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...Knafel Center for Government and International Studies will feature offices with windows and bookshelves, small seminar rooms, large classrooms, a conference center, a cafe, a library and a Harvard-MIT Data Center that will provide social science data to Harvard and MIT affiliates...
...rocks to him, so have the plangent cries of the pedal steel guitar attracted a hundred-odd aficionados of the instrument to this the 27th annual convention of the Pedal Steel Guitar Association. There will be performances by steelers from all over the country and Canada, a seminar (my main reason for coming) and a jam session featuring three of the leading exponents of the instrument. There will also be hardware, strings, instructional materials, hard-to-find CDs and other merchandise for sale, as well as a few pedal steels, and far-flung members of online discussion groups will have...
...NONE OF THESE RESOURCES MAKE THE DARN THING any easier to play, hence the pilgrimage to Norwalk. My seminar is conducted by Joe Wright, one of the more cutting-edge players on the scene, who looks like a cross between Austin Powers and Joey Ramone, and who takes the group through drills emphasizing the importance of the right hand. Isolating problems on the steel is a little like trying to decide which one in a school of piranhas is hurting you more, and Wright's method provides a solid grounding that's all the more welcome in that...
...sense of lore carefully being passed along. The instrument's pioneers, after all, are still with us for the most part, but judging from the convention it doesn't appear to be a magnet for youth: At 45, I'm in the younger half of my 10-man seminar, and I see maybe two people all weekend who are clearly under 30. Perhaps I'm not the only one who got put off by it the first time around...
...instance, while Pedersen said she would like freshman seminar offerings to expand to even more areas beyond the humanities, she said some innovation is needed to conceive of small-group instructional experiences within the sciences...