Britten's New Piano Piece

Tempo ◽  
1963 ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Fanny Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Solo Piano ◽  
Occasional Music ◽  
The Prestige

The ‘Night Piece’ for solo piano was composed in the spring of 1963 in response to a request from the Committee of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition for a work to be compulsory for all participants. The Committee, of course, regarded it a high honour that the country's leading composer should so generously accede to a request for such a piece of occasional music. In addition to adding to the prestige of the competition the piece was also invaluable in revealing the competitors' imaginative and interpretative powers as they had had no opportunity of hearing any previous performance or recording.

El Prestige: comparativa de los regímenes internacionales de responsabilidad civil

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Raquel Fernández González ◽  
Marcos Íñigo Pérez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Civil Responsibility ◽  
The One ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Prestige

The return of institutions to the main research agenda has highlighted the importance of rules in economic analysis. The New Institutional Economics has allowed a better understanding of the case studies that concern different areas of knowledge, also the one concerning the management of natural resources. In this article, the institutional analysis focuses on the maritime domain, where two large civil liability regimes for pollution coexist (OPA 90-IMO), each in a different geographical area (United States - Europe). Therefore, a comparative analysis is made between the two large regimes of civil responsibility assignment applying them to the Prestige catastrophe. In this way, the allocation and distribution of responsibilities in the investigation and subsequent judicial process of the Prestige is compared with an alternative scenario in which the applicable compensation instruments are governed by the provisions of the Oil Polution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), in order to establish a rigorous analysis on the effects that the different norms can have in the same scenario. In the comparative established in the case of the Prestige, where the responsibilities were solved very slowly in a judicial process with high transaction costs, the application of rules governed by the OPA 90 would not count with such a high degree of imperfection. This is so, since by applying the preponderance of the evidence existing in OPA 90 there would be no mitigation for the presumed culprits. On the other hand, the agents involved in the sinking would not be limited only to the owner, but also that operators or shipowners would be responsible as well. In addition, the amount of compensation would increase when counting in the damage count the personal damages, the taxes without perceiving and the ecological damage caused in a broad sense, damages not computable in the IMO.

The Prestige of One's Occupation

Soviet Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shubkin
Keyword(s):  
The Prestige

Prestige does not affect the cultural transmission of novel controversial arguments in an online transmission chain experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel V. Jiménez ◽  
Alex Mesoudi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
Reliable Effect ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary ◽  
Relevant Domain ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
High Prestige ◽  
The Prestige

Cultural evolutionary theories define prestige as social rank that is freely conferred on individuals possessing superior knowledge or skill, in order to gain opportunities to learn from such individuals. Consequently, information provided by prestigious individuals should be more memorable, and hence more likely to be culturally transmitted, than information from non-prestigious sources, particularly for novel, controversial arguments about which pre-existing opinions are absent or weak. It has also been argued that this effect extends beyond the prestigious individual’s relevant domain of expertise. We tested whether the prestige and relevance of the sources of novel, controversial arguments affected the transmission of those arguments, independently of their content. In a four-generation linear transmission chain experiment, British participants (N=192) recruited online read two conflicting arguments in favour of or against the replacement of textbooks by computer tablets in schools. Each of the two conflicting arguments was associated with one of three sources with different levels of prestige and relevance (high prestige, high relevance; high prestige, low relevance; low prestige, low relevance). Participants recalled the pro-tablets and anti-tablets arguments associated with each source and their recall was then passed to the next participant within their chain. Contrary to our predictions, we did not find a reliable effect of either the prestige or relevance of the sources of information on transmission fidelity. We discuss whether the lack of a reliable effect of prestige on recall might be a consequence of differences between how prestige operates in this experiment and in everyday life.

Population trends and reproductive success of the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis on the Iberian Peninsula following the Prestige oil spill

2005 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Velando ◽  
David �lvarez ◽  
Jorge Mouri�o ◽  
Francisco Arcos ◽  
�lvaro Barros
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Prestige Oil Spill ◽  
The Prestige

Jerusalem, Music Centre: Andre Hajdu

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (264) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Malcolm Miller
Keyword(s):  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Solo Piano ◽  
Jam Session ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Music Centre

An 80th birthday concert full of the spirit of youthful exploration reflected the innovative interactive aesthetic of Andre Hajdu, the Hungarian-Israeli composer, whose oeuvre is gradually gaining wider international exposure. Presented by the Jerusalem Music Centre on 29 March 2012, the programme featured works from the last quarter of a century for chamber duo and solo piano, including two premières, culminating in an improvisational interactive jam session by an array of students and colleagues, joined by the composer himself at the piano. To begin was Hajdu's Sonatine for Flute and Cello (1990) ‘in the French style’ performed with panache by the flautist Yossi Arnheim and cellist Amir Eldan. It is an elegantly written work radiating the spirit of Hajdu's teachers Milhaud and (less overtly) Messiaen, with whom he studied in Paris in the 1950s and 60s. Beneath the light-hearted veneer of polyphonic textures is a serious, plangent expressiveness. The first movement, libre et gai, moves from the chirpy, Poulenc-like delicacy of a cat-and-mouse imitative chase, building tension towards a final stretto. In the second movement, molto moderato, Arnheim wove a lyrical cantilena for flute over gentle cello accompaniments, giving way to rarified high cello registers shadowed by eloquent lower lines of the flute. An exuberant dance-like finale, Libre mais un peu rythmé, increased in drama before receding to a tranquil conclusion.

The effect of oil spills on the bacterial diversity and catabolic function in coastal sediments: a case study on the Prestige oil spill

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (20) ◽  
pp. 15200-15214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Acosta-González ◽  
Sophie-Marie Martirani-von Abercron ◽  
Ramon Rosselló-Móra ◽  
Regina-Michaela Wittich ◽  
Silvia Marqués
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Diversity ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Coastal Sediments ◽  
Prestige Oil Spill ◽  
The Prestige

Voyage in Space, 20 Pieces for Solo Piano

Notes ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 991
Author(s):  
David Burge ◽  
Morris Pert
Keyword(s):  
Solo Piano

The Movements of the Jerusalem Church During the First Jewish War

1973 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara C. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Prestige

Under the leadership of James the Lord's brother the Christian Church at Jerusalem was probably the most influential of all existing Christian communities. It could boast a system of internal organisation under authoritative resident leaders; it was an important missionary centre, despatching apostles and recalling them, or sending advisors to them when they were in difficulties. Neither the prestige nor the destiny of the Jerusalem Church were the immediate concern of the author of the Acts of the Apostles, and it is Hegesippus who keeps us informed of its progress. The stability of that Church was apparently shattered shortly after the death of James, when the Jews revolted against the Romans and ‘immediately Vespasian attacked them’. We hear no more about the Jerusalem Church directly from Hegesippus until he tells of a meeting convened to elect a successor to James, and Eusebius tells us that this meeting took place after Jerusalem had been taken in A.D. 70.

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