DOCSLIB.ORG

Raritan Review Irish Folklore Top 5 Irish Songs Parades in By: Matthew Giove and Matt By: Kristin Hungerford the Area Hagberg 1

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Raritan Review Irish Folklore Top 5 Irish Songs Parades in By: Matthew Giove and Matt By: Kristin Hungerford the Area Hagberg 1 RARITAN REVIEW IRISH FOLKLORE TOP 5 IRISH SONGS PARADES IN BY: MATTHEW GIOVE AND MATT BY: KRISTIN HUNGERFORD THE AREA HAGBERG 1. The Irish Rover- This song BY: LAURA is about a sailboat that reaches an AGUINAGA unfortunate end. With St.Patrick’s Day 2. A Nation Once Again- around the corner, festivals have This song is an example of “Irish been appearing all over New Rebel Music” sub-genre. Jersey and a few are continuing 3. The Boys of the Old Bri- this weekend before St.Patricks gade- This is an Irish Republican Day. These 5 festivals below are song that talks about the Irish all around the Monmouth County Republican Army of the Irish War. area if you wish to attend: 4. Arthur McBride- The 1. Highlands St. Patrick’s man singing in this song is walk- Day Parade: Saturday, March 22, ing along with his cousin, Arthur 2014 at 2:00 p.m. McBride, and they’re approached 2. Keansburg St. Patrick’s Everyone knows the many myths and by a British recruiting general to Day Parade: Saturday, March 29, legends behind the great country of fight in the war. 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Ireland. But where did they come from? 5. Come Out Ye Black and 3. Keyport St. Patrick’s Here are some origins behind the myths Tans- This is an Irish rebel song Day Parade: Saturday, March 22, and legends that still exist today: named for a group in the British 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Military. 4. Wildwood St. Patrick’s 1. Leprechauns – In Irish folklore, the Day Parade & Celebration: Sat- leprechaun is a type of fairy. They make urday, March 15, 2014 at 12:00 shoes and hide their gold at the end of 5. Atlantic City St. Patrick’s rainbows. If captured by a human, he Day Parade: Saturday, March 15, must grant them three wishes in exchange 2014 @ 1:00 p.m. for his release. 2. Spriggans – Spriggans are another type of fairy from Celtic folklore. The sprig- gan is described as being hideously ugly. They are very small, but can grow larger than a human. They cause problems to those they don’t like. 3. Banshee – The banshee is a female entity in Irish folklore. The banshee is the messenger of the underworld and is com- monly used as an omen of death. She is dressed in all black, bloodstained cloth- ing and is known for screeching. RARITAN REVIEW BRIDGET BAKES: MURPHY’S MIXES: IRISH TRADITIONAL CHOCOLATE POTATO IRISH SODABREAD CAKE BY: BRIDGET FAHY BY: JENNA MURPHY • 1/2 lb butter • 2 1/3 cups granulated sugar (superfine works best) • 4 eggs • 9 rounded tablespoons grated chocolate (approximately 3 standard squares of baking chocolate) • 5 rounded tablespoons ground almonds • 1 cup of cold, sieved or riced cooked potato (specific directions about *What You’ll Need: the potato below) • 4 to 4 1/2 cups flour • 2 1/2 cups cake flour (plain flour is fine, but cake flour is better) • 2 Tbsp sugar • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon • 1 teaspoon salt • 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder • 1 teaspoon baking soda • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 4 Tbsp butter • 2/3 cup milk • 1 cup currants or raisins Preparing the pan you’ll bake in: • 1 large egg, lightly beaten • 1 1/2 tablespoons flour • 1 3/4 cups buttermilk • 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa Prepare your cake pan. A tube pan like a Bundt pan works best for this recipe. *Directions: 2. Mix the flour and cocoa together and use this mixture to flour the inside of 1) Preheat oven to 425°. Whisk together 4 cups the pan. of flour, the sugar, salt, and baking soda into a 3. Prepare your cooked potato by one of these two methods: mixing bowl. 4. Boil in unsalted water 2 medium-sized potatoes or 3 small potatoes in their 2) Using your fingers, work the butter into the jackets, then drain, cool completely, peel, and rice or sieve. Do not add them to flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal, then the batter if they are even slightly warm. add in the currants or raisins. 5. Preheat the oven to 350° F / 275° C. 3) Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. 6. Create the cake batter, grate the chocolate on a fine grater, or pulse in a food Add beaten egg and buttermilk to well and mix processor, or crush with a mortar and pestle, until reduced to small granules. in with a wooden spoon until dough is too stiff When this is done, sift the flour once by itself. Then sift it a second time with to stir. Dust hands with a some flour, then gently the cinnamon, baking powder and salt. knead dough to form a rough ball. If the dough is 7. Cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. too sticky to work with, add in a little more flour. 8. Separate the eggs. Add the yolks, one at a time, to the creamed mixture, beat- Do not over-knead! Transfer dough to a lightly ing well after each one. floured surface and shape into a round loaf. Note 9. Stir in the grated chocolate and ground almonds. Add the sieved potato and that the dough will be a little sticky. You want to stir again. work it just enough so that the flour is just moist- 10. Add the flour alternately with the milk, beating gently until smooth after ened and the dough just barely comes together. each addition. 4) Transfer dough to a baking sheet (it will flatten 11. Whip the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold the whipped egg whites out a bit on the baking sheet). Using a serrated carefully into the cake mixture. knife, score top of dough about an inch and a half 12. Spoon into the prepared Bundt pan and tap gently once on the counter to deep in an “X” shape. The purpose of the scoring settle. is to help heat get into the center of the dough 13. Bake for 1 3/4 hours. Test for doneness with a toothpick or skewer at the while it cooks. Transfer to oven and bake until end of this time: bake for another 15 minutes if needed. bread is golden, about 35-45 minutes. Check for 14. Remove from the oven and allow to rest in the pan for at least twenty min- completeness by inserting a long, thin skewer into utes before removing from the pan: then cool on a rack. the center. If it comes out clean, it’s done. Enjoy! 15. Frost the chocolate cake with a chocolate-based icing, or dust with confec- tioners’ sugar. RARITAN REVIEW FAMOUS IRISH PLACES IN IRELAND IRISH HISTORY BY: LAURA TUCKER BY: LAUREN CHRIST AND PEOPLE Cliffs of Moher ASHLEY MIR BY: NOELLE ZWEIDINGER Cliffs that look out to the west coast AND KAITLYNN LALLY of the island and are named after When you think of Saint Patrick’s an old fort that used to stand to the Day what comes to mind? Most • Niall Horan was born southern end of the cliffs. It is one people automatically think of lepre- on September 13th, 1993, in of the most popular tourist destina- chauns, shamrocks and alcohol. Not Westmeath, Mullingar. He is a tions in Ireland one could see out to many people think about how this fun member of the boy band, One sea for miles. holiday came to be. March 17th is a Direction. day to honor Saint Patrick, the patron • Bram Stoker was born St. Patrick's Cathedral saint of Ireland. on 8 November 1847 on the Named after Saint Patrick, it has Saint Patrick was born in north side of Dublin, Ireland. been a part of Ireland's history for Britain during the 4th century. He He’s best known for his 1897 over eight hundred years. It is the was then kidnapped and enslaved by Gothic novel, Dracula. resting place of a former head of raiders when he was a young boy. He • The band, The Script, the Cathedral and author of Gulliv- is an Irish rock band from er's Travels, Jonathan Swift. escaped from his kidnappers after six years of being a slave and went back Dublin, Ireland that formed in 2001. Their hit songs consist to Ireland. He then became a mis- Cahir Castle of “Breakeven”, and “For The sionary to help spread the teachings This is one of Ireland’s largest First Time.” of Christianity. Saint Patrick used the castles and one that could truly add • Liam Neeson was to the imagination. With moats, tur- shamrock to explain the holy trinity to born in Ballymena, County rets, and dungeons it truly is what all of his listeners. He faced many tri- Antrim, Northern Ireland, on we think of as a castle. als and problems considering how un- June 7th, 1952. He’s starred popular Christianity was at this point in many successful films such Temple Bar District in time from pagan leaders. Saint Pat- as Taken, Batman Begins, In Dublin, the Capital City in rick is remembered for forming many Ireland, the Temple Bar District and the Chronicles of Narnia monasteries, churches, schools and he has many restaurants, cafes, hotels series. and small shops. The area is filled even baptized new Christians. He died • The band, Snow Pa- with Irish culture. It is also called on March 17th and the local church trol, is one of the most popu- “Bohemian Quarter”, and has the named him a saint.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Dance Theater of Harlem and a Large-Scale Recycling of Rhythms
    dance theater of harlem and a large-scale recycling of rhythms. Moreover, the Stolzoff, Norman C. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dance- philosophical and political ideals featured in many roots hall Culture in Jamaica. Durham, N.C.: Duke University reggae lyrics were initially replaced by “slackness” themes Press, 2000. that highlighted sex rather than spirituality. The lyrical mike alleyne (2005) shift also coincided with a change in Jamaica’s drug cul- ture from marijuana to cocaine, arguably resulting in the harsher sonic nature of dancehall, which was also referred to as ragga (an abbreviation of ragamuffin), in the mid- Dance Theater of 1980s. The centrality of sexuality in dancehall foregrounded arlem ❚❚❚ H lyrical sentiments widely regarded as being violently ho- mophobic, as evidenced by the controversies surrounding The Dance Theater of Harlem (DTH), a classical dance Buju Banton’s 1992 hit, “Boom Bye Bye.” Alternatively, company, was founded on August 15, 1969, by Arthur some academics argue that these viewpoints are articulat- Mitchell and Karel Shook as the world’s first permanent, ed only in specific Jamaican contexts, and therefore should professional, academy-rooted, predominantly black ballet not receive the reactionary condemnation that dancehall troupe. Mitchell created DTH to address a threefold mis- often appears to impose on homosexuals. While dance- sion of social, educational, and artistic opportunity for the hall’s sexual politics have usually been discussed from a people of Harlem, and to prove that “there are black danc- male perspective, the performances of X-rated female DJs, ers with the physique, temperament and stamina, and ev- such as Lady Saw and Patra, have helped redress the gen- erything else it takes to produce what we call the ‘born’ der balance.
    [Show full text]
  • Tv Guide Boston Ma
    Tv Guide Boston Ma Extempore or effectible, Sloane never bivouacs any virilization! Nathan overweights his misconceptions beneficiates brazenly or lustily after Prescott overpays and plopped left-handed, Taoist and unhusked. Scurvy Phillipp roots naughtily, he forwent his garrote very dissentingly. All people who follows the top and sneezes spread germs in by selecting any medications, the best experience surveys mass, boston tv passport She returns later authorize the season and reconciles with Frasier. You need you safe, tv guide boston ma. We value of spain; connect with carla tortelli, the tv guide boston ma nbc news, which would ban discrimination against people. Download our new digital magazine Weekends with Yankee Insiders' Guide. Hal Holbrook also guest stars. Lilith divorces Frasier and bears the dinner of Frederick. Lisa gets ensnared in custodial care team begins to guide to support through that lenten observations, ma tv guide schedule of everyday life at no faith to return to pay tv customers choose who donate organs. Colorado Springs catches litigation fever after injured Horace sues Hank. Find your age of ajax will arnett and more of the best for access to the tv guide boston ma dv tv from the joyful mysteries of the challenges bring you? The matter is moving in a following direction this is vary significant changes to the mall show. Boston Massachusetts TV Listings TVTVus. Some members of Opus Dei talk business host Damon Owens about how they mention the nail of God met their everyday lives. TV Guide Today's create Our Take Boston Bombing Carjack. Game Preview: Boston vs.
    [Show full text]
  • Challenging the People, the State and the Patriarchy in 1980S Irish Theatre
    Provided by the author(s) and NUI Galway in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite the published version when available. Title Provoking performance: challenging the people, the state and the patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre Author(s) O'Beirne, Patricia Publication Date 2018-08-28 Publisher NUI Galway Item record http://hdl.handle.net/10379/14942 Downloaded 2021-09-27T14:54:59Z Some rights reserved. For more information, please see the item record link above. Provoking Performance: Challenging the People, the State and the Patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre Candidate: Patricia O’Beirne Supervisor: Dr. Ian Walsh School: School of Humanities Discipline: Drama and Theatre Studies Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway Submission Date: August 2018 Summary of Contents: Provoking Performance: Challenging the People, the State and the Patriarchy in 1980s Irish Theatre This thesis offers new perspectives and knowledge to the discipline of Irish theatre studies and historiography and addresses an overlooked period of Irish theatre. It aims to investigate playwriting and theatre-making in the Republic of Ireland during the 1980s. Theatre’s response to failures of the Irish state, to the civil war in Northern Ireland, and to feminist and working-class concerns are explored in this thesis; it is as much an exploration of the 1980s as it is of plays and playwrights during the decade. As identified by a literature review, scholarly and critical attention during the 1980s was drawn towards Northern Ireland where playwrights were engaging directly with the conflict in Northern Ireland. This means that proportionally the work of many playwrights in the Republic remains unexamined and unpublished.
    [Show full text]
  • Goldie, Paul (2019) 'Finding' the Female Irish
    Goldie, Paul (2019) ‘Finding’ the Female Irish Catholic Diaspora: a qualitative investigation of the experiences of women in Glasgow. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81505/ Copyright and moral rights for this work are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This work cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Enlighten: Theses https://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] ‘Finding’ the Female Irish Catholic Diaspora: a qualitative investigation of the experiences of women in Glasgow Paul Goldie MSc Equality and Human Rights Masters in Social Research with Sociology Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology School of Social and Political Sciences College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow February 2020 2 Abstract There has been much scholarly interest in the Irish Catholic Question in Scotland in recent years. The research which has been conducted has been undertaken largely by quantitative sociologists who seek to ascertain whether structural disadvantages still impact on the life-chances of Catholics in Scotland, with the category Catholic being deployed as a synonym for the Irish in Scotland. However, to date there has been little in the way of qualitative studies examining the actual experiences of people from an Irish Catholic heritage.
    [Show full text]
  • John Bull's Other Ireland
    John Bull’s Other Ireland: Manchester-Irish Identities and a Generation of Performance Item Type Thesis or dissertation Authors O'Sullivan, Brendan M. Citation O'Sullivan, B. M. (2017). John Bull’s Other Ireland: Manchester- Irish identities and a generation of performance (Doctoral dissertation). University of Chester, United Kingdom. Publisher University of Chester Download date 28/09/2021 05:41:52 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620650 John Bull’s Other Ireland Manchester-Irish Identities and a Generation of Performance Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements of the University of Chester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Brendan Michael O’Sullivan May 2017 Declaration The material being presented for examination is my own work and has not been submitted for an award of this, or any other HEI except in minor particulars which are explicitly noted in the body of the thesis. Where research pertaining to the thesis has been undertaken collaboratively, the nature of my individual contribution has been made explicit. ii Table of Contents Preface .......................................................................................................... 2 Locating Theory and Method in Performance Studies and Ethnography. .. 2 Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................... 12 Forgotten but not Gone ............................................................................ 12 Chapter 2 ....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Hooray for Health Arthur Curriculum
    Reviewed by the American Academy of Pediatrics HHoooorraayy ffoorr HHeeaalltthh!! Open Wide! Head Lice Advice Eat Well. Stay Fit. Dealing with Feelings All About Asthma A Health Curriculum for Children IS PR O V IDE D B Y FUN D ING F O R ARTHUR Dear Educator: Libby’s® Juicy Juice® has been a proud sponsor of the award-winning PBS series ARTHUR® since its debut in 1996. Like ARTHUR, Libby’s Juicy Juice, premium 100% juice, is wholesome and loved by kids. Promoting good health has always been a priority for us and Juicy Juice can be a healthy part of any child’s balanced diet. Because we share the same commitment to helping children develop and maintain healthy lives, we applaud the efforts of PBS in producing quality educational television. Libby’s Juicy Juice hopes this health curriculum will be a valuable resource for teaching children how to eat well and stay healthy. Enjoy! Libby’s Juicy Juice ARTHUR Health Curriculum Contents Eat Well. Stay Fit.. 2 Open Wide! . 7 Dealing with Feelings . 12 Head Lice Advice . 17 All About Asthma . 22 Classroom Reproducibles. 30 Taping ARTHUR™ Shows . 32 ARTHUR Home Videos. 32 ARTHUR on the Web . 32 About This Guide Hooray for Health! is a health curriculum activity guide designed for teachers, after-school providers, and school nurses. It was developed by a team of health experts and early childhood educators. ARTHUR characters introduce five units exploring five distinct early childhood health themes: good nutrition and exercise (Eat Well. Stay Fit.), dental health (Open Wide!), emotions (Dealing with Feelings), head lice (Head Lice Advice), and asthma (All About Asthma).
    [Show full text]
  • Kids with Asthma Can! an ACTIVITY BOOKLET for PARENTS and KIDS
    Kids with Asthma Can! AN ACTIVITY BOOKLET FOR PARENTS AND KIDS Kids with asthma can be healthy and active, just like me! Look inside for a story, activity, and tips. Funding for this booklet provided by MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC BROADCASTERS JOINING FORCES, CREATING VALUE A Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Institute of Museum and Library Services leadership initiative PRESENTED BY Dear Parents and Friends, These days, almost everybody knows a child who has asthma. On the PBS television show ARTHUR, even Arthur knows someone with asthma. It’s his best friend Buster! We are committed to helping Boston families get the asthma care they need. More and more children in Boston these days have asthma. For many reasons, children in cities are at extra risk of asthma problems. The good news is that it can be kept under control. And when that happens, children with asthma can do all the things they like to do. It just takes good asthma management. This means being under a doctor’s care and taking daily medicine to prevent asthma Watch symptoms from starting. Children with asthma can also take ARTHUR ® quick relief medicine when asthma symptoms begin. on PBS KIDS Staying active to build strong lungs is a part of good asthma GO! management. Avoiding dust, tobacco smoke, car fumes, and other things that can start an asthma attack is important too. We hope this booklet can help the children you love stay active with asthma. Sincerely, 2 Buster’s Breathless Adapted from the A RTHUR PBS Series A Read-Aloud uster and Arthur are in the tree house, reading some Story for B dusty old joke books they found in Arthur’s basement.
    [Show full text]
  • Some Sunny Day & Banshee Sunrise
    Sarah Lawrence College DigitalCommons@SarahLawrence Writing Theses Writing Graduate Program 5-2017 Some Sunny Day & Banshee Sunrise Matt Muehring Sarah Lawrence College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/writing_etd Part of the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Muehring, Matt, "Some Sunny Day & Banshee Sunrise" (2017). Writing Theses. 113. https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/writing_etd/113 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Writing Graduate Program at DigitalCommons@SarahLawrence. It has been accepted for inclusion in Writing Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@SarahLawrence. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Some Sunny Day & Banshee Sunrise Matt Muehring Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts degree at Sarah Lawrence College, May, 2017 Banshee Sunrise/Muehring 1 Matt Muehring Draft 3 Banshee Sunrise “Want another?” I pointed my almost empty Corona at Mike. We’d snagged a Corner table at a roof deCk saloon in an alley across the street from the Hall of Fame. Three story Colonials with tiled roofs bloCked the rest of the street. Crowds ten rows deep applauded alumni induCtees rolling down the street on the back of piCk-ups. “Who?” Mike was hunched over, elbows pressed to the table, and racking his Iphone against his knuCkles. He’d had the same “huh-what?” look pasted on his face like a newspaper in a puddle for most of the four hour drive up to Cooperstown. “Another beer.” I repeated. “Hey, ground Control to Major Tom.” I snapped my fingers under Mike’s nose.
    [Show full text]
  • Print This Article
    The Power of Song as the Voice of the People Margaret Bennett The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scotland There are few political speeches that effectively match the power of a song in keeping alive issues of social justice or freedom. In the seventeenth century, Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun proclaimed: ‘If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.’i As in Fletcher’s day, there is no telling if a song of protest will bring about change – nevertheless, it is still the most powerful tool to give voice to those with enough conviction to take a stand. Of equal importance, songs are our most harmonious and peaceful ‘weapons’, effective outside the context of conflict as well as on the picket line or demonstration. It was in the spirit of taking a stand that Festival 500 was ‘purposely conceived and initiated in response to the threat to Newfoundland’s culture by the enforced closure of the cod fishery in 1992.’ As every Newfoundlander knows, ‘[the cod] fishery was not only a mainstay of the province's economy, but the raison d'être for European settlement. In fact, it was the social and economic engine of our society. Its closure was a devastation to our society…’ And in ‘Newfoundland and Labrador, [singing] has historically been an integral part of community life – a way of celebrating, mourning, documenting events, telling the stories.’ In 1968, when I first arrived in Newfoundland as a student, I felt instantly at home to find that singing had a part in every occasion, be it in kitchen, the student common room, or anywhere else.
    [Show full text]
  • Irish Symbols – Transcription Lisa – Paddy
    Langues en pratiquess DocsDo authentiques ANGLAIS Irish symbols – Transcription Lisa – Paddy Lisa: Hey Paddy, you’ve got some Irish blood in you, right? Paddy: Yeah! Lisa: Maybe you can help me! I’m gonna have a Saint Patrick’s Day party at my apartment and I wanted to partie decorate it in an Irish theme. Do you have any ideas? re 1 Paddy: That sounds cool! You could use the traditional symbols of Ireland, that would be good! Lisa: What are the symbols of Ireland? Paddy: There’s quite a few! The harp is the official symbol of Ireland, which shows how important music is in its culture and traditions. It’s actually the only country in the world which has a musical instrument as its symbol. And legend has it it represents the harp of the old kings of Ireland. I’ve actually got a euro coin here. You can see it, it’s on there, it’s on the coins. Lisa: Oh yeah, that’s right! I hadn’t noticed! Paddy: So you could use that! Another symbol you could use is the shamrock, the three-leaf clover. Legend has it that Saint Patrick used that to explain the Holy Trinity, so the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Lisa: Ok, why do I always hear people talking about four-leaf clovers? Paddy: Well, there’s the phrase ‘the luck of the Irish’ because four-leaf clovers are very rare and hard to find so if you find one it’s supposed to be good luck! Lisa: Oh, I get it, ok! I also wanted to hang up an Irish flag and decorate my apartment in like the colours of the flag but what does it look like? Paddy: It’s a vertical tricolor, green, white and orange.
    [Show full text]
  • Coppelia-Teacher-Resource-Guide.Pdf
    Teacher’s Handbook 1 Edited by: Carol Meeder – Director of Arts Education February 2006 Cover Photo: Jennifer Langenstein – Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Aaron Ingley – Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Corps de Ballet Dancer Ric Evans – Photographer 2 Introduction Dear Educator, We have often thanked you, the academic community and educators of our children, for being partners with us in Arts Education. We have confirmed how the arts bring beauty, excitement, and insight into the experience of everyday living. Those of us who pursue the arts as the work of our lives would find the world a dark place without them. We have also seen, in a mirror image from the stage, how the arts bring light, joy, and sparkle into the eyes and the lives of children and adults in all walks of life. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre strives not only to entertain but to demonstrate the significance and importance of presenting our art in the context of past history, present living, and vision for the future. In this quest we present traditional ballets based on classic stories revered for centuries, such as Coppelia and Cinderella; and contemporary ballets by artists who are living, working, and creating everyday, such as our jazz program Indigo In Motion and the premiers we have done to the music of Sting, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon. In this way we propel our art into the future, creating new classics that subsequent generations will call traditional. It is necessary to see and experience both, past and present. It enhances our life and stirs new ideas. We have to experience where we came from in order to develop a clear vision of where we want to go.
    [Show full text]
  • The Last of the Dive-Bombers by Walter J
    The Army Air Forces turned to dive-bombers for accuracy, but the A-24 Banshee found itself in the wrong places at the wrong times. The Last of the Dive-bombers By Walter J. Boyne n warfare, as in business, timing and location are everything. The classic Douglas dive-bomber of IWorld War II served the Navy brilliantly as the SBD Dauntless, while the virtu- ally identical A-24 Banshee had only a mediocre career with the US Army Air Forces. There were many reasons for this, but the main one was the combination of the Navy’s long-standing training in dive-bombing and the nature of its tar- gets, which allowed the SBD to perform. In contrast, dive-bombing was thrust upon the heavy-bomber-centric AAF following the spectacular successes of the German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka in 70 AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2010 the initial phases of World War II. The 1926, and instructed his squadron in Left top: An A-24 on the ramp on undeniably menacing look of the Ju 87 the technique. Makin, in the Gilbert Island chain. Left certainly made the pitch easier as well. He made Navy history on Oct. 22, bottom: German Stukas in 1943. Above: An RA-24B assigned to Air Transport When at last the AAF sought to obtain 1926, with a surprise dive-bombing Command. a dive-bombing capability, it took deliv- mock attack on ships of the Pacific ery of Douglas A-24s (erstwhile Navy Fleet, using the Curtiss F6C-2 single- During the 1910-20 Mexican Civil SBD-3s) in mid-1941.
    [Show full text]