The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
Original Marvelette Horton Still Plugging. The three singers who'll be performing as the Marvelettes on Friday at a Universal Amphitheatre rock 'n' roll revival aren't the real Marvelettes. Gladys Horton, 40, was the lead singer on those songs, which were recorded with Wanda Rogers and Katherine Shaffner. But Horton is the only original Marvelette still working.