ND Met to hold auditions Saturday, Nov. 15 at UND
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Abstract
The ND Met has announced the North Dakota District for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a prestigious opera competition for young, aspiring opera singers will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 15, in the Hughes Fine Arts Center at the University of North Dakota. Singers will each perform two opera arias, or excerpts, for the judges and audience. The awards ceremony for the competition will start at approximately 2 p.m. The Greater Grand Forks Symphony will be offering a performance prize, the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Vocal Soloist Award, at the competition, and audience members present for the concert will get to vote for the G. Paul and Barb Larson Audience Choice Award. Judging the event will be Korliss Uecker, a North Dakota native and Met Opera singer; Benita Valente, international opera star; and Melissa Wegner, assistant director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Following the awards ceremony will be a public master class with Valente, starting at approximately 3:30 p.m., featuring this year's competitors. All events are free and open to the public. Also, at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, there will be a guest master class with Uecker and UND singers. There will be a "meet the artist" reception for her at 8:30 p.m., following the class. Exact start times of the awards ceremony and the master classes will be announced on the ND Met Facebook page (ND Met: North Dakota District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions) and Twitter (@NDMet). This programming is supported in part by a grant from the City of Grand Forks, through the North Valley Arts Council and the UND Department of Music. About the competition: This competition is open to aspiring opera singers between the ages of 20 and 30 and aims to identify exceptional young talent, as well as provide a venue for these young singers to be heard by representatives of The Metropolitan Opera. Three judges at the N.D. district competition will select winners to advance to the Upper Midwest Regional Finals held in St. Paul, Minn., in January 2015. Winners from the regional levels are then sponsored to go to New York in March for the National Council Semi-Finals. The finalists selected from that round will then perform at the Grand Finals Concert in March 2015 on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Throughout the four levels of the National Council Auditions, singers compete for nearly $500,000 in prize money and the prestige of being a "Met Winner." The North Dakota District audition has attracted not only singers from this region -- North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Manitoba -- but also competitors from as far away as Texas and New York. The North Dakota District has produced national winners: finalists and semi-finalists. Most recently, Lida Szkwarek, a soprano, and one of last year's ND Met Winners, won the 2014 Upper Midwest Regional competition and competed in the national semi-finals in New York in March.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.666 | 0.405 |
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".