A Quiet Place

Dearest Lenny ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 118-127
Author(s):  
Mari Yoshihara
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New Right ◽  
Leonard Bernstein ◽  
American Opera ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Houston Grand Opera ◽  
Contemporary United States ◽  
Grand Opera

With a joint commission by the Houston Grand Opera, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Teatro alla Scala, Leonard Bernstein undertook a serious new endeavor he had long wished for: the composition of a serious opera. By collaborating with librettist Stephen Wadsworth, Bernstein sought to create an “American opera” that took on real-life issues of the contemporary United States and expressed them in a distinctly American language. He centered the opera A Quiet Place on the issues of gender, sexuality, and family, which drove American politics during this period. The rising New Right turned “family values” into an ideology, the battle over which was further fueled by the AIDS epidemic. In the highly charged political environment of Houston, where the opera premiered, Bernstein challenged the prevailing social mores and eloquently advocated for AIDS research and support.

Ask the Experts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sy Uy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Leonard Bernstein ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Personal Connections

From the end of World War II through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation granted close to $300 million (approximately $2.3 billion in 2017 dollars) in the field of music alone. In deciding what to fund, these three grantmaking institutions decided to “ask the experts,” adopting seemingly objective, scientific models of peer review and specialist evaluation. They recruited music composers at elite institutions, professors from prestigious universities, and leaders of performing arts organizations. Among the most influential expert-consultants were Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Milton Babbitt. The significance was twofold: not only were male, Western art composers put in charge of directing large and unprecedented channels of public and private funds, but also, in doing so, they determined and defined what was meant by artistic excellence. They decided the fate of their peers and shaped the direction of music making in this country. By asking the experts, the grantmaking institutions produced a concentrated and interconnected field of artists and musicians. Officers and directors utilized ostensibly objective financial tools like matching grants and endowments in an attempt to diversify and stabilize applicants’ sources of funding, as well as the number of applicants they funded. Such economics-based strategies, however, relied more on personal connections among the wealthy and elite, rather than local community citizens. Ultimately, this history demonstrates how “expertise” served as an exclusionary form of cultural and social capital that prevented racial minorities and nondominant groups from fully participating.

scholarly journals Investigating students’ use of official statistical data

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
Constanța Mihăescu ◽  
Adrian Oţoiu ◽  
Alina Profiroiu ◽  
Ileana Niculescu-Aron
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Applied Statistics ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Statistical Education ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Official Data

Abstract This paper presents the perceptions of social science students about the use of official statistical data, in the context of active learning of Statistics, and other topics related to Applied Statistics. In order to make these courses more attractive, and to challenge and stimulate statistical education, our students work on projects in which they use official statistical data to explore practical, real-life issues. Their attitudes and perceptions regarding official statistical data sources are very important, both for acquisition of statistical analysis skills, essential for their future professional life, and for improvement of the official data sources. Therefore, we conducted a custom-made survey among students from Romanian higher education institutions (HEIs) and gathered a database with 334 responses, which allowed us to identify the main characteristics, problems and solutions concerning the use of statistical official data sources by university students.

Growing Pains

Dearest Lenny ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Mari Yoshihara
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Recording Industry ◽  
Leonard Bernstein ◽  
White House ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
Kennedy Family ◽  
International Status

Leonard Bernstein conducting the inaugural concert of the Philharmonic Hall in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1962 symbolized the national and international status he had achieved. Through his close relationship with the Kennedy family and his continued ties to the White House, combined with his unrivaled place in the world of the performing arts, Bernstein was a prime candidate to lead the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. To manage the ever expanding scope of his work, Bernstein’s company, Amberson Enterprises, professionalized and corporatized its operations under Schuyler Chapin. But the popular leaning of the recording industry was beginning to cause some issues even for the foremost leader of American classical music.

scholarly journals Exploring the Implementation of a Legal AI Bot for Sustainable Development in Legal Advisory Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juin-Hao Ho ◽  
Gwo-Guang Lee ◽  
Ming-Tsang Lu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Decision Making Model

This study explores the implementation of legal artificial intelligence (AI) robot issues for sustainable development related to legal advisory institutions. While a legal advisory AI Bot using the unique arithmetic method of AI offers rules of convenient legal definitions, it has not been established whether users are ready to use one at legal advisory institutions. This study applies the MCDM (multicriteria decision-making) model DEMATEL (decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory)-based Analytical Network Process (ANP) with a modified VIKOR, to explore user behavior on the implementation of a legal AI bot. We first apply DEMATEL-based ANP, called influence weightings of DANP (DEMATEL-based ANP), to set up the complex adoption strategies via systematics and then to employ an M-VIKOR method to determine how to reduce any performance gaps between the ideal values and the existing situation. Lastly, we conduct an empirical case to show the efficacy and usefulness of this recommended integrated MCDM model. The findings are useful for identifying the priorities to be considered in the implementation of a legal AI bot and the issues related to enhancing its implementation process. Moreover, this research offers an understanding of users’ behaviors and their actual needs regarding a legal AI bot at legal advisory institutions. This research obtains the following results: (1) It effectively assembles a decision network of technical improvements and applications of a legal AI bot at legal advisory institutions and explains the feedbacks and interdependences of aspects/factors in real-life issues. (2) It describes how to vary effective results from the current alternative performances and situations into ideal values in order to fit the existing environments at legal advisory institutions with legal AI bot implementation.

Fusing Culturally Responsive Teaching, Place Conscious Education, and Problem-Based Learning With Mobile Technologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Nykela H. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Life Issues

Students must be provided meaningful learning opportunities to employ content through active learning opportunities that capitalize their interests (mobile technologies), fuse real life issues (problems that they face in school or local community), and sustain their curiosity (creative learning experiences). Using mobile technologies for culturally responsive, problem based learning is a powerful and unique way to prepare students for the four C's: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. This chapter provides theoretical and practical support of the innovative impact of using mobile technologies in student selected, problem focused learning.

Joshua Luty, Music Librarian, Houston Grand Opera

2022 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Patrick Lo ◽  
Robert Sutherland ◽  
Wei-En Hsu ◽  
Russ Girsberger
Keyword(s):  
Houston Grand Opera ◽  
Grand Opera

scholarly journals Speaker Identification in Whisper

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Foulkes ◽  
India Smith ◽  
Márton Sóskuthy
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
A Performance

Sociophonetic methods and findings have value in application to real-life issues, including providing expert forensic evidence in legal cases. Forensic cases often involve voices which differ markedly from those typically encountered in laboratory or field studies. We assess the ability of people to identify familiar voices produced in whisper, a commonly used form of disguise. Members of a pre-existing social network were recorded speaking normally and in whisper. Speakers found it difficult to maintain whisper beyond 30 seconds. They and other members of the group listened to extracts that were (i) short and whispered, (ii) long and whispered, and (iii) short and normal (non-whispered). Foils were also included. Performance was well above chance, and improved significantly in conditions (ii) and (iii). Differences were found across listeners and voices. The study emphasises how important is it not to overgeneralise from experimental data to a witness’s ability under forensic conditions.********************************************************************Identificação de falante a partir de fala sussurradaResumo: Os métodos e achados sociofonéticos são valiosos para aplicação a questões da vida real, como no fornecimento de evidência forense pericial em casos legais. Os casos forenses envolvem vozes que se diferem marcadamente daquelas tipicamente encontradas em laboratório ou estudos de campo. Avaliamos a habilidade de pessoas de identificar vozes familiares produzidas de forma sussurrada, uma estratégia de disfarce comumente utilizada. Membros de uma rede social pré-existente foram gravados falando normalmente e de forma sussurrada. Os falantes consideraram difícil manter o sussurro por mais do que 30 segundos. Esses falantes e outros membros do grupo ouviram trechos que foram (i) curtos e sussurrados; (ii) longos e sussurrados e (iii) curtos e normais (não sussurrados). Distratores foram incluídos. A performance foi bem acima do acaso e melhorou significativamente nas condições (ii) e (iii). Diferenças foram encontradas entre falantes e vozes. O estudo enfatiza o quanto é importante não supergeneralizar a partir de dados experimentais quanto à habilidade da testemunha sob condições forenses.Palavras-chave: Sociofonética; Fonética Forense; Sussurro

scholarly journals High School Intervention for Influenza Biology and Epidemics/Pandemics: Impact on Conceptual Understanding among Adolescents

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Dumais ◽  
Abdelkrim Hasni
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
School Intervention ◽  
School Students ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Life Issues

Understanding real-life issues such as influenza epidemiology may be of particular interest to the development of scientific knowledge and initiation of conceptual changes about viruses and their life cycles for high school students. The goal of this research project was to foster the development of adolescents' conceptual understanding of viruses and influenza biology. Thus, the project included two components: 1) pre- and posttests to determine students' conceptions about influenza biology, epidemics/pandemics, and vaccination; and 2) design an intervention that supports conceptual change to promote improvements in influenza knowledge based on these primary conceptions. Thirty-five female students from a high school biology class participated in a series of instructional activities and pre- and posttest assessments. Results from the pretest indicated that high school students exhibit a limited understanding of concepts related to viruses. Six weeks after an intervention that promoted active learning, results from a posttest showed that conceptions about influenza are more accurately related to the provided scientific knowledge. Although adolescents have nonscientific models to explain influenza biology, we showed that a carefully designed intervention can affect students' knowledge as well as influence the implementation of health education programs in secondary schools.

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