Bibliographic record
Abstract
Aside from producers and performers, I was one of the few people able to attend both stagings of Québécité, a jazz opera composed by Ottawa native (now New York-based) D.D. Jackson, with a libretto by Governor General’s Award-winning poet George Elliott Clarke. The premiere at Guelph’s River Run Centre on 5 September 2003 was the main event of the tenth Guelph International Jazz Festival, for which it was commissioned. This performance was recorded by the CBC, which has broadcast portions of it several times over the past few months. The opera was mounted again in Vancouver for two nights in October at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, a much more intimate venue. A comparison of this scaled-down performance with the grandiose version at Guelph – a remarkable and significant contrast, despite their obvious continuities – points up the demands of form and scale in this emergent musical genre. Jazz opera – with few, but powerful, antecedents in such works as Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha; Duke Ellington’s suite Black, Brown and Beige; and Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Blood on the Fields – can mix volatile improvisation and recalcitrant narrative, a blur of freedom and stricture, to create what Clarke, in the libretto’s prelude, names “rhetorical ambition,” a phrase I take to suggest the reach of words and music beautifully, and sometimes perilously, exceeding their grasp: the jut and leap of extemporizing across well-heeled verbal and melodic lines.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".