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Bill Adams, assistant professor of performing arts, was
one of four soloists who performed in a Sept. 30 benefit concert for victims
of the recent terrorist attacks. Adams joined about 500 musicians, including
the Duke University Chorale, the Duke Chapel Choir and the North Carolina
Symphony, to present a memorial concert for the victims and rescue workers
in New York and Washington. The primary piece of music on the program was
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem." |
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Jack Bernhardt, instructor
of sociology and anthropology, had his article, "Performance, Faith, and
Bluegrass Gospel: An Anthropological Journey with Jerry and Tammy Sullivan,"
published in the Country Music Annual 2001 journal by the University Press
of Kentucky. The article summarizes eight years of field work with the acclaimed
Alabama father-daughter musical ministry. Bernhardt discusses the value
of ethnographic research for understanding the interrelations of economy,
religion, social organization and music in an evangelical subculture in
the American South. Another article by Bernhardt, on renowned musician John
Hartford, was published as the cover story in the June issue of Bluegrass
Unlimited magazine. |
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Tom Erdmann, associate professor of music, had
a cover article on Branford Marsalis published in the September/October
2001 issue of Saxophone Journal. Erdmann was also one of five internationally
known jazz trumpeters to be interviewed for a new book by Barry Green, principal
bassist with the Cincinnati Symphony and author of "The Inner Game of Music."
Green's new book deals with performance issues and how they relate
to specific instruments. Erdmann joined Doc Severinsen, Clark Terry and
two others on the panel for the chapter on confidence and how it relates
to the jazz trumpeter. The book will be published in 2002. |
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Byung Lee (pictured at right), associate professor of journalism, and Wonhi Synn, associate professor of business administration,
had an article published recently in Operant Subjectivity, the journal of
the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity: Lee,
B., & Synn, W. (2001). Investors' response to online stock trading: A study
using Q methodology. Operant Subjectivity, 24(3), 109-131. |
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Janet MacFall, assistant professor of biology,
coordinated a Sept. 14 workshop hosted by the Elon Center for Environmental
Studies titled "A River Runs Through Us." Nearly 400 people, including government
experts, scholars and representatives from various organizations, gathered
in McKinnon Hall for a daylong discussion about issues critical to water
conservation in the Cape Fear River Basin. Participants discussed the importance
of limiting development in areas alongside waterways and the possibility
of developing a two-tiered water system in central North Carolina, which
would involve using reclaimed water for activities such as watering lawns
and washing cars. |
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