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...turns out to be that way? Environment, for starters. More than 20 years ago, Kagan conducted a study of 2-year-old children to measure their levels of inhibition--a tendency to retreat that often appears in children who later become indisputably shy. In collaboration with psychiatrist Dr. Carl Schwartz of Harvard Medical School, he then followed up on the children in their teens and again when they became young adults. Of the subjects who started off with shy tendencies, a full two-thirds stayed that way, but the rest overcame their inhibitions. "Parenting, environment and social opportunity...
This was one of the instructions given to a bewildered audience last Saturday, at the concert of the Harvard University Wind Ensemble. The program, “Music for Audience and Soloist,” by Elliott Schwartz, the featured composer of the evening, asked the audience to make different sounds, with the intended effect of organized chaos...
...second half of the program, the composer, Mr. Schwartz divided the audience into four groups, explaining that his piece, “Music for Audience and Soloist” originated as an activity at a conference for gifted teenagers in Maine...
...lengthy introduction, Schwartz, the Beckwith Professor of Music (Emeritus) at Bowdoin College, explained his recent fascination with maps and patterns as guides for musical journeys. Although he lost much of his audience with an analysis of New York Times crossword puzzles (“This is a very Weber-esque puzzle,” he explained at one point) the samples of musical scores, resembling board games, were fascinating...
...don’t tell me that Marsh isn’t a hero. Don’t act as though Soper’s sacrifices were for nothing. And don’t pretend that you wouldn’t trade places with Schwartz in a heartbeat...