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Shostakovich in America …
Friday, March 25 Composers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum with support from the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. SYNOPSIS: Shostakovich in America … MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): Symphony No. 5 USSR Cultural Ministry Symphony; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, cond. MCA 32128 ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1699—German opera composer Johann Hasse, in Bergedorf, near Hamburg; 1867—Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, in Parma; 1881—Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, in Nagyszentmiklós; 1882—English composer Haydn Wood, in Slaithwaite; Deaths: 1918—French composer Claude Debussy, age 55, in Paris; Premieres: 1724 — Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 182 (“Himmelskönig, sei willkommen”) performed on the…
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Historic Earthquakes in Japan
Developing News: Tokyo, Monday 19:18 (PST, Monday 11:18 – GMT, Monday 10:19) It’s gone from bad to worse for Japan. The official death toll has now reached near 1,700, and there is news of 2,000 more dead bodies being found near the Miyagi Prefecture. The radiation threat is also becoming a scare among the people after the third explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, even though the authorities say that there has been no major radiation leak as of yet. The rescue operations continue, and by now more than 15,000 people have been rescued.
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Earthquakes from Another Time
The 8.9 earthquake that rocked Japan is comparable to the one that shook Japan in 1933 and was the same magnitude that shook Colombia and Equador in 1906. North America borders along the Pacific Rim where plates converge causing the earth to move. On Good Friday March 27, 1964 the largest earthquake struck America at Prince William Sound near Anchorage, Alaska measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale. A survivor of that terrifying experience now lives in Oklahoma City. Some 153 years earlier, the largest inland quake to strike was at New Madrid, Missouri was between December 16, 1811 and April, 1812 that Scientist believe would register at 8.0 had the…
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United States Newspaper Project
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Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn
June 23, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23cherokee.html By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD (Quote from William Welge included) The illiterate Cherokee known as Sequoyah watched in awe as white settlers made marks on paper, convinced that these “talking leaves” were the source of white power and success. This inspired the consuming ambition of his life: to create a Cherokee written language.