Bolivia Music
IEW Events > United States
The week opens with a kick-off in the College Center including greetings from the college president and several international students in their home languages, and a music presentation provided by Del Sur Music. There will be a one-hour program of world music daily by the campus radio station. The cafeteria will serve international cuisine during the week, including dishes from Mexico, Italy, India and China. The Transfer Department will host a combined college recruitment and study abroad fair. The Triton College Student Association will sponsor an international film festival. Several faculty have opened their classes to visitors from foreign consulates in Chicago. The Undergraduate Center will present their undergraduate study travel opportunities. The Foreign Languages Department will host activities to promote the study of foreign languages and the Phi Theta Kappa honor society w ... [Read More]
2004–2005 Fulbright Awards – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Musical Instrument Training ... Ethnomusicology ... Eastman School of Music ... [Read More]
Writers on America - Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State
My parents came from very different American places. My mother's family in Pennsylvania were rural. They fished and hunted. They were good with machinery; they fixed tractors, lawn mowers, cars; anything with a motor. They played country music on the stages of fire halls and bars. They were Protestant, and mostly laconic, and suspicious of the kind of people who lived in my father's world, which was urban and in specific ways antithetic to my mother's. My father's family worked in factories, for the most part. They were Catholic, and in Niagara Falls they lived in neighborhoods still divided by ethnic groups (you could be Irish and live in a Polish neighborhood, you could be Lebanese and marry an Italian, but you knew who you were regardless, and you knew who they were). My father's people talked more than my mother's family did, and they spoke a different American idiom. They told stories. Some of the stories they told were true; most of them were entertaining. Their music ... [Read More]
March
1111--03/30/04 Members of Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Return to the United States for Music Workshops in New York and Washington ... [Read More]
IEW Events > The Americas
The Washington, D.C.-based music ensemble "Hesperus" completed a three-city tour of Bolivia with a performance to commemorate IEW. The event was co-sponsored by the Bolivian Alumni Association and included former international visitors and Fulbrighters - some current officials and elected representatives in the government - as invited guests of honor. The group performed lively American colonial and folk music pieces that required 30 different instruments. The La Paz performance also served as a platform for the recently re-organized Fulbright Alumni Association to publicly recognize their members and contributions to the country. This three-city performing arts program was organized and funded by the embassy. ... [Read More]
Vol 33 No 4, October - December 1995 Page 30
Dim the lights and ask learners to free-write to a section of music. The piece selected should evoke imagery. It is not necessary that learners tell a story. Let them know that it is fine if their imagination skips around; writing should simply follow it. After a five to seven minute session, allow learners to go back and select their favorite part of their free-writing and expand it into a short story or poem. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Private instruction in art, music, photography, folkdancing, and ballet is available. ACS provides a program of after school and evening sports and educational activities for both students and adults. Depending on demand and availability of teachers, these activities consist of photography, ballet, exercise, square dancing, handicrafts, business courses, language, culture, and aerobics, among others. German, U.S., and French binational centers periodically offer courses and lectures in a variety of fields. Graduate-level courses leading to a Master’s Degree in Education from Framingham State College are offered at ACS several times a year. For those with working knowledge of Spanish, other special educational opportunities exist. The municipal government sponsors a cultural foundation (Casa Juvenil de la Cultura “Juancito Pinto”) offering classes in music, folkdancing, and puppetry to children free of charge. Many options for activities are also offered through the Embas ... [Read More]
Bolivia (06/05)
The Spanish brought their own tradition of religious art which, in the hands of local indigenous and mestizo builders and artisans, developed into a rich and distinctive style of architecture, painting, and sculpture known as "Mestizo Baroque." The colonial period produced not only the paintings of Perez de Holguin, Flores, Bitti, and others but also the works of skilled but unknown stonecutters, woodcarvers, goldsmiths, and silversmiths. An important body of native baroque religious music of the colonial period was recovered in recent years and has been performed internationally to wide acclaim since 1994. ... [Read More]
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