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Encounter physical geography : interactive explorations of earth using Google Earth
Workbook containing interactive exercises intended for use with online explorations of Google Earth for each chapter. Each chapter directs students to a corresponding Google Earth KMZ file, available for downloading at www.mygeoscienceplace.com.
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Rejuvenating France’s Choir School Tradition
Since its founding, La Maîtrise de Toulouse has become one of France's leading youth choral organizations. The proof [is] yes...\"), La Depeche du Midi (\".the Maîtrise of the Toulouse Conservatoire signed a masterpiece.\"), American Record Guide (\"There's probably nothing this choir couldn't sing, and spectacularly well.\"), and the Choral Journal (\"Once again, La Maîtrise de Tou- louse and Mark Opstad have demonstrated their superb musicianship and precision.. Through this dialogue, music educators gain insights into the workings of a successful international youth choral organization and learn of the methods Opstad employed in bringing a cherished choral tradition to a foreign audience. Later, when I was at Oxford, I found out about a scholarship program where the French government funds about ten or twenty leading students to go to England, and the British government sends about ten or fifteen to France.
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Taos Society of Artists
\"\"A lavishly illustrated two-volume study of the Taos Society of Artists. Essays on the TSA and its founding plus scholarly biographical and art historical essays on twelve TSA artists with exemplary works of the artists studied\"-Provided by publisher\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Anti-social media: executive Twitter “engagement” and attitudes about media credibility
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to take the results of two studies to hypothesize about practice and recommend research/debate on business leaders’ use and perceptions of social media. Data were considered under the umbrella of current senior management practice, with the purpose to make suggestions for better practice, but primarily to theorize about the probable evolution of social media value and credibility for executives.
Design/methodology/approach
– The first study presents results from a qualitative content analysis of Fortune and Inc. 500 CEOs’ use of Twitter in terms of: activity and engagement; tweet subject matter; frequency of opinions expressed; and level of formality. The second considers the credibility of social media against traditional media and personal information sources within one quantitative survey.
Findings
– Senior executives using social media (Twitter) tend to engage in one-sided conversations in a two-way medium. Further, most CEOs appear to be using more formal language than general Twitter users. These factors, combined with the low credibility and value of social media by senior managers, may indicate the best future hope for social media credibility with executives will be neutral.
Practical implications
– In examining a combination of current literature and the data from these separate studies, the authors posit a number of underlying challenges in realizing the potential of the evolving social media environment that may deserve specific research.
Originality/value
– Discussion touches on implications for future adoption of social media tools by business leaders, as well as one-way vs two-way communication tendencies. This paper proposes a starting-point for theory development regarding this significant emerging area of communication.
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J. S Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
First composed in 1724 (version I), Bach would return to this passion setting three more times. The chorus sings with a tone that is disciplined with regard to articulation, yet is colored appropriately based on the text's message. [...]their attention to the polyphonic nature of each passage is commendable: listeners clearly hear the cries of \"Herr\" throughout the melismatic texture. [...]Patrick Grahl presents an evangelist who with his timbre and delivery captures the listener's attention throughout the narrative.
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Love is come again: Music for the Springhead Easter Play
Music for the Springhead Easter Play, John Eliot Gardiner's most recent recording, audiences receive more than the cursory window into Gardiner's musical prowess but a view into his personal life. Much like a medieval passion play, Marabel-herself an accomplished stage director, art historian, and singer-crafted a series of tableaux recreating the Easter journey from Calvary through Easter morning, along the road to Emmaus, and concluding with Simon Peter's encounter with Jesus at the Sea of Galilee. Each tableau was accompanied by hand-selected musical works that either narrate or comment on the respective action.
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Slava! Stravinsky, Bartók, Kodály, Bárdos, Penderecki, Łukaszewski
Coincidentally, \"slava\" was the familiar name for the famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom Krzysztof Penderecki dedicated his Iže cheruvimy-the second selection on this recording. [...]this recording embodies both the pulsating, rhythmically dominated texture associated with Stravinsky's primitivism period-as illustrated in the choir's articulation in the \"Credo\" and \"Sanctus\"-and the static, neo-classical style of Stravinsky's later works-demonstrated in the opening \"Kyrie\" and concluding \"Agnus Dei.\" Performing his Four Russian Peasant Songs, La Maîtrise de Toulouse reinforces the unifying elements of this recording, both thematically-with the Slavic nature of these four works-and literally, with their repetitive exclamations of \"Slava!\" Again, Stravinsky's rhythmic intensity is embodied by these young voices; Opstad's direction is both engaging and faithful to the score.
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Carl Heinrich Graun: Uns ist ein Kind geboren (Weihnachtsoratorium)
[...]the sopranos and altos deserve special recognition for their clear tone and agility, especially in the fugal movement \"Euch ist heute der Heiland geboren\" (no. 15). According to the CD notes, Arci-Vocalisten München is a semi-professional ensemble between 30 and 80 singers based upon \"the work being performed.\" [...]it is this reviewer's hope that this recording will introduce Graun's Weihnachtsoratorium to more audiences and add to the canon of choral works performed throughout Advent and Christmas.
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Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week
[...]Steinberg's Passion Week was composed between 1920 and 1923-a time beset with social unrest.Soon after its completion, the Bolsheviks issued a ban on all sacred music, so Steinberg relied on his role as a cultural ambassador to disseminate Passion Week to Western audiences.Vladimir Morosan, the prominent Russian musicologist, leads the listener through the stylistic traits of the New Russian Choral School, details the political reality of composers during the Russian Revolution, and, most importantly, helps the listener to identify these aspects in Steinberg's Passion Week.
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