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...basically a total refinement of all components of what you hear. Everything is aligned and there’s attention given to alignment of vowel and perfect tuning and balance,” Leong says. He adds, “Jim teaches his students how to listen and how to adjust what they sing according to what they hear in order to create the perfect sound. It’s very compelling. It’s a beautiful sound and it’s one of his priorities to create that sound, sounds that people don’t hear...
...trying to describe the music to me, but I realized the easiest way to figure out what she wanted was to listen to music together and pick out examples of music that sounded like what she wanted,” he says. “It’s not easy to collaborate with people in different disciplines, but it’s certainly very rewarding and valuable. It’s interesting to see how other people experience your artistic medium when they’re not specialists in it themselves...
...long ago when you could walk down the street without seeing white, brightly colored or bedazzled earbuds jammed into everyone's ears. Just as the iPod has revolutionized the way we buy music, the small, disk-shaped earbuds that come bundled with it have changed the way we listen to music. But not in a good way. Aside from being uncomfortable and prone to falling out, earbuds sit outside the ear canal and leave room for lots of ambient noise to seep in, leading many of us to turn up the volume dangerously high to compensate...
...cheating their liberal students by having an overwhelmingly liberal faculty, because neither must vehemently research and defend their views during class debates. Recently I had a face-to-face meeting with Dr. Lisa Coleman, our new Chief Diversity Officer, and I was very encouraged by her willingness to listen and consider these points. I implore her and President Faust to include “political and social ideology” in Harvard’s official definition of diversity. This would be the first step toward Harvard intentionally hiring more conservative professors. Such a balance would behoove Harvard?...
...week). That might be something, but it’s far from the only factor that goes into taking a class. In fact, lecturing ability is far from the only factor that goes into a professor’s teaching ability. The guy may be great to listen to, but he may not grade fairly, answer his e-mail, or be a generally responsible human being. The best way to know this is to ask the people who have taken the class before—in other words, to check the Q Guide...