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What could we accomplish with machines that draw power from the air around us?
Shields Up: What's Holding Up Human Travel to Mars?
Getting humans to Mars safely means figuring out how to protect the body from the damage of cosmic rays.
Micius and the Journey of Spaceborne Entangled Photons
China's Micius satellite is pioneering the use of quantum entanglement in communications.
A Black Hole Born Sans a Supernova?
A supergiant star's mysterious disappearing act has scientists questioning the standard theories of black hole formation.
Elon Musk's newest venture seeks to unite machines and human minds.
A New Method for Reducing Quantum Uncertainty
Scientists have found a way around one aspect of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Imaging Forests for Environmental Assessments
Airborne spectroscopy allows scientists to collect data on forests at an unprecedented rate.
Neutron Stars: Cosmic Laboratories for Quantum Physics
Using light from a distant neutron star, scientists have observed a strange quantum phenomenon called vacuum birefringence.
Molecular Machinery Snags 2016 Nobel in Chemistry
A machine the size of a single molecule? This year's Nobel prize in chemistry went to the people who made it possible!
Dressed to Impress: Attraction Between Electrons
By "dressing" the potential of electrons, researchers have taken what may be a big step toward room-temperature superconductivity!
Advances in Micro-Drones
Electrostatics help "bug bot" micro-drones cling to surfaces just like their biological counterparts!
Quantum Computing, Human Processing
Gamers are helping engineer the next generation of supercomputers—and you can, too!
Using Gold Nanoparticles to Kill Cancer
Lasers and nanoengineering team up to take on one of the deadliest diseases
FAST: Earthquake Analysis
A new software algorithm promises fast, sensitive detection of small seismic events
Nobel Neutrinos
Learn about 2015's Physics Nobel Prize winner!
Wireless Neural Implants
Radiofrequency electromagnetic waves can power brain implants in mice
Plasma Fairies: Femtosecond Laser Holograms
Lasers have enabled the creation of free-floating, interactive holograms!
Color-Tunable Elastic Fibers
By mimicking the structure of organisms like the Pollia condensata berry, researchers have invented an elastic fiber that changes color when stretched!
Ultrafast Aluminum Battery
It's flexible, fast, nontoxic, doesn't catch on fire, and its materials are inexpensive.
Wave-Particle Duality in One Image
The principle of complementarity remains upheld.
Deciphering Vesuvius Scrolls with "X-ray" Vision
Uncovering ancient, charred texts with physics.
Passively Cool: A Departure from A/C
A potential low-energy alternative to air conditioning.
Measuring Drought with GPS
Tracking how strongly water pushes on the Earth's crust.
Curiosity vs. Other Mars Missions
How do recent Mars missions compare to the popular Curiosity rover?
Electrifying Tesla Coil Music and Fashion
Creating art with stunning electric arcs
Holograms: From Credit Cards to Chocolate
Holograms' uses range from practical to purely aesthetic.
Memory, Thermodynamics, and Time
New strides in explaining the arrow of time
The Dawn of the Tetraquark
A new particle discovery requires some rethinking in particle physics
Possible First Detection of Elusive Gravitational Waves Explained
One of the biggest discoveries in decades.
In Depth: Fusion Strides at NIF
How scientists recently pushed closer to sustainable fusion
Whirling Skirts Reveal Steady Patterns
An unexpected application of the Coriolis effect
Glowing Carpets: Rolling Out in 2014
Pragmatic and beautiful light transmissive carpets
Pluto's Neighbor Could Float on Water
A Kuiper Belt object less dense than water has piqued scientists' interest
Ancient Chalice Inspires New Physics
The Lycurgus Cup's optical mysteries inspire scientists
Atomic Friction
New research reveals the frictional nuances on the atomic scale
Element 115 and the Island of Stability
Ununpentium, the 115th element, has been confirmed
A Spin on Doppler
A twist on this physics principle can detect rotation in tornadoes, planets and more
Tiny Particle Accelerators
These powerful particle accelerators can fit on a desk
Neurons and Nuclear Tests
Nuclear bomb tests have opened doors in neuroscience
The Monkey and the Hunter
Test your knowledge of gravity with this thought experiment.
"Breathprint" Identification
Scientists can now identify people by their breath — just like a fingerprint
Cloaking Earthquakes
Scientists aim to "hide" buildings from seismic waves
The Cyborg Scientist
Blurring the lines between man and machine with electronic implants
"Living" Crystal Colonies
These inanimate crystals form colonies under UV-light, like bacteria
Below Absolute Zero: Negative Temperatures Explained
Shattering Science and Glass Physics
Scientists try to strike a balance with glass
Bullet Proof: Absorbing Micro-Bullets
Bullet-proof material absorbs bullets and reseals itself
Mixing Physics: Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
Fluid dynamics behind beautiful video of mixing patterns
Could This Be the Next Robotic Skin?
Ladybug hairs inspire sensitive, flexible electronic sensors
There and Back Again: An Asteroid's Tale
Scientists analyze asteroid dust retrieved by spacecraft
Silencing with the Speech Jammer
Time-delayed voice recordings render you silent
Charging Ahead: The Future of Battery Technology
Measuring charge in electric vehicles
Router Vision
With an adapted wireless router, you can see moving objects through walls
Wirelessly Charged Electric Buses
A new bus route will feature electric buses that wirelessly charge while waiting for passengers.
The Golden Age of Gold
During the Olympic Games, gold takes center stage. Gold was chosen for first place awards because it symbolized the Golden Age of Mankind in Greek mythology. According to Greek mythology, the Golden Age ended long ago for mankind, but new research on gold indicates that we may now be in the "Golden Age of Gold."
Laser Speckle Patterns and Malaria
Of the five different parasites that cause malaria, one type can cause death within hours. Current methods of detecting malaria take between 8 and 10 hours. A new technique, developed by an international group, analyzes the speckle patterns of laser light reflected off of a blood sample with detection times of 30 minutes.
Quantum Dots and Cells
Quantum dots can be used to stimulate cells, to probe them, and to trigger neuron firing with light!
High-tech road science: Where nano meets pavement
New developments in asphalt pavement could dramatically reduce fuel consumption, environmental pollution, and the frequency and cost of maintenance.
Surviving a Plunge From Space
Spacesuits are being developed to allow humans to survive a fall from thousands of feet in the sky.
The cup-in-hand walk
Have you ever done the cup-in-hand walk, and spilled your drink? It's a common event. The Krechetnikov Fluid Physics Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara usually doesn't focus on this type of problem, but after seeing enough people spilling, they decided to look into it!
Monitoring the Brain with Flexible Electronics
A new brain sensor developed by a team of researchers could represent a significant improvement in the ability to detect exactly where abnormal brain activity starts.
Super Efficient LEDs
More than 100% efficient, these Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) put out more light energy than the electrical energy that they use!
Crash Reconstruction Physics
Few physics experiments come with greater consequences than those done by a police crash reconstruction team.
Ultralight Lattices
Strong, springy, and ultralight, these lattices can sit atop a dandelion in seed without damaging it, and carry about 1000 times its weight without being damaged!
The Big and Small of Rockets
From the acidic digestive fluid in your stomach to the dry, cratered surface of Mars, rockets could soon make it possible to explore extreme environments as never before.
Magnets: Where Physics Meets High Fashion
Physics enthusiasts aren't always the people you turn to for advice on the latest fashion trends, but it's impossible not to give physics at least partial credit for the recent nail craze--magnetic nail polish.
Entangled Diamonds
Quantum entanglement has been called "spooky action at a distance" by Einstein and has often been called spooky or weird since then. Recently two diamonds, big enough to see with your eye, were observed to have entangled quantum mechanical states.
Migration via quantum mechanics
A perplexing property of quantum mechanics could be allowing birds to see and navigate the planet's magnetic fields
Nano Cupcakes
For a while carbon nanotubes have been a hot topic in science. Some of the latest research on nanotubes done at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO are fondly called Cupcakes,1,2 but you may only want a mental bite of these!
Cleaning with Sound
Sound may not be a normal cleaning product in your house, but it is just the thing for cleaning delicate jewelry, surgical instruments, lenses, and many other small, intricate objects. Soon, it could also make cleaning big objects like houses or machines much more efficient.
Galactic Cannibalism
The Andromeda Galaxy, is one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye and it's on a collision course with our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
3D Printers & Fabbers
If you can dream it, you can print it! Learn how these 3D printers are changing the invention process.
Graphene Printing Press
It's been a year since Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their breakthroughs with graphene. What is graphene up to now?
Spraying on Energy Efficiency
In the next few years you might be able to buy a spray that could dramatically increase the energy efficiency of your house.
Diamond planets are a girl's best friend
What's better than a diamond engagement ring? An entire planet made of diamonds!
Electronic Tattoos
Electronic sensors are used to gather all sorts of information. Perhaps you've seen some fitness monitors that look like arm bands, chest bands, or watches. There are brain monitors, some look like a swim cap with wires coming out. Mindball (a game using your brain waves) just has a single band you put around your head. Now imagine an electronic sensor that is wireless, flexible, and as inconspicuous as a temporary tattoo!
A Mirror Built for Space
How do you design a mirror with a diameter of 6.5 meters that can survive a rocket launch into space, orbit the Earth at a radius of about one million miles for 5-10 years, and hold its shape at temperatures near -220˚C? And why would you want to?
Mind over matter, light over mind
Can lasers control your mind? Not exactly, but light can control the firing of neurons in the brain, and has been used to affect the behavior of mice.
Landing on Mars
When NASA's next generation rover Curiosity reaches the red planet next summer, it will rely on an array of new technologies to slow itself down as it enters Mars' gravity, survive the intense heat of falling through the atmosphere and then be dropped onto the surface by a futuristic floating "Sky Crane." Any one error could easily result in a loss of the spacecraft, which represents $2 billion in taxpayer funds and years of hard work.
Nanoantennas – detecting the very small
How many ways can you think of to detect a single particle or atom? What uses would a tool that could do this have? The nanoantenna can! Read on to find out how and what uses it might have.
Sensitive as a Bat: Navigating the World by Echoes
Daniel Kish is the world's foremost expert on echolocation, and teaches the trick, learned from bats, to help the blind navigate like never before.
The Advanced Light Source: Where Physics Lets Science Happen
The Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source produces x-rays a billion times brighter than the sun by flinging electrons around at nearly the speed of light. Find out how and the ways that scientists use these brilliant flashes of invisible light to probe the world of the unseen.
Cloaking – Making Something Appear Invisible
Cloaking makes things appear to be invisible. What may seem like science fiction is really just science.
Imaging the Invisible: The Dark Energy Camera
The average digital camera is great for taking embarrassing pictures of friends and capturing a couple's first kiss, but taking pictures of really faint galaxies that are millions of light years away requires some serious modifications or the Dark Energy Camera.
Spring has sprung and the batters have swung. Baseball season has officially started. Although the games we watch in the big leagues could be drastically different by changing only one aspect; the bat.
Answering the Call for Extreme Tires
Robert Frost concerned himself with which road to take, but in some cases the more important question may be which tires to use. Learn about the newest technology in tires.
Ionizing Radiation and Humans – The Basics
In the wake of the Fukishima Nuclear Reactor incident, radiation is on the minds of many people, but did you know that people are exposed to radiation everyday? Ionizing radiation, like many things, isn't bad unless a living organism is exposed to too much of it.
Record energies force new thoughts on lightning
Physicists using modern spacecraft have observed storms all over the planet and discovered that lightning can generate energies far in excess of what was previously thought possible. What's even more alarming is that some of them can generate anti-matter.
Nuclear Forensics and Unbaking the Cake
At our nation's ports, cargo ships from all over the world, carrying goods from granite to rubber duckies, enter the United States. But how do we know what's really in each cargo box and if it is safe? One safety check requires trucks to pass through radiation monitors to see if there is any radioactive substance in the cargo entering the country.
Galaxy Demographics
As observation techniques of distant objects advance, so does our knowledge about the universe. One recent observational study led by Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) and Charlie Conroy (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) indicates that there may be three times as many stars as previously thought!
Physics of Colonizing Space
Our planet has long sheltered humanity from the harsh climates of outer space. The Earth's electromagnetic field protects us from a barrage of harmful particles and its atmosphere allows us to breathe freely while destroying small inbound space rocks.
fMRI – The Future Mind Reader?
fMRI's might be the future technology to read your thoughts and emotions. There have been claims that fMRI can determine if you are telling the truth, what image you are looking at, and perhaps in the future, what you are thinking , feeling, or your intending.
Holograms: Virtually Approaching Science Fiction
Hologram applications are still futuristic, but advances in holography are bringing us closer than ever to capturing holographic images in real time.
Pulling the Plug on Conventional Charging
Imagine walking into your bedroom and your cell phone starts charging immediately, you don't even have to bother plugging it in. These capabilities are being developed in scientists' labs around the country thanks to a technology known as inductive charging.
And the 2010 Nobel Prize goes to the André Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for graphene! Wait, isn't that what's in our pencils? Well, yes and no. See how the graphite in pencils and common adhesive tape lead these two to a Nobel Prize.
Stock Trades at the Speed of Light
What does the speed of light have to do with the stock market? When stock market trading time is of the essence some financially savvy physicists proposed a solution.
Looking to the Stars: Creating Fusion in the Lab
The sun produces HUGE amounts of energy. In just five seconds, the sun gives off an amount of energy equal to the electricity used by the entire world's population in one year! How does the sun make all of this energy? It makes it through fusion. This Physics in Action explores fusion and how scientists at MIT are getting closer to producing this great source of energy.
Seeing Lightning in the Ash
The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland created an ash cloud that disrupted air traffic throughout Europe. And as if the magma and ash violently spewing out of the volcano's crater wasn't scary enough, the eruption also generates lightning!
Flying kites and tumbling plastic bags show that wind carries kinetic energy. The purpose of a windmill is to harness that energy. From the earliest versions 2,200 years ago in Persia to the Megawatt turbines today, windmills use physics to harness nature's chaotic fiery for human benefit.
What do night vision goggles, land mine detectors, and studies of the universe have in common? In some way, all of them are connected to a small range of light sandwiched between visible light and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum—infrared light.
Finding Water on the Moon
How do you find water that is frozen beneath the surface of the moon? Send a high-speed satellite to plunge into the lunar surface like a man-made meteor and then examine the debris. When it comes to finding water in an extraterrestrial desert, NASA doesn't mess around.
Feynman Diagrams: The science of doodling
Every popular explanation of particle physics is liberally illustrated with cartoon-like pictures of straight and wiggly lines representing electrons, photons, and quarks, interacting with one another. These so-called Feynman diagrams were introduced by Richard Feynman in the journal Physical Review in 1949, and they quickly became an essential tool for particle physicists.
Lithium-ion batteries already power your cell phone and your laptop, and they may soon power your car. What makes these batteries so great?
Fiddle Physics
Physicists are using sophisticated recording equipment and computer models to probe how a violin makes its sound. Could they be on the verge of discovering the "secret of Stradivari"?
In 2006, an investigation of the Bullet cluster, which is composed of two colliding clusters of galaxies, provided important evidence for the existence of dark matter.
Planet Pluto Goes Poof
Pluto—now reclassified as a "dwarf planet"—was discovered after American astronomer Percival Lowell predicted that a "Planet X" was perturbing the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.
Optical Tweezers
Unwind a chromosome to see how it's put together? Sort cells with a light beam? Make a model of a molecular motor? All these and more—welcome to the world of optical tweezers, where cells and even individual molecules are manipulated with laser light.
Our Very Own Black Hole
The Milky Way is a vast spiral, similar to our neighbor the Andromeda galaxy.
How would you like to board a Maglev train and then speed off to your destination at more than 300 miles per hour? The magnets that levitate these trains are an application of superconductivity.
Through a Lens Darkly
What limits the sharpness of an image? The answer has to do with the wave nature of light.
Quark-Gluon Plasma
A millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was an incredibly dense plasma, so hot that no nuclei nor even nuclear particles could exist.
Slow Light
Suppose you and a friend tried to measure the speed of light. You have a powerful flashlight and a stopwatch, and your friend has a mirror. You walk away until the two of you are 100 meters apart. You aim the flashlight at the mirror, turn the light on, and wait to see the reflection. How long do you have before the light gets back?
Power to the Pentaquark
What's inside an atom? What's inside a proton? These are questions asked by physicists, who seek to understand matter on the most fundamental level.
Sonic Shock
Have you ever heard a sonic boom? Have you ever seen the shock waves that cause one?
Tiny Machines
In 1959 the physicist Richard Feynman gave a talk called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," on the possibility of microminiaturization. To encourage progress he offered a prize of $1,000 to anyone who could build an operating electric motor that fit into a 1/64th inch cube, and within months, someone had done it.
Tubular Peas
Nanotubes, discovered in 1991, are a new form of carbon. With four electrons available for bonding, the carbon atom can combine with others in a number ways and produce many useful materials.
Neutrino Astrophysics
Very large stars can end their lives in a cataclysmic explosion called a supernova. The photographs show a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located only about 160,000 light years away.
Neutrino Nomads
The neutrino is a ghostly particle that leaves hardly a trace of its passing. Most neutrinos go right through Earth without any deviation or interaction, and trillions harmlessly pierce your body each second.
How's the space weather today? Quiet enough for a safe trip to the moon? Quiet enough to operate your GPS navigation system accurately? So active that it would crash your power grid? Like our everyday weather, space weather can change suddenly, become violent, and interfere with our lives.
Old as the M4 Planet
In the universe, we may or may not be alone, but at least there seem to be plenty of planets. Over the last decade, extra-solar planet-finding has become a growth industry, with some 100 already identified by their effect on the motion of their central star.
Hubble Goes Deep
As residents of the Milky Way galaxy, we live in a huge spiral system of about 10 11 stars.
Far Out Planets
Are we alone in the universe? To begin to answer this question, we could first ask if Earth is unique in the universe.
Fluids in Space
We have all seen images, such as the one at the right, of astronauts floating inside a spacecraft. If these astronauts used a spring scale to weigh themselves, they would detect no weight at all. Does no weight mean no gravity?
Remote and beautiful, Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet averaging several kilometers in thickness that locks up some 70% of Earth's fresh water—if it all melted, the oceans would rise about 70 meters.
Fusion Machines
In 1951, the astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer devised a way to contain a hot plasma—an ionized gas—with the hope of producing a sustained fusion reaction that could lead to electric power generation.
Matters of State
We know about solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas —these are the well-known states of matter. But now there's another, called the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), and it's been predicted for a long time.
Plasma Power
Everyday objects can be classified into solids, liquids, and gases. However, the matter in a lightning bolt, a flame, and the Aurora Borealis are something quite different.
Energetic Degenerates
If systems "seek" the lowest possible energy, why don't atomic electrons all cascade down into the ground state?
The Theory of Everything... Everything Alive!
Physicists like to explain a broad range of phenomena with a few simple mathematical laws.
In the controversy over global warming, some people have suggested that human-induced warming might be a good thing if it kept us out of the next Ice Age.
The Little Constant that Couldn't?
Physicists measure the values of basic quantities like the speed of light and the charge of the electron. Cosmologists use the results in studies of the origin of the universe, some 12 billion years ago, and they assume the numbers have not changed over this time.
Catch a Cosmic Microwave
A trio of recent findings on cosmic microwave background radiation lends strong support to the idea that the entire observable universe was once smaller than an atom and underwent a "super-charged" Big Bang.
Comets are relics from the origin of the solar system, carrying material about 4.5 billion years old.
William Roentgen made the first x-ray image in 1895, but the technology remained essentially the same until the late 1960s. These images were projected onto flat detectors, such as film or electronic sensors.
Catch an Earthquake
San Francisco and Los Angeles, home to about 7.5 million people and to much of the economy of California, lie close to the infamous San Andreas fault.
Waving Back
Of the forces in nature, gravity is by far the weakest.
What the WMAP!
Cosmology is one of the great success stories of contemporary physics. A few investigators began theorizing about the history of the universe in the 1940s, but there was precious little observational evidence to work with.
Big 'G'
In 1665, Isaac Newton recognized that all matter attracts all other matter, but he also recognized that the gravitational attraction of everyday objects for each other was far too small to be measured in his time.
In our everyday world, we observe all sorts of waves, including sound waves, water waves, and radio waves. But what about gravitational waves?
A star exists in a delicate balance between the crushing force of gravity, on the one hand, and the push of incredibly hot gases on the other.
Building at the Nanoscale
The thickness of a human hair is about 200 microns, 20 times the length of this guitar.
The Buzz about Antimatter
Matter and Antimatter: the cloud chamber track of an electron-positron pair
Antihydrogen Antics
As StarTrek fans know well, the fuel for warp drive is antimatter.
Physicists have created a new form of water, one that stays liquid at hundreds of degrees C below zero.
MRI Magic
Medical x-rays provide images of the body but utilize radiation that in large doses can damage cells. A completely different technology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), emerged in the late 1970s.
Seeing Atoms
What does it mean to see an atom? Suppose you tried to use the world's strongest optical microscope to see an atom. What would happen?
Ferrofluid Fun
Have you ever seen a liquid magnet? If magnetic material is ground into an extremely fine powder, with a particle size of about 10 nanometers, and suspended in a liquid, the resulting magnetic suspension is called a ferrofluid.
Natural Reactors
The first controlled nuclear reactor, built during World War II, was a great achievement, but it was not the first reactor to operate on planet Earth.
You may have seen the "northern lights" in the fall of 2003, even if you live as far south as Texas or Italy.
Sound, Lights, Action!
Sonoluminescence is a way to turn sound energy into light. When intense sound waves are created in a flask of water, a tiny air bubble in the water can give off flashes of light.
Chaos Rules
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Newtonian mechanics was triumphant in its explanation of the solar system.
After crossing Florida, Hurricane Katrina headed into the Gulf of Mexico early on August 26, 2005 as a Category One hurricane.
Nuclei Knockdown
At RHIC--the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York--gold nuclei traveling at nearly the speed of light smash into each other, destroying themselves and producing a spray of other particles.
You are My Shining Star
To a star, size matters. The more massive the star, the higher the pressure and temperature in its core, the brighter it shines, and the sooner it exhausts the hydrogen fuel supply for its fusion reactions.
Laser Cooling and Trapping
Absolute zero, as cold as it gets, resides at the very bottom of the temperature scale.
An Especially Elegant Universe
Joe McMaster, producer, director, and writer of Nova's The Elegant Universe, is not a physicist. Fortunately, he had the patient help of the show's star and narrator, physicist Brian Greene, as he put together the PBS production delving into String Theory.
Saturn's Rings
Saturn's rings have posed a big challenge ever since Galileo first laid eyes on them in 1610 through his 20-power telescope.
Giant Magnetoresistance
Nobel-prize-winning research led to the MP3 player and HDTV-on-demand.
Do You See What Eye See?
It's been hard to miss the publicity for LASIK, the laser surgery that reshapes the cornea to improve the eye's ability to focus.
Granular Materials
In our everyday world, matter is usually classified into solids, liquids, and gases. But what about dry sand?
AMANDA, Light of my Ice...
An underwater telescope called AMANDA, frozen deep in Antarctic ice, peers down at ghostly neutrinos that pass through Earth from above the Northern Hemisphere.


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Described by the New York Times as "one of America's most esteemed concert bands," the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble is the premier wind band at the University of Kansas and is conducted by Paul W. Popiel, director of bands. Their Carnegie Hall debut in 2013 was described by Feast of Music as "showing amazing chops in their transitions and an impressive range of dynamics" and by the New York Times as "performing with polish, assurance and copious spirit, eliciting a rousing ovation." The Wind Ensemble performed for President Obama for his address to the University of Kansas in January 2015, the national biennial convention of the College Band Directors National Association in 2017, and premiered Kevin Walczyk's Symphony No. 5: Freedom from Fear at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018.
The band enjoys a long history of excellence and musical leadership Kansas, the nation, and around the world. Former leading conductors include Russell Wiley, Kenneth Bloomquist, Robert E. Foster, John Lynch, and Scott Weiss. The ensemble is at the forefront of commercial wind band recordings, and can be heard on the Klavier, Naxos Wind Band Classics, Ecstatic, and Mark Custom labels. Their 2013 release, In the Shadow of No Towers, was described in Gramophone Magazine as "...eloquent, disciplined performances that come across with stunning dynamic range and almost dimensional transparency." Their most recent album, Of Shadow and Light, was released on the Klavier label in 2017.
The band has hosted numerous composers in recent years, including John Corigliano, Frank Ticheli, Steven Bryant, Kevin Walczyk, Joni Greene, Aaron Perrine, Michael Torke, Joel Puckett, John Mackey, Mohammed Fairouz, and Eric Ewazen; as well as guest conductors Dai Zhonghui, Michelle Rakers, John Whitwell, H. Robert Reynolds, and Mallory Thompson. Guest soloists recently performing with the Wind Ensemble include Jim Walker, Gail Williams, Jeff Nelsen, Jon Lewis, Joey Tartell, the Boston Brass, and Chris Vadala.
The Wind Ensemble performs diverse repertoire of the highest caliber from chamber works to large ensemble pieces and has a strong commitment to new music, as well as the finest standard band repertoire.
The Wind Ensemble's membership is selected by audition from among the finest wind and percussion players at the university. The Wind Ensemble meets on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1:00-2:50 in the Fall and from 2:00-3:50 in the Spring.
How to Join the Wind Ensemble
Membership in the KU Wind Ensemble is by blind audition and is open to all qualified students at the University. Auditions take place the first week of classes of each semester and are heard by the conductors and the appropriate applied music Professor.
Auditions consist of prepared excerpts and sight-reading. Check the audition page for more information.
Wind Ensemble Repertoire
Collage Concert
September 14 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center of Kansas
"Finale" from Symphony #9 (2018) - James Barnes (b. 1949)
September 20 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
Glow (2018) - Joni Greene (b. 1981)
Concerto for Alto Saxophone (2013) - Zechariah Goh Toh Chai (b. 1970)
Vince Gnojek, soloist
Symphony #9 (2018) - James Barnes (b. 1949)
October 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
In the Silent Lines (2018) - Aaron Perrine (b. 1979)
Toccata Marziale (1939) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Brett Keating, guest conductor
Liberation (2010) - David Maslanka (1943-2017)
with KU Men's Chorus
November 9 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
Little Threepenny Music (1928) - Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Nils Landsberg, conductor
Melt this Pot (2018) - Kai Ono (b. 1995)
Symphony No. 4 (1993) - David Maslanka (1943-2017)
Nick Waldron, conductor
December 5 | 7 p.m. | Blue Valley West High School
Paul W. Popiel, conductor
February 2 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center | Prairie Winds Festival
Through the Looking Glass (2008) – Jess Langston Turner (b.1983)
The Jayhawk: Magic Bird Overture (1975) - Kirke Mecham (b.1925) trans. Ramsey
Sharon Toulouse, conductor
Ballade (1956/1999) – Alfred Reed (1921-1995) – Jeff Coffin, alto saxophone
Baron Cimetière's Mambo (2004) – Donald Grantham (b.1947)
February 21 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
Emblems (1964) – Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Ecstatic Waters (2008) – Steven Bryant (b.1972)
Symphony in Bb (1951) – Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
March 6 | 2 p.m. | Murphy Hall, Room 130
DMA Conducting recital
The Fly (2014) – Oscar Navarro (b.1981)
Lux Aurumque (2001/2005) – Eric Whitacre (b.1970)
Moth (2013) – Viet Cuong (b.1990)
April 16 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
Grand Central Station (2000) – Michael Torke (b.1961)
O Magnum Mysterium (1994/2003) – Morten Lauridsen (b.1943)/trans. Reynolds
Bells for Stokowski (2002) – Michael Daugherty (b.1954)
Brett Keating, conductor
Vom Tod Im Wald, Op.23 (1927) - Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
John Stephens, bass
Thundercrest March (1964) – Eric Osterling (1926-2005)
Johannah Cox, conductor
Symphony No. 4, "West Point" (1952) – Morton Gould (1913-1996)
April 26 | 2 p.m. | Murphy Hall, Room 130
MM Conducting recital
Brass Symphony, Op.80 (1980) – Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)
First Suite in Eb (1909) – Gustav Holst (1874-1934) ed. Colin Matthews
Gone (2013) – Scott McAllister (b.1969)
DMA Cognate Recital
Justin Harbaugh, conductor
Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op.44 (1878) - Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Lied Center of Kansas 7:30 p.m.
Intrada 1631 (2003) - Stephen Montague (b. 1943)
"Procession of the Nobles" from Mlada (1889-90) - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), trans. Leidzén
Robert E. Foster, Director of Bands Emeritus, guest conductor
Dagny Builds a Train (2017) - Bonnie McClarty (b.1983)
Robert E. Foster Composition Award Winner 2017
Molly on the Shore (1920) - Percy Grainger (1882-1961)/ed. Rogers
The White Rose March (1917) - John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Music for Prague, 1968 (1968) - Karel Husa (1921-2016)
In memoriam Karel Husa
October 12, 2017 shared with Symphonic Band
Largo & Menuet from Serenade no. 10, k. 361 (1783) - W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Brooke Humfeld, guest conductor
Nocturno (1826) - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) /ed. Hogwood
Nick Waldron, guest conductor
Symphony for Brass Tentet (1980) - Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)
Guest soloist James Walker, flute
KU Men's Chorus
In memoriam, David Maslanka
Silver Lining: Concerto for Flute (2017) - Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)
James Walker, soloist Kansas premiere
Lincolnshire Posy (1937) - Percy Grainger (1882-1961)/ed. Fennell
American Flute Salute (2010) - David Mairs (b. 1947)
James Walker, soloist
Brooke Humfeld Recital
Largo: from Serenade no. 10, k. 361 - W.A. Mozart
Festive Overture - Shostakovich
Bali - Colgrass
Lincolnshire Posy (1937)- Percy Grainger (1882-1961)/ed. Fennell
John Mackey, resident composer
John Corigliano, resident composer
Eddie Owen, guest conductor
Liberty High School Wind Ensemble at 7pm
Klaxon March (1929) - Henry Fillmore (1881-1956)
 Eddie Owen, guest conductor
An Original Suite - Gordon Jacob/ed. Heidenreich
Internet Symphony #1 Eroica (2015) - Tan Dun (b. 1957)
Paynter Four Scottish Dances (1978) - Malcom Arnold (1921-2006)
Stomp (2016) - John Corigliano (b. 1938)/tr. Humfeld
Brooke Humfeld, conductor
The Frozen Cathedral (2013) - John Mackey (1953)
Swarthout Recital Hall 7:30 p.m.
Brooke Humfeld Lecture-Recital
Stomp - John Corigliano
Detroit Concert Band
The Star Spangled Banner (1814) - arr. Leonard B. Smith
March (1980) - Paul van Loan (1892-1963)
Ernest Williams Band School March (1932) - Mayhew Lake (1879-1955)
Italian in Algiers (1813-1953) - Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) arr. Calliet
Country Gardens (1953) - Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
The Kaffir on the Karoo (from Tales of a Traveler) (1914) - John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Belle Isle March (1951) - Leonard B. Smith (1915-2002)
Serenata (1949) - Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) - John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Blue Valley North Wind Ensemble
Daniel Freeman, conductor
Jazz Ensemble I
...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977) - Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)
Percussion Concerto - Beneath a Canvas of Green - Aaron Perrine (b. 1979)
Tonya Mitchell, conductor
Symphony #5 - Freedom From Fear: Images From The Shoreline (2017) - Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theatre
Washington D.C. 3 p.m.
Palos Nuevos (2017) - Dan Gailey (b. 1962)
September 16, 2016, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center
KU School of Music Collage concert
The Master of the Sword from Pagan Dances (1987) - James Barnes (b. 1949)
Second Suite in F (1911) - Gustav Holst (1874-1934)/ed. Matthews
Le cathédrale engloutie (1910) - Claude Debussy (1862-1918)/Patterson
Rocky Point Holiday (1969)- Ron Nelson (b. 1929)
Symphony No. 4: In the Shadow of No Towers (2013) - Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985)
October 20, 2016, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center
KUWE Chamber Winds
"Canzon Duodecimi Toni" from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) - Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Old Wine in New Bottles (1959) - Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
Pélé (2004) - Brian Balmages (b. 1975)
Paul Stevens, French horn
November 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center
Featuring Joey Tartell, trumpet
and Blue Valley West High School Wind Ensemble at 7 p.m.
Cheryl Lee, conductor
Amparita Roca (1935) - Jaime Texidor (1884-1957)/ arr. Winters (1870-1955)
Cheryl Lee, guest conductor
Vientos y Tangos (2010) - Michael Gandolfi (b. 1956)
Anthony Messina, guest conductor
Concerto Gaucho (2007) - Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964)
Joey Tartell, soloist
La ville d'en-haut (1987) - Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Han Wang, soloist
American Jazz Suite (1992) - Allen Vizzutti (1952)
December 5, 2016 2 p.m. - Murphy Hall Room 130
Graduate Conducting recital
Brooke Humfeld, Anthony Messina, Nicholas Waldron, conductors
Rhapsody for Baritone Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1985) - Mark Watters (1955)
David Berrios, saxophone
Anthony M. Messina, conductor
Variations on a Theme of Glinka (1878) - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Matthew Butterfield, oboe
Nicholas P. Waldron, conductor
Concertino for Trombone Op. 45 no. 7 (1955/1979) - Lar-Erik Larsson (1908-1986) arr. by Mark F. Walker
Mark Sweeney, trombone
Brooke E. Humfeld, conductor
February 4, 2017 - Lied Center
A Glimpse of the Eternal (2016) - Aaron Perrine (b. 1979)
The Feel of A Vision - Chuck Mangione (b. 1940)
Chris Vadala, saxophone
Sounds of Cinema - Rick DeJonge
Featuring The Boston Brass
Shared concert at Lawrence High School
Time And Repertoire TBA
March 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center
(tentative repertoire)
March TBD
Eric Stambaugh, guest conductor
Knells for Bonnie (2016) - Joel Puckett (b.1977)
Sarah Frisof, soloist
March 15, 2017 - Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
College Band Directors National Association National Biennial Conference
Knells for Bonnie (2016) - Joel Puckett (b. 1977)
April 18, 2017, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center
Millennium Canons (2003) - Kevin Puts (b. 1972)/arr. Mark Spede
Anthony M. Messina, guest conductor
Stillness (2015) - Tom Davoren
American premiere
Matthew O. Smith, guest conductor
Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963) - Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008)
Children's March (1918) - Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Nicholas Waldron, guest conductor
Deep Field (2015) - Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Consortium premiere
Tuesday, October 6, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
The Moon Glistens (2014) – Joni Greene (b. 1981)
Only Light (2014) – Aaron Perrine (b. 1979)
Profanation from "Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1" (1942) – Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), arr. Frank Bencriscutto
Allison Cockshaw, guest conductor
Sheltering Sky (2012) – John Mackey (b. 1973)
Sinfonietta for Concert Band (1961) – Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)
Sunday, October 11 - Helzberg Hall, Kauffmann Center for the Performing Arts in KCMO – shared with KU Opera
Matthew O. Smith and Sharon Toulouse, guest conductors
Fanfare for JFK (1961) – Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Overture to Candide (1956) – Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) trans. Grundman
Thursday, October 22, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
Wind Ensemble/Chamber Winds
Margaret Marco, soloist
Selections from Dixtuor op. 14 (1906) – Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
Allison Cockshaw, conductor
"Velocity Meadows" for electronics, video, oboe, and winds (2015)
Christopher Stark (b. 1980), Consortium premiere
Thursday, November 12, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
"Citadel" for KU Sesquicentennial (2015) – James Barnes (b. 1949), world premiere
Divertimento op. 42 (1950) – Vincent Persichetti (1915 – 1987)
Tonya Mitchell, guest conductor
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Bacchanale (1877)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) / transcribed Egner
Winds of Nagual (1985) – Michael Colgrass (b. 1932)
Friday, November 13, 1:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
Encore Free Performance
Monday, December 7, 2:00 p.m. - Foster Rehearsal Room, Murphy Hall
Master's Degree Recital
Jong Ho Kim, soloist
Dixtuor op. 14, Mvt. I (1906) – Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
Festive Overture Op. 96 (1954) – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) arr. Hunsburger
Song (2001) – William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Rose Variations (1955) – Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981)
Saturday, February 6, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
Prairie Winds Festival - shared with Jazz Ensemble I and KUSO
Jon Lewis, Margaret Marco, Steve Leisring, soloists
Concert Piece (1999) by James Curnow (b.1943)
Jon Lewis, soloist
Velocity Meadows for solo oboe, video, electronics, and winds (2015) – Christopher Stark (b. 1980)
Arabesque (2004) - Joseph Turrin (b. 1947)
Jon Lewis and Steve Leisring, soloists
Tuesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
Jeff Nelsen, soloist
El Capitan (1896) - John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
The Glass Bead Game (1997) - James A. Beckel, Jr. (b. 1948)
Wingspan (2015) - Gary Kuo
World Premiere - Nathan Jones (b.1983)
Steven Smyth, conductor
La Fiesta Mexicana: A Mexican Folk Symphony (1949) -- H. Owen Reed (1910-2014)
1. Prelude and Aztec Dance
2. Mass
Monday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. - Lied Center of Kansas
Sonoran Splendor (2015) world premiere - Travis Rigby (b.1991)
Robert E. Foster Composition Prize Winner
Mannin Veen (1933) --Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
From a Dark Millennium (1981) –Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)
Radiant Joy (2006) – Steven Bryant (b. 1972)
Piece for Solo Flute and Chamber Winds, world premiere (2015) –Joel Puckett (b. 1977)
Visions Macabres, op. 40 (1979) – James Barnes (b. 1949)
April 27, 2:00 p.m. - Foster Rehearsal Hall
Steven Smyth Lecture Recital- April 27
Collage Concert Sept. 19
Lied Center of Kansas
Musica Mobilis (1996), James Beckel (b. 1948)
Wind Ensemble Sept. 26
Serenade for Winds, op. 44 (1878), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Suite Francaise, op. 248 (1944), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Festival Overture (2010), Dan Chen
Symphony in B-flat (1951), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Faculty Recital Series: Joyce Castle, Mezzo-Soprano with KU Wind Ensemble Oct. 6
Five Cabaret Songs (2014), William Bolcom (b. 1938) arr. Frenkel
Symphonic Band & Chamber Winds Oct. 21
Wind Ensemble Nov. 10
March from Symphonic Metamorphosis (1943/1960), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Visions Macabre, op. 40 (1979), James Barnes (b. 1949)
Sanctuary (2006), Frank Ticheli (b 1958)
The Florentiner March, Julius Fucik (1872-1916) arr. Frederick Fennell
Star Wars Trilogy (1980), John Williams (b. 1932) arr. Donald Hunsberger
Luke Johnson Graduate Wind Conducting Recital Nov. 21
Psalm for Band (1954), Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Concertino for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2004), Zechariah Goh (1970)
Ben Harper Graduate Wind Conducting Recital Dec. 10
New World (Overture) from Dancer in the Dark (1998), Björk (b. 1965) arr. Vince Mendoza
Nevermore (2008), Kevin Wilt (b. 1984)
Tuba Concerto (1976), Edward Gregson (b. 1945)
Prairie Winds Concert - KU Wind Ensemble, KU Jazz Ensemble I, KU Symphony Orchestra Jan. 31
Wind Ensemble Feb. 23 Lied Center of Kansas
Valor, op. 113 (2002), James Barnes (b. 1949)
Dionysiaques, op. 62 (1913), Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Irish Tune from County Derry (1911, ed. 1994), Percy Grainger (1882-1961) ed. Mark Rogers
First Suite in E-flat, Gustav Holst
KMEA Feb. 27
Irish Tune from County Derry (1911, ed. 1994), Percy Grainger (1882-1961), ed. Mark Rogers
First Suite in E-flat (1911), Gustav Holst (1870-1934)
KU Wind Ensemble April 8
Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College
Serenade, op. 7 (1881), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Un vitrial et des oiseaux (1986), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Concerto for Tuba (1977), Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) Winds of Nagual (1985), Michael Colgrass (b. 1932)
Luke Johnson Graduate Wind Conducting Lecture Recital April 17 Conducting Workshop May 2
October 6 at the Lied Center, 2:30 pm
Canzona (1951), Peter Mennin (1923-1983)
Panta Rhei (2010), Ingrid Stolzel (b. 1971)
Bliss (2003), Michael Torke (b. 1961)
Morning Star (1997), David Maslanka (b. 1943)
Rapsodia Borealis (2001), Soren Hyldgaard (b. 1962)
Dr. Michael Davidson, trombone soloist
October 22 at the Lied Center, 7:30 pm
Anniversary Fanfare (2013), James Barnes (b. 1949) WORLD PREMIERE
Bassoon Concerto for Winds and Electronics (2013), Kip Haaheim (b. 1955) WORLD
PREMIERE - Eric Stomberg, bassoon soloist
November 10 at Kauffman Center KC, MO
Capt. Michelle Rakers, US Marine Band & Sharon Toulouse, guest conductors
Wild Blue Yonder (2006), James Barnes (b. 1949)
Symphony No. 4 (1952), Morton Gould (1913-1996)
Commando March (1943) Samuel Barber, 1910-1981
The Alcotts (1920) – Charles Ives (1874-1954)/ trans. Elkus
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms (1775)/arr. Simone Manti -AJ Miller and
Sarah Miller, euphonium soloists
Semper Fi (1888) John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Band of Brothers (2001) Michael Kamen (b. 1948)/ trans. Nowlin
Armed Forces Medley arr. Knox
Stars and Stripes Forever (1896), John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
December 3 Blue Valley High School, 7:00 pm
A shared program with the Blue Valley High School Bands!
March (1943) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Avian Bear, guest conductor
Sharon Toulouse, guest conductor
"Marches" from Symphony No.4 (1952), Morton Gould (1913-1996)
Escort Bennett/Fennell - Combined with BVHS Bands
December 9 Murphy Hall 130, 1:00 pm
Canzon septimi toni No. 1(1597) by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Old Wine in New Bottles (1958) by Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
Chorale and Alleluia (1954) by Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
Ice 9(2011) by Von Hanson (b.1984) world premiere
Cameron's Dream (2013) by Joni Greene (b.1981) world premiere
Four Scottish Dances (1957/1978) by Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)/Trans. by John Paynter
February 1 Prairie Winds Concert at Lied Center, 7:30 pm
Krunch (1996) Tim Davies (b. 1972) KU SAXOPHONE QUARTET 1
…and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)Joseph Schwantner (1943)
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms (1775)arr. Simone Mantia
Albert and Sarah Miller, Guest SoloistsSharon Toulouse, Guest Conductor
Commando March (1943)Samuel Barber (1910-1981)Matthew O. Smith, Guest Conductor
February 6 at Park Hill South High School, 7:00 pm
Commando March (1943)Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Chorale and Alleluia (1954)Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
Albert and Sarah Miller, Guest SoloistsSharon Tolouse, Guest Conductor
Four Scottish Dances (1957/1978)Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)/Trans. John Paynter
February 25 Lied Center, 7:30 pm
Quator (1933) Jean Francaix (1912-1997) FLAT VI QUARTET
Lateral Perspectives (2010) Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964) Luke Johnson, guest conductor
Net Luck Soaring (2011) Joni Greene (b.1981) Ben Harper, guest conductor
...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977) Joseph Schwantner (1943)
Idea Number Twenty-Four (2006) Terry Everson (1962) KU TRUMPET QUINTET
Lincolnshire Posy (1937) Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
April 15 Lied Center, 7:30 pm
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Concerto for Flute and Wind Orchestra (2012) James Barnes (b.1949) world premiere
A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981) David Maslanka (b.1943)
April 25 Murphy Hall 130, 2:30 pm
Chad Simons Lecture-Recital tentative: "The Wind Music of Composer Joni Greene"
7:30pm, Collage Concert at the Lied Center of Kansas
Movement 2 from Symphonic Requiem, op. 135 (2011) by James Barnes (b. 1949)
7:30pm, Lied Center of Kansas
Road Stories (2010) by Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
Music for Prague 1968, (1968) by Karel Husa (b. 1921)
Symphonic Requiem, op. 135 (2011) by James Barnes (b. 1949)
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"Canzon Primi Toni" from Sacrae Symphonie (1597) by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
La Creation du Monde, op. 81a (1923) by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
7:30pm, Yardley Hall, Overland Park, KS
From Glory to Glory (2011) by Kevin Walczyk (b. 1964)
On the Waterfront (1954) by Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Nitro (2006) by Frank Ticheli (1958)
Event Horizon (2011) by Joni Greene (b. 1981)world premiere
Rhapsody in Blue (1924) by George Gershwin (1898 – 1937)
Steven Spooner, piano
February 1, 2013 Shared with Jazz Ensemble 1 and soloist Steve Leisring, trumpet
7:30 pm Lied Center of Kansas
Blue Shades (1997) by Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)
Naxos Recording Sessions
"In the Shadow of No Towers" (2012) by Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985)
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists (2001) by Philip Glass(b. 1937)
Ji Hye Jung and Robert van Sice, timpani
8:00pm (EST), Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, NYC
"In the Shadow of No Towers" (2012) by Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985) world premiere
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists (2001) by Philip Glass (b. 1937)
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Midwest premiere
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954/1965) by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
O Magnum Mysterium (2003) by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)
First Suite in Eb, Op. 28, No. 1 (1909)
I. Chaconne II. Intermezzo III. March
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ravenkind (2012)
I. Odineyes II. Nighttress III. Jetpriest IV. Creekkeeper
by Forrest Pierce (b. 1972) with Robert Walzel, soloist world premiere
Theme and Variations, Op. 43a (1943) by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Collage September 23, 2011
6:00 Chen Yi - Movement 2 from Dragon Rhyme
Concert #1: Tuesday October 4, 2011
7:00 Ticheli - Wild Nights!
23:00 Walczyk - Clarinet Concerto
5:00 Mahoney Sparkle
13:00 Dello Joio - Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn Michael Mapp, guest conductor
(3:00 Sousa - The Washington Post)
Concert #2: Chamber Winds - Wednesday October 19, 2011
10-15:00 selections from Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
10-15:00 selections from Dvorak Serenade
Concert #3: November 8, 2011
1:30 Gould - Fanfare for Freedom
9:00 Torke/Patterson - Javelin Matt Smith, guest conductor
11:00 Copland/Hunsberger - Quiet City Steve Leisring, trumpet & Margaret Marco, English horn
20:00 Reed - La Fiesta Mexicana Sarah Labovitz, guest conductor
16:00 Torke - Mojave Ji Hye Jung, marimba
Concert #4: November 13, 2011 7pm at the Kauffman Center, Kansas City
Gould- Fanfare for Freedom
Torke- Mojave
Ji Hye Jung, marimba
Ticheli- Wild Nights!
Copland/
Hunsberger Quiet City
Steve Leisring, trumpet & Margaret Marco, English horn
(Encore- Sousa - The Washington Post)
Recital: Sarah Labovitz DMA recital - Wednesday December 7, 2011
23:00 Dvorak Serenade
5:00 Mackey Strange Humors
6:00 Plog - Three Miniatures
22:00 Reed - La Fiesta Mexicana
Concert #5: Prairie Winds Concert/Perc Ens February 4, 2012
6:00 Daugherty - Desi
16:00 Torke Mojave
6:00 Varese - Ionisation, Sarah Labovitz, guest conductor
More Percussion Ensemble, TBA
Concert #5.5: KMEA Friday February 24, 2012
Chen Yi - Movement 2 from Dragon Rhyme
Concert #6: Scholarship Concert - Friday March 30, 2011
TBA Robert E. Foster, guest conductor
14:00 Copland, A Lincoln Portrait
10:00 Ticheli, An American Elegy
NAXOS Recording "American Landscapes" - Recording April 1-6, 2012
9:00 Torke Javelin
16:00 Ticheli Simple Gifts
6:00 Torke Mojave
5:00 Copland Quiet City
6:00 Ticheli An American Elegy
Copland Variations on a Shaker Melody
Concert 7: Thursday April 26, 2012, John Whitwell, guest conductor
Collage Concert September 24th, 2010
5:00 Bryant - Radiant Joy
3:30 Strauss - Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
13:00 Greene - Circean Waters
15:00 Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances Sarah Labovitz, guest conductor
9:00 Barnes - Chorale Prelude on a German Folk Tune (1984)
20:00 Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
"Old Wine in New Bottles"
12:30 Jacob - Old Wine in New Bottles
Milhaud - Suite francaise
15:00 Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances
Sarah Labovitz, guest conductor
11:00 Gandolfi - Vientos y Tangos
19:00 Hindemith - Symphony in Bb
Cheryl Lee MM conducting recital December 1st, 2010
Mendelssohn - Nocturno, op. 24
Benson - Solitary Dancer
Wilt - Nevermore
Grainger - Colonial Song
Shared with Jazz Ensemble 1 February 5th, 2011
22:00 Mintzer - Go! - Concerto for Tenor Saxophone
3:30 Bernstein - Slava!
10:00 Strauss - Serenade in Eb, op. 7
4:00 Gabrieli - Canzona Septimi Toni #2
6:00 Lauridsen/Reynolds - O Magnum Mysterium
9:00 Roger Nixon - Fiesta Del Pacifico, Sarah Labovitz, guest conductor
5:00 Bruce Broughton - Silverado
with combined Horn Choirs from KU and UMKC - guest conductor Paul Stevens
19:30 Wilson - Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble
Gail Williams from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, soloist
4:00 Sousa - Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
"New Paradigms" May 10th, 2011
15:00 Maslanka - Traveler
11:00 Daugherty - Red Cape Tango
7:00 Varese - Octandre
22:00 Bryant - Ecstatic Waters
Steven Bryant, resident composer
Frank Ticheli, guest composer/conductor
Michael Davidson, trombone
Scott A. Weiss, conductor
Cheryl Lee, graduate student conductor
Postcard (1994) – Frank Ticheli
Sanctuary (2005)– Frank Ticheli
Concertino for Trombone and Band (1987) – Frank Ticheli
Angels in the Architecture (2008) – Frank Ticheli
Blue Shades (1996) – Frank Ticheli
Haley Armstrong, graduate student conductor
Day Signal from Signals from Heaven (1987) – Toru Takemitsu
Et Expecto Ressurectionem Mortuorum (1964) – Oliver Messiaen
Night Signals from Signals from Heaven (1987) – Toru Takemitsu
Music for Prague 1968 (1968) – Karel Husa
Stephanie Zelnick, clarinet
Fanfare for Freedeom (1943) – Morton Gould
Saint Lawrence Suite (1958) – Morton Gould
Derivations for Solo Clarinet and Band (1953) – Morton Gould
Jericho Rhapsody (1939) – Morton Gould
American Salute (1943) – Morton Gould
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Esch, guest conductor
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 ver.) – Igor Stravinsky
Symphonietta (1961) – Ingolf Dahl
Scherzo alla Marcia from Symphony No. 8(1783) – R. Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4 "West Point" (1952) – Morton Gould
"Opera Without Words"
Steve Leisring & Dai Zhonghui, trumpet
Frank Perez, graduate student conductor
Overture to La Forza del Destino (1869) – Guiseppe Verdi
Regina Coeli from Cavalleria Rusticana (1890)– Pietro Mascagni
Wedding Dances from Bandana (1998) – Daron Hagen
The Good Soldier Schweik Suite (1956) – Robert Kurka
Carmen Fantasia (1994) – Georges Bizet/Hunsburger
"British Invasion"
Scott Watson, tuba
Masque (2001) – Kenneth Hasketh
Hammersmith - Prelude and Scherzo, OP. 52 (1930) – Gustav Holst
Tuba Concerto (1984) – Edward Gregson
Yiddish Dances (1996) – Adam Gorb
Tone Poem, Mannin Veen (1933) – Haydn Wood
"Joint Concert with Lawrence H.S. Band"
"An evening of jazz and jazz-influenced music"
"KMEA, Century II Concert Hall, Whichita, KS"
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961) – Leonard Bernstein
I. Prologue. Allegro moderato
II. "Somewhere." Adagio
III. Scherzo. Vivace leggiero
IV. Mambo. Meno presto
V. Cha-Cha ("Maria"). Andantino con grazia
VI. Meeting scene. Meno mosso
VII. "Cool" Fugue. Allegretto
VIII. Rumble. Molto allegro
IX. Finale. Adagio
Cuban Overture (1932) – George Gershwin
Paul Stevens, horn
Occident et Orient (1869) – Camille Saint–Saëns
O Magnum Mysterium (1994) – Morton Lauridsen
Concerto for Horn in E-flat, K. 417 (1783) – W.A. Mozart
Masquerade (1966) – Vincent Persichetti
Symphony No. 6 (2008) – James Barnes
"Campus Creative Project"
Turtle Island String Quartet
The Tree of Life (2008) – David Balakrishnan
World Premiere Performance
Debut Concert
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954) – Shostakovich/Hunsberger
Colonial Song (1905/1917) – Percy Grainger/Rogers
Finish Line (2006) – Cindy McTee
Fantasie Brillante on Verdi's Rigoletto (1851) – Luigi Bassi/Laurendeau
Serenade in E flat, Op. 7 (1882) – Richard Strauss
Southern Harmony (1998) – Donald Grantham
Lyndsay Boysen, Frank Perez & Eric Posner, assistant conductors
La Procession du Rocio (1913) – Joaquin Turina, trans, Reed
Trauermusik (1844) – Richard Wagner
Divertimento for Band, Op. 42 (1950) – Vincent Persichetti
Octour (1922-3, rev. 1952) – Igor Stravinsky
Concertino for Trombone in E flat Major, Op. 4 (1837) – Ferdinand David
"Dance of the Jesters" from The Snow Maiden (1884) – Pyotr Illyich Tschaikovsky
"An Evening in Paris"
Frank Perez & Eric Posner, assistant conductors
David Fedele, flute
Fanfares Liturguique (1947) – Henri Tomasi
Petite Symphonie, op. 90 (1885)– Charles Gounod
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Naya Rivera: Former Glee actress 'presumed drowned' as search continues after lake disappearance
Imogen Braddick
9 July 2020, 6:38 pm ·2-min read
Police are continuing to search for former Glee star Naya Rivera after she disappeared during a boating trip with her four-year-old son.
The Ventura County Sheriff's office said the 33-year-old was presumed to have drowned and the effort to find her was now classed as a "search and recovery operation".
A huge search operation has been launched at Lake Piru in Southern California but she is yet to be found.
"Investigators believe Rivera drowned in what appears to be a tragic accident," a police statement said.
Rivera's son, who was found asleep and wearing a life vest on late Wednesday afternoon, told investigators that he and his mother went swimming and he got back on the boat, but "his mom never made it out of the water".
Naya Rivera has been missing since Wednesday (Getty Images)
Ventura Country Sheriff Sergeant Kevin Donoghue provided an update on Thursday and revealed CCTV from the dock shows Rivera's boat departing.
He also revealed it may be weeks before any body is found. In the area where the boat was found, the water was about nine metres deep, he said.
Sgt Donoghue said: "If the body is entangled on something beneath the water, it may never come back up."
He added: "There's no way to really say.
"We're putting our best foot forward to try and locate her, we're using all the assets that are available to us, we're using technology like Sonar, we have experts who have dove this lake that know it inside and out, that know where debris pockets might be."
just the two of us pic.twitter.com/wCunAlGJ1B
— Naya Rivera (@NayaRivera)
The most recent tweet on Rivera's account, from Tuesday, read "just the two of us" along with a photo of her and her son.
Stars have shared prayers and messages of hope for the actress, who played cheerleader Santana in Glee.
Rivera's Glee co-star Heather Morris posted a message for her former colleague on Instagram, writing: "We need all the prayers we can to bring our Naya back home to us. We need your love and light."


Home Other News La Cultura Scientists begin the hunt for Cervantes in Madrid
Scientists begin the hunt for Cervantes in Madrid
Imogen Calderwood
6 Mar, 2014 @ 14:21
HE died on the very same day as William Shakespeare, but where he is buried remains as much a mystery as the meaning of his book Don Quixote.
But now scientists have been given the green light to begin searching for the body of Spain's most famous writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Experts are set to use specialist geo-radar equipment at a convent in Madrid in a bid to unearth his bones.
Evidence has existed since 1870 of undiscovered burial sites underneath Las Trinitarias convent in the Las Letras district of the capital.
The city's heritage department has allotted €12,000 to find the body, dig it up, perform tests and then rebury it.
Cervantes died a poor man in the capital on April 23, 1616, aged 69.
His bones could reveal whether he died of cirrhosis, as it has been claimed, the writer being a notoriously heavier drinker.
"They may not just help us to discover what he looked like, but also why he died," said historian Fernando Prado.
"It is said that he was very ill late in life, but that is also when he was very productive as an author."
It is known that he had earlier suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and damage to his left hand at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 which may help identify the correct body.
He was survived by one daughter, meaning a DNA sample could be used if any descendants are found.
His masterpiece, Don Quixote, has been translated into more than 60 languages.
It is hoped the work can be carried out by 2016, when there are plans for a joint global celebration to mark the anniversaries of the death of Cervantes and Shakespeare.
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I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT OF CERVANTES FOR 50 YEARS AND I JUST WISH EVERYONE WOULD LET THIS GENIUS REST IN PEACE AND GIVE HIM THE RESPECT HE RICHLY DESERVES!
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May 10, 2018, 5:30 - 8:00 PM EDT
Saudi Arabia and Russia have indicated plans for a longer-term alliance on oil supply to be discussed at the OPEC ministerial meeting in June. While it is not clear what form this agreement would take and whether the current OPEC plus deal would be extended beyond 2018, the move implies development of a more strategic relationship with long-term market implications. This is as OPEC's crude oil output hits lowest in one year together with supply issues in Venezuela, uncertainty over U.S. sanctions renewal on Iran and tensions over Syria.
Please join us for a panel discussion to explore the political and economic motivations for a long-term Saudi-Russia alliance, the U.S. reaction, as well as the market implications. Our speakers are Steve LeVine, Future Editor at Axios, and Edward Chow, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Amy Jaffe, our board member and David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, will moderate the discussion.
Steve LeVine is Future Editor for Axios, a startup news site created by the founders of Politico. Prior to Axios, Steve LeVine was Washington Correspondent for Quartz, the mobile-first startup launched in 2012 by Atlantic Media. Steve is also a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program.
Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, running a bureau for The Wall Street Journal, and before that writing for The New York Times, the Financial Times and Newsweek. Steve has authored three books including The Powerhouse, The Oil and The Glory, and Putin's Labyrinth. Steve lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Nurilda, and their two daughters.
Edward Chow
Edward C. Chow is a Senior Fellow in the Energy and National Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. He is also a visiting professor at both Fudan University in Shanghai and at Ohio University this academic year. He is an international energy expert with 40 years of industry experience working around the world. He has developed government policy and business strategy, and successfully negotiated multibillion-dollar oil and gas agreements. He has advised U.S. and foreign governments, international financial institutions, major oil companies, and leading multinational corporations. He spent 20 years with Chevron Corporation in headquarter and overseas assignments. While at Chevron, he worked on the company's business interests in both Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Amy Jaffe
Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, energy and sustainability and geopolitical risk. She is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. For the past several years, Amy has served as Executive Director for Energy and Sustainability at the University of California Davis, and senior advisor on energy and sustainability at the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California Regents. She was also formerly a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to joining the University of California, Davis, Amy served as founding director of the Energy Forum at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and its Wallace S. Wilson fellow for energy studies.
Amy is widely published, including as coauthor of Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold with Mahmoud El-Gamal and coeditor of Natural Gas and Geopolitics From 1970 to 2040. She is a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council and the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Future Council on International Security. Prior to serving on the International Security panel, Amy was chair of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Oil and Gas for the WEF. Amy was awarded the Senior Fellow award from the United States Association for Energy Economics in 2015 for her career contributions to the organization and to the field of energy economics.


Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Friday 13 to Sunday 29 May 2016
See online programme for details of specific events
Norfolk & Norwich Festival is all about making this beautiful part of the world even better, bringing fabulous art and extraordinary experiences to the people that live, work and visit here.
From a production of Shakespeare�s The Tempest in a Victorian circus hippodrome to Norfolk teenage singer-songwriters reinventing musical theatre in Wild Life...
From a live recreation of The Beatles� Magical Mystery Tour at Norwich Theatre Royal to a home visit from a singer who will offer to heal your soul through opera...
From a pedal-powered cinematic car chase to Aurora Orchestra playing Beethoven for free all over the city...
From the National Theatre of Scotland�s epic The James Plays to a celebration of Mahler both big and small...
From the beautiful melodies of Max Richter and Tindersticks to a ballet of human beings and a robotic arm�
From an outdoor installation created by our communities to a jazz gig where you control the musicians through an app on your phone�
These are just a few of the unique experiences you can have during this year�s Festival. With over 7 original commissions and productions, numerous premieres and a huge breadth of artists from many different art forms � often responding to a unique sense of Norfolk and Norwich � it�s not surprising that so many of our audience eagerly anticipate the Festival programme each year. We bring you events and experiences you simply could not have at any other time. Not only is Norfolk & Norwich Festival one of the region�s best loved celebrations of the arts, it is increasingly seen as one of the most important arts festivals in the UK.
With continued support from Arts Council England, Norwich City Council and many other sponsors and funders we can keep ticket prices as accessible as possible; so jump right in and try out as much as you can � after all it�s only for seventeen days and you can sleep for the whole of June!
Price: See website for more information on individual events
Location: At various venues across Norfolk and Norwich
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David Hendricks: Alarm bells should be ringing over nuke project
David Hendricks
The recommendation that Austin not join as a partner in the South Texas Project nuclear plant expansion should ring alarm bells.
So should the way CPS Energy is providing information to San Antonians in a series of poorly attended open houses.
San Antonio's utility currently is positioned to own half of the $6 billion-plus expansion planned for completion in 2015-16 near Bay City.
Austin's City Council is voting tonight on a recommendation by Austin Energy to not invest in the construction of the third and fourth units of the nuclear plant. The capital city and its utility own a 16 percent interest in the first and second units.
An Austin Energy consultant has told the city that the new units would cost $1 billion more and construction would last two years more than projected by CPS and its partner, NRG Energy Inc.
News articles this week about the recommendation have the same tone as articles 30 years ago when Austin became nervous about its participation in the first two units. Costs were escalating out of control as permitting and construction fell eight years behind schedule.
Austin voted in 1981 to pull out of the South Texas Project, but the city could find no buyers for its share.
Twenty-seven years later, the South Texas Project's first two units have proven themselves environmentally and economically. Those good results are more serendipity than good planning.
Even the Austin American-Statesman admits that San Antonio electricity bills are cheaper than Austin's, in part because of CPS' 40 percent share in the first two units.
Whenever the plant has shut down for maintenance, bills have risen dramatically because participating utilities must burn relatively expensive natural gas to replace the nuclear power.
Previous criticism of nuclear power has grown more muted amid ongoing climate change blamed on fossil fuels.
In 2008, both cities - especially their business communities - are wondering how their electrical power in the next decade will be generated.
CPS already is spending $206 million on a preliminary design for the nuclear expansion. Yet given the plant's history and Austin's decision, San Antonio needs to proceed with flexibility and openness - even taking into account the initial project's current success.
CPS executives already are admitting that the initial $6 billion price tag for the expansion will be low. How much higher can it go? What is a realistic completion date? What will it mean for future electricity rates?
It is too early to say, CPS says, even as the utility holds public information sessions at four San Antonio sites.
If alarm bells are ringing, no one is hearing them.
Only about 20 people attended the CPS energy-future open house Tuesday evening on the Northeast Side after the location was switched four days earlier. Somehow, media alerts issued by CPS were not successful.
The open-house formats are of dubious value anyway. CPS offers exhibits with information about its future alternatives, and executives are available to discuss the issues with visitors. Visitors also can fill out comment cards.
CPS trustees do not attend the open houses, although they can see the comment cards later. CPS spokeswoman Theresa Brown Cortez said the utility prefers to let customers visit with executives one on one instead of at public forums that invite disruption or protests.
The public, however, deserves to know the questions other people ask and the answers. CPS ought to put the comment cards on its Internet site, www.citypublicservice.com, along with the best answers the utility can give.
Meanwhile, the last CPS open house is set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 11 at Holmes High School at 6500 Ingram Road. Cortez warned that working with public schools is challenging and that the public should check the utility's Internet site in case the location changes.
San Antonio, Austin and the other initial South Texas Project partners went through extended torture with the nuclear plant's first phase. CPS and NRG Energy should avoid the past mistakes of underestimating costs and construction time.
The best way is an open, honest and transparent planning process.
dhendricks @ express-news.net


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Climate change is arguably the most difficult global challenge facing governments, business and society in the 21st century. Satellite observations have enabled major scientific advances in our understanding of climate change, with their measurements on large temporal and spatial scales key to understanding the evolution of parameters about the atmosphere, land and ocean in our Earth system. The business ecosystem for climate services is evolving rapidly with estimated revenues exceeding £16bn in 2015.
In recent years Telespazio VEGA UK (TVUK) has built a European industry leadership position in the provision of satellite observations for the climate change marketplace. Several key initiatives give TVUK major involvement in the provision and use of satellite observations to help stakeholders monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The funding for these projects comes from two main Programmes:
Climate Change Initiative (CCI), funded by the European Space Agency
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), operated by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of, and funded by, the European Commission
TVUK climate capabilities span all aspects of the value chain and example projects across the value chain are shown below:
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SECTEUR (Sector Engagement for C3S, Translating European User Requirements) is engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to establish existing policy needs and user requirements for potential C3S services across the following sectors: agriculture & forestry, health, coastal areas, insurance, tourism, infrastructure. TVUK is leading the construction of a market-wide requirements database for the C3S and making recommendations (with a focus on data quality and visualisation) based on the gathered requirements.
The ESA CCI Open Data Portal provides a single point of access to a stable, long‐term set of satellite‐based Essential Climate Variable (ECV) data products for climate modellers and researchers. There are currently 14 ECV projects focusing on ECVs such as Sea Surface Temperature, Aerosols, Glaciers, and Soil Moisture with more to be added in the forthcoming CCI+ programme. TVUK is the prime contractor for the project, which acts as a "shop window" for the CCI programme, consistently presenting all ECV data to users. The portal enables data discovery, access and visualisation with a variety of data access protocols available, including WMS, WCS, FTP and OPeNDAP. TVUK are also involved in the CCI Toolbox, which allows manipulation and further processing of ECV data. The Climate Data Store (CDS) will be at the heart of the C3S infrastructure and will provide information about the past, present and future climate in terms of Essential Climate Variables and derived climate indicators. It will be designed as a distributed system, providing improved access to existing datasets through a unified web interface. Data from the CDS will underpin the sector-specific applications developed as part of the C3S. TVUK is the prime contractor for the CDS and leads all aspects of the software / systems design & build, using an Agile development approach. A highly diverse set of users (that will include policy makers, experts and scientists) will be able to browse the catalogue, refine searches, retrieve products, view tools compatible with the data search results, and execute operations on the data using these tools. Users will also be able to develop applications that make use of the content of the CDS.
TVUK is prime contractor for a C3S service to provide Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data records which will be made available to users on demand via the CDS. The service builds on leading edge scientific work performed in the CCI programme in order to enhance the availability of the observations to <5 days from acquisition for a variety of SST data products. A clear set of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) have been defined to ensure a reliable and high quality data stream, as well as a dashboard to display KPI and service status metrics. TVUK is also involved in the service provision of Atmospheric Ozone data records to the C3S and has a developed a dashboard and set of service KPI's consistent with that provided for the SST service. TVUK also provides project management, end user requirements capture, website hosting, technical user support & system engineering support to the Ocean Colour CCI ECV Project.
TVUK is prime contractor for a C3S Agricultural System, which is investigating the impact of climate change on woody perennial crops such as vines, olives and beech forests in southwest France and the Tuscany and Molise regions of Italy. These types of crops take years to cultivate and therefore understanding expected changes in climate can significantly aid decisions on the optimal regions for their growth. Further climate downstream inititiaves with TVUK involvement are a C3S Insurance System, which is investigating the impact of climate change on the frequency and severity of wind storms and the associated effect on the insurance sector; and a study for a commercial customer to understand the impact of climate change on infrastrcuture assets such as roads, rail, bridges and dam networks.
The European Commission has funded a series of InfoSessions to promote awareness of the many uses of Copernicus data and information, while providing the opportunity for hands-on demonstrations and basic training. TVUK is responsible for the development of the climate change adaption & mitigation module, which has already been delivered at events in Denmark (Aarhus) and Greece (Athens).
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Point Spread Pick 1/24/23
by Joe Jensen | Jan 24, 2023 | nba
Cleveland Cavaliers (29-19 SU, 26-21-1 ATS) vs. New York Knicks (25-23 SU, 24-23-1 ATS)
When: Tuesday, January 24th, 7:30 PM (ET)
Where: Madison Square Garden, NY, New York
TV: MSG
Point Spread: Cle -2.5/NY +2.5
Total: 219.0
Money Line: Cleveland Cavaliers -150/+125
Notable Injuries
Donovan Mitchell (Probable) Groin
Dylan Windler (Out) Ankle
Mitchell Robinson (Out) Thumb
Immanuel Quickley (Questionable) Knee
Heading into the game, Cleveland is 29-19 overall. When taking to the road, Cleveland has a mark of 9-14 and a win percent of 39%. Currently, the team is 5th in the Eastern Conference. So far, they are 26-21-1 vs the spread. When looking at how the team has performed of late straight and vs. the spread, they are 2-3 in their past 5 games and 3-2 ATS. Over their past 10 games, they are 5-5 SU and 5-5 ATS.
In their last game, Cleveland defeated the Bucks (114-102) as 3-point favorites. Evan Mobley led the team with 38 points on 70.4% shooting. The Cavaliers also covered the spread with the victory.
Heading into the game, New York is 25-23 overall. When playing at home, New York has a mark of 11-13 and a win percentage of 46%. Currently, the team is 7th in the Eastern Conference. So far, they are 24-23-1 vs. the spread. The Knicks need a win in today's matchup vs. Cleveland to avoid their 5th straight loss.
In their last game, New York was defeated by Raptors with a score of 125-116. Despite RJ Barrett scoring 30 points, the team was unable to come out on top. Going into the game, the Knicks were 2 point favorites.
The Historicals
In the most recent matchup between the two teams, the Cavaliers picked up the 121-108 win over the Knicks. The Cavaliers' margin of victory was enough to cover the spread as 4.0 point favorite. So far, the two teams have split their season series, with each team at 1-1. The Cavaliers have had the better record vs the spread over the last 5 games, going 3-2. The team's average scoring margin in these contests sits at 8 points per game. In these matchups, the teams have put together an over-under mark of 2-2-1. Combined, they averaged 208 points in these games.
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This season, Cleveland is averaging just 111.7 points per game, which places them 26th in the league. A major reason for these low numbers is the fact that they play at one of the slower paces in the NBA, at just 96.3 possessions per game. Cleveland comes into the game ranked just 22nd in 3-point attempts per game. So far, they have connected on 36.3% of their shots from deep, which places them 21st in the NBA. Defensively, the Cavaliers have been one of the best units in the NBA, allowing just 105.67 points per game. So far, they have allowed a 3-point shooting percentage of 35.29%, placing them 16th in the NBA.
Coming into today's game, Donovan Mitchell is the leading scorer for Cleveland at 28.4 points per game. This season, Mitchell has a field goal percentage of 48.3%. The team's second-leading scorer is Darius Garland, at 21.7 points per contest.
This season, the Knicks' offense is averaging 114.3 points per game, which is 14th in the NBA. In terms of pace, New York has been playing at one of the slower tempo's in the league, averaging just 97.8 possessions per game. The Knicks have been able to put together a strong offensive attack despite sitting just 25th in 3-point shooting percentage. Overall, they are among the league leaders in attempts at 34.8 attempts per game. Defensively, the Knicks have been one of the best units in the NBA, allowing just 106.6 points per game. So far, they have done an excellent job defending the 3-point arc, allowing teams to hit just 34.2%.
Going into today's game, Julius Randle is the leading scorer for the New York team with an average of 24.4 points per game. This season, his field goal percentage is 45.8%. The team's second top scorer is Jalen Brunson, who is averaging 22.5 points per game.
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Cavaliers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games following a straight up win.
Cavaliers are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games following a ATS win.
Knicks are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.
Knicks are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games.
Joes Pick To Cover The Spread
Cleveland has struggled on the road all season long. The Knicks have lost four games in a row, but to pretty stiff competition. I'm betting the Knicks +3!
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