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Kaleidoscope: Meet a different, colorful orchestra

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This orchestra wants no conductor: How Kaleidoscope aims to move in different directions

By Rick Schultz
Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2019

Does an orchestra need a conductor? For clarinetist Benjamin Mitchell, founder of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the answer is a resounding no.

Sometimes a conductor can even create an invisible barrier between the players and their audience, he said.

"The conductor is usually the face of an orchestra", Mitchell said, "but each musician having an equal say in the artistic process brings extra energy to the music".

In Kaleidoscope's five seasons, connecting with the audience has been key, said Mitchell, 38, who didn't want the group to be perceived as stuffy or overly formal – black performance attire notwithstanding. Hence the ensemble's name, which evokes a colorful kids toy while suggesting music's many colors and L.A. as a vibrant, culturally diverse city.

Last season Kaleidoscope performed late-night concerts in downtown L.A. that included a full bar, food trucks, dancing and a post-concert DJ playing electronic music past midnight.

"The idea was to make the concert experience inviting so the audience feels invested and part of what we're doing", Mitchell said.

Three years ago, the ensemble gave free concerts in Whole Foods stores in exchange for food donations for homeless shelters. This season 75% of its concerts are free.

Mitchell said the ensemble sustains itself largely on donations and a pay-what-you-can model. Only 4% of its concerts are ticketed, though that does factor in performances at schools and hospitals. Two other upcoming shows – one at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 23 and another at the Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University in Orange the next afternoon – will be ticketed events with a program consisting of Caroline Shaw's "Entr'acte", Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 and Beethoven's Symphony No.5.

The concerts usually run 60 to 90 minutes with no intermission. Aside from the cellists, musicians stand while performing, creating a sense of an orchestra always in motion. Performers have ranged in age from 17 to late 60s.

Mitchell said he was inspired by the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1972 in New York. That ensemble became known for bringing a chamber-like intimacy and detail to orchestral works.

"Many musicians say that chamber music is their first love", Mitchell said. "Not just for the great repertoire, but also for the process. In Kaleidoscope we take that democratic process and apply it to all repertoire, even large pieces like a Mahler symphony."

Kaleidoscope is nominally run by seven musicians who act as artistic directors, but all the musicians potentially have a say in how a score is interpreted and performed. Interpretive decisions, including the shaping of tricky balances or odd shifts in tempo, become a team effort during rehearsals.

For Rachel Fine, the Wallis' executive director, Kaleidoscope is re-imagining what a concert can be while dynamically advocating for young musicians and composers.

"They are lending themselves to a level of collaboration that most orchestras don't have", Fine said.

One of Kaleidoscope's most successful ventures so far has been its call for scores. The artistic team received 2,200 submissions last year from composers in 76 countries. Ten pieces were programmed as part of the ensemble's season.

Mitchell said Kaleidoscope chooses new works carefully because some are "less practical to do without a conductor". Almost three-quarters of Kaleidoscope's programming this season is by living composers.

Irene Kim, one of Kaleidoscope's artistic directors and featured soloist in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3, said the group's more democratic approach to larger-scaled orchestral works can pay big dividends.

"The Prokofiev concerto is usually played too fast", Kim said. "He was a master orchestrator, but textures and timbres can get lost. In Kaleidoscope, we let the orchestra players bring out the fascinating peculiarities of their parts."

The collaborative, artistic side of music always comes first.

"To not have any say can be stifling", Mitchell said. "We certainly don't always agree, but the real danger is if someone has a different idea but can't articulate it, because you need to have a conversation."

Sometimes, Mitchell added, a shared vision arises out of necessity.

"Everyone takes equal responsibility for the product. We don't have a conductor to blame."

Source: latimes.com

Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra: About

Vision. We envision a world where our commitment to a collaborative artistic process results in profound orchestral performances that inspire people to pursue cooperation and artistry in their own creative, professional and personal lives.

Mission. Kaleidoscope is a conductorless chamber orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experiences, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.

Core Values
• We believe that our collective of musicians has ideas that are worthy of respect and consideration; that each member has a voice worth hearing; that every person, given the chance and tools, can help to create great art.
• We believe that pursuing a democratic process within the orchestra will improve the quality of the performance, fulfill the collective vision of the ensemble, and create a unique experience not found in traditional orchestras.
• We believe in developing an infrastructure that supports, empowers, and values its musicians.
• We believe in bringing our performances and artistic process to audiences who have little or no exposure to symphonic music with the belief that the experience will enrich the lives of both the audience and the performers.

Artistic Intent. We perform orchestral music that speaks profoundly to our community and is both representative of its time and timeless, whether written today or centuries ago. We stretch the boundaries for what is thought possible without a conductor, both by musicians and audiences, to allow us all to grow through the process. We regularly collaborate with living composers because their music represents our time. We design programs that explore less conventional concert experiences and allow audiences to feel more personally connected to music and the musicians who perform it.

Community Engagement and Education. Kaleidoscope is committed to music education for all ages and is happy to offer a "pay what you can" model to eliminate the barrier of a set ticket price. We want everyone in Los Angeles to have the opportunity to experience great classical music in person by a professional orchestra, think about what that experience means, and pay what makes them happy. We also perform many additional free concerts in schools, hospitals, shelters, and other underserved parts of our community.

We recently started a music education program at a title I elementary school in Culver City, providing music instruction to 200 students each week. With additional funding, we are planning to expand this program to other grades and other schools in the future. Not only do we want every child in Los Angeles to love listening to music, we want every child to have the opportunity to read, play, and write music, too.

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On This Day In History: The Death of Grand Duchess Leonida of Russia

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On 23 May 2010, Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna died at La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The grand duchess was ninety-five years-old. She was the last surviving member of the Imperial House of Romanov to have been born in the Russian Empire before its fall in 1917.

The website of the Russian Imperial House offered a detailed account of the last few days in the extraordinary life of Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna:

On 21 May 2010, the grand duchess’s health began to deteriorate sharply. Doctors were summoned and were able to stop the heart attack; and on the following day, Her Imperial Highness was feeling somewhat better. But by evening, the pain and labored breathing had returned.

On 10/23 May, on the Feast Day of the Holy Trinity, Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna informed Fr. Andrei Kordochkin, the rector of the Church of the Nativity of Christ, a parish of the Moscow Patriarchate, of her most august mother’s illness. Fr. Andrei immediately arrived at the Imperial Family’s apartment and gave the grand duchess the Most Holy Mysteries of Christ, and read the Canon for the Departure of the Soul. In the evening, Her Imperial Highness was taken to “La Paz” hospital. At her side the entire time was Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna. At 11:55pm local time, the Dowager Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna departed this life in the Lord.

News of the death of the senior member of the Russian Imperial House brought sorrow and expressions of sympathy from people all over the world. The first condolences received were from His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia:

"TELEGRAM TO HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS, GRAND DUCHESS MARIA WLADIMIROVNA

YOUR IMPERIAL HIGHNESS!

It was with enormous sorrow that I learned of the death in the Lord of Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna. She lived a full, long, and complex life. She confronted suffering in her life many times, and time has taken its toll, but through it all, she maintained a passionate love for Russia and for the traditions of Holy Orthodoxy.
We are grateful for her involvement in the life of the Church, both at home and abroad, and for her significant contributions to the reestablishment of the unity in the Church. Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna maintained an active interest in affairs in Russia, and sincerely empathized with our sorrows and rejoiced in our successes.

I will always remember the times I met her, especially the first meeting, which took place in 1992 during the historic visit of the grand-ducal couple to St. Petersburg. I well remember also my last meeting with her, in Smolensk. Please accept my heartfelt condolences on this loss that has befallen you and your family.

May the Lord grant rest to his servant in the abodes of the righteous, and grant us all His all-mighty help in the service of the fatherland and its people. With respect,

+KIRILL, PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA"

In the days after the death of the dowager grand duchess, condolences were received also from the Chair of the Office of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk; the First Hierarch of the Russia Orthodox Church Abroad, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York; Metropolitan Kornilii of Talliinn and All Estonia; Archbishop Vikentii of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturia; Archbishop Aleksei of Kostroma and Galitsa, Archbishop Kirill of San Francisco and Western America; Archbishop Ionafan of Tulchyn and Bratslav; Archbishop Innokentii of Korsun; Metropolitan Polikarp of Spain and Portugal and Exarch of the Mediterranean; from King Juan-Carlos I of Spain and Queen Sofia; Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and North Ireland; King Albert II of the Belgians and Queen Paola; King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden and Queen Silvia; Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and Tsaritsa Margarita; King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anna-Maria; King Leka of Albania; the Head of the Yugoslavian Royal House Crown Prince Alexander Karageorgievich and Princess Catherine; the Head of the Austrian Imperial House, Archduke Otto; the Head of the German Imperial and Prussian Royal House, Prince Georg-Freidrich; the Head of the Bavarian Royal House, Duke Franz; the Head of the Portuguese Royal House, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza; the Head of the Georgian Royal House, Tsarevich David Georgievich; the Head of the Italian Royal House, Prince Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy; from the vice-chair of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, L. K. Sliska; the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, V. D. Zor’kin; the Chair of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, V. M Lebedev; the Chairman of the Central Elections Commission, V. E. Churov; the governor of Tula District, V. D. Dudkin; the governor of Kemerovo District, A. I. Tuleev; the general director of the judicial department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, A. V. Gusev; the vice-chair of the State Duma Committee for Transport, S. A. Gavrilov; from the President of the Transdnistria Moldovan Republic, I. N. Smirnov; the Minister of Culture of France, F. Mitterrand; from the great-great-grandson of Emperor Alexander III, P. E. Kulikovskii and his wife; from government and civic figures; representatives of the clergy; academic and cultural groups; from members of the Russian and European nobility; and from many countrymen, who have expressed their sincere feelings of support for the Imperial family at this difficult time of sorrow and loss.

Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Mukhransky

Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Mukhransky was born on 6 October 1914 at Tbilisi, Georgia. She descended from the oldest Christian royal family in the world: the Bagrationi of Georgia. Leonida's parents were Prince George Alexandrovich (1884-1957) and Princess Elena Sigismundovna (1886–1979; née Złotnicka-Nowina).

Sumner Moore Kirby

After the Russian Revolution, the family eventually made its way to France. It was there that Leonida met her first husband, American Woolsworth heir Sumner Moore Kirby (1895–1945). The couple were married at Nice on 6 November 1934. Leonida and Sumner had one daughter, Hélène Louise Kirby (b.Geneva 26 January 1935); the pair's union ended in divorce on 18 November 1937.

Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida of Russia

During World War II, Leonida met Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia in France at a café. The couple would not see each other again for a few years: their next meeting would take place in Spain during the late 1940s. The relationship between the two parties blossomed into love. On 13 August 1948, Grand Duke Vladimir and Princess Leonida were married at Lausanne. By virtue of her marriage, the bride was henceforth titled as Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna of Russia.

Grand Duke Vladimir, Grand Duchess Leonida, and their daughter Grand Duchess Maria

After several years of marriage, the grand duke and grand duchess welcomed the arrival of their only child. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia was born at Madrid on 23 December 1953. Her godparents were Queen Mother Giovanna of Bulgaria (née Savoy) and her granduncle Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia.

For the rest of her long life, Grand Duchess Leonida dedicated herself wholeheartedly to her roles as a wife, mother, and grandmother. An iron fist in a velvet glove, the grand duchess did everything in her power to support her husband, Grand Duke Vladimir (1917-1992), her daughter and current Head of the Imperial House, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna (b.1953), and her only grandchild, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich (b.1981). Her passing was immensely mourned by her family and by all supporters of the Imperial House of Romanov who understood the pivotal part that Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna had played in securing the dynasty's future.

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King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain Celebrate Their Fifteenth Anniversary

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Today, Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain celebrate fifteen years of marriage.

King Juan Carlos celebrates the engagement of his son Felipe with his fiancée Letizia in 2003.

On 1 November 2003, the Spanish Royal House announced that then Infante Felipe, Prince of Asturias, was engaged to Ms Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. Felipe (b.1968) is the only son of King Juan Carlos of Spain (b.1938) and Queen Sofía (b.1938; née Greece). Letizia (b.1972) is the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez and his first wife María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez. The announcement was met with some consternation from certain circles due to the fact that Letizia was a divorcée, having been civilly married from 1998-1999 to Alonso Guerrero Pérez (b.1962).

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The wedding of Felipe and Letizia was held on 22 May 2004 in Almudena Cathedral at the Royal Palace of Madrid. Felipe was at that time the heir to the Spanish throne. Letizia had worked as a journalist. The Roman Catholic wedding was presided over by the Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio María Rouco Varela. It was considered a state wedding, the first in Spain for more than fifty years, and it was also the first wedding to be held in the cathedral of Madrid, which had been consecrated in 1993.

Five hours of the coverage of the royal couple's wedding can be viewed at the link:

To view the guest list and to see where attendees were seated during the ceremony, please visit this link from the Royal House: Marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias with Doña Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano

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Alice Sara Ott – All the posts

By Music Archive at 10:25 Alice Sara Ott, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Mikko Franck, Santtu-Matias Rouvali No comments

The 2018-2019 season marks a significant year for German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott (b. 1988, Munich, Germany), one of the world's most in-demand classical pianists. She releases her latest album, Nightfall, featuring works by Satie, Debussy and Ravel, including Gaspard de la Nuit, one of the greatest challenges of piano literature. The album marks ten years since Alice has been signed as an exclusive recording artist to Deutsche Grammophon. She will tour the recital programme across the world, with European dates including Paris' La Seine Musicale, Stuttgart's Liederhalle, Vienna's Mozart Saal, Munich's Prinzregententheater, Baden Baden's Festspielhaus, London's Wigmore Hall and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in Duisburg. These European dates are in addition to a nine-date recital tour across Japan, including Tokyo Opera City, in autumn 2018.

With her talent not limited to a global career as a high level performing artist, Alice Sara Ott also expresses her diverse creativity through a number of design and brand partnerships beyond the borders of classical music. She was personally requested to design a signature line of high-end leather bags for JOST, one of Germany's premium brands. Alice has also been global brand ambassador for Technics, the hi-fi audio brand of Panasonic Corporation, and she has an ongoing collaboration with the French luxury jewellery house, Chaumet.

A prominent figure on the international classical music scene, Alice Sara Ott regularly performs with the world's leading conductors and orchestras. In 2018-2019 as well as the international Nightfall recital tour, Alice will perform with NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo (Gianandrea Noseda), Philharmonia Orchestra (Santtu-Matias Rouvali), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic (Edward Gardner), London Symphony Orchestra (Elim Chan), St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Yuri Temirkanov), and for a European tour with Gothenburg Symphony (Santtu-Matias Rouvali). She continues her collaboration with London Symphony Orchestra via her chamber music residency at LSO St Luke's, where she will give several Alice and Friends concerts with fellow artists including Ray Chen, Pablo Ferrández, Nemanja Radulovic, Alexey Stadler, Dimitri Ashkenazy and Francesco Tristano.

Alice Sara Ott has worked with conductors at the highest level including Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel, Pablo Heras-Casado, Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Sir Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sakari Oramo, Osmo Vänskä, Vasily Petrenko, Myung-Whun Chung, Hannu Lintu and Robin Ticciati. She continues to perform with ensembles such as Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Wiener Symphoniker and Dresdner Philharmonie.

Source: alicesaraott.com

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor – Alice Sara Ott, L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck (HD 1080p)

Alice Sara Ott plays Claude Debussy (Suite bergamasque, Rêverie), Frédéric Chopin (Nocturnes Nos. 1, 2, 13, Ballade No.1 in G minor), Erik Satie (Gnossiennes Nos. 1 & 3, Gymnopédie No.1), & Maurice Ravel (Gaspard de la nuit) (HD 1080p)

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major – Alice Sara Ott, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (HD 1080p)

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A major – Alice Sara Ott, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (HD 1080p)

Bir Yedek Subayın Ağzından 1914 Yılında Turancılık

By Tarihçi at 09:05 Osmanlı Dağılma Dönemi, Şahsiyetler No comments

Eğitime gidip gelirken Beyoğlu'nda, eğitimden döndükten sonra, boş zamanlarımızda özellikle akşamları vatan, millet şarkıları, marşları söyleyerek adeta kendimizden geçiyorduk. Meşrutiyetin ilanıyla beraber okullarda temeli atılan Türk Ocağı Cemiyeti ve Türk Yurdu gibi gazete ve dergilerin tesiri altında kalan binlerce genç Turan aşkıyla yanıyordu. Türklük ve Turancılık hemen bütün memleket gençliğini sarmıştı. Acaba neydi bu Turancılık? Nerede başlayıp, nerede bitiyordu? Bunu pek açık olarak biz de anlayamıyorduk. Yalnız şöyle hayalimizde büyük Türk ırkının yaşadığı ülkeler gözüküyordu. Memleketin her tarafından gelmiş gençler arasında kimler yoktu ki: Hukukçular, hariciyeciler, mülkiyeliler, medreseliler, yüksekokul öğrencileri, yani İstanbul'un nazeninleri, taşranın nazlıları öğrenim ve terbiye düzeyleri ne olursa olsun bir tek emel ve idealde birleşmişlerdi. Turan marşları söylemek, bir ibadet haline gelmişti. Akşam sabah koro halinde tekrar etti ğimiz Turan duası ile Albayrak marşını bir fikir verir umuduyla aşağıya alıyorum:

TURAN DUASI
Ulu Tanrı ... Sen sağlık ver Türke,
Hakan buyruğunu hep kardeşlere ilet.
Yüce uluğ yükselsin bir Bozkurt ihsan et.
Yeni Turan, ey sevgili ülke,
Söyle sana yol nerede yalvarıyoruz.
Çağırıyor bizi büyük atamız Oğuz.
Yüce uluğ sen sağlık ver Türk'e,
Turan yolu aydınlansın, tütsün ocaklar,
Parıldasın gün gibi köşe bucaklar.

.... Türk Ocağı Merkezi Divanyolu'ndaki Türk Yurdu dergisi yönetim yerine taşınarak çalışma alanını genişletti. Yusuf Akçora, Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Ferit Bey gibi Türkçülük önderleri tarafından her hafta konferanslar vermek, yayın yapmak suretiyle gençler aydınlatılırdı. Kısa bir süre sonra Türkçülük aşkı iman haline gelmiş, bu uğurda binlerce genç savaş meydanlarında canlarını feda etmişlerdir. O zamanlar Osmanlılık prensiplerine dayanarak bu fikre karşı gelenlere böylece karşılık veriliyordu. Milliyet duygularının gelişmesine çalışan Türk Ocağı öğrenci cemiyeti Osmanlı halkını oluşturan öteki halkların öğrencilerinin kurdukları cemiyetlerden sonra kurulmuştur.

Arapların, Arnavutların, hatta Kürtlerin milliyete dayanan öğrenci cemiyetleri çok önceden kurulmuş ve faaliyete geçmişti. Oldukça kalabalık bir dershane içinde kendi aralarında gruplar halinde toplantılar yaparak bize karşı düşmanca tavır alırlar ve bu yüzden sınıfta kavga, gürültü eksik olmazdı. Bir gün şiddetli bir tartışma sonucunda Halep mebusunun bıyıklı oğlunu kırık çekmece kapakları ile hırpalamış, bu soysuz yaratıkları pıstırmıştık.

Evimizin büyükleriyle tartışmalar yapardık. Yaşlılar bizim ham hayaller peşinde koştu ğumuzu söylerlerdi. Biz de onlara, yakında mektuplarımızı Gence'den, Bakü'den alacaksınız cevabını verirdik. O anda marşlarımız dudaklarımızdan dökülürdü:

Yüz sene var ki, Moskof'un derdi,
Yurdumuzun bağrını deldi.
Marş, marş, haydi arkadaş,
Göğsünü ger, Kafkaslar'ı aş, ...

20 HAZİRAN 1914 Faik Tonguç

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A Birthday Toast to Sir Arthur

By Tarihçi at 00:00 No comments

On this 160^th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I share the toast I delivered at this year’s Gaslight Gala during Baker Street Irregulars & Friends Weekend in New York. The theme of the gala, held Jan. 11, was “Sherlock Holmes: A Spirited Celebration.” The toast is in that, uh, spirit:

In a wonderful passage from a story not generally regarded as one of the best, Sherlock Holmes remarks: “This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.”

How is it possible that the Literary Agent, sometimes known as “the St. Paul of Spiritualism,” allowed these seemingly skeptical words to be recorded? Perhaps the answer lies in a couplet from a verse composed by the Agent himself:

               So please grip this fact with your cerebral tentacle:

               The doll and its maker are never identical.

At any rate, the Agent and the Master seemed to be on very different spiritual pages. And for that, devotees of detective stories with earthly solutions should be profoundly grateful. So, raise a glass – preferably of spirits – in honor of a man:

Who believed in spirits, although he didn’t drink them;
Who believed in fairies, even though he knew it made him look foolish;
Who believed in mediums and their messages, but was himself an extra-large;
Who allowed Professor Challenger to be converted to spiritualism, but not Sherlock Holmes; and (best of all)
Who gave us a very material hell-hound of the Baskervilles in a story he accurately called “a real creeper.”

To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Steel True – Blade Straight – Knight – Patriot – Physician – and Man of Letters”:

Cheers!

Royal Mail from the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Albania via Sweden

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Many thanks to my dear friend Roger Lundgren, Founder of Kungliga Magasinet, for sending me this signed photograph of Crown Prince Leka II of the Albanians and Crown Princess Elia (née Zaharia) on their wedding day. Roger was recently in Tirana to celebrate a personal occasion with the couple and their family. I was delighted to receive this picture in the mail today.

The Crown Prince and Crown Princess were wed on 8 October 2016 at Tirana, in an ceremony that was celebrated by members of royal families around the world, and planned by the Albanian Royal House with the assistance of Mr Lundgren. The date chosen for their wedding was no coincidence: it marked the 121st birthday of King Zog, Leka's grandfather, who was born at Burgajet on 8 October 1895. Happily, it also marked the sixtieth birthday of my mother, Sally, who helped me cover the nuptials for the European Royal History Journal. Our report of the Albanian royal wedding appeared in Issue CVI, Volume 19.3 (Fall 2016).

For more photographs of the wedding that were taken by my mother and me, please visit this link: Scenes from the Royal Wedding

Billion Gallon Border: Part II - The Old Mill Stream

By Türkçe Bayram at 10:44 No comments

In the last post, guest writer Robert Wilhelm began telling us the story of Hoopes Reservoir by first relating the tale of the Red Clay Creek reservoir that never was. In this post, he tells us of the background and construction of the reservoir that was created, and a bit of what once stood where the water now is.

-- Researched and written by Robert E. Wilhelm, Jr

Hoopes Reservoir, 1933

An alternate reservoir location involved Old Mill Stream, a tributary of the Red Clay Creek in Christiana Hundred and the location of the present day Hoopes Reservoir and Dam. A dam constructed across the Old Mill Stream valley could contain water at a higher level (~ 225’ water surface elevation above sea level) than a dam associated with the Red Clay Creek Valley (~180’ water surface elevation above sea level if a reservoir was to remain inside Delaware; 150-160 feet if not impacting Yorklyn). Holding 2-billion gallons of water, an Old Mill Stream reservoir offered greater water depth at the dam with equivalent storage capacity and less surface area as compared to a Red Clay water pool.

There was little infrastructure present in the Old Mill Stream valley which was not the case for the Red Clay Creek Valley. Within most of the 480-acre footprint of the proposed ‘Old Mill Stream Reservoir’ was the former mill property and farmland belonging to T. Coleman du Pont including Dupont’s summer home. Once an operating water-powered stone mill constructed in 1732, du Pont personally converted the idle mill into a mansion. A smaller stone mill constructed in the 1850s on the property was in ruins and would remain to succumb to the reservoir’s rising waters, while du Pont’s home would be demolished leaving only the stone walls behind.

Thomas Coleman du Pont and his wife Alice Elsie du Pont (his cousin) bought the property in 1906. By 1910 they had converted the original mill building to a rural weekend home to complement their home at 808 Broom Street in Wilmington. Called ‘Old Mill’ the original mill’s stone, quarried on the property, contained quartz, mica, and garnet speckles that the du Ponts left exposed on inside walls. The first floor, below grade and adjacent to the mill pond and millrace, contained the mill home’s water wheel powered electrical generating system. There was central heat with fireplaces in each of the major rooms. The second floor was assigned to the caretaker and family. The du Pont’s occupied the upper two floors with the third floor being open architecture for use as a living space or ballroom. Bedrooms and baths were on the fourth floor.

du Pont Old Mill residence

In keeping with the du Pont garden tradition, Mrs. du Pont planted both valley walls with daffodils, forsythia, magnolias, lilacs, roses, and iris. There were rustic bridges on pathways for viewing sculpture in the gardens. Mr. du Pont kept buffalo, elk, horses, and Holstein cows on the property as well. After the construction of Hoopes Dam and Reservoir, much of Mrs. du Pont’s Valley Garden which had become known as Old Mill Farm Garden or Old Mill Valley Garden, remained untouched high on the eastern side of the reservoir. Today, Valley Garden Park forms the core of a larger public park area accessible from Campbell Road (Route 82) which remains abundantly planted with daffodils, forsythia, and magnolias along the rolling pathways.

In the final analysis, Old Mill Stream was chosen as the preferred site due to lower completed project costs. Old Mill Stream offered fewer infrastructure conflicts, along with easier to obtain water rights given existing claims on the Red Clay by local landholders. Coleman du Pont, in poor health in his later years, was willing to donate his land to the City of Wilmington thus greatly reducing another project expense. The construction project, occurring at the time of the Great Depression, cost the City of Wilmington $3-million (nearly $52-million in today’s dollars).

Reservoir Construction

The topography of the Piedmont’s Old Mill Stream valley required the construction of a tall but narrow concrete masonry gravity arch dam. The dam’s integrity is assured by the Piedmont’s geology and geography. The location and design of Hoopes Dam insure the massively engineered structure remains sound. With construction beginning at the start of the Great Depression, the project became one of the largest and most significant public works projects in City of Wilmington and Delaware history.

The nearly 2-billion-gallon reservoir extends 1¾ miles (2.5 miles for a Red Clay reservoir) from the north end, where it is nominally 20-feet deep, to a dam near Barley Mill Road where the greatest reservoir depth of 105-feet is reached (Red Clay would have had a 50-foot deep pool at the dam). The reservoir stretches to about 900-feet at its widest point (a Red Clay reservoir would have stretched 2,500-feet wide in several locations).

The reservoir’s dam utilized 1930s era concrete dam construction techniques similar to the much larger Hoover Dam near Las Vegas, Nevada. Workers poured and formed large, interlocking concrete monolithic structures. Each monolithic block was cooled by a cold-water bath to prevent thermal cracking. Once completed, the concrete faces of the dam were shaped into a tall, smooth-flowing, boomerang-like arc. The structure rises 127 feet from the bedrock of the valley and spans 845 feet in length at the crest. Nineteen feet wide at the top and 94½ feet wide at the base (excluding the 30-foot spillway chute and apron). Anchored one-hundred feet into the bedrock walls and deep into the valley’s floor, the construction prevents leakage around or under the dam. A Red Clay dam would have been about 550’ wide and 70’ high with correspondingly smaller thickness dimensions.

ColouriseSG version of Black & White Hagley Museum & Library Image
of the Hoopes Dam & Reservoir Under Construction

On the reservoir side of the dam east of the spillway, is a square gate chamber connected to the pump house by a three-foot diameter pipe at the foundation. The gate chamber, rising the height of the dam, contains wire screen openings allowing for the filling or drawing of water from the reservoir. A pumping station at the base of the dam initially included three gasoline powered centrifugal pumps providing four million gallons of daily pumping capacity. Depending on the City’s need and the volume of water contained in the reservoir, water may be transferred to the reservoir from the Brandywine Creek or drawn from the reservoir to the City of Wilmington for municipal drinking water when the Brandywine Creek supply is supply limited.

The City of Wilmington monitors the level of the reservoir constantly and adjusts it as needed to limit overflow down the spillway and subsequently reducing Brandywine Creek demand. Only severe storm overflow pours over the spillway weir where the discharge cascades down the 0.6:1-foot sloped face of the dam collecting and losing its kinetic energy within a concrete apron. The flow is directed to a concrete box culvert following part of the Old Mill Stream’s original routing. Leaving the culvert, but still traveling the Old Mill Stream tributary, the discharge travels an additional 1,300 feet, passes under Barley Mill Road, and joins the Red Clay Creek.

Campbell Road (Route 82) crosses the northern end of the reservoir and valley. A causeway, constructed to raise the road surface above a full reservoir water level, includes a pair of five-foot by ten-foot double-box concrete culverts permitting water and underwater wildlife to pass between the smaller northern reservoir pool and to the much larger southern reservoir water pool.

ColouriseSG version of Black & White Hagley Museum & Library Image
of the Completed Hoopes Dam & Reservoir with Valley Garden Park

The dam’s design includes a walkway crossing the 25-foot wide spillway. The original plans included the Valley Garden Park south of the dam in an open area across from the pump house. After the project’s completion, visitors frequently enjoyed the public park and could hike a foot trail and steps leading to a war memorial and monument located on a viewing platform at the crest of the dam. Because of safety concerns, the park and access to the walkway have since been closed.

In 2008 the spillway was raised an additional two feet adding another 150 million gallons of capacity (the weir may be raised an additional 3-feet in the future if necessary). Hoopes Reservoir is Delaware’s largest northern reservoir and serves as an emergency water reserve for 60% of Delaware’s population. Today, visible from the International Space Station, Hoopes Reservoir is no longer open to the public and is managed solely as a reserve water storage reservoir. Private tours of the dam and access to a recreational trail leading to the top of the dam and the viewing platform may be arranged by contacting the City of Wilmington Commissioner of Public Works.

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