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a day ago
- Climate
- Boston Globe
Another beauty of a day: Boston and New England will continue to enjoy refreshing summer air and sunshine Tuesday
Tuesday brings us a delightful stretch of calm weather with mostly sunny, blue skies stretching from Boston to all of New England. High pressure continues, settling winds and holding dry air across the region. Advertisement Highs will build to a comfortable upper 70s after a morning start in the low 60s. The region stays clear into the evening with lows slipping to the 50s for some. The setup — quiet and bright High pressure continues to reign supreme over the Northeast to set up a beautiful Tuesday. The difference on Tuesday versus Monday is that the wind will be calm as high pressure keeps skies blue across the entire New England region. The bit of haze on the horizon from Monday will also have faded away come Tuesday. High pressure will keep mostly sunny skies in place across New England. Boston Globe The commute in will be refreshingly cool, with temperatures in the low 60s across the region. The afternoon will likely push into the mid- to upper 70s. Without the strong northwesterly flow from Monday, a sea breeze could keep Boston and the North and South Shores closer to the mid-70s. Advertisement Highs on Tuesday will reach the upper 70s for most of New England. Boston Globe The thing we all might notice, and enjoy, most is the comfortable air. The cooler Canadian air is very dry, dropping dew points to the 40s and low 50s across the region. We have only seen dew points this low just a few times this summer. The dry air will allow for easy evaporative cooling of the surface at night, allowing temperatures to slip to the 50s for most, for a really comfortable evening. Dew points will stay low for the next couple of days before returning to muggy levels later in the week. Boston Globe Overnight low temperatures Tuesday will fall to the mid-50s for most. Boston Globe On Wednesday, we'll see a flip to a southerly flow as high pressure drifts to our south. The region stays dry with mostly sunny skies, but the heat and humidity will start to climb. By Thursday, the 90s will be back in play with dew points pushing into the noticeable 60s. Friday may likely be a heat alert type of day, with highs in the low to mid-90s with high enough dew points to make 'feels-like' temperatures closer to the triple digits. Coincidentally, Friday afternoon will likely be our next chance for widespread rainfall with afternoon showers and thunderstorms possible. Weekend sneak peek This weekend is looking a touch unsettled as Friday's front will likely slow down when meeting the strong North Atlantic Bermuda high. This will leave a storm track just to the south of the region for the weekend, prompting a round of scattered showers or thunderstorms on both Saturday and Sunday, mainly in the afternoon. Highs are tracking closer to 80 degrees for both weekend days. Wednesday's breakdown Greater Boston: Mostly sunny and nice. Highs in the mid- to upper 70s. More like the mid-70s along the North and South Shores. Staying clear at night. Lows to the upper 50s, low 60s. Advertisement Southeastern Mass.: Sunny with highs in the mid-70s, a touch cooler along the coast. Staying clear at night with lows in the low 60s. Central/Western Mass.: Bright and lots of sunshine. Highs in the upper 70s, mid-70s in the Berkshires. Clear at night with lows in the upper 50s and low 60s. Cape and Islands: Clear and bright. Highs to the low and mid-70s. Staying clear at night with lows in the 60s. Rhode Island: Sunny with highs in the mid- to upper 70s. Staying clear at night. Lows in the 60s. New Hampshire: Bright with highs in the low to mid-70s. Lows in the 50s under clear skies. Vermont/Maine: Mostly sunny across both states. Highs into the mid- and upper 70s. Lows in the low 50s under partly to mostly clear skies. A look at the forecast weather across Boston for the next seven days. Boston Globe for our , which will arrive straight into your inbox bright and early each weekday morning. Ken Mahan can be reached at
Boston Globe
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Roger Norrington, iconoclastic British conductor, dies at 91
He led both period-instrument and modern orchestras, using the same interpretive principles, and though some of his performances drew criticism for their brash iconoclasm, many listeners regarded them as insightful and refreshingly original. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'As ever, with his highly idiosyncratic conducting style, one gets, in addition to a Haydn symphony, the Roger Norrington show,' Boston Globe critic Jeremy Eichler wrote in a review of a Handel and Haydn Society's performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 44 in 2008. 'He seems to delight in exuding his own personality at the orchestra through the medium of the music.' Advertisement Mr. Norrington served as an artistic director of the Handel and Hayden Society from 2006 to 2009. 'The organization feels more interesting when he's around,' Eichler wrote. Lanky, bespectacled, bearded and balding, Mr. Norrington projected both affability and authority, and he loved making the case for his ideas -- not only in interviews but also in seemingly off-the-cuff comments at his concerts. He often cited centuries-old treatises as well as his delight in the 'pure' sound, as he put it, of strings playing without vibrato. He once famously referred to vibrato as 'a modern drug.' Advertisement 'It's not about consecrating a sacred object,' Mr. Norrington said about conducting. 'It's about exploring and being curious and having fun.' Rachel Papo/The New York Times Stu Rosner Stu Rosner Toward the end of his career, he preferred to conduct while seated, usually on a high swivel chair that allowed him to turn to the audience to smile conspiratorially at a light moment within the music, and even to encourage applause. He was known to tell audiences that they could applaud between the movements of a symphony or a concerto, a common practice in the 18th and 19th centuries that is frowned on today. He reveled in being provocative. In a 2021 interview with The Telegraph, he referred to his 2007 recording of Mahler's Second Symphony as his 'last hand grenade.' International fame came late to Mr. Norrington. He had built a solid reputation as a choral conductor in the 1970s, when he made a series of well-received recordings with the Heinrich Schütz Choir, an amateur group he formed in 1962 and named after the German baroque composer. He was also the founding music director of the Kent Opera, England's first regional opera company, established by singer Norman Platt in 1969. Yet he was scarcely known outside Britain until 1987, when he released revelatory recordings of the Beethoven Second and Eighth symphonies. They were the first installments of a complete cycle with the London Classical Players, a period-instrument ensemble that Mr. Norrington founded in 1978 and led until 1997. 'I was happy to take things slowly,' he told The Telegraph in 2021. 'I didn't conduct a Beethoven symphony until I was 50. So when I finally stood up in front of the great orchestras of America and Europe as a guest conductor, I actually knew what I wanted. And this meant I could relax and treat music-making as something that is full of love and laughter. Advertisement 'It's not about consecrating a sacred object,' he continued. 'It's about exploring and being curious and having fun.' Mr. Norrington's first Beethoven recordings were striking in their adherence to the composer's metronome markings, which most conductors have considered impossibly fast or, in a few cases, impractically slow. The recordings immediately found a large audience, and by the time the cycle was complete, in 1989, Mr. Norrington's career was white hot. Roger Arthur Carver Norrington was born in Oxford, England, on March 16, 1934. His father, Arthur Norrington, worked for Oxford University Press and later became president of Trinity College, Oxford, and the vice chancellor of the University of Oxford. Roger's mother, Edith Joyce (Carver) Norrington, was a gifted amateur pianist. Roger studied the violin as a child and sang in choirs as a boy soprano. When he auditioned for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe,' he won the lead role. 'I realized I had some sort of gift,' he told The Guardian in 2007. But, he added, 'I thought I would be like my parents and spend my life doing music in my spare time.' When he entered Clare College, Cambridge, after completing his national service in the Royal Air Force, it was to study English literature. Nevertheless, he performed with -- and, in his final year, conducted -- student ensembles. Advertisement After graduating, Mr. Norrington became an editor at Oxford University Press. But he continued to sing in choirs and to play violin in orchestras and chamber groups. When a new edition of choral works by Heinrich Schütz was published in 1962, he became so eager to conduct the music that he formed the Heinrich Schütz Choir. Despite the choir's name, its repertoire extended from the Renaissance through the 20th century, and it quickly won enthusiastic reviews and a following. It was not until Oxford sent him on a six-month posting to Nairobi, Kenya, late in 1962 that he resolved to devote himself fully to music. When he returned to Britain, he left his job and enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied composition, music history and conducting (with Adrian Boult) and played percussion in the orchestra. Recordings by Austrian period-instrument specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt led Mr. Norrington to reconsider his ideas about conducting and orchestral sound. They also inspired him to read treatises by 17th- and 18th-century musicians and to seek out musicologists such as Thurston Dart, who shaped his ideas about the performance of early music. Norrington's success with the Schütz Choir led to his appointment as music director of the Kent Opera in 1969. In 1986, he established the Early Opera Group with choreographer Kay Lawrence. He and Lawrence married that year. A previous marriage, to Susan McLean May, ended in divorce in 1982. After his Beethoven recordings won him a large international audience, Mr. Norrington began performing regularly in the United States. He made his New York debut in 1989 at Carnegie Hall, leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's, a modern-instruments orchestra. Writing in The New York Times, Will Crutchfield described his performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony as 'exhilarating, witty, precise, full of verve and subtlety, fully convincing as to tempo (using Beethoven's markings with some modification for practicality's sake, rather than throwing them out as most conductors do) and wonderfully played.' Advertisement In addition to novel tempos and the absence of vibrato, Mr. Norrington considered a balance of intuition and scholarship essential to his interpretations. He rebelled against the notion that one could re-create historical performance styles by merely playing what was written on the page. And he inveighed against those who treated performances as museum pieces. 'A performance is for now, and one instinctively tailors it for today,' he said in 1989, adding, 'To say that you don't put your personality into it is rubbish.' In November 2021, after Mr. Norrington conducted his farewell concert -- leading the Royal Northern Sinfonia, in northern England, in an all-Haydn concert -- The Guardian called him 'arguably the most important British conductor of the last half century.' Kay Lawrence died in November. Mr. Norrington leaves his son, Thomas; two children from his marriage to May, Ben and Amy Norrington; three grandchildren; a sister, Pippa Sandford; and a brother, Humphrey. 'My story, from 1962, has been one of knocking down wall after wall and seeing what happened,' Mr. Norrington told The Guardian in 2007. 'So to discover right at the end that these great traditional European and American orchestras can be part of it as well has been wonderful. Now even they are beginning to realize you don't need to put vibrato on everything, like sugar.' He added: 'So if, on the day I die, the world is playing without vibrato, of course I will be delighted. But even if they aren't, I'll still be delighted because at least I did.' Advertisement This article originally appeared in
NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Politics
- NBC Sports
Report: Text message critical of JC Tretter is being "shared among" NFL players
With NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell out, it's more than fair to be curious about the future of NFLPA chief strategy officer JC Tretter. And we're not the only ones who have curiosity. Tretter served as NFLPA president when a top-secret process resulted in Howell being hired. Then, after Tretter was no longer eligible to serve as NFLPA president, Howell hired Tretter into the newly-created position of chief strategy officer. Early Friday, long-time NFLPA security officer Craig Jones raised, in poetic fashion, internal questions about Tretter. Via Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, a text message questioning Tretter is 'being shared among NFL players.' Here's the text of it: 'When will the players rise up and hold Tretter accountable for all this? Tretter is the common denominator in all these scandals. We know Tretter: 1) Bent the rules to hire Howell; 2) Covered up Howell's background check; 3) Had knowledge of Howell's financial arrangement with Carlyle Group; 4) Kept the Arbitration decision (Drory [sic]) from his members; 5) Kept the Arbitration decision (Moreland) from his members that found he blatantly violated the CBA.' The text message is being circulated at a time when there's talk, we're told, that some members of the NFLPA executive committee want to name Tretter the interim executive director. It would be a stunning move, if it happens. It would also be the latest in a string of objectively stunning moves that are far more understandable once it's understood that enough players are not paying attention to union business to allow a small handful of them to do whatever they want.
Irish Daily Mirror
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Paranormal investigator dies suddenly while on tour with haunted Annabelle doll
The supernatural community is mourning the loss of esteemed ghost hunter Dan Rivera, who was also the guardian of the notoriously haunted Annabelle doll. Sadly, Rivera died at the age of 54 at the weekend while touring with the doll. The respected investigator was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on on Sunday evening. Rivera was in town for a sold-out event as part of his Devils on the Run tour, a controversial cross-country series showcasing the real Annabelle doll, an object infamous for its connections to demonic possession and its role in The Conjuring film series. Australian horror filmmaker James Wan, who catapulted Annabelle into global fame through his 2013 blockbuster 'The Conjuring' and its 2014 spin-off, paid tribute to Rivera on social media. He expressed his sadness over the sudden passing of Rivera, which occurred shortly after the death of Wan's close associate, producer Jason Constantine. The "Annabelle" doll (Image: Boston Globe via Getty Images) While the official cause of Rivera's death has not been disclosed, emergency dispatch records confirmed a CPR-in-progress call was made for a man fitting his description. Rivera was a lead investigator with the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR), and the organisation has confirmed his death, reports the Mirror. Rivera's untimely death has triggered a wave of grief from fans and fellow investigators worldwide. A cult figure in the paranormal world, Rivera had amassed a loyal following through his investigations. Annabelle, the notorious Raggedy Ann doll that allegedly terrorised people in the 1970s, has returned to public attention. Renowned for its spine-chilling behaviour, including stalking its owners throughout their residence and unnervingly positioning itself near the entrance to welcome them home from work, the doll has remained synonymous with supernatural activity. The possessed plaything even allegedly scribbled unsettling messages, leaving the inhabitants so frightened they called for outside help to address the disturbing communications. American ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren A psychic medium informed the horrified owners that the doll housed the soul of a departed six-year-old girl called 'Annabelle'. Believed to be under demonic control, Annabelle was ultimately handed over to renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who established NESPR in 1952. The Warrens, persuaded that the doll served as a gateway for evil entities, secured it within a glass enclosure inside their personal Occult Museum, where it stayed for years. Though earlier this year, Rivera and NESPR transported the terrifying relic on a travelling exhibition. Metro reported that a Pennsylvania State Police document, released by Trooper Megan Frazer, confirmed that 'nothing unusual or suspicious was observed at the scene'. The paranormal investigator died on Annabelle haunted tour (Image: dan_rivera_nespr/Instagram) The official statement explained: "Members from PSP Gettysburg responded to a hotel in Straban Township, Adams County for a report of a deceased [man]. The decedent was discovered in his hotel room by workers." Abrams County Coroner Francis Dutrow disclosed to People Magazine that Rivera had been socialising with colleagues on Sunday morning but had complained of feeling poorly and opted to retreat to his room. The specifics of his ailment and its cause are still unclear as investigations continue. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Climate
- Boston Globe
A break in humidity will unleash a wonderful end to the work week
Friday highs will reach the upper 70s and low 80s across New England. Boston Globe Advertisement Friday will see dew points finally crash back down to very comfortable levels. Boston Globe Friday will start off breezy with wind gusts topping 20 miles per hour across coastal New England. Boston Globe Weekend outlook Saturday morning's sunrise features many of us in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. The rest of the day is a picture-perfect July day with temperatures in the lower 80s and low levels of humidity. The lower dew points mean that when you get out of the water, you may feel briefly chilly because of the evaporation of the water off your skin. When it's really humid, that process doesn't work so well, but in the dry air, there's a cooling impact. High pressure will keep most of New England dry for Saturday, until very late in the evening. Boston Globe Saturday night is not as cool as Friday night as higher humidity rolls in. You'll probably want to close the windows and keep the humid air out as temperatures stay in the 60s to near 70 degrees all night. Advertisement On Sunday, another frontal system brings back cloudiness and several hours of higher humidity. There will be a few showers. I think most of the showers are over by mid-afternoon if you get them at all. Morning rain is possible across New England on Sunday. Boston Globe Then it's back to the drier air with a return to sunshine and seasonably warm temperatures for at least the first half of the upcoming week. Very often, this third week of July can be one of the best vacation weeks, and there are early signs that it is shaping up to be rather pleasant again this year. Dry air spreads through the city to close out the work week. Next week sees mostly comfortable humidity levels. Boston Globe Friday's breakdown Greater Boston: Look for sunshine and warm temperatures on Friday with readings in the 80s. Temperatures will be in the low to mid-80s on Saturday with sunshine. Southeastern Mass.: Look for a stunning Friday with temperatures in the lower to perhaps middle 80s away from the coastline, along with plenty of sunshine. Still beautiful weather on Saturday. Central and Western Mass.: Much lower humidity brings warm temperatures with readings in the lower 80s on Friday and within a few degrees of 80 on Saturday, also with sunshine. , Cape and Islands: Sunshine abounds both Friday and Saturday, with the temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s both days, along with lower humidity, especially Friday afternoon into Saturday. Rhode Island: Sunshine boosts temperatures into the lower to mid-80s on Friday with lowering humidity. Dry air with sunshine continues on Saturday and highs in the 70s at the beaches to 80s away from the water. New Hampshire: Comfortable air with temperatures near 80 on both Friday and Saturday, along with abundant sunshine. Advertisement A look at the weather across Boston for the next seven days. Boston Globe for our that will arrive straight into your inbox bright and early each weekday morning.
