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Rosa Ponselle's place as one of the century's great singers was
destined from the moment of her 1918 debut, opposite Enrico Caruso,
in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of La forza del destino. For the
next two decades, her voice of unparalleled beauty and power
continued to mesmerize audiences. Even today, her recordings keep
her influence alive in the Italian repertory. Ponselle's path from
Meriden, Connecticut, through her apprenticeship on the vaudeville
circuit with her sister Carmela to acclaim on the stage of the Met
is one of opera's great romantic stories. The author of this
centenary biography, James A. Drake, began researching that story
in collaboration with Ponselle herself for their 1982 book,
Ponselle: A Singer's Life. The present work not only collects many
of the interviews with Ponselle that provided the raw material for
the earlier biography, but also includes interviews with friends,
colleagues, and associates that supplement, support - and sometimes
contradict - her own recollections. In addition, the author has
scrutinized the documentary record for contemporary reports of
these events, and has woven them into a well-crafted, absorbing
chronicle of the diva's struggle from New York to Hollywood and
abroad. Supplemented with many rare photographs, an updated
discography, an extensive bibliography, and a chronology of her
vaudeville, operatic, and concert performances, Rosa Ponselle: A
Centenary Biography is an invitation to readers to join in the
engrossing search for the real Rosa Ponselle.
The diversity of the earth's climates superimposed upon a complex
configuration of physical features has provided the conditions for
the evolution of a remarkable array of living things which are
linked together into complex ecosystems. The kinds of organisms
comprising the ecosystems of the world, and the nature of their
interactions, have constantly changed through time due to
coevolutionary interactions along with the effects of a continually
changing physical environ ment. In recent evolutionary time there
has been a dramatic and ever-accelerating rate of change in the
configuration of these ecosystems because of the increasing
influence of human beings. These changes range from subtle
modifications caused by anthropogenically induced alterations in
atmospheric properties to the total destruction of ecosystems. Many
of these modifications have provided the fuel, food, and fiber
which have allowed the expansion of human populations.
Unfortunately, there have been many unanticipated changes which
accompanied these modifications which have had effects detrimental
to human welfare in cluding substantial changes in water and air
quality. For example, the use of high-sulfur coal to produce energy
in parts of North America is altering the properties of freshwater
lakes and forests because of acidification."
How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system
impact on biodiversity loss over the long term--not in the next ten
or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale be dealt with
by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from
population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and
paleontology to answer this question.
How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system
impact on biodiversity loss over the long term - not in the next
ten or even 50 years, but on the vast temporal scale dealt with by
earth scientist?;This text brings together data from population
biology, community ecology, comparative biology and paleontology.
It starts with an overview of the concept of biodiversity dynamics,
explaining why turnover needs to be addressed in terms of scales of
time and space and why it is so important to look at speciation and
extinction together, as independent processes.;This work is divided
into two parts, the first exploring turnover at the species level
and the second investigating larger-scale community and ecosystem
turnover. Part one has such topics as the relationship of
geographic range to diversification and extinction rates, the
phylogenetic constraints on evolution of various traits, and the
evolution of complexity. In part two, papers focus on subjects such
as how fine and course-scale observation of ecosystems often yield
widely disparate results, the question of diversity equilibrium
over the ages and how evolutionary turnover is crucial to
understanding the origins
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