I belong to a wonderful list that keeps me from being completely cynical. It is a list of members who work in choruses from around the world and they send examples of the below where they ask for ways in which they can help each other improve their programs. It isn't a chat group but a support group. It is completely multi-choral. I just recieved this note tonight and wanted to share it with you on the future of choral work in the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- I am teaching middle school (6-8th grade) choir in a school that has a large Somali and a large Hispanic population. We also have many Ukranian students (definitely an odd mixture!) I want to be able to have the different cultures of our school represented in our spring concert. I can find music in Spanish, and I have found arrangements of Russian/Ukranian folk tunes, but I am stumped on the Somali music. Has anyone come across or know of any decent arrangements (or any at all!) of Somali music that a middle school choir could handle? Please respond directly to me and I will post a compilation of answers if desired. Thanks so much! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
As for Hikikomori, at this point my wife would argue that chat groups are the older male version of such things for the non-Japanese. "Keep off my computer!" My ex-wife who is a psycho-analyst has joined my current spouse adding that it obviously is a variation on computer neurosis and are seeking grants together to see if they can help their poor "friend." I would have never have believed that anything could have gotten those two together but there may be a market emerging here with chat groups as a cure for hostility within split families with the resultant help for the children who refuse to come out of the closet or kitchen (so to speak). The grant argues that the problem is caused by a viral worm named "big boy" that attacks both the young and the retired as well as those in high and low IQs. The Bourgeoisie seem not to interest the bug. One note is that it seems to attack some women as well but they seem to eventually throw off the bug or wall it off into a quarantined corner of their psyche where it lurks like the intermittent cold germ. Ray Evans Harrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:51 AM Subject: Hikikomori > The phenomenon of hikikomori in Japan (to which Karen drew our attention > recently) appears to be spreading to Europe. Growing numbers of young males > are now staying at home and not trying for jobs. It's been firmly > entrenched in Italy for some time; it's now growing in Germany > (traditionally the country of the "eternal student"!); and it's now > becoming significant in England (according to a BBC radio programme this > morning) -- being termed "lifelong parenting" by sociologists -- even > though unemployment here is much less than in Europe. I don't know about > France, but I suspect it's happening there, too. > > The general drift of all the reports I've read or seen on TV about this > phenomenon suggests that it's a case of the less competent dropping out of > school or college. It's all part of what I see as an IQ divide in an > increasingly high-tech and competitive society. > > Keith > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ------------ > > Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com > 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England > Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:khudson@;handlo.com > ________________________________________________________________________
