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I just read the Spring 2009 issue; it was a pleasure. I’m writing from the Kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa where I work as a Peace Corps education volunteer teaching secondary math and science. I also work with the African Library Project setting up school libraries and am involved in HIV/AIDS education. Lesotho has the world’s third-highest adult HIV prevalence, so all volunteers in country incorporate HIV education into whatever we do. (more...)
The Internet and digital music's portability have transformed radio stations like Bates' WRBC–FM, celebrating its 50th year of FCC-approved existence.
"People don't listen to hear a specific song," says publicity director Doug Ray '10 of Pittsburgh. "They listen to find something new." In that spirit, 10 WRBC jocks offer their suggestions, below.
Directed by John Corrie, the Bates College Choir performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Coronation Mass" and Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem" in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Sunday, March 27 and 29, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. (more...)
Another string of can't-miss musical performances at Bates College begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, as Germany's Auryn Quartet presents the first in a multiyear series of concerts constituting the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle. (more...)
Frank Glazer
At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, 94-year-old pianist Frank Glazer reprises the program that he played in his Carnegie Hall debut, 60 years ago to the day. The concert takes place at Bates College in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
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Music lovers might find themselves wanting to camp out at Bates College this weekend, as three concerts in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall add up to a critical mass of great listening.
Pianists Shiau-Uen Ding and Jacob Rhodebeck perform a program including music by Christopher Bailey, visiting assistant professor of music at Bates College, at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Josh Fix '99
The waning days of 2008 yielded a growing consensus that Free at Last, the debut CD from Josh Fix '99, is quite download-worthy. Focusing on the production aspect of the CD, Electronic Musician noted "lush recordings and prominent use of piano and stacked vocals" reminiscent of the studio style of Supertramp and others. In placing the CD on one of its top album-lists for 2008, Time Out New York called Fix a "post-Radiohead Elton John" who has "obliterated slacker chic with a virtuosically glossy piano-pop opus." That keyboard sound, reported Keyboard Magazine, comes from an old Emerson upright that Fix chose to use, even though he had access to a Yamaha C7 grand in the studio. "I was in this anti-establishment state of mind,” he says. "I wanted a grungy feel.... We got a huge sound out of it and we were only using one mic." [More...]
Directed by John Corrie, the Bates College Choir performs Benjamin Britten's popular Ceremony of Carols in concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or E-mail. (more...)
So I am the Girl Talk of the thesis world. I do mash-ups. That’s my thing. I make my living off of taking other people’s work and smushing it together into something on which I put my name (not without giving due credit of course). But really, I am taking the thought of a 13th century Japanese Zen philosopher and comparing it with a contemporary feminist thinker of technoscience. That’s like combining “The Hallelujah Chorus” with Missy Elliott. And, I can groove to it. Without getting hit in the head or knocked on the ground like the recent Girl Talk show here at Bates.
But the most interesting thing about the comparison of my thesis to mash-up music is that the critiques of both ventures are the same. Concerning mash-up music, debates have been circulating concerning the question of whether a mash-up song should be considered new or not. Is a mash-up song authentic? Is it “real” music? Or is it simply two previously written songs placed together into something that is less novel than it is a rip-off. And what does it mean that computers are so fancy these days that any Joe-shmo can take two of his favorite songs and layer them together? Does that count as authentic? Or does one need to have a certain knowledge about music, about both the songs, about how sounds and beats and rhythms work together? (more...)
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