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Swan Lake Four Years
1,251 wordsDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called "one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet. " As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his pare...
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Symphony Orchestra Principal Flute Galway
494 wordsJames Galway was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on December 8, 1939. As a child, he began playing the penny whistle and the mouth organ before switching to flute. At the age of ten, he was the winner of all three classes of the Irish Flute Championships, which earned him a BBC radio session, as well as a spot in the Belfast Youth Orchestra. He continued studying the flute at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music, and eventually landed a scholarship at the Paris Conserva...
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Creative Mind Gale Group
1,022 wordsThe Muse Award should be given to one who goes about something in different and original ways. This award is for one who expresses them self individually, as creativity is the way an individual solves a problem or creates something. It isnt an innate ability, but the truly creative are those drawn to their field by a drive that naturally pushes them deeper and beyond. Creativeness plays a very big role in the arts. Creativity must be unique and original, while to society, art has to be relevant ...
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War Effort Anti Hero
1,048 words1. How does "Casablanca" support the war effort? Recall any scenes or lines that contain pro-war messages. Casablanca starts as a news reel. You see a slowly turning globe that highlights the ally countries and the axis countries during WW II. Also, there is a documentary-style narration at the beginning of the movie, which sets the tone for a war time movie. Also, there is a scene in the movie where Germans are at Rick's bar sing a German song. Then Victor causes the bar band to begin playing a...
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Han Zheng Music Music Of China Chinese
1,123 wordsMusic of China The music of China enriches the listeners life both immediately and over the long time. It gives the basis for creativity and the opportunity of self-expression. The music of Chiba transmits cultural values and contributes to intellectual and moral development of the people who listen to this music. Its gentle sounds extracts the deep feelings, at the same time, making a listener relax and enjoy its calm and peaceful atmosphere. More than that, listening to music of China has shor...
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U S Air Charles Augustus
842 wordsLindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902 - 1974), American aviator, engineer, and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born February 4, 1902, in Detroit and was delivered by his great-uncle. When he was three years old, his three-story house burned down and a simpler home was built in its place. From the age of six he had his own gun and soon became an expert marksman. His mother, Evangeline Lindbergh, first en...
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Pieces For Solo Piano Pieces For Solo Clara
329 wordsClara Wieck Schumann Clara Schumann was born in Liepzig Germany on September 13, 1819 and died on May 20, 1896. Clara's parents were Friedrich Wieck, a music teacher who married one of his students, a soprano named Marianne. Clara's father made claims before she was even born that she would be a great musician and child prodigy. Her first public appearance was at age nine, and her first piano recital, age eleven. She performed and studied piano, voice, violin, instrumentation, score reading, cou...
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Wasn T Couldn T
1,296 wordsOn October 21, 1917, John Birks Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. He was the youngest of 14 children. His father was a poor farmer and a skilled amateur musician. He played bass in his own band and owned all the instruments because most of the other players were so poor that they would sell the instruments for money to buy food if they had them. The town of Cheraw was primarily black town and was very poor. By the time John was 7, he was beginning to learn that noone would take care ...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Musician
1,717 wordsThe Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D. C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the radio. His biggest...
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Master Symphonist Music Beethoven
678 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an Olympian figure in the history of classical music. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled; while general a member of the Classicist fold, he was in fact the first Romantic, and pre-figured virtually all music that followed the Romantic era as well. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such exhilarating power and expressiveness; certainly no other composer did so against greater odds. Beethoven was born in Bonn in ...
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20 Th Century Frank Sinatra
987 wordsMy speech today is on not just a man, but a man who owns tens of millions of recordings, nine Grammy s and two Academy Awards, some 60 films, worldwide tours, television specials, and hundreds of millions of dollars raised for charities. In sheer productivity, few popular artists could touch the hem of his tuxedo jacket. In pure, smoldering style, he was unexcelled. His rueful, macho star power ensured that the music and lyrics of the swing era would resonate throughout the later years of the 20...
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Beginning Of The Semester Dead Set Limits
509 wordsThe Free Play FREE PLAY The title of the second section in the book Free Play appropriately called The Work. The word work has several meanings, for most it is some act of labor or some skill they perform for money. To others work could be an artistic term, a final product of creativity. Not only could a work be a painting or a sketch but it could also be a score or in this case a dance, choreographed or not. In everyday life one always hears? practice makes perfect. ? Lately in Improvisational ...
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Beginning Of The Semester Dead Set Limits
504 wordsThe title of the second section in the book Free Play appropriately called The Work. The word work has several meanings, for most it is some act of labor or some skill they perform for money. To others work could be an artistic term, a final product of creativity. Not only could a work be a painting or a sketch but it could also be a score or in this case a dance, choreographed or not. In everyday life one always hears? practice makes perfect. ? Lately in Improvisational Structures class we have...
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Aix La Chapelle Italian Opera
1,273 wordsHandel, George Frideric b. Feb. 23, 1685, Halle, Saxony [Germany] d. April 14, 1759, London, Eng. German (UNTIL 1715) GEORG FRIEDRICH H? NDEL, OR HAENDEL German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, the Messiah (1741), and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music (1717) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749). Life. The son of a barber-surgeon, Handel s...
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Heart Attack Years Ago
1,023 wordsBuilt to Last An informational article on Erik Schrody (a. k. a. Everlast) &# 61550; With his group, House of Pain Erik Schrody made a name for himself Everlast and a mess of his life. Now, after a near fatal heart attack and with a new hit album, he climbs back into the ring. Erik Schrody has a thin, Abe Lincoln-like beard, a piercing stare, and a b-boy like swagger. Around his neck hangs a pendent that spells out Everlast in gold diamonds tag the 29 year old has answered to since before his da...
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Madrigal Was Being Experimented Music Pg 463 Voices
392 wordsMichael Karnes Madrigal During the Renaissance era, secular vocal music became more and more popular. Throughout Europe, music was being set to poems. This was especially true in Italy, where the madrigal began. Madrigal is defined as a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem (Music an Appreciation pg. 85). The poems usually had two or three stanzas of three lines and the form was aba bcb dd, abb cdd ee etc. (The New Harvard Music pg. 462). The higher voices were the more decorated and...
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Miles Dewey Davis Birth Of The Cool Sound
1,353 wordsEven in the beginning he was already miles ahead. Its very evident that Miles knew and lived by that old axiom if its named, then its outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13 th birthday was given his first trumpet. Miles family was very fortunate and what you would call apart of the upper class during the Roaring 20 s and the great depression. Miles father Dr. Miles Dewey Davis has 3 degrees in his...
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Darth Vader Obi Wan
917 wordsThe Origins of Star Wars In the movie Star Wars, Director and Screenplay writer George Lucas creates a very complex, believable universe. Lucas borrows many things from different places to create his universe. This paper will show whether or not he succeeds and how does he does it. The origins of the much of Star Wars will be explained and the symbolic nature of the characters will be touched upon, as well as a brief history of the most important part of the story line. The Star Wars universe ha...
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Beach Boys Wilson
826 wordsThe Beach Boys The Beach Boys formed in 1961. The band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love. All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angela's. They were first called the Pendletones which was a shirt brand, but a record label executive named them the Beach Boys. One of their first big hits was? Surfin? that was credited for starting the? surfing craze. ? 1962 they released the album Surfin Safari with the song? Surfin Safari? hitting the U. S Top 40....
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Plot Of The Story Obi Wan
949 wordsBy George Star Wars Star Wars By George Lucas Paperback, November 1998 Star Wars is a science fiction adventure novel. The symbolism and characterization was really excellent in the story. The story gives a great look into the future as it has many different types of things we have not yet invented; blaster rifles, space ships that go the speed of light, fat alien slugs, and beam swords. The plot of the story sucks you into the novel and makes you want to continue reading the novel. The plot of ...
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