Tag Archives: music

Student Opinion | What’s on Your Playlist? – NYTimes.com

Here’s another Student Opinion question on the New York Times website: Students: Tell us what’s on your current favorite playlist. Why? What mood are you trying to evoke? What music do you generally avoid? What’s most-played over all in your … Continue reading

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Videos: Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir & Helen Fisher’s ‘The Brain in Love’

Friday’s videos were different for different classes. English 10 watched Eric Whitacre’s TEDTalk about his experience of putting together a virtual choir, connecting people and voices around the world: And building on the love themes in Romeo and Juliet, AD … Continue reading

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Universal Communication: Dance and Music

Today we watched two video clips in class that depict two different stories of people across the world communicating in ways we don’t usually think of as language: dance and music. First, Matt Harding travels the globe to dance his … Continue reading

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