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Ross Edwards: The Hermit of Green Light (1979) - Geography III
No full text"The suggestion that I should set to music some of Michael Dransfield' s poetry came from the countertenor Hartley Newnham who,jointly with the pianist Nicholas Routley, commissioned me to write these songs in 1979. Dransfield, who died in 1973 at the age of twenty-four, was the author of more than 600 poems. My response to his work was immediate and I chose four poems which form a miniature cycle linked by a common theme: the relationship of human beings to the natural environment. I was attracted to the first poem, which is set in a recitative-like style, through a somewhat wistful identification of myself with the hermit in his solitude; and to the second and third- both taken from Dransfield' s Geography cycle - by their ecstatic, visionary qualities. The final poem, profoundly calm yet poised on the brink of despair, seemed to require hardly any comment from the piano and is thus largely unaccompanied." -- Ross Edward
Het culturele netwerk van Cees Nooteboom in Italië
No full textJust like in many other foreign countries, Cees Nooteboom is an acclaimed author in Italy as well. This raises some questions, for example on the image of Nooteboom given by the Italian reviewers of his books, or on the people that have contributed to his success in Italy. To shed light on these aspects, the present article will adopt a sociological approach to translation to study the role of the Italian mediators of Nooteboom – editors, translators, reviewers – in a network analysis as advocated by Grave (2017). In particular, and following Sapiro’s (2016) suggestion, the focus will be on the social circumstances that enabled the circulation of Nooteboom’s books in the Italian literary system: (i) the strong symbolic capital of two gifted and experienced translators; (ii) the consecration power of the publisher Iperborea, which has toiled for the diffusion of the Dutch literature in Italy and particularly of Nooteboom’s oeuvre; (iii) the book reviewers, journalists and writers who have praised his work by making it accessible to the target culture. Moreover, this article will show, by means of an imagological approach, which images and which typically Dutch features are attributed to Nooteboom by Italian literary critics. To this purpose, an intertextual analysis will be carried out of a corpus composed by paratextual sources
Ross Edwards: The Hermit of Green Light (1979) - The Hermit of Green Light
No full text"The suggestion that I should set to music some of Michael Dransfield' s poetry came from the countertenor Hartley Newnham who,jointly with the pianist Nicholas Routley, commissioned me to write these songs in 1979. Dransfield, who died in 1973 at the age of twenty-four, was the author of more than 600 poems. My response to his work was immediate and I chose four poems which form a miniature cycle linked by a common theme: the relationship of human beings to the natural environment. I was attracted to the first poem, which is set in a recitative-like style, through a somewhat wistful identification of myself with the hermit in his solitude; and to the second and third- both taken from Dransfield' s Geography cycle - by their ecstatic, visionary qualities. The final poem, profoundly calm yet poised on the brink of despair, seemed to require hardly any comment from the piano and is thus largely unaccompanied." -- Ross Edward
Ross Edwards: The Hermit of Green Light (1979) - And No Bird Sings
No full text"The suggestion that I should set to music some of Michael Dransfield' s poetry came from the countertenor Hartley Newnham who,jointly with the pianist Nicholas Routley, commissioned me to write these songs in 1979. Dransfield, who died in 1973 at the age of twenty-four, was the author of more than 600 poems. My response to his work was immediate and I chose four poems which form a miniature cycle linked by a common theme: the relationship of human beings to the natural environment. I was attracted to the first poem, which is set in a recitative-like style, through a somewhat wistful identification of myself with the hermit in his solitude; and to the second and third- both taken from Dransfield' s Geography cycle - by their ecstatic, visionary qualities. The final poem, profoundly calm yet poised on the brink of despair, seemed to require hardly any comment from the piano and is thus largely unaccompanied." -- Ross Edward
Sonata
No full textSonata (2013)
Composition and film installation
Filmed on location in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome, 5 May 2013
Supported by Creative Scotland Visual Arts Award £10,000
Sonata is a composition for piano, cello and violin based upon the speech, poems and letters of three poets buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery: the English Romantic poets John Keats (1795-1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and the US Beat Poet, Gregory Corso (1930-2001).
The composition is in three movements:
I - Lift Me Up For I Am Dying
The first movement is an evolution of the composition, Lift Me Up For I Am Dying based upon the last spoken words of Keats. Lift Me Up For I Am Dying was commissioned by the Swiss Institute in Rome (2010) and formed the basis for Duet, an audio installation at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, 14-15 May 2013.
II - Adonais - Adagio
The second movement is based upon lines from Shelley’s long poem of lament, Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821). Shelley, who had also lived in the house on Piazza di Spagna in which Keats died, considered Adonais to be among his best compositions. When Shelley drowned in the Bay of Spezia he was found with a volume of Keats’ poems in his shirt pocket.
III - Letters from Rome
The final movement is based upon three letters written by Corso upon a visit to the graves of Keats and Shelley in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on the anniversary of Keats’ birthday in 1958. Corso’s letters were addressed to his fellow beat poets: Phillip Whalen, Allen Ginsburg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Corso’s ashes were buried at the foot of Shelley’s grave in the Non-Catholic Cemetery on 5 May 2001.
Sonata performed by Da Vinci Trio:
Violin: Tony Moffat, Leader of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Cello: Robert Irvine, Head of Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire, Scotland
Piano: Mario Montore, Leader of the Avos Quartet, Rome
Filming was preceded by a public recital introduced by Adam Szymczyk, Director of Kunsthalle Basel.
With thanks to:
Amanda Thursfield, Director
THE NON-CATHOLIC CEMETERY IN ROME,
via Caio Cestio, 6, 00153, Roma
Ross Birrell, Duet, Keats-Shelley House,
Piazza di Spagna, 26, 13 May - 6 September 2013
First exhibited in Ross Birrell and David Harding, Winter Line, Kunsthalle Basel, 17 Jan - 23 Ma3 2014.
Performed by DaVinci Trio at Museumsnacht, Kunsthalle Basel, 17 Jan 2014
Dacron Graft Encased Modified Ross Operation
No full textThe pulmonary autograft operation was introduced by Donald Ross in 1967. Since then, the Ross operation has become a viable and durable option for aortic valve replacement in both the pediatric and adult populations (1). Pulmonary autograft dilatation is one of the complications noted in the adult population. Because of this, the Ross operation is showing a declining trend in this adult population. To prevent this complication, Ross Ungerleider came up with a simple and reproducible modification by adding a Dacron tube graft over the pulmonary autograft, and found no pulmonary autograft dilatation in 30 patients over the period of four years (2).The concerns raised with the modified Ross procedure are that the Dacron tube graft is a cylindrical graft and the sinus portion of the autograft is essential for the normal functioning of the leaflets, as studied in valve-sparing aortic root replacement procedures and experimental studies, and the modified Ross procedure does not address and prevent the potential threat to the valve leaflets function in the long term (3). The pseudosinus creation in the Dacron graft is very important to decrease the stress and strain on the leaflets, so that it is closer to normal, as studied by K .Jane Grande-Allen et al (3).Keeping this in mind, the author has made an additional modification to the modified Ross operation by removing the autograft sinuses, which were getting restricted by the cylindrical Dacron graft, and creating a pseudosinus/neosinus in the Dacron graft.With these modifications to the modified Ross operation, the author hopes to take care of the pulmonary autograft dilatation at all three levels:Annular level – The author sutures the autograft to the Dacron graft and then to the aortic annulus, which prevents annular dilatation.Sinuses – By excising the native autograft sinuses, which are being restricted by the Dacron graft, and creating the pseudosinus/neosinus in the Dacron graft, the author hopes to preserve the valve leaflet function.Sinotubular junction – Since the author is fixing the commissures to the Dacron graft and then suturing the Dacron graft to the ascending aorta, the dilatation at the sinotubular junction is nullified.ReferencesRoss DN. Replacement of aortic and mitral valves with a pulmonary autograft. Lancet. 1967;290(7523):956-958.Ungerleider RM, Ootaki Y, Shen I, Welke KF. Modified Ross procedure to prevent autograft dilation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010;90(3):1035-1037. </p
Ethnosocial Stratification in the Russian Colony Ross in California (1812-1841)
No full textEthnosocial stratification of the population of the Russian colony of Ross (now Fort Ross), which existed in California in 1812-1841 as an outpost of the Russian-American company is considered. A general description of the population of the Ross colony, its distribution, and ethno-demographic structure in its dynamics is given. The author concludes that in Ross the diversity of the ethnic composition of the population was combined with its quite clear (although sometimes somewhat conditional) ethnosocial stratification according to the type common to all of Russian America, based on a combination of ethnic and vocational educational features. It is shown that the individual’s place in this stratification was determined by the differentiation of the colonialists and indigene, the degree of cultural and state-political proximity to the colonial elite, the production qualifications, the form and amount of payment associated with it. The author identifies five ethno-social strata as part of the Ross population: the administrative elite; Russian workers (“industrial”), which the Finnish and Yakut adjoined to; creoles (mestizos) and natives “in the service of the Company”; Aleuts dependent on the Russian-American company (mainly Kodiak Eskimos); local Indians, who became the “foundation” of the social pyramid. The most fundamental differences between the strata and the socio-historical nature of the system of exploitation of the Californian Indians are considered
Recovery theorem: expounded and applied
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation is concerned with Ross' (2011) Recovery Theorem. It is generally held that a forward-looking probability distribution is unobtainable from derivative prices, because the market's risk-preferences are conceptually inextricable from the implied real-world distribution. Ross' result recovers this distribution without making the strong preference assumptions assumed necessary under the conventional paradigm. This dissertation aims to give the reader a thorough understanding of Ross Recovery, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. This starts with a formal delineation of the model and proof of the central result, motivated by the informal nature of Ross' working paper. This dissertation relaxes one of Ross' assumptions and arrives at the equivalent conclusion. This is followed by a critique of the model and assumptions. An a priori discussion only goes so far, but potentially problematic assumptions are identified, chief amongst which being time additive preferences of a representative agent. Attention is then turned to practical application of the theorem. The author identifies a number of obstacles to applying the result { some of which are somewhat atypical and have not been directly addressed in the literature { and suggests potential solutions. A salient obstacle is calibrating a state price matrix. This leads to an implementation of Ross Recovery on the FTSE/JSE Top40. The suggested approach is found to be workable, though certainly not the final word on the matter. A testing framework for the model is discussed and the dissertation is concluded with a consideration of the findings and the theorem's applicability
Subsurface mapping of the Ross Island flexural basin, southwest Antarctica
No full text2016 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.Ross Island is a post-Miocene (< 4.6 Ma) volcanic island located in the Ross Sea region of southwest Antarctica. This region of Antarctica borders the western edge of the West Antarctic Rift System, along the Transantarctic Mountain front. Marine and over-ice multi-channel seismic reflection surveys and borehole studies targeting the Ross Sea region over the last 30+ years have been used in this study to develop a seismic stratigraphic model of the development and evolution of the Ross Island flexural basin. Four key stratigraphic horizons were identified and mapped to fully capture the basin-fill, as well as strata lying above and below the flexural basin. From oldest to youngest these horizons are named RIB-m, RIM-g, RIM-b and RIB-r. Time structure, isochron and isochore maps were created for the horizons and the stratigraphic intervals they bound. The seismic stratigraphic record shows the Ross Island flexural moat formation post-dates the main tectonic subsidence phase within the Victoria Land Basin. The maps presented here are the first to fully illustrate the evolution of the Ross Island flexural basin. The maps highlight depositional patterns of two distinct periods of flexural subsidence and basin-filling superimposed on the older N-S trending Victoria Land Basin depocenter. Two units of flexural basin fill, Unit FFI between horizons RIM-g and RIM-b (the oldest flexural basin fill), and Unit FFII between horizons RIM-b and RIB-r (the youngest flexural basin fill) are associated with the two periods of flexural subsidence. Flexural moat subsidence and subsequent filling occurred episodically during periods of active volcanism on the island. Unit FFI is estimated to range from ca. 4 to 2 Ma, corresponding with formation of the Mt. Bird volcanic edifice on Ross Island. Unit FFII ranges in age from ca. 2 to 1 Ma, and is related to Mt. Terror, Mt. Erebus, and Hut Point Peninsula volcanism. The isochore maps suggest the depocenter of the flexural basin during both time intervals was located north of the island, instead of directly beneath the Ross Island topographic load. Factors contributing to the northerly location of the depocenter include i) volcanic loading by McMurdo Volcanic Group subsea volcanic features north of the island, ii) partial compensation of the main Ross Island load by low-density, partially molten rock beneath the island, iii) extensional faulting within the Terror Rift, and iv) seaward-thickening shelf sediments transported from the Ross Ice Shelf. The seismic data show that the onset of filling of the flexural moat around Ross Island coincided with the end of ice grounding events in the area. We infer that this was caused by flexural subsidence of the seafloor to accommodate the Ross Island load
Olive Ross Thompson Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a typed biography, a newspaper book review clipping with a photographic portrait image of Thompson, biographical newspaper review clippings for That His Word Shall Live a sequel to The Devil and I with Thompson\u27s photographic image, and a typed letter on receipt of this book for the Maine Author Collection from the Maine State Library
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