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...Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...
...last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera (ENO), which faces €1.75 million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third. In response, the choristers pulled out of a scheduled performance of Berlioz's The Capture of Troy, and instead came to St. Paul's Church to perform Verdi's Requiem. Before the performance David Dyer, a tenor, told the packed church that the proposed changes amounted to "cultural vandalism." In the U.K., where public funding for the arts tends...
...after almost an entire year of preparation, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS), the Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (HRCM) will do both as they perform Beethoven’s masterpiece today in Sanders Theater...
...Missa Solemnis” is not performed very often. But it happens to be one of Marvin’s favorite works, and the leaders of the three singing groups chose to perform it partly for that reason...
...lest anyone conclude that wolves are unusually stupid, Hare notes that chimpanzees, which perform well in many other cognition experiments, also flunk the food-canister test. Hare’s conclusion? Dogs’ unique ability to read human social cues is a product of domestication...