Word: performativity
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...Hong, the manager of the music business department at the Isang Yun Peace Foundation, wrote in an e-mail that the concert’s organizers invited Koh to perform Yun’s cello concerto because “Bong-Ihn’s playing Isang Yun’s music has the infinite possibility to contribute to the peace and reunification of North and South Korea...
During his lifetime, Yun sought to reunify the two Koreas through music. Koh said his own dream is to perform someday at a ceremony celebrating the reunification of the two Koreas...
...Lerner said the reason some universities perform better than other non-university institutional investors remains unclear...
Despite the market turmoil of the past year, university endowments have tended to perform well, an unusual point explored in a new Harvard Business School study...
...numerous scenes include fans gushing about “Fahrenheit 9/11”—that it still winds up feeling like a retread. Perhaps it was his lack of cohesive vision that led Moore to dedicate a surprising amount of screen time to musical performances. Singers including Eddie Vedder, Steve Earle, and Joan Baez perform full songs at various points throughout the film. But rather than feeling uplifting, these scenes seem merely out of place. Equally unnecessary is a series of fake pro-Bush commercials that appears midway through the film. Humorous interludes have previously worked well...