Moscow’s Golden Mask Festival: The Russian Case (Online, 2021)

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-388
Author(s):  
Maria Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
First Time

The team running the Russian Case as part of Moscow’s annual Golden Mask Festival pulled off a major feat in 2021 by organizing a five-day programme online. Deeply disappointed that the Russian Case had been cancelled in the preceding year due to the Covid pandemic, this group made it its mission to succeed in adverse circumstances; and succeed it did by providing works varied enough to engage its habitual audience, as well as people coming to the event for the first time, albeit digitally. In a departure from established practice, several productions that were performed too late to compete for the awards of the 2021 Festival appeared in this year’s Russian Case. The overview offered here gathers some works out of the choices made by Maria Shevtsova, Editor of New Theatre Quarterly, whose most recent book is Rediscovering Stanislavsky (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Worship in Medieval England. Past Imperfect Series. Croydon: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, 92 pages.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
Jane Beal
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Liturgical Studies ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
The University

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, a Lecturer in Music at University and Worcester College, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, wrote this book for ARC Humanities Press’s Past Imperfect series (a series comparable to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions). Two of his recent, significant contributions to the field of medieval liturgical studies include The Secular Office in Late-Medieval England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) and, as editor and translator, Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017). In keeping with the work of editors Thomas Heffernan and E. Ann Matter in The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, 2nd ed. (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005) and Richard W. Pfaff in The Liturgy of Medieval England: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2009), this most recent book provides a fascinating overview of the liturgy of the medieval church, specifically in England. Salisbury’s expertise is evident on every page.

Free Your Mind

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Seligman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Farm ◽  
Bubonic Plague ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

This is not the first time that great universities have had to shut their doors during an epidemic. And there is perhaps a lesson for all students about what can happen during a shutdown. In 1665, Cambridge University closed as the bubonic plague swept across England. Isaac Newton, a 22-year-old student, was forced to retreat to the family farm, Woolsthorpe Manor. Isolated there for more than a year, on his own he revolutionized the scientific world. Newton said that this shutdown freed him from the pressures of the curriculum and led to the best intellectual years of his life.

Back to the future

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Sternefeld
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Minimalist Theory

Andrew Radford, Syntactic theory and the structure of English: a minimalist approach. Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997. Pp. xii + 558. Hardback £50, US$69.95, ISBN 0 521 47125 7; paperback £16.95, US$24.95, ISBN 0 521 47707 7.Until recently I was convinced that by far the best textbook ever written on Generative Grammar was Perlmutter and Soames' Syntactic argumentation and the structure of English (1979). Unfortunately, the theory advanced there died out. As concerns its successor, namely GB-theory, I still believe that Andrew Radford's pioneering Transformational syntax (1981) is one of the best introductions to Chomsky's Pisa lectures, despite the plethora of competing textbooks that have appeared over the years. Now that Radford has presented his most recent book, Syntactic theory and the structure of English, I am inclined to believe that it should be considered a competitor to Perlmutter and Soames' book. Not only the similarity to Perlmutter and Soames' title, but also the pedagogical and systematic orientation of the new book invites comparison. As both books meet the highest standards with regard to clarity of expression and exposition, I recommend Radford's book as the best textbook for up-to-date syntactic theory, and I am convinced that it will play the same influential role as an introduction to the Minimalist theory as did the 1981 book for GB theory.

The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar: Sir Henry Spelman, Abraham Wheelock and William Retchford

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 379-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
English History ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Early English ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe first scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon had to learn it by direct contact with original sources. Work on a dictionary preceded that on a grammar, notably through the efforts of John Joscelyn, Archbishop Parker's Latin Secretary. Like Parker, Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641) found that many of his sources for early English history were in Anglo-Saxon. Consequently he encouraged the study of Old English by establishing a Lectureship in Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University and worked closely with its first (and only) holder, Abraham Wheelock. Together with Wheelock's pupil, William Retchford, and possibly drawing on some earlier work by Joscelyn (since lost), these scholars attempted to formulate the rudiments of Anglo-Saxon grammar. This pioneering work, basically a parts-of-speech grammar, survives in three versions, two of them incomplete. In this article I discuss the contents and methodology used and present for the first time an edited text of the first modern Old English grammar. It was a remarkable achievement.

The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. By Barry B. Witham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 190. $70 cloth.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Rena Fraden
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Federal Theatre Project ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Continental Congress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Federal Theatre ◽  
First Time

The Federal Theatre Project . . . was a unique and influential experiment in American theatre; not just for its outspoken politics, but because it reimagined the very way that theatre was produced in the United States. For the first time in the history of the country theatre was subsidized by the federal government, a practice with widespread precedents in Europe and Asia, but one that was totally out of step with free enterprise business practice and a culture which had banned plays in its Second Continental Congress. (1)So opens Barry Witham's case study of the Seattle Federal Theatre Project from 1935 to 1939.

scholarly journals A Reply to John Dudley on Aristotle, Physics 2.5, 196b17–21

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-288
Author(s):  
Giovanna R. Giardina
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
First Time

In this article, I restate the interpretation of Aristotle’s Ph. 2.5, 196b17– 21, which I presented for the first time in my book I fondamenti della causalità naturale (2006). According to my reading, both the things that are due to deliberation and those that are not (Arist. Ph. 196b17–18) fall within the group of beings which come to be not for the sake of anything (Arist. Ph. 196b17). In his recent book, Aristotle’s Concept of Chance (Albany 2012), John Dudley found my interpretation laudable and original but rejected it, opting for the traditional interpretation. As he did not provide sufficient reasons for this, I deem it appropriate to discuss more broadly and in greater detail my interpretation in order to demonstrate that it is correct theoretically, linguistically and grammatically. I also discuss a reading of Neoplatonic commentators which seems to me very useful: when commenting on Aristotle, they start with a very prejudicial interpretation which comes from Alexander and which probably determined all later interpretations of the passage. According to this interpretation, beings which come to be not for the sake of anything (Arist. Ph. 196b17) are beings that have no teleology of any kind. Yet this exegetic position faces a series of difficulties which can easily be solved if one assumes, as I do, that these beings have a certain end albeit not an intrinsic one.

scholarly journals First Report of Heterobasidion annosum on Native European Pinus cembra

Plant Disease ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Nicolotti ◽  
P. Gonthier ◽  
G. C. Varese
Keyword(s):  
Heterobasidion Annosum ◽  
Pinus Cembra ◽  
Single Spore ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Butt Rot ◽  
Primary Roots ◽  
Swiss Stone Pine ◽  
Natural Range ◽  
Sexual Mating ◽  
First Time

Heterobasidion annosum (Fr.:Fr.) Bref. is one of the most widespread and damaging root and butt rot agents on conifers. In the summer of 1998, H. annosum was observed for the first time on the Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus cembra L.) in its natural range (1) at 1,900 m in the Aosta Valley in the northwestern Italian Alps. The affected tree was 14 m tall and about 60 years old. It was growing in a mixed spruce (Picea) and larch (Larix) forest severely affected by H. annosum. There were no clear crown symptoms but, after felling, an extensive butt rot was noticed up to 4 m from the collar. The pathogen was isolated from a disk cut at a height of about 40 cm. Its anamorphic form (Spiniger meineckellum (A. Olson) Stalpers) developed on this disk after 8 days of incubation at 20°C. H. annosum was also isolated from the central cylinder of the tree's primary roots and on the other roots down to a diameter of 0.5 cm. Sexual mating tests with single-spore testers for the P, S, and F intersterile groups (ISGs) showed that the isolate belonged to S-ISG. Biomolecular tests on this strain are in progress to confirm this. Reference: (1) T. G. Tutin et al. 1993. Flora Europaea. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

scholarly journals SAMUEL HOWARD AND THE MUSIC FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF GRAFTON AS CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1769

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN HOWARD
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
University Archives ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Different Parts

ABSTRACTSamuel Howard (?1710–1782) has long been a familiar inhabitant of the diligent footnotes of Handel biographers. A choirboy in the Chapel Royal, he was a member of Handel's chorus and the composer of much theatre music of his own; he later became organist of both St Bride's, Fleet Street and nearby St Clement Danes, Strand, where he was buried in 1782. His most significant and ambitious work is his fine orchestrally accompanied anthem ‘This is the day which the Lord hath made’, published posthumously in 1792 with an impressive title page detailing the performance of the work ‘at St Margaret's Church before the governors of the Westminster Infirmary, in the Two Universities, and upon many other Publick Occasions in different parts of the Kingdom’. This article confirms for the first time that this work originated as Howard's doctoral exercise; contemporary press reports and information in the University archives make clear that the composer's doctorate was linked to the provision of music for the Duke of Grafton's installation as Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1769. Surviving information about this event offers a glimpse of musical life in Cambridge on a comparable scale to the much better reported proceedings upon similar occasions in Oxford. This evidence then serves as a starting-point from which to consider Howard's later prominence as a director of high-profile public performances in London and the provinces.

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