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Adams - El Nino - Upshaw/ Lieberson
John Adams's El Ni?o performed by the Ch?telet Theatre in Paris. Part opera, part oratorio, the work tells the Nativity story and uses it to explore the nature of humanity at the beginning of a new millennium.
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Raging Planet - Mysteries Of El Nino
El Nino is the mysterious phenomenon that has brought about the destruction of entire societies, including the Moche tribe of Peru. The complexity of its causes and effects has led meteorologists to regard El Nino as the biggest weather phenomenon on the planet. The 1982/83 El Nino was responsible for over 3000 deaths and $20 billion worth of damage. Consequently, the El Nino event of 1997/98 was the most monitored weather event in history.
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Arthaus Musik Adams: El Nino [2000]
John Adams set out to write an oratorio about the Nativity of Christ; but as he worked on it, <I>El Nino</I> became a more dramatic piece than he intended, flowering into a staged opera in which the oratorio's free-flowing singer's identity becomes an effective statement of a mystical point. Dawn Upshaw and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson--singing a mixture of biblical texts and Spanish/Mexican poetry--are both Mary and at the same time all women. The same is true of the dancer Daniela Graca, the women of the chorus and the young Hispanic-American woman who has her child and argues with her boyfriend in contemporary LA. Willard White is both Joseph and Herod, while the trio of counter-tenors are Angels and Shepherds and Kings. Because the work was written in close consultation with director Peter Sellars, it is a remarkably collaborative vision of music and staging. This is a gloriously sung piece, which continues Adams' voyage through minimalism into a lush tonal style still informed by minimalist simplicity, but it is also an impressive piece of theatre in which every physical gesture has a musical cue. This production from the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, under the baton of Kent Nagano, is more or less definitive. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> Unusually for an Arthaus Musik release, this DVD comes with an extended documentary in which Adams, Sellars, Nagano and Upshaw talk insightfully about the creation and nature of the piece. Sellars is particularly impressive in his talk of opera as the art form for a multicultural era. The picture format is 16:9 and the viewer is offered a choice of PCM stereo or Dolby Digital for the audio.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Green Umbrella Productions Raging Planet - Mysteries Of El Nino
Release Date: 2005-08-08, Rating Exempt,
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Little, Brown & Company El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-maker
Pages: 352, Paperback, Little, Brown & Company
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Pimlico Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Before 1997, the name El Niño was unknown to most ordinary folks. Meteorologists, oceanographers, commercial fishers and weather buffs knew of this periodic climatic anomaly but to the everyday person on the street, a few degrees' difference in the Pacific Ocean's temperature was irrelevant. Then one of the most powerful Los Niños in recorded history caused bitter freezes in Europe, brutal snowstorms and floods in western North America, and deadly droughts throughout the South Pacific. People sat up and took notice as a relatively tiny change in oceanic temperature resulted in death and destruction in many parts of the globe.<p> Brian Fagan examines the social effects of El Niño and other powerful weather phenomena in <I>Floods, Famines and Emperors</I>. He gives plenty of examples of how cultures have adapted to stressful weather and the ways in which climatic alterations have changed the course of history. From droughts in ancient Egypt to monsoons in India, the far-reaching effects of meteorology's most cantankerous kid have deeply affected the way humans live in the world. Illustrated with useful maps and diagrams, <I>Floods, Famines and Emperors</I> is a clear, fascinating look at an aspect of climate studies--and of El Niño--mostly ignored by science. --<I>Therese Littleton</I>
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Verso Books Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
Pages: 474, Hardcover, Verso Books
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Edimat Libros El Nino Antes de Nacer: Estimulacion Prenatal y Embarazo
Pages: 192, Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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Scholastic en Espanol El Capitan Calzoncillos y la Feroz Batalla Contra el Nino Mocobionico: 1a Parte: La Noche de los Mocos Vivientes Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad (Captain Underpants (Spanish))
Pages: 173, Paperback, Scholastic en Espanol
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin's Kite to El Nino
Pages: 252, Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Scholastic en Espanol El Capitan Calzoncillos y la Feroz Batalla Contra el Nino Mocobionico, 2a Parte: La Venganza de los Ridiculos Mocorobots Captain Underpants and the (Captain Underpants (Spanish))
Pages: 175, Paperback, Scholastic en Espanol
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Cambridge University Press Currents of Change: Impacts of El Nino and La Nina on Climate and Society
Pages: 266, Paperback, Cambridge University Press
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Princeton University Press Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard
Pages: 288, Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Verso Books Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
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Nonesuch Adams El Nino Willard White Dawn Upshaw
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Arthaus Musik Adams El Nino - complete Dawn Upshaw Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
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