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The thought first occurred to me, back in the fall of 2008, as I was reading Dan Ariely's very readable and fascinating book, "Predictably Irrational". Chapter after chapter is peppered with conclusions drawn from experiments conducted on students studying at some of the best institutions in the US. I wrote an email to a couple of the authors of what I thought were well-respected blogs about the brain and behavior. I wrote:
"The more I read about our cognitive biases or irrationality, the more I'm struck by how many decisions have been reached using what seem fairly limited samples, many of them just college students. I don't doubt that we've cognitive biases but I wonder are there any studies that go across cultures, socio-economic strata and age in determining the cognitive biases ? I googled and couldn't find anything relevant. Is it that we all have the same cognitive biases but different ones are brought to the fore by culture ? "
I did not get any responses to my question (they probably were optimistic that I'd learn to google better). But the feeling never went away as I encountered many new fascinating conclusions drawn from experiments conducted on college students in this country. As I was writing my entry about the death of languages, I noticed an article in that excellent blog, Neuroanthropology. While the title caught my eye, I didn't really go back to checking the article until a few days later. The entry is titled: "We agree it's WEIRD, but is it WEIRD enough?". WEIRD turns out to be an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The article was based on a paper (then) recently published paper titled The weirdest people in the world? by Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan.
There are two main points to this paper. The first is that a lot of conclusions in behavior science are based on experiments on WEIRD people, essentially undergrad students at Western, mostly American, universities. The second thrust of the paper is to show that WEIRD people are not representative of most of humanity when it comes to behaviors.
From the abstract of the paper:
"The findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans. Many of these findings involve domains that are associated with fundamental aspects of psychology, motivation, and behavior – hence, there are no obvious a priori grounds for claiming that a particular behavioral phenomenon is universal based on sampling from a single subpopulation. Overall, these empirical patterns suggests that we need to be less cavalier in addressing questions of human nature on the basis of data drawn from this particularly thin, and rather unusual, slice of humanity."
Two pieces of data from the article reflect the level of skewness in the papers related to behavior science:
- "A recent analysis of the top journals in six sub-disciplines of psychology from 2003 to 2007 revealed that 68% of subjects came from the United States, and a full 96% of subjects were from Western industrialized countries, specifically those in North America and Europe, as well as Australia and Israel (Arnett 2008). The make-up of these samples appears to largely reflect the country of residence of the authors, as 73% of first authors were at American universities, and 99% were at universities in Western countries. This means that 96% of psychological samples come from countries with only 12% of the world's population."
- "In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the premier journal in social psychology – the subdiscipline of psychology that should (arguably) be the most attentive to questions about the subjects' backgrounds – 67% of the American samples (and 80% of the samples from other countries) were composed solely of undergraduates in psychology courses (Arnett 2008)."
These papers and their conclusions are not just academic papers published in academic journals for the consumption of academics. As the authors write: "In top journals such as Nature and Science, researchers frequently extend their findings from undergraduates to the species – often declaring this generalization in their titles. These contributions typically lack even a cautionary footnote about these inferential extensions."
The authors compare WEIRD people at four levels: western, industrialized countries vs what they term "small scale socieities", Western industrialized countries vs non-Western, industrialized countries, American vs other western countries and finally university-educated Americans vs non-university-educated Americans. The authors base their comparisons on different aspects of behavior ranging from visual perception and spatial cognition to ideas of independence and inter-dependence and moral reasoning.
The main paper is a well written (I confess here that I only read sections of it, given my limited time and domain-specific competence) 22 pages or so. The reminder of the paper is a collection of responses from various peers to their paper and the authors' response to the responses. Many of the responses apply the criticism to other areas such as neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and the anthropocentric and ethnocentric attitudes related to comparing humans with other animals. Many responses question whether WEIRD is weird enough. For example, the author of the Neuroanthropology post writes:
"I worry that W.E.I.R.D. classification flatters the WEIRD, focusing on traits that Westerners typically highlight to describe themselves in ways that are, however inadvertently, pretty self-congratulatory. If we were to call the same group, Materialist, Young, self-Obsessed, Pleasure-seeking, Isolated, Consumerist, and Sedentary (MYOPICS)… you get the idea."
A small section of the peer commentary argued against the conclusions of the article with one author even stating "WEIRD societies may be more compatible with human nature".
In the main paper, the authors don't attempt to explain the reasons behind the extreme differences in behavior of the WEIRD folks. But in their response to the various pieces of peer review, they touch upon this subject. They suggest two possible reasons. One is the primacy of the English language. They write: "English-bias may be impacting theorizing in the cognitive sciences, while Machery and Stich show that it has impacted philosophical inquiry".
The second cause they speculate has to do with the relative strangeness of American middle and upper class child-rearing techniques. They write: "Lancy lays the groundwork by highlighting the relative strangeness, in a broad global and historical context, of modern middle- and upper-class American beliefs, values, cultural models, and practices vis-a-vis childrearing. Fernald and Karasik et al. review evidence that is beginning to document how these practices impact cognitive, linguistic, and motor development, including long-term cognitive outcomes."
We've been here before. Many times have we encountered the notion of researcher bias and skew caused by the nature of the samples studied.
I first encountered the idea of researcher bias many years ago when I was reading Dorothy Rowe's insightful book, "Friends and Enemies: Our Need To Love and Hate". She writes: "An American researcher observing a number of white, middle-class American babies, or an English researcher observing a number of white, middle-class English babies can easily fail to draw the simple conclusion that this is what American or English middle-class babies do and instead generalize their observations to say that this is what all babies do."
A more tragic story is narrated by Robert Sapolsky in his essay "Poverty's Remains" from his book, "The Trouble With Testosterone". Much of our understanding of human anatomy was initially based on cadavers of poor people whose internal organs were differently shaped and sized because of the way they suffered and died. Sapolsky quotes several examples of this from the thymus gland which is very small in people who live in chronically stressful conditions to the adrenal gland which is much larger in people living under stressful conditions. So, at the turn of the 19th century, the doctors had a misconceived notion of the "normal" size of organs.
Before SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) was called SIDS, an Austrian pathologist named Richard Paltauf concluded – after several autopsies of healthy infants who had died of unexplainable causes in their crib – that the cause of death was an enlarged thymus that pressed down on the trachea, strangling a sleeping infant. SIDS, which had been nameless thus far, was called status thymicolymphaticus and as far as into the 1950s, the preferred preventive treatment for SIDS was to irradiate the throats of infants. While not helping SIDS, the treatment resulted in causing thyroid cancer in tens of thousands of people. Sapolsky writes: "It is a chilling experience to wander the dusty lower floor of a medical library, reading forgotten seventy-year-old pediatric texts with their dry discussions of status thymicolymphaticus. The technical details of the disorder, the plausible etiology, the photographs of the "enlarged" thymuses, the confident recommendation for treatment – all wrong, page after page."
More recently, at the start of the year, NYT published an article titled "The Americanization of Mental Illness":
"AMERICANS, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country's blunders into other cultures. In some circles, it is easy to make friends with a rousing rant about the McDonald's near Tiananmen Square, the Nike factory in Malaysia or the latest blowback from our political or military interventions abroad. For all our self-recrimination, however, we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world's understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
This unnerving possibility springs from recent research by a loose group of anthropologists and cross-cultural psychiatrists. Swimming against the biomedical currents of the time, they have argued that mental illnesses are not discrete entities like the polio virus with their own natural histories. These researchers have amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that mental illnesses have never been the same the world over (either in prevalence or in form) but are inevitably sparked and shaped by the ethos of particular times and places."
I cannot recommend the WEIRD paper highly enough to anybody engaged in an enquiry of human behavior, as a vocation or an avocation. I've saved a copy of the paper for a more thorough reading. I also recommend reading the post on Neuroanthropology for some additional insightful commentary.
Sapolsky concludes his essay "Poverty's Remains" with a powerful and eloquent statement: "Be really certain before you ever pronounce something to be the norm, because at that instant, you have now made it supremely difficult to ever look at an exception to that supposed norm and see it objectively."


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It's easy for right leaners to mock celebrities for their inane political comments. Fish. Barrel. Shotgun. But I tried to defend actors the other day, saying many were probably cornered by journalists sniffing out an easy headline.
I spoke too soon.
Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin and Jamie Lee Curtis all rose up in recent days to swat VP nominee Gov. Sarah Palin without anyone pointing a gun, or a notepad, in their direction. Suffice to say none did it well. In fact, it got pretty ugly.
Let's start with the worst offender, "The View's" Goldberg. She compared the affection pouring out to Palin at the RNC to … wait for it … a Nazi love fest! (hat tip: Dirty Harry)
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Prion infections lead to invariably fatal diseases of the CNS, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and scrapie in sheep. There have been hundreds of instances in which prions have been transmitted iatrogenically among humans, usually through neurosurgical procedures or administration of pituitary tissue extracts. Prions have not generally been regarded as blood-borne infectious agents, and case-control studies have failed to identify CJD in transfusion recipients. Previous understanding was, however, questioned by reports of prion infections in three recipients of blood donated by individuals who subsequently developed variant CJD. On reflection, hematogenic prion transmission does not come as a surprise, as involvement of extracerebral compartments such as lymphoid organs and skeletal muscle is common in most prion infections, and prions have been recovered from the blood of rodents and sheep. Novel diagnostic strategies, which might include the use of surrogate markers of prion infection, along with prion removal strategies, might help to control the risk of iatrogenic prion spread through blood transfusions.
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Residents from the State of Nevada consume the most beer - 367 bottles a year. Maybe it should be called the "Beer State", not the "Silver State."
Americans are lucky to have Alka-Seltzer
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c. Popular hangover cures in Puerto Rico involve rubbing lemons or limes on the underarms
Why America was really discovered. The pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, rather than continuing sailing because they were running out of supplies, especially alcoholic beverages.
In Bavaria Germany, alcohol is not considered a drink. It is legally defined as a staple food.
Corks or Kegs? In 1998, the United States population consumed an estimated 549,494 gallons of wine. That's the equivalent of 35,451 kegs of beer.
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Compact, Lindbergh, King Collection
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh literally flew into history when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, thus becoming the first pilot to fly solo and nonstop from New York to Paris. This flight made Lindbergh a household name and catapulted him into fame and celebrity. The objects of popular culture in the National Collection display everything from ashtrays to wristwatches reflect the public adulation for Lindbergh and the powerful commercial response to his celebrity. More than 75 years after the Spirit's historic flight, Lindbergh's name still has the power help sell manufactured goods.
Gift of the Stanley King Family.
Physical Description:
A hinged black cosmetic case with a picture of Lindbergh in a flight jacket on the top. A button located on the bottom half just below the break between the two halves unlatches the top. Inside the case is a mirror and cosmetic pad. The pad sits on a metal disk that still has powder on it. The pad has a small strap with red lettering "Lindy".
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- Metal, glass, and fabric
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NEW YORK (AP) - Ten music artists who have received critical acclaim but lack commercial success have been nominated for the first annual Shortlist award.
Among the nominees for the award are R&B singer Bilal, funk singer Nikka Costa, the cartoon rap group Gorillaz and British singer PJ Harvey. Judges include Aimee Mann, Beck, Macy Gray and rapper Mos Def.
The winner will walk away with a $10,000 check. In addition, organizers will donate $10,000 toward relief efforts for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The award ceremony will be held Nov. 19 in Los Angeles. Shortlist was created to honor artists whose albums sold less than 500,000 copies.
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why Chapter 7 Summary
Cassette 3: Side A
- This tape is for Courtney Crimson (the mystery girl in the last tape).
- Hannah says that Courtney looks perfect on the outside and acts like she loves everybody. But the truth is, it's all just an act.
- Courtney is in these tapes because Hannah wants her to see that her fakeness affects other people.
- Clay is surprised. Courtney's niceness always seemed real enough to him.
- On the tape, Hannah explains: she doesn't hate Courtney. In fact, for a while she thought she and Courtney were actually friends.
- But soon enough, she realized that Courtney was just trying to make Hannah into another one of her groupies, someone who would help her keep up her perfect image.
- The day after Courtney came to Hannah's house, the two girls saw each other in class. They laughed and talked, but then Courtney just left the classroom without saying goodbye.
- Hannah thought that what happened at her house had formed a bond between them, and that they would be good friends now. When Courtney didn't say goodbye, Hannah realized that wasn't the case.
- But then there was a party. Courtney needed Hannah and pretended to be her friend again.
- In the present day, Clay needs a break. He turns off the tape, leaves Monet's, and gets on the bus again.
- Back to the tape: Courtney came back into Hannah's life when she needed a ride to a party.
- She said she wanted Hannah to go with her so they could hang out, and Hannah gave her the benefit of the doubt. But she didn't really trust Courtney.
- Clay, meanwhile, is heading toward Tyler's house, another star on Hannah's map. He doesn't know why he's following all her orders, but he continues.
- He figures it's a way of honoring Hannah's last wishes.
- Hannah continues the story: as soon as they got to the party, Courtney said she and Hannah should split up. She told Hannah to be sure to wait for her, though, because she needed Hannah to drive her home.
- Hannah wasn't surprised or disappointed. She knew this would happen.
- As Clay listens to the tape, the bus turns onto Courtney's street and past her house.
- Through the headphones, Clay hears a girl's voice calling his name. He turns off the tape.
- He turns and sees Skye Miller sitting on the bus. He used to have a crush on her in eighth grade. She's a really pretty girl, but for the past few years she's been wearing baggy clothes, like she's hiding. She's also been pretty withdrawn.
- She asks Clay if he missed his stop. Clay shakes his head – he can't even imagine going home right now.
- Clay asks where she's going, but she doesn't tell him. Why does she try so hard to push others away?
- He wonders if he should stay on the bus and try to talk to her. But she says she'll see him the next day, and he decides that's the end of their conversation.
- When he gets off the bus, he can see Skye with her head against the window and her eyes closed.
- He walks toward Tyler's house. When he gets there, he sees that Tyler's bedroom window is broken and taped up with duct tape.
- Clay hears somebody ask him if he wants a rock. It's Marcus Cooley, a guy from school.
- Marcus gives Clay a rock. He says Clay will "feel better" (7.159) if he throws a rock at Tyler's window.
- Clay guesses that Marcus is on the tapes, and sure enough, he is.
- Marcus says that two other people from the tapes have come out and thrown rocks at Tyler's window. He knows because he lives a couple houses down, on the other side of the street.
- Alex was the first one to come, and it was his idea to break Tyler's window.
- Clay feels like telling Marcus he's going to throw the rock at his window. Instead, he calls Marcus a "dick" (7.176), and asks him what the difference is between Tyler and the other people on the list, including him and Marcus.
- Marcus says that Tyler is a "Peeping Tom" (7.181) and a "freak" (7.181).
- He also says that he (Marcus) shouldn't be on the tapes and that Hannah was just using this all as an excuse to kill herself.
- Clay tells Marcus to go away, and then he leaves. He continues listening to Courtney Crimson's tape.
- Hannah says that at the party that night, she saw her first fight – two guys beating the heck out of each other while a crowd egged them on.
- It disgusted Hannah and she felt like throwing up. She couldn't find an empty bathroom, though, so she decided to leave the party.
- But at the gate, she saw Tyler coming into the party. He tried to hide his camera when he saw her.
- Hannah started asking him about it, but another guy came up to her.
- He said that Courtney told him to come talk to her because she's "fun to hang out with" (7.221).
- She wasn't mad at Courtney now – the guy Courtney sent over was actually pretty cute.
- They talked for a while, but then the guy said he needed to tell Hannah a secret:
- Courtney didn't really send him over. He came over on his own because Courtney told him and the other guys that Hannah kept sex toys in her dresser.
- Hannah started to get really upset. She took Tyler by the hand and said she wanted him to take a picture of her with Courtney.
- She figured the last thing Courtney wanted was a photo of the two of them together – proof that they were tied together socially.
- Sure enough, Courtney said no. But Hannah put her arm around Courtney and told her that she could borrow the toys from her dresser anytime she wanted, letting Courtney know that she knew what Courtney told everybody.
- Tyler snapped the shot.
- Hannah said she was leaving. Courtney begged her not to go – she needed her for the ride home.
- Tyler asked Hannah for a ride home. She gave him one, but didn't talk to him.
- After that, she drove around, deciding she couldn't stand this town anymore.
- Clay is kind of starting to feel the same way.
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Feb. 17, 2003
TEMPE, Ariz. (www.TheSunDevils.com) -- Two upcoming Arizona State Baseball games will be televised live throughout the state of Arizona on KAZ-TV. The games, Saturday and Sunday vs. Notre Dame, are the first of 10 ASU Baseball games that will be televised by AZ-TV.
Arizona State fans throughout the state of Arizona can watch broadcasts of this weekend's games vs. Notre Dame (Sat., Feb. 22. 3:00 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 23, 1:00 p.m.), to be shown live on the statewide independent station KAZ-TV (see www.kaz.tv for list of affiliates, including channel 13 in Phoenix on Cox Cable). All games on KAZ-TV do not have satellite coordinates.The ASU-UCLA game on April 18 will also be broadcast by Fox Sports, but will run on a tape-delayed basis.
The Sun Devils are off to a 17-1 start to the 2003 season and are ranked No. 5 in both the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball national polls.
KAZ-TV 2003 ASU Baseball Broadcast Schedule: Feb. 22 3 p.m. Notre Dame Feb. 23 1 p.m. Notre Dame Mar. 22 7 p.m. Stanford Mar. 23 1 p.m. Stanford Apr. 19 1 p.m. UCLA Apr. 25 7 p.m. Washington State Apr. 26 7 p.m. Washington State May 23 7 p.m. Arizona May 24 7 p.m. Arizona May 25 1 p.m. Arizona


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The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County is pleased to announce that the Pereira Octagon Barn has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The iconic local landmark on South Higuera is one of only two octagonal barns left in California and uniquely symbolizes the region's agricultural roots.
"Being on the National Historic Place registry provides additional protections to ensure the Octagon Barn's historic integrity over the long-term," said Kaila Dettman, Executive Director of The Land Conservancy.
There are fewer than 40 sites currently listed in San Luis Obispo County. Even Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is not on the national register.
The National Register is administered by the National Park Service, and is the country's official list of United States historic sites considered "worthy of preservation." Inclusion in this esteemed Registry "honors the property by recognizing its importance to its community, State, or the Nation."
"Our success in getting the Octagon Barn listed as a National Historic Place is due to the dedication of Land Conservancy volunteers, especially Ed Carson, Pete Jenny, Lynne Landwehr, and B.K. Richard," said Dettman. "Our volunteers spent hundreds of hours gathering research and compiling the application so that this beloved community barn would get the recognition it deserves."
Today the barn is in excellent condition, having been completely restored over a 15-year period by volunteers of the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County.
The Pereira Octagon Barn is one of the few West Coast examples of the eight-sided barn architecture, which was intended to be more efficient for the farmer in the days before mechanization made farm labor less arduous. This one-story barn encloses roughly 5,000 square feet of space.
The barn served as a dairy barn for approximately 50 years, in a county known from the 1860s to the 1950s for its production of milk, butter, and cheese.
Constructed in 1906 at a time when local dairy people were realizing the importance of adapting modern methods of farming, the barn was part of a Grade A dairy operation until the mid-1950s, at which time the property was converted to a beef cattle operation.


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A photographic journey in a few days with the 2013 Hastings High School varsity football team.
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HTC Puccini to be one of AT&T's first LTE Android tablets?
Back in January, AT&T unveiled its intentions to introduce no less than 12 new Android devices before the end of 2011. One of them may be an unannounced HTC tablet.
According to Pocket Now, the tablet is currently called HTC Puccini, and a version of it could be one of the first tablets to support AT&T's upcoming LTE network (which should be up and running sometime later this year).
Apparently, this is what the HTC Puccini looks like:
There's no word on the specs of the new tablet, but it seems to be bigger than the HTC Flyer – so maybe it has a 10 inch display, like the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Acer Iconia A501 (which was announced by AT&T at CES 2011).
When (and if) launched, the HTC Puccini will most likely run Android Honeycomb. We'll bring more info as soon as new details show up.


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Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs world and U.S. premieres by 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Xiaogang Ye Sunday, September 22, 2013 (3 p.m.) Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
[New York] Following two triumphant performances at Carnegie Hall during May's Spring For Music festival, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra returns to New York for a concert at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on September 22 devoted solely to symphonic and vocal works of Chinese-born composer Xiaogang Ye. Entitled SONGS OF THE EARTH, the program not only features the orchestra with Chinese-born, Yale- and Juilliard-trained conductor Yongyan Hu but also highlights outstanding soloists from the United States and beyond: Taiwanese-born violinist Cho-Liang Lin, Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Chinese tenor Yijie Shi, baritone Chen-Ye Yuan, zheng player Ji Wei and boy soprano Liu Shen. Also appearing in the world premiere of the opening work, Twilight of the Himalayas, is the New York Choral Society. This concert marks the first time that a major American orchestra performs a full concert in the United States of symphonic works by a single composer of Chinese descent.
Currently the Vice President of the Central Conservatory of Music—China's premier musical educational institution—Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) was one of the outstanding composition students in the "Class of 1978," where he studied alongside Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and Chen Qigang. Early in China's reform era, Ye was among the first young talents to pursue advanced studies abroad (at the Eastman School of Music). A student of Mingxin Du, Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Louis Andriessen and Alexander Goehr, Ye has mentored numerous young Chinese talents in the past two decades. In 2008, three billion people around the world heard his music featured at the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, performed by Lang Lang on the piano.
Most recently, Ye received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), which resulted in the new work Twilight of the Himalayas, inspired by the natural beauty of Nepal and Tibet, featuring tenor soloist Yijie Shi, boy soprano Liu Shen, zheng (Chinese zither) virtuoso Ji Wei and the New York Choral Society with texts by Lee Shaosheng and Liu Sola. Also included in the program is an early work with violin soloist Cho-Liang Lin. Written in 1993, The Last Paradise is a single movement concerto dominated by the violin's cantilena and dancing figures; it is a young Chinese composer's response to the rich European tradition of the violin concerto.
Of special note in this concert is the complete rendition of The Song of the Earth, Ye's response to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Similar to Mahler's epic tome but scored for soprano and baritone soloists, Ye's work contains multiple movements, setting original Chinese poetry that had inspired Mahler in translation (via Hans Bethge's collection Die chinesische Flöte). Soprano movements of this work have already been performed in the Avery Fisher Hall in 2005 and 2013, both under the baton of Maestro Long Yu, with the China Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic respectively. Critic Allan Kozinn of The New York Times described the 2005 selection as a "lush, neo-Romantic orchestral score." Baritone movements of The Song of the Earth premiered at the Berlin Konzerthaus in 2005, and the complete work has since been presented by the China Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony, Bamberg and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras.
On September 22, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs U.S. premiere of the complete work with Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman and Chinese baritone Chen-Ye Yuan. While Yuan has performed The Song of the Earth since its world premiere in Europe and Asia, Brueggergosman will meet the refreshing challenge in learning to sing in Mandarin Chinese for the first time. Yuan is most noted for his American operatic appearances, including Dr. Friedrich Bhaer in the recording and PBS televised production of Mark Adamo's Little Women (2001) and Zhou En-lai in recent productions of Nixon in China for San Francisco Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Vancouver Opera, as well as the Naxos recording with Opera Colorado conducted by Marin Alsop. Both Chen-Ye Yuan and Yijie Shi are prominent operatic artists in China: the last time these two Chinese-born singers shared the stage was Xiaogang Ye's Song of Farewell (2010), an opera about Peking opera performers in pre-revolutionary China.
In addition to being an outstanding composer, Ye is also a champion for new music in China and the West. In 2002, he founded Beijing Modern Music Festival (BMMF). Organized by the Central Conservatory of Music and now in its 11th year, the BMMF has hosted contemporary master composers from Robert Beaser to Stephen Hartke, Kaija Saariaho to Louis Andriessen, Steven Stucky and Aaron Jay Kernis. Prominent New York groups such as the Bang on a Can All-Stars have also taken part in festival, enlivening Beijing's already vibrant new-music scene. From the year of its founding, the BMMF became an annual gathering for new-music audiences in China, generating a true "festive" atmosphere for a total immersion into contemporary music. Maestro Yongyan Hu, co-founder of the BMMF, has served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the EOS Repertoire and Dean of China's Orchestra Academy at the Central Conservatory of Music from its inception in 2004. Modeled after the New World Symphony's curriculum, Hu's program has trained and nurtured two generations of accomplished orchestra players who have subsequently made their mark in China's burgeoning music scene. During the 2001-2002 season, Hu made his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Choral Society in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The following October, the New York Choral Society traveled to Beijing to perform the China premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony. In addition to leading the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra on tour in Europe, he served as Music Director of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra from 2000-2003. Hu has also guest conducted various orchestras around the world.
The DSO's involvement with the Central Conservatory of Music launches with this Avery Fisher Hall concert. "The DSO is thrilled to partner with the Central Conservatory of Music to help bring Chinese new music to U.S. audiences," said Anne Parsons, DSO President and CEO, of the upcoming Avery Fisher Hall concert. "This is a unique opportunity to intertwine two cities with rich musical traditions and two institutions with proud heritages – all as a result of distinguished members of the DSO playing an invaluable part in bringing us together." In many ways, this project with China further strengthens the DSO's mission of garnering community support and giving back to the community.
The September 22 concert is co-sponsored by the State Council Information Office and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chinese Literature Foundation, Oceanwide Foundation, Zhejiang Henyi Group Co. Ltd. and the Beijing Performance & Arts Group Co., Ltd.
For information on the above concert as well as future DSO-Central Conservatory of Music projects, contact Joanna Lee, Museworks Limited (email@example.com; US +1 917 365 2479; HK +852 91913182) or Gabrielle Poshadlo, Patron Communications and Public Relations Manager, DSO (email@example.com; US +1 313 576 5194).
For more information on the September 22 Avery Fisher Hall concert and artists, please visit www.dso.org/AveryFisher.
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Yongyan Hu, conductor
Twilight of the Himalayas (2012-13) (World premiere)
(Texts by Shaosheng Lee and Liu Sola)
Yijie Shi, tenor
Liu Shen, boy soprano
Ji Wei, zheng
New York Choral Society
The Last Paradise for Violin and Orchestra (1993) (U.S. premiere)
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
The Song of the Earth (2005) (U.S. premiere of the complete work)
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano
Chen-Ye Yuan, baritone
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XIAOGANG YE, Composer
Born on September 23, 1955, Xiaogang Ye is regarded as one of the leading Chinese composers active on the international scene today. From 1978 to 1983, he studied at China's Central Conservatory of Music, and upon graduation was appointed resident composer and lecturer at that institution. In 1987, he studied at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. Among his teachers were Mingxin Du, Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Louis Andriessen and Alexander Goehr. In 2002, Ye founded the Beijing Modern Music Festival at the Central Conservatory of Music and continues to serve as the Festival's Artistic Director. In 2009, he was appointed as Vice President of the Central Conservatory of Music.
Ye's oeuvre covers symphonic works, chamber music for various instruments, and stage works as well as film music, for which he received Best Original Music in China's "Golden Rooster" film awards and various Hong Kong Film Awards. Ye's early accolades include first prize in the Alexander Tcherepnin Composition Competition (1982) and the Japan Dance Star Ballet Prize (1986). He was a fellow of the Metropolitan Life Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts (1996). In 2012, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled the composition of Twilight of the Himalayas, receiving its world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall.
In August 2008, Ye's Starry Sky was premiered during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing by Lang Lang. Accompanied by dance and dazzling lights, the live broadcast attracted three billion viewers worldwide.
Regarded as a leading and influential composer in China, Ye is also a standing member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Vice Chairman of the China Musicians Association. He has also served on the jury for the Luxembourg International Composition Competition.
YONGYAN HU, Conductor
Currently Artistic Director and Conductor of the EOS Repertoire Orchestra, Dean of China's Orchestra Academy at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Yongyan Hu was born in Shanghai, where both of his parents served as members of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
Hu began his formal studies at the Central Conservatory of Music, after which he studied at Yale University and the Juilliard School, where he received a master's degree. He served as Music Director and Conductor of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra (1993-98) and Duluth Symphony Orchestra (1995-2000). Hu also led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra—Asia's oldest orchestra—on an acclaimed European tour in the 1990s. After returning to China, Hu served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra (formerly the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra). Hu has also served as Principal Conductor of the China National Symphony Orchestra, leading its first visit to South Korea and Taiwan. In 2009, Hu led the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra on a well-received U.S. concert tour, performing both at Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center.
Hu's guest conducting appearances include the Orchestra National de France, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, London's Royal Philharmonic, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, as well as orchestras in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has worked with Germany's Lübeck Opera and Opera Kiel. In September 2010, Hu toured Canada with Peking Opera Master Mei Baojiu (son of Mei Lanfang) and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Under Maestro's Hu leadership, the EOS Repertoire Orchestra has introduced classical music to nearly 10,000 university students through the "U-Music" program since 2011. Under his initiative, the EOS Orchestra helps schoolchildren of migrant workers around Beijing in its "Music Rainbow" program.
MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN, Soprano
Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as a magnificent performer and vibrant personality stretching well beyond the world of classical music. Nearly 3.2 billion viewers witnessed her performance of the Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Her expanding international operatic profile includes debuts at Houston Grand Opera as Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking, Madrid's Teatro Real as Jenny Smith in Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in a new production by the Catalan theatre company, La Fura dels Baus, and the title role of Porgy and Bess with Cincinnati Opera.
Notable concert appearances include Mahler's Des knaben Wunderhorn conducted by Jaap van Zweden with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra, and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra. She has toured with Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the WDR Symphonieorchester in Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder and appeared in Cage's Aria under Michael Tilson Thomas with YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall, and in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural concert as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Her solo first recording for Deutsche Grammophon, Surprise (2007), garnered a Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year. Among her many recordings is William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and Experience, a multiple Grammy-winning performance with the orchestra and chorus of the University of Michigan conducted by Leonard Slatkin for Naxos.
JI WEI, Zheng
Ji Wei, a virtuoso of the zheng (a traditional Chinese zither), is currently an Associate Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and has performed at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and internationally in such venues as New York's Lincoln Center, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, Venice's Le Fenice, London's Royal Albert Hall, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Zurich Opera House. As an orchestral soloist, she has appeared with the China National Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic, and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra on such occasions as the Venice International Music Festival and the Beijing Music Festival. As a chamber musician and a specialist in contemporary music, she has performed with the Nieuw Ensemble and the Atlas Ensemble in the Netherlands.
Ji is not only active on the world music stage, but also in charity work. She has served as an ambassador for the China Foundation of Poverty Alleviation. A dedicated educator, she has published teaching manuals and conducts master classes on a regular basis.
CHO-LIANG LIN, Violin
A violinist whose career has spanned the globe for 27 years, Cho-Liang Lin was born in 1960 in Hsinchu, Taiwan and began playing violin at age 5. Recognizing that he needed to pursue his violin studies abroad, he made his way to Australia when he was only 12 years old. After three years in Sydney, his precocious musicianship led him to the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay.
Lin made his public debut in New York City at the age of 19, playing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 at Avery Fisher Hall. Since then, he has appeared with virtually every major orchestra in the world, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. He has more than twenty recordings to his credit, ranging from the concertos of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Prokofiev, to Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun, as well as chamber music by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Ravel. His recording partners include Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Isaac Stern and Helen Huang. His critically acclaimed recordings have won Gramophone's Record of the Year award and several Grammy nominations. A member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991, he also began teaching at Rice University in 2006, Lin has been the music director of La Jolla SummerFest in California since 2001, and artistic director for Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival since 2011. An avid chamber musician, Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances performing at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
LIU SHEN, Boy soprano
Born in 2000, Liu Shen has already made his mark on China's burgeoning music scene starring roles in the China premieres of Britten's Noye's Fludde and John Blow's Venus and Adonis. He has also been featured in solo roles in new Chinese operas, notably The Village Teacher (2009) at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2012, Liu traveled to France, giving recitals at the L'Oratoire du Louvre, Paris and Eglise Saint-Sauveur, La Rochelle on invitation by UNESCO.
From an early age, Liu has won numerous awards for his outstanding musicianship. A member of the Children's Choir affiliated to the China National Symphony Orchestra and a pupil at the Beijing No. 4 Junior High School, Liu has also appeared in professional operatic productions in China, from Turandot (directed by Zhang Yimou at the Beijing Olympic Stadium), Carmen, to Tosca. Liu has made two solo recordings; he is currently a scholarship recipient of the Wang Sen Fund for Distinguished Musical Talents.
YIJIE SHI, Tenor
Born in Shanghai, Yijie Shi began his vocal studies in his native city and graduated with the highest honors at the Toho College of Music in Tokyo before pursuing studies in Graz. In 2007, he won the International Singing Competition "Ferruccio Tagliavini" in Graz, the International Competition for Singers "Toti dal Monte" in Treviso, the "International Singing Competition of "Festspielstadt Passau" and the International Singing Competition "Maria Caniglia" in Sulmona. Shi caught the opera world's attention in 2008 at the Rossini Opera Festival in the role of Cavalier Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims. The following year, he returned to the same festival in the title role in Le Comte Ory.
Despite his relative youth, Yijie Shi has already had tremendous success singing at such renowned venues as Rome's Santa Cecilia, Florence's Maggio Musicale, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Toulouse's Théâtre du Capitole, Opéra de Lausanne, to name a few. Shi has worked with such conductors as Roberto Abbado, Kent Nagano, Alberto Zedda, Bruno Bartoletti, Jeffrey Tate, Louis Langrée and Dan Ettinger. During the 2011-12 season, Shi also performed two recitals, including one at the Tokyo's Opera City Hall.
Upcoming appearances include L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini Opera Festival), Demetrio e Polibio (Teatro San Carlo, Naples), L'elisir d'amore (La Fenice), La Favorite (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse), Falstaff, L'italiana in Algeri, Der Rosenkavalier, I Pagliacci at Graz Opera and Tancredi (Opéra de Lausanne). Shi will also participate in the world premiere of Xiaogang Ye's Peony Pavilion in the 2013-14 season.
CHEN-YE YUAN, Baritone
Chen-Ye Yuan developed his craft at the Houston Grand Opera Studio and the San Francisco Opera's Merola Program and as an up-and-coming singer was later engaged by both companies. His roles included Germont in La Traviata for San Francisco and Tonio in I Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Marcello in La Bohème, and Dr. Bhaer in Little Women, the last of which was nationally televised on PBS's Great Performances and released on CD by Ondine.
Yuan's clear and supple voice is matched with his facility to portray vastly different characters. The Evening Herald described his Rigoletto with the Welsh National Opera as "outstanding…combining great vocal power with heartfelt emotion." Yuan has put his stamp on this title role in Houston Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Lyric Opera of San Antonio, Sacramento Opera and Palm Beach Opera.
Among the roles Yuan originated in new operas are Yang Shaoshan in Song of Farewell (by Xiaogang Ye), Cheng Ying in Chinese Orphan, Zhou Luoping in A Village Teacher (both for China's National Centre for the Performing Arts) and Umeya Shokichi in the 2011 premiere production of Huang Ruo's Dr. Sun Yat-Sen by Opera Hong Kong.
Upcoming engagements include Umeya Shokichi in Dr. Sun Yat Sen with Santa Fe Opera, debuts with Opera Carolina as Michele/Schicchi in Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi and San Diego Opera as Chou En-lai in Nixon in China. Later this year, Yuan will premiere Pulitzer-Prizewinning composer Zhou Long's Nine Odes at the Beijing Music Festival, also Xiaogang Ye's new opera, Peony Pavilion, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, where he recently appeared in the title role in Nabucco.
The internationally acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which celebrated its 125th anniversary in December 2012, is known for trailblazing performances, visionary maestros, collaborations with the world's foremost musical artists, and an unwavering commitment to Detroit. Esteemed conductor Leonard Slatkin, called "America's Music Director" by the Los Angeles Times, became the 12th Music Director of the DSO during the 2008-09 season and acclaimed conductor, arranger, and trumpeter Jeff Tyzik was appointed Principal Pops Conductor in November 2012. The DSO's performance schedule includes Classical, Pops, Jazz, Young People's, Neighborhood concerts, and collaborations with chart-topping musicians from Smokey Robinson to Kid Rock. A commitment to broadcast innovation began in 1922 when the DSO became the first orchestra in the world to present a radio broadcast and continues today with the free Live from Orchestra Hall webcast series. Making its home at historic Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, one of America's most acoustically perfect concert halls, the DSO actively pursues a mission to impact and serve the community through music. For more information visit dso.org or download the free DSO to Go mobile app.
The New York Choral Society, founded in 1958, has become known for the quality of its performances and the diversity of its repertoire, with 11 world premieres, including commissioned works by Paul Alan Levi, Morton Gould, Stephen Paulus, and Robert De Cormier. Its 2013-2014 season includes Holst's Hymn of Jesus and the New York premiere of Jennifer Higdon's The Singing Rooms with acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh.
The NYCS has performed with the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, and the New York City Ballet, among others. The chorus has performed under conductors Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Comissiona, Dennis Russell Davies, Placido Domingo, Lukas Foss, Jahja Ling, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menuhin, Steven Mercurio, John Nelson, Daniel Oren, Robert Page, Julius Rudel, Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Patrick Summers, Michael Tilson Thomas, Emmanuel Villaume, Roger Wagner, and Hugh Wolff.
The NYCS has performed in Italy, France, Austria, Greece, Mexico, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, and the Czech Republic. In 2008 the chorus traveled to Beijing to perform three concerts in the Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival.
China's Central Conservatory of Music was founded in 1950 by merging together five other music institutions and university music departments that had already been in existence before the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. As an institution of higher learning focused on training outstanding music talents, the Central Conservatory is the only institution listed in the government-approved "211 project" among all academies of fine arts in China.
The Central Conservatory of Music consists of departments of Musicology, Composition, Conducting, Piano, Voice and Opera, Orchestral Instruments, and Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments, Institute of Music Education, Orchestra Academy, and Music Science and Technology Centers (including electro-acoustic music, music therapy, violin making, and voice research). As one of the key Institutes of Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education, the Central Conservatory also runs under its auspices a College of Music Education for Distant Learning, a College of Continuing Education College, as well as affiliated Primary and Middle Schools.


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Many of you know that I have an 18 year-old son, Andy, who has severe autism – it was the subject of my play Falling, which premiered last August here at Mustard Seed Theatre.
Andy plans his life. Far in advance. He has 8 stacks of 8 videos each, and not only can he tell you the names of all the movies in each stack (in order from top to bottom) but he can tell you on which day he is planning to watch them.
See, life is pretty scary when your brain is wired like his – so knowing what's ahead is a comfort.
During the week, when he goes to his summer program, he takes 2 DVD's and 2 videos with him. The stacks of 8 videos are for the weekend, or special days when there's no other activity.
So imagine my dismay when I came down last Tuesday morning to find that he'd packed his bag with 8 videos and was ready to embark on a "special day" outing. I assured him that it was Summer Program day, and he gently walked me to the calendar, where I saw what had happened. I had written "Summer Program" on Monday and then drawn an arrow pointing through the days until Friday. It was perfectly clear to me, of course, but Andy interpreted it to mean that he only went to the summer program on Monday.
When I explained to him what had happened, and wrote "Summer Program" on Tuesday, he took a pen and crossed it out. ("No fair changing the rules," I imagined him thinking.) He was getting agitated, and my husband Steve and I began to gear ourselves up for an aggressive incident. I took him to his room, wrote out a note explaining the schedule for the week, handed it to him, and said "Read that and think about it. I'll be outside the door."
I closed the door. Steve and I braced ourselves for the screams that would start, indicating his frustration and an explosive meltdown.
It was quiet.
After a minute or so of quiet, there came a small knock on the door. We jumped.
"Mom will open the door," Andy said.
"Yes I will," I replied. "And then what will you do?"
"Andy will go to Summer Program."
Suspicious looks were exchanged. "Is he setting us up … we'll open the door and he'll come out swinging?"
"Andy, how do you feel about going to Summer Program," I asked cautiously.
I opened the door. A smiling face greeted me. He walked down the stairs and went to his bag packed with the 8 videos.
He unpacked the bag.
He UNPACKED the bag.
(Here is where those of you who know a person with autism are doing your own amazed happy dance, saying, "He unpacked the bag? He unpacked the bag!")
He repacked for Summer Program. Where he went and had a great day.
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Most parents watch for milestones like going to Kindergarten, getting a driver's license.
Extreme Parents (like us) watch for the day he "unpacks the bag." He met an obstacle in his path, and instead of doing all in his power to destroy the obstacle, he changed his path.
And do I know why? Maybe the new medication that has helped him focus and think more clearly? Maybe the raging hormones of his early teens are waning? Maybe it was just time for the brain to mature that little bit more?
So after days of simply being excited about this amazing event (or non-event, if you think of it a certain way), I began to realize that there's a lesson for me in all of this.
To unpack my bag. Metaphorically.
It's the lesson Tami finally learned in FALLING – that sometimes you have to let go. Of the plan. Of the dream. Of the battle for control.
Sometimes I just need to unpack and repack and face the new plan with a smile.


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Living Hope Church is led by a team of elders and deacons. The spiritual responsibility and authority to shepherd the church rests with a group of elders, rather than a single pastor. The deacons support the elders in managing the ministry of the church.
Tim Dance is the lead pastor. Tim leads the team of elders and deacons, oversees the ministry of the church, and cares for the needs of the people. He also preaches most Sundays. To read more about our Pastor, click here.
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