Abstract This paper addresses the style and aesthetics of Henry Brant's spatial music, with particular attention given to his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, "Ice Field".
From the Paper "Henry Brant, America's pioneer explorer and practitioner of acoustic spatial music, was born in Montreal in 1913 of American parents and began to compose at the age of eight. After studying traditional composition for a number of years Brant desired to a write a kind of music that would reflect his own inner experience of life; a life he observed to be full of complexities. Brant's works are concerned with the multiplicities of everyday reality, which in the 20th century and beyond, is characterized by clashes of colliding unrelated events all competing for attention (Grove, 2005). In an October 4, 2002 interview with New Music Box, a Web Magazine from the American Music Center, Henry Brant describes his notion of music existing in space as well as time: It has never seemed to me that life is a simple matter, and I have always felt that music can reflect everyday existence, with its many complicated events both internal and external. A mundane episode in everyday life is not a one-dimensional event. People pass one another unaware of each other's needs and fears. For me, spatial amalgams of highly contrasted musical events, freely associated yet controlled, present opportunities for representing in the concert hall, musical equivalents of the incessant bombardment of social and environmental catastrophes which bedevil daily existence (Oteri, 12). For Brant, single-style music has never evoked the "new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults" of contemporary life on the spirit (Grove, 2005). In ordinary life there are numerous things happening both known and unknown at any given time. Why should music cut itself off from the experience of the most ordinary kind of life? These are the types of questions Brant has been asking himself the last 50 or so years."
Abstract This paper introduces and contrasts the views of two authors discussing the Bill of Rights. The authors are Irving Brant and Michael J. Kryzanek, both experts in the field of political science. It describes the basis of this amendment and how it set the precedent for subsequent amendments to the constitution.
From the Paper "The Bill of Rights did not exist when the Constitution was first written; it was a series of amendments proposed by James Madison in 1789. It now stands as the first ten amendments to the Constitution. "The Bill of Rights was ratified by the states on December 15, 1791, but the first two amendments were voted down. Failed Amendment One would have required that at least one representative be allocated in Congress for every 50,000 citizens. At that rate, Congress today would have 5,000 members. Failed Amendment Two would have required that no salary raise for members of Congress could take effect until after the next election of Congress. This proposal eventually became the Twenty-seventh Amendment" (Kryzanek 28)."
Abstract This paper discusses the article, "Dual in the Sun," by John Brant, which is an in-depth background piece about the Boston Marathon in 1982. The paper focuses on the portion of the article which deals with the lives of the two principle stars that were co-protagonists in the race, Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley. The paper also focuses on many aspects of the Ronald Reagan era, in order to give us a better understanding of the period of the marathon.
Table of Contents:
The Ronald Reagan Era: Popular American Culture
The Ronald Reagan Era: Economics and Getting Tough
The Ronald Reagan Era: Nike
The Ronald Reagan Era: Sports Popularity and Drug Usage
The Ronald Reagan Era: American Design & Fashion
Drugs and Society - Beardsley's Problem
From the Paper "And while nearly 23% of college students are abusers of alcohol and prescription drugs, only 8.5% of the general public (people 12 years of age and older) is dependent on alcohol and/or prescription drugs. The painkillers most popular with students, according to the USA Today piece, are Percocet (which is one of the pills Beardsley was hooked on prior to his rehabilitation), Vicodin and OxyContin. In 1993, about 1 percent of students were using those prescription drugs; but in 2005 that rose to 3.1 percent of students, the article points out."
"The "binge drinking" problem on campuses, while still a serious issue, has not grown in percentages, the article concludes; about 40% of students in 1993 admitted to binge drinking "at least occasionally"; and in 2005, the same percentage admitted to binge drinking, which is described as "having five drinks for male students" and for females, four drinks, at "one drinking occasion" during the previous two weeks."
