Charles Mingus, the innovative jazz musician, was identified for having a nasty temper. He as soon as acquired so irritated with a heckler that he finished up trashing his $20,000 bass. Another time, when a pianist didn’t get issues proper, Mingus reached proper contained in the piano and ripped the strings out together with his naked…
To the Editor: I’m penning this letter in response to a “Letter from a Baby-Free Cat Man” (October 17, 2024) which argues that DEI (Range, Fairness and Inclusion) efforts on campus want to incorporate childless and childfree adults. As a sociologist and antiracist educator, I’m discouraged after I see DEI and vital ideas, reminiscent of…
3 Educating within the classroom is a pleasure to me. My college students are distinctive, work laborious, continually be taught new issues and frequently educate me new issues. My coronary heart is within the faculty before everything. Since 2002, I’ve taught center and excessive faculties and coached lecturers on tutorial expertise. I’ve taught my kids,…
What do you imagine if you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some sort of whimsical furry beast with black and white keys for enamel, perhaps? A relative of My Neighbor Totoro’s cat bus? Or perhaps you picture a piano that contains several caged cats who shriek alongside a whole scale when keys are pressed that slam sharpened…