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In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of prof. Luo Zhong-rong
Luo Zhong-rong (12 December 1924 ~ 2 September 2021) was a Chinese composer, theorist, professor and doctoral supervisor. During his lifetime, he composed and adapted a large number of symphonies, chamber music and art songs, most of which are in a distinctive Chinese ethnic style.
Besides, in his academic field, he actively introduced western compositional techniques and music theories into China, translating numerous monographs and papers by Arnold Schönberg, Paul Hindemith, Allen Forte, etc., and authored the monograph "Basic Exercises in Composing of Music" and numerous papers.
He also combined the twelve-tone technique with the pentatonic nature of Chinese ethnic music, creating the "Pentatonic Twelve-Tone Technique", through which he composed works such as "She Jiang Cai Fu Rong (Crossing the River to Pick Lotus Flowers)" and "String Quartet No. 2", etc.
紀念羅忠鎔教授誕辰100週年
羅忠鎔(1924年12月12日~2021年9月2日),中國作曲家、理論家、教授、博士生導師。他在一生中創作和改編了大量的交響樂、室內樂、藝術歌曲等,多數具有鮮明的中國民族風格。
此外,在學術領域上,他積極地將西方的作曲技法和音樂理論引入中國,翻譯了Arnold Schönberg、Paul Hindemith、Allen Forte等人的眾多專著和論文,著有專著《作曲初步練習》和若干論文。
他還將十二音技法與中國民族音樂的五聲性相結合,創造了「五聲性十二音技法」,並通過它創作《涉江採芙蓉》《第二弦樂四重奏》等作品。
#music #musicnews #mastomusic #chinese #composer #composers #composition #theorist #professor #supervisors #supervisor #birthday #Birthdays #commemoration #羅忠鎔 #luozhongrong #音樂 #音樂家 #作曲 #作曲家 #理論家 #理論 #導師 #誕辰 #生日 #教授 #紀念文章 #紀念 #中國人 #中國 #罗忠镕 #音乐 #音乐家 #理论 #理论家 #导师 #诞辰 #纪念 #纪念日 #纪念一下 #中国人 #中国 #中国_china

[Long Read] Who’s Afraid of #JudithButler?
The #philosopher and #gender #theorist has been #denounced, #demonized, even #burnedineffigy. They have a #theory about that.

For their latest work, Butler became a #student again, wading into a #world #ruled by enveloping #dread. “I just tried to go deeper into that place of enormous #stuckness and #rage,” they said.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Feminism #RoleModels #Representation #Culture

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor

A Super Pac affiliated with #Robert F #Kennedy #Jr, the anti-vaccine #conspiracy #theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican #mega-#donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday.

The group, American Values 2024, reported receiving $5m from #Timothy #Mellon, a wealthy businessman from Wyoming, according to NBC News and Politico. It registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in April, days before Kennedy officially launched his campaign, according to FEC records.

Mellon, 81, is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, a former US treasury secretary who made his fortune in banking. The Texas Tribune reported that Mellon, a top donor to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, supported controversial immigration laws and was 🔸responsible for 98% of the contributions to the Texas governor Greg Abbott’s fund to build a border wall🔸.

Mellon, who twice gave $10m to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super Pac in 2020, also used 🔹racist stereotypes 🔹to describe Black people in an autobiography he self-published in 2015.
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

The Guardian · Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donorBy Mary Yang

#Edward #Fredkin, who despite never having graduated from college became an influential professor of #computer #science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in #artificial #intelligence and a maverick #theorist who championed the idea that the entire universe might function like one big computer, died on June 13 in Brookline, Mass. He was 88.

Fueled by a seemingly limitless scientific imagination and a blithe indifference to conventional thinking, Professor Fredkin charged through an endlessly mutating career that could appear as mind-warping as the iconoclastic theories that made him a force in both computer science and physics.

“Ed Fredkin had more ideas per day than most people have in a month,” Gerald Sussman, a professor of electronic engineering and a longtime colleague at M.I.T., said in a phone interview. “Most of them were bad, and he would have agreed with me on that. But out of those, there were good ideas, too. So he had more good ideas in a lifetime than most people ever have.”.

nytimes.com/2023/07/04/science

The New York TimesEdward Fredkin, 88, Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer, DiesBy Alex Williams
Replied to Chuck Darwin

Here's the "doctor" that was ejected from the Texas senate hearing:

Steven Forrest Hotze is an American conservative #talk #radio #host, #conspiracy #theorist, #physician, Republican #activist and #megadonor in Texas.

Hotze is known as a supporter of a variety of right-wing political causes: #against LGBT anti-discrimination protections, #against COVID vaccine mandates, and as a #proponent of Donald Trump's false claims that he was cheated in the 2020 presidential election.

Hotze is currently under criminal indictment on two charges (unlawful restraint and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon), for his alleged involvement in a private investigation into supposed "voter fraud" that resulted in a private investigator (who was hired by Hotze) attacking and holding an air conditioning repairman at gunpoint

A #conspiracy #theorist is a special kind of person. It's someone with an overdose of #paranoid traits. The type of person who threw a boomerang six years ago that didn't come back and keeps looking over his shoulder since that day.

The conspiracy theorist has no use for simple, #logical #explanations. There must be more to it, it must be complicated. It must be so complicated and #illogical that no one can make sense of it, except the conspiracy theorist himself.