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Best Version Media, LLC. – The Roger Williams University Men’s Track & Field Team saw Sam Bielawa and Aleck Isbester named Field Athlete and Track Rookie of the Year as announced by the Conference of New England (CNE) office Bielawa placed first in the triple jump at the CNE Championships posting a career best 14.18m (46′ 6.25″) in the event while also finishing in third in the long jump with a 6.50m (21′ 4″) jump Bielawa ranked 16 th in the long jump and fourth in the triple jump in the New England region Bielawa also sits 38 th nationally in the… A fan We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it OK Privacy policy Subscribe to our Weekly Newsletter and receive important industry updates Food & Beverage Magazine is the leading online magazine resource for the food and beverage industry with signature celebrity features and an over twenty year long valuable reputation F&B Magazine 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two years of feeling terrible isolation and uncertainty I’m finding that my ear is drawn to sounds and experiences that offer a feeling of transcending space and time I’ve been drawn to sounds of bold and clear vitality after moving for so long through murky social and political waters towards an uncertain future – and others I speak to I always found many depictions of the distinction between tragedy and comedy “serious’”music and “light” music The most rigorous joy is anything but light – it has great power and can sweep us up and deliver us someplace entirely new I have returned to my life-long project of exploring expansive joy through my work I feel a return to this desire to seek this kind of powerful joy Here are some glimpses of that journey — thank you A powerful early formative experience for me was singing the role of the Child Soloist in the SF production of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass I felt the enveloping power of community around me like a cloak of magical musical powers A piece that addressed itself to bringing many communities and people together through an expanded definition of the Mass this piece has probably influenced every piece I’ve written since then No composer I know radiates pure joy in music-making the way violinist-composer Colin Jacobsen can This excerpt from his ballet music for Dance Heginbotham features his own string quartet Brooklyn Rider in effulgent rhythmically buoyant figuration and two brilliant singers who are also composers of note: Shara Nova and Gabriel Kahane Another composer who meditated on the expansive emotions of love was Canadian spectralist Claude Vivier the soprano uses an invented “language of love” to intone her fervor with richly textured rigorously homophonic instrumental constructions supporting her This recording features the peerless soprano Susan Narucki but I have also sung this piece and remember the physical sensation of singing over and into these blocks of sound One wonders what joyful masterpieces we might have heard had Vivier not met a violent death in his 30s I composed this concerto for orchestra as the final summary of my wonderful three-year residency with the Boston Modern Orchestra The themes of the piece came from 15 individual solo works I had composed over three years for the individual section leaders of BMOP This was the culmination of a broad-scale collaboration of sheer exuberance Finding expression for that joy became the project of this work drawing (sometimes unconsciously) on many of the other works on this list My first solo gig in NYC when I moved here after graduating from college was as the soprano in the a cappella quartet Singing this music with these amazing colleagues – in just intonation employing a whole arsenal of extended techniques – was a musical growth experience like no other and the music itself was bursting with joyful fascination and invention This track is named after the hotel where we stayed on our first international gig in Amsterdam While Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė doesn’t shy away from the darker elements in her searching symphonic music this track shows how her sublime detailing and taut but patient orchestrational pacing can serve a deep joy When I went to the Cazadero Summer Music Camp in the redwood forests outside the SF Bay Area at the age of nine I had only really ever heard early or modern classical music at home Every day after our classes and rehearsals the hundreds of kids would gather and sing this song together before dinner I fell in love with Earth Wind & Fire’s ecstatic love-driven sound and fierce brass writing (and Maurice White’s stupendous male soprano) and have kept it close to me since I was at the premiere of Tania’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece commissioned in celebration of the centenary of the 19th Amendment by the NY Philharmonic While we are not (yet!) able to share the full-length performance this short teaser gives us a glimpse of the shimmering brass writing and proclamatory bursts of coloristic celebration My first work composed for live performance since before the pandemic Land Sea Sky finds me back in my quest for deep and rigorous joy as a compositional challenge These three movements tell three different women’s stories of journeying with an ending that literally soars – as the 18th-century diva and pioneering balloonist Mme Thible ascends and floats away over the earth in a hot air balloon I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is an editorially-independent program of the American Composers Forum funded with generous donor and institutional support Opinions expressed are solely those of the author and may not represent the views of ICIYL or ACF A gift to ACF helps support the work of ICIYL. 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You can support the work of ICIYL with a gift to ACF Affiliate South Carolina We know what it takes to end drunk driving fight drugged driving and educate the next generation of drivers But we still need help to reach the day that no one experiences a broken heart due to impaired driving Topic: Blog , Victim Stories Maryellen Bielawa of New York state shares her victim impact statement with us a Coastal Carolina student killed by a drunk driver When Ryan chose to go to Coastal Carolina University it was not a surprise to me Since he was not a fan of the cold weather I knew he would enjoy the experience of going to school in the South He loved going to the beach and being outdoors Not a day goes by that I don’t regret that I encouraged him to go away to school If I could go back in time I would have made him stay closer to home He would still be here with me if I had just worried about him more He never did give me any reason to worry about him though He was such a responsible kid and full of determination One of Ryan’s expressions was “never had a bad day” play tricks on his friends and just make those around him laugh and have a good time He was 6 foot 5 inches and so very handsome He was the kind of kid people just liked being around his friends parents always told me Ryan was their first choice for their boys to have in their homes Ryan was in his second year at CCU when he was killed He was on the President’s List his first semester and the Dean’s List his second semester He had a love of the stock market and was determined to have a successful future in the finance industry that he would have achieved those goals and more He was working as an intern at Merrill Lynch when he was killed He was so well respected that they were planning to offer him a management position when he graduated from school For them to be that impressed with him in such a short time of working for them demonstrates the kind of person he was On the one year anniversary of Ryan’s death eight of his closest friends sent me letters describing how Ryan’s life and death affected them The one thing that each of them mentioned was how he was a role model to them He encouraged each of them to be the best they could be and they respected him and aspired to be like him Losing Ryan has devastated my life and his brother Kevin’s life We constantly talked about our futures together and all the plans we had Anyone that knows us can tell you how very close I have always been to my boys Over the past three years I have been exposed to how the legal system operates in South Carolina The laws surrounding the case against the offender were very confusing to me My life has been devastated by his actions My son was a beautiful person with an amazing future ahead of him I will never get to see my son graduate from college or family; all of those things a parent gets to witness and be a part of as their children become adults I am haunted by the loss of my son in every aspect of my life The impaired driver who killed Ryan requested a jury trial that had to be moved several times due to scheduling issues in the Solicitor’s Office and it was very inconvenient to be placed on standby one week and then told they were pushing the trial back the next week the offender was found guilty of Felony DUI with Death Resulting I do feel as if justice was finally served for Ryan Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization EIN 94-2707273 You can still continue to browse our site with limited capacity Here are some options to help you do that: Lisa Bielawa joined us in anticipation of the upcoming premiere of Send The Carriage Through, a work she composed over the last two months for the Louisville Orchestra as part of their inaugural Creators Corps The piece is a rumination on the act of leadership through the lens of the role of the conductor But Bielawa found a direct spark of inspiration while watching an internationally televised funeral Louisville Public Media depends on donations from members – generous people like you – for the majority of our funding You can help make the next story possible with a donation of $10 or $20 We'll put your gift to work providing news and music for our diverse community Q2 Music is a passionate community of listeners who crave to discover inspiring Music of Constant Change: A Philip Glass Festival on Q2 Music (September 4-9 Following a successful round of performances in Berlin, Lisa Bielawa is bringing the next installment of her Airfield Broadcast series to San Francisco on October 26 at 10 AM and 4 PM Crissy Broadcast—taking place at Crissy Field—is a 60-minute open air performance you do not want to miss Bielawa kindyl answered 5 questions about this project… These public-space projects always teach me something new about what audiences are prepared to experience and in general I find that people are quite open to having unexpected artistic encounters in new contexts I can’t wait to see how the San Francisco Crissy Field public will respond This is music written for musicians at any level as long as they are committed to the workshops and rehearsal process we are reaching a very broad demographic range in our participant pool I find that an individual musician’s response to this music has very little to do with his or her socioeconomic background There are people who are responsive to art and to sonic experience in every sub-stratum of our culture individual thing – responsiveness to sound Each of the participants brings this experience into his or her own community Already through this project I have met many school helpers or civic workers – people I would never usually get a chance to meet let alone share a musical experience with – through the involvement of these students I got the idea to do Tempelhof Broadcast when the Rome performance of CE was fresh in my mind and ears I wanted to expand the civic engagement of the project into the actual music-making The most satisfying experiences I’ve had with unwitting listeners are ones that leave them smiling feeling unexpected joy and expansiveness in the course of everyday existence There’s a lot of staring at the wall and imagining stuff One needs to get away from the piano and the studio and take long walks and runs outside to feel what sound actually means when it travels a longer distance harmonic rhythm – these all need to be slowed down and imagined as from an airplane soaring way Rehearsalf of Tempelhof Broadcast on the Tempelhofer Feld For more information about Crissy Broadcast http://www.airfieldbroadcasts.org/en/crissy In the wake of pandemics and large-scale crises composers have responded in a broad variety of ways over the centuries Some people respond to suffering by turning it into art That's true even with the harrowing experience of a pandemic In the early 1400s, an Englishman named John Cooke composed Stella celi, a hymn to the Virgin Mary referencing the Black Plague which, according to some sources Its text speaks of the "ulcers of a terrible death" but also the assurance that "the star of heaven .. Cooke's hymn is unlikely the first direct musical response to a major pandemic have been inspired to write music in times of crisis As pandemics resurfaced and new ones cropped up, people centuries ago were, in general, keenly aware of the precarious nature of life. Johann Sebastian Bach was no exception He was orphaned twice by age 10 and lost half of his 20 children and his first wife Bach wrote music that could comfort in times of distress and music that directly confronted plagues in his Cantata No titled "There is Nothing Healthy in My Body." He wrote it in 1723 just a year after the great plague of Marseille Bach's anonymous text talks of the "world as a hospital" and "children laid low with sickness." A sober but lilting aria in the middle of the cantata declares "My plague cannot be healed by any herb or ointment The world faced a more modern kind of plague in the 1980s. HIV/AIDS has claimed more than 32 million lives, according to the World Health Organization Along with all the loss of life comes another parallel between that pandemic and today's crisis many blamed the Reagan administration for not confronting the virus quickly and honestly enough just as similar criticisms continue to be leveled at both the U.S Artists, in the face of death and adversity, sometimes react with rage. That's surely the case with American composer John Corigliano and his Symphony No sometimes referred to as the "AIDS Symphony." Today's pandemic has cruelly cut off the livelihood of countless musicians and composers performances have moved online and from home funding sources set up and commissions generated is in the midst of writing a choral work in response to the virus the piece is built on testimonials the composer is collecting via social media from individuals in self-isolation or self-quarantine "That Other You Still Exists," takes its text from an anonymous source in Westchester Part of it reads: "After more than a week of being at sixes and sevens not caring about all the inside things I love to do A "virtual" orchestra and chorus of about 25 musicians from around the country are recording their own parts at home and sending them to Bielawa to stitch together. An interactive tool the composer plans to set up on her site will help anyone learn and record the music she's written whether the premiere of Broadcast from Home will happen virtually online or in public is following in the footsteps of many composers over the centuries Her response to distress is to tell the stories of regular people composers hope to create art that will reach people will have some kind of soothing balm or cathartic healing whether the music directly refers to ancient plagues or modern pandemics Become an NPR sponsor a judge asked Emily Bielawa how things were going “I’m getting used to life without drugs,” the 26-year-old mother added That life seems drastically different from when she struggled to go more than a few hours without heroin she would forge tip amounts to pay for the drug She credits that recovery at least in part to a drug treatment court “The heroin that they have out now … people are dying left and right.” people facing criminal charges can avoid prison time and have criminal charges dismissed or reduced in exchange for undergoing increased supervision outside of jail The goal is to address mental health and substance issues that lead to them committing crimes Some state lawmakers, including Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and a Republican state representative from Luzerne County, are pushing for the expansion of drug courts as a key tool in fighting the heroin and opioid epidemic that claimed more than 100 lives in York County in 2016 More: Drug treatment court can help people, but addicts need to commit But there's at least one big hurdle: Money County courts need judges to handle cases and meet with offenders probation officers and other staff members benefits and other costs could total hundreds of thousands of dollars or a few million dollars depending on how many people the program accepts it’s common for the court system to close off admission to its adult drug court and similar programs also known as problem-solving or treatment courts At least one person who died in a heroin-related overdose in 2014 was rejected from drug court months earlier because the program was full The county's adult treatment courts are capped at about 365 people total at any one time which includes 150 in drug court and 150 in DUI court All the adult treatment courts in York County – not just drug court – help people with heroin and other addictions Kennedy said the county has never had trouble filling the programs lawmakers approved a $1 million increase to help the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts expand problem-solving courts statewide And the governor’s budget proposes expanding them further Pretty much all the costs for local treatment courts falls under the York County budget and county commissioners are looking into expansion options But Kennedy thinks the state should significantly increase its share of funding by closing state prisons York County’s treatment courts could help 10 times as many people During a treatment court graduation ceremony in December Looking out at the crowd of treatment graduates and their families he talked about how he had reviewed the treatment court graduation applications the previous weekend “I almost want to cry because we don’t have the funding to provide this opportunity to more people,” Kennedy told the crowd York County has more types of problem-solving courts than most counties in Pennsylvania plus similar programs for juvenile offenders Read: Detective shares story of son's OD Problem-solving courts are designed for tough cases ones where the people are considered high risk and high need Some of those people don’t finish the program or relapse after completing the program York County's adult drug court graduation rate is 44 percent while its DUI court graduation rate is higher according to a recent treatment courts report Kennedy has gone to funerals for people he knew through a problem-solving court Kennedy and other backers of problem-solving courts point to research that shows people who complete the programs are less likely to commit crimes in the future told the York Daily Record editorial board in January that she has talked with Kennedy and the two other county commissioners about expanding them she said she did not have a set number in mind for how many more people she wants to add to the programs But she said she was working on setting up a meeting with court officials and others to pursue expansion She wants the program to be open to anyone that qualifies Part of the pitch of these programs is that they save lives and save money because it is more expensive to house people in jails and prisons a 2016 report for York County's treatment courts said the average cost to get someone through drug court is $11,954 So the 46 graduates of the program in 2016 represented a cost of nearly $550,000 But the report said those 46 still saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars because the program was cheaper than sending them to jail or prison It’s not clear how many people meet the criteria for York County’s treatment courts Information from the York County court system describes 146 referrals to drug court in 2016 and 86 people being admitted But the caps prevent some people from applying or being considered for the program There is no waiting list to get into drug treatment court it puts out a notice that it's not accepting any more applicants figures he has spent about six years in York County Prison on various charges since he was 18 He applied for drug court in December 2015 and again in February 2016 and was rejected both times because the program was full as he was running out of time to continue his cases he faced years in state prison on multiple charges including possession with intent to deliver Elliot said the supervision in the program is more intense than any of the times he has been out of jail and under court supervision The York County drug court program is designed to last 12 to 18 months such as applause at one of the court sessions a gift card to a grocery store or a water bottle sanctions can include increased supervision and time in jail felonies generally become misdemeanors and misdemeanors generally are dismissed people in the program must attend weekly court sessions Court appearances and some requirements lessen as you complete different phases of the program ...And I thought they were just a hassle," Elliot said But he thinks that structure helped save his life people have to call a phone number that tells them whether they will need to provide a urine sample that day Elliot talked about that with Judge Michael E Elliot mentioned he was feeling under the weather and Elliot talked about how he was staying away from most medications to avoid any types of false positives on drug tests The intense supervision that Elliot credits with helping save his life is also one of the hurdles to expanding we cannot provide the quality of service that made York County treatment courts a nationally recognized program and a model of success," Michael Stough a deputy director for York County probation services the probation department generally has one probation officer for every 50 people in the program To expand the number of people in treatment courts the county would have to add probation officers Some magisterial district judges in York County have gone through treatment court training so they could be available to serve as judges if programs expanded The public defender's and district attorney's offices are both part of treatment court teams an executive supervisor in the county district attorney's office suggested now is a good time to revisit a strategic plan and what would be required for expansion for York County treatment courts first assistant for the public defender's office said in an email that research shows that a treatment court becomes less effective when the number of participants goes beyond 125 people to 150 people so her office would support creating an additional drug court with its own team you also have to consider whether there will be enough treatment services available in the community the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts’ problem-solving courts administrator More than 100 problem-solving courts exist across Pennsylvania and there were more than 7,000 participants in problem-solving courts from July 2015 to the end of June 2016 lawmakers approved an increase to help expand problem-solving courts through AOPC That funding increased from $103,000 in 2015-16 to $1.1 million this year For the governor's 2017-18 proposed budget Wolf proposed continuing that funding amount Blackburn said that money is going to help add new problem solving-courts not expand existing ones a court system could hire a probation officer who would be laid off 12 months later "You don’t want to set programs up to fail because of something like that," Blackburn said The funding has allowed the state to pilot a regional drug court in Forest and expand elsewhere so 53 of 67 in Pennsylvania will have some type of problem-solving court More: Drug-related deaths go up for 2016 There are other ideas for ways the state could help with problem-solving courts Wolf proposed $3.4 million to expand specialty drug courts including assistance to communities with existing drug courts through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency That proposal was included under a section of the budget about combating the heroin and opioid epidemic along with a $10 million proposal to expand access to naloxone there were more than 3,300 drug-related overdose deaths in Pennsylvania in 2015 according a report from the Drug Enforcement Administration's Philadelphia Field Division Heroin was the most frequently identified drug in those deaths Aaron Kaufer introduced a package of opioid-related bills One of them would allow counties to impose a fee up to $250 on anyone who is convicted under the Controlled Substance The money would go toward a special drug court fund in the county Kaufer did not have estimates for how much funding that would provide.Kennedy suggested the state could save enough money by closing prisons to give each county court system about $1 million for problem-solving courts "We send so many people to the state prison system who could be walking across the stage with a transformed life," Kennedy said in December the Wolf administration announced it would close a state prison in Pittsburgh and save $81 million a year but the administration did not suggest using that funding for the kind of large-scale increase Kennedy wants That closure was done because of a decrease in the inmate population and to address an expected budget deficit Bielawa started illegally using painkillers several years ago and she eventually moved on to cheaper heroin "It was definitely something I am not proud of when you already feel so small as … an addict and so weak – it just "I just thought I would never be able to change She was arrested on forgery and related charges in York County in 2015 applied for drug court and and was ordered into the program April 2016 Her life is different now in big and small ways She's physically active in a way she wasn't while on drugs The former high school point guard goes to the gym pretty much every other day to work at a job she finds fulfilling – an early shift at a coffee shop – and she is planning to go back to college She helps her 7-year-old daughter with her homework goes on bike rides with her and puts her first to just wake up and be happy without the use of drugs – it’s a beautiful thing," Bielawa said she completed the second phase of drug court She is on pace to graduate from the program by the end of the year And for someone else struggling with addiction her graduation would open up another spot in drug court The York Daily Record/Sunday News reviewed 127 heroin-related overdose deaths in York County based on a list provided by the coroner's office The review found that several dozen of the people who died had at least one criminal charge in a common pleas court in Pennsylvania The review found about 10 people who applied for a problem-solving court in their two most recent criminal cases in Pennsylvania one person who was rejected in 2010 because she had a detainer in another county from a different case.another person who applied for the veterans treatment court and who faced an aggravated assault charge in 2012 Certain crimes involving violence are considered on a case-by-case basis the charges were not related to military service and the nature of the offense was another reason to reject him.and a man who applied for drug treatment court in September 2013 and was rejected because the program was at capacity he pleaded guilty on charges of child endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia and he was admitted into a treatment court Three up-and-coming musicians and composers are bringing their unique talents to Louisville as the inaugural group of Creator Corps a groundbreaking initiative from Louisville Orchestra that is changing the way composers collaborate with symphony orchestras in the 21st century Calling it a "grand experiment," Music Director Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra previously announced the new project they hope will elevate Louisville as a global center of creative music-making Lisa Bielawa, TJ Cole, and Tyler Taylor have been announced as the inaugural class The Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps will employ and house the three full-time composers called "creators," to represent all musical genres the creators will regularly present new music for both the Louisville Orchestra and the community “I was overwhelmed by the diverse talent of the 186 applicants for the initial year of the [Louisville Orchestra's] Creators Corps I believe this reflects the widespread desire for artists to build deeper and more impactful relationships with civic institutions and the communities they represent," Abrams said in a news release and Tyler are examples of consummate 21st-century artist-leaders; their musical talents match their intellects and they all share a remarkable sensitivity to the needs of the world beyond the boundaries of contemporary musical composition." Background:Can this 'grand experiment' make Louisville a global center of creative music-making? "I like the idea of deploying artists for a real purpose," Abrams said previously, "getting them involved in a way that involves a deeper collective vision, like the Peace Corps.” Meet the Creative Corps 2022-23 composers: Bielawa was born in San Francisco into a musical family, where she played the violin and piano, sang, and wrote music from early childhood. She moved to New York two weeks after receiving her B.A. in Literature in 1990 from Yale University and became an active participant in New York musical life TJ has also been a singer-songwriter, producer, and engineer in the fully electronic synth-pop band Twin Pixie which focuses on making music at the intersection of queerness They have been involved with music-related community outreach projects including a collaboration with bassist Ranaan Meyer as an orchestrator on his project "The World We All Deserve Through Music," and with First Person Arts by co-curating and performing in a musical story slam You may likeLouisville Orchestra releases its 2022-23 season schedule. Here's what to know TJ received their Bachelor's degree in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music and studied at Interlochen Arts Academy Tyler Taylor is a Louisville native and a composer-performer whose work explores the different ways identity can be expressed in musical scenarios Common among these pieces is a sense of contradiction ― sometimes whimsical sometimes alarming ― that comes from the interaction of diverse musical layers Taylor holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Doctor of Music in Composition, with minors in music theory and horn performance), the Eastman School of Music (Master of Music in Composition and Horn), and the University of Louisville (Bachelor of Music in Composition.) The three creators will move to Louisville for the upcoming season and live in the Shelby neighborhood for at least 30 weeks serving as orchestra staff members with an annual salary of $40,000 the creators will compose new works to be performed by the orchestra and/or in other settings participate in educational and community engagement activities The three selected creators will each have a preexisting work performed on the opening night program on Sept The world premieres of their new works will be performed in Louisville during the 2022-23 season on Classics programs on Jan and March 11―the latter two dates as part of the Festival of American Music― and will appear as well on Music Without Borders programs "While each creator has a unique background and aesthetic perspective their collective accomplishments and capabilities will make them a tremendous part of the LO family and the creative fabric of Louisville," Abrams said we are honored to offer him the Orchestra’s broad civic platform." the Louisville Orchestra’s interim executive director said “the Creators Corps marks a new chapter for innovation and leadership for the Louisville Orchestra and I am proud that we are demonstrating the most impactful way composers musicians and civic partners can come together to fundamentally change the conversation around creativity Reach Features reporter Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com violinPIECES: Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto in D; Tyler Talor: Facades; Lisa Bielawa: Drama/Self-Pity; TJ Cole: Megalopolis; Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three MovementsFifths of Beethoven WHEN: Jan conductor & pianoPIECES: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5; “Emperor:" A World Premiere Piece commissioned from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 5Festival of American Music: Journeys of FaithWHEN: March 4 conductor; Louisville Chamber ChoirPIECES: A World premiere piece commissioned from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps Olga Neuwirth: Masaot/Clocks Without Hands; Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No “Kaddish”Festival of American Music: The Literary InfluenceWHEN: March 11 pianoPIECES: Joel Thompson: To Awaken the Sleeper a World premiere piece commissioned from the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps; Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker PORTSMOUTH — Veteran Portsmouth High School boys soccer coach Mike Stinton likes to build his teams from the back out the Patriots were one of the top defensive squads in the state allowing about a goal a game over the 17-game season Portsmouth leaned on its defense throughout the season 3 playoff seed and lost to eventual state champion La Salle It makes even more sense during this COVID-shortened season (six league games) to rely on the defense Two losses could potentially cost a team a playoff spot so the main goal should be to stop goals The Patriots have been nearly perfect in that aspect thus far as they defeated St Portsmouth remained unbeaten after three games thanks to a 1-0 nonleague victory over Division II Mount Hope on Monday night We had pretty much the game under control,” Stinton said More: Portsmouth vs. Mount Hope boys soccer who rang a shot off the right post 15 minutes into the match scored the game’s lone goal 20 minutes later after a scramble off a corner kick “Me and John Maedke were able to head out the ball with the keeper out and it bounced around a couple times and Teagan was able to put it in the back of the net But it was kind of just a jumble in there,” Bielawa said Portsmouth keeper Nathan Levine robbed Chad Parente of a goal when he leaped and deflected Parente’s 26-yard direct kick over the crossbar with 15 minutes left in the match Wil Rudolph and Bielawa and junior defender Maedke successfully thwarted any potential Mount Hope scoring chances the rest of the game “I’ve got four guys in the back that are pretty good defenders,” Stinton said “That’s what’s been holding us together right now work well together and they’ve got the personality to play defense They don’t get excited and they don’t get too upset.” Portsmouth High basketball coach Joe Occhi called Bielawa his “glue guy” because he did a little bit of everything and did it well The same could be said of Bielawa on the pitch He’s the boss of our defense basically,” Stinton said Bielawa was breaking up a potential breakaway one minute and then was outworking two Mount Hope players near the corner flag to clear the ball Near the end of the game he was booming goal kicks past midfield “My job is just to hold down the back make sure we’re all connected and we know what we’re doing,” Bielawa said We’re always stressing different teams do different things “This team played a lot of through balls so we were running most of the game But as long as we’re behind them and we know where our opposing players are we’re normally OK As long as we stayed marked up we’re good.” Bielawa also has been given some offensive freedom in his final year is involved in dead-ball situations and has scored two goals this season “Last year I didn’t have as much of a chance to move up on offense but this year definitely it’s my turn to do that so I like what I’m doing,” Bielawa said “At one end I’m taking goal kicks and free kicks just to get it up the field “And then at the other end corner kicks I’m always in there trying to head the ball in and I do my best to do that It’s a little more running moving up and down but at my position but mostly I’m just standing in the back watching so I get my rest.” “I think as a leader I have to take that part of scoring goals because our team is very defensive,” Bielawa said “We’re not going to score a ton of goals We need to make sure we finish our chances and that’s what I’m trying to do.” KQED Live Events PRX Podcast Garage Events Events Around the Bay Area Member Benefits with KQED Live Videos from KQED LiveWatch recordings of recent KQED Live events Featured That's My WordAn ongoing exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9 Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift Members of the Bay Area-based chorus Cappella SF and composer Lisa Bielawa in a cell block on Alcatraz the setting for Episode 9 of Bielawa's new serialized made-for-video opera 'Vireo' (Photo: David Soderlund)Alcatraz has been the setting of many Hollywood blockbusters from Escape from Alcatraz to The Rock On a recent evening in June, the former federal penitentiary was the site of a film shoot for Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser — a 12-episode opera created by Bay Area native composer and musician Lisa Bielawa in collaboration with playwright Erik Ehn and director Charles Otte a chorus of vocalists sang out a dirge-like lament accompanied by hurdy gurdy from one of the cell blocks a string quartet played along with the sound of bells a straightjacketed teen girl with a skull scepter confronted her doppelgänger The unusual project is being filmed in 10-to-12 minute episodes — perfect for the ever shortening attention spans of a new generation the series will be broadcast next year on public television and online and seeks to bring opera to a broader audience by using a digital streaming model a la Netflix and Amazon Vireo follows the convoluted adventures of the titular character a teenage girl played by 18-year old soprano Rowen Sabala The young woman hears and sees things and is ultimately accused of being a witch She exists simultaneously in contemporary Sweden played by the blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin Bielawa is best known as the long-time vocalist for the world-renowned Philip Glass Ensemble and, locally, as artistic director of the precocious San Francisco Girls Chorus She grew up in the Bay Area and has also undertaken ambitious projects locally such as a work she composed for massive musical forces at Crissy Field The origin story of Vireo goes back to the composer’s time as an undergraduate in literature at Yale where she wrote a senior thesis about studies by men of female hysteria and she collaborated with Ehn on a traditional three act opera in 1994 “I sent him stacks and stacks of photocopies of primary source material from several centuries,” says Bielawa “He wove it all into a libretto with the name Vireo.” (Vireo is a type of songbird.) Bielawa shopped the piece around to opera companies throughout the country, but came up short. The project was shelved for 20 years. Bielawa eventually resurrected Vireo as part of her residency at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) in Orange County in 2012 The idea to write an opera in episodes as one might approach a sitcom or telenovela came from Netflix. Specifically, the TV series Arrested Development which Bielawa loves for its lampooning of life in Orange County’s Newport Beach with absurdist wordplay and dark wit when Bielawa and GCAC director and chief curator John Spiak were casting around together locally for a new project the pair realized they were both fans of Arrested Development and Spiak reminded Bielawa that the series takes place in the Orange County area “I looked around me and realized that one way to make innovative work that engaged with the community was to recognize that many of the smartest and most creative people around were involved in this evolving new form,” Bielawa says “The way to make an opera that was native to SoCal was to embrace its flagship format Opera on television is nothing new. Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved Amahl and the Night Visitors was specifically composed for NBC in 1951 as a Christmas special, and Benjamin Britten’s less well-known Owen Wingrave was composed for television broadcast on the BBC some 20 years later and even a marching band from a high school in Indio (The production made a stop at Cal Performances in Berkeley in Oct of the nearly 600 new operas premiered over the past two decades only 11 percent have received a second production As a web-based work released in serial format Vireo faces its own specific set of challenges the technical and artistic hurdles of producing a serialized opera with tons of collaborators in unusual locations like Alcatraz are immense highly brainy subject matter: the (mis)treatment of female hysteria is hardly the stuff of an evening’s light entertainment It remains to be seen if the characters manage to connect with the video audience many of whom may be viewing the episodes on the shrunken screens of laptops But Bielawa is fearless and clearly has talent. Vireo has already won a major prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation (ASCAP) a professional membership organization of songwriters But Vireo isn’t just a point of innovation for an art form that has long struggled to stay relevant Bielawa is one of very few successful female opera composers in a field dominated by men she is aware that her work is also unusual in content; her heroine is not simply an exotic Carmen or Madame Butterfly “I’m working with these very young women who are playing these important and complex lead roles,” Bielawa says “One of my motivations is to insist on roles for women in opera that have depth and breadth of character.” No matter how collaborative the intention of a piece might be at some point the work of creating it becomes a solitary pursuit which is very unfortunate in that I’m a composer [composing] means a lot of time alone at the piano.” Bielawa’s solution to this paradox is a way of opening the writing process to the stimuli and input of others Most composers take performers into account in one way or another but Bielawa’s works are unusual in the extent to which the very mechanics of a piece can be influenced by the who and the how many of a composition’s intention How else to explain “Tempelhof Broadcast,” a site-specific piece for hundreds of musicians of varying skill levels to be performed on the site of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin Bielawa’s two main bases of activity are New York and San Francisco but a pair of recent projects in new locations show the same kind of responsiveness to context and collaborators the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston presents five of Bielawa’s works during its annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young Bielawa is this year’s commissioned composer having worked with young people frequently “I really dig teenagers,” she told the Globe in a 2012 interview She did this by structuring the piece like a hypertext novel It alternates sections for the chamber orchestra and those for the big band with the jazz group functioning as the glue The bassist and one percussionist act as the “clickers,” who choose which section to go to next imposed so that the piece could still be harmonically interesting for Bielawa was to create what she calls “a game environment,” where the players have both freedom to choose and the feeling of a safe space to experiment with shaping the piece on their own The other large project that’s been occupying Bielawa is “Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser,” an opera created exclusively for video. It is being filmed, broadcast, and posted for viewing in episodes, the first two of which were recently made available The unusual venture originated with her senior undergraduate thesis at Yale on collaborative male studies of female hysteria Bielawa always felt there was a more visceral and urgent artwork hiding in her deconstruction-tinged research It began to emerge in the form of an opera when she met playwright Erik Ehn in 1994 They plotted out a fantastical story in a lengthy libretto and Bielawa wrote music for what she thought would be its first act Then it went into a drawer for two decades Bielawa resurrected the work when she took up a residency at the Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana she immersed herself in local performers and venues what kind of art is organic to this part of the world She remembered episodes of “Arrested Development” where the characters think they’re in Mexico but are actually in Santa Ana worked in “the industry,” as it’s called there a 16-year-old soprano at the Orange County School of the Arts Ehn’s libretto featured all manner of wild events like people riding into a scene on giant hypodermic needles — difficult to bring off in a traditional operatic frame but perfect for television an undertaking like this presents brand new challenges A libretto has to be turned into a screenplay How many takes need to be filmed to create a 12-minute episode and Grand Central director John Spiak threw themselves in She was particularly pleased when David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet asked that the group be part of the first episode not just for excellence but for innovation They didn’t know exactly what they were signing up for when they showed up.” The plan is to film a total of 12 to 14 episodes over the next two years Bielawa regards the open-endedness as a virtue “Its own reception can feed back into it and determine the direction that it goes,” she explains “What composer gets to see the beautifully produced first couple of scenes of their opera before even writing the rest of it “And it brings other people in,” she continues “Any way I can figure out to bring other people into my process I do my best work when I find a way for the process to be porous like this.” David Weininger can be reached at globeclassicalnotes@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @davidgweininger. Home Delivery Gift Subscriptions Log In Manage My Account Customer Service Delivery Issues Feedback News Tips Help & FAQs Staff List Advertise Newsletters View the ePaper Order Back Issues News in Education Search the Archives Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms of Purchase Work at Boston Globe Media Internship Program Co-op Program Do Not Sell My Personal Information ‘Any way I can figure out to bring other people into my process When most young players dream of a future in professional football they usually envision landing in cities like Miami But former Lincoln County Red Devil Telley Cheeley will begin his pro career in Bielawa who has spent the past three seasons playing for the Georgia Ragin' Bulls semi-pro team signed a one-year deal to play for the Bielawa Owls of the Polish League of American Football "I had never even thought about playing in Poland but I was ready to play anywhere," said Cheeley "When I got that phone call that they wanted me to sign Ragin' Bulls owner Jimmy Cronan helped Cheeley by introducing him to World Sports Scouting an agency designed to help professional teams in Europe find talent Cheeley took part in the agency's Southeastern combine in Americus where he impressed the scouts at multiple skill positions Cheeley was a senior on the 2003 Red Devils team that reached the Class A state championship game He will be one of only a handful of American-born players in the league when its season begins in March Cheeley will also be assigned to coach one of Bielawa's fledgling high school football programs Poland's interest in America's version of football has grown in recent years I've always wanted to do some coaching so really working with the kids and helping out as much as possible," Cheeley said understands there will be challenges coaching and being a quarterback overseas "It's going to be a challenge at first but I think once we get past the language issue We don't have to talk alike as long as everyone works hard the same," he said Cheeley could either re-sign with the Owls or be signed by another European team whose season starts later in the year He hopes that eventually his play will lead him back to the U.S 1/13Former Penn State hoops star John Harrar speaks at Bishop McDevitt campMark Pynes.st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Nebiy Esayas | nesayas@pennlive.comHARRISBURG— John Harrar showed up at Bishop McDevitt High School on Wednesday morning to speak to boys— between third grade and eighth grade— at a Crusaders basketball camp • Sign up for PennLive’s new high school sports newsletter here 230-pound former Penn State basketball standout and 2022 Big Ten Medal of Honor award recipient demonstrated some defensive drills and he also had the boys compete in mid-range jump shot contests Harrar has the boys doing some defensive drills pic.twitter.com/XJQaKb3lZc he gave the winner of the shooting contest a pair of Penn State basketball shorts and he signed autographs for each of the campers Signing Autographs @john_harrar pic.twitter.com/Dlye4pjyPo And assistant McD boys basketball coach Stan Bielawa was very pleased with Harrar’s leadership qualities and how good of an influence he was for the youth during the first day of camp “I’ve always had respect for John [Harrar] watching him on television because he’s a hard-working guy” which is very impressive these days because there’s a lot of selfishness in a lot of people Penn State's John Harrar reacts after Penn State defeated Ohio State an NCAA college basketball game at the Big Ten Conference tournament Bielawa added that Harrar didn’t hesitate when he asked him to come and speak to the campers because of the personal relationship they were able to develop over the years “He’s a very personable guy and he’s a giver that likes to give back to the community.” Harrar said he enjoys working with kids and didn’t mind helping Bielawa because he admired their first encounter during a practice while he was at Penn State “I talk to Stan [Bielawa] throughout the year” “He came up to a practice one day and he just always texts me and talks to me about life and basketball.” He seems like a great guy who takes care of his people and I just wanted to come up here — Follow Nebiy Esayas on Twitter @_nebiy_ Thanks for visiting PennLive. 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Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. 2018 at 11:43 am ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}ATTLEBORO MA — Two Attleboro firefighters were honored for making a special delivery last month Ryan Bielawa and Cameron Eames delivered a child the back of ambulance on March 21 at 4 a.m Both mother and baby were healthy and happy Parents Korissa Burch and Jesse Hester recently thanked the firefighters at the fire station and introduced them their baby and by the time we got to the hospital the nurse opened the door and she was shocked that I was already holding her in my arms," Burch said "I’m just so thankful for their professionalism and how well they handled everything but it all worked out great and I thank both of them.” Eames was driving the ambulance to Sturdy Memorial Hospital and Bielawa stayed with Burch in the back and delivered the child so it’s bringing back all of those memories of when she was born.” “Usually we get an ambulance call that someone is in labor and we just transport them to the hospital and we don’t see them again Fire Chief Scott Lachance presented commendations to the firefighters Chief Lachance presented both firefighters with certificates of commendation to recognize them for their efforts “This isn’t something that happens in our profession every day,” Lachance said “So we wanted to recognize the guys for a job well done.” Photo: From left to right, Attleboro firefighter Ryan Bielawa, parents Korissa Burch and Jesse Hester and their child Addilynn, and firefighter Cameron Eames. 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