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Composers of Concordia University | Fall, 2010

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Composer Jennette Morrison in rehearsal | Concordia University | Seward, NE | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain; of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. -----Benjamin Britten Concordia University | Seward, Nebraska Department of Music | MUAP391 Composition...

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Composers of Concordia University | Spring, 2010

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Composer Scott Dinslage in stage rehearsal | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Preparing a concert of newly composed works could be a trickily-tricky task now and then. Loads of things could go off beam. To be 100-and-10 % ready, I recited the wise words by Chinese educator/philosopher Confucius that “success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure,” and nested myself in a secured corner...

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The World’s Largest Time Capsule and Pyramid

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World’s Largest Time Capsule and Pyramid | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The World’s Largest Time Capsule and Pyramid, located in Seward, Nebraska, was the creation of Harold Keith Davisson. In July 4, 1975, Davisson sealed the original capsule filled with thousands of letters, memorabilia, a new Kawasaki motorcycle, and a new 1975 Chevrolet Vega with the goal “to preserve the present for future generations.” In 1977, officials at...

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Seward, Nebraska

Sewerd, Nebraska | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Walking around the neat town square of Seward, Nebraska in a sunny morning with an over-espressoed mind filled with lines from Max Frisch’s Homo Faber was a guileless oddity. Frisch’s timeless brawl of technological omnipotence versus fate was briskly fused with Volker Schlöndorff’s cinematic brilliance flashing in my head. What would be his directorial attitude if Schlöndorff were to include the...

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