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    SCHOLARLY FEATURE ARTICLE: Understanding Akin Euba's Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism Nos. I-III --by Godwin Sadoh Instead of reproducing the Feature Article in its entirety here, we are presenting some outstanding (and enticing) excerpts from the article--       According to Akin Euba, it was through trade with Europe that Western musical instruments were introduced to Africa and these instruments found their way into churches, night clubs and schools. One of the most popular Western instruments in Africa, the piano, eventually became an important medium for the expression of neo-African art music.       Western classical music was introduced to Nigeria around mid-nineteenth century by two major forces: (1) the church and (2) the schools built by European and American missionaries as well as the colonial administration. In these institutions, talented Nigerians were taught to read, write, and play Western music. From the arrival of the missionaries around 1850 until the early twentieth century, musical activities among elitist groups and churches in Western and Eastern parts of Nigeria were mostly European. Missionary activities were more pronounced in the southern regions of Nigeria because the colonial policy encouraged the northerners to hold unto their Islamic religion. Elitist musical activities in the early twentieth century in Lagos (former capital of Nigeria) mirrored the Victorian English type of concerts featuring solo songs, vocal duets and quartets, religious plays and musicals, arrangements of English folksongs as well as excerpts from cantatas and oratorios, especially the works of George Frederic Handel and Felix Mendelssohn. Instrumental works were mostly performed on harmonium, piano, and the violin, with occasional appearances of the police band. A discussion of Akin Euba's Wakar Duru will certainly illuminate the intricacies of the.
Every object in the Poe Museum tells a story. Each artifact or piece of ephemera helps us interpret the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s life and influence. The July Object of the Month is no exception. The Cornwell Daguerreotype is a distinctly arresting image of Poe taken at a low point in the author’s life, four days after a suicide attempt. His fiancée Sarah Helen Whitman, who owned the original, which she named the “Ultima Thule” Daguerreotype, pronounced it “wonderful” and told Poe’s biographer John H. Ingram that it had been taken “after a wild distracted night.. and all the stormy grandeur of that via Dolorosa had left its sullen shadow on his brow.” One of four copies made directly from the original plate, this tiny daguerreotype (an early type of photograph made on a light-sensitive silver-plated piece of copper) has long been one of the most important artifacts in the museum’s collection. The image serves as an especially poignant document of Poe’s brief and troubled life. (Click here to learn more about the circumstances under which it was taken.) But this is only the beginning of the daguerreotype’s story. If it had not been for one woman’s determination, the piece might never have entered the collection. Our account begins in 1933, when the world was still mired in the Great Depression. Early that year, the United States unemployment rate peaked at 25%, a drought plagued the heartland, over 5,000 banks had failed, and hundreds of thousands of Americans were homeless, struggling for survival in makeshift shanty towns. The Poe Museum (then known as the Poe Shrine) was not immune to this global crisis. To conserve energy, the Museum closed all but one of its four buildings and turned off its oil burner. Instead it heated one room in the Old Stone House with a wood stove. Before a December board meeting, the Poe Shrine’s secretary Mary Gavin Traylor wrote the.
USA TODAY (March 9) Apple leverages iPhone to help doctors' research Apple's ubiquitous iPhone has been used for all sorts of silliness, from distracting games to idle chat. But now it's got a chance to tackle a far weightier task, such as battling Parkinson's and improving cardiovascular health. Building on a HealthKit app that debuted with iPhone 6, Apple announced Monday that it had worked with a range of doctors, hospitals and developers to create five new opt-in apps that its smartphone users can use to share personal health data to improve medical research. Of course with any data-sharing proposition comes the obvious question of the security of such personal data. Williams said emphatically that Apple will not see your data. Although Williams didn't go into a lot of detail on the functionality of each app, he did linger on the one focused on helping both Parkinson's sufferers as well as the disease's researchers. It was developed in conjunction with the University of Rochester, Capital Medical University, Xuanwu Hospital and Sage Bionetworks. (Also reported in: The Daily Mail, NBCNews.com, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Dail Mail (UK), Venture Beat, Engadget, MarketWatch, Syracuse Post Standard, The FINANCIAL, The News Journal, Sleep Review, Athens Banner-Herald, Democrat & Chronicle, Inquirer, Chicago Sun Times, WXXI, 13WHAM-TV, WHEC-TV, Huffington Post UK, Huffington Post, San Diego Union Tribune, Apple Insider, Healthcare Global, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Time Warner Cable News, San Jose Business Journal ) New York Times (March 21) Study Suggests that Hitters Production Dips After They Return from Concussions Concussions are not as common in Major League Baseball as they are in professional football, but they happen often enough, with players getting hit by pitches, running into walls or catching a knee in the head sliding into a base. Catchers are.
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