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# Gerhard Puchelt

Gerhard Puchelt (18 February 1913 – August 1987) was a German pianist.

## Life

Born in Stettin, Puchelt studied from 1931 to 1935 at the Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik with Else C. Kraus and Eduard Erdmann and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Afterwards, he worked as a concert pianist and accompanist for well-known singers, instrumentalists and chamber music ensembles. After the Second World War, he continued his career as a piano virtuoso and gave his first concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker as early as September 1945, Schumann, piano concerto op. 54. In 1949, he was appointed professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin-Charlottenburg and remained in this position until 1978.
Puchelt performed in both parts of Germany, Western Europe, the Soviet Union - where he was the first West German pianist to be invited as early as 1956 -, South America, Japan and the USA. In 1962, when he gave five concerts in the Soviet Union, he was not allowed to take part in the concerts of the Philharmonic Orchestra in that year as planned, following a decision by the West Berlin cultural administration and the artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic. The intention was to "counteract complaints in public".
Puchelt was a juror at numerous international piano competitions, including several times at the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Sender Freies Berlin and deputy chairman of the programme committee there.
In the 1960s and 1970s Puchelt also toured with his daughter Christiane Edinger. He has been honoured several times for his outstanding work as a music teacher and concert pianist. He published among other things Lost Sounds: Studies on German Piano Music 1830-1880 and made a new instrumentation of the Piano Concerto No. 5 in C minor by Johann Baptist Cramer by the Robert Lienau Musikverlag [de].
Puchelt is buried at the St.-Annen-Kirchhof (Berlin) [de].

## Work

* Variationen für Klavier im 19. jahrhundert : Blüte und Verfall einer Kunstform.
* Verlorene Klänge. Studien zur deutschen Klaviermusik 1830-1880.

## Awards

* Berliner Kunstpreis (1951)
* Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1. Class (1978).
# Peter Schmalfuss

Peter Schmalfuss (13 January 1937 – 23 October 2008) was a German classical pianist born in Berlin, Germany.
He studied with Walter Gieseking, Adrian Aeschbacher and, at the Beethoven-Class Positano, with Wilhelm Kempff. In 1960 he began touring in Europe, North Africa, and Asia; his performing accomplishments included presenting a complete cycle of the Beethoven sonatas on consecutive evenings. At the invitation of the Chopin Society of Warsaw, Poland, of which he was a member, he performed at Chopin’s birth house in Żelazowa Wola, Poland. Schmalfuss also arranged various small festivals in which he championed neglected chamber music by Carl Maria von Weber. He did not exclude contemporary music from his attention, however; for instance, he recorded piano music by Akin Euba in 1989 and presented one of the piano sonatas by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Schmalfuss had a reputation as a fine sight-reader and a reliable substitute when other artists were forced to cancel appearances.
In his last year, a hand ailment prevented Schmalfuss from performing and forced him to cancel his scheduled concert appearances. He died in Darmstadt, Germany, where for more than two decades he had served as a faculty member of the Darmstadt Academy of Musical Arts. For his contributions to its cultural life, the city had awarded him a bronze service plaque.
Schmalfuss began making records in the 1960s, but he received little or no attention from major labels. His recordings released on CD, at least in the United States, appeared almost exclusively on bottom-priced, mass-market-oriented labels; nonetheless, they reveal a musical player and bear out his affinity for the music of Chopin.

## Discography

Some releases featuring his playing include the following:
* 1989 - Piano Music of Akin Euba, performed by Peter Schmalfuss (includes Scenes from Traditional Life and Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism). Elekoto Music Centre EMC LP 001
* Chopin Nocturnes Nos. 1-10 (Opp. 9, 15, 27, and 32), "World Famous Piano Music Vol. 4", Pilz Media Group, Munich, 1991, CD 160 223.
* Chopin Waltzes No.1-14 (Bechstein), Selected Sound Carrier 1997.
* Debussy Piano Works, Pilz Media Group, CD 1987
* Frédéric Chopin: The Romantic Piano. Excelsior EXL-2-4228 1994.
* Collector's Edition - The World's Greatest Composers - CHOPIN, Malacy Entertainment LP, 2008.
* Karol Szymanowski - Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 - LP
* Tchaikovsky – Piano Sonatas in G Major, op. 37, and C Sharp Minor, op. posth. 80; 12 Morceaux de difficulté moyenne, Op. 40 – no. 2, Chanson triste. Bella Musica BM 31.2399 (Bösendorfer 225)
# Andreas Staier

Andreas Staier (born 13 September 1955 in Göttingen) is a German pianist and harpsichordist.

## Life

Staier studied piano and harpsichord in the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and Amsterdam. He studied piano with Kurt Bauer and Erika Haase, and harpsichord with Lajos Rovatkay.
From 1983 to 1986 he was the harpsichord soloist for the ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln, touring frequently. At the same time he continued his studies in interpretation of classical and post-classical music on the fortepiano. He resigned from the ensemble in 1986 to embark on his solo career on both harpsichord and fortepiano. He became a touring fortepiano soloist, an accompanist for lieder, and a piano soloist for the ensemble Les Adieux. Between 1987 and 1996 he was Dozent for Cembalo at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel.
Staier has gained a reputation as a distinguished harpsichordist, fortepiano soloist, and chamber music performer. His repertoire includes the music of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. As soloist he has performed with Concerto Köln, the Freiburg Barockorchester, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées Paris.
In the field of chamber music he has had a partnerships with such artists as Christoph Prégardien, Anne Sofie von Otter, Pedro Memelsdorff, Alexei Lubimov and Christine Schornsheim.
Staier has made a number of recordings, primarily of music from the Baroque through early Romantic eras, and he has performed often on the BBC.
He was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (2002 and 2011) and the Prätorius Musikpreis (2008). His Mozart recording 'am Stein Vis-à-vis' was awarded a Diapason d'Or of the year 2007.
# Jürgen Uhde

Jürgen Uhde (24 September 1913 in Hamburg – 1 September 1991 in Bad Soden am Taunus) was a German musicologist, pianist, university lecturer and piano teacher at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.

## Principal students

* Gerhard Eckle [de]
* Helmut Lachenmann
* Dieter Weber
* Michael Wendeberg [de]

## Selected publications

* Der Dienst der Musik (Vortrag, gehalten in der Stuttgarter „Privatstudiengesellschaft“ im November 1949). Zollion-Zürich 1950 (= Theologische Studien. Eine Schriftenreihe, hg. von Karl Barth, 30)
* Bartók, Mikrokosmos: Spielanweisungen und Erläuterungen. Eine Einführung in das Werk und seine pädagogischen Absichten. Zur Neubewertung von Béla Bartóks Mikrokosmos. Gustav Bosse Verlag [de], Regensburg, 1952, ISBN 3-764-92333-4; 2nd edition 1988.
* Béla Bartók. Kolloquium Verlag, Berlin, 1959 (Köpfe des XX. Jahrhunderts, 11).
* Prisma der gegenwärtigen Musik. Tendenzen und Probleme des zeitgenössischen Schaffens, published by Joachim Ernst Berendt and Jürgen Uhde. Furche, Hamburg 1959
* Beethovens Klaviermusik. 3 volumes. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1968–1974 (und öfter), ISBN 3-15-018958-6.
* Denken und Spielen. Studien zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Darstellung [together with Renate Wieland]. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, 1988 (2nd edition 1990).
* Forschendes Üben. Wege instrumentalen Lernens [together with Renate Wieland]. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, 2002.
# Amadeus Webersinke

Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005) was a German pianist and organist.
Webersinke studied from at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, and Otto Weinreich. He was a lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre and until 1953, he worked mainly as an organist, and later only as a pianist.
Webersinke was particularly devoted to Bach's organ and piano works and also gave concerts on the clavichord. He recorded Max Reger's Piano Concerto and in 1966, he assumed a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
# Konrad Elser

Konrad Elser is a German pianist, born in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Elser won the 1985 Epinal Competition, and was awarded the 1982 Concours de Geneve's 3rd prize and the 1987 Concorso Busoni's 5th prize. He has performed internationally as a soloist and a chamber musician.
He is a professor at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, where he has taught since 1992.
# Tobias Koch (pianist)

Tobias Koch (born September 11, 1968) is a German pianist.

## Biography

Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels.
His chamber music partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis. He collaborates closely with instrument makers, is on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule and the Hochschule für Musik Mainz at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, and at the Summer Academy in Montepulciano. He is also a Schumann specialist, in particular within the field of Romantic performance practice.

## Discography

Koch's discs include recordings of Chopin, Hiller, Liszt, and other composers of the Romantic period. Several CDs with Tobias Koch have been released by GENUIN
# Bass River

Bass River may refer to:

## Australia

* Bass River (Victoria), a relatively short coastal river

## Canada

* Bass River, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated rural community in Colchester County and small river therein located
* Bass River, Kent County, an unincorporated rural community in Weldford Parish, Kent County, New Brunswick
* Little Bass River, Nova Scotia

## United States

* Bass River (Michigan), a tributary of the Grand River in Ottawa County
* Bass River (Massachusetts), an estuary and village in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States
* Bass River (New Jersey), a tributary of the Mullica River
* Bass River Township, New Jersey
# Mamaroneck River

The Mamaroneck River is a freshwater stream located in Southern Westchester County, New York. The river forms in White Plains and Harrison and flows 7.3 miles (11.7 km) south through Mamaroneck Town and Village, where it empties into Mamaroneck Harbor and Long Island Sound. The name of the river comes from a local native American word meaning, "where the fresh water meets the salt water." The river flows into Long Island Sound.
The watershed of the Mamaroneck River is 17.4 sq mi (45 km$^2$). It is dominated by suburban residential neighborhoods and commercial and retail tracts. High density residential development also is prevalent throughout the middle and lower portions of the watershed.

## Detail

Originating 430 ft (130 m) above sea level in a small wetlands area in Harrison, the river flows south along the eastern boundary of White Plains. It joins the 'East Branch' near the junction of Anderson Hill Road and Westchester Avenue. The Mamaroneck River flows another 2.5 mi (4.0 km) to its confluence with the 'West Branch', where it forms the river's main stem. Human encroachment into the stream corridor and manipulation of the stream channel are byproducts of intense residential construction in and around the river's headwaters.
The main stem of the Mamaroneck River flows southeasterly, paralleling Westchester Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway. Below the parkway, the river flows south to its confluence with the West Branch of the Mamaroneck River at the Mamaroneck Reservoir. South of the reservoir, the river forms the municipal boundary between Mamaroneck Village and Harrison. At the New England Thruway, the Mamaroneck River flows southward through Mamaroneck Village, where it joins the Sheldrake River and finally emptying into Mamaroneck Harbor on Long Island Sound.

### Tributaries

Besides the Sheldrake River, two principal tributaries enter the Mamaroneck River, one from the east and one from the west. The East Branch of the Mamaroneck River is the furthest upstream tributary and originates in north Harrison near the intersection of Westchester Avenue and Anderson Hill Road. The West Branch originates just south of the Hutchinson River Parkway near Mamaroneck Avenue.
The East Branch of the Mamaroneck River is 3.3 mi (5.3 km) long. The main stem is 1.9 mi (3.1 km) long north of its confluence with the east branch. The east branch originates from a small pond in north Harrison at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level and then flowing southeast 0.7 mi (1.1 km) into Forest Lake. South of Forest Lake, it flows westerly to its confluence with the main stem.
The West Branch of the Mamaroneck River is the smallest of the Mamaroneck River's two primary tributaries, draining an area of 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km$^2$) just south and southeast of downtown White Plains. The west branch originates from a wetland and pond adjacent to Archbishop Stepinac High School on Mamaroneck Avenue and flows about 2.75 mi (4.43 km) south and southwest through several stormwater management basins to its confluence with the main stem near the intersection of Mamaroneck Avenue and Hutchinson River Parkway.
# 1984 South Asian Games

The 1984 South Asian Games (or 1st SAF Games) was the first edition of South Asian Games. It was held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 17 to 23 September 1984.
The number of disciplines were restricted to five only. India topped the medal tally, winning 88 medals. Half of these medals were golds. There were 28 silvers and 16 bronze medals won by India. Sri Lanka followed India by winning 7 golds, 11 silvers and 19 bronze medals whereas Pakistan got 5 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronze medals. As the games were held for the first time, all the gold medalists created new games records which were shattered in the subsequent editions. However, the two records created in swimming remain intact till date. Bula Choudhary of India won the 100-metre freestyle event clocking 1:2:81 whereas the Indian relay team won the 4x100 metre freestyle event which continue to find place in the record books. Football was the only team game which could fit into the scheme of the games. Its gold was claimed by Nepal. Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev declared the first South Asian Federation Games open amidst at colorful ceremony.

## Venue

Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu hosted all events of 5 sports.

## The Games
### Participating nations

Seven countries competed. A total of 373 athletes competed.
* Bangladesh (53 athletes)
* Bhutan (35)
* India (98)
* Maldives (24)
* Nepal (105)
* Pakistan (16)
* Sri Lanka (41)

### Sports

There were 5 official sports for the 1st SAF Games. They were :
* Athletics
* Boxing
* Football (details)
* Swimming
* Weightlifting

## Medal tally

* Host nation (Nepal)
Medal Tally :
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | India | 44 | 28 | 16 | 88 |
| 2 | Sri Lanka | 7 | 11 | 19 | 37 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Nepal* | 4 | 12 | 8 | 24 |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 2 | 8 | 13 | 23 |
| 6 | Bhutan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Maldives | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 62 | 62 | 61 | 185 |
# Alcatraz Library

Alcatraz Library was a library for inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It was located at the end of D-Block. On entering Alcatraz, every inmate received a library card and a catalog of books found in the library. An inmate would order a book by putting a slip with their card in a box at the entrance to the dining hall before breakfast, and a librarian took the order to and from their cell. The library, which used a closed-stack paging system, had a collection of 10,000 to 15,000 books, mainly left over from Alcatraz's army days.
Inmates were permitted a maximum of three books in addition to up to 12 text books, a Bible, and a dictionary. They were permitted to subscribe to magazines but crime-related pages were torn out and newspapers were prohibited. Crime and violence were prohibited from all books and magazines, and the library was governed by a chaplain who regulated the censorship and the nature of the reading material to ensure that the material was wholesome. Failure to return books by the date given made the inmate liable to removal of privileges.
A sign in the library today displays an extract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons booklet in 1960: "These men read more serious literature than does the ordinary person in the community. Philosophers such as Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, etc. are especially popular." Other authors include Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Washington Irving, Zane Grey, Hamlin Garland, Alexandre Dumas, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes and magazines such as Adventure to Time, Better Homes and Gardens and Library Digest. A law library was later added to A-Block.
A library scene in Alcatraz appeared in the 1979 Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz in which Eastwood's character of Frank Morris converses with another inmate.
# Hawaii Public Utilities Commission

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (HPUC) is a public utilities commission, a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates public service companies operating in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
In 2017 HPUC authorized smart inverters to increase grid stability.
# NBC News Daily

NBC News Daily is an American daytime news program that premiered on NBC on September 12, 2022, and is programmed as a part of NBC News' streaming service, NBC News Now. The hour-long block is carried live in each time zone and is anchored by a rotation of various anchors, with Kate Snow, Zinhle Essamuah, Vicky Nguyen and Morgan Radford as the main team most days.

## Scheduling and anchors

Radford and Vicky Nguyen anchor the first two hours from 12:00 noon–2:00 p.m. ET, with Snow and Essamuah anchoring between 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Eastern.
NBC stations carry one hour of coverage between those times (usually their 12:00 noon or 1:00 p.m. local time hour), though some stations carry the earliest 12:00 noon ET block at 11:00 a.m. in the Central Time Zone directly out of Today, with Hoda & Jenna (or some Eastern stations which carry local or syndicated programming and tape delay that program an hour), freeing up their entire early afternoon for local news and syndicated programming. The two NBC affiliate networks in Alaska and Hawaii (both owned by Gray Television) air the final 3-4 p.m. hour on a local delay for their respective time zones.

## History

NBC News Daily was announced on August 3, 2022. The program replaced NBC's long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives on the network's daytime lineup after it moved exclusively to NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock the same day. The program offers "up-to-the-minute national and international news", and provides the option for NBC affiliates to add local news and weather inserts, as they would during Today. It is also simulcast on NBC News' streaming channel NBC News Now. NBC News Daily competes primarily with ABC's GMA3: What You Need to Know (which is produced by the staff of the ABC News streaming channel ABC News Live).
As it is carried by NBC News Now through its streaming presences, it airs without pre-emption online when NBC Sports carries live golf and tennis coverage on weekdays or Olympic coverage, though breaking news coverage coordinated by the staffs of either Today or NBC Nightly News or the breaking news desk of NBC News takes precedence.
# Prospect Park Productions NZ

Prospect Park is a theatre production company in New Zealand. It was formed in 2016 by Emily Duncan and H-J Kilkelly to foster new professional theatre-based work in the region. Duncan is a playwright and director and Kilkelly is a producer, both are from Dunedin.
After the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin closed it left a gap with the loss of its development programme for emerging playwrights and theatre makers called the 4X4 Programme. Prospect Park picked up this idea and started both the Ōtepoti Theatre Lab and the Ōtepoti Writers Lab.

## Works

* Hold Me by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* Shaken by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* Eloise in the Middle by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park
* Dark Dunedin (2018) is a podcast series written by Emily Duncan produced by Prospect Park with support from Otago Access Radio, Creative NZ, Creative Communities (Dunedin), the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2018, New Athenaeum Theatre, Olveston Historic Home, Archive Birds NZ, and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature.
* Le Sujet Parle: And Then He Shot Me (2019) by Emily Duncan. Premiere - Dunedin Fringe Festival at Otago Museum.
* Thief (2021) - Written and performed by Kelly Hocking, Dunedin Fringe Festival at the Emerson's Festival Theatre, 20 Princes St. Initially programmed for 2020 but cancelled due to the lockdown brought by COVID-19. Hocking developed the play through Prospect Park's Ōtepoti Theatre Lab.
* The World's First Lovers - premiered 2023 at the Kia Mau Festival, written by Jessica Latton and directed by Juanita Hepi.
# 1974 Virginia Slims of Washington

The 1974 Virginia Slims of Washington was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the James Robinson School Field House in Fairfax, Virginia in the United States that was part of the 1974 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from January 28 through February 3, 1974. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $10,000 first-prize money.

## Finals
### Singles

Billie Jean King defeated Kerry Melville 6–0, 6–2

### Doubles

Billie Jean King / Betty Stöve defeated Françoise Dürr / Kerry Harris 6–3, 6–4

## Prize money

| Event | W | F | 3rd | 4th | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 |
| Singles | $10,000 | $5,600 | $3,000 | $2,600 | $1,400 | $700 | $350 |
# Asian Women Giving Circle

The Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) is a philanthropic organization founded in 2005 and led by Asian women. It is a donor advised fund of the Ms. Foundation for Women. The giving circle consists of Asian women in New York who put monetary resources together in order to invest in various projects. They give support to artistic and cultural projects led by women in New York City which are designed to enact social transformation, raise awareness of critical issues pertaining to Asian American females and to promote women's roles as creators, leaders and managers. On average, the two dozen or so members each raises about $2,500 every year to be donated to the pool of resources the giving circle uses in order to support various projects. The founder, Hali Lee, stresses that it is important for members to learn to raise money, because by learning to raise money, members gain an important skill set. The AWGC is formally organized, soliciting proposals for grants and allowing members of the group to vote on the recipients of the money.

## History

AWGC was founded by Lee in 2005. Lisa Philp, who is also head of philanthropic services at J. P. Morgan, helped create AWGC. At the time, the group was one of "very few Asian American philanthropic groups and the only pan-Asian, all-women philanthropic group in the nation." After only two years of operation, the members of the AWGC raised $130,000 for projects in New York City. In 2014, AWGC had supported sixty-four different projects and awarded over $550,000 in grant money.

## Projects

AWGC funds projects from applicants who work within New York city only and who have non-profit status. Generally, there is one grants cycle every year with a requests for proposals (RFP) being released in January. Winners of grants money are announced in June.