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  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in four buildings in Washington, D.C., as well as the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
  The Library of Congress was instituted for Congress in 1800, and was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century. After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson sold 6,487 books, his entire personal collection, to the library in 1815. After a period of decline during the mid-19th century the Library of Congress began to grow rapidly in both size and importance after the American Civil War, culminating in the construction of a separate library building and the transference of all copyright deposit holdings to the Library. During the rapid expansion of the 20th century the Library of Congress assumed a preeminent public role, becoming a "library of last resort" and expanding its mission for the benefit of scholars and the American people.
  
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  London
  London ⁱ/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
  London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
  
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  United States
  The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
  At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
  
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  Beck
  Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck.
  The four-time platinum artist rose to underground popularity with his early works, which combined social criticism (as in "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" and "Deep Fried Love") with musical and lyrical experimentation. He first earned wider public attention for his breakthrough single "Loser", a 1994 hit. Beck is known for creating musical collages of different styles.
  Two of Beck's most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay (1996) and Sea Change (2002).Odelay was awarded Album of the Year by the American magazine Rolling Stone and by UK publications NME and Mojo. Odelay also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Both Odelay and Sea Change appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
  Beck was born in Los Angeles, California, to David Campbell, a Canadian musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist and former Warhol "star". His father is of Scottish heritage and his mother is half Norwegian, a quarter Jewish and a quarter Swedish. His maternal grandfather is Al Hansen, a visual collage artist of the Fluxus school of art. Beck's paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister. When his parents separated, Beck stayed with his mother and brother in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by the city's diverse musical offerings—everything from hip hop to Latin music and his mother's art scene—all of which would later reappear in his recorded and published work.
  
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• Dean Drummond
  Dean Drummond (born 1949) is an American composer, conductor and musician. His music utilises microtonality, electronics, and a huge variety of percussion. He invented a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone in 1978.
  Born in Los Angeles, he studied trumpet and composition at the University of Southern California and California Institute of the Arts, going on to work for Harry Partch. In 1976, he moved to New York, where, in 1977, he was one of the founders of Newband. In 1990, he became director and curator of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium. He has performed on many of the Partch instruments (kithara, surrogate kithara, harmonic canons, adapted guitar) and his zoomoozophone, and given many educational workshops. He was a director of the New York Consortium for New Music for over ten years, and was involved in producing the annual Sonic Boom Festival. He is now Associate Professor and Director of the Harry Partch Institute at Montclair State University, New Jersey.
  Most of his works are published by Hypersound.
  
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  Euripides
  Euripides (Ancient Greek: Εὐριπίδης) (ca. 480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined — he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.
  Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
  
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• Evan Dara
  Evan Dara is an American postmodern novelist. In 1995, his first novel The Lost Scrapbook won the 12th Annual FC/2 Illinois State University National Fiction Competition judged by William T. Vollmann.^{[dead link]} Evan Dara currently lives in Paris.
  Dara's second novel The Easy Chain was published by Aurora Publishers in 2008.
  
  
  
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  Harry Partch
  Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation.
  Partch was born on June 24, 1901 in Oakland, California soon after his parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, fled the Boxer Rebellion in China. He spent his childhood in small, remote towns in Arizona and New Mexico, where he heard and sang songs in Mandarin, Spanish, and American Indian languages.
  As a child, he learned to play the clarinet, harmonium, viola, piano, and guitar. He began to compose at an early age, using the equal-tempered chromatic scale, the tuning system most common in Western music. However, Partch grew frustrated with what he felt were imperfections of the standard system of musical tuning, believing that this system was unsuitable for reflecting the subtle melodic contours of dramatic speech and, as a result, he burned all of his early works.
  
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  Harry Patch
  Henry John "Harry" Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. Patch was, with Claude Choules and Florence Green, one of the last three surviving British veterans of the First World War and, along with Frank Buckles and John Babcock, one of the last five veterans worldwide.
  At the time of his death, aged 111 years, 38 days, Patch was the verified third-oldest man in the world, the oldest man in Europe and the 69th oldest man.
  Patch was born in the village of Combe Down, near Bath, Somerset, England. He appears in the 1901 Census as a two-year-old boy along with his stonemason father William John, mother Elizabeth Ann (née Morris), and older brothers George Frederick and William Thomas at a house called "Fonthill". The family are recorded at the same address "Fonthill Cottage" in the 1911 census. His elder brothers are recorded as a carpenter and banker mason respectively. Patch left school in 1913, and started work as an apprentice plumber in Bath.
  
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• Ivor Darreg
  Ivor Darreg (May 5, 1917 – February 12, 1994) was a leading proponent of and composer of microtonal or "xenharmonic" music. He also created a series of experimental musical instruments.
  Darreg, a contemporary of Harry Partch and a close colleague of John H. Chalmers and Erv Wilson, was one of America's leading theorists and practitioners of experimental intonation and experimental instrument building. Frequently he published his writings in his own Xenharmonic Bulletin.
  Darreg was born Kenneth Vincent Gerard O'Hara in Portland, Oregon. His father John was editor of a weekly Catholic newspaper and his mother was an artist. He dropped out of school as a teenager, but he had both self-taught facility in at least ten languages and a basic understanding of all the sciences. His real love was music and electronics. Because of his choice of music, his father cast him out, and he and his mother set out on their own with little help from anyone. At that point he took on the name "Ivor," which means "man with bow" (from his cello-playing talents) and "Drareg" (the retrograde of "Gerard"), which he soon changed to "Darreg".
  
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• John Maus
  John Maus (born February 23, 1980) is an American avant-garde musician and composer. A keyboard player for Animal Collective, Panda Bear and Ariel Pink, he has released three albums of his own music to mixed reviews. He grew up in Austin, Minnesota, and studied music at the California Institute of the Arts. He later went on to study philosophy at the European Graduate School, in Saas Fee Switzerland, to work towards a PhD in political philosophy. As a college student he was interested in experimental music and performance art involving music, such as the work of Michael Pisaro. When he met and began to work with and alongside Ariel Pink, he took a greater interest in pop music. He is known for his eclectic samples when composing, "an almost absurd mix – a stand-off between taut, bass-driven post-punk, whooshing electro-pop and, thanks to the chants and bleak intoning, Medieval and Gregorian disco."
  
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  Leoš Janáček
  Leoš Janáček (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɛoʃ ˈjanaːtʃɛk] ( listen), baptised Leo Eugen Janáček, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include the symphonic poem Sinfonietta, the oratorio Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, string quartets, other chamber works and operas. He is considered to rank with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, as one of the most important Czech composers.
  
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  Sophocles
  Sophocles ( /ˈsɒfəkliːz/; Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs, Greek pronunciation: [sopʰoklɛ̂ːs]; c. 497/6 BC – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-fêted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in around 30 competitions, won perhaps 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 14 competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won only 4 competitions.
  The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of the drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus.
  
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  Steve Reich
  Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( /ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass.
  His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
  Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described, in The Guardian by music critic Andrew Clements, as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer."
  
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• Virgil Partch
  Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 - August 10, 1984) was one of the most prominent and prolific American magazine gag cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. His unusual style, surreal humor and familiar abbreviated signature (VIP) made his cartoons distinctive and eye-catching.
  Partch's cartoons expressed a dry, sardonic wit, and his characters were instantly recognizable by their lipless mouths, large triangular noses, thin ankles and thin wrists, and sometimes well-combed bangs. He was a gagwriter for The New Yorker magazine, but his own cartoons were rarely published there because, according to VIP biographer Bhob Stewart, "New Yorker editor Harold Ross couldn't stomach VIP's drawing style."
  Born on Saint Paul Island, Alaska, Partch attended high school in Tucson, Arizona and studied at the University of Arizona. In 1937, Partch enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he attended Rico LeBrun's classes for six months before dropping out. He later began a four-year stint working for Disney studios — his departure was connected to the Disney animators' strike of 1941. Soon he began selling gag cartoons to large-circulation magazines, including Collier's and True. After he left Disney, he worked briefly for Walter Lantz on Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
  
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  Yuri Landman
  Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth,Liars,Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn. He has also been active as a comic book creator, musician, and singer.
  Yuri Landman started as a comic book artist and made his debut in the comics field in 1997 with 'Je Mag Alles Met Me Doen' (in Dutch). In the follow-up, released in 1998, 'Het Verdiende Loon', Landman described his negative experiences on a daily job. For the second title he received the 1998 Breda Prize, an award for rising new comic artists in Holland. Since then he has published no other comic books.
  Together with Cees van Appeldoorn, he forms the lo-fi band Zoppo playing bass and prepared guitar in 1997. After 2 albums and several 7”singles, Landman left the band in 2000. Landman then formed the noise band Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A) with drummer/producer Valentijn Höllander and released a CD, Vivre dans l’aisance in 2004. After quiting Avec-A in 2006, he focuses mainly on instrument building.
  
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• Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 1
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• Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 3
• Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 1
• Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 2
• Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 3
• Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 1
• Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 2
• Ulysses at the Edge

• Leaving Carmel, Californi-el
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• Wait for the Next Drag
• Crossing Great Salt Like, U-take
• There Are Rides on the Highway at Green River
• Did I Ever Ride Freights? Huh!
• Leaving Little America, Wyo-ma
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• The Beginning of a Web
• Chorus of Shadows
• The Pilgrimage
• Emergence of the Spirit
• A Son in Search of His Father's Face
• Cry From Another Darkness
• Pray for Me
• An Entr'acte
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• The Lost Kid
• Time of Fun Together
• The Misunderstanding
• Arrest, Trial and Judgement (Joy in the Marketplace!)
• Pray for Me Again - A STRANGE FEAR!

• The Bewitched: Prologue. The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
• The Bewitched: Scene 1. Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall
• The Bewitched: Scene 2. Excercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual
• The Bewitched: Scene 3. The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End
• The Bewitched: Scene 4. A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy
• The Bewitched: Scene 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room
• The Bewitched: Scene 6. Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway
• The Bewitched: Scene 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges
• The Bewitched: Scene 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apothesis
• The Bewitched: Scene 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise
• The Bewitched: Scene 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails / Epilogue

• Daphne Of the Dunes
• Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From a Highway Railing at Barstow, California
• Castor & Pollux: A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: From Plectra & Percussion Dances

• King Oedipus: Tiresias Scene (Continued)
• King Oedipus: Second Chorus
• King Oedipus: Creon Scene
• King Oedipus: Jocasta Scene
• King Oedipus: Incidental Music
• King Oedipus: Third Chorus
• King Oedipus: Messenger Scene
• King Oedipus: Fourth Chorus
• King Oedipus: Herdsman Scene
• King Oedipus: Oedipus Scene
• King Oedipus: Fifth Chorus
• King Oedipus: Instrumental Commentary
• King Oedipus: Antiphony
• King Oedipus: Exit Oedipus - Dance-Pantomime
• King Oedipus: Final Chorus
• Johann Krieger: Menuet From Partita in G
• Douglas Moore: Come Away, Death
• Come Away, Death From December, 1942
• By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
• Introduction to the Bewitched

• Scene Three
• Chorus Four
• Scene Four
• Coda

• The Long Departed Lover
• On The City Street
• An Encounter in the Field
• The Intruder
• On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
• In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang
• The Night of Sorrow
• On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House
• On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night (2)
• A Dream
• On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan
• On the Ship of Spice-wood
• With a Man of Leisure
• A Midnight Farewell (2)
• Before the Cask of Wine (2)
• By the Great Wall
• I am a Peach Tree

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