 12 parts at locations across the country – Alcatraz Island, a monastery on the Hudson River, a studio in Downtown LA, an abandoned train station in Oakland, and the California Redwoods – and featured over 350 musicians in support of its core cast, including soprano Deborah Voigt, Kronos Quartet, violinist Jennifer Koh, San Francisco Girls Chorus, cellist Joshua Roman, Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), and many others. All 12 episodes were broadcast on KCET's Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series Artbound, as well as online for free, on-demand streaming, which was a first for the network. The Los Angeles Times called Vireo an opera, "unlike any you have seen before, in content and in form," and San Francisco Classical Voice described it as, "poetic and fantastical, visually stunning and relentlessly abstract."
Lisa Bielawa's music is frequently performed throughout the US and abroad. Two of her works received their world premieres at the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL: My Outstretched Hand by The Knights, San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus, which was recently given a second performance at The Kennedy Center; and Vireo Caprice by violinist Jennifer Koh at National Sawdust. The Seattle Chamber Music Society recently commissioned and premiered Bielawa's Fictional Migrations for flute, horn, and piano, which The Seattle Times called, "sophisticated, propulsive, complex, and often beautiful." In December 2016, the Orlando Philharmonic performed the world premiere of Bielawa's Drama/Self Pity for orchestra and in January 2017, The Kennedy Center presented two of her works with Bielawa as soloist as part of their KC Jukebox series. Recent highlights also include performances of Start for piano and chamber orchestra by pianist Andrew Armstrong and the Orchestra of the League of Composers; 50 Measures for Aaron by SOLI Chamber Ensemble; One Atom of Faith by violinist Rebecca Fischer of the Chiara String Quartet; The Trojan Women by the String Orchestra of New York City; and Insomnia Etudes, commissioned for the Klein Competition.
Other performance highlights include Bielawa's The Trojan Women at Le Poisson Rouge; a Radio France commission for Ensemble Variances titled Cri Selon Cri; a residency at John Zorn's The Stone; and the world premieres of Hypermelodia at The Rivers School Conservatory, Rondolette by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and pianist Bruce Levingston, Double Duet by the Washington Saxophone Quartet (with subsequent performances by the PRISM Quartet), Graffiti dell'amante by Bielawa with the Chicago Chamber Musicians in Chicago and with Brooklyn Rider in New York and Rome, The Project of Collecting Clouds at Town Hall in Seattle by cellist Joshua Roman and chamber ensemble, Double Violin Concerto and In medias res by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Right Weather by American Composers Orchestra and pianist Andrew Armstrong at Carnegie Hall, and The Lay of the Love and Death at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
Bielawa's music can be found outside the concert hall as well, with two major works written for performance in public spaces. Chance Encounter is a piece comprising songs and arias constructed of speech overheard in transient public spaces, which was premiered by soprano Susan Narucki and The Knights in Lower Manhattan's Seward Park. A project of Creative Capital, the 35-minute work for roving soprano and chamber ensemble has since been performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in Vancouver, Venice, and in Rome on the banks of the Tiber River in partnership with urban placemaker Robert Hammond, a founder of The High Line in New York. Bielawa's latest work for performance in public places is Airfield Broadcasts, a massive 60-minute work for hundreds of musicians that premiered on the tarmac of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin (Tempelhof Broadcast, May 2013) and was also performed at Crissy Field in San Francisco (Crissy Broadcast, October 2013). Bielawa turns these former airfields into vast musical canvases, as professional, amateur and student musicians execute a spatial symphony. Students at the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts recently performed a section from Airfield Broadcasts as part of Bielawa's artist residency there.
Bielawa's latest album, The Lay of the Love, was released on Innova in June 2015 and features performances by baritone Jesse Blumberg; soprano Sadie Dawkins Rosales; pianists Jocelyn Dueck, Benjamin Hochman and Evelyne Luest; violinist Colin Jacobsen; cellist Eric Jacobsen; clarinetist Anthony McGill; and flutist Lance Suzuki. The centerpiece of the album is Bielawa's 25-minute work The Lay of the Love and Death, based on the text of Rainer Maria Rilke's epic poem, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke. Bielawa's discography also includes A Handful of World (Tzadik); The Trojan Women on a disc entitled First Takes (TROY); Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum, (Innova); The Trojan Women in a version for string quartet performed by the Miami String Quartet on The NYFA Collection (Innova); In medias res (BMOP/sound), a double-disc set of Bielawa's solo and orchestral works; the world premiere recording of Chance Encounter (Orange Mountain Music), and Elegy-Portrait on pianist Bruce Levingston's 2011 album, Heart Shadow (Sono Luminus).
Born in San Francisco into a musical family, Lisa Bielawa played the violin and piano, sang, and wrote music from early childhood. She moved to New York two weeks after receiving her B.A. in Literature in 1990 from Yale University, and became an active participant in New York musical life. She began touring as the vocalist with the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1992, and has also premiered and toured works by John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, and Michael Gordon. In 1997 she co-founded the MATA Festival, which celebrates the work of young composers. Bielawa was appointed Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco Girls Chorus in 2013 and recently completed her residency at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California. In 2016, Bielawa was awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, the MAP Fund, and New Music USA.
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Larry Fuller Trio
Dec. 7: 6:30 p.m., GlasSalon
Toledo native Larry Fuller returns to town with his piano trio for an evening of jazz in the GlasSalon.
Check out the Larry Fuller Trio performing their song "Mojo".
FREE Merry TubaChristmas
Dec. 9: 1 p.m., Peristyle Theater
TubaChristmas is a music concert held in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach and compose music for instruments in the tuba family. Merry TubaChristmas is presented by The University of Toledo Department of Music & Toledo Museum of Art.
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Messiaen: The Complete Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Dec. 9: 2 p.m., GlasSalon
Organized by pianist Isabelle O'Connell (Grand Band), this concert features O'Connell, Blair McMillen, Laura Melton, and Stephanie Titus performing Olivier Messiaen's complete Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, a two-hour, 20 movement work that Messiaen completed in 1944.
Since its founding in 1901, the Toledo Museum of Art has earned a global reputation for the quality of our collection, our innovative and extensive education programs, and our architecturally significant campus.
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Ash Kramer is searching for a new mobile phone. He's intrigued by the vast array of choices in the USA.
How can charging a device be a problem? Ash Kramer says it is, but he fixed it!
Ash Kramer finally got to see and hear Devialet's innovative new Phantom music system. He's pretty damn impressed.


OUR LISA felt the pressure of nominations last night as she broke down in tears.
Confessing to Grace she felt she was responsible for Lea being up for eviction, Lisa said she felt sorry for the buxom blonde.
It must be a difficult environment for Lisa as she is torn between the two groups - Lea and Richard's family and the 'plastics' headed by Grace and Sezer. However, she is working hard to remain welcomed by both sets and rarely becomes the subject of bitching.
And Radio One DJ Chris Moyles this morning offered some support for our girl. On his breakfast show he described her as 'beautiful' and 'the best looking girl in the house'.


The portrait of King Henry VIII that emerges from Margaret George's charming, research-rich portrayal of the controversial monarch, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by his Fool, Will Somers is of quite the fun guy. No, really. At least in his early years, before a jousting accident severely limited his ability to engage in the athletic pursuits he so enjoyed, causing him to gain a tremendous amount of weight. The incident possibly even caused brain damage, which may have changed his personality into the much-married tyrant portrayed by history.
But there was a playful side to Henry, particularly when it came to his love of music, dance and fashion that he passed on to his daughter by his second wife, Anne Boleyn. During her long reign as Queen Elizabeth I from 1558–1603, one of the aspects of her court that attained particular renown was the distinctive collar made of fine lace that ended up extending out from the neck up to a foot - or more. The stiffly starched Elizabethan ruff is without question one of the finer examples of the frippery'ness of fashion that I find so irresistible!
The "distinctly adult" feel - according to Style.com's Tim Blanks - was also dark and decadent. Retro, too. Really retro, as in the 16th century - while at the same time, surprisingly Ex Machina futuristic. "I gamble with collections more than ever," notes Lagerfeld.