“I loved your idea of matching the musical notes with the graphs of temperatures and CO2 concentrations, but the resulting melodies were unfortunate. I was unable to find any tenor or baritone able to sing either of the graphs. A pity — as you said, the High C0 Duet would have been “an opera first.”
Tag: 06.17.08
Type-Casting
“Thinking of ourselves as types can help draw out facets of our personalities that we might otherwise miss or ignore. Where it often goes wrong is that people take on the types under which they are categorised as though they were deep, immutable facets of their identities.”
Deborah Voight: Looks Do Matter In Opera
The slimmed-down soprano returns to Covent Garden this week. “I’m hoping that we don’t go so far as to put microphones on soubrette sopranos and have them singing Isolde. I don’t think that would be the case. Nonetheless, I think it would be foolish to think that singers don’t have to be more concerned about their physique than in decades past.”
A National Community College?
The University of Phoenix markets itself as a national private university (and the largest one at that). With more than 100,000 individuals now enrolled in its young two-year degree granting college, Axia, has it morphed into a national community college, too?
The Secret Royal Ballet Interview
An interview intended to be kept under wraps for 40 years has shed remarkable light on an Australian’s disastrous directorship of the Royal Ballet in London.
Collector Files Complaint Against Basquiat Authentication Committee
The court papers say that, as no auction house will sell the painting as a Basquiat without the committee’s authenticity, its value is “less than $5,000” rather than “at least $3m” that the papers say it could command as an authentic Basquiat.
Canadian Publishers Agonize Over Proposed New Copyright Law
“The concerns largely relate to a potential loss of control over content as the industry increasingly becomes digitized. No one predicts anything as dire as the havoc that unauthorized downloads have played on the music industry, but the introduction of the Sony e-reader into the Canadian market last month has helped focus the conversation.”
The Actor Behind Big Bird
“Being Big Bird is sweaty, physical work. But Caroll Spinney, who has worked on “Sesame Street” for nearly four decades playing both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has no wish to be anywhere else.”
UK Businesses Accused Of Playing Illegal Music
“It is estimated that more than half a million businesses across the UK are playing music illegally. But many of them don’t even know it.”
Research Beyond Google
“Just because students walk in the door as “digital natives,” the common observation goes, doesn’t mean they’re equipped to handle the heavy lifting of digital databases and proprietary search engines that comprise the bulk of modern, online research techniques. Yet the gap between students’ research competence and what’s required of a modern college graduate can’t easily be solved without a framework that encompasses faculty members, librarians, technicians and those who study teaching methods.”