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Thursday, June 05, 2008
http://www.beet.tv/2008/week23/index.html
The New York Times Embraces the Semantic Web:
"Opportunities are Quite Vast," R&D Chief
Says
The Semantic Web been the longtime vision of
Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who
invented the World Wide Web. It is a highly
organized index of Web objects and pages. It
is far from being implemented but is starting
to emerge.
Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at The New
York Times Company, told me that the
opportunities arising from the Semantic Web
for The Times are "quite vast."
In this in interview, he explains how
comprehensive metadata annotation of content
can make it "smart," freeing it to become
"device independent media." This is the
promise of the Semantic Web as The Times sees
it.
I spoke with Michael at Advertising 2.0
yesterday in Manhattan. We also touched on
developments in the mobile space.
Update: Dan Farber at CNET highlights the
Times' integration of print and mobile in his
take on my interview with Zimbalist. Here's
the take by paidContent's Rafat Ali.
The Semantic Web and Video Explored on the
Purple Channel
The Semantic Web will be critical to search
and consumption of Web video, I was told by
earlier this year by Adobe's chief Dynamic
Media evangelist Mark Randall.
Last year I spoke with Philippe Le Hagaret,
chief architect of the World Wide Web
Consortium. He explained the value the
Semantic Web will bring to video search.
-- Andy Plesser
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Durée : 320 s |
| Ep 20: National Marina Day, Skip Zimbalist, TheBoaters.com |
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Today we discuss supporting our U.S. Marinas
and preserving waterfront access for boaters.
National Marina Day is coming up on August
11, 2007. Contact your local marina to find
out what events are going on and consider
heading out to celebrate America's gateways
to boating. Or visit:
http://www.MarinaAssociation.org
TheBoaters.TV "Sea-Lebrities" Spotlight
today: Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III. Tune in to
hear "Julie's 5 Reasons Why Skip Zimbalist is
One of the Coolest Cats in the Marine
Industry." For more information on Skip
Zimbalist, visit AMI's websites:
http://www.ActiveInterestMedia.com &
http://www.YachtsMagazineGroup.com
Next: Don't forget about The 48th Annual Fort
Lauderdale International Boat Show, being
held October 25-29, 2007 - less than three
months away: http://www.ShowManagement.com
And finally: a SPECIAL Announcement from
http://www.TheBoaters.com ! Interested
private beta testers (and therefore Charter
Members), please visit
http://www.TheBoaters.com to enter your email
address for invitation notification. We
welcome you aboard!
The Boaters TV, hosted by Julie Perry, airs
4-6 minute episodes every M, W, and Fri at
http://www.theboaters.tv
Tags : skip-zimbalist marina-day marinas waterfront fort-lauderdale-boat-show boating boaters theboaters.com blond funny |
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Durée : 467 s |
| Zimbalist 'Golden Rooster' - Violin |
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December 19, 2006
Classical violin music.
Concert hall "Kislovsky" (Moscow, Russia)
Rimsky-Korsakov / Zimbalist: Fantasia on the
theme of the 'Golden Rooster'
Performer: Alexandra Yangel - violin
Accompanist: Tatiana Bochkareva - piano
19 декабря 2006 г.
Концертный зал "На
Кисловке"
Римский-Корсаков --
«Цимбалист» - Фантазия
на темы из оперы
«Золотой петушок».
Александра Янгель -
скрипка
Татьяна Бочкарева -
фортепиано
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| Beethoven "Kreutzer Sonata" Zimbalist-Bauer Rec.1926 |
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I could not resist posting thia video before
I moved on (albeit reluctently) to another
pianist. Filmed in 1926,the then
revolutionary invention of moving pictures
with sound was in its infancy. Among the many
artists that were invited to record their
performances using this new medium were
Harold Bauer and the eminent violinist Efrem
Zimbalist. Bauer mentions this particular
performance in his memoirs published in 1948.
However, he also filmed a performance
accompanying the tenor Giovanni Martinelli
(which I have on VHS somewhere if I could
find it) and as soloist performing Chopin's
Polonaise in A fkat Op. 53. How I would love
to get my hands on that as Bauer never
recorded it in the traditional format. I
understand that many of the Vitaphone 16 inch
33/1/2 RPM sound disks are in one archive
while the films are in another. Many have not
been put togther and,unfortunately, the
Chopin Polonaise is one of them. Notice that
Bauer plays the piano part of this sonata by
memory.
Harold Bauer was born in London in
1873.Coming from a musical family,his aunt
gave him his first piano lessons and his
father became his first violin teacher. Thus
it was that the violin became the instrument
upon which Bauer concentrated his musical
studies. His teachers were Adolf Politzer and
later at Paderewski's suggestion, Gorski. He
made his debut as a violinist at the age of
ten amd by the age of twenty, his repertoire
included the Mendelssohn,Beethoven and Mozart
violin concertos. In his
autobiography,"Harold Bauer:My Book," Bauer
describes a program where he and his sister,
who was the pianist of the family,presented a
joint concert under the direction of the
conductor August Manns at the Crystal Palace
in London. She played the Saint Saens G minor
concerto while her brother was asked to play
the Vieuxtemps'Fantasia Appassionata which
was considered to be an important composition
for violin in those days. (Interestingly, the
Saint Saens concerto became part of Bauer's
repertoire after he switched instruments from
violin to piano.He made a piano roll of the
first movement in th 1920's,first recording
the solo part and then recording the
orchestral reduction on the ssme roll.) There
is no doubt that Harold Bauer was a very fine
violinist. But by the age of twenty, he
realized that he would never be able to match
the the playing of such violinists as
Thibaud,Henri Marteau and the young Kreisler.
He writes,"the truth,as far as my career was
concerned,is that I could not hold a candle
to to any of these great violinists,and I
knew it--nevertheless. my ambitionn was by no
means dampened ,although I was bitterly
disappointed." It was about this time that
Bauer was introduced to Paderewski. Bauer
writes,"The great pianist expressed
interest,inviting me to go and play for him
the following day.I did so and also played
something on the piano. He pulled my
hair,saying 'You must become a pianist--you
have such beautiful hair.'He ought to know,I
thought,contemplating his yellow mane with
respectful awe." But by this time,Bauer had
already made up his mind that he would never
have a great career as a violinist.While
continuing to give violin recitals he began
to concentrate more and more upon upon the
piano as his chosen instrument. Paderewski
would,when his busy schedule permitted.listen
to Bauer as a pianist. And when Paderewski
was preparing a concerto for performance,
Bauer often played the orchestral reduction
on a second piano.Paderewski gave Bauer
advise and perhaps coached him,but he never
gave Bauer lessons in the traditional sense
of the word. It seems that Bauer was pretty
much self taught as far as the piano was
concerned. By 1900 ,Bauer had established as
a pianist and as they say, the rest is
history. Bauer retired from the concert stage
in the mid 1940's.(He made his last
recordings in 1942). Bauer writes in the Coda
of his book,"Peace is over my soul. I have
retired from public life. I am never going to
practice the piano anymore. Gone is the
searing ambition to succeed,gone the qualms
of stage fright, gone the resentment against
critics who failed to discover genius in
everything I did and whose writings could not
be used for propaganda;gone also the tedium
of travel. the hideous fatique of submitting
to journalistic interviews--and finally,God
be praised,gone the feeling that I must pile
up enough money to live in idle luxury
whenever I chose to quit. The wars and taxes
have taken care of the last item and I am
still working,my interests being now entirely
bound up by with matters of musical
education." After retiring, Bauer taught at
the Manhattan School of Music in New York and
the Julius Hartt School of Music. He died on
March 12,1951 at the age of 77 in Miami,
Florida.
Harold Bauer-- a great pianist, a superb
musician and a sincere human being.
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