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    HĂ€ndels Musik und Programmgestaltung in Londons Kristallpalast, 1859–1874 [Programming Handel’s music at the Crystal Palace, 1859–1874]

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    Dieser Aufsatz beleuchtet die Funktion gemischter Konzertprogramme im Hin-blick auf den historischen AuffĂŒhrungskontext HĂ€ndelscher Musik sowie den Kanonisierungsprozess verschiedener anfĂ€nglich wenig bekannter Werke. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf den Konzerten im Kristallpalast im Londoner Vorort Sydenham in den Jahren 1859 bis 1874, wobei sowohl die regulĂ€ren Samstagskonzerte als auch die ‚Selection Days‘ des Triennial Handel Festival berĂŒcksichtigt werden. Die Untersuchung zeigt, wie einzelne Nummern aus HĂ€ndels großen Werken Einzug in die Samstagskonzerte fanden und wie ­HĂ€ndels Musik fĂŒr die AuffĂŒhrungen an den Selection Days, den HerzstĂŒcken des Festivals, neu zusammengestellt, aufgefĂŒhrt und anschließend veröffentlicht wurden. AuffĂŒhrungsgeschichte – weniger die in der historischen AuffĂŒhrungspra-xis bedachten spezifischen spieltechnischen Nuancen, sondern die eigentliche Biographie eines Werkes auf der BĂŒhne – wird hĂ€ufig im Prozess des „Kontex­ tualisierens, Inszenierens und Vermittelns“ ĂŒbersehen, der laut Lydia Goehr einen entscheidenden Anteil daran hat, den Rang eines Werks dem Publikum nĂ€herzubringen. Meist rĂŒckt die besser erforschte kritische und wissenschaft-liche Literatur in den Vordergrund. Die im 19. Jahrhundert gĂ€ngige Praxis, klangliche Vielfalt durch thematisch gemischte Konzertprogramme und die Einbeziehung diverser Genres herzustellen, wird besonders oft als Verstoß gegen die ‚Absichten des Komponisten oder der Komponistin‘ abgetan oder als Ver-such verstanden, den scheinbar richtigen AuffĂŒhrungskontext eines Werks zu finden. Dennoch wird eingerĂ€umt, dass diese Vorstellungen oft nicht mit der Erfahrung des Komponisten oder der Komponistin im Einklang stehen. Je-doch ermöglichen derartige Untersuchungen interessante Einblicke in Kanoni-sierungsprozesse sowie in KrĂ€fteverhĂ€ltnisse zwischen KomponistInnen (heute und in der Geschichte), MusikerInnen und dem Publikum. Wie dieser Aufsatz zeigen wird, herrschte in der Musikkritik des 19. Jahrhundert keine Einigkeit ĂŒber die flexible Programmgestaltung, aber sie hatte dennoch einen Anteil an der „weitverbreiteten und umfassenden Vertrautheit“, die ein kanonisiertes Werk ausmacht.5 Obwohl eine derartige FlexibilitĂ€t in der Programmgestal-tung – zum Beispiel das Ersetzen oder Neuzusammensetzen von Gesangsnum-mern oder die AuffĂŒhrung ausgewĂ€hlter Ausschnitte eines Werks – heutzutage in der AuffĂŒhrung HĂ€ndelscher Werke kaum noch anzutreffen ist, war sie zu HĂ€ndels Lebzeiten die Norm und hatte auch einen Einfluss auf den komposi-torischen Schaffensprozess.*******This essay explores the role of nineteenth-century miscellaneous concert programming in the history of Handel performance and the canonisation stages of various initially little-known works. It focuses on the concerts at the Crystal Palace in the London suburb of Sydenham in 1859–1874, both the regular Saturday concerts, and the Selection Days of the Triennial Handel Festivals. It reveals how individual numbers from Handel’s large-scale works were presented in the Saturday concerts; and how Handel’s music was reassembled, performed, and subsequently published in the Selection Day concerts, the central concert of the vast Handel Festivals. Performance history – not so much the individual nuances which usually preoccupy historical performance practitioners, but the actual concert programming – is a much overlooked part of the ‘framing, staging and placement’ which Lydia Goehr has argued is a crucial way of communicating a work’s status to audiences; it is usually overlooked in favour of the far better scrutinised critical and scholarly literature. Miscellany programming – the widespread nineteenth-century practice of ensuring timbral variety by mixing genres in a concert in an unthematised way – is especially often dismissed as a contravention of the ‘composer’s intentions’, or a stage on the way to a ‘correct’ understanding of how to perform a work, even while acknowledging that those intentions often have little to do with the composer’s experience. However, it can reveal an enormous amount about necessary processes of canonisation, as well as the complex power balances between composers (living and dead), performers and audiences. As is shown below, nineteenth-century critics were inconsistent in their responses to such flexibility, but it was nevertheless part of the ‘widespread and multivalent familiarity’ which ensures a work’s canonical life. Furthermore, while flexibility – for instance, replacing or recomposing vocal numbers, interpolating instrumental numbers, or performing just sections of a work – is now rarely encountered in Handel performance, it was the norm in his day and clearly underpinned compositional thought. Loose ties between movements become a positive advantage for nineteenth-century programming. Ultimately, the act of appropriation that performers undertook when they selected fragments which suited their needs from a longer score is worth reconsidering today, as concert practices become increasingly stagnant and rule-bound

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8 TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

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    Animal Models of Human Cerebellar Ataxias: a Cornerstone for the Therapies of the Twenty-First Century

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    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eÎŒe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

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    Measurement of the bb‟b\overline{b} dijet cross section in pp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pppp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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    Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bb-quarks in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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