The in between

2022 - 4 - 9

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How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the ... (The Guardian)

A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threat.

“That trip opened up our relationship, the beginning of the culture exchange,” Platt said. And this orchestra sound, this orchestra – actually, all of you – changed my life.” Cui Zhuping, at the time a young violinist in the Chinese Central Philharmonic, recalled the moment she heard the Philadelphia Orchestra on her home turf. “It was a very tricky business because the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing, had very firm ideas about what should be played and what should not. And, of course, in performing on Chinese soil in front of Madame Mao, the communally composed Yellow River Concerto had to be included, too. And in 1973 he was asked to open the first US liaison office in Beijing, which later became the American embassy. This is called ‘symphony’. The Philadelphia Orchestra is in China,” a friend said to Tan. It was the first time he had heard about a “symphony orchestra”, and it was striking. A year after Richard Nixon’s historic trip in February 1972 to China, Henry Kissinger learned from Chinese leaders that they would like to invite the Philadelphia Orchestra to China. Nixon rang its music director, the Hungarian-American conductor Eugene Ormandy, who immediately sensed history in the making: “That’s wonderful. But its two-week tour of China in 1973 marked the beginning of five decades of people-to-people exchanges between the two nations, something that is now under threat with the rise of geopolitical tensions. China was at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, Tan heard a sound from a loudspeaker in the field. “I think it was something by Beethoven – the Sixth or the Fifth symphony.” Until then, Tan had never known of Beethoven or Mozart, but he was deeply touched by the performance blasted from the loudspeaker.

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The In Between movie review: A sappy but strangely moving YA ... (News9 Live)

Tessa (Joey King) barely survives an accident that her boyfriend Skylar (Kyle Allen) dies in. And now she, with a broken and bleeding heart (literally), is ...

Their chemistry is more platonic than sexual, which works for the kind of quasi-teenybopper The In Between aims to be. The conflict between them is more nuanced, because the complexity of a girl's past feels a lot less performative than the darkness of a boy's history. A lazy afternoon, an empty movie theatre, a French film without subtitles, and a stranger translating the lines of the film in whispers. (Which reminds me: Any film that begins with a David Foster Wallace quote — "Every love story is a ghost story" in this case — can't be all that bad). It might sound like a cliche, but "seeing things that others don't" can go a long way in a film about teen spirit, both literal and figurative. The science-fiction is a bit loopy, like a rejected Alias episode. When my partner leaves to visit her parents, the embrace is tighter, the eyes are kinder and the smile is wider. A lot of my affection for this film is also rooted in its design. Or perhaps because, once in a while, I like to watch a movie about what it feels like to be starry-eyed lovers on the brink of a future. Their whirlwind summer romance in a warm coastal town is inter-cut with its stark aftermath. My greatest fear is not knowing when the "last time" is — especially with my loved ones. A split feels like the end of life itself; a spat makes me die a little inside; love still makes my world go around; companionship — against all odds — is still my default desire.

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The In Between soundtrack: Every song in the romantic drama (HITC)

Netflix added supernatural romance film, The In Between to their catalogue, we explore the soundtrack that provides the backdrop to this heartbreaking film.

Determined to give their love story the epic conclusion it deserves, Tessa enlists the help of her best friend to contact Skylar one final time The two fall instantly in love and it seems Tessa finally has found her happy ending. As Netflix adds The In Between to its wealth of romantic dramas, we reveal songs that make our hearts burst.

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Series even between No. 25 Tigers, No. 12 Commodores (Auburn Tigers Official Athletic Site)

AUBURN, Ala. – No. 25 Auburn fell to No. 12 Vanderbilt, 19-4, to even the series at one game apiece Saturday at Plainsman Park.

Seven Tigers recorded a hit in the contest. Auburn (21-10, 6-5 SEC) wasted no time in getting on the scoreboard as three-hole hitter Sonny DiChiara hit a solo homer in the bottom of the first. Auburn starter Trace Bright (2-3, 3.83) had faced two over the minimum through three, but Vanderbilt got to the right-hander in the fourth. Game three is all about the fight." "I see this series as 1-1, and we're trying to fight to win a series. "The score doesn't matter.

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ASL Teacher Bridging Gulf Between Deaf, Hearing Communities (U.S. News & World Report)

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — American Sign Language is more than a form of communication. It's a culture.

“That’s what I share with my students and my life is very fulfilling.” “We were preparing for spring break and then all of the sudden everything is remote and we’re preparing for virtual learning,” he said. “I remember when I was younger being voted ‘Most Likely to Become a Teacher’ and I always thought that was interesting,” he said. “I like helping students to not be complacent and to do more and to do better. “I had the opportunity to study Mexican sign language and after eating, breathing and sleeping that language for weeks, you really do take on the culture and the feel of the people when you learn the language,” he said. “Drawing that out of students has been a highlight,” he said. “I worked there for six years and that was kind of like my sabbatical. I tried a few things and bounced around from job to job, struggling to find something that suited me.” Don’t focus on sign after sign after sign, focus on the context and the message,” he said. Then he tried social work, but he said he lacked the motivation to stay there. “ASL is a community with a culture that has a rich history and it’s impossible to learn the language without learning the history of deaf people, of their struggle, of why things are signed the way they are,” he said through an ASL interpreter. You have various dialects of sign language and it’s tied to cultures and that demographic.”

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A Strange Genetic Link Between Humans And Sea Anemones Was ... (ScienceAlert)

A gene linked to the development of hearing in humans has just been linked to sensory development in sea anemones, too.

The best way to do this is to disable the gene using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool and observe what changes. In humans and other vertebrates, the sensory receptors of the auditory system are called hair cells. So this is what the team did.

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