“Trion:Z Supports the Heroes - msnbc.com” plus 1 more

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:57 PM PDT

CHESHIRE, ENGLAND — Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this Press Release.

Trion:Z teamed up with the charity Help for Heroes in January 2010 to create a series of bracelets branded with the H4H logos. Since the launch of the series in January Trion:Z has donated GBP 3 per bracelet sold to the charity and due to the overwhelming support for the cause has expanded their charity range to include four colour options available in all sizes.

"The Help for Heroes range are amongst our most popular items on the website, which simply proves what a worthwhile cause it is. We have great pride in our affiliation with the organisation and look forward to continuing our support in the future," comments Paul Hendry (Trion:Z EU CEO).

Trion:Z bracelets and necklaces are worn by thousands of athletes. These include golfing star, Rory McIlroy, a host of England cricketers including James Anderson and Stuart Broad, and Olympic Silver Medallist Triathlete Michellie Jones, who believe in the power of Trion:Z's magnetic and ionic products to help improve endurance and promote faster recovery following exercise among many other benefits.

Emma Parry, MD of H4H Trading says, "We are delighted to be selling the 4 customised H4H Trion:Z bracelets. As a charity that encourages people to actively challenge themselves, whether that's competing in a Triathlon or taking part in our challenges, these bracelets are perfect for any budding athlete and we are thrilled to be able to continue this partnership."

Trion:Z is distributed in the UK, Europe and Middle East by Sales Marketing Solutions Ltd and the H4H range is available in all colours and sizes at www.trionz.co.uk.

Trion:Z donates GBP 3 from each Help for Heroes bracelet directly to the charity.

For images, please visit http://www.trionz.co.uk/Category/7-charity-bracelet.aspx.

Help for Heroes Trion:Z bracelets will also be available at www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk.

About Trion:Z

Trion:Z launched its award winning range of products in 1997 and is now a leader in providing magnetic ionic gear to the global health and fitness arena, with a presence in over 60 countries worldwide.

Manufactured by Japan's leading manufacturer of medically certified devices, Arc Quest Co. Ltd, Trion:Z health and lifestyle products uniquely boast Japanese medical approval, along with full ISO accreditations and the European trading CE Mark.

Trion:Z and Colantotte products are categorised as Alternative or Complimentary Health products and use patented magnetic ionic technology which is unique to their ranges only. The search for such non invasive therapies to help with stress, pain, fatigue, to promote sporting endurance, exercise and training recovery and to enhance general physical performance at any level is ever increasing in popularity. With nearly 40% of U.S. adults reporting using such alternative methods, medical associations are researching more and more into technologies like Trion:Z, deemed a 'no health risk' by the World Health Organisation.

About Help for Heroes

Help for Heroes (H4H) is an independent British charity, founded by Bryn and Emma Parry in October 2007 out of a desire to help members of the Armed Forces who have been injured in the course of serving their country. Of all the money raised to date for H4H, nearly all of it has either been spent or allocated to provide facilities and support services that benefit British servicemen and women injured in action.

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Tracing Two Romantic Heroes to Their Musical Roots - Wall Street Journal

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:16 PM PDT

By STUART ISACOFF

The Romantic era—a time of soaring melodies and outsize personalities—spawned numerous tormented souls who burst onto the scene like shooting stars, produced exquisite art, then plunged rapidly into insanity, illness or an early demise, spent by their own glorious flames. Two of the greatest such figures are celebrating their 200th anniversaries this year: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), a lyrical genius whose impeccably crafted music was marked, as Franz Liszt noted, by a "deep melancholy"; and Robert Schumann (1810-1856), whose sense of fantasy overwhelmed his art and, ultimately, his mind.

Jon Dessen

Ian Hobson begins a 10-concert tribute to Chopin and Schumann Tuesday at the Dicapo Opera Theatre.

Each is often regarded as unique—an originator of strangely beautiful work that seemed to have no precedents. But Ian Hobson, the distinguished pianist with an international performing and recording career and a huge repertoire, is determined to change that view.

"The Heritage and Legacy of Chopin & Schumann," a 10-concert series beginning Tuesday at the Dicapo Opera Theatre on East 76th Street, will celebrate not only Chopin and Schumann, but also the composers who influenced them—such as Bach and Beethoven—along with others who followed in their footsteps.

"I've been recording the complete works of Chopin in Poland," Mr. Hobson said, "and exploring the music of his contemporaries, like Beethoven, [Johann Nepomuk] Hummel and [Ignaz] Moscheles. I began to find surprising links. So this series is a natural outgrowth."

"The first concert, for example, includes Chopin's 'Impromptu' No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, which is full of fantasy and filigree writing. As it turns out, the texture and key are both very much like the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier Sonata,' Op. 106. Is this coincidence? I can't say for sure, but it's interesting. On the second half, I play Moscheles's 'Impromptu' right before Chopin's 'Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp minor,' Op. 66. In this case, there is no doubt that Chopin was influenced. And the final piece on the program, Schumann's 'Carnival in Vienna,' quotes the 'Hammerklavier Sonata' in a subtle way at the end of the first movement, and also hints at the music of his contemporaries, including Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert."

Moscheles figures prominently on another program, when two of his Etudes will precede the Etudes, Op. 10 by Chopin. "The first one, in G, uses a chromatic [half-step] scale in double notes, which makes use of the third finxger going up and down the keyboard," explained the pianist. "Chopin's Etude in A minor is in the same time signature, has the same flow of notes, but he uses the fourth and fifth fingers of the right hand. The connection is impossible to miss."

Mr. Hobson's artistic partner in planning the series, David Dubal, will elucidate these connections through short lectures at each of the performances. A writer, teacher and broadcaster, Mr. Dubal traces the origins of the current collaboration to a Juilliard class he was instructing in which Mr. Hobson was a guest.

"I was playing a Moriz Rosenthal recording for the class, and asked Ian if he knew this composer-pianist's difficult and wonderful piece, 'Carnaval de Vienne,'" remembered Mr. Dubal. "'Of course I do,' came the reply, and he went to the piano and played it perfectly, even though he hadn't performed it in years."

The work, which captures the spirit of Romantic Vienna, will be performed during the Nov. 8 concert, along with a collection of waltzes by Chopin and Ravel.

"Some of the connections are speculative," Mr. Hobson said. "But in some cases the connective tissue is indisputable. Take Hummel's F-Sharp minor Sonata. Schumann wanted to play it so badly that some blame the damage he suffered to his hand from practicing this Sonata's final movement."

Indeed, Schumann fashioned his own early Sonata in F-Sharp minor after Hummel's, and even tried to convince Hummel to accept him as a student. But the older man—Mozart's most famous pupil—was not interested, assessing Schumann's samples as "distinctive" but "somewhat bizarre." Later, Schumann got even by reviewing Hummel's Etudes, Op. 125, and lamenting their absence of "imagination."

"The legacy part includes works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Roberto Sierra, a contemporary composer whose Preludes, written for me, will be given their world premiere on the series," Mr. Hobson said. "Of course, the Chopin Preludes will appear on that same program."

The series will also feature works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Poland's Karol Szymanowski, Russia's Alexander Scriabin and Irishman John Field, who invented the "Nocturne."

"The whole project is very exciting," exulted Mr. Hobson, "including the performance location. It's an intimate space with very fine acoustics, where they normally present chamber operas. To me, it's reminiscent of the 19th century, rather than the atmosphere of a modern concert hall. It fits the occasion perfectly."

—Stuart Isacoff is on the faculty of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music (SUNY).

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