Word: instruments
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol urged their colleagues to require mandatory evaluations for all classes with at least five students. According to Gross, 95 percent of courses currently are evaluated, but, Skocpol said, course evaluation “is an instrument that works best if everybody is in it.” Skocpol said that the requirement had been approved by the Graduate Policy Committee, the Committee on Graduate Education, and recommended by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released...
...international players who go to Singapore on tour. Harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans, drummer Billy Cobham, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and vocalist Bobby McFerrin have all been in the audience. In 2002, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis showed up at a performance and was so taken by it, he grabbed his instrument and leapt onstage to play alongside a startled Ponnudorai, who did not recognize him. "He told me 'Ever since I got off the plane I've been hearing about nothing but you,'" Ponnudorai recalls. The pair jammed together for the next two nights...
...lack of a quorum—which is defined as one-sixth of the voting Faculty members—at yesterday’s meeting left at least one professor wondering about the aims of yesterday’s discussion. “Sometimes composers write music with an instrument in mind,” Professor of History Peter E. Gordon, who helped draft the legislation, said. “I feel like I’m doing that, imagining a tune that will never get played.” —Staff Writer Johannah S. Cornblatt...
...spend money in America, to save money, and not send it to Iraq,” he said, speaking to an audience of about 30 people gathered at the Center for European Studies yesterday afternoon. On a practical level, Florenz stressed utilizing the trade system and a market-based instrument to address global warming. “We can do it in a market-based way, we can do it with the industry, and it’s not only a question of money, it’s a question of developing modern legislation papers for aircraft, for cars...
...couple of years, Keren Ann's has evolved into more expressive, fuller and more melodic voice. She says it's because she's now writing in keys she's more comfortable singing in, not to mention all that journeyman time doing show after show. "Sometimes, when you play an instrument, there's a change where something clicks and you feel a kind of freedom [with it]. I guess at some point, it happens for your voice." And it's her fans, both longtime and new, who are reaping the reward...