The committee described the book as "an exquisitely
crafted novel
that carries the reader on an adventerous journey into the depths of
totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the
human
heart."
Stanford Music Professor Jonathan Berger had his opera 'Visitations'
presented
by Stanford Live, with orchestra headed by the St. Lawrence String
Quartet.
A CNN feature story on MLK featuring quotes from Clayborne Carson, history professor and director of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and visiting Stanford professor Clarence Jones.
Music Critic Mark Swed considers the engulfing nature of the Bing Concert Hall and the premier of "Visitations," Stanford Professor of Music Jonathan Berger's two short chamber operas about hallucinations.
Citing Stanford research, the study found that people who listened to classical music inside an fMRI machine
had
remarkably synchronized brain patterns that aren't seen in other contexts.
