Composers Datebook for January 5, 2010

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Tuesday, January 5 Play today's show | How to listen Milhaud at West Point In the opinion of General George Washington, a commanding plateau on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 40 miles north of New York City, was a key strategic position during America's War for Independence. Washington selected Thaddeus Kosciuszko, one of the heroes of the Battle of Saratoga, to design fortifications there in 1778, and transferred his headquarters to this "West Point" in l779. In 1802, after America's independence had been won, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing a United States Military Academy at West Point. 150 years later, in 1952, the West Point Military Band decided to observe the Academy's Sesquicentennial by asking prominent composers to write celebratory works to mark the occasion. A number of composers responded, including the French composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud's "West Point Suite" was premiered by the West Point Band at Carnegie Hall on today's date in 1952, with Captain Francis Resta conducting, and proved to be one of the most successful and oft-performed of these Sesquicentennial pieces. The previous year, Milhaud had paid a visit to West Point to hear the band, as he wanted to assess both their size and ability. He was impressed by what he heard -- and surprised as well when the band struck up "Happy Birthday" in his honor. It seems that both Milhaud and his wife had completely forgotten that their September 4th visit coincided with the composer's 60th birthday!		Music Played on Today's Program: Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974) West Point Suite, Op. 313 Liszt Academy Symphonic Band; Laszlo Marosi, cond Hungaroton 32066 Additional Information: On Milhaud About the Program Composers Datebook is a daily program about composers of the past and present, hosted by John Zech. Support Composers Datebook Purchase music from Composers Datebook from Amazon. Or shop Public Radio Market. Your purchases help support the American Composers Forum and public radio. Your support makes our online services possible. Contribute Now. Fostering artistic and professional development
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The Writer's Almanac for January 5, 2010

View this message on the Web Tuesday Jan. 5, 2010  LISTEN Guinea Pig by Julie Cadwallader-Staub As if your cancer weren't enough, the guinea pig is dying. The kids brought him to me wrapped in a bath towel �Do something, Mom. Save his life.' I'm a good mom. I took time from work, drove him to the vet, paid $77.00 for his antibiotics. Now, after the kids rush off to school, you and I sit on the bed. I hold the guinea pig, since he bites. You fill the syringe. We administer the foul smelling medicine, hoping the little fellow will live. admitting to each other: if he doesn't, it'll be good practice. "Guinea Pig" by Julie Cadwallader-Staub. Reprinted with permission of the poet. On this day in 1933, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco began. It was finished four and a half years later, in May 1937. The bridge is 8,981 feet (1.7 miles) long, 90 feet wide for six lanes of traffic, and 746 feet high — almost 200 feet taller than the Washington Monument. It's suspended 220 feet above the water, and it links the city of San Francisco to the County of Marin. The color of the bridge is officially called "International Orange," a slightly deeper shade of "Safety Orange." Frommer's travel guide called the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." Almost 25 years ago, writer Vikram Seth (books by this author) published a novel-in-verse called The Golden Gate (1986), a gentle satire on the lives of some San Francisco yuppies. It's the birthday of the woman whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart addressed "dearest little wife": Constanze Mozart, born Constanze Weber in Zell im Wiesental, Germany (1762). The two of them first met when Wolfgang was 21 and Constanze was 15, but he was not interested in her so much as her sister Aloysia. Aloysia, however, rejected Mozart and married another man. Several years later, Mozart was back in town and boarding at the Weber family's house, and he turned his attentions toward courting Constanze. Their courtship was rife with jealousy, and it almost ended after Mozart found out that Constanze had let some young man measure the length of her lower leg during a parlor game. But Mozart and Constanze eventually wed in August 1782, when she was 20 and he was 26. It's the birthday of the man who coined the term "Cold War," Herbert Bayard Swope, (books by this author) born in St. Louis, Missouri (1882). He was a journalist and he was the first person ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize for reporting, which he got in 1917 — in the midst of World War I — after writing a series of articles that ran under the title "Inside the German Empire." He spent decades working for The New York Evening World, taking over as editor of the newspaper in 1920. The following year, in 1921, Swope created the first op-ed page. Many people believe that "op-ed" stands for "opinion-editorial," but it actually means "opposite the editorial page," which is usually where they can be found in the newspaper. Swope was also a legendary gambler. Two years after he created the op-ed page, he won $470,300 in a poker game, which took place in a railroad car in Palm Beach against an oil baron, a Broadway impresario, and a steel magnate. Today is the 82nd birthday of Walter Mondale, born in the small town of Ceylon, Minnesota in 1928. He was vice president of the United States under Jimmy Carter's presidency, and the day he was sworn in he became the fourth vice president in just four years. During his administration, Mondale made the role of vice-president a more influential one than it ever had been before. He started the custom of weekly lunches with the president, and he was the first vice president ever to have an office at the White House. It was on this day in 2007 that the man who invented instant ramen and Cup Noodles, Momofuku Ando, died at the age of 96. He'd eaten instant ramen noodles up until the day before he died, as he'd done nearly every day since inventing them in 1958. Japan was suffering from food shortages in the decade after World War II, and Ando developed the noodles trying to alleviate this problem. He experimented with flash-frying for months to come up with the perfect way to make precooked noodles that would be ready to eat shortly after opening the package. When the noodles first appeared on grocery shelves in Japan in the late 1950s, they were a luxury item and cost about six times as much as a bowl of udon or soba cost in a restaurant. Now, they're one of the most inexpensive ready-made foods in the world. Momofuku Ando is the subject of a new book, The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life (2009), by Andy Raskin. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® sponsor The Poetry Foundation National broadcasts of The Writer's Almanac are supported by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine for over 90 years. The Writer's Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media. sponsor Contribute $75 or more today and we'll thank you with the official Writer's Almanac mug. Good Poems for Hard Times selected by Garrison Keillor Order your copy today. On the Radio Podcast Web Archive Title Author Date Read highlighted interviews of poets heard on the show. Visit the bookshelf now You received this free e-mail newsletter because you previously subscribed or because it was sent to you by a friend. This e-mail was sent to the following address: mybloghaytham@gmail.com Unsubscribe | Contact Us | Forward to a friend � 2009 American Public Media 480 Cedar Street, Saint Paul, MN USA 55101

Redskins News Alert: Shanahan expected to be named head coach, sources say

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Barring unforeseen glitches, former Denver head coach Mike Shanahan is expected to be named Redskins head coach in an announcement that could come as early as Tuesday, according to sources in the organization.

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Local Breaking News: Northrop Grumman moving to Washington area

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Major defense contractor says it plans to move its headquarters from Los Angeles to the Washington region by 2011.

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U.S. EPA Go Green! Monthly Consumer Newsletter January 2010

GO GREEN!

EPA News You Can Use - January 2010
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Enviro-Tip of the Month
What You Can Do, What You Can Use
Upcoming Events and Opportunities
About This Newsletter

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ENVIRO-TIP OF THE MONTH

Test your home for radon. Radon is an invisible radioactive gas that causes lung cancer. The only way to know if your home contains high radon levels is to test for it. January is National Radon Awareness Month.
http://www.epa.gov/radon/radontest.html

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WHAT YOU CAN DO, WHAT YOU CAN USE

Recycle your tree. Millions of Christmas trees end up in landfills or illegally dumped. Find out how you can recycle your tree in an environmentally friendly way.
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/inforesources/news/2003news/12-trees.htm

Make a movie! Enter a contest to make a short, creative video about the "Three Rs" reduce, reuse, and recycle, and you might win up to $2,500. Submissions for the contest, called "Our Planet, Our Stuff, Our Choice," are due February 16.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/hq_2009-12-16_Video_Competition

Discuss waste and recycling! A new online forum lets you join stakeholders and others in sharing your thoughts about community involvement, Superfund metrics, toxic material reduction, and land revitalization. The question for January 2010 is "What additional information would help you gauge how much progress has been made at a Superfund site?"
http://blog.epa.gov/oswerforum/

Build a Watersense home! You can use the WaterSense single-family new homes specification to build or buy water-efficiency standards. WaterSense labeled new homes will be 20 percent more efficient than typical new homes.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/hq_2009-12-10_WaterSense

Heat from the ground up! A new type of residential geothermal heat pumps with the Energy Star label are up to 45 percent more efficient than conventional heat pumps. Geothermal heat pumps use ground temperature air instead of outside air to provide heating, cooling and often water heating.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/hq_2009-12-14_Geothermal

Grants for your Community! Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) projects build partnerships to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources. Applications for CARE grants are due March 9.
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Join the Greenversation - Each week we ask you a question related to the environment and invite you to share your thoughts. The latest question: How did you do on your 2009 environmental resolutions?
Questions from the previous month:
What’s number one on your green holiday gift list?
What does a "green" holiday mean to you?
What are you doing to use less energy during this holiday season?
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

January

Month
National Radon Awareness Month

Day
Jan 1 - Anniversary of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Special observance: 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of both Earth Day (April 22) and EPA's founding (December 2).

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Opinions: Afternoon Edition

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Technology: Afternoon Edition

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Most Viewed Articles in Technology 1) Prospect of body scans bares privacy worries It has come to this. Already shoeless, beltless and waterless, more beleaguered air passengers will be holding their legs apart, raising their arms and effectively baring it all as they pass through U.S. airport security checkpoints. Add the "full-body scan" to the list of indignities that some t... 2) NSFW: Hey! Look behind you! It's the tablet of the future! There are several reasons why I would never describe myself as a "futurologist". 3) Public interest groups call for antitrust probe of TV Everywhere Public interest groups on Monday will call for federal antitrust watchdogs to investigate an industry-wide strategy by television service providers that they say will strap users to unnecessarily high monthly subscription fees and stifle competition. 4) Questions stall Pentagon computer defenses The Pentagon's plan to set up a command to defend its global network of computer systems has been slowed by congressional questions about its mission and possible privacy concerns, according to officials familiar with the plan. 5) Portable Hard Drives: A Terabyte in Your Pocket Good things come in small packages--and when it comes to storage, the saying couldn't be more true. No matter what size your data set is, you can find a stylish, pocketable wonder of modern miniaturization to store it and transport it. 6) Twitter Kicks Off 2010 Hiring People Away From Google, Bebo, Ning And More Good catch by Louis Gray , who keeps on monitoring the Twitter-made list of Twitter team members with hawk eyes. Starting today at the new Twitter offices in San Francisco are no less than 10 new staff members in a variety of roles. 7) Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010 Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch. If there is any theme here it is the mobile Web. As I think through... 8) Hotel WiFi Should Be a Right, Not a Luxury I'm in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee for Christmas and on a drive between Memphis and Nashville I noticed that every $30/night hotel offered free wireless Internet access. Further, when we got to Nashville and checked into the relatively low-frills Holiday Inn Express we had better wireless... 9) Google And Spotify Dance Over U.S. Launch Spotify . The elusive European streaming music startup that you just can't get access to in the U.S., unless you know someone or jump through a few hoops. 10) TechCrunch, The Google Chrome Extension I've enjoyed using Google's Chrome browser ever since it was introduced back in September 2008, albeit using other browsers alongside for different purposes. With the launch of Extensions for Chrome , the need to occasionally fire up Firefox or Opera has diminished, and I doubt I'll be using any... UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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Organ Notes: From Provence to the Pyrenees

View this message on the Web SPONSOR Organ Notes   From Provence to the Pyrenees Between Marseille and Toulouse, we audition some of the instruments to be visited during our spring tour in the south of France. View complete program     Access the audio for this program If you experience problems with the audio, please let us know. Tour 2010 How about a springtime trip to southern France? Join Michael Barone and a select PIPEDREAMS crew for the experience of a lifetime. Enjoy historic sights and exotic sounds of the King of Instruments in all its splendor - From Provence to the Pyrenees, May 9-22, 2010. Sign up now to guarantee your place. Now Online All of the photos (over 600) and commentary for the Austria Tour are now online! Visit the Pipedreams web site. Special features Pipedreams Mailbag Submit your questions to the Mailbag 24 hour classical music stream Listen to Classical Minnesota Public Radio from the Twin Cities, home of Michael Barone. Choose between Windows Media and MP3 streams. The New Releases You can listen online to Michael Barone's other weekly broadcast, THE NEW RELEASES, updated every Friday. The show reviews new and notable classical music recordings. A glimpse ahead January 4, 2010: From Provence to the Pyrenees Between Marseille and Toulouse, we audition some of the instruments to be visited during our spring tour in the south of France. January 18, 2010: Winter Wonders Samples of recently released recordings, a world-wide demonstration of organistic activity. January 25, 2010: Emma Lou! A celebration of the life and work of the industrious and indefatigable American composer Emma Lou Diemer, with comment, compact discs, and concert performances. Program archive National broadcasts of Pipedreams are made possible with funding from the National Endowment of the Arts, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. Dudley, MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, by the contributions of listeners to American Public Media stations, and by the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, APOBA, representing designers and creators of fine instruments heard throughout the country, on the Web, and toll-free at 800-473-5270. Where to hear us If travel plans have you on the move, you can still catch Pipedreams wherever you are. Find out where and when Or listen to us online, any time. Visit our Web archive and pick out a show Buy Pipedreams CDs Purchase Pipedreams Live!, Pipedreams Premieres, Vol. 1., and Pipedreams Premieres, Vol. 2. Support us Pipedreams Sponsors Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America Subscribe to “The American Organist Magazine” from the AGO Request a free sample copy of "TAO", the monthly publication of the American Guild of Organists. Contact: members@agohq.org.

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