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107-471: Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos ; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at

214-648: A B-side , "Walking With You". Before this, she had performed under her middle name, Ellen, and was considering the stage name "Sammy Jaye" at the time, but permanently adopted "Tori" after a friend's boyfriend told her she looked like a Torrey pine , a tree native to the West Coast. By the time she was 17, Amos had a stock of homemade demo tapes that her father regularly sent out to record companies and producers. Producer Narada Michael Walden responded favorably: he and Amos cut some tracks together, but none were released. Eventually, Atlantic Records responded to one of

321-496: A "sonic novel", the album explores Amos' alter ego , Scarlet, intertwined with her cross-country concert tour following 9/11 . Through the songs, Amos explores such topics as the history of America, American people, Native American history, pornography, masochism , homophobia and misogyny . The album had a strong debut at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. Scarlet's Walk is Amos' last album to date to reach certified gold status from

428-578: A 20-room mansion he dubbed "Silver Spring" on a 250-acre (1 km ) country homestead. In 1854, Blair moved to the mansion permanently. The house stood until 1954. By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair , who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln and represented Dred Scott before the U.S. Supreme Court , built the Falkland house in the area. By the end of the decade, Elizabeth Blair married Samuel Phillips Lee , third cousin of future Confederate leader Robert E. Lee , and gave birth to

535-485: A 2002 PBS documentary entitled Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb . In 2003, Discovery Communications moved its headquarters from nearby Bethesda to a new building in downtown Silver Spring. In 2017, Discovery, Inc. CEO David Zaslav announced that the company was relocating to New York City to operate close to their "ad partners on Madison Avenue ", "investors and analysts on Wall Street ", and their "creative and production community". ) 2003 also brought

642-429: A Lite Sneeze ", " Professional Widow ", " Spark ", " 1000 Oceans ", " Flavor " and " A Sorta Fairytale ", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1 's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at number 71. Amos

749-476: A backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called "Distant Storm" (which she did not write), which was used in the film China O'Brien . In the credits, the song is attributed to a band called Tess Makes Good. Amos recorded the vocals for the song in 1988, for $ 150; she was unaware for several years that the song had actually been heard in a film. Other than the appearance in the film itself, "Distant Storm" has never been commercially issued in any format. Despite

856-589: A blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory in order to argue that the aesthetics of disgust are useful of thinking in a broader way about women's experience of all art forms. Amos released her second memoir, called Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage on May 5, 2020. Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (2022) by Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman is an official graphic novel celebrating 30 years of Tori Amos' breakout album Little Earthquakes . Mezzo-soprano While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include

963-602: A boy, Francis Preston Blair Lee , who went on to become the first popularly elected Senator in U.S. history. During the American Civil War , Abraham Lincoln visited the Silver Spring mansion several times, where he relaxed by playing town ball with Francis P. Blair's grandchildren. In 1864, Confederate States Army General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring before the Battle of Fort Stevens . After

1070-669: A brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released a live album From Russia With Love in December the same year, recorded in Moscow on September 3, 2010. The limited edition set included a signature edition Lomography Diana F+ camera, along with two lenses, a roll of film and one of five photographs taken of Amos during her time in Moscow. The set was released exclusively through her website and only 2000 copies were produced. In September 2011, Amos released her first classical-style music album, Night of Hunters , featuring variations on

1177-490: A county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called "More Than Just a Friend". As a senior at Richard Montgomery High School , she co-wrote " Baltimore " with her brother, Mike Amos, for a competition involving the Baltimore Orioles . The song did not win the contest but became her first single, released as a 7-inch single pressed locally for family and friends in 1980 with another Amos-penned composition as

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1284-523: A deluxe version of the album Boys for Pele to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original release. This follows the deluxe re-releases of her first two albums in 2015. On September 8, 2017, Amos released Native Invader , accompanied by a world tour. During the summer of 2017, Amos launched three songs from the album: "Cloud Riders", "Up the Creek", and "Reindeer King", the latter featuring string arrangements by John Philip Shenale . Produced by Amos,

1391-439: A different race domiciled with an owner or tenant." In practice, covenants excluding "Semitic races" were primarily used to discriminate against Jews, as Montgomery County did not have significant Armenian, Greek, Iranian, or Turkish populations at the time. In all, housing in more than 10 square miles of greater Silver Spring was blocked off to Blacks, Jews, Armenians, Persians, Turks, and Greeks, who were considered non-white at

1498-497: A digital download. Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Amos decided to record a cover album , taking songs written by men about women and reversing the gender roles to reflect a woman's perspective. That became Strange Little Girls , released in September 2001. The album is Amos' first concept album , with artwork featuring Amos photographed in character of the women portrayed in each song. Amos would later reveal that

1605-656: A fuller, more dramatic quality. Such roles include Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Zerlina in his Don Giovanni . Mezzos sometimes play dramatic soprano roles such as Santuzza in Mascagni 's Cavalleria rusticana , Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth , and Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal . The vocal range of the mezzo-sopranos lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types . Mezzo-sopranos generally have

1712-554: A heavier, darker tone than sopranos. The mezzo-soprano voice resonates in a higher range than that of a contralto. The terms Dugazon and Galli-Marié are sometimes used to refer to light mezzo-sopranos, after the names of famous singers. Usually men singing within the female range are called countertenors since there is a lighter more breathy tonal (falsetto) quality difference. In current operatic practice, female singers with very low tessituras are often included among mezzo-sopranos, because singers in both ranges are able to cover

1819-548: A household in the census area was US$ 71,986 , and the median income for a family was US$ 84,136 . Prior to European settlement, present-day Silver Spring was inhabited by various Indigenous peoples for approximately 10,000 years, including the Piscataway , an Algonquian-speaking people. The Piscataway may have established a few small villages along the banks of Sligo Creek and Rock Creek . The Blair, Lee, Jalloh, and Barrie families, three politically active families of

1926-404: A large swath of eastern Montgomery County sometimes called "Greater Silver Spring", including Four Corners , Woodmoor , Wheaton , Glenmont , Forest Glen , Forest Glen Park , Aspen Hill , Hillandale , White Oak , Colesville , Colesville Park, Cloverly , Calverton , Briggs Chaney, Greencastle, Northwood Park, Ashton , Sandy Spring , Sunset Terrace, Fairland , Lyttonsville , Kemp Mill ,

2033-402: A lead role ): The lyric mezzo-soprano has a range from approximately the G note below middle C (G 3 , 196 Hz) to the A two octaves above middle C (A 5 , 880 Hz). This voice has a very smooth, sensitive and at times lachrymose quality. Lyric mezzo-sopranos do not have the vocal agility of the coloratura mezzo-soprano or the size of the dramatic mezzo-soprano. The lyric mezzo-soprano

2140-445: A neighborhood of 1-acre (4,000 m ) plot home sites built on the former Noyes estate in 1923. In 1924, Washington trolley service on Georgia Avenue (present-day Maryland Route 97 ) across B&O's Metropolitan Branch was suspended so that an underpass could be built. The underpass was completed two years later, but trolley service never resumed. It would be rebuilt again in 1948 with additional lanes for automobile traffic, opening

2247-554: A new album and tour would materialize in 2014 and that it would be a "return to contemporary music". September 2013 saw the launch of Amos' musical project adaptation of George MacDonald 's The Light Princess , along with book writer Samuel Adamson and Marianne Elliott . It premiered at London's Royal National Theatre and ended in February 2014. The Light Princess and its lead actress, Rosalie Craig , were nominated for Best Musical and Best Musical Performance respectively at

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2354-453: A new, larger facility at the corner of Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29 ) and University Boulevard ( Maryland Route 193 ). The former Blair building became a combined middle school and elementary school, housing Silver Spring International Middle School and Sligo Creek Elementary School. The Silver Spring Shopping Center, built by developer Albert Small and Silver Theatre , designed by theater architect John Eberson , were completed in 1938 at

2461-400: A number of alternatives since then, including HOV lanes and high-occupancy toll lanes . At the beginning of the 21st century, downtown Silver Spring began to see the results of redevelopment. Several city blocks near City Place Mall were rebuilt to accommodate a new outdoor shopping plaza called Downtown Silver Spring. As downtown Silver Spring revived, its 160-year history was celebrated in

2568-675: A portion of Langley Park , and a portion of Adelphi . The area that has a Silver Spring mailing address is larger in area than any city in Maryland except Baltimore . Landmarks in the downtown area include the AFI Silver Theatre , the National Museum of Health and Medicine , a branch of The Fillmore , and the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Greater Silver Spring includes

2675-537: A property owned by Rozier J. Beech in the Sixteenth Street Village subdivision of Silver Spring said, "No negro, or any person or persons of whose blood or extraction or to any person of the semitic race whose blood or origin of racial description will be deemed to include Armenians, Jews, Hebrews, Persians, Syrians, Greeks and Turks, shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of

2782-513: A range from approximately the G below middle C (G 3 , 196 Hz) to the B two octaves above middle C (B 5 , 988 Hz). Some coloratura mezzo-sopranos can sing up to high C (C 6 , 1047 Hz) or high D (D 6 , 1175 Hz), but this is very rare. What distinguishes these voices from being called sopranos is their extension into the lower register and warmer vocal quality. Although coloratura mezzo-sopranos have impressive and at times thrilling high notes, they are most comfortable singing in

2889-481: A result of public involvement and private investment that is turning it into an arts and entertainment center". In 2005, downtown Silver Spring was awarded the silver medal of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence In 2007, the downtown Silver Spring area gained attention when an amateur photographer was prohibited from taking photographs in what appeared to be a public street. The land, leased to

2996-480: A result of the industry's decline. Amos released two more albums with Epic , The Beekeeper (2005) and American Doll Posse (2007). Both albums received generally favorable reviews. The Beekeeper was conceptually influenced by the ancient art of beekeeping , which she considered a source of female inspiration and empowerment. Through extensive study, Amos also wove in the stories of the Gnostic gospels and

3103-483: A retrospective collection titled Tales of a Librarian (2003) through her former label, Atlantic Records; a two-disc DVD set Fade to Red (2006) containing most of Amos' solo music videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino; a five disc box set titled A Piano: The Collection (2006), celebrating Amos' 15-year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and

3210-441: A soccer field, tennis courts, basketball courts, and a picnic area. There are similar local parks throughout the residential parts of the community. As of the 2020 census, 81,015 people lived in Silver Spring. There were 32,114 households; their average annual income was $ 83,782. 50.9% of the population was female. 33.3% of the population was White (Non-Hispanic), 28% was Black or African American alone (Non-Hispanic), 19.4% of

3317-432: A stimulus for the album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them original songs; Amos felt that since 1998, the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to another label. With her Atlantic contract fulfilled after a 15-year stint, Amos signed to Epic in late 2001. In October 2002, Amos released Scarlet's Walk , another concept album. Described as

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3424-486: A string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino; and numerous official bootlegs from two world tours, The Original Bootlegs (2005) and Legs & Boots (2007) through Epic Records. In May 2008, Amos announced that, due to creative and financial disagreements with Epic Records , she had negotiated an end to her contract with the record label, and would be operating independently of major record labels on future work. In September of

3531-588: A theme to pay tribute to composers such as Bach , Chopin , Debussy , Granados , Satie and Schubert , on the Deutsche Grammophon label, a division of Universal Music Group . Amos recorded the album with several musicians, including the Apollon Musagète string quartet . To mark the 20th anniversary of her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), Amos released an album of songs from her back catalogue re-worked and re-recorded with

3638-421: A unique expression of the architecture of color-and-light. ... I started visiting this world when I was three, listening to a piece by Béla Bartók ; I visited a configuration that day that wasn't on this earth. ... It was euphoric. At five, she became the youngest student ever admitted to the preparatory division of the Peabody Institute . She studied classical piano at Peabody from 1968 to 1974. In 1974, when she

3745-556: Is Amos' interest in mythology and religion, exploring her songwriting process, rise to fame, and her relationship with Atlantic Records. Image Comics released Comic Book Tattoo (2008), a collection of comic stories, each based on or inspired by songs recorded by Amos. Editor Rantz Hoseley worked with Amos to gather 80 different artists for the book, including Neil Gaiman , Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B. Cebulski, Nikki Cook, Hope Larson, John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly, Pia Guerra , David Mack , and Leah Moore . Tori Amos: In

3852-484: Is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland , United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated , it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census , making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore , Columbia , Germantown , and Waldorf . Downtown Silver Spring, located next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C.,

3959-712: Is a 15% reduction from the 9.4 square miles (24 km ) used in previous years. Silver Spring contains the following neighborhoods: Downtown Silver Spring, East Silver Spring, Woodside , Woodside Park , Lyttonsville , North Hills Sligo Park, Long Branch, Indian Spring, Goodacre Knolls, Franklin Knolls , Montgomery Knolls, Clifton Park Village, New Hampshire Estates, and Oakview. The U.S. Geological Survey , U.S. Postal Service , Silver Spring Urban Planning District, and Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, each use their own slightly different definitions. The Postal Service in particular assigns Silver Spring mailing addresses to

4066-403: Is ideal for most trouser roles . Lyric mezzo-soprano roles in operas ( * denotes a lead role ): A dramatic mezzo-soprano has a strong medium register, a warm high register and a voice that is broader and more powerful than the lyric and coloratura mezzo-sopranos. This voice has less vocal facility than the coloratura mezzo-soprano. The range of the dramatic mezzo-soprano is from approximately

4173-585: Is known as the father of modern Silver Spring for his visionary attitude toward developing the region. In the early 20th century, E. Brooke Lee and his brother, Blair Lee I , founded the Lee Development Company, whose Colesville Road office building remains a downtown fixture. Dale Drive, a winding roadway, was built to provide vehicular access to much of the family's substantial real estate holdings. Suburban development continued in 1922 when Woodside Development Corporation created Woodside Park,

4280-412: Is more than thirty-five years, I've never seen the same light creature in my life. Obviously similar chord progressions follow similar light patterns, but try to imagine the best kaleidoscope ever—after the initial excitement, you start to focus on each element's stunning original detail. For instance, the sound of the words with the sound of the chord progression combined with the rhythm manifests itself in

4387-468: Is the oldest and most urbanized area of Silver Spring, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway . Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004. Silver Spring takes its name from a mica -flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair , who subsequently bought much of

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4494-691: Is the third child of Mary Ellen (née Copeland) and Edison McKinley Amos. She was born on August 22, 1963 at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina , during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C., and was named Myra Ellen Amos. Some of Amos's ancestors were Confederate soldiers. In her memoir, Piece by Piece , she talks about the experience of these Confederate ancestors, Margaret Little and Grandaddy Calvin Rice, during

4601-513: The 2010 census , there were 71,452 residents, 28,603 total households, and 15,684 families residing in the Silver Spring CDP. The population density was 9,021.7 inhabitants per square mile (3,483.3/km ). There were 30,522 housing units at an average density of 3,853.8 per square mile (1,488.0/km ). The racial makeup of the community, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau , for residents who self-identified as being members of "one race"

4708-532: The American Civil War , and says that they had become "all worked up" by "the preacher", and that like other farmers were scared of "losin' everythin' to them greedy Yankees". Amos wrote that she believed her great-grandmother "was just defending her home at a certain point". When she was two years old, her family relocated to Baltimore , Maryland, where her father had moved his Methodist ministry from its original base in Washington, D.C. Her older brother and sister took piano lessons, but Tori did not need them. From

4815-607: The American Film Institute , an annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving) for Montgomery County . The Silver Spring Jazz Festival is the largest annual event, drawing 20 000 people to the free festival held on the second Saturday in September. Featuring local jazz artists and a battle of high school bands, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has featured Wynton Marsalis , Arturo Sandoval , Sérgio Mendes , Aaron Neville ,

4922-590: The EPIX original docuseries Women Who Rock which premiered on July 10, 2022. In 2023, Amos and Trevor Horn covered Kendrick Lamar 's " Swimming Pools (Drank) ". She also released a remix dance single titled "Tequila," produced by Paul Woolford . On November 1, 2024, Amos announced the release of a live album, Diving Deep Live , on December 6, 2024. The album will consist of recordings from her 2022-23 tour in support of Ocean to Ocean and be released on double vinyl and CD respectively. Amos and her music have been

5029-942: The Evening Standard Award . Craig won the Best Musical Performance category. Amos' 14th studio album, Unrepentant Geraldines , was released on May 13, 2014, via Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics in the US. Its first single, " Trouble's Lament ", was released on March 28. The album was supported by the Unrepentant Geraldines Tour which began May 5, 2014, in Cork and continued across Europe, Africa, North America, and Australia, ending in Brisbane on November 21, 2014. In Sydney , Amos performed two orchestral concerts, reminiscent of

5136-639: The Gold Dust Orchestral Tour , with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House . According to a press release, Unrepentant Geraldines was a "return to her core identity as a creator of contemporary songs of exquisite beauty following a series of more classically-inspired and innovative musical projects of the last four years. [It is] both one further step in the artistic evolution of one of

5243-643: The Metropole Orchestra . The album, titled Gold Dust , was released in October 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon. On May 1, 2012, Amos announced the formation of her own record label, Transmission Galactic, which she said she intended to use to develop new artists. In 2013, Amos collaborated with the Bullitts on the track "Wait Until Tomorrow" from their debut album, They Die by Dawn & Other Short Stories . She also stated in an interview that

5350-576: The RIAA . Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she received unsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of Epic Records in 2003. Anthony had been one of the primary reasons Amos signed with the label and as a result of her resignation, Amos formed the Bridge Entertainment Group. Further trouble for Amos occurred the following year when her label, Epic/Sony Music Entertainment, merged with BMG Entertainment as

5457-403: The 1950s, Silver Spring was known as a sundown town , in part because of influential land owners. The North Washington Real Estate Company designed 63 acres to be white-only , written in its deeds to prevent the sale of land to anyone else. The Fair Housing Act outlawed this practice in 1968, almost two decades after Shelley v. Kramer made racial covenants unenforceable. A 1939 deed for

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5564-442: The 1980s. The Hecht Company closed its downtown location in 1987 and moved to Wheaton Plaza while forbidding another department store to rent its old spot. City Place , a multi-level mall, was established in the old Hecht Company building in 1992, but it had difficulty attracting quality anchor stores and gained a reputation as a budget mall. In the mid-1990s, developers considered building a mega-mall and entertainment complex called

5671-658: The American Dream, similar to the Mall of America , in downtown Silver Spring, but were unable to secure funding. A bright spot for the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) consolidating its headquarters to four new high-rise office buildings near the Silver Spring Metro station. A February 16, 1996, train collision on

5778-563: The B&;O's eastbound and westbound mains. The Red Line heads south to downtown DC from Silver Spring, running at grade before descending into Union Station . By the mid-1990s, the Red Line continued north from the downtown Silver Spring core, entering a tunnel just past the Silver Spring station and running underground to three more stations: Forest Glen , Wheaton , and Glenmont . Nevertheless, Silver Spring's downtown continued to decline in

5885-578: The British charts in January 1992 at Number 15. Little Earthquakes was released in the United States in February 1992 and slowly but steadily began to attract listeners, gaining more attention with the video for the single " Silent All These Years ". Amos traveled to New Mexico with personal and professional partner Eric Rosse in 1993 to write and largely record her second solo record, Under

5992-488: The Choirgirl Hotel were mostly favorable and praised Amos' continued artistic originality. Debut sales for From the Choirgirl Hotel are Amos' best to date, selling 153,000 copies in its first week. To Venus and Back , a two-disc release of original studio material and live material recorded from the previous world tour, received mostly positive reviews and included the first major-label single available for sale as

6099-788: The Civil War. These small towns largely lost their separate identities when a post office was established in Silver Spring in 1899. By the end of the 19th century, the region began to develop into a town of size and importance. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's Metropolitan Branch opened on April 30, 1873, and ran through Silver Spring from Washington, D.C., to Point of Rocks, Maryland . The first suburban development appeared in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on present-day Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29 ) and Brookeville Road into five- and ten-acre ( 20 000 - and 40 000 m ) plots. In 1892, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee , who

6206-658: The EP remotely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic . On September 20, 2021, Amos announced her sixteenth studio album, Ocean to Ocean , which was released on October 29. The album was written and recorded in Cornwall during lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores "a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again". Amos embarked on a European and United States tour in support of

6313-583: The F below middle C (F 3 , 175 Hz) to the G two octaves above middle C (G 5 , 784 Hz). The dramatic mezzo-soprano can sing over an orchestra and chorus with ease and was often used in the 19th century opera, to portray older women, mothers, witches and evil characters. Verdi wrote many roles for this voice in the Italian repertoire and there are also a few good roles in the French Literature. The majority of these roles, however, are within

6420-480: The German Romantic repertoire of composers like Wagner and Richard Strauss . Like coloratura mezzos, dramatic mezzos are also often cast in lyric mezzo-soprano roles. Dramatic mezzo-soprano roles in operas ( * denotes a lead role ): All of Gilbert and Sullivan 's Savoy operas have at least one mezzo-soprano character. Notable operetta roles are: Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring

6527-603: The New Hampshire Avenue interchange, with a speech by Gov. J. Millard Tawes , who called it a "road of opportunity" for Maryland and the nation. Washington Metro rail service into Washington, D.C., helped breathe new life into the region starting with the 1978 opening of Silver Spring station . The Metro Red Line followed the right-of-way of the B&;O Metropolitan Branch , with the Metro tracks centered between

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6634-768: The Peterson Companies, a developer, for $ 1, was technically private property. The citizens argued that the Downtown Silver Spring development, partially built with public money, was still public property. After a protest on July 4, 2007, Peterson relented and allowed photography on their property under limited conditions. Peterson also claimed that it could revoke these rights at any time. The company further stated that other activities permitted in public spaces, such as organizing protests or distributing campaign literature, were still prohibited. In response, Montgomery County Attorney Leon Rodriguez said that

6741-587: The Pink . The album was received with mostly favorable reviews and sold enough copies to chart at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 , a significantly higher position than the preceding album's position at No. 54 on the same chart. However, the album found its biggest success in the UK, debuting at number one upon release in February 1994. Her third solo album, Boys for Pele , was released in January 1996. Prior to its release,

6848-622: The Silver Spring section of the Metropolitan line left 11 people dead. A MARC commuter train bound for Washington Union Station during the Friday evening rush hour collided with the Amtrak Capitol Limited train and erupted in flames on a snow-swept stretch of track. The Maryland State Highway Administration started studies of improvements to the Capital Beltway in 1993, and have continued, off and on, examining

6955-551: The Studio (2011) by Jake Brown features an in-depth look at Amos' career, discography, and recording process. Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos (2013) by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek explores the ways women are represented in pop culture and the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos in particular. Tori Amos' Boys for Pele (2018) by Amy Gentry uses

7062-484: The United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.9%. Of these, the most predominant foreign-born people are from El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, and China. Note: For the 2010 census, the boundaries of the Silver Spring CDP were changed, reducing the land area by approx. 15%. As a result, the population count for 2010 shows a 6.6% decrease, while the population density increased 11%. As of

7169-490: The age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop / rock group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Her charting singles include " Crucify ", " Silent All These Years ", " God ", " Cornflake Girl ", " Caught

7276-589: The album explores topics like American politics and environmental issues, mixed with mythological elements and first-person narrations. Native Invader obtained a score of 76 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On November 9, 2020, Amos announced the release of a holiday-themed EP entitled Christmastide on December 4, digitally and on limited-edition vinyl. The EP consists of four original songs and features her first work with bandmates Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans since 2009. Amos recorded

7383-513: The album in 2022, and continued to support the album in 2023 with a European Tour in March and April and additional US dates in June and July . Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans were featured on drums and bass guitar respectively, their first collaboration with Amos on an album since 2009's Midwinter Graces . For the 2022 and 2023 tour, Amos was joined by Jon Evans and the drummer Ash Soan. She appeared at

7490-553: The album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos' most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching No. 2 on the UK Top 40 and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 upon its release. Fueled by the desire to have her own recording studio to distance herself from record company executives, Amos had the barn of her home in Cornwall , UK converted into

7597-482: The area's surrounding land. Acorn Park , south of downtown, is believed to be the site of the original spring. As an unincorporated census-designated place , Silver Spring's boundaries are not consistently defined. As of the 2010 census , the U.S. Census Bureau gives Silver Spring a total area of 7.92 square miles (20.5 km ), which is all land; however, the CDP contains some creeks and small ponds. This definition

7704-418: The areas to the north for readily accessible suburban development. Takoma-Silver Spring High School, built in 1924, was the first high school for Silver Spring. The community's rapid growth led to the need for a larger school. In 1935, when a new high school building was erected at Wayne Avenue and Sligo Creek Parkway, the school was renamed Montgomery Blair High School . In 1998, the school was moved again, to

7811-467: The band's eponymous debut album, Y Kant Tori Read , was released. Although its producer, Joe Chiccarelli , stated that Amos was very happy with the album at the time, Amos has since criticized it, once remarking: "The only good thing about that album is my ankle high boots." Following the album's commercial failure and the group's subsequent disbanding, Amos began working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway , Sandra Bernhard , and Al Stewart ) as

7918-768: The disappointing reaction to Y Kant Tori Read , Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract with Atlantic Records, which, in 1989, wanted a new record by March 1990. The initial recordings were declined by the label, which Amos felt was because the album had not been properly presented. The album was reworked and expanded under the guidance of Doug Morris and the musical talents of Steve Caton , Eric Rosse , Will MacGregor, Carlo Nuccio, and Dan Nebenzal, resulting in Little Earthquakes , an album recounting her religious upbringing, sexual awakening, struggle to establish her identity, and sexual assault. This album became her commercial and artistic breakthrough, entering

8025-505: The documentary film Next Stop: Silver Spring . In May 2019, Peterson announced a $ 10 million renovation of the Downtown Silver Spring development that will include public art and a new outdoor plaza, featuring green space. Downtown Silver Spring hosts several entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival held each June and hosted by Discovery Communications and

8132-629: The engagement, fleeing Confederate soldiers razed Montgomery Blair's Falkland residence. At the time, there was a community called Sligo located at the intersection of the Washington-Brookeville Turnpike and the Washington-Colesville-Ashton Turnpike, now named Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. Sligo included a tollhouse, a store, a post office, and a few homes. The communities of Woodside , Forest Glen , and Linden were founded after

8239-583: The first single, " Caught a Lite Sneeze " became the first full song released for streaming online prior to an album's release. The album was recorded in a church in Delgany , County Wicklow , Ireland , with Amos taking advantage of the church's acoustics. For this album, Amos used the harpsichord , harmonium , and clavichord as well as the piano. The album garnered mixed reviews upon its release, with some critics praising its intensity and uniqueness while others bemoaned its comparative impenetrability. Despite

8346-462: The group was composed of Steve Caton (who would later play guitars on all of her albums until 1999), drummer Matt Sorum , bass player Brad Cobb and, for a short time, keyboardist Jim Tauber. The band went through several iterations of songwriting and recording; Amos has said interference from record executives caused the band to lose its musical edge and direction during this time. Finally, in July 1988,

8453-624: The headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church , the Food and Drug Administration , and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the U.S. Four major creeks run through Silver Spring: from west to east, they are Rock Creek , Sligo Creek , Long Branch, and Northwest Branch . Each is surrounded by parks offering hiking trails, playgrounds, picnic areas, and tennis courts. On weekends, roads are closed in

8560-401: The label to listen to it. American Doll Posse , another concept album, is fashioned around a group of girls (the "posse") who are used as a theme of alter-egos of Amos'. Musically and stylistically, the album saw Amos return to a more confrontational nature. Like its predecessor, American Doll Posse debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released

8667-477: The middle of their range, rather than the top. Many of the hero roles in the operas of Handel and Monteverdi , originally sung by male castrati, can be successfully sung today by coloratura mezzo-sopranos. Rossini demanded similar qualities for his comic heroines, and Vivaldi wrote roles frequently for this voice as well. Coloratura mezzo-sopranos also often sing lyric-mezzo-soprano roles or soubrette roles. Coloratura mezzo-soprano roles in operas ( * denotes

8774-533: The most successful and influential artists of her generation, and a return to the inspiring and personal music that Amos is known for all around the world." The 2-CD set The Light Princess (Original Cast Recording) was released on October 9, 2015, via Universal/Mercury Classics. Apart from the original cast performances, the recording also includes two songs from the musical ("Highness in the Sky" and "Darkest Hour') performed by Amos. On November 18, 2016, Amos released

8881-468: The other, and true operatic contraltos are very rare. Within the mezzo-soprano voice type category are three generally recognized subcategories: coloratura mezzo-soprano, lyric mezzo-soprano, and dramatic mezzo-soprano. A coloratura mezzo-soprano has a warm lower register and an agile high register. The roles they sing often demand not only the use of the lower register but also leaps into the upper tessitura with highly ornamented, rapid passages. They have

8988-570: The parks for bicycling and walking. Northwest Branch Park also includes the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail, named after Rachel Carson , the author of Silent Spring and a former resident of the area. It continues north to Wheaton Regional Park , in Greater Silver Spring, which is home to the 50-acre (20 ha) Brookside Gardens . The 14.5-acre (5.9 ha) Jessup Blair Park, south of downtown, has

9095-470: The photograph to be part of the continuum of action that leads to the display of the photograph and thus also protected by the First Amendment." The incident was part of a trend in the United States regarding the blurring of public and private spaces in developments built with both public and private funds. In 2008, construction began on the long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC), which crosses

9202-581: The population (12.3% Salvadoran , 3.71% Guatemalan , 2.83% Mexican ). Like much of the Washington metropolitan area , Silver Spring is home to many people of Ethiopian ancestry. There were 28,603 households, out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.2% were non-families. 33.6% of all households were made up of individuals living alone, and 16.5% had someone living alone who

9309-475: The population was Other (Hispanic), 7.12% of the population was Asian (Non-Hispanic), 6.68% of the population was White (Hispanic), 3.16% was Multiracial (Non-Hispanic), 1.08% was Multiracial (Hispanic), 0.47% was Black or African American (Hispanic), 0.29% was Asian (Hispanic), and 0.19% was American Indian & Alaska Native (Hispanic). 28% of the population identified as Hispanic. As of 2019, 36.5% of Silver Spring residents (29,800 people) were born outside of

9416-519: The removal of women from a position of power within the Christian church to create an album based largely on religion and politics. The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, placing her in an elite group of women who have secured five or more US Top 10 album debuts. While the newly merged label was present throughout the production process of The Beekeeper , Amos and her crew nearly completed her next project, American Doll Posse , before inviting

9523-474: The reopening of the Silver Theatre, as AFI Silver , under the auspices of the American Film Institute . Beginning in 2004, the downtown redevelopment was marketed locally with the "silver sprung" advertising campaign, which declared on buses and in print ads that Silver Spring had "sprung" and was ready for business. In June 2007, The New York Times noted that downtown was "enjoying a renaissance,

9630-416: The request of developer William Alexander Julian . The Silver Spring Shopping Center was one of the nation's first retail spaces with a street-front parking lot, defying conventional wisdom that merchandise should be in windows closest to the street so that people could see it. The shopping center was purchased in 1944 by real estate developer Sam Eig , who helped attract large retailers to the city. Before

9737-637: The same year, Amos released a live album and DVD, Live at Montreux 1991/1992 , through Eagle Rock Entertainment , of two performances she gave at the Montreux Jazz Festival very early on in her career while promoting her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes . By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group , Doug Morris , Amos signed a "joint venture" deal with Universal Republic Records . Abnormally Attracted to Sin , Amos' tenth solo studio album and her first album released through Universal Republic,

9844-630: The same year. The album features reworked versions of traditional carols, as well as original songs written by Amos. During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album with Fatboy Slim , titled Here Lies Love , which was released in April 2010. In July of the same year, the DVD Tori Amos- Live from the Artists Den was released exclusively through Barnes & Noble . After

9951-540: The state-of-the-art recording studio of Martian Engineering Studios. From the Choirgirl Hotel and To Venus and Back , released in May 1998 and September 1999, respectively, differ greatly from previous albums. Amos' trademark acoustic, piano-based sound is largely replaced with arrangements that include elements of electronica and dance music with vocal washes. The underlying themes of both albums deal with womanhood and Amos' own miscarriages and marriage. Reviews for From

10058-668: The stereotypical triad associated with contraltos of "witches, bitches, and britches": witches, nurses, and wise women, such as Azucena in Verdi 's Il trovatore ; villains and seductresses such as Amneris in Verdi's Aida ; and " breeches roles " or "trouser roles" (male characters played by female singers) such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . Mezzo-sopranos are well represented in baroque music , early music , and baroque opera . Some roles designated for lighter soubrette sopranos are sung by mezzo-sopranos, who often provide

10165-473: The street in question, Ellsworth Drive, "constitutes a public forum" and that the First Amendment 's protection of free speech applies there. In an eight-page letter, Rodriguez wrote, "Although the courts have not definitively resolved the issue of whether the taking, as opposed to the display, of photographs is a protected expressive act, we think it is likely that a court would consider the taking of

10272-405: The subject of numerous official and unofficial books, as well as academic critique, including Tori Amos: Lyrics (2001) illustrated by Herb Leonhard, and an earlier biography, Tori Amos: All These Years (1996) by Kalen Rogers. Released in conjunction with The Beekeeper , Amos co-authored an autobiography with rock music journalist Ann Powers titled Piece by Piece (2005). The book's subject

10379-418: The tapes, and, when A&R man Jason Flom flew to Baltimore to audition her in person, the label was convinced and signed her. In 1984, Amos moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career after several years performing on the piano bar circuit in the Washington, D.C. area. In 1986, Amos formed a musical group called Y Kant Tori Read , named for her difficulty with sight-reading . In addition to Amos,

10486-423: The time she could reach the piano, she taught herself to play: when she was two, she could reproduce pieces of music she had only heard once, and, by the age of three, she was composing her own songs. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia : The song appears as light filament once I've cracked it. As long as I've been doing this, which

10593-415: The time, are tied to Silver Spring's history. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair , who later helped organize the modern Republican Party , along with his daughter, Elizabeth, discovered a spring flowing with chips of mica believed to be the now-dry spring visible at Acorn Park . Blair was looking for a site for his summer home to escape the summer heat of Washington, D.C. Two years later, Blair completed

10700-598: The time. By the 1950s, Silver Spring was the second-busiest retail market between Baltimore and Richmond ; major retailers included the Hecht Company , J.C. Penney , and Sears, Roebuck and Company . In 1954, the 1842 Blair mansion "Silver Spring" was razed and replaced with the Blair Station post office. 1960 saw the opening of Wheaton Plaza, later called Westfield Wheaton , a shopping center several miles north of downtown Silver Spring. It captured much of

10807-710: The title role in Bizet 's Carmen , Angelina ( Cinderella ) in Rossini 's La Cenerentola , and Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville (all of which are also sung by sopranos and contraltos). Many 19th-century French-language operas give the leading female role to mezzos, including Béatrice et Bénédict , La damnation de Faust , Don Quichotte , La favorite , Dom Sébastien , Charles VI , Mignon , Samson et Dalila , Les Troyens , and Werther , as well as Carmen . Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include

10914-406: The town's business, and the downtown area began a long period of decline. On December 19, 1961, a two-mile (3.2 km) segment of the Capital Beltway (I-495) was opened to traffic between Georgia Avenue (MD 97) and University Boulevard East (MD 193) . On August 17, 1964, the final segment of the 64-mile (103 km) Beltway was opened to traffic, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held near

11021-509: The upper reaches of Silver Spring. The highway's first section opened on February 21, 2011; the entire route was completed by 2012. In July 2010, the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza opened in downtown Silver Spring. Between 2015 and 2016, the long-struggling City Place Mall was renovated and reopened as Ellsworth Place The old B&O Passenger Station was restored between 2000 and 2002, as recorded in

11128-501: Was 45.7% White (7.8% German , 7.0% Irish , 5.7% English ), 27.8% Black or African American (5.2% Ethiopian , 1.1% Haitian ), 0.6% American Indian and Alaska Native , 7.9% Asian (2.35% Indian , 1.74% Vietnamese , 1.32% Chinese , 0.63% Korean ), 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander , and 13.2% "Some Other Race" (SOR). 4.8% of the CDP's residents self-identified as being members of two or more races . Hispanic or Latino residents "of any race" comprised 26.3% of

11235-461: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.21. In the census area, the population was spread out, with 21.4% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 37.1% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males. The median income for

11342-606: Was eleven, her scholarship was discontinued, and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, the Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland , where her father became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At thirteen, Amos began playing at gay bars and piano bars , chaperoned by her father. Amos won

11449-514: Was released in May 2009 to mostly positive reviews. The album debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, making it Amos' seventh album to do so. Abnormally Attracted to Sin , admitted Amos, is a "personal album", not a conceptual one, with the album exploring themes of power, boundaries, and the subjective view of sin. Continuing her distribution deal with Universal Republic, Amos released Midwinter Graces , her first seasonal album, in November of

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