muscle spindle
muscle spindle A
stretch receptor in vertebrate muscle. Muscle spindles run parallel to normal muscle fibres; each consists of a capsule containing small striated muscle fibres (
intrafusal fibres). Muscle spindles are responsible for the adjustment of muscle tone and play an important role in the subconscious maintenance of posture and movement. See also
stretch reflex.
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Robert Merrill / Jan Peerce
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/1996; ; 348 words
; ...1945-50). Legato Classics 199 Jon Peerce ARIAS, SONGS (1935-50). Legato Classics...transfers is rich and satisfying. The Peerce CD features several of the tenor's earliest...those of Merrill, and it is curious that Peerce's Don Ottavio arias are omitted, in...
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Looking Back: Jan. 14, 2009
Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun; 1/14/2009; ; 677 words
; Plans for cold storage plant heating up SIXTY YEARS AGO Metropolitan tenor Jan Peerce gave a thrilling performance to a large crowd in St. Paul's Church. FIFTY YEARS AGO Mildred Slator, a 23-year-old Canadian...
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Former opera singer Germaine now lifts voice to God
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 6/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...metropolitan opera singer Jan Peerce (now deceased). "I...friend, only this time Peerce was carrying a copy of...in Liturgy and Song." Peerce had forgotten that remark...Albuquerque, was invited by Jan Popper, the director of...
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A question of identity
Magazine article from: Opera News; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...AS ELEAZAR IN LA JUIVE, ABOVE; PEERCE AS THE DUKE OF MANTUA, RIGHT Imagine...Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters and Jan Peerce sang those roles, of course, but...press printed about them. "He is Jan Peerce," Newsweek wrote in January 1941...
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Aida/Un ballo in maschera/La forza del destino/Il trovatore
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...rosea;1,7 Miserere3,4,7 * Zinka Milanov (sop); Jan Peerce (ten);4 Leonard Warren (bar);5 Nicola Moscona...trovatore, one of "her" operas. Her partner on it is Jan Peerce. According to Nimbus, it was recorded in February 1952...
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On the Beat
Magazine article from: Opera News; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...surprisingly well informed about opera history. He joked with JAN PEERCE about Peerce's real name, Jacob Pincus "Pinky" Perelmuth, and was tuned in to Peerce's Bob-and-Bing relationship with his good buddy...
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LEONARD WARREN
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Destino: Solenne in quest'ora (with Jan Peerce); Morir! tremenda cosa . . . uma...Keast); invano, Alvaro (with Jan Peerce). Aida: Ciel! mio padre (with...evident in the two Forza duets with Jan Peerce. Happily for us, he sang the duets...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/27/1999; 356 words
; Q. WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT JAN PEERCE, WHO RECORDED "BLUE BIRD OF HAPPINESS," AND WHERE...HOPEDALE A. OPERATIC TENOR AND CANTORIAL SINGER JAN PEERCE, WHOSE REAL NAME WAS JACOB PINCUS PERELMUTH, WAS BORN...
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Classical: The Compact Collection ROB COWAN ON THE WEEK'S CD RELEASES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...liked Toscanini's favoured tenor, Jan Peerce, a latter-day Tevye (Fiddler...discovered radio recordings" by Peerce, including half a dozen quality...Giordano, Erato 3984-29694-2 `Jan Peerce: Newly Discovered Radio Recordings...
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Folksbiene Actors' Double Identity: Going Backstage at America's
Newspaper article from: Forward; 12/29/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Identity," running through Jan. 21, is based on Sholem Aleichem...Jewish Hersch Shneyerson (Harry Peerce) and the Gentile Ivan Ivanovitsh...nourishment." Mr. Sterner and Mr. Peerce view their involvement in the...laugh-getting aplomb. Mr. Peerce looks a young 40, but like...
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Jan Peerce
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jan Peerce 1904-85, American tenor, b. New York City as Jacob Pincus Perelmuth...chose him to be a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Peerce made his operatic debut in Philadelphia in 1938, singing the Duke in Verdi...
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Peerce, Jan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Peerce, Jan [ Perelmuth, Jacob Pincus ] ( b NY, 1904; d New Rochelle, NY, 1984). Amer. tenor. Trained as violinist, played and sang...
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Metropolitan Opera House
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...xE9;gime operas by Strauss, Janáček, Respighi...Amer. singers, e.g. Warren, Peerce, Tucker, Traubel, Thebom...First broadcasts from Met 12 Jan. 1910 (Act II of Tosca ), 13 Jan. ( Cav. and Pag. ). NBC relays...
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Tucker, Richard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...xE9;but); CG 1958; La Scala 1969. Sang in Toscanini concert-opera perf. ( Aida ). His brother-in-law was Jan Peerce . Only singer whose funeral service took place on the stage of the Met.
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