Stairway to Paradise

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Steven C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
York City ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
George Gershwin ◽  
Formative Time ◽  
A Chain

In November 1914, Max Steiner arrived in New York City, with little money and few prospects. This chapter details another formative time in Steiner’s life: his ascent from a struggling Tin Pan Alley music copyist to successful Broadway conductor. It also details his first professional experience with cinema (then silent), as musical supervisor and composer for a chain of New York theaters owned by William Fox. Steiner’s gregariousness and his gift for quick problem-solving led to work with celebrated composer Victor Herbert. Steiner also formed friendships with rising talents like Jerome Kern, Oscar Levant, and George Gershwin. Stage hits like the Gershwin-scored George White’s Scandals expanded Steiner’s musical language, which was fundamentally European, to include American jazz. However, his own attempt to write a Broadway show—1923’s Peaches—was a failure, discouraging him for a time from further composition.

Integrated Projects and the Development of Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Strategies

2013 ◽  
pp. 206-236
Author(s):  
Paul C. King
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
York City ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
City College ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving ◽  
The City

Interdisciplinary problem solving and research skills require early preparation in two categories: critical thinking and communication. This chapter reviews the two-year process of interdisciplinary curriculum development, shaped by collaboration between the New York City Department of Education, the New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, and City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology. The resulting course, “Inter-Academy Integrated Projects” (IP), emphasizes multidisciplinary problem solving that includes creativity, observation, research, visual and discursive communication, and reflection. The collaborative lessons make use of project-based methodology and emphasize social responsibility. Core skills are combined across the two trimesters of IP. This endeavor will be contrasted and compared to the work of the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills by examining the use of high-impact learning practices, feedback from students and teachers, and the issues surrounding the implementation of any new curriculum.

Calendar Problems: January 2004

2004 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Steve Benson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
York City ◽  
Mathematical Association ◽  
Problem Book

Problems 2–11 and 26–31 appeared in The Contest Problem Book IV: Annual High School Examinations, 1973–1982, compiled and with solutions by Ralph A. Artino, Anthony M. Gaglione, and Niel Shell (Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1983). Problems 12–17 come from Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges, by Edward J. Barbeau, Murray S. Klamkin, and William O. J. Moser (Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1995). Problems 18–23 were taken (or adapted) from problems appearing in the New York City Interscholastic Mathematics League competitions during fall 1977 and spring 1977. Problems 24 and 25 come from Problem Solving through Recreational Mathematics, by Bonnie Averbach and Orin Chein (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2000).

Relation of Self-Esteem and Divergent Thinking among Black and Puerto Rican Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
John C. Houtz ◽  
Robert H. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Type Problem

A variety of fluency-oriented divergent thinking tasks, evaluation-type problem-solving tasks, and the Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory were administered to 192 black and Puerto Rican children in Grades 4, 5, and 6 from a low-income area of New York City. There was little relationship between fluency and self-esteem, and all children appeared to have great difficulty with tasks involving skills of evaluation. Results were discussed in terms of the effects of an evaluation-oriented environment.

scholarly journals Media Revolution on 14th Street: Immigration, Vaudeville and the Nascence of Electronic Media in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

E-Compós ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
York City ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
Show Business

O alicerce da indústria do entretenimento foi lançado pelo nascimento do vaudeville na Rua 14 na cidade de Nova York no início dos anos 1880. Criado, em grande medida, por imigrantes e seus filhos, o vaudeville dominou o show business nos Estados Unidos durante cinco décadas, dos anos 1880 aos anos 1930. Por meio da integração de artistas, empresários e formas culturais imigrantes, o vaudeville criou uma síntese que foi muito necessária em uma época de imigração em massa e caos cultural. Com a rápida evolução das mídias eletrônicas durante o século XX – publicação musical, gravação sonora, rádio, cinema e televisão – o vaudeville ampliou sua influência multicultural ao tornar-se o modelo dominante para uma indústria do entretenimento em expansão. Palavras-chave Vaudeville. Tin Pan Alley. Imigração.

Integrated Projects and the Development of Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Strategies

2013 ◽  
pp. 1365-1387
Author(s):  
Paul C. King
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
York City ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
City College ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving ◽  
The City

Interdisciplinary problem solving and research skills require early preparation in two categories: critical thinking and communication. This chapter reviews the two-year process of interdisciplinary curriculum development, shaped by collaboration between the New York City Department of Education, the New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, and City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology. The resulting course, “Inter-Academy Integrated Projects” (IP), emphasizes multidisciplinary problem solving that includes creativity, observation, research, visual and discursive communication, and reflection. The collaborative lessons make use of project-based methodology and emphasize social responsibility. Core skills are combined across the two trimesters of IP. This endeavor will be contrasted and compared to the work of the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills by examining the use of high-impact learning practices, feedback from students and teachers, and the issues surrounding the implementation of any new curriculum.

scholarly journals Media Revolution on 14th Street: Immigration, Vaudeville and the Nascence of Electronic Media in New York City at the Turn of the 20th Century

E-Compós ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
York City ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
Show Business

O alicerce da indústria do entretenimento foi lançado pelo nascimento do vaudeville na Rua 14 na cidade de Nova York no início dos anos 1880. Criado, em grande medida, por imigrantes e seus filhos, o vaudeville dominou o show business nos Estados Unidos durante cinco décadas, dos anos 1880 aos anos 1930. Por meio da integração de artistas, empresários e formas culturais imigrantes, o vaudeville criou uma síntese que foi muito necessária em uma época de imigração em massa e caos cultural. Com a rápida evolução das mídias eletrônicas durante o século XX – publicação musical, gravação sonora, rádio, cinema e televisão – o vaudeville ampliou sua influência multicultural ao tornar-se o modelo dominante para uma indústria do entretenimento em expansão. Palavras-chave Vaudeville. Tin Pan Alley. Imigração.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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