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The Pleasure of Modernist Music
The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bartók, Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others -- are modernists in that they are defined by their individualism, whether covert or overt, and share a basic urge toward redesigning musical discourse. The aim of this volume is to negotiate a varied and open middle ground between polemical extremes of reception. The contributors sk...
The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s disaster-prone production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Her second big mistake is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte, the star of the play.
THICKER THAN WATER
He bent down and picked up the envelope. It hadn't benn there before. Had the wind blown it there from the shelf of documents? He glanced over his shoulder. The curtain was still. There wasn't even a breeze. The envelope was completely white. There was no sender or addressee written on it. No stamp. Nothing. Shaya wasn't used to people shoving envelopes under his door. And for some reason, it didn't enter his mind to flinch - even for a second. he sat down on the couch and deftly opened the envelope. A lone white paper fell out. STOP SEARCHING FOR NAFTALI AND ROCHEL BLEICH What made Naftali and Rochel Bleich, a regular, young Israeli couple, parents of a small child, Shloime, disappear? Who ...
Data Science in Production
Putting predictive models into production is one of the most direct ways that data scientists can add value to an organization. By learning how to build and deploy scalable model pipelines, data scientists can own more of the model production process and more rapidly deliver data products. This book provides a hands-on approach to scaling up Python code to work in distributed environments in order to build robust pipelines. Readers will learn how to set up machine learning models as web endpoints, serverless functions, and streaming pipelines using multiple cloud environments. It is intended for analytics practitioners with hands-on experience with Python libraries such as Pandas and scikit-...
Monsters and Angels
This book by internationally known writer, composer, teacher and lecturer Seymour Bernstein expounds upon topics touched on in his bestseller With Your Own Two Hands (HL50482589). Bernstein teaches readers the truth about performing careers, offering insights and advice on both personal and musical issues. In Part 2, he discusses the importance of music education, covering both "monster" and "angel" teachers, managers and critics. Bernstein believes that everyone has a right to develop whatever talent they have, for self-fulfillment and self-development, if not necessarily for a career.
What Kids Did
In the spring of 2020, the Covid-19 virus changed the world and made daily life much more challenging. We had to stay apart, away from work, school, and our normal routines. But, all around the world, kids came up with creative and thoughtful ways to help others. From making 3-D printed medical equipment to food bank fundraising to a neighbourhood joke stand, to creating a semi-automatic hand-washing machine, kids made a difference in their communities. Let's celebrate and take inspiration from their stories.
Music and Modern Art
Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.
