Robert P. Taylor
combines several major career interests that converge in Musical On Line. He is the
founder of one of the first graduate programs in the world in computing and education, at
Columbia Universitys Teachers College, is a singer who has sung as a soloist and
chorister for many years at Riverside Church in New York City, and is the artist /author
of a number of websites of images of various kinds. His appearance in Web Concert Hall is
related to his singing, of course, but also to his interest in and support of composers Robert Convery and Richard Hundley, each of whom he has
created first websites for, to support performance of their music. He is also the creator
of the sketches of performing musicians featured in the premier performances of the Web
Concert Hall. These activities are also united by his interest in the globalization of
human culture being brought about by technology, a topic which he has addressed in many
conferences and meetings in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
in the past ten years. He believes that the globalization of art and music are symbolic of
wider globalization and should be more widely fostered in the worlds educational
systems not only because of that, but also because participation in and familiarity with
art and music offer both unique insight into human self-understanding and joyful
satisfaction with life itself, insight and satisfaction otherwise unavailable. The
websites of art and music which are part of his professorial work are all aimed at
fostering art and music in education through use of the new technology. [Talk to Bob Taylor]
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