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News18
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Lydian Nadhaswaram's Musical Interpretation Of Thirukkural To Release On THIS Date
Last Updated: Lydian Nadhaswaram, winner of CBS's The World's Best, announced his project The Thirukkural 1330 - Musical Ethos will release on September 6, 2025. Musical prodigy Lydian Nadhaswaram, known for winning the global talent show The World's Best in 2019, has announced the release date of his much-anticipated project, The Thirukkural 1330 – Musical Ethos. The announcement came on World Music Day, through a heartfelt post on his official X (formerly known as Twitter) account. 'Happy World Music Day! Celebrating music with a glimpse into one of the most meaningful projects of my life 'THE THIRUKKURAL 1330 – Musical Ethos' Chapter 1 – India. Releasing September 6, 2025. Venue, release format, and full details will be announced soon. More updates on the way!" Lydian wrote. Take a look at his post on X below: Happy World Music Day! 🌍🎶Celebrating music with a glimpse into one of the most meaningful project of my life 'THE THIRUKKURAL 1330 – Musical Ethos"Chapter 1 – IndiaReleasing September 6, 2025 ✨ Venue, release format, and full details will be announced updates… — Lydian Nadhaswaram (@lydian_official) June 21, 2025 The young Chennai-based artist, who is also the only disciple of music maestro Ilaiyaraaja, added more about the scale and scope of the work: 'This project features 1000+ voices, spanning across genres from all over the world, along with a few new musical styles born along the way — all woven together to bring the immortal words of Thiruvalluvar into sound, along with their meanings." The Thirukkural, a timeless Tamil literary masterpiece consisting of 1,330 couplets, covers themes like virtue, wealth, and love. Known for its universal and secular values, it's considered one of the greatest works of classical literature. Lydian's musical interpretation is expected to offer a unique way for listeners to experience the essence of each Kural. At just 17, Lydian stunned the world with his piano skills on the CBS show, taking home a $1 million prize. He is also known for his ability to play more than 14 instruments — from the tabla to the guitar — and continues to push creative boundaries in music. Earlier this year, his mentor Ilaiyaraaja made history by performing a Western classical symphony in London, and now all eyes are on Lydian as he prepares to introduce The Thirukkural 1330 – Musical Ethos to the world this September. First Published:
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Yahoo
2 men arrested for drug trafficking during separate stops in Nelson County
BARDSTOWN, Ky. (FOX 56)— Deputies with the Nelson County Sheriff's Office were busy Wednesday night carrying out two separate arrests for drug trafficking. The driver, James Roach, 40, of Bardstown, was arrested and lodged in the Nelson County Correcitonal Center on Wednesday. He was charged with: Former UK student Sophia Rosing files for early release after assaulting Black woman On Thursday, the sheriff's office wrote on Facebook that the first arrest resulted from a traffic stop for careless driving and an expired registration from May 2023. A search of the vehicle reportedly revealed 'a large amount' of marijuana, along with several oxycodone and gabapentin pills. Careless driving Expired registration plates Failure to notify the Kentucky Cabinet of Transportation of change of address Trafficking in marijuana—less than five pounds First-degree trafficking in a controlled substance—first offense Court documents show that the second traffic stop of the night happened just before 2:30 a.m. on Thursday near Foster Heights Elementary School. Deputies reportedly saw a tan Chevrolet sedan driving by with neither the driver nor passenger wearing their seatbelt. After pulling the car over, deputies noticed the inside allegedly smelled like burning marijuana. During a search of the car, driven by Kevin Lydian, 45, of Bardstown, the NCSO found a plastic bag containing a rock-like white substance believed to be crack cocaine, according to an arrest citation. The sheriff's office also found a quart-sized bag of a powder substance believed to be cocaine that weighed several grams, along with $885 in cash. Lydian was charged with: Read more of the latest Kentucky news Failure to wear seat belts Possession of drug paraphernalia Possession of marijuana First-degree trafficking in a controlled substance—first offense—greater than or equal to four grams of cocaine Lydian was lodged in the Nelson County Correctional Center. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Howard Riley obituary
The Yorkshire-born pianist Howard Riley, who has died aged 81, was a leading figure among the first generation of European jazz musicians to prioritise creating an idiom of their own out of the language developed by the American musicians they had admired and studied. Riley brought to the task a knowledge of the advanced techniques pioneered by contemporary classical composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Krzysztof Penderecki and Luciano Berio. But there was no straining for effect as he applied that knowledge to music with improvisation at its core, and his work was always most profoundly marked by his love and understanding of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and other great jazz musicians. It was with the lineup of the conventional piano-bass-drums jazz trio that he first made his reputation at the end of the 1960s. In later decades he also became renowned for his solo performances and for duo recitals with empathetic fellow pianists, including Jaki Byard and Keith Tippett. Notable for a lack of bombast or sentimentality, his playing conveyed to attentive audiences a deeper warmth beneath its apparently austere surface. Whether he was playing his own compositions, pieces by Ellington and Monk or a standard such as The Folks Who Live on the Hill, there was always the feeling that the material was being thoroughly and sympathetically investigated, and that new facets were being turned towards the light. Across the UK, Europe, the US and elsewhere, his listeners respected his refusal to provide easy emotional triggers. He was born in Huddersfield, the elder of the two sons of Marjorie (nee Emmott), a secretary, and John Riley, an engineer and part-time dance band leader, and educated at Huddersfield New College, then a grammar school. Like his brother, Paul, Howard received piano lessons from his father and by 1960 he was leading his own trio in a local club. He studied music at Bangor University, where he gained a BA and an MA, and it was during an inter-university jazz competition at the recently opened Fairfield Halls in Croydon that he first encountered the saxophonist Evan Parker, a student at Birmingham University; they struck up a friendship and would soon be playing together. Riley spent 1966-67 in the US, studying for an MMus degree at Indiana University, where he wrote his thesis on the composer George Russell's Lydian chromatic concept of tonal organisation, under the distinguished professor David Baker, who had played trombone in Russell's pioneering bands. Returning to England, Riley studied for an MPhil at York University from 1967 to 1970. In 1967 he made his first recording, leading a trio with the bassist Barry Guy, who would become a long-term collaborator, and the drummer Jon Hiseman. A mere 99 copies of the album, Discussions, were pressed by Opportunity, a tiny independent label, ensuring its future status as a highly prized collectors' item. It was an exciting time to be at the cutting edge of British jazz, and a year later Riley became one of a small group of London-based musicians signed to CBS, a major label. Riley's two albums for the company, Angle (1969) and The Day Will Come (1970), again featured his trio, with Hiseman replaced by Alan Jackson, and were widely praised. Over the course of those three albums, and a fourth, Flight (1971), on the Turtle label, with Tony Oxley replacing Jackson on drums, the group could be heard developing a language that moved away from American influences and the orthodox trio approach towards something much freer, including the application of electronic devices to increasingly adventurous compositions by each of the musicians. All three rejected the sort of involvement in a jazz-rock fusion that was proving irresistible to their contemporaries. While others were copying rock's basic rhythm pattern, Riley believed that 'it negates practically all the rhythmic developments made over the last few decades'. A composition for octet, titled Convolution, was commissioned from the pianist in 1970 by BBC Radio 3's Music in Our Time. That year he was also a founder member of Guy's 21-piece London Jazz Composers Orchestra and of the Musicians Co-operative, a short-lived organisation set up to lobby for greater exposure for the newer forms of jazz. The first of his many solo albums, Shaped, was released in 1977. Another, Beyond Category (1993), examined the compositions of Monk and Ellington. There would be duo albums with Byard, Tippett and the saxophonist Elton Dean, and appearances with other small groups, including a trio with the bassist Jeff Clyne and the drummer Tony Levin and a quartet with Guy, the saxophonist Trevor Watts and the drummer John Stevens, all of whom Riley had met at the Little Theatre Club in London in the late 60s. From the 70s onwards he taught in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at Goldsmiths College (now Goldsmiths, University of London), where his popular Saturday jazz workshop lasted from 1979 to 2020. In 2012, during a solo performance at the Royal Festival Hall, he suddenly experienced the feeling that one of his feet had seized up, making it impossible to depress the damper pedal. When the sensation recurred on a much more drastic scale during a subsequent recording session, he went to the doctor and was told he had Parkinson's disease. Medication enabled him to resume practising and performing, and a memorable duo concert in 2016 with Tippett at the Pizza Express in London became part of the filmmaker Cath Longbottom's documentary on Riley, shown at GIOfest, an annual festival of improvisation in Glasgow, in 2021. His final releases, including Constant Change, a seven-CD retrospective, were issued on the NoBusiness label, run from Vilnius by two Lithuanian enthusiasts. The effects of Parkinson's grew more debilitating, and Riley made his final public appearance at Guy's 70th birthday evening at the Vortex in Dalston, north London, in 2017. Despite his physical frailty, the refinement and wisdom of his playing proved to be undimmed. His final years were spent in a care home in Beckenham, Kent, where a piano was available. He is survived by Annie Garrett, his partner of 29 years, a former actor and drama teacher who helped set up the Brit school, and by three stepchildren, Tess, Fay and Reuben. Howard (John Howard) Riley, pianist and composer, born 16 February 1943, died 8 February 2025
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lydian Announces Successful Demonstration of Novel Sustainable Aviation Fuel Technology
Company also received DARPA award to develop prototype technology for defense applications CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lydian, the electric fuels company, today announced the successful pilot demonstration of its technology for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for commercial and defense applications. The pilot plant, which can produce up to 25 gallons of fuel per day, is located at RTI International in North Carolina. This milestone was achieved within three years of the company's founding and with only a fraction of capital typically associated with SAF demonstrations – a major achievement for both Lydian and the SAF industry. Lydian's novel process uses captured CO2, water, and renewable electricity to produce a drop-in alternative for today's fossil-based jet fuel, with up to 95% lower emissions. "In less than three years, we've moved from concept to pilot, which marks a pivotal step towards our long-term goal of decarbonizing aviation," said Joe Rodden, CEO and co-founder of Lydian. "This pilot showcases the viability of our novel technology to produce SAF and our ability to scale towards commercial production in record time." Lydian's power-to-liquids (PtL) technology is part of a growing evolution within the SAF industry that has seen PtL approaches gain traction due to highly accessible and scalable feedstock (waste CO2 emissions) and minimal land and water usage compared to biofuels. As a result, PtL approaches can achieve the lowest emissions of any SAF. Lydian is revolutionizing the PtL category of sustainable aviation fuel by addressing one of its biggest challenges—the significant amount of electricity required to power the technology. Lydian's modular reactors are designed to operate variably to follow the availability of low-cost renewable power. This flexibility not only reduces operating costs but also avoids direct competition for clean power and reduces strain on the grid—an increasingly critical advantage as grid infrastructure struggles to keep pace with growing demand from high-energy sectors like computing and manufacturing. "Since day one, we've approached our system design holistically, ensuring no compromises on cost or efficiency," said Dr. Branko Zugic, CTO and co-founder of Lydian. "Our advancements in process intensification and conversion efficiency have led to numerous breakthroughs that enable hard-to-replicate cost and logistical benefits for both commercial and defense use cases." In addition to its pilot success, Lydian received a DARPA award through the "Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for Energy Resilience and Stabilization" (ExCURSion) program, which seeks to develop portable, closed, rechargeable expeditionary power systems that store energy as carbon-based fuel. The award will support Lydian's research and development efforts to produce a prototype that addresses the logistical burden of supplying fuel in remote locations. Transporting fuel remains a critical challenge for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which consumes over 70 million barrels of fuel annually to support global operations and training, according to the 2023 Annual Energy Performance, Resilience, and Readiness Report. Localized, resilient fuel production technologies like Lydian's could enable fuel production closer to the point of use, reducing the risks and costs associated with transporting fuel to remote locations while enhancing energy security. Lydian's first commercial-scale demonstration plant is expected to be operational in 2027 with a full-scale commercial plant deployment in 2030 capable of 20 million gallons per year. The company is executing at an accelerated pace with a team of top scientists and engineers recruited from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Anduril, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and top academic labs including Stanford and MIT. About LydianLydian, the electric fuels company, is on a mission to decarbonize the aviation industry. Founded in 2021, Lydian is developing novel technology to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals from CO2, water, and renewable electricity, instead of fossil fuels. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit Business Contact:press@ Media Contact:Chris AllieriMulberry & Astorchris@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Lydian Sign in to access your portfolio
