Boston University Wind Ensemble, April 24, 2003

This is the concert program of the Boston University Wind Ensemble performance on Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "Spiel," Op. 39 by Ernst Toch, Octet for Wind Instruments by Igor Stravinsky, "in calm and storm" from "The Sea Treaders" by W. Francis McBeth, "Dreamcatcher" by Walter Mays, and Concerto for Band by Gordon Jacob. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Stephen King

Stephen King, popularly known as “The King of Horror,” is one of the more prolific and successful writers of the twentieth century. Despite a reputation for writing only horror and gore, however, King has written works that do not qualify as either horror or supernatural but rather are thoughtful, intricate slices of human experience that often cause us to reflect on our own childhoods, not always with fond nostalgia. He encourages his readers to get in touch with their own memories of what being a child really means, and innocence has little to do with King\u27s version of childhood. Believing that most adults have lost touch with their imaginations and a sense of the mythic, King constantly challenges his readers to expand their concepts of memory and experience

Borrowed Meanings: Case Studies of Katsina and Dreamcatcher Traditions

Every summer, thousands of climbers and nearly half a million other tourists flock to Devils Tower in Wyoming due to its spectacular views and challenging climbing conditions. And every summer, members of several different Native American tribes travel to the religious site known as Bear Lodge, their name for Devils Tower, to perform religious rituals such as the Sun Dance. The Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Kiowa, and Lakota all recognize Devils Tower as a sacred religious site, grant it a prominent place in their mythology and oral histories, and in the past probably used it for individual religious observances (Brown 2003: 152). The result is a battle between the Native Americans who see and use the site for religious purposes and the non-Indians who see the site as simply nature at its best. While the main purpose of this essay is an analysis of the Hopi Katsina and the Ojibwa dreamcatcher, Devils Tower offers an interesting example that frames the key issues of this essay

On Dreamcatchers

In this essay, a unique perspective of dreamcatchers is offered, including their history and their applicability to serve as a means of describing contemporary happenings in Native America

Wind Music from the Renaissance to the Present: A Summary of Dissertation Recitals

The following dissertation recitals included music from the Renaissance to the present. Compositions for both large and chamber ensembles were represented. Each of the three recitals had created an underlying theme; the first recital as Inspirations, the second recital as Reflections, and the third recital as Musical Forms: The Road Map of Expression. The first recital, Inspirations, was a collection of performances with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, Symphony Band Chamber Winds, and Concert Band, which took place during the 2016–2017 academic year. Works for this recital, which examined the various motives and muses that stimulated the composers’ ideas, consisted of the following works: Reflections on a Sixteenth-Century Tune by Richard Rodney Bennett; Chester: Overture for Band by William Schuman; Dreamcatcher by Walter Mays; and Partita in B-flat Major, op. 67 by Franz Krommer. The second recital, Reflections, was a compilation of performances presented throughout fall 2017. Three of the performances were with the University of Michigan Symphony Band and Symphony Band Chamber Winds, while the remaining two pieces were part of an ad hoc performance in Britton Recital Hall on Thursday, October 26, 2017. Works for this recital, which represented the composers, their thoughts, and surroundings, consisted of the following: Three Dances and Final Scene from Der Mond by Carl Orff arranged by Friedrich Wanek; Trauermusik, WWV 73 by Richard Wagner; cheating, lying, stealing by David Lang; Aria della battaglia by Andrea Gabrieli; Octet by Igor Stravinsky. The final recital, Musical Forms: The Road Map of Expression, took place as an ad hoc performance in the McIntosh Theatre on Sunday, January 21, 2018. The works on the recital, which illustrated the use of traditional musical forms underlying developments in harmonic language, consisted of the following: Overture from the Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 by George Frideric Handel; Concerto for Cello and Wind Ensemble by Daron Aric Hagen; Octet, op. 216 by Carl Reinecke.AMUMusic: ConductingUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143910/1/tgamboa_1.pd

DreamCatcher: Revealing the Language of the Brain with fMRI using GPT Embedding

The human brain possesses remarkable abilities in visual processing, including image recognition and scene summarization. Efforts have been made to understand the cognitive capacities of the visual brain, but a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms still needs to be discovered. Advancements in brain decoding techniques have led to sophisticated approaches like fMRI-to-Image reconstruction, which has implications for cognitive neuroscience and medical imaging. However, challenges persist in fMRI-to-image reconstruction, such as incorporating global context and contextual information. In this article, we propose fMRI captioning, where captions are generated based on fMRI data to gain insight into the neural correlates of visual perception. This research presents DreamCatcher, a novel framework for fMRI captioning. DreamCatcher consists of the Representation Space Encoder (RSE) and the RevEmbedding Decoder, which transform fMRI vectors into a latent space and generate captions, respectively. We evaluated the framework through visualization, dataset training, and testing on subjects, demonstrating strong performance. fMRI-based captioning has diverse applications, including understanding neural mechanisms, Human-Computer Interaction, and enhancing learning and training processes.Comment: 10 Pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl

Dreamcatcher From Mao\u27s Last Revolution: My Venture Into Creative Social Documentary Video

Dreamcatcher From Mao’s Last Revolution is a filmmaking venture into creative social documentary production undertaken by this filmmaker as his own experimental departure from narrative feature film production and the fiction genre. This thesis report not only describes aspects of this film production that are specific to the methodology of documentary film production, but also describes the film’s cinematic expression of memory and the filmmaker’s telling of the story. Some cinematic and conceptual aspects of the story are related to the film’s influences, specifically to those theoretical concepts and techniques employed by documentary filmmaker, Werner Herzog. The documentary story is primarily about the life of a Chinese woman named Shelly (Zhimei Xu), age 63, who was persecuted for ten years as a youth during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when hundreds of thousands of Chinese intellectuals and their families were denounced and millions of China’s educated urban youth were relocated to countryside villages. She obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2008 and returned to China the same year to experience the Summer Olympic Games and Olympic ceremonies in Beijing and visit her hometown of Suzhou and the countryside town of Huangjing, where she had lived for ten years with a surrogate family and worked as a farm laborer. The premise of the documentary story is of the filmmaker’s making: A Chinese woman from Dallas, Texas, on the verge of becoming an American citizen, decides to attend the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and confronts her traumatic memory of China’s Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) which collided with her youthful and idyllic expectations for a higher-education. This written report contextualizes and reflects on this filmmaker’s creative documentary process and production