I wondered whether that ubiquitous jingle was like "Vexations" for the driver.
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Bach's vexations, his rages, his blind spots, even his hatreds, are our own.
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The Vietnamese respond to such vexations the way they have always done: they strike compromises.
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Though I was asking about his policy aims, his musings swerved off to other vexations.
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In 1970, Peter Evans nearly lost his mind while attempting all of "Vexations" on his own.
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Because "Vexations" belongs to Satie's Rosicrucian period, the Guggenheim will stage its own daylong marathon, in September.
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Some think "Vexations" is a rebellion against everything Péladan stood for, especially the Romantic grandeur of Richard Wagner's operas.
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In a way, Mr. Wolff said, it was good that a "Vexations" marathon had found its way into a museum.
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Weather Rant is a "professional service" that allows Australians to vent about the climate, leaving their vexations on an answering machine.
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Mr. Wolff was among the small group of musicians who played in a notable marathon of "Vexations" organized by John Cage in 211.
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The gamesome yet secretive daughter of a famous writer, she studies history, informed by a postmodern suspicion of "truth" that winks at coming narrative vexations.
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Having attended a "Vexations" event some years back, I can advise prospective listeners that they may experience hallucinations of the Sphinx before the performance is done.
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The Guggenheim staged "Vexations" as part of the exhibition "Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris, 219-1897," so I perused the catalog.
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You have to look hard to find the sort of human details (reports of meals, travels, vices, personages, vexations) that coax good books of letters to life.
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I was at the Guggenheim Museum for a marathon performance of "Vexations" at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, a subterranean space with no cell service or views of the outside world.
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Her artworks draw on the vexations of modern life with mischievous humor, referencing ill-paid jobs in call centers, faceless bureaucracy, the travails of young motherhood and her own South London roots.
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For more than 50 years, beginning in 1946, Mr. Modell's moon-faced characters leapt from The New Yorker's pages in a perpetual state of exasperation or pandemonium, evoking for readers their everyday vexations.
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The current zest for new privacy laws is also likely to stall as lawmakers wrestle with the technical complexities and constitutional vexations sure to emerge with any legislation to control content on the internet.
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Of particular note is an eight-hour performance of Satie's "Vexations," a one-page work played 840 times in succession, by amateur and professional pianists under the Oculus at World Trade Center, from 10 a.m. onward.makemusicwinter.
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The usual virtual reality formula of a person controlling a digital avatar in the manner of video games is subverted in Corin's "Vexations" music video, in which the electronic musician's body movements get transposed onto a crumbling building.
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Reagan spent even more time managing relations with allies than he did negotiating with the Soviets; he knew that for all of their vexations, allies such as Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom are a source of strength for America.
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" Still, one can only imagine, despite all outward shows of graciousness, the vexations born by multiple nominees who have yet to win: Glenn Close, recipient of six nominations, and the cinematographer Roger Deakins, who received his 13th nomination this year, for "Sicario.
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But there were plenty of other vexations that contributed to the company's decision to quit, including the cost of running generators, finding retail space and paying executives enough to maintain the sort of lifestyle that they had been used to in South Africa.
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Like Bellow's Augie March, he had rooted himself in American soil without compromising his immigrant identity; whatever Huang's eventual vexations regarding the TV sitcom based on his book, it's clear that in the book he had succeeded in making something of himself.
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Brookhiser, a senior editor of National Review and the author of several books on the founding fathers, draws no present-day parallels, but it's impossible not to think of our current vexations when reviewing 19th-century Republican efforts to impeach Federalist judges.
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As I heard all 19 hours of Erik Satie's "Vexations" — a piece that requires playing the same four lines of music 33 times, slowly — at the Guggenheim Museum this week, I went through phases of becoming fixated on specific chords and rhythms.
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His "Vexations," apparently intended to be played 21989 times without a break by a pianist with a very strong bladder, was written more than 21966 years before the Dadaist Francis Picabia "composed" his "La Nourrice Américaine" ("The American Nurse"), consisting of three notes repeated ad infinitum.
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Another December stalwart, Make Music Winter, returns on the 21st with programming all over the city; among the highlights are a sound walk on the High Line, a fiddle-and-dance parade down Flatbush Avenue and an unseasonal but remarkable marathon performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the World Trade Center (makemusicny.org).
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Musil's analytical novel is about how individual humans shape, and are shaped by, the tide of history; Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's sumptuous opera "Der Rosenkavalier," originally set during the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, merely concerns the passage of time, and focusses more tightly on the intimate vexations of the human heart.
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The question of how to get unreliable and imperfect people to more reliably and perfectly do very difficult things is not abstract and not fun at all when it comes to daily life, but it's all a lot more fun to consider when it's turned to old sports-y vexations like defending the pick-and-roll.
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JOSHUA BARONE Read more about what it was like to hear all 19 hours of "Vexations." at 1 minute 55 seconds Though the director David McVicar's muddled new production of Bellini's "Norma," which opened the Metropolitan Opera's season this week, was a disappointment, the performances overall were excellent, including the splendid mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Adalgisa.
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The range of music on display begins with excerpts from Erik Satie's "Vexations" (a single page of musical notation meant to be played 840 times) from around 1893, through Steve Reich "Clapping Music for Two Performers" from 1972, up to Mr. Meyers's own "Elevator Music," a 2016 piece that will be performed live in the Witte de With elevator by a cellist.
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Many scenes are chafed by vexations that could not be less supernatural: Shideh's dismay upon learning that she is forbidden to complete her medical training; her quarrels with Iraj, who reckons that she should swallow that humbling fate; the solo workout sessions, in her living room, in front of banned Jane Fonda videos; her trips to the doctor, when Dorsa develops a fever; tea with the landlord's wife; and the dashes to the cellar when the air-raid sirens cry.
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The group's most recent full-length was 2012's Vexations.Review of Vexations. Alternative Press, September 17, 2012.
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"Pianoless Vexations (Erik Satie)", UbuWeb.com. Retrieve June 21, 2008. although this may not have been Satie's intention.
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52, 56), it likewise says one should "abandon learning" and be "like an infant". The practice is said to be one of “decreasing and again decreasing” (ch. 48).Kohn, 2010, p. 29 The Tao Te Ching also notes that the sense of self and body is the source of our vexations: “The body-self is the reason why I have terrible vexations.
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Such vexations more often visited her, now that she was no longer the young mistress of Mordant Hall, all abustle and renowned for her Daguerreotype memory.
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Vexations piano score Vexations is a musical work by Erik Satie. Apparently conceived for keyboard (although the single page of manuscript does not specify an instrument), it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are heard alternatingly unaccompanied and played with chords above. The theme and its accompanying chords are written using strikingly eccentric and impractical enharmonic notation. The piece is undated, but scholars usually assign a date around 1893–1894 on the basis of musical and biographical evidence.
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He was a musical curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art's The American Century, Part 2, which included 73 Poems. In 2004, he curated a CD for the Sonic Arts Network in London called The Agents of Impurity. In 2006 he organized a CD for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston called The Body is a Sound Factory. Also in 2006, he organized an 8-hour-long performance at the Sculpture Center (New York City) of Erik Satie's Vexations "Pianoless Vexations" (UbuWeb) for any instrument other than piano.
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One person, an actor with The Living Theater, Karl Schenzer, was present for the entire performance.Schonberg, Harold. "A Long, Long Night (and Day) at the Piano; Satie's 'Vexations' Played 840 Times by Relay Team." New York Times 11 September 1963: p.
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The Muslim community of Hebron had a reputation for being highly conservative in religion. Though Jews had suffered numerous vexations in the past, and this hostility was to take an anti-Zionist turn after the Balfour Declaration,Henry Laurens, La Question de Palestine, Fayard, Paris, vol.
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She performed the role of the vampire in Litz's Dracula as well as dancing with Paul Taylor's early company. Farber was the only female pianist in Erik Satie's (organized by John Cage) twenty-four-hour performance of Vexations. In 1965, she left Cunningham's company and in 1968, began her own company.
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C. Proprietors are not allowed to enter their houses, lands or groves. D. Arab rations are inferior to Israeli rations. E. Rumours are spread among Arabs that Majdal will become military [i.e. war] zone. F. Many Arabs wished to stay, but found living conditions impossible through continuous vexations' (see UN Archives, New York), (DAG-1/2.2.5.2.
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Only visitors who purchase an offering for the Buddha are allowed to see the relic, entering to leave it there. There is a huge carved bell inscribed with images of Buddhas in the show room. It was designed to ring every seven minutes, 108 times a day, symbolising the release of 108 kinds of human vexations.
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This past year the vexations caused by this King, more than half-mad, have become more frequent and more cruel than previously. He has had imprisoned, tortured, and flogged, according to his caprice, his wife, his sons faction even the heir-presumptive, and his high officials. He wanted to make them confess to crimes of which they were innocent.
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Leo is a victim of constant complaints by his family, with his wife, Ivana, his two daughters, Ursula and Suni and her stepmother, Fanny, treating him like the dog house. A criminal nicknamed "Cuckoo", following a bloody robbery, finds refuge in Leon's house, and under the threat of a gun he will be able to cease reprimands and vexations against Leon.
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Vexations were not wholly relieved by this advantageous connection. He remained unemployed, and had to suffer monthly visits by police agents who kept him under surveillance. The impasse in his career was overcome when Oka managed to secure for him a scholarship to study abroad at his own alma mater, Vienna University. At the late age of 34, Ishida began following lectures there from March 1937.
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Gropper formed a live band and toured the album. In 2008 Gropper also wrote exclusive tracks for the latest Wim Wenders movie Palermo Shooting, alongside other artists like Portishead and Nick Cave. The second album Vexations was released in Europe in January 2010. Unlike the debut, it was pre-produced by Konstantin Gropper and then was recorded with a full band in a studio.
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It entered the German album charts at number 11 and was followed by a tour. In 2011 Konstantin Gropper wrote the score to the first season of the French series Xanadu, which was broadcast in France and Germany by ARTE TV. In 2012 he released the album The Scarlet Beast O'Seven Heads. In 2016 he released an orchestral version of the 2010 album as Vexations 16.
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Erik Satie, c. 1895 L'Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur or the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor,Time magazine, 1963New York Press , 2005 alternatively translated as the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus, Leader Stephen Whittington (University of Adelaide, Australia) in "Serious Immobilities: On the centenary of Erik Satie's Vexations ", 1999 (et cetera), was founded by Erik Satie, the French composer and pianist.
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His last years were marked by petty vexations at home and ever increasing recognition in the German-speaking world. In 1949, he received the most distinguished prize in Hungary, the Kossuth Prize. Also in 1949, he finished Theory of the Film, published posthumously in English (London: Denis Dobson, 1952). In 1958, the Béla Balázs Prize was founded and named for him as an award to recognize achievements in cinematography.
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John Cage's music for prepared piano was executed by him after several exchanges with the composer about the exact way to do the "preparation." He extensively studied Erik Satie's music so that when he played the integral piano works of Satie in two consecutive sessions in 1995 (only abbreviating the Vexations), he revealed several more piano pieces by this composer, not known to the public until that day.
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Adriana Koatz, was a student of chemical engineering and was a member of the Peronist University Youth when she was arrested on October 21, 1976 and taken to the Information Service. From there she suffered a string of blows, tortures, vexations. She recalls that she shared captivity in the basement with Ester Fernández, Graciela Villarreal, Ana María Ferrari, Olga Cabrera Hansen, among others. Among men she remembers Pérez Risso and Piccolo.
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In 1893, Satie met the young Maurice Ravel for the first time,Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer, Cambridge University Press 1990, p. 250 Satie's style emerging in the first compositions of the youngster. One of Satie's own compositions of that period, Vexations, was to remain undisclosed until after his death. By the end of the year he had founded the Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur (Metropolitan Art Church of Jesus the Conductor).
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Fish found himself teaching piano at St Petroc's School in Bude. On the birth of his son Patrick in 1982, Fish became Head of Music at Lucton School, Herefordshire, and the couple moved to Presteigne, just across the Welsh border in Powys. Whilst in Presteigne, Fish was on the founding committee of the Presteigne International Festival. His seventeen-hour performance of Erik Satie's “Vexations” with co-pianist Dawn Pye made headlines around the world in July 1983.
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The fourth book treats those passions and vexations which Cicero considers as diseases of the soul. These Cicero classes under the four Stoic divisions: grief (including forms such as envy), fear, excessive gladness, and immoderate desire. They all result from false opinions as to evil and good. Grief and fear arise from the belief that their objects are real and great evils; undue gladness and desire, from the belief that their objects are real and great goods.
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Much of Dean's work draws from literary, political or visual stimuli, transporting a non-musical message. Environmental problems are the subject of Water Music and Pastoral Symphony, while Vexations and Devotions deal with the absurdities of a modern society obsessed with information. In April 2013 "The Last Days of Socrates" was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic.Berliner Philharmoniker The work for bass-baritone, choir, and orchestra was a co- commission of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
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Wearied by these incessant vexations, he divided Wick into 62 portions in 1690 and sold them all. At one time, King William III entrusted Campbell with £20,000, a huge sum of money, to use it to achieve peace between some warring Highland Chiefs. However, rather than spend the money, he managed to negotiate a deal between them. When asked to account for the £20,000, he replied "Gentlemen - the money is spent, the Highlands are at peace, and that is the only way of accounting among friends".
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The plot of A Tuna Christmas centers on the town's annual Christmas Yard Display Contest, won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious "Christmas Phantom," known for vandalizing the yard displays, threatens to throw the contest into turmoil. Among the subplots are Stanley Bumiller's attempts to end his probation and leave Tuna, Bertha Bumiller's trying to hold her family together at Christmas time, and Joe Bob Lipsey's struggle to mount successfully his production of A Christmas Carol despite numerous vexations and obstacles.
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Ruzzi's act made the Maronites the first Eastern Church to adopt the Gregorian calendar; the Syriacs and Chaldeans followed in 1836, the Melkites in 1857 and the Armenians in 1911. Not long after Ruzzi's act, in the 1600s, the Maronites discontinued counting the years from the Seleucid era in favor of the Christian era. Ruzzi died in March 1608. According to Dib, the measures implemented by Ruzzi were "harsh vexations" for the Maronites which prevented the election of a new patriarch until 16 October.
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The couple's 20-year-old son William works as a bank clerk in Oldham. The first entries describe the Pooters' daily lives and introduce their particular friends, such as their neighbour Gowing, the enthusiastic bicyclist Cummings, and the Jameses from Sutton. From the beginning a pattern is set whereby the small vexations of the Pooters' daily lives are recounted, many of them arising from Pooter's unconscious self- importance and pomposity. Trouble with servants, tradesmen, and office juniors occur regularly, along with minor social embarrassments and humiliations.
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Koxinga took Hambroek's teenage daughter as a concubine, and Dutch women were sold to Chinese soldiers to become their wives. The daily journal of the Dutch fort recorded that "the best were preserved for the use of the commanders, and then sold to the common soldiers. Happy was she that fell to the lot of an unmarried man, being thereby freed from vexations by the Chinese women, who are very jealous of their husbands." In 1684 some of these Dutch wives were still captives of the Chinese.
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Raymond Queneau and André Blavier considered Berbiguier to be a fou littéraire, a "literary madman," or rather, the literary equivalent of outsider art in France.Raymond Queneau, Aux Confins des Ténèbres, les Fous littéraires, (Gallimard, Les Cahiers de la NRF, Paris, 2002); André Blavier, Les fous littéraires, (Éditions des Cendres, Paris, 2000) (reprint). Théophile Gautier used Berbiguier as a model for his fantastic story, Onuphrius; ou les vexations fantastiques d'un admirateur d'Hoffmann, and Gustave Flaubert similarly consulted Berbiguier's work for his tale of Bouvard et Pécuchet.
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He was now subjected to all the vexations inflicted on Royalist partisans of good property: sequestrations of his rents, fines for "malignancy," and confinement in the Tower of London, where he consoled himself with his books. At last he reached a settlement in 1650 and went home, where he lived quietly till the Restoration, when he resumed his position as magistrate and was made Deputy Lieutenant of the county. He was never fully reconciled to the Court or government. Twysden died on 27 June 1672 and was buried at Peckham.
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Futurist Manifesto was premiered at a guest lecture by philosopher Slavoj Žižek at Loyola University New Orleans on November 17, 2009. The work was based on the manifest of the Italian Futurists and included live recitation of the manifesto with computer manipulation. This work was also performed at the New Orleans Museum of Art on April 1, 2011 as a part of the museum's Where Y'Art? series. On December 4, 2009, the ensemble performed a twenty-four-hour meta-performance of Erik Satie's Vexations at Loyola University New Orleans.
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Once in power, the Nazis were quick to classify Schoenstatt among the main opponents to destroy. After endless vexations, on 20 September 1941, Kentenich was summoned by the Gestapo; quoting some of his words spoken in private, but reported by an informer: "My mission is to reveal the inner emptiness of National Socialism, and by there to defeat it." The police imprisoned him for a month in a cell without ventilation, in order to break his resistance. This was a small massive concrete cell without any opening than the door.
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In addition, they had to pay all the expenses of the trip - transport, maintenance, freight of the ships, tolls, etc. This was organized by Isaac Abravanel, who contracted the ships, having to pay very high prices and whose owners in some cases did not fulfill the contract or killed the travelers to steal what little they had. Avranel counted on the collaboration of the real official convert Luis de Santángel and of the Genovese banker Francisco Pinelo. The monarchs had to give orders to protect Jews during the trip because they suffered vexations and abuse.
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Amid the enquiry, Thompson and Maguire received a number of threats and had to tolerate other more minor vexations. Maguire, unaccustomed to the African bush as he was, brought a number of accusations on himself through his personal habits. One day he happened to clean his false teeth in what the Matabele considered a sacred spring and accidentally dropped some eau de Cologne into it; the angry locals interpreted this as him deliberately poisoning the spring. They also alleged that Maguire partook of witchcraft and spent his nights riding around the bush on a hyena.
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The piece bears the inscription "In order to play the theme 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities" (Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses). From the 1960s onward, this text has mostly been interpreted as an instruction that the page of music should be played 840 times,Tyranny, "Blue Gene" (2008). [ Vexations review], AllMusic. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
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The first British publication was as an engraved example in an article by Peter Dickinson in Music Review, vol. 28 (1967). In 1969 the publisher Éditions Max Eschig produced the first commercial edition of the work, placing it second in a collection of three so-called Pages mystiques. Since there is no musicological evidence linking Vexations to the other works in the volume, its appearance in that context indicates nothing more than an editor's desire to publish Satie's uncollected compositions in three-part assemblages such as the Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, etc.
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These include remarkable estimates of Henry James, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Graham Wallas, George Bernard Shaw, and Arnold Bennett, among others. In the introductory section, Wells describes himself as a "mental worker" whose "thoughts and work are encumbered by claims and vexations and I cannot see any hope of release from them"; in the conclusion, he says that he has "[written] himself out of that mood of discontent" and is resolved to devote the rest of his life to the "faith and service of constructive world revolution."H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 1 & 705.
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Most of his early career work was in Off-Off-Broadway experimental theatre productions. One of his earliest projects was Love and Vexations at the Caffe Cino in September, 1963.Spotlight on Tom O'Horgan, Christopher Borg, Jan 22, 2009, nyitawards.com Soon thereafter, his friend James Wigfall introduced him to Ellen Stewart (founder of La MaMa, E.T.C.), who would go on to become one of his staunchest supporters. The first play he directed there was The Maids by Jean Genet in 1964,Of Course, There Were Some Limits, Eleanore Lester, O'Horgan feature article in the NY Times, May 19, 1968, michaelbutler.
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Psychiatrists are the successors of "soul doctors", priests who dealt and deal with the spiritual conundrums, dilemmas, and vexations – the "problems in living" – that have troubled people forever. Psychiatry's main methods are assessment, medication, conversation or rhetoric and incarceration. To the extent that psychiatry presents these problems as "medical diseases", its methods as "medical treatments", and its clients – especially involuntary – as medically ill patients, it embodies a lie and therefore constitutes a fundamental threat to freedom and dignity. Psychiatry, supported by the state through various Mental Health Acts, has become a modern secular state religion according to Szasz.
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Justice Harlan insisted that: > [T]o hold, as we do not, that private antitrust suits might also reach > monopolies practiced under patents that for one reason or another may turn > out to be voidable under one or more of the numerous technicalities > attending the issuance of a patent, might well chill the disclosure of > inventions through the obtaining of a patent because of fear of the > vexations or punitive consequences of treble-damage suits. Hence, this > private antitrust remedy should not be deemed available to reach § 2 > monopolies carried on under a nonfraudulently procured patent.382 U.S. at > 180.
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However, in some letters to General Sir John Vaughan around 1793–4, Massey relates his disappointments in not obtaining a military command, and his vexations at the appointment by the Marquis of Buckingham, the lord- lieutenant, of 'Popish children' (Master Talbot, aged eight, Master Skerritt, aged nine, and others), to ensigncies in his regiment. Later in 1794 he obtained the Cork command, which he held until his promotion to full general in 1796. The command had difficulties with new regiments, which the government persisted in 'drafting' in defiance of their recruiting engagements. He quelled a mutiny of two thousand of these young troops at Spike Island in 1795.
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The patriarchate of Ignatius V Qattan is remembered as a time of persecutions and vexations against the Melkite Catholic Church, that was legally still under the civil authority of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and was not able to defend itself. The violent persecutions halved the Catholic Melkite population of Aleppo and Damascus in about ten years. The persecutions against the Melkite Catholics were particularly strong in Aleppo in 1817: nine Melkites who were killed in such a year were honored as martyrs, and the Melkites had to leave the cathedral, the metropolitan residence, the library in the hands of the Greek Orthodox who were a minority in the town.
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On 9 September 1963 he participated, along with John Cage and several others, in an 18-hour piano- playing marathon that was the first full-length performance of Erik Satie's "Vexations". After the performance Cale appeared on the television panel show I've Got a Secret. Cale's secret was that he had performed in an 18-hour concert, and he was accompanied by Karl Schenzer, whose secret was that he was the only member of the audience who had stayed for the duration. Cale would later attribute Cage's writings with his own "relaxed" artistic outlook, having hitherto been raised to believe that European composers were obliged to justify their work.
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He also composed poems in Welsh, which are printed in the Dyddanwch Teuluaidd. In 1776 he published two volumes of Welsh sermons, translated from the works of John Tillotson and other English divines. In one notice of him it is stated that having passed a great part of his life in the cultivation of Welsh literature, "without being able to procure the smallest promotion in the church, his fortitude deserted him, and, to chase away his vexations, he fell into a habit of drinking, that at times produced symptoms of derangement." The fact is that Welsh prelates of the time were mostly Englishmen who knew no Welsh.
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The patriarchate struggled with financial difficulties due to the tax burden imposed by the Turkish authorities and to the ransoms required to free Joseph from the prison. Furthermore, according to the Ottoman law, the Chaldean community was administratively subject to the traditionalist Patriarchate of Alqosh, causing it to be in a weak position and exposed to vexations. In 1734 Joseph left for Europe to try to raise funds to pay his debts, and during the next seven years he visited the Catholic courts of Poland, Austria and Rome asking for financial support. He was given some money, but far less than he had hoped for.
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Isabel I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon. From the beginning of their reign, Isabel and Ferdinand were concerned with protecting Jews - since they were "property" of the crown. For example, on September 6, 1477, in a letter addressed to the Jewish community of Seville, Queen Isabel I gave assurances about their safety: Hence even the Catholic Kings until 1492 were reputed to be favorable to the Jews. This is what the German traveler, Nicolas de Popielovo says, for example, after his visit in 1484-1485: But they could not do away with all the vexations and discrimination suffered by the Jews, encouraged on many occasions by the preaching of the friars from the mendicant orders.
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He was a regular guest at parties at the American consulate, and with his usual wit, enchanted the guests with verbal flourishes such as "the artist's only positive virtue is idleness—and there are so few who are gifted at it." His new friends reported, on the contrary, that Whistler rose early and put in a full day of effort. He wrote to a friend, "I have learned to know a Venice in Venice that the others never seem to have perceived, and which, if I bring back with me as I propose, will far more than compensate for all annoyances delays & vexations of spirit." The three-month assignment stretched to fourteen months.
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Koxinga took Hambroek's teenage daughter as a concubine, and Dutch women were sold to Chinese soldiers to become their wives, the daily journal of the Dutch fort recorded that "the best were preserved for the use of the commanders, and then sold to the common soldiers. Happy was she that fell to the lot of an unmarried man, being thereby freed from vexations by the Chinese women, who are very jealous of their husbands." In 1684 some of these Dutch wives were still captives of the Chinese. Some Dutch physical looks like auburn and red hair among people in regions of south Taiwan are a consequence of this episode of Dutch women becoming concubines to the Chinese commanders.
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More than 50 artworks of Albanian and international composers, premièred in front of the audience of the third edition of DAM Festival. To mark the opening of this edition, 30 musicians executed the famous music work of the well known French composer, Erik Satie, Vexations. The 2008 edition of the festival, was attended by many special guests, among them the successful musicians Jan Pilch, Mendi Mengjiqi, Mojca Sedeu, Petrit Çeku, Alexandre Dubach and Toshio Yanagisawa. During this edition, these special guests organized master classes and workshops related to DAM's character. This fulfilled one of the festival's main aims – to provide the young musicians an environment where they can benefit from the professionals’ experience.
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The architects were Ernest George and Harold Peto. The latter was not at all impressed with Steinkopff and his wealth: returning from Cairo after his retirement in December 1892, Peto reflected in his travel diary: :"There is no fear of a wearisome amount of ease and delights, palling and cloying one's life; there are always sufficient setbacks and vexations one cannot escape to give piquancy (if it were lacking), without adding the drawbacks of living at the bottom of a horse pond and vainly trying to please vulgar, exacting, nouveau riches Steinkopffs & Co." After his daughter Margaret's death, the art treasures in the house were sold at auction by Christie's, 22-24 May 1935; these included paintings, furniture, glass, porcelain, bronze sculptures, and silver.
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She has also collaborated with musicians including improviser and composer Steve Beresford (with whom she recorded 'Ointment'), composer Andrew Poppy (concert), pianist John Tilbury, bassist John Edwards, drummer Mark Sanders and harpist Rhodri Davies. She has also collaborated with the film-maker Jayne Parker. She has performed in the US, UK, Asia and Europe, at venues including Tate Modern, GaleGates (Brooklyn, NYC), The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin), the Purcell Room, where she gave a complete performance of John Cage's Music of Changes Books I-IV, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Recent concerts include Cornelius Cardew for BBC Radio 3 (Concert program and listing) and a performance of Satie's Vexations for the "Sleep" Installation at the Tate Modern 27 & 28 May 2007, alongside Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars and Joshua Rifkin.
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Vexations appears to have had no performance history before the idea gained ground that the piece was required to be played 840 times. The first of the marathon performances of the work in this way was produced by John Cage and Lewis Lloyd at the Pocket Theatre in Manhattan by the Pocket Theatre Piano Relay Team, organized by Cage. Pianists included: John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, Philip Corner, Viola Farber, Robert Wood, MacRae Cook, John Cale, David Del Tredici, James Tenney, Howard Klein (the New York Times reviewer, who coincidentally was asked to play in the course of the event) and Joshua Rifkin, with two reserves, on September 9, 1963. Cage set the admission price at $5 and had a time clock installed in the lobby of the theatre.
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When Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, many of them found refuge in Italy, where they were given protection by King Ferdinand I of Naples. One of the refugees, Don Isaac Abravanel, even received a position at the Neapolitan court, which he retained under the succeeding king, Alfonso II. The Spanish Jews were also well received in Ferrara by Duke Ercole d'Este I and in Tuscany through the mediation of Jehiel of Pisa and his sons. But at Rome and Genoa they experienced all the vexations and torments that hunger, plague, and poverty bring with them, and they were forced to accept baptism to escape starvation. In a few cases, the refugees exceeded in number the Jews already domiciled, and thus gave the determining vote in matters of communal interest and in the direction of studies.
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Charles E. Morris III, "Hard Evidence: The Vexations of Lincoln's Queer Corpus", in Rhetoric, Materiality, Politics, ed. Barbara Biesecker and John Louis Lucaites (New York: Peter Lang, 2009): 185-213 In an earlier 2007 essay, Morris argues that in the wake of playwright Larry Kramer's "outing" of Lincoln, the Lincoln Establishment engaged in "mnemonicide", or the assassination of a threatening counter-memory. He put in this category what he called the methodologically flawed but widely appropriated case against the "gay Lincoln thesis" by David Herbert Donald in his book, We Are Lincoln Men."My Old Kentucky Homo: Abraham Lincoln, Larry Kramer, and the Politics of Queer Memory", Queering Public Address: Sexualities and American Historical Discourse, ed. Charles E. Morris III (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007): 93-120 Lincoln's stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, commented that he "never took much interest in the girls".
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The fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá in 1890 The kings of Hueda, and later Dahomey, did not allow European forts and factories on the seaside. Consequently, the three forts, located about 4 km inland, were particularly vulnerable to "vexations" by the kings and their agents and were dependent on their goodwill. A brief submitted to the British Parliament in the early 18th century lamented that "owning forts drew companies into the expensive complexities of African politics, and required the payment of ground-rents, presents, bribes and loans", and more so in Ouidah. The Portuguese military engineer José António Caldas who stayed at Ouidah around 1759 wrote that due to their being at some distance from the beach, the three forts were "subject to the insults of the king of Dahomey". Each year, the directors of the three forts were required to travel Abomey, 100 km north of Ouidah, to pay their respect to the king during the annual festivities called “customs”.
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Indeed, he has called the Astronaut's Memorial a souped up version of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial (by Maya Lin 1982). TECHNOLOGY AS MEANS TO ENGAGEMENT Jones often refers to the work of Martin Heidegger in his writings and lectures, but far from being critical of technology, as Heidegger is usually considered to be, Jones champions another reading, which grows from the philosopher’s claim that “technology is a way of revealing.” Indeed, Jones often quotes Heidegger as saying that “technology teases nature into unhiddenness,” though this may be a misreading or confusion with the sentiments of Francis Bacon’s “nature reveals itself under the vexations of art…” From this, though, Jones takes license to understand technology positively as a lens through which the world is viewed, and that as such the design of that lens might enhance engagement with that world. So rather than seeing technology as blocking direct experience of Being and nature, as Heidegger does, Jones sees technology as a means to more direct experience.
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Although he was known to his contemporaries as "John Fraser, the indefatigable", owing to his business and travel vexations and possibly also to exhaustion from his injuries after his fall, and his frequent and fatiguing journeys, his life was shortened -- though a robust man, he died in April, 1811 in London, Sloane Square,Or he died in Glasgow -- the family account of his death place (and the Hogg article) differs from the accounts published in Brendel and Ward. at only 60, leaving two sons; his wife died a few years afterwards. He did live long enough to see one grandchild, William, born to John Jr. and his wife Sarah on 30 June 1808, and more offspring came later from both his sons. Fraser's financial difficulties must have been a heavy burden to his family even after he died, since two years afterward he was declared to have been bankrupt at his death.
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' The whole tract may present a > pleasant aspect in the fresh time of the year, when the ground is covered > with herbage; when the trees are in their green leaf, and the glens are > enlivened by running streams. Unfortunately, we entered it too late in the > season The herbage was parched; the foliage of the scrubby forests was > withered; the whole woodland prospect, as far as the eye could reach, had a > brown and arid hue. The fires made on the prairies by the Indian hunters, > had frequently penetrated these forests, sweeping in light transient flames > along the dry grass, scorching and calcining the lower twigs and branches of > the trees, and leaving them black and hard, so as to tear the flesh of man > and horse that had to scramble through them. I shall not easily forget the > mortal toil, and the vexations of flesh and spirit, that we underwent > occasionally, in our wanderings through the Cross Timber.
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