and how to watch liveThe 2024-25 IBSF Bobsleigh World Cup season gets underway this weekend with the opening round of competition in Altenberg There will be a bevvy of Olympic and world champions among the 80-sled roster in Germany, so check out our preview below for more details on the event programme, the top pilots to follow, and how to watch the action live. All times below are local (Central European Time) As the defending Olympic and world champions in the four-man and two-woman events — not to mention the added bonus of racing on home ice — it's hard to look past Team Germany as favourites in every race this weekend is now the reigning world champion in the event and is a favourite to win the World Cup opener on Sunday Team USA also possess an experienced pair of female pilots who have been successful in Altenberg in recent years Humphries' compatriot Elana Meyers Taylor a five-time Olympic medallist and four-time world champion having reached the World Cup podium multiple times (including a two-woman race win in 2015) In the men's four-man and two-man competitions, Francesco Friedrich is the man to beat The German bobsledding legend captured his second Olympic titles in both events at Beijing 2022 and won gold again in both categories at the 2024 World Championships in Winterberg Friedrich is the most successful athlete in IBSF World Championship history; such is his dominance in the sport that should he fail to win again in Altenberg (in either the two-man or two-man) it would send shockwaves through the sport Valentina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and Grzegorz Galica from Poland two winners who had never won a race before stood on the top step of the podium at the start of the title fights Grzegorz Galica has already been among the top six athletes in the IBU Junior Cup in several competitions this season and was able to show with good performances that he is one of the best athletes With two misses he managed to secure the European Championship title Antonin Delsol from France took second place ahead of Artur Iskhakov from Slovakia Valentina Dimitrova shot two penalty minutes but was four seconds faster at the finish than Evelina Hakala from Finland For Evelina Hakala it was only the second race this season after she had a start in the IBU Cup Third place went to Amelia Liszka from Poland who secured her country's second medal at these championships She only missed one target at the last shooting the Polish team showed their superiority at the shooting range Anna Nedza-Kubiniec and Barbara Skrobiszewska finished with a commanding lead of 42 seconds The silver medal went to the team from France with Camille Grataloup-Manissolle Third place went to the team from Italy with Davide Compagnoni was the first athlete to reach the final shooting stage but had two penalty loops and thus missed out on a top place for her team her team-mates greeted her joyfully at the finish line the gold medal was only decided on the finish line Charlotte Gallbronner from Germany and Celia Henaff from France fought for every metre on the final lap Charlotte Gallbronner came out on top and took the gold medal with her partner Linus Kesper Leo Carlier and Celia Henaff were delighted with silver Elias David and Katerina Pavlu brought home the first medal for the Czech Republic with bronze With a double victory by Fabian Kaskel and Elias Seidl the German team made up for their mixed results in the individual races Fabian Kaskel showed a flawless performance at the shooting range and finished two seconds ahead of his team-mate Elias Seidl who had to go through the penalty loop once Camille Grataloup-Manissolle secured the bronze medal after narrowly missing out on the podium in fourth place in the individual event Matthias Riebli from Switzerland achieved his personal career best with fourth place Anaelle Bondoux from France was the best of the day in the women's race as she had to sit out the relays the day before due to illness But perhaps it was precisely this day of rest that helped her to regain her strength Silver went to her team-mate Coralie Perrin who stood on the podium for the first time Grzegorz Galica dominated the European Championships He won his third gold medal after four races in the mass start 60 he was convincing on the track and overtook Sondre Slettemark from Greenland on the final lap who was nine seconds behind the winner at the finish Martin Botet from France showed his personal best performance at the shooting range in the races in Altenberg and won the bronze medal Katerina Pavlu from the Czech Republic surprised even herself with her victory in the mass start 60 She missed two targets but remained clear at the last shooting and was the first to return to the track who narrowly lost the final sprint to her team-mate Germany — Team USA Luge’s Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby finished third Saturday in the World Cup women’s doubles action The duo has appeared on the podium in four of the five World Cup events held this season and are ranked third in the overall standings placing third on a windy day at the sliding sports venue outside of Dresden men’s doubles team of Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa posted their best-ever result finishing sixth Jonny Gustafson was the top men’s U.S while Ashley Farquharson was the top American women’s finisher placing sixth The duo gently tapped the right wall on the exit of the corner in their second run The two-time World Championship medalists won the bronze with a two-run combined time of 1 minute “We had a good first run in our race today and some small problems in our second run,” Forgan said “But we managed to get on the podium with third place “(An) exciting day here in Altenberg which did affect the track with snow blowing in there and I thought we put in some good efforts.” a newly formed team competing at select events Since Forgan and Kirkby’s win at the first race of the year in Lillehammer Austrians Selina Egle and Lara Kipp have been unbeaten The duo won today’s competition in 1:25.077 Germany’s Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal were second in 1:25.474 The reigning Junior World Champions are competing in their first full World Cup season and today posted a career-best result The duo made several small but costly mistakes today indicating that their true potential has yet to be unlocked Massachusetts and Sean Hollander of Lake Placid placed eighth in 1:24.691 Martins Bots and Roberts Plume of Latvia won the race in 1:23.900 Germany’s Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt were second in 1:24.023 with Yannick Mueller and Armin Frauscher of Austria third in 1:24.031 Since the addition of women’s doubles to the team relay last season especially on a technically difficult track like the one in Altenberg the men’s doubles team of Marcus Mueller and Haugsjaa Gustafson and the women’s doubles team of Forgan and Kirkby All four United States sleds were fast and relatively clean down the track enough to reward the squad with a bronze medal in 3 minutes The Latvia team upset the second-place German team on home ice but bounced back with the 10th fastest heat of the race His teammate Tucker West of Lake Placid a three-time Olympian Only the top 20 sleds advance to the second heat Max Langenhan and Felix Loch led a Germany 1-2 finish earned his first medal of the season by finishing third in 1:48.609 The women’s race saw problems for a significant portion of the field particularly out of the wind-exposed curve 14 Farquharson showed the speed for a podium finish but hit the left and right walls between curves 14 and 15 The 2022 Olympian posted a two-run combined time of 1:46.108 and finished sixth Emily Sweeney of Lake Placid and Summer Britcher of Glen Rock both multi-time Olympians and World Cup medalists tied for 14th place after struggling with the exit of curve 14 Utah finished in 21st with a one-run time of 59.913 Only the top-20 advance to the second heat of competition Madeleine Egle of Austria was the winner in 1:45.642 Anna Berreiter of Germany was second in 1:45.792 with her teammate Merle Fraebel third in 1:45.905 Degenhardt and Rosenthal are second with 390 points 10 points in front of Forgan and Kirkby with 380 competing in their second event of the season Mueller and Haugsjaa hold ninth place with 200 points in men’s doubles while DiGregorio and Hollander are 10th with 187 Pennsylvania are out for the season after Kellogg injured his shoulder at the second race of the season Bots and Plume lead the points chase with 416 and Toni Eggert and Florian Mueller of Germany are third with 341 points Gustafson holds 11th place with 166 points and West is 14th with 142 Aidan Mueller of West Islip did not qualify to compete today and holds 27th place with 60 points Utah did not race today due to an injury and sits in 29th place with 52 points Nico Gleirscher of Austria holds the lead with 386 points with Langenhan second with 371 and Loch third with 315 Farquharson and Sweeney are tied for seventh place Britcher sits in 11th place with 198 points and Erickson is 20th with 96 Egle leads the women’s World Cup standings with 359 points Austrian Lisa Schulte is second with 355 points and Germany’s Julia Taubitz is third with 330 the United States is tied for fifth place with Italy with 125 points The Saranac Lake Placid girls lacrosse team defeated the Ogdensburg Free Academy Blue Devils 9-8 on the road .. 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Discover the complete start lists for the mass-starts 60 of the European Junior Biathlon Championships scheduled for this Sunday in Altenberg (Germany) at 10:45 and 13:30 The European Junior Biathlon Championships in Altenberg (Germany) come to a close this Sunday with the mass-starts 60 Martin Botet and Judicaël Perrillat-Bottonet will take part in the men’s race Pauline Machut and Eva Laine will be racing from 1.30pm Sign In Register Germany (AP) — Francesco Friedrich of Germany got the 80th World Cup win of his career Saturday teaming with rookie Simon Wulff to prevail in the opening two-man bobsled race of the season It was Friedrich's 133rd World Cup medal — including four-man results — in 188 races and he's now won 48 of his 100 two-man races on the circuit Wulff was in a World Cup race for the first time Friedrich led a German sweep of the two-man medal positions: Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer were second while Adam Ammour and Issam Ammour took third In the women's monobob race later Saturday with Laura Nolte winning and Lisa Buckwitz finishing second Reigning Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries of the U.S returned to World Cup sliding less than six months after giving birth to her first child and finished seventh in her first race on the circuit since February 2023 Toronto's Cynthiah Appiah was eighth and Melissa Lotholz of Barrhead The two-woman and four-man races in Altenberg are Sunday Austria - Austrians won four of the nine medals available Saturday Austria's Madeleine Egle won the women's race on her home track with Germany's Julia Taubitz second and Austria's Lisa Schulte third the Latvian team of Martins Bots and Roberts Plume won followed by Germany’s Toni Eggert and Florian Mueller in second and the Austrian sled of Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl taking third Calgary's Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski placed 13th Austria’s Selina Egle and Lara Kipp prevailed with Germany’s Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal second and Latvia’s Anda Upite and Zane Kaluma finishing third The men's singles and team relay races are Sunday AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports A difficult first race for the French on Wednesday at the European Junior Biathlon Championships in Altenberg (Germany) today announced significant steps in expanding its national impact including key leadership appointments and funding for strategic initiatives Peter Centre has been at the forefront of innovative healthcare offering a unique model that combines comprehensive HIV care with attention to food insecurity The Centre is now taking bold steps to expand its impact nationally to the 2% sidelined by society — the nearly 750,000 Canadians struggling with complex challenges currently underserved by existing siloed systems "Across the country we see the poisoned drug supply crisis worsen; encampments and homelessness deepen Current approaches are clearly not getting the results we want and yet there is real hope and there are real solutions." said Scott Elliott "We have the vantage point of seeing what works and what doesn't and that is why we're instigating solutions that drive the spread of human-centered care across Canada." the Vancouver-based Centre has led 15 projects across Canada collaborating with over 440 frontline organizations across the country the Centre is now implementing a five-year strategic framework to guide its national initiatives Strengthening Leadership with Frontline Solutions Peter Centre has created a new division called Frontline Solutions and amplify solutions for complex care across Canada leveraging the Centre's extensive experience and innovative approaches to align with other frontline organizations also working with the "2% sidelined by society" yet the fear of failure and public backlash has paralyzed many organizations innovative ways of addressing these urgent Peter Centre are uniquely positioned to take the lead in delivering integrated compassionate care to marginalized populations We possess the agility to get ahead of the issue leveraging our deep understanding of our client's needs to help heal our communities." the Centre has appointed Jason Altenberg as its first Chief Operating Officer former CEO of South Riverdale Community Health Centre brings three decades of visionary community and health services innovation to the role He is nationally recognized for establishing culturally responsive "This role will continue to connect the excellence of the 'Campus of Care' in Vancouver to our national frontline solutions I started my career in Vancouver back in the early 1990s when HIV/AIDS along with an early wave of potent opioids was creating chaos in communities Those early experiences offering crisis support services shaped my career and my life I am grateful to be able to work for an organization that shares the values that guide my practice." the Centre has strategically appointed Rosalind Baltzer Turje (Director of Clinical Innovation) and Patrick McDougall (Director of Knowledge Innovation) to key leadership positions designed to drive forward the Centre's national strategies and innovation These programs are supported in part by the federal government and in part through private donors Peter Jepson-Young's mother—before her passing has raised over $1.4 million dedicated to the continuation and expansion of national work which underscores the private sector's confidence in the Centre's vision Peter Centre believes that bringing together all levels of government corporate and community donors is key to establishing resilient sustainable funding structures that promote equitable prosperity "Our experience demonstrates that turning chaos into community isn't just possible driving human-centred care models and co-creating funding effectiveness sustainable change and transform a fragmented system into integrated care," Elliott concluded For more information about the Dr. Peter Centre and its national initiatives, please visit drpeter.org Peter Centre is a healthcare organization located in Vancouver dedicated to providing compassionate care and support to individuals living with complex health conditions such as HIV/AIDS Through a holistic approach that includes medical care the Centre continues to advocate for "the 2%"—those in our population who are sidelined by society—offering a safe and inclusive environment for healing and connection Media Contact: Michelle Brown Colistro, Communications Lead, [email protected] Do not sell or share my personal information: Antonin Delsol from Savoie took second place in the individual event at the European Junior Biathlon Championships in Altenberg (Germany) Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application He was one of 6 children born to Leona Marie (Altenberg) Morrissey.Terry moved to North Mankato moving back to North Mankato in March of 2020 MRCI was Terry’s employer from 1983 until MRCI was closed due to COVID Terry divided his time in recent years between MRCI and Lifeworks Terry was a hard worker who expected the same from those around him You will see several of Terry’s art works on display at his celebration of life.Terry was a true Renaissance Man but also enjoyed being in the audience of a good musical or great concert Terry’s world was full of friends from all walks of life and many different backgrounds Terry was very accepting of others as long as they were honest and understood that he was not a person to be rushed Being able to make a good tasting coffee frappe didn’t hurt either to become his friend Terry’s day started better with coffee.Terry is survived by his siblings and Patrick (Sharon) Morrissey; and many nieces Terry is survived by Charles Kittelson and Nathan Reinarts who shared a home with Terry for many years.He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents it broke the hearts of us who had the privilege to take care of Terry and still care so deeply for him We are thankful for the memories he left us and are excited to share these with all who had a bond with Terry through memories and how his smile made our days brighter.The family would like to thank all the Harry Meyering staff that touched Terry’s life throughout the years Thank you to CCI which became Living Links and then merged with Harry Meyering Center in 2018 thank you to the Arlington Staff and Terry’s two housemates.Terry is sadly missed and fondly remembered Please join us as we celebrate his life through our stories 2021 at Northview ~ North Mankato Mortuary with a service starting at 1pm There will be an open mic for you to share what keeps Terry in your heart A conversation table will be set up if you wish to share pictures and mementos or watch his service livestreamed at www.mankatomortuary.com Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Discover the full programme for the Junior Biathlon Cup in Altenberg (Germany) which will support the European Junior Championships from Wednesday to Sunday Longtime Junipero Serra head football coach Scott Altenberg is a finalist for the prestigious Don Shula High School Coach of the Year Award after being named the Los Angeles Chargers 2023 Coach of the Year The Shula Award salutes high school coaches for their character and integrity commitment to player health and safety and on-field success Altenberg has been Serra's head coach since 2000 he led the school to state championships in 2012 and 2021 while winning 219 games Not bad for a school that has an enrollment of less than 200 boys This past season, Coach Altenberg led the Cavaliers to a 9-4 record. The Cavs were ranked No. 111 in the High School Football America 300 national rankings Altenberg's program has produced a lot of NFL talent there were three former Serra players on NFL rosters High School Football America’s Jeff Fisher speaks with Coach Altenberg about the honor and the pride he has in the number of players his program has sent into the National Football League NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page It is one of the enduring ironies of classical music that so much of today’s repertoire was written by such a small number of people. This post is the twentieth in a multipart Arts Fuse series dedicated to reevaluating neglected and overlooked orchestral music Comments and suggestions are welcome at the bottom of the page or to jonathanblumhofer@artsfuse.org The big musical riot in the early 20th century wasn’t but the event had far more to do with Vaslav Nijinsky’s radical choreography than with Stravinsky’s score despite its aggressive dissonances and complex rhythmic schemes has proven popular with audiences since its debut as a concert work in early 1914 for a brouhaha provoked by the music itself you have to travel back a few weeks and 700-some miles to the southeast to Vienna on March 31st There you had what’s gone down in history as the Skandalkonzert a program of modern music conducted by Arnold Schoenberg that never actually finished: its second half devolved into a melee that the police were called in to break up and the night ended early for everybody The piece that lit the spark for the fisticuffs that followed None other than Alban Berg’s Altenberg-Lieder The Piano Sonata and Seven Early Songs date from the eight years before it and the next two major works to follow Altenberg are among his most important: the Three Pieces for Orchestra and Wozzeck Yet the Lieder have been largely neglected both owing to Berg’s insecurities as a composer at the time and the fallout from its partial premiere (the Skandalkonzert featured just two of its five movements) the Altenberg-Lieder marked the first time he wrote for orchestra deeply impressed by Schoenberg’s own Five Pieces for Orchestra seems to have felt threatened by the sheer brilliance of Berg’s scoring in the Lieder – as we shall see and hear it’s staggeringly iridescent – and his lukewarm response to the work gave the younger composer pause Berg set five aphoristic poems by Peter Altenberg a leading light of the fin de siècle Jung-Wien (“Young Vienna”) movement Berg’s settings are all rather straightforward the enigmatic nature of the poems and the perceived earnestness of the music coupled with Berg’s Modernist language and a dyspeptic audience waiting to pounce (they’d already hissed Schoenberg’s chromatic but tonal Chamber Symphony no Berg’s subsequent vocal works draw on more familiar poets (Theodor Storm and Charles Baudelaire) there’s Schoenberg’s response to the Skandalkonzert he gave Berg a thorough dressing down for the Lieder The reasons for his outburst remain obscure but they provoked a subservient letter of apology from Berg and he basically shelved the piece It wasn’t heard in full until the early 1950s and the orchestral score was not published until 1966 it’s been occasionally performed – Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado both championed it – but it remains a niche piece in the Berg catalogue (the Boston Symphony’s played it twice once with Evelyn Lear and Erich Leinsdorf in 1966 then with Roberta Alexander and Michael Tilson Thomas in 1987; Daniele Gatti led the most recent New York Philharmonic performance in 2002 with Christine Schäfer) The Altenberg-Lieder feature Berg at his most direct and concise The first and last songs share a pair of melodies that sound nothing alike but are drawn from the same pitch material organized to follow the same succession of intervals there’s a striking symmetry between those movements’ respective harmonic materials proceeds from one five-note chord to another as the music increases in volume from pianissimo to fortississimo; in the last the progression and dynamic shapes are reversed Symmetrical concerns also mark the central lied which opens with a dense woodwind chord that unwinds note by note – only to be built up again by the strings as the song comes to its end striking though Berg’s abstract gestures might be – and as well – the Lieder are of course nothing if they don’t speak on an expressive Part of the reason for this owes to the directness of Berg’s text settings. Altenberg’s poems, as one scholar notes make no effort to clarify their ironies: are they serious Those determinations are left to the reader And Berg didn’t emphasize one interpretation over the other: his settings are essentially forthright musical depictions of the ideas and images the poems present his command of the orchestra in the Lieder (as noted earlier) was total Berg treated the ensemble as a gigantic chamber group drawing an array of colors and instrumental combinations from his colossal forces (triple woodwinds and brass – quadruple horns and trombones wie bist du schöner,” begins with a shimmer: a falling piccolo/clarinet melody echoed by percussion that’s accompanied by scurrying rhythmically disjunct ellipses in the rest of the ensemble everybody (or just about) combines in a wild descending line that disintegrates as it falls; after that stunning introduction Berg’s sheer enthusiasm for fresh-sounding music and gestures is on display It’s there in the penultimate gesture of the first song an ethereal whoosh of violin harmonics that comes out of nowhere “Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen den Wald,” with its anticipations of Webern’s spare textures; and in the third (“Über die Grenzen des All”) whose outer Also abundantly in evidence is Berg’s ability to craft a musical argument of serious weight That’s most clear in the last of the Lieder’s movements “Hier ist Friede.” Set as a passacaglia (a set of variations over a recurring bass line) it moves from rhythmic and harmonic simplicity to complexity its apex marked – in stunning fashion – by the orchestra landing on an emphatic A major triad Things proceed backwards from there: chromaticism intrudes But this four-and-a-half-minute meditation on finding peace in a world of sorrow and suffering is cut from the same dramatic and emotional cloth that we’re familiar with from later Berg classics In all, then, the Altenberg-Lieder are far more than a curiosity in Berg’s catalogue. Quite the opposite: they’re his first true masterpiece. Short, yes (only around twelve minutes long), and, as Berg scholar Mark DeVoto has pointed out But music of tremendous invention and feeling Jonathan Blumhofer is a composer and violist who has been active in the greater Boston area since 2004 His music has received numerous awards and been performed by various ensembles including the American Composers Orchestra Since receiving his doctorate from Boston University in 2010 in addition to writing music criticism for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette […] of Berg’s 1935 opera Lulu within its score As composer/violinist Jonathan Blumhofer rightly notes “The Altenberg-Lieder feature Berg at his most direct and concise The Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) BY JONATHAN SWIFT Five hours (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia… but this Littlefield review has convinced me to make the purchase your comments reek of what is wrong in today's society and also if entitlement About Us Advertising/Underwriting Syndication Media Resources Editors and Contributors © 2025 The Arts Fuse. All Rights Reserved. Site by AuthorBytes. Only after death do we fully fathom the distinctive qualities of a loved one, delve deeper into their essence, the living manifestations of which no longer disturb us. So long as he lived he committed the irritating maladroitness to be someone other in his thinking and feeling than ourselves! When met with skepticism—in particular, the idea that “The things Altenberg writes, we already know them anyhow!”—from either critic or just-met café patron, this unconventional uncle of letters did what everyone agrees is inadvisable: answer back, and so absorb the public side of authorship into his work, too. Is it any wonder that so many writers loved him?