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The Really Big One from 2023-12-13T12:38:05.050484
Most people think that in the United States, the area around the San Andreas Fault poses the highest risk for a large earthquake. But the risk for a "great earthquake" and tsunami is highest in the...
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Space Dust from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.992046
Karin Sandstrom studies the interstellar medium - the dust and gas in galaxies and between stars, and especially how ultraviolet light interacts with soot-like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Tha...
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Puccini x2 - San Diego OperaTalk from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.978570
In a veritable feast for fans of Giacomo Puccini, San Diego Opera’s Nicolas Reveles delves into the history, influences, and musical intricacies of Puccini’s TOSCA and MADAMA BUTTERFLY, two of the ...
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Unleash the Dragons! Secrets of Seadragon Biology with Josefin Stiller - The Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.961195
Learn more about the amazing seadragons, as well as the recent discovery of a new species: the Ruby Seadragon, one of only three species of these charismatic fishes that live exclusively in the wat...
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When the Rains Fail the Mountains Rise - Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.939055
The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions and browning lawns. Geophysicist Adrian Borsa des...
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Blue Oceans Sustainable Seafood Humans and the Sea -- Steam Leadership Series from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.876801
Experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA and UC San Diego capture the imaginations of high school students interested in green technology as they demonstrate how their research he...
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El Niño and Our Urban Ocean from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.860587
Southern California has been bracing for the effects of a strong El Niño year, with concerns about large surf, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding on the minds of all of us who call the Southern C...
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Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.835879
Philip Warburg explores a range of solar technologies. A seasoned environmental lawyer, Warburg makes a case for embracing this technology as he talks about what is happening around the country and...
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The Poems of Nikki Giovanni -- Point Loma Writer’s Symposium by the Sea 2016 from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.794244
Poet Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems as part of the 2016 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Show ...
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Jays Reforest Santa Cruz Island from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.765359
Explore how a species of Scrub Jay, the Island Scrub Jay, is expanding oak forests on Santa Cruz Island, helping to recover natural habitat on California's Channel Islands. Series: "UC Natural Rese...
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The Hungry Octopus and the Endangered Abalone from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.759582
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Jennifer Hofmeister gives a lively account of why and how she is working to understand the behavior of octopuses in order to save California’s endangered white...
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Young People’s Concert 2016 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.743626
Beethoven's celebrated Symphony No. 5 is a cornerstone of symphonic music and an iconic artwork of Western culture. Using excerpts from the Fifth Conductor Steven Schick guides the student audience...
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The Critical Need for Sustained Ocean Observations: CalCOFI and Beyond from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.684312
Long term, sustained ocean observations provide scientists with much needed insight into natural and human induced changes in the world ocean. Join NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center Directo...
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Double Verdi - San Diego OperaTalk from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.675735
The two Verdi operas presented during San Diego Opera's 2016/17 season, La Traviata and Falstaff, represent the composer at two distinct stages in his life and career. Nicolas Reveles examines the...
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Seven Years With Mantas: A Journey of Discovery from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.665343
Oceanic Manta Rays (Manta birostris) are increasingly caught in targeted fisheries for their gill rakers, fueled by demand as a pseudo-remedy in traditional Chinese medicine. Given extremely low re...
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An Evening with Robert Pinsky - Point Loma Writer’s Symposium by the Sea 2017 from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.659043
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky describes himself as a "composer" who considers poetry to be first and foremost a vocal art, and his work seeks to blur the distinctions between language and musi...
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Unlocking the Science Behind Atmospheric Rivers from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.599648
This year, California's winter weather has been wet and wild. Join Scripps scientist Marty Ralph, Director of Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) as he describes the phenomena of a...
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Yusef Komunyakaa - The 2017 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.586311
Yusef Komunyakaa, an internationally renowned poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems," reads and discusses his work while writer-in-residence at UC Santa Barba...
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The Great Gate of Kiev - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.499511
Performance of Great Gate of Kiev from the perennial favorite by Modest Mussorgsky, "Pictures at an Exhibition." This is the popular version orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Series: "La Jolla Symphon...
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Mozart's Flute Quartet in C Major - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.439133
The "Flute Quartet in C Major" is one of two Mozart quartets discovered fairly recently, and whose authorship is uncertain. Certainly the piece has all the hallmarks of Mozart's classical style: s...
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Mozart's Quintet in E-Flat Major - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.393722
The Quintet in E-flat Major amply supports the contention that Mozart wrote superbly for wind instruments. Composing for an unusual combination of instruments, Mozart speaks directly to the charac...
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Author Luis Urrea in Conversation with Steven Schick from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.295088
Luis Urrea is a prolific writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is the...
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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.285709
There are no opening notes more famous or thrilling than the clarinet trill at the start of Rhapsody in Blue that suddenly spirals upward and broadens into a seductive, near-sleazy glissando, follo...
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Machaut's Je vivroie liement/Liement me deport - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.262844
As was the practice in a time (14th Century) before the delineation between poet and composer was as sharply drawn as today, Guillaume de Machaut set his own texts to music. "Je vivroie liement" f...
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Francis Poulenc's Gloria - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.190241
Composer Francis Poulenc maintained that one need not be solemn to praise God, and that belief is echoed is his "Gloria." Indeed, listeners not otherwise informed may not guess it's the setting of...
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From War Child to Global Citizen with Emmanuel Jal from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.157203
Emmanuel Jal, an internationally recognized hip-hop musician, former child soldier turned activist and entrepreneur, shares his story and music. Jal was born into the life of a child solider in the...
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Celebrating Paper Theater from 2023-12-13T12:38:04.151293
UC San Diego's Geisel Library hosts an annual Paper Theater Festival, celebrating an art form with roots in Victorian Era Europe. Paper theaters (also known as toy theaters) were used to promote p...
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Toru Takemitsu's A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.988997
Toru Takemitsu's "A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden" grew of out several influences. One inspiration was the composer's dreams, including a vision of a flock of white birds led by a sing...
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Hannah Lash's Eating Flowers - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.967849
"When I sat down to write "Eating Flowers" I felt in many ways that I was responding to the energies of orchestral music whose colors I find irresistible: music of Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, ...
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Matt Wilson Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.888314
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Gilbert Castellanos Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.860998
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Courtney Bryan's Yet Unheard - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.791671
Courtney Bryan’s remarkable "Yet Unheard," a work for orchestra and chorus, commemorates Sandra Bland’s tragic death in police custody in 2013. Using the text of Sharan Strange’s poem, soprano Helg...
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Olivier Messiaen's Un sourire - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.776890
The title "Un Sourire" translates as "A smile." Olivier Messiaen, who composed the piece to mark the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1991, did not attempt to imitate Mozart's style. Rather...
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Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in 3 Movements - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.761720
Though acknowledging connections between World War II and his "Symphony in 3 Movements," which premiered in 1946, Igor Stravinsky stated the piece was not program music based on extra-musical event...
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Anthony Davis Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.754201
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.746656
Asher Tobin Chodos’ adventurous arrangement of Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman places a quartet of jazz soloists within a symphonic context. Just as innovator Coleman sought to reframe jazz convent...
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Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe? from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.592691
Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan, identifies some of the most interesting policy ideas to address the problems of displaced workers, the skills gap and resulting inequality in an age ...
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Wolfe's Fuel - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.374666
Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe has taken particular pleasure in writing music for film, and we hear her "Fuel" with a film by Bill Morrison. Series: "La Jolla Symphony&Chorus" [Arts and Music] [...
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Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.294994
Rossini's 1829 opera "William Tell" is rarely performed today, but its Overture lives on as one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. The Overture is essentially an instrumental s...
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Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2023-12-13T12:38:03.270717
Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," which the composer offhandedly characterized as "a potpourri of student songs," features an unusual treatment of standard sonata form. What emerges is one of ...
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Cuando Las Cosas se Ponen Pequenas from 2022-04-06T03:09:42.042817
¿Qué tienen que ver un tazón de maní del porte de un estadio, un elefante que se encoge y un jugador de hockey enloquecido con la nanociencia? Esas son solo algunas de las disparatadas excursiones ...
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Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2020-01-22T13:00
Virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt is the featured soloist in Robert Schumann's vibrant "Violin Concerto in D Minor." Once rescued from an early undeserved obscurity, this piece quickly became one of...
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Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-12-20T13:00
In the 2018/2019 season the La Jolla Symphony performed Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," and inaugurates their 2019/20120 season with Price's "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major." Florence ...
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Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-11-13T13:00
In this fun and informative program Conductor Steven Schick guides the audience through excerpts from Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Florence Price's Violin Concerto No.1 as well as the c...
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Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-07-26T13:00
Originally written as the second (slow) movement of a string quartet, Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" went on to become one of the most popular symphonic works of the 20th century in its fina...
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George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-07-26T13:00
A close friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was a largely self-trained composer who was immersed in English folk music. His works grew directly out of his contact with the English...
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Maurice Ravel's La Valse - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-07-20T13:00
Though suspicious of German music in general Maurice Ravel was an unabashed fan of the waltz, and wrote several pieces that incorporated that distinctive rhythm. Of "La Valse," the composer wrote ...
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Rand Steiger's Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-07-14T13:00
As noted by the title, this piece centers on the talents of virtuoso trumpeter Peter Evans in a performance that is largely (though not entirely) improvised in performance. Evans’ tones are manipu...
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Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-06-23T13:00
Young Artist Winner Anne Liu performs Camille Saint-Saens’ witty "Second Piano Concerto," which has been described as “beginning with Bach and ending with Offenbach.” Series: "La Jolla Symphony&Cho...
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-05-15T13:00
Two things mark Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major, his shortest symphony and one of the least-performed. The first is its energy; contrary to classical sonata form there is no slow movement. ...
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Patricia Patterson: Aran Canvas from 2019-04-30T13:00
In 1960 a young American art student named Patricia Patterson first traveled to Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The windswept landscape and its ancient culture...
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Laurie San Martin's nights bright days - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-04-29T13:00
American composer Laurie San Martin writes music that creates a compelling narrative by exploring the intersection between texture and line. Critics have described her music as exuberant, colorful...
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Jewish Music - From Bessarabia to Broadway - Lytle Memorial Concert from 2019-02-21T13:00
Pianist Cecil Lytle and friends celebrate the Jewish folk traditions of Eastern Europe with spoken word, Klezmer music, and songs from the Yiddish theater. Featured performers include bassist Bert...
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Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-01-14T13:00
Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the dynamic Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was cha...
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Qingqing Wang's Between Clouds and Streams - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2019-01-14T13:00
Chinese-American composer Qingqing Wang celebrates this nation of immigrants in her stunning composition, the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission. Series: "La Jolla Symphony&Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show I...
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Hallelujah - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-12-19T13:00
Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742 Handel's oratorio "Messiah" has become one of Western music's best-loved and most-performed choral works. Originally part of the oratorio's third section, whic...
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For Unto Us a Child is Born - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-12-17T13:00
Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742 Handel's oratorio "Messiah" has become one of Western music's best-loved and most-performed choral works. "For Unto Us a Child is Born" is taken from the first...
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Young People's Concert 2018 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-11-28T13:00
The Young People's Concert is a fun and informative "family-friendly" introduction to the symphony. Host/Conductor Steven Schick and the orchestra perform annotated excerpts from the 2018 season-op...
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The Wind Garden by John Luther Adams - Stuart Collection at UC San Diego from 2018-10-22T13:00
Renowned composer John Luther Adams discusses “The Wind Garden,” his soundscape installation for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, with the Collection’s Mathieu Gregoire. Series: "Stuart Colle...
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An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea - Dinner in the Library 2018 from 2018-09-27T13:00
San Diego-raised novelist and UC San Diego alumnus, Luis Alberto Urrea ‘77 is the featured speaker at the UC San Diego Library annual gala. Urrea, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist, has written about ...
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Charles McPherson Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2018-08-16T13:00
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Holly Hofmann Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2018-08-15T13:00
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Mark Dresser Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2018-08-14T13:00
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-07-31T13:00
A critic once commented that Schoenberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra" requires "an orchestra of soloists," Schoenberg himself said that his aim was the development of "the emancipation of dissonanc...
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David Borgo Ensemble - UC San Diego Jazz Camp 2018 from 2018-07-31T13:00
Jazz has been hailed as "America's original art form," and the annual Jazz Camp at UC San Diego is a five-day immersive summer program designed for intermediate to advanced level jazz musicians, ag...
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Franz Liszt's Les Préludes - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-07-18T13:00
Franz Liszt composed twelve “symphonic poems,” of which “Les Préludes” has proven to be the most popular. Its structure is deceptively simple, based loosely on sonata form but differing from the c...
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There Were No African-Americans In My Textbooks - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 2018-04-13T13:00
Author and legendary athlete Kareem Abdul-Jabbar highlights remarkable African-American contributions to American society. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs][Humanities] [Educ...
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Gershwin's An American in Paris - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-04-11T13:00
An American in Paris has always been one of Gershwin's most popular scores, and deservedly so. It offers great tunes, a breezy charm that evokes both the City of Light and the Jazz Age, and Gershwi...
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Copland's Quiet City - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-03-13T13:00
Aaron Copland originally composed "Quiet City" in 1939 for the play of the same name. The play failed, but Copland's piece went on to become one of his best-loved&most frequently performed works. ...
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Haydn's String Quartet in B Minor - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2018-02-26T13:00
The String Quartet in B Minor (Op. 33, No. 1) was the first of six quartets composed in 1781 by Franz Josef Haydn and popularly known as the "Russian" quartets. By this point in his career Haydn w...
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Chodos' Concertino for Two Pianos and Orchestra - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-02-26T13:00
"Like a semi-formal family dinner, this piece offers an environment for free interaction that is both structurally rigid&weirdly volatile. In this piece, the three principal actors - 2 solo pianos...
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Britten's Gemini Variations for Flute Violin and Piano Four-Hands - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2018-02-21T13:00
Benjamin Britten originally composed his Gemini Variations for the Hungarian twins Zoltan and Gabor Jeney, who were talented players capable of performing all the instrumental parts. However, Brit...
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Ellington's Mood Indigo - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2018-02-21T13:00
Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo" is a splendid example of what his collaborator Billy Strayohorn dubbed the "Ellington Effect," a sonic texture achieved through imaginative orchestration and unique t...
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Charles Mingus and Tijuana Moods - Helen Edison Lecture Series from 2018-02-12T13:00
One of the most important composers in jazz history, Charles Mingus documented his lively impressions of Tijuana in "Tijuana Moods," a rarely performed suite. Join Grammy-winning jazz author Ashley...
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Dvořák's Serenade in D Minor for Winds Violoncello and Bass - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2018-01-26T13:00
The serenade is a venerable 18th-century form as practiced by Haydn, Mozart and others. In his "Serenade in D Minor" Antonin Dvořák adapted the form to his own purposes, scoring for an unusual com...
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Schubert's Quartettsatz - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2018-01-26T13:00
Franz Schubert's String Quartet in C minor, D. 703 from 1820 is popularly known as the "Quartettsatz" because only a single movement of the piece was finished. The "Quartettsatz" marked something o...
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Xiaogang Ye's Gardenia for String Quartet and Pipa - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2017 from 2017-12-15T13:00
The city flower of Yueyuang City in China's Hunan Province is the gardenia. In creating his Gardenia for String Quartet&Pipa, composer Xiaogang Ye adapted folk songs and operas from the region to ...
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Young People's Concert 2017 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus from 2017-11-20T13:00
La Jolla Symphony&Chorus performs excerpts from the season-opening "Crossing the Rue St. Paul" concert, with commentary from the stage by Conductor Steven Schick and questions from the audience. Se...
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Short Tales from the Mothership from 2017-11-20T13:00
"Short Tales from the Mothership" celebrates an elegant genre by presenting condensed stories from fellow futurists, time-travelers, inventors, artists, and writers. This evening is inspired by the...
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An Actor’s Education: A Conversation with John Lithgow from 2017-10-16T13:00
For more than a half century, John Lithgow has been delighting audiences on stage, in movies and on television. In a lively discussion with Peter Gourevitch, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pol...
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Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Presents: Programming Servos from 2017-08-14T13:00
Join Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab engineer Saura Naderi as she teaches you step-by-step how to program servos using Arduino. Learn what a servo is, how it moves, how to control speed and direction. Serie...
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Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable Managing the Unavoidable with Rosina Bierbaum - 2017 Keeling Memorial Lecture from 2017-07-12T13:00
Rosina Bierbaum, formerly of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and an Adaptation Fellow at the World Bank, shows how climate change will affect all regions and...
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Conifer Endophytes: The Micropartners of Pines from 2017-06-15T13:00
Making novel use of a technique to detect food-borne pathogens, Emily Wilson of UC Merced reveals the microbial ecology of the conifers in Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows to understand the beneficial p...
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High Notes: The Case for Music Education from 2017-04-17T13:00
Students, administrators and academic researchers demonstrate the value of learning music in school as they show improvements in English and Math test scores, class attendance rates, cognitive deve...
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High Notes: The Case for Music Education from 2017-04-17T13:00
Students, administrators and academic researchers demonstrate the value of learning music in school as they show improvements in English and Math test scores, class attendance rates, cognitive deve...
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An Archaeological Perspective on Humans and Climate Change from 2017-04-12T13:00
How are modern day humans adapting to climate change? To find the answer, archaeologists are studying how human societies have responded to environmental changes in the past. Isabel Rivera-Collazo...
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Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2016 from 2016-12-23T13:00
Comprised of some the world's best musicians, the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra performs Prokofiev's popular Violin Concerto No. 2, wtih virtuoso soloist Gil Shaham and under the baton of renowned c...
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Harnessing Fusion: Creating a Sun on Earth from 2016-12-19T13:00
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the world's largest and most powerful laser system. Experimental physicist Tammy Ma explores how and why...
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She is Fierce: The Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw from 2016-11-11T13:00
“She is Fierce: The Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw” is an exploration of the multimedia artist’s expansive and diverse body of work, featuring commentary from colleagues and an in-depth interview with Cu...
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El Nino Conditions as a Preview of Future Sea Level Rise from 2016-07-14T13:00
Sarah Giddings of Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains how the El Nino conditions of 2016 show us what the effects of sea level changes due to climate changes will look like 45 to 60 years ...
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The Reverse Keeling Curve: Greenhouse Gases from Ice Cores with Jeff Severinghaus - Seventh Annual Charles David Keeling Memorial Lecture from 2016-07-12T13:00
Scripps Institution’s Jeff Severinghaus takes you on a thorough exploration of the record that greenhouse gases captured in ice for nearly a million years tells us, and explains what this reveals a...
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A Conversation with Frederica von Stade - Osher UCSD from 2016-06-10T13:00
San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett hosts beloved opera legend Frederica von Stade in a lively discussion about her career, and in particular her long-standing collaboration with compose...
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CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Wenda Trevathan: Birth and the Newborn Infant from 2016-05-31T13:00
In this talk, Wenda Trevathan of New Mexico State University focuses on energetic and biomechanical factors that converge at the time of birth to set the stage for an enormously expanded role of ch...
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Bela Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest from 2016-05-23T13:00
Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos&Percussion grew out the composer’s interest in the piano as a percussive rather than a lyrical instrument. Though rarely performed, since it requires the unusual...
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Saturday Science at Scripps Research: Markers Magnets and Microbiomes: Mining Biology with Chemistry from 2016-04-18T13:00
The Scripps Research Institute’s Dennis Wolan takes you on a fascinating exploration of the human body’s ecosystem and the myriad symbiotic relations found there that sustain and affect everything ...
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Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Presents: World of Work from 2016-04-11T13:00
Join a group of middle schools students as they try and figure out what kind of jobs will best suit them. Qualcomm has developed tools to help students identify their strengths, interests and value...
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Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab Presents: How to Make an LED Light Up and Blink Using Arduino from 2016-03-16T13:00
Join Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab engineer Saura Naderi as she teaches you step-by-step how to make an LED light up and blink. Saura will demonstrate the basics of programming an Arduino board as well as...
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Jake Heggie/Great Scott - San Diego OperaTalk from 2016-01-12T13:00
On the occasion of San Diego Opera’s West Coast premiere of GREAT SCOTT, Nicolas Reveles engages composer Jake Heggie in a lively conversation about the work’s conception. Known for his landmark m...
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Science in the Pictures from 2016-01-11T13:00
Dale Stokes of Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory explores the details of different imaging techniques and how they are used to both represent science and its subjects...
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Tiger Math from 2015-11-17T13:00
Patrick Sanan, who studied mathematics at UC San Diego, explains how he combined geometry and physics to devise the mathematics that made possible the visualization of the virtual tiger Richard in ...
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Space-Time Versus the Quantum from 2015-11-16T13:00
UCSB’s Joseph Polchinski speaks about the search for a unified theory of the laws of physics, and the difficulty of reconciling two of the main pieces: quantum mechanics, which governs the very sma...
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Smart Puppy Breaks The Computer! from 2015-09-25T13:00
Holy hairball! Smart Puppy’s Nobel Laureate friend Albert Fert uses a hammer to show how computer memory works! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30082]
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