Nightclub Project
18 May 2008, 10:48 pmTags: , , ,

Some excit­ing news. I’ve received fund­ing to develop a musi­cal project that I have been plan­ning for sev­eral years. It involves writ­ing an evening-length piece for ampli­fied instru­ments, to be per­formed in non-traditional venues such as night­clubs. This is a large-scale project that I will be work­ing on over the remain­der of the year. More infor­ma­tion to be posted as the work progresses.

Anti-Elitism versus Anti-Intellectualism: What the CBC is Doing Right and Wrong

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Abstract

This is a dis­cus­sion of the pro­gram­ming changes that CBC Radio adopted between 2007 and 2008. It looks at the unin­tended influ­ence of the soci­etal trend toward anti-intellectualism in the CBC’s pro­gram­ming deci­sions. I begin by exam­ing the motives for the CBC’s changes, and why they might have adopted the atti­tudes that they did. I then explore the con­fu­sion between anti-elitism and anti-intellectualism, dis­cuss the prob­lems that these have caused for the CBC, and sug­gest an alter­na­tive approach.

14 May 2008
Paul Bowman: Recital
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Pre­mière of Tex­ting and Dri­ving, a solo gui­tar piece com­mis­sioned by Paul Bowman.

8:00pm, Mandeville Recital Hall, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive (map)
San Diego, CA, USA
Admission: Free
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