Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to work as a bioengineer, how has your scientific background influenced your music? I think, if anything, just the meticulous nature of engineering goes hand-in-hand with what I do. I use a calculator to make sure things fall on a rhythmic pattern that is informed by math. My work has always involved sitting down at a computer and focusing on the smallest detail and working on tiny little things for hours at a time that eventually go toward a bigger picture. And that's kind of how I approach my music...
...sick to go to school, I spent the morning on the couch next to her entranced by the trashiest of talk shows, cradling a gigantic bowl of Frosted Flakes in my lap, and in the afternoons I read to the soothing sounds of soap operas for background noise...
...brings the start of school, an institution that, particularly in crowded global cities like London, efficiently sorts kids by socioeconomic class. A 2004 study of British schoolchildren by University of Bristol researchers found that the wider the choice of schools parents have, the more segregated pupils are by background. I've seen this firsthand, having just dispatched my youngest child, Nicola, to school...
...Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the non-profit Green For All and the author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for the environment and the economy will be the same...
...journey,” he said, smiling. “The way we know you get it—if your eyes are shining at the end.”In a style reminiscent of the music lectures given by Leonard Bernstein ’39, Zander explained the background and content of the first piece on the program, Béla Bartók’s little known “Dance Suite.” Mentioning that Bartók collected Hungarian folk songs and wrote compositions that reflected these tunes with “fantastic sophistication...