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	Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, the son of Vincenzo Galilei, a mathematician and musician.
		Galileo was defended on the spot by a Benedictine abbot, Benedetto Castelli, who was also a professor of mathematics and a former student of Galileo's.
		Galileo was never convicted of heresy; even in the second trial, he was only 'vehemently suspected of heresy.' Instead, he was punished at the second trial for having disobeyed what was believed to be a valid injunction not to discuss Copernicanism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galileo_Galilei (5231 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Galileo Galilei
		Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be a cloud, and found it to be a multitude of stars, packed so densely that they appeared to be clouds from Earth.
		Before Galileo had trouble with the Jesuits and before the Dominican friar Caccini denounced him from the pulpit, his employer heard him accused of contradicting Scripture by a professor of philosophy, Cosimo Boscaglia, who was neither a theologian nor a priest.
		That the threat of torture and death Galileo was facing was a real one had been proven by the church in the earlier trial against Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in 1600 for holding a naturalistic view of the Universe.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Galileo_Galilei (4389 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Galileo Galilei (1564)
		Galileo Galilei, Italian philosopher, physicist and astronomer, was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564 and died January 8, 1642.
		Galileo was a devout Catholic, yet his writings on the Copernican model of the universe (incorporating a heliocentric, or sun-centered solar system) disturbed the Church, which, like most everyone else at the time, held to a Ptolemaic or Aristotelian Earth-centered theory of the universe.
		Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564--the same year as William Shakespeare and the same year Michelangelo died.
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	Galileo Galilei biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564–Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution.
		Galileo observed Neptune in 1611; it appears in his notebooks as one of many dim stars which he saw with the telescope and did not particularly note.
		Galileo was a devout Catholic, yet his writings on Copernican heliocentrism disturbed some in the Catholic Church, who believed in a geocentric model of the solar system.
	galileo-galilei.biography.ms (4224 words)

	HOS: Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo was destined by his father, a mathematician of a onetime wealthy but now run-down family, to the study of medicine and was deliberately kept away from mathematics.
		Galileo discovered that the night side (that is, the dark portion) of the moon when the moon was less than full had a dim glow, which he explained as caused by light shining upon it from Earth ("earthshine").
		Galileo was brought before the Inquisition on charges of heresy (his indiscreet public statements made it easy to substantiate the charge) and on June 22, 1633, was forced to renounce any views that were at variance with the Ptolemaic system.
	www.rit.edu /~flwstv/galileo.html (8189 words)

	Galileo Galilei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 – Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a TuscanyTuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution.
		Galileo's theoretical and experimental work on the motions of bodies, along with the largely independent work of Kepler and René Descartes, was a precursor of the Classical mechanics developed by Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton.
		Galileo was a practicing CatholicismCatholic, yet his writings on Copernican heliocentric modelheliocentrism disturbed some in the Catholic Church, who believed in a geocentric model of the solar system.
	www.infothis.com /find/Galileo_Galilei (4313 words)

	JS Online: 'Galileo' journeys to the stars
		In "Galileo Galilei," time is reversed to emphasize the love for the stars that led the scientist to greatness in his youth as opposed to the decline of his health and religious leaders' attack on his theories in his latter years.
		As Galileo marches backward from old age to childhood - portrayed in turn by tenor John Duykers, baritone Eugene Perry and (in a non-singing role) young Zach Gray - he traverses a spectrum of emotional lights from grim resignation to bright confidence to the thrill of the dawning of intellectual curiosity.
		The entire company ends the opera with a minimalist chorale that is a paean to both clarity of thought and wonder at the miracle of the universe.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/jun02/55190.asp (1225 words)

	Philip Glass - Galileo Galilei
		Still Glass' 90-minute Galileo Galilei is political, but it's political in the same highly allusive ways as his 1980 Gandhi opera Satyagraha.
		And speaking of harmonies, the sharply opposed vocal lines for Galileo, his daughter Maria Celeste (soprano Alicia Berneche), and the priest (baritone Andrew McQuery, again) in Scene Eight: Lamps, sounded like they were all in different keys, which succinctly dramatized the conflicts in their world views.
		The music of Galileo Galilei is tight, cannily constructed, and beautifully paced, and the opera's less than monumental size, could make it attractive to smaller houses, who should be able to cast it without resorting to big names.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Galileo.html (933 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		An old, blind and depressed Galileo is tormented by a past where the Catholic Church forced him to recant his scientific findings proving that the Earth revolves around the sun.
		In the final scene, a mini opera-within-an-opera, we meet Galileo as a boy, and it is here that the music turns most melodic and dramatic, with the finale powerfully sung by the entire cast.
		Despite the tepid score, the opera makes an impact, achieved in no small part thanks to Zimmerman's design team: Daniel Ostling's stunning sets include marble floors with two soaring, arched villa facades to frame the action, and T. Gerckens' lighting transforms the stage from a dank, cold inquisitor's cell to a warm and inviting ballroom.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/1790.html (564 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - Galileo, Galilei - 6/30/02
		Galileo, Galilei is the new opera by Phillip Glass with libretto by Mary Zimmerman, Glass and Arnold Weinstein and direction by Ms.
		Intertwined in this 90 minute opera are scenes of Galileo's discoveries, his interrogation of heresy during the Inquisition (in which he recants his conclusion that the earth revolves around the sun, not vice versa as in the Bible) and the loving and loss of his daughter, Maria Celeste.
		Opera, like musical theatre, has always been a blend of script and musical composition, and my biggest complaint about Galileo, Galilei is that Glass' score does not reach the heights of the libretto and the play's action.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/chicago/ch2.html (859 words)

	A Gathering of the Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo’s life has been staged once before in living memory by Bertold Brecht in his play“The Life of Galileo.” In Brecht’s version, the play ends with Galileo succeeding in smuggling his banned and recanted writings out of Italy so that they might be disseminated worldwide and for all time.
		Anyway, his imaginary opera was wonderful and suggested a kind of predecessor to what is now called chamber opera, that is, a staged work on a small scale.
		At the end of the opera, the elderly Galileo is miraculously restored to sight and joins the young adult Galileo and the version of himself as a child.
	www.tribes.org /cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=71 (2719 words)

	SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
		The Libretto for Galileo Galilei was written by Mary Zimmerman with Mr.
		The opera is set in Italy and moves backwards in time from when Galileo was an old man to his youth.
		The younger Galileo and Cardinal Barberini (who is the younger version of Pope Urban VIII of Scene Two) walk in the Cardinal's garden.
	www.geocities.com /glassgalileo/opera.htm (799 words)

	classical music - andante - galileo galilei
		Galileo is the sort of iconic character one might expect Glass to explore with director/designer Robert Wilson, a longtime collaborator.
		John Duykers in particular gave a fine portrayal of the Older Galileo: his tenor sounds a bit dry at this point in his career, but here (as in In the Penal Colony, another recent Glass effort) his acting was as subtle as a veteran stage actor's.
		As Galileo's adult daughter, Alicia Berneche sang with a bit more vehemence than the situation seemed to warrant, and countertenor Mark Crayton was shrill, but the rest of the cast was at least serviceable; Gregory Purnhagen, Sarah Sheperd and Mary Wilson were much more than that, with voices that were a treat for the ear.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18742 (751 words)

	Unreasonable Software - Galileo Galilei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Defense of Galileo the Mathematician from Florence
		Galileo and the 'Invention' of Opera: A Study in the Phenomenology of Consciousness (Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol.
		Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, V.
	www.unreasonable.com /people/galileo/root.htm (535 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Galileo Galilei by Phlip Glass at the Barbican Theatre
		The nine scenes and epilogue take Galileo from a man "blinded for seeing the world turn" and on the brink of death, through an inquisition and recantation of his "heresy" back to the young man who had invented the telescope.
		This is a remarkably wordy opera, as music (played by members of the City of London Sinfonietta under Beatrice Affron) that will be familiar to those who know Glass' other works whether for film or opera, accompanies biography and scientific explication.
		The libretto, written by Mary Zimmerman with assistance from the composer and Arnold Weinstein, is constantly informative in a manner that is unusual in opera.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/galileo-rev.htm (546 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Galileo Galilei - Astronomer
		On a happier note, Galileo's excommunication by the Catholic Church was even-more-recently repealed, ending his eternity of pain and torment to a meager 350 years or so.
		Galileo's fame has grown exponentially over the years, due to his innumerable additions to the base of human knowledge and understanding, because he challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, and because he had a cool, alliterative name.
		Galileo Galilei - about to be the subject of an opera
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A218440 (329 words)

	United Press International: Galileo subject of new Philip Glass opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Although the opera tends toward static pageantry in the tradition of Renaissance masques, a few scenes are dramatic in nature.
		Alicia Berneche is affecting a Galileo's daughter, lending her lovely soprano to the opera's most melodic aria, and Andrew Funk is splendid as Pope Urban VIII, especially in a garden scene when he was still Cardinal Barberini, a fatuous would-be poet who admires Galileo and warns him against dangerous theorizing.
		In the final scene, Galileo and the Duchess recall their childhood friendship and a night when Galileo's composer father, Vincenzo Galileo, staged one of his operas at the Pisan court.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021007-114454-3639r (616 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Compositions: Galileo Galilei
		Drawing from letters of Galileo and his family, and various other documents, this opera retrospectively journeys through Galileo's life.
		Galileo Galilei is the 18th opera by Philip Glass.
		In ten scenes, it is adapted from the life of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) accused heretic by the Inquisition.
	www.philipglass.com /html/compositions/galileo-galilei.html (82 words)

	Guardian \| Galileo Galilei
		Narratives that move backwards are not unknown in literature, but I cannot think of an opera before Philip Glass's and Mary Zimmerman's Galileo Galilei that stands chronology so completely on its head.
		Unfortunately the about-face sequence of events is the only thing that is remotely interesting about the opera Galileo, which is as feeble and excruciatingly dull a piece of music theatre as anyone could have the misfortune to encounter.
		There is not a trace of dramatic tension, and this in portraying a life that was full of it - Galileo's clash with the church was the beginning of the conflict between scientific truth and religious superstition that is still with us today.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4538129-108884,00.html (214 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Galileo Galilei -
		Her latest effort, Galileo Galilei, is a 90-minute opera written with composer Philip Glass (with libretto assistance from Arnold Weinstein), now having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
		Individual scenes are potent, such as the moving visit by Galileo to his cloistered daughter Maria Celeste, who supplies him with pears and spiritual strength at a time of testing; or the charming scene in which a gondola is used to visualize the metaphor by which Galileo explains his discoveries.
		Galileo Galilei is anecdotal and episodic, beautiful to behold but never achieving critical mass in an emotional sense.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/2326 (593 words)

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		The Galilei Institute is located in the same block as the Accademia Gallery, where Michelangelo's statues of David and the Prisoners by are housed.
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	Galileo Galilei Tickets - Schedule, Information - Concert Ticket Broker
		Orders for Galileo Galilei tickets that are no longer available will be cancelled or substituted at the customer's discretion.
		If you would like to attend a Galileo Galilei game to see opera live, or to see a team schedule and information, Coast to Coast Tickets is your source.
		Galileo Galilei tickets may be sold for more than the price listed on the ticket.
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	Scientific Revolution - Bibliography - Primary & Secondary - Dr Robert A. Hatch - The Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo on Motion and on Mechanics [De Motu], I. Drabkin and Sti]lman Drake, ed.
		Galileo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions: A Translation from the Latin with historical and Paleographical Commentary, William A. Wallace, ed.
		Aiton, E.J. 'Galileo and the Theory of the Tides.' Isis 56 (1965): 56.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/bibliography/05bibl-sr-big.htm (9768 words)

	Science Technology Space Missions Unmanned Deep Space Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galileo Europa Mission - GEM - a highly focused follow-on to Galileo's Jupiter system exploration and a precursor for future missions to Europa and Io.
		Science with the Galileo Star Scanner - Offers technical papers on how this navigation instrument can also be used for scientific observations, such as radiation detection and observation of variable stars.
		NASA Probes Crashing Explorer - NASA is considering a plan to crash Galileo at the end of its mission into Jupiter to avoid the possibility of the satellite contaminating possible life on Europa.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Science/Technology/Space/Missions/Unmanned/Deep_Space/Galileo (313 words)

	GO Brooklyn
		I love that as a form," says Mary Zimmerman, discussing the single, 90-minute act of the new Philip Glass opera, "Galileo Galilei," which she directed and for which she served as co-librettist.
		But although the staging of Glass' new opera is very recognizable as a Mary Zimmerman piece, its genesis was antithetical to her usual way of working.
		Even though "Galileo Galilei" unconventionally explores its extraordinary protagonist's life - his 17th-century heresy conviction for using a telescope to support Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolves around the sun triggers a backwards exploration of his amazing life, ending with Galileo as an infant - Zimmerman doesn't feel that it will unnecessarily confuse audiences.
	www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol25/25_38/zimmerman.html (788 words)

	village voice > theater > The Greats of Wrath by Alisa Solomon
		The Richard Strauss Elektra in the current Metropolitan Opera season, starring Deborah Polaski and Karita Mattila, is a thrilling masterpiece of tragic inexorability, for instance.
		In the worst instances—and sad to say, Philip Glass's Galileo Galilei at BAM is one of them—the works are cold and empty.
		This Galileo tells the astronomer's biography backward—from his old age, to his recantation, to the publication of his discoveries, to his childhood—but makes no other intervention in the basic narrative.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0241,solomon,39032,11.html (1207 words)

	Opera Newsletter
		He has also served as Music Director/Conductor for the UCLA Opera, principal coach/assistant conductor for USC Opera, and was on the professional staff at Oberlin Conservatory where he was assistant music director/chorus master for Oberlin Opera Theater.
		Bates was a member of the Chautauqua Opera Young Artist Program, where she sang the role of the Shepherd in Tosca and covered the role of Amy in Little Women.
		Curtain time for IU Opera Theater is promptly at 8 p.m., by which time all opera goers should be in their seats.
	www.music.indiana.edu /publicity/opera/newsletter/vol1-number6/biographies.html (2860 words)

	The Independent (London, England): OPERA: GALILEO GALILEI Barbican Theatre London.(Features)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For his 18th opera, Galileo Galilei - given its European premiere by the Goodman Theatre from Chicago as part of Bite:02 - Philip Glass has chosen a collaborator, Mary Zimmerman, who has a reputation for work far removed from the cool, narrative-free zones inhabited by Glass's long- time collaborator, Robert Wilson.
		Their libretto tells Galileo's life story, but in reverse: beginning with the now-blind astronomer ruminating on the consequences of his discoveries.
		The first four of the opera's 10 scenes, including Galileo's recantation and interrogation by the Inquisition, are...
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