The Beggar’s Opera

Jovan Stosic February 15, 2020

The Beggar’s Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative. The lyrics of the airs in the piece are set to popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar%27s_Opera

Ballad opera

Jovan Stosic February 15, 2020

The ballad opera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later. Like the earlier comédie en vaudeville and the later Singspiel, its distinguishing characteristic is the use of tunes in a popular style (either pre-existing or newly composed) with spoken dialogue. These English plays were ‘operas‘ mainly insofar as they satirized the conventions of the imported opera seria. Music critic Peter Gammond describes the ballad opera as “an important step in the emancipation of both the musical stage and the popular song.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_opera

The Threepenny Opera

Jovan Stosic February 15, 2020

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a “play with music” by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay‘s 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar’s Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht is usually listed as sole author.

The work offers a socialist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.

Songs from The Threepenny Opera have been widely covered and become standards, most notably “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer” (“The Ballad of Mack the Knife“) and “Seeräuberjenny” (“Pirate Jenny“).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera

linux – Can postfix be set up to forward mail to multiple recipients – Server Fault

Jovan Stosic February 13, 2020

You can make alias on multiply addresses and setup a bcc for that alias:

Find or edit bcc_map (or else name) file in /etc/postfix, compile this into a postfix hash file using:

postmap bcc_map

Add tp postfix main.cf config:

sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/bcc_map

Source: linux – Can postfix be set up to forward mail to multiple recipients – Server Fault

Sort the Moodle Gradebook Using Groups 

Jovan Stosic February 9, 2020
  1. On your course page, select the Course Management button (black gear icon Course Management button (black background, white gear icon), top right). Under Course Settings, click Edit course settings. The Edit course settings page will open.
  2. Click the Groups heading to view and adjust group settings.
  3. From the Group mode drop-down menu, select either Separate groups or Visible groups.
    Note: It does not matter which mode you use for viewing the Gradebook by group, but your choice will become the default when adding new activities to the course. For a description of both of these modes, refer to Group Modes in Moodle.
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.

If you need to create your own custom groups, see Create & Modify Groups in Moodle.

View Grades for Specific Groups or Sections

To view grades for specific groups or sections in your course:

  1. On your course page, select the Course Management button (black gear icon Course Management button (black background, white gear icon), top right). Under Grading, click Grader report. The Grader report page will open.
  2. At the top of the Grader report, from the Separate/Visible groups drop-down menu (left), select a group name. Your gradebook will refresh to show only the students in that group.
    Note: You will not see this menu unless group mode is enabled for your course (see Enable Group Mode above).
  3. To return to showing all students, select All participants from the Separate/Visible groups drop-down menu.

 

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