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ADRIAN POP - IN SEARCH OF A LONG LOST SMILE
No full textAn anniversary, especially in the case of a generation colleague, the renowned composer Adrian Pop, generates the remembrance of a long series of musical events that have become notorious, with works included in the national and international concert repertoire. The avoidance of nostalgic memories made that a stage miniature be chosen for the present paper, an incursion of the author into the naive world of childhood reading. The result was a modern, glamorous musical transposition of a sequence with Max and Moritz, the playful heroes created by the famous humorist and cartoonist Wilhelm Busch in the middle of the 19th century. The musical act Onkel Fritz by Adrian Pop was first performed in Cluj in 2016, on October 22, on the occasion of his previous anniversary, within the Cluj Musical Autumn Festival. The graceful performers of the act, presented under the title “Anniversaries at the Festival, Adrian Pop compositional portrait”, were soprano Mihaela Maxim, in the role of Max and pianist Eva Butean, in the role of Moritz. How did composer Adrian Pop manage to musically enliven a 150 years old humorous story? The author of the following text will try to answer this question.
Rezumat. ADRIAN POP - ÎN CĂUTAREA SURÂSULUI PIERDUT. O aniversare, mai ales în cazul unui coleg de generație, reputatul compozitor Adrian Pop, generează rememorarea unui lung șir de evenimente muzicale devenite notorii, cu lucrări intrate în repertoriul intern și internațional de concerte. Evitarea unor memorii nostalgice au făcut ca sorții acestei comunicări să cadă asupra unei miniaturi scenice, o incursiune a autorului în lumea ingenuă a lecturilor din copilărie. A rezultat o transpunere muzicală modernă, plină de farmec, a unei secvențe cu Max și Moritz, eroii poznași creați de celebrul umorist și caricaturist Wilhelm Busch la mijlocul secolului XIX. Prima audiție clujeană a scenetei muzicale Onkel Fritz de Adrian Pop a avut loc în 2016, la 22 octombrie, cu ocazia precedentei sale aniversări, în cadrul Toamnei Muzicale Clujene. Interpreții plini de har ai scenetei prezentate sub genericul „Aniversări în Festival, portret componistic Adrian Pop” au fost soprana Mihaela Maxim, în rolul lui Max și pianista Eva Butean, în rolul lui Moritz. Oare cum a reușit compozitorul Adrian Pop să însuflețească muzical o poveste umoristică de 150 de ani? La această întrebare va încerca să răspundă autoarea acestor rânduri.
Cuvinte cheie: Adrian Pop, Wilhelm Busch, Max și Moritz, Unchiul Fritz, act muzica
ARCHETYPAL ETHOS: “TRIPTIC (TRIPTYCH)” BY ADRIAN POP
No full textImportant personality of the musical life in Cluj, composer and professor Adrian Pop (*1951) is the last of Sigismund Toduţă’s disciples, the great mentor of the Cluj School of composition. He continued his studies under the guidance of Cornel Ţăranu, one of the most representative composers of the Romanian Avant-garde, together with Hans-Peter Türk, Ede Terényi, Vasile Herman and others, who were themselves Toduţă’s students. Adrian Pop’s style reflects his preference for the national ethos, specific to the Eastern European composition Schools, protruded by the composition techniques of Western Avant-garde. The complex musical language is the result of long years of study in Romania, with personalities such as Ștefan Niculescu and Aurel Stroe, as well as in European musical centres, with Dieter Salbert (Bayreuth), Ton de Leeuw (Burgas), Joji Yuasa (Amsterdam). The impact of his works on audiences has materialized in national awards from the Composers’ Union (1978, 1980, 1989), the Romanian Academic Society Award (1996) as well as international ones, in Tours (1978), Arezzo (1979), Trento (1982, 1984, 1986), Roodeport – South Africa (1983), Spittal an der Drau (1986).
His compositions impress both by their variety and themes, of folkloric inspiration, and by their refined polyphonic or heterophonic writing, as learned from his father, Dorin Pop, an excellent choir conductor and specialist in Renaissance music. Actually, his first successful work, Colinda de pricină (Reason Carol), inspired by the folklore in the Sălaj county and introduced to the audiences by Dorin Pop, conductor of the Cappella Transylvanica choir, was loved by the public even from its first performance and remained in the repertoire of all prestigious choirs ever since. This carol also leaves a mark on his future creations of folkloric inspiration. One of the distinctive aspects of his compositional style is the use of folklore in the form of a quoted song later metamorphosed in an ingenious counterpoint weaving. The subject of the present study is the most recent symphonic opus of composer Adrian Pop, the ballet Triptic (Triptych) (1998, rev. 2013). The work continues the series of symphonic creations, Etos I (1976) – on the theme from Mioriţa, a ballad from Sălaj county and Solstiţiu (Solstice) (1979) – a carol of the Sun “which was sung until recently in Bihor county”, as Adrian Pop says. Triptych reunites three different worlds of the 19th century Transylvania, in the three contrasting movements of the “little suite”: the first part evoques a savage world of fantastic realism, with tragic ending, an aspect which preoccupied the composer at the time, as it is also the subject of his doctoral thesis, Recviemul Românesc (Romanian Requiem) (2001). The second part, an idyllic progress of a couple’s life, is the passage to the whirling twirl of a folk song from Ţara Moţilor (the third part). The melodramatic melody treated heterophonically in the picturesque rhythms of Ardeal folklore and spiced up with specific timbres of the semantron and bells, lead the Triptych and its author, composer Adrian Pop, towards success in concert halls and give the audiences the hope for a new choreographic staging
ARCHETYPAL ETHOS: “TRIPTIC (TRIPTYCH)” BY ADRIAN POP
No full textImportant personality of the musical life in Cluj, composer and professor Adrian Pop (*1951) is the last of Sigismund Toduţă’s disciples, the great mentor of the Cluj School of composition. He continued his studies under the guidance of Cornel Ţăranu, one of the most representative composers of the Romanian Avant-garde, together with Hans-Peter Türk, Ede Terényi, Vasile Herman and others, who were themselves Toduţă’s students. Adrian Pop’s style reflects his preference for the national ethos, specific to the Eastern European composition Schools, protruded by the composition techniques of Western Avant-garde. The complex musical language is the result of long years of study in Romania, with personalities such as Ștefan Niculescu and Aurel Stroe, as well as in European musical centres, with Dieter Salbert (Bayreuth), Ton de Leeuw (Burgas), Joji Yuasa (Amsterdam). The impact of his works on audiences has materialized in national awards from the Composers’ Union (1978, 1980, 1989), the Romanian Academic Society Award (1996) as well as international ones, in Tours (1978), Arezzo (1979), Trento (1982, 1984, 1986), Roodeport – South Africa (1983), Spittal an der Drau (1986).
His compositions impress both by their variety and themes, of folkloric inspiration, and by their refined polyphonic or heterophonic writing, as learned from his father, Dorin Pop, an excellent choir conductor and specialist in Renaissance music. Actually, his first successful work, Colinda de pricină (Reason Carol), inspired by the folklore in the Sălaj county and introduced to the audiences by Dorin Pop, conductor of the Cappella Transylvanica choir, was loved by the public even from its first performance and remained in the repertoire of all prestigious choirs ever since. This carol also leaves a mark on his future creations of folkloric inspiration. One of the distinctive aspects of his compositional style is the use of folklore in the form of a quoted song later metamorphosed in an ingenious counterpoint weaving. The subject of the present study is the most recent symphonic opus of composer Adrian Pop, the ballet Triptic (Triptych) (1998, rev. 2013). The work continues the series of symphonic creations, Etos I (1976) – on the theme from Mioriţa, a ballad from Sălaj county and Solstiţiu (Solstice) (1979) – a carol of the Sun “which was sung until recently in Bihor county”, as Adrian Pop says. Triptych reunites three different worlds of the 19th century Transylvania, in the three contrasting movements of the “little suite”: the first part evoques a savage world of fantastic realism, with tragic ending, an aspect which preoccupied the composer at the time, as it is also the subject of his doctoral thesis, Recviemul Românesc (Romanian Requiem) (2001). The second part, an idyllic progress of a couple’s life, is the passage to the whirling twirl of a folk song from Ţara Moţilor (the third part). The melodramatic melody treated heterophonically in the picturesque rhythms of Ardeal folklore and spiced up with specific timbres of the semantron and bells, lead the Triptych and its author, composer Adrian Pop, towards success in concert halls and give the audiences the hope for a new choreographic staging
Pop music and characterisation in narrative film
No full textThis thesis discusses the use of pop songs in narrative films, with
particular attention paid to their role in characterisation. My
argument concerns the potential for pop to retain its specificity as
a certain type of music whilst it carries out functions normally
attributed to a composed score. Many commentators have assumed
that, because a song may be known before it is used in a film, its
narrative meanings are "pre-packaged". I combine an appreciation
of pop music's propensity to come to a film already 'known' with an
attempt to demonstrate how individual narratives ask songs to
perform different affective roles. It is my contention that pop
music's quality of 'knownness' is fundamental to its narrative
affect in films, without, however, pre-determining that affect. I
argue my case through close textual analysis, discussing the
relationship between real-life pop stars' musical personas and the
film characters they are asked to play, as well as offering numerous
examples of songs without an on-screen performer becoming
involved in processes of filmic narration
Efficient Solvers for Nonstandard Models for Flow and Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media
No full textWe study several iterative methods for fully coupled flow and reactive transport in porous media. The resulting mathematical model is a coupled, nonlinear evolution system. The flow model component builds on the Richards equation, modified to incorporate nonstandard effects like dynamic capillarity and hysteresis, and a reactive transport equation for the solute. The two model components are strongly coupled. On one hand, the flow affects the concentration of the solute; on the other hand, the surface tension is a function of the solute, which impacts the capillary pressure and, consequently, the flow. After applying an Euler implicit scheme, we consider a set of iterative linearization schemes to solve the resulting nonlinear equations, including both monolithic and two-splitting strategies. The latter include a canonical nonlinear splitting and an alternate linearized splitting, which appears to be overall faster in terms of number of iterations, based on our numerical studies. The (time discrete) system being nonlinear, we investigate different linearization methods. We consider the linearly convergent L-scheme, which converges unconditionally, and the Newton method, converging quadratically but subject to restrictions on the initial guess. Whenever hysteresis effects are included, the Newton method fails to converge. The L-scheme converges; nevertheless, it may require many iterations. This aspect is improved by using the Anderson acceleration. A thorough comparison of the different solving strategies is presented in five numerical examples, implemented in MRST, a toolbox based on MATLAB.The research of D. Illiano was funded by VISTA, a collaboration between the NorwegianAcademy of Science and Letters and Equinor, project number 6367, project name: adaptive model and solver simulation of enhanced oil recovery. The research of J.W. Both was supported by the Research Council of Norway Project 250223, as well as the FracFlow project funded by Equinor through Akademiaavtalen. The research of I.S. Pop was supported by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Belgium through the Odysseus programme (project G0G1316N) and Equinor through the Akademia grant
Efficient Solvers for Nonstandard Models for Flow and Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media
No full textWe study several iterative methods for fully coupled flow and reactive transport in porous media. The resulting mathematical model is a coupled, nonlinear evolution system. The flow model component builds on the Richards equation, modified to incorporate nonstandard effects like dynamic capillarity and hysteresis, and a reactive transport equation for the solute. The two model components are strongly coupled. On one hand, the flow affects the concentration of the solute; on the other hand, the surface tension is a function of the solute, which impacts the capillary pressure and, consequently, the flow. After applying an Euler implicit scheme, we consider a set of iterative linearization schemes to solve the resulting nonlinear equations, including both monolithic and two-splitting strategies. The latter include a canonical nonlinear splitting and an alternate linearized splitting, which appears to be overall faster in terms of number of iterations, based on our numerical studies. The (time discrete) system being nonlinear, we investigate different linearization methods. We consider the linearly convergent L-scheme, which converges unconditionally, and the Newton method, converging quadratically but subject to restrictions on the initial guess. Whenever hysteresis effects are included, the Newton method fails to converge. The L-scheme converges; nevertheless, it may require many iterations. This aspect is improved by using the Anderson acceleration. A thorough comparison of the different solving strategies is presented in five numerical examples, implemented in MRST, a toolbox based on MATLAB.The research of D. Illiano was funded by VISTA, a collaboration between the NorwegianAcademy of Science and Letters and Equinor, project number 6367, project name: adaptive model and solver simulation of enhanced oil recovery. The research of J.W. Both was supported by the Research Council of Norway Project 250223, as well as the FracFlow project funded by Equinor through Akademiaavtalen. The research of I.S. Pop was supported by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Belgium through the Odysseus programme (project G0G1316N) and Equinor through the Akademia grant
Towards Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Overconstrained Connectors in Modelica
No full textCyber-Physical Systems are ever-increasing in complexity and new methods and tools for developing them are needed. To support these highly dynamic systems, increasing the flexibility of the modeling languages is desirable. This paper proposes and examines a Modelica language extension to support dynamic overconstrained graphs with reconfiguration at runtime. Two applications of this new feature are also discussed: synchronous AC power systems and incompressible fluid networks. Reported findings suggest that supporting dynamic overconstrained graphs might yield performance benefits and provide the possibility of simulating systems that can not currently be simulated in existing Modelica tools.</p
Numerical homogenization of non-linear parabolic problems on adaptive meshes
No full textWe propose an efficient numerical strategy for solving non-linear parabolic problems defined in a heterogeneous porous medium. This scheme is based on the classical homogenization theory and uses a locally mass-conservative formulation at different scales. In addition, we discuss some properties of the proposed non-linear solvers and use an error indicator to perform a local mesh refinement. The main idea is to compute the effective parameters in such a way that the computational complexity is reduced but preserving the accuracy. We illustrate the behavior of the homogenization scheme and of the non-linear solvers by performing two numerical tests. We consider both a quasi-periodic example and a problem involving strong heterogeneities in a non-periodic medium.The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) through the Odysseus programme (Project G0G1316N). In addition, we wish to thank Professor Mary F. Wheeler and Professor Ivan Yotov who made valuable suggestions or who have otherwise contributed to the ideas behind this manuscript. Part of this work was elaborated during the stay of the first author at the University of Bergen, supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), through a travel grant for a short stay abroad. We thank the referees for their valuable comments that helped improving this wor
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
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