Others: Music, Sports, Arts, Poems
Dr. Wang loves ping pong, swimming, music, Wei-Chi, arts and literature. He has
published an Awarded Book entitled
"Harvard Meditation Melody"
(for a photo of the author and the book,
click here ),
and over 50 articles of novels, proses, and poems on Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, and
Puccini's operas, and Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky's symphonies, and
Chinese music, songs, and poems about Li Po(Bai), Tu Fu, Huang You-Di, Huang Zhi,
Ching Hsi-wen (Shu Chiao), and Chu Wen-chung.
Dr. Wang is a tenor of the Cambridge Chinese Choral Society
(CCCS) of MIT. There are photos of Dr. Wang
in the MIT's CCCS web pages. Dr. Wang is very pleased to learn that this year, again,
Ludwig van Beethoven is voted by WCRB 102.5
FM 's 450,000 listerners as #1 in Top 40 for the 10th consecutive time in as many years! That's
"Choral Symphony" --- An Die Freude (Ode To Joy) , also Dr. Wang's most favorite.
Others on the top ten list are: Mozart,
followed by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Bach, Brahms, Dvorak,
Vivaldi, and Mendelssohn. For a complete list of top 40, please see:
WCRB web page.
To hear main theme melodies of these beautiful music, click on the links below: (WAV format)
Notice that the theme of this famous melody inscribes Schiller's poem :
"All mankinds around 4 seas are brothers !", which coincides with Chinese culture's basic spirit :
『四海之內皆兄弟也 !』, explored by Confucius over 2,400 years ago. Isn't that interesting
and amazing ?
For other highlights including Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO),
please click here ,
and here for more music).
Here are some more interesting highlights, including University of Wien
please click here,
Click on the spinning globe to play Symphony #9 "Choral" An Die Freude!
Dr. Patrick S.P. Wang, Professor &
IAPR Fellow
College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #221 CN, Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 373-3711(Voice) --- Fax: (617) 373-5121
Home Page: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pwang
pwang@ccs.neu.edu,
patwang@mit.edu,
patwang@fas.harvard.edu
For any comments, please send to one of the above email addresses. Thank you.
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