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Latin Night a fitting finale to Hispanic heritage month Dylan Dohner Contributing Writer Dohner.6@wright.edu
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atin Night kicked up its heels Tuesday, Oct. 15 in the Student Union’s Apollo Room. Students were struck with a bit of culture, and the fast and fluid styles of Merengue and the Cha Cha as demonstrated by helpful, energetic instructors. An authentic Mariachi troupe accompanied a few of the dances with their own beats, and took requests of such classic Mexican songs as “Guantanamera” and “Cielito Lindo” when the dancing settled down. The coordinator and director of the Asian/Hispanic/Native America center, Mai Nguyen, said that Latin Night is the finale of Hispanic Heritage Month.
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“We do this every year,” Nguyen said. “Music is universal, and it’s nice to be exposed to different forms of music. The more you know, the better you are. We take this opportunity to introduce it to everyone.” A student and attendee, sophomore Adrienne Lohr, came with a friend for extra credit. She had taken Latin dance classes before, and “they were all partner-based, to teach you about dancing in a social environment. It’s just good culture.” Sarah Olsen, a sophmore and the friend who accompanied Lohr, said “Yeah, it was for extra credit, but I also went because I thought it would be a lot of fun.” “The Mariachi band is definitely my favorite part. I love the Hispanic culture, and the band brought that culture to me,” said Olsen.
Melding Music and Medicine: Wright State’s 5th annual symposium
Dylan Dohner Contributing Writer Dohner.6@wright.edu
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right State University will host the 5th annual WSU Music and Medicine Symposium in the Creative Arts Center this month. The event is intended to foster a relevant and meaningful connection between the art of music and the science of medicine with a collection of professors, performers and doctors in attendance to speak on behalf of their fields.
This year’s guest speakers include Linda Brovsky, a nationally-recognized opera singer and musical theater connoisseur, Cynthia Solomon, president of SHEPPARDSOLOMON Biomedical Consulting, Randall Paul, chair of the Wright State University Department of Music, and Jerald Kay, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine. Kay will discuss how to help physicians make their patients secure enough that they can reflect what is really going on about their symptoms and
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emotions, “and what sorts of things that interfere in the doctor-patient relationship that make it very challenging for physicians to understand their patients,” Kay said. Tuesday will see a Guest Artist Recital beginning at 7 p.m. in Shuster Hall in the Creative Arts Center. The Symposium will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30 beginning at 8:45 a.m. with Kay’s speech, “Having the Difficult Conversation — Sex, Drugs, Life and Death” at 1:30 p.m. Steven Aldredge, an instructor in the Music Department, said that he will
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accompany renowned vocalists Roderick Dixon and Alfreda Burke during the second half of Tuesday night’s Guest Artist Recital at 7:00 p.m., where they will follow performances by doctors from the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Aldredge has been “assisting and playing [piano] since the Symposium began.” “I think the bond between the disciplines of music and medicine . . . are inextricably linked,” Aldredge said. “The art of medicine [influences] how an artist shapes his interpretation of a work or even how he physically approaches his
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instrument.” Aldredge also pointed out “the positive effect of music on the mind and body has been proven.” Admission is free for WSU students, faculty and staff and the surrounding areas, though spaces are limited. For more information, including other guest speakers and their times, visit http://www. wright.edu/music/musicmed/index.html.
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