Day: April 17, 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-17

  • Just finished a project team review meeting. Lots of ideas and great discussion, not to mention 2 more workgroups being formed. #
  • @maniactive I have not heard "Gadzooks!" in so long! #
  • @BronSt Sounds like a wonderful trip, Bronwyn! #
  • @scope_community Can non-Canadians join it as well? #
  • @moritherapy I like that, "on someone’s seemingly mindless twitter follow rampage." Rather poetic. #
  • @cmtvarok What is the new tech curriculum for? #
  • @ChrisRicca What is Alert Thingy? #
  • @RobinYap I thought you never aged; at least that is what you claim! #
  • @RobinYap I use a Blackberry for daily Tweets, but not good for replying or following more than the last 20 or so. What have you found? #
  • @aidanhenry Like the new screen pic; more the real you. #
  • @kk What are some of the signs, beside endless invites (as here in Twitter, as well)? #
  • @jazzychad That was a great show. #
  • I just learned that Twitter only goes back 10 pages using the "Older" link, but you can change the number in the url to go back earlier. #
  • @cpsquare Leave it to @Currie to be a trailblazer! #

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Satyagraha at the Met

I saw the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha this week at the Metropolitan Opera. Amazing vocal arrangements, mesmerizing music, and spectacular though simple sets. Somewhat mythically recounting the early life of Gandhi in South Africa where he developed his philosophy of nonviolence.

The opera was amazingly clever in its use of materials, repetition, and even its singing were phrases of the Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit without subtitles (though some English was projected for key effect). I have never been a huge fan of the work of Glass before, but I am now an adherent.

satyagraha

By the way, the New York Times loved it on the day of as well as the day after the premier last week. With the puppetry on a scale I have not seen before on the Met stage, this is well-worth expanding horizons.

Perhaps this was what my colleague Brian Lamb was after with his recent creative mashup expression in the NMC Consortium on Mashups?