Opening day of Covid-19 vaccination hotline records over 300 registrations
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The Covid-19 Vaccine Registration Hotline established as part of the government’s education campaign to encourage to take the Covid-19 vaccine, registered 326 persons during the launch on Thursday.
The hotline operates Monday through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm, also received approximately 350 calls, a release said.
“The team assisted persons who do not have the capacity to register online, and aided individuals who opted to use the registration portal. The dedicated registration team also addressed general questions on the vaccination process,” the communique added.
Meanwhile, vaccination of frontline workers is well underway as healthcare workers, members of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force, Immigration Officers, and frontline staff continue to be inoculated.
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A report on how internet has still not come back to areas burned in the Holiday Farm Fire in Sept. 2020.
Royal, John, and Katy Lewis do their online classes in their car because they can use the internet in the parking lot of the Christian Church in McKenzie Bridge.
Credit Rachael McDonald
On a given day, you’ll see several cars in the parking lot outside the Christian Church along highway 126 in McKenzie Bridge. This is one of the few places you can get high speed internet. People sit in their cars on zoom calls, attend online school, or catch up with family and friends on social media.
Conducting Electricity: Strauss piece steeped in history
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Historians often use the term “the long 19th century” to refer to the period from the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War (1914).
In music, this roughly corresponds with the period we call “Romanticism,” from Mozart’s late works through Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner all the way to Richard Strauss. The period ends, abruptly, with the advent of modernism, ushered in by Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” and Schoenberg’s atonal works. From that point on, Romanticism was passé, no longer reflecting the spirit of the age.
As a young composer, Strauss (1864-1949) was seen as a modernist. His operas “Salome” and “Elektra” did everything modern music was supposed to, pushing the limits of harmony, expanding the size of the orchestra and shocking audiences. He did everything to the maximum. But with the arrival of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Strauss retreat
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