Eric Whitacre: A Virtual Choir 2,000 Voices Strong
In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. The full piece premiered on YouTube. (14:35)
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, 'Sleep'
The 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of 'Sleep' from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011.
Eric Whitacre is one of the most performed composers of his generation. After creating and conducting the "virtual choir" in 2010 -- hundreds of voices from around the world singing together on YouTube -- he's back with a larger, even more ambitious work: "Sleep." His inspriational story from TED
Claron McFadden:Â Singing the Primal Mystery - Aria
"The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal." With these words, soprano Claron McFadden invites us to explore the mysteries of breathing and singing, as she performs the challenging "Aria," by John Cage. (10:55)
pearl jam - footsteps (live)
[Music] Pearl Jam - Footsteps [live, 30.10.99] Acoustic live version of this great song, b-side of 1991.
Authors@Google: Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel
Authors@Google present Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel: "More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty."
In their new book, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel discuss how to solve one of the most important questions in aid economics: how do you figure out where to spend your dollars in order to get the best results? Too often aid money is allocated by hope, by guesswork, or [in the worst cases] by corruption. How can donors tell if their money is doing as much good as
Professor Wolfgang Wippermann: Antisemitism and Racism in German Textbooks 1919-1945
Professor Wolfgang Wippermann, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany: Extermination by Education: Antisemitism and Racism in German Textbooks 1919-1945
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah -- Fighting the Racism and Prejudice
Day 1 -- Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Racism and Antisemitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- the Prelude to Destruction
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/conference/2008/index.asp
Professor David Bankier: Dialectics of Holocaust Uniqueness and its Negation
Professor David Bankier, Director, International Research Institute, Yad Vashem: Dialectics of Holocaust Uniqueness and its Negation
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah -- Fighting the Racism and Prejudice
Day 1 -- Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Racism and Antisemitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- the Prelude to Destruction
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/conference/2008/index.asp
Major General Ido Nechushtan: IDF Trips to Poland
Major General Ido Nechushtan -- Commander of the Air Force, Israel Defense Forces, Israel: Witnesses in Uniform - Confronting the Past - IDF Trips to Poland
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah -- Fighting the Racism and Prejudice
Day 3 -- Thursday, July 10, 2008
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/conference/2008/index.asp
Professor Yehuda Bauer - Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem: The Holocaust and the State of Israel
The 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education
Teaching the Shoah -- Fighting the Racism and Prejudice
Closing Session -- Thursday, July 10, 2008
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/conference/2008/index.asp
Holocaust Survivor Testimony :Andrei Călăraşu
Andrei Călăraşu was born in 1922 in Botosani, Romania as Bernard Grupper, son of Zalman and Eti. He grew up in Jassy, where his mother passed away.
On 29 June 1941, with the German invasion of Russia, Bernard, his father and his brother, Paul, were taken to the local police courtyard. At midnight, they were marched to the train station where German and Romanian soldiers pulled gold teeth from their mouths, and cut off fingers bearing gold rings.
The three men were placed into a closed carri
136: Can your business plan survive this stress test?
The road to success is littered with the wreckage of strategies gone awry. Here is a six-step stress test for your strategy.
Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans
Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist, hedge fund manager, derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum, he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring -- who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student -- about events in the Middle East, the oil supply, investin
Faculty Advising Session: Labor/Health/Employee Benefits / Employee Discrimination
Faculty Advising Session: Labor/Health/Employee Benefits / Employee Discrimination
Valerius Catullus - Carmina CI
Valerius Catullus - Carmina VII
Teaching and Professional Fellowship Report 2004/5 : An Investigation into the feasibility of develo
The aim of my fellowship was to put the idea of developing a Virtual Newsroom – an
online means of teaching journalism -- to the test.
I began work on this idea some six years ago after many years of using computers in
the teaching of journalism. At that time, I developed, together with the IT Research
and Development Unit (ITRDU), at the London Institute (now University of the Arts
London), an e-learning prototype based on the ‘breaking story’ exercise – a
fundamental exercise for
Guide to the American Transportation Company Records, 1890-1895
This collection includes bills, receipts, statements, and trip sheets of the American Transportation Company, Fairport, Ohio, 1890-1895. Also included are personal receipts and bills from George E. Tener of Pittsburgh (manager and treasurer of the American Transportation Company).
RUSN 306-01, Phonetics, Fall 2006
Course Objectives:
-- to introduce students to the system of Russian sounds, pronunciation rules, and intonation patterns:
-- to provide introductory information on the history of Russian language.,This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the instructor.
ANSO 303-01, Medical Sociology, Fall 2006
Medical sociology is the theoretical, empirical and applied study of the social dimensions of health, illness, disease and the provision and consumption of health care. Topics that will be covered in this course include epidemiology, social demography of health, the relationship between social stress and health, health and illness behavior, the sick role, the physician-patient relationship, the organization of health care and medical practice, and the moral and ethical aspects of health care pra
ANSO 275-01, Social Theory, Fall 2006
The purpose of this seminar is to study classic and contemporary contributions to social theory and to explore how these contributions have informed the development and practice of anthropology and sociology. This course is being co-taught by an anthropologist and a sociologist in order to provide the interpretive perspectives of both disciplines. We will take turns lecturing and leading discussions, and participate in all seminar meetings.,This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Offic
