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...Video game music is really underrated still,” Nakama says.While most people envision video game music as the typified Super Mario Brothers’ theme song of the ’80s, over the past five to 10 years, much of its composition has moved to extremely complex orchestral scoring. It no longer fulfills what Sweet calls the “assumption that video game music is a bunch of blips and boops and beeps.” THE ART OF VIDEO GAMESThe recent recession has illuminated the degree to which art is dependent on its patrons. Economy...
...home on Broadway.In an attempt to forge a connection with students involved in theater, Paulus provided the tickets. “Diane Paulus is really passionate about wanting to strengthen ties with students and the OFA,” says Eric C. Engel, director of the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex and one of the chaperones of the trip. “It’s a big deal to open a show like this, so it’s a great opportunity to celebrate her work and support her and learn from her. Offering tickets to the rehearsal...
...acts, have emerged over the last decade that have remained committed to bringing about positive social change? It’s a strange way to come about a point, I know, but Michelle Obama has made clear that women—arms and all—can be complex, capable, and still whole. This is a sentiment missing from current mainstream hip-hop, and one that could easily be echoed by its female artists. Blessed be the day when Beyoncé and Sasha Fierce are one and the same.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is serving as president of the American Physical Society this year.Her research focuses on three subjects: light scattering, in which photons are fired at an object of interest; surface physics, which studies phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases; and complex fluids that have properties of different phases.She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, served on more than 80 scientific advisory committees, holds two patents, and was named one of the “50 Most Important Women in Science” by Discover magazine...
...growing interest in eastern European gastronomic culture, and the premium attached to anything produced by artisanal methods, have been very good news for Tokaj (or Tokay) - the enormously sweet, complex wine produced only in Hungary's northeastern Tokaji region. Made from individually picked grapes that have shriveled and botrytized - a oenological term for the "noble rot" mold infection that intensely concentrates the fruit's sugars - Tokaj suffered from cost-cutting production methods during Hungary's communist era, but fresh investment (some of it foreign) is rectifying the situation. (See 10 things to do in Moscow...