Prepare to be transported into a sensory journey that combines the beauty of sound with the depth of emotion. In the first half of the performance, the spotlight will shine on ASU's exceptionally talented students who have emerged triumphant in composition and concerto competitions. Carlos Zarate's compositions will paint sonic landscapes that captivate the imagination, while Michelle Perez's voice will weave stories that touch the heart.
From Dionysus to Bach to Beijing (Peking) Opera, tonight we take a deeper look at legends and myths. Additionally, guest conductor Dr. Tyler Austin from Old Dominion University joins the Wind Symphony to perform Joel Puckett’s Avelynn’s Lullaby.
Wind Symphony:
Day: Lightning Round (Jason Caslor, conductor)
Puckett: Avelynn’s Lullaby (Tyler Austin, conductor)
Milburn: American Hymnsong Suite
Wind Ensemble:
"The Mad Ones," formerly known as The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, opened off-Broadway (Prospect Theater Company at 59E59) on Nov. 17, 2017. 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart.
The ASU Big Bands come together for an evening of vintage selections spanning the history of big band music.
"The Pirates of Penzance" premiered on Dec. 31, 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York with Arthur Sullivan conducting. It was an immediate hit and takes its place today as one of the most popular and enduring works of musical theatre. In "The Pirates of Penzance," Frederic was apprenticed as a child to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her employer’s instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot.
This final virtual workshop introduces participants to topic modeling, an exciting realm of text analysis. The workshop focuses on two key methodologies: topic modeling and keyword-assisted topic models(keyATM). Participants will gain a practical understanding of topic modeling, a powerful unsupervised technique that extracts hidden themes and patterns from text collections.
In this second Text Analysis Virtual Workshop series, we will cover data preprocessing, which is a set of steps and techniques applied to raw text data before analysis. These steps include tokenization, lowercasing, stop word removal, stemming and lemmatization, removing special characters, and further text cleaning.
In this first Text Analysis Virtual Workshop series, we delve into foundational understanding and practical applications of text analysis. Defining concepts like text mining and natural language processing, we explore their uses in social sciences, digital humanities, and beyond. We will then discover how these methods address complex inquiries, enriching our grasp of societal phenomena. Beyond academia, we will showcase text analysis's efficacy in marketing, finance, and more.