The call is "Taps" and it dates back to the American Civil War."
After Gettysburg Norton sought and received a commission in the Eighth
U.
Perhaps there's something about the emotional appeal of "Taps" that leads
to such creation myths. "Its strains are melancholy, yet full of rest and peace..
There will be a preview of the NFLL's unique Audio -Visual Collection, an
astounding reference source covering 105 years worth of moving/sound images
capturing some 20 First Ladies, from Ida McKinley to Laura Bush. Further
information: regulam@firstladieslibrary .

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Thirty years after the war he received the Medal of Honor for
his bravery at the former battle; at the latter he received the wounds that
would lead to "Taps. Presidents have been well-remembered.
On Monday, March 13 the National First Ladies' Library, located in Canton,
Ohio, is marking the first time in history that the First Ladies have ever
been considered in the broader context of American Women's History , with a
symposium, museum exhibit and film screening.
Legendary figures like Abigail Adams , who created a life as both a stay-
at-home mom and a radical political partisan or Edith Wilson , who excused her
seizing presidential powers during her husband's stroke because she was a
devoted wife, will be discussed. "Imperious, Her Eyes Ablaze, The Very Image of Tosca.

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returning to the OCNC stage with bigger presence are perennial favorites
Leonard Rowe (Sacristan), and Jason S.Galbraith@operanc.

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The man responsible for "Taps" as we know it today was the Union's
Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield. "After getting it to his
satisfaction, he directed me to sound that call for Taps thereafter, in place
of the regulation call," Norton recalled in a letter to Century magazine in
1898.W. Schneider recounts
in "Taps: Notes from a Nation's Heart," Norton helped defend Little Round Top
during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg and later wrote an account
of the struggle in "The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top. "As long ago as May, I began to work for a commission in
a colored regiment.

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Others less-known will share the day, such as
Jane Pierce, who suffered from severe depression and an eating disorder - yet
encouraged slavery abolition, or Florence Harding who coped with her husband's
flagrant adultery while provoking women to seek economic, social and political
equality.org. Smith (Spoletto ). Its artistic
and management staff represent more than a century of international arts
experience in opera, dance, symphonic music and theater.

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The Museum's exhibit about Civil War music includes six battered and
tarnished bugles that served during the conflict. He had also written out a short ,
nine-note call he used when he wanted his buglers to attract the attention of
only his own soldiers . Soldiers formed up to
"Assembly," broke camp to "Boots and Saddles," and reported to the surgeon
after "Sick Call. Colored Regiment, a black regiment.
Its echoes linger in the heart long after its tones have ceased to vibrate in
the air.

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Butterfield thought the "Tattoo" was too harsh to help soldiers relax., The Opera Company of North Carolina
concludes its 2004-2005 season with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca in Memorial
Auditorium at the BTI Center for the Performing Arts on June 10 at 7:30 PM and
June 12 at 2:00 PM.

Contact: Robert Sinclair Galbraith
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Kennedy was laid to rest following his assassination.

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"I'm reminded of one of the things that Confederate General Robert E." The next day
thousands of the singers lay dead and wounded on the Tennessee battlefield. One of the most famous occasions
took place at Arlington National Cemetery in 1963 when President John F. As Richard H.firstladies . RALEIGH, N.

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The Confederates, under General Robert E.
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"There are some heart-warming myths about 'Taps,'" warns George Hicks, the
executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania."
The Museum includes "Taps" on its list of Civil War "firsts" because
during the war it emerged as the army's bugle call to signal lights out.
"The soldiers would frequently engage in band concerts or singing fests around
the fire at night and many are the tales that they would alternate," Hicks
says.

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buried at West Point, even though he had not attended the military academy
there.
In the years since, several myths about the creation of "Taps" have
appeared.
Another unfounded story says that it was Daniel Butterfield's cousin
Milton, a Confederate soldier, who composed taps .
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National Civil War Museum Explores History of 'Taps'

In camp bugles
signaled the start of the day with "Reveille" and directed activities
throughout the day from "Breakfast Call" to lights out.
Then Butterfield summoned Private Oliver Willcox Norton to his tent. The man's commanding officer decided that the
traditional rifle volley over the grave might spark more fighting.
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HARRISBURG, Pa."
The next morning buglers from other units stopped by, asking for copies of the
music.
"Taps" also made its way across Confederate lines, as music often did. CANTON, Ohio, Carved into Mount Rushmore or
engraved onto currency , U.

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Lee, beat back
the Union offensive in a series of intense battles known as the Seven Days'
campaign . Most accounts say it was an adaptation of a French bugle call,
which Butterfield may have known from a military manual General Winfield Scott
compiled in 1835.S. "You know that, with my restless disposition, I could not be
content as brigade bugler while there was a possibility of doing better ," he
wrote to his sister.com

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"It's truly unique and it sticks in your mind," says Hicks about hearing
"Taps" at a military funeral. Then to his sorrow
and astonishment, he realized the dead man was his own son. "There is
something singularly beautiful and appropriate in the music of this wonderful
call," wrote Norton.
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Bugles also directed troops in combat. At the time , black regiments had
white officers.

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When cavalry under General James H. Although "Taps" would become the army's official lights out call until
1867, it was soon taken up throughout the Union forces.
That tradition continues to this day.
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, Each Memorial Day, ceremonies
across the country echo with the sound of a plaintive bugle call, played to
honor those who died in America 's wars. Wilson attacked a
Confederate force at the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia, in September 1864,
some 250 buglers guided the Union forces through a dense fog. Lee
said," says Hicks: "We could have never had a war without music.
One night as he was recuperating from his wounds in his tent at the army's
base at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, Butterfield scratched out some notes on
an envelope. "Personally, it just rips my heart out. He was 81. At the funeral
the father had a bugler play a haunting composition he had found in his dead
son's pocket. According to this story
Milton gave the music to his Union relative after passing through enemy lines
under a flag of truce.
In conjunction, a new exhibit, "Private Lives: Public Wives," will open."
The ravishing opera diva, Floria Tosca, is trapped in a twisted triangle,
torn between the painter she loves and a villainous chief of police.she
exuded an intangible electricity, that charge that comes across to the
audience when something is really happening onstage" (The New York Times).

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His men soon added their own words:

"Dan, Dan, Dan, Butterfield, Butterfield.
Norton, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher before the war, was the bugler for
Butterfield's brigade. Shortly after
Butterfield introduced it at Harrison's Landing, Confederate artillery fire
killed a Union soldier there."

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Along with objects and documents, will be First Ladies' garments never before
seen by the public , part of a new collection, in private hands until recently,
rivaling that of the Smithsonian's.
Remembered for his unforgettable OCNC performances in Madama Butterfly and
Carmen, regional favorite and North Carolina native, John Fowler, returns as
Mario Cavaradossi, the artistic politico and love interest of Tosca. Single tickets are available through Ticketmaster at
919-834-4000, or at Ticketmaster . The Sunday matinee is audio-described
for our visually impaired patrons, courtesy of Arts Access .

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Butterfield had Norton play the notes on his envelope, requesting small
changes until it was just as he liked it."
"Taps" was also played at Daniel Butterfield's funeral. In 1880
he returned to Gettysburg for a reunion..
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and Tosca Stage Director Robert Galbraith, "From the composer of Madama
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A regiment of cavalry might have
as many as 25 buglers. "The Confederates, poised on the edge of battle, would sing one song
and then they'd yell across the lines, 'Alright Yank, let's hear one of
yours. Norton had an interesting war too. "That familiar sound echoing among the rocks
where they had fought brought back, perhaps more vividly than words could do,
the memories of the days when they had answered so often to its sound," he
wrote.
"It's a nice story, it's a lovely story, but there's no historical fact ,"
says Hicks.
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Following his triumphant United States debut with the Minnesota Opera, the
brilliant young Italian conductor , Maestro Francesco Colombo, makes his
Atlantic Coast debut and promises to lead audiences to new heights as The
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grand opera! "Milanese conductor Francesco Maria Colombo teases an impressive
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Visitors can use headphones
to hear several bugle calls, including "Taps.
"Taps" has long been entwined with military deaths. Risking his
life to cross into enemy territory , the Union man dragged the wounded soldier
to safety, only to discover that the Confederate had died . Anthony, the nation's leading FL expert will serve
as moderator.
The NFLL is located in Canton , OH, one hour south of Cleveland. With a
radiant voice of beauty, power, nuance and musicality, and a demanding
theatrical presence, Lisa Daltirus makes her OCNC debut in the title role of
Floria Tosca. Other new faces to OCNC audiences include William McMurray
(Angelotti) and Ronn K.

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The Museum , which opened in 2001, has 65,000 square feet of
exhibit space that tells the story of the entire conflict, without sectional
bias.
During that campaign Butterfield distinguished himself at Gaines' Mill and
Malvern Hill. The bugler, Sergeant
Keith Clark, accidentally cracked a note during his emotional rendition. Minds." features keynote speaker
Harvard Professor and leading American Women's History scholar, Nancy Cott.
Included are breakfast and lunch the day of the event and an opening reception
and author book signing Sunday, March 12th in the Saxton-McKinley Home, the
only existing presidential home of William + Ida McKinley. A North Carolina native, Cheek made his Metropolitan Opera debut
in 1977 and has been a member of that company ever since, singing many of the
leading bass-baritone roles in Don Giovanni, La Boheme, The Magic Flute,
Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte , Aida, Pelleas et Melisande, Faust and La
Clemenza di Tito. McKinney (Sciarrone).

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Born in Utica, New York, in 1831,
Butterfield commanded a brigade in General George McClellan's Army of the
Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, when the Union attempted to
capture Richmond."

Or, as their general recalled, they had alternate words when they weren't
feeling happy with their commander:

"Damn, damn, damn, Butterfield, Butterfield.
Norton played "Taps" that evening. Instead he
had his bugler play the new call. "It
was like a catch in your voice, or a swiftly stifled sob," wrote William
Manchester in "The Death of a President."
After the war Norton became a successful businessman in Chicago.
Norton died in 1920 at his home in Chicago .C.

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As an officer, Butterfield had a rudimentary knowledge of how to play the
bugle and sound calls to direct his troops. "The music was beautiful on that still
summer night," he wrote, "and was heard far beyond the limits of our Brigade.'"
On one occasion described at the Museum, Union and Confederate soldiers on
the eve of the Battle of Murfreesboro at the end of 1862 engaged in a duel of
songs until both sides joined together on "Home Sweet Home. Three weeks
after the holiday set aside for the chief executives; however, the First
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Also making his OCNC debut is Metropolitan Opera favorite, John Cheek
(Scarpia).

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Such calls played an important role during the Civil War."
At the start of the war the army signaled lights out with the "Tattoo," a
bugle call that may have received its name from the Dutch expression "tap
toe," which meant it was time to shut off the taps in the drinking
establishments so soldiers would return to camp. After serving as
chief of staff for Generals Joseph Hooker and George Meade and being wounded
at the Battle of Gettysburg, Butterfield ended the conflict as a major general
and died on July 17, 1901, at his home in Cold Spring, New York. Standing on Little Round Top, Norton
pulled out his battered bugle and played Dan Butterfield's call for the
veterans gathered around him. The most prevalent tells the story of a Union soldier at Harrison's
Landing who heard the moans of a wounded soldier in the night.
The call is only 24 notes long, yet it tugs at the emotions.

From the opening chords to the dramatic finale, Tosca is
one of the Italian verismo's most revered and dramatically viable works. The timing is solid and the
interpretation of the score rich and clear" (Aisle Say Twin Cities).