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  NewMusicbox
Composer Lisa Bielawa has picked up the 2002 Whitaker Commission, an honor that includes a $15,000 prize and a world premiere performance of the new work by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Lisa Bielawa’s work has been featured at American Music Week in Bulgaria; the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; the INFANT Festival in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; the Bang On A Can Festival; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Lincoln Center Festival.
Bielawa was also greatly influenced by time she spent in Serbia in 2000.
www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=3821   (826 words)

  
 MINING COMPANY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bielawa - a city in the Lower Silesia of the area of 36.6 km2 spread along the Bielawica river with over 35,000 dwellers.
Apart from that lift in Bielawa, there are a few more in the Sowie Mts.
However, the event that put Bielawa into history school books was a protest of weavers crushed bloodily in 1844 and described by G. Hauptman in his play "Weavers"".
www.piaskowiec.com /en/print.php?cmd=bielawa   (419 words)

  
 The Bethel Beacon - News - 10/01/2004 - 2nd District campaigns roll along
Bielawa was unwilling or unable to adequately represent the interests of Bethel and Redding residents regarding possibly the most important issue affecting the area in three years, how can he be trusted to represent and protect their best interests on other issues?"
Bielawa said that his decision to accept contributions from NU and UI in no way reflects his stance on the power-line project, adding that he testified in front of the state's Siting Council in opposition to the 345,000-volt line.
Bielawa said that many of the people he has spoken too are concerned about education and taxes.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13048613&BRD=1663&PAG=461&dept_id=13848&rfi=6   (2108 words)

  
 American Composers Orchestra - Blue Skies and Balmy
Bielawa credits Geller for finally pushing the commission to include the performance of all four parts of the piece, allowing them to tell their complete story for the first time.
Bielawa had the opportunity to try out her new language skills and finish the piece in a hotel room in Moscow while on tour with the Philip Glass Ensemble (she's been the ensemble's vocalist since 1992), penning a sort of prologue scored for two solo flutes based on the carillon that rang in Red Square.
Trying to finish up the details of the piece last December, Bielawa was on her way over to Zankel for the third time with Daniel Brodney, the ACO's director of programs and operations, in tow.
www.americancomposers.org /ou_sheridan_article.htm   (1266 words)

  
 Bielawa - my site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first reference to Bielawa is dated 11th January 1288 and relates to an act of foundation of the church under the invocation of Saint Cross in Ostrow Tumski at Wroclaw.
At the beginning of the XX century, Bielawa was considered to be the biggest village in Silesia.
The main tourist attraction of the town is a position near the foot of Owls Mountain, the oldest mountain in Poland.
republika.pl /bielawa/info_us.htm   (522 words)

  
 State Representative Hank Bielawa Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
State Representative Hank Bielawa, R-Redding, was elected to his first term representing the 2nd District, which is comprised of sections of Bethel, Danbury and Redding, on November 5, 2002.
In addition, Bielawa initiated the drawing of detailed maps of Redding that note locally historic and archeologically sensitive sites, which are useful to land use boards planning for future development.
Bielawa served in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a life member of the Georgetown VFW Post 10190.
www.housegop.state.ct.us /members/bios/bielawabio.htm   (385 words)

  
 Poland.pl - Polish Nature - Regions - Pobrzeza Poludniowobaltyckie - Bielawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bielawa bogs are remnants of the biggest, easternmost peat-bog of Atlantic type.
In the western and central parts of Bielawa there are numerous pits – a result of the exploitation of peat.
Moreover, Bielawa is famous for its great moors, which can be admired on the turn of August and September, when Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix) is in bloom.
www.poland.pl /nature/regions/pobrzeza_pd/bielawa/description.htm   (478 words)

  
 Province of Walbrzych   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bielawa - a town situated in the Walbrzych Province, at the foot of the Sowie Mountains, in the Dzier2oni6w Valley.
The name Bielawa comes from the name of the stream on which it is situated - "Bela" ("white") and is of Slavonic origin.
In Bielawa, there is the Recreation Centre "Sudety" with an artificial lake of the area of 14 hectares, as well as a few hotels.
www.brittany-net.com /walbwoj.htm   (1695 words)

  
 The Bethel Beacon - News - 11/05/2004 - Republicans succeed in area races   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Republican incumbent Hank Bielawa of Redding defeated Democratic challenger Jason Bartlett of Bethel Tuesday in a 5,321 to 5,234 vote for the 2nd District seat in the state House of Representatives.
Bielawa, who won a second term in office, was cross-endorsed by the Independent Party.
Bielawa said he is now looking forward to getting back to work and doing what is best for the people he represents.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13303434&BRD=1663&PAG=461&dept_id=13848&rfi=6   (1118 words)

  
 Ed Bielawa, Phonetic Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As the Manager of Applications Development at Phonetic Systems, Ed Bielawa is responsible for leveraging the company’s core speech technologies in a variety of markets for both carrier and enterprise customers.
Bielawa previously founded Voice of the Web, where he designed and built a VXML system for listening to web content.
Bielawa held a variety of development positions where his responsibilities included developing a real-time information distribution server, designing deployment processes, and architecting a highly scaleable, multi-threaded, fault-tolerant web server.
www.speechtek.com /speakers/BielawaEd.html   (121 words)

  
 S A N | F R A N C I S C O | C L A S S I C A L | V O I C E
Bielawa, Professor of Music Emeritus at San Francisco State University, has been affiliated with the Kensington Church for several years, and his wife, Sandra Soderland, a distinguished performer and scholar in her own right, is currently the church¹s organist.
Bielawa's song cycle Stone Settings was given a balanced, appealing performance by soprano Anna Carol Dudley with the composer as pianist.
Their highly charged imagery evokes a series of troubled, flawed relationships, but Bielawa's lyrical, thoughtful renditions downplay the angst inherent in the words, except in the most disturbing poem, “The Marriage House,” which begins “The breaking dishes burst like bombs.” In this case Bielawa's dramatic setting aptly mirrors the verbal tumult.
www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/bielawa_2_8_05.php   (699 words)

  
 Herb Bielawa, SFSU Professor Emeritus
Herb Bielawa was Professor of Music from 1966 to 1991, teaching composition, music theory, orchestration, and counterpoint.
Professor Bielawa produced concerts each devoted to contemporary music of different countries - Poland - Italy - Hungary.
Bielawa's personal home page for a complete biography, catalog of works, resume, reviews, and essays on compositional aesthetics: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~hbielawa/home.html
www.sfsu.edu /~music/composition/bielawa-bio.html   (113 words)

  
 Project Vote Smart - Representative Bielawa - Interest Group Ratings
2004 Representative Bielawa supported the interests of the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen 100 percent in 2004.
2002 Based on lifetime voting records and the results of a questionnaire sent to all candidates in 2002, the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen assigned Representative Bielawa a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F-).
2004 On the votes that the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters considered to be the most important in 2004, Representative Bielawa voted their preferred position 90 percent of the time.
www.vote-smart.org /issue_rating_category.php?can_id=MCT95679   (587 words)

  
 Herb Bielawa - Winter 2001
Herb Bielawa resides at 38 Sunset Drive, Kensington, CA 94707, telephone (510) 524-2912, fax (510) 524-2942.
Segue a Quatro for Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Cello (1999) premiered at the 70th Bielawa Year Celebration concert, part of the UUCB "Music on the Hill" series, Feb. 6, 2000.
On Sept. 26, 2000, Variations on Ton-y-botel, for pipe organ, was heard at Pamela Decker's recital at the University of Arizona.
www.sai-national.org /pubs/win01/hbielawa.html   (147 words)

  
 NYFA Interactive - New York Foundation for the Arts
Lisa Bielawa's 2004 composition The Right Weather was tailored for and performed at Zankel Hall in New York City, and Bielawa’s recent practice has begun to take the form of site-specific composition.
Bielawa’s Lamentations for a City will be performed May 8 and May 15 in Brooklyn at Oratory of Saint Boniface and in Manhattan at Merkin Concert Hall.
A recent recipient of the Aaron Copland Award for young composers, Bielawa is also one of the founders and artistic directors of the MATA Festival, which commissions and premieres work by young composers from all over the world.
www.nyfa.org /level3.asp?id=323&fid=6&sid=17   (1465 words)

  
 Nonagenarian reflects on 20th century
Bielawa says his life is not remarkable, many that know him disagree.
Bielawa credits his long life to many things, including exercise and good nutrition; but the fact that he "never gets too excited about anything" is probably the biggest factor.
Bielawa smiled and quickly answered: "The development of the space program is the most fascinating achievement."
www.evangelist.org /evv2/0321biel.htm   (932 words)

  
 American Composers Orchestra -February 27, 2004 - Zankel Hall
The Right Weather, by Lisa Bielawa, will be an amalgam of four separate but interrelated pieces for piano solo and chamber orchestra, that “splinters the orchestra into various mongrel forms, borne out of the spatial energy of the Zankel Hall” according to Bielawa.
Winner of ACO’s 2002 Helen F. Whitaker Commission, Lisa Bielawa is a recent recipient of the Aaron Copland Award for emerging composers.
Bielawa has established herself as a provocative musical creator with a strong dramatic sense.
www.americancomposers.org /rel20040227.htm   (1984 words)

  
 Talking About Books, Book Discussion, Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This discussion series is being held at First Church Congregational, 148 Beach Road, due to the renovation of Fairfield Public Library.
He has also contributed poetry to many journals including The Christian Science Monitor, and his poetry is part of the permanent collection housed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.
Bielawa is the Community Relations Librarian at Bridgeport Public Library.
www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org /books-TFIL.htm   (319 words)

  
 Author Michael Bielawa and Bridgeport Baseball, Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His most recent book, Bridgeport Baseball (Arcadia Publishing 2003) traces Bridgeport's passion with the sport from the post-Civil War era to the present.
Bielawa is also the author of From Farfield to Newfield: the Baseball Dream of Orator Jim O'Rourke.
He has contributed baseball poetry to many journals and newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Sport Literate, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, The Trenton Times and the Connecticut Post.
www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org /book-baseball.htm   (210 words)

  
 International Civic Heraldry - Poland - BIELAWA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bielawa (Langenbielau) has been known since the 13th century as a huge foot-hill village, typical for the area, stretched along a mountain spring for many kilometers.
In the later centuries weaver's craft developed, which finally resulted in urbanization of the village in the 19th century as a textile industry centre.
In 1945 the town came under the Polish administration and was renamed into Bielawa
www.ngw.nl /int/pol/b/bielawa.htm   (94 words)

  
 Sowa HOTEL, Bielawa, Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To our guests disposal are a solarium, a beauty parlour, a restaurant with tasty cuisine, a car park.
There are many reasons you can come to Bielawa for.
Staying here in private or on business, you will have a chance to visit and experience the attractiveness of the Owls Mountains and Low-Silesian region.
www.polhotels.com /Walbrzych/Sowa   (120 words)

  
 HBQuartet.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(Dr. Herb Bielawa is the founder and director of the electronic music studio at San Francisco State University).
The piece was performed at 1750 Arch St. April 11 by the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, and at concerts by Bielawa's performance group Pro Musica Nova at Stanford April 15 and S.F. State April 29, by a quartet including Rani Cochran, who edited the piece.
From the program notes: "The piece's basic structure, called a 'density envelope,' was literally drawn out, graph-style, over the entire range of the guitar to determine a bank of all possible pitches available at a given moment in the piece.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~tebo/history/LongDur/Bielawa/HBQuartet.html   (197 words)

  
 UI Center for New Music opens 1997-98 concert season Aug. 31
A native of Grinnell, Ferguson received a bachelor's degree in percussion from the UI in December 1995.
His most recent performance project was the opera "Phenic Crush" by playwright Eric Ehn and composer Lisa Bielawa, who collaborated on "Ideas of Good and Evil" in the UI department of theatre arts in 1996.
-- Bielawa's "The Great Plasto-Dio-Dada Drama" for percussion solo was inspired by an artwork of the same name by the Dada artist Johannes Bader.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1997/august/822center.html   (675 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
WOODSTOCK – Catherine M. "Cassie" Bielawa, 96, of Woodstock and formerly of Chicago, died Saturday, June 19, 2004, at the home of her daughter in Woodstock.
She was born June 23, 1907, in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
She married her late husband, Joseph M. Bielawa, on March 17, 1928, in Chicago.
www.nwherald.com /print/280795025482774.php   (288 words)

  
 CWF - Erik Ehn
Lisa Bielawa is a vocalist and the winner of two ASCAP Young Composers Competition Awards (1995 and 1996).
Lisa Bielawa is the New York Foundation for the Arts 1996 Greg Millard Fellow in Music Composition and the winner of two ASCAP Young Composers Competition Awards (1995 and 1996).
Bielawa was born in San Francisco, where she began her music education at home with her parents, composer Herbert Bielawa and keyboardist/early music scholar Sandra Soderlund.
www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/erik_ehn.html   (1578 words)

  
 Bielawa Composer-in-Residence Award
Announcement of the winner will be made no later than the beginning of the spring semester.
If the work is not completed in time to be prepared for the Honor's Day Recital, the project is terminated and the $300 is forfeited.
Professor Emeritus Herb Bielawa is the creator, financial sponsor, and coordinator of this prestigious award.
www.sfsu.edu /~music/composition/bielawa.html   (305 words)

  
 Bielawa Hotels
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True, guns are a problem in that it's easier to kill with a gun than, say, a knife.
As do I the ruthlessly self-interested brainwashing of America by the NRA, about how desparately important it is that purchasing Streetsweepers and Uzis as a hobby remain as convenient as possible for rural armed forces retirees while the inner cities become perpetual war zones.
- - - - - Sep26/94 11:28 67:39) Bruce Bielawa: I have little to say about Pat's comments, except that his statistic about a million cases of guns used in self-defense per year is an NRA statistic, and I seem to recall that it was just as artificially inflated as the 40-to-1 ratio discussed earlier.
home.intranet.org /~estin/essays/crime-bill-and-guns.txt   (8926 words)

  
 Randy's Room: Recent performances of his works
The Reconstruction of Randy Hostetler's P[l]aces by Lisa Bielawa
The world premiere of Randy's Hostetler's P[l]ACES was the centerpiece of a Memorial concert for Randy Hostetler held on January 13, 1998 at New York's Film Anthology Archives.
The concert was the third in a new music series produced by Philip Glass with Lisa Bielawa and Eleanor Sandresky as artistic directors.
www.livingroom.org /randy/recent1.htm   (212 words)

  
 FMF | Chicago's Edgewater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
And like any good real estate market, it starts to snowball," said Mike Bielawa, vice president of the Community Investment Corporation, which tackled many of the rehabilitation projects.
In the early stages, a couple of buildings were rehabilitated using financing from the state housing finance agency.
Eighty-eight LMI households bought homes with prime, conventional mortgages in 1998, with an average loan of $63,000.
www.fanniemaefoundation.org /programs/bb/v1i2-chicago.shtml   (871 words)

  
 Fwd: Call for Music Notice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 04/06 3:35 PM Received: 04/06 3:38 PM From: Herb Bielawa, hbielawa at sfsu.edu To: hbielawa at sfsu.edu Dear composer, SOUNDS NEW is beginning to prepare for next year's concert.
Herb Bielawa ********************************************************************* SOUNDS NEW is seeking works for flute (alto/piccolo), clarinet (Bb/A/Eb or sop/alto/tenor sax), bass/baritone singer and piano and any combinations thereof for its fifth concert in 2002 at the Berkeley Unitarian Church.
For further inquiries contact Herb Bielawa at 510 524 2912 or hbielawa at sfsu.edu.
www.deeplistening.org /pipermail/deep-l/2001-April/002696.html   (291 words)

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