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Musical Theatre Great American
1,100 wordsThere are many great American choreographers of our time. It is through their creative genious that musicals and movies are made memorable. If it wasn't for the work of these choreographers, musical theatre wouldn't be what it is today. It is because of these choreographers that musical theatre is what it is. These choreographers brought to musical theatre dance technique that was only once used in ballet. In fact it was because of this that ballet and jazz, as well as all the other forms of dan...
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Greek Tragedy Heroic Figure
1,362 wordsThe modern play, The Visit, exemplifies the meaning of old Greek tragedy. The story portrays a young woman named Claire Zachanassian whose life was changed at the age of seventeen. This life was put on hold by Anton Schill, her one and only true love. The story has many elements that portray a typical Greek tragedy play. They are faced with moods and feelings of a Greek chorus to the conflicts and problems of a Greek tragedy. Even though The Visit is seen as a modernized play, it still holds the...
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Cuban Jam Session Tenor Sax Cachao
1,370 wordsHis name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some of them, like his older brother the late Orestes played with the Filarmonica under the baton of Eric Kleiber, formerly the conductor of the Berlin Opera Orchestra. Cachao was so young then that they had to bui...
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View From The Bridge 20 Th Century
3,682 wordsExplore the role of Alfieri in Millers A View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller is now regarded as one of the worlds greatest dramatists. In his plays he explores the struggles of the ordinary man against authority and insurmountable odds. It is his ability to dramatize the attempts to find the balance between the different conflicts of life that is Millers feature as a writer. Many of his plays look at the position of the individual in relation to their responsibilities and position in society and...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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Bob Dylan Drug Dealer
990 wordsMr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan Chorus Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me Im not sleepy and there is no place Im going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning Ill come following you Though I know the evenings empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, Im branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming... ->CHORUS Take me on...
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Vietnam Veterans M 16
1,176 wordsThe Vietnam War is slowly fading into history. The 20 -year struggle between South Vietnam and its American, Australian an New Zealand allies against the communist North Vietnamese is remembered today through films, songs and poetry. Films such as Platoon and songs such as The Real Thing written by Russell Morris and I Was Only Nineteen written by John Schuman and performed by the band Red Gum are examples of this remembrance. Elected lines: When each step can mean your last one, On two legs: it...
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Ancient Greek Theatre Architec
1,321 wordsAncient Greek Theatre Architecture We all look for our beginnings. Whether we look for them in our personal life or in our professional life, we still look for them. As I was looking around the theatre recently, I was looking at and wondering where the idea of the theatre came from. Rather, who built it and why it is built the way it is. Who made the first one? Where do the roots of the theatre lay? All very good questions that I hope will be answered. In the beginning of time, man did not under...
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Action Of The Play Golden Fleece
1,894 wordsEuripides lived during the Golden Age of Athens, the city where he was born and lived most of his years. Born in 484 BC, his infancy saw the repulsion of the Persian invasion, a military victory that secured Athens' political independence and eventual dominance over the Mediterranean world. His death in 406 came as Athens was surrendering its supremacy as a result of its protracted defeat to Sparta, its main rival, in the Peloponnesian War. Sandwiched between these two wars lies a creative perio...
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Claim That Medea Medea Cleverness Jason
1,830 words... opinions for her family's flight into yet another exile. As Medea prepares to wander into uncharted lands beyond the walls of Corinth, the chorus continues to lament her fate. Medea, however, is focused on the task she must accomplish over the course of the next day -- that is, killing her three antagonists, 'father and daughter; and my husband' (line 376). Considering the various possible means of murdering them, she settles on poison as the most effective. Medea calls on the goddess, Hecat...
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Pity And Fear Point Of View
1,946 wordsIs The Persians a proper tragedy or just a piece of dramatized military and civic propaganda? Can it be both? Illustrate your answer with close reference to the text. The Persians is the only Greek tragedy to focus on a subject other than mythology, and this fact in itself should tell us something about the playwrights concerns. Why did Aeschylus not turn to mythology if he had a point to make about war? Greek mythology is full of wars and heroes, and playwrights of the time could find ample raw...
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Music And Punk Culture
2,866 wordsMusic and Punk culture In the mid-to-late 1970 s a radical youth culture called punk emerged out of the larger rock 'n' roll scene, and developed its own music, attire, and ideology. The Sex Pistols are the best known of the punk bands; their music, like all punk rock, was aggressive, fast, and loud. Punk attire is characterized by dark clothes, outlandish costumes and ornamentation such as colored hair and earrings and bracelets made from assembled items (the quintessential punk earring was a s...
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Gods And Goddesses Oedipus The King
1,518 wordsThe Three Great Epics- Three of the greatest literary works are Oedipus the King, Antigone and the Odyssey. Oedipus the King and Antigone, part of a three part series, was composed by Sophocles and performed on the stage during a three day festival. While Odyssey was story written down by Homer and was one of the first recorded epics that was and is still being read today. The following shall be a comparison between these three great epics in terms of their similarities and their differences. In...
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Hustlers Ehh Untill Dey Jaws Umm Uhhh Tha
1,385 wordsStraight off tha block hoe Vest in my hand trusting no man Got my glock cocked Running in sand you understand It be steaming blazing i swear boy its crazy holly grove 17 tha hood where i was raised in dey be bustin heads hoe runnin dublin feds hoe rocks under they tongues hoe kis under dey beds hoe good for tha real soldiers 24 - 7 hustlers (ehh) untill we shove a barrel down yo pipe sucker aint no love for no buster no fear for no coward no respect for no slut aint no money without power we dee...
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Rules Of The Game Unborn Child
707 wordsLetter 2 My Unborn To my unborn child... To my unborn child... in case I dont make it Just remember daddy loves you [talking in background] To my unborn child... To my unborn... [ 2 Pac] Now ever since my birth, Ive been cursed since Im born to wild in case I never get to holla at my unborn child Many things learned in prison, blessed and still livin Tryin to earn every penny that Im gettin, and reminiscing to the beginning of my mission When I was conceived, and came to be in this position My m...
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Quot Quot Avant Garde
5,115 wordsNeal Bowers This is not collage, because the assorted elements are not reduced to static snapshots of the city. Instead, they appear and pass away as OHara walks through them. The effect is something like a motion picture, with OHara in each frame. Saying what all the details mean is easy they mean whatever they are, and their importance lies in their randomness and transience Everything has equal significance Puerto Ricans, dead friends, a warehouse and OHara, caught up in the fullness of such ...
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Eye For An Eye Series Of Events
1,235 wordsHumanity's Bloody Feud (On Oresteia Vengeance Humanity's Bloody Feud (On Aeschylus Oresteia) From the beginning of time vengeance or retribution has been part of the human condition. This is especially true in Aeschylus trilogy the Oresteia. One of the underlying themes in these works is Oculo pro oclc or an eye for an eye. According to the plays introduction by Richmond Lattimore, the history behind this blood feud of vengeance begins with Atreus and Thyestes. Atreus tricks his brother Thyestes...
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Three Works Second Half
1,594 wordsPoetry Analysis: Original Prankster, Evening Schoolboys Poetry Analysis: Original Prankster, Evening Schoolboys And Up The Wall Poetry is a way that stories are told much like the lyrics of contemporary song. Poetry has been written since ancient times as a way of story telling. Students have had a constant battle analysing traditional poetry because they havent realise that every song they listen to is in fact embedded with poetry. If students can be encouraged to see a contemporary song as a f...
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Bob Dylan Drug Dealer
1,029 wordsMr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan Chorus Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I? m not sleepy and there is no place I? m going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I? ll come following you Though I know the evening? s empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I? m branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street? s too dead for dreaming ->CHORUS Tak...
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Period Of Time Eye Catching
1,885 wordsThe piece of theatre that I will be reviewing is a piece that I was in; I shall be reviewing the musical Grease. Girls from Bedford High School, St. Andrews, and St. Thomas Moore and boys from Bedford Modern school performed in this; all participants were in years 10 upper sixth. It took place in the Howard Hall at Bedford Modern school from the 24 th 27 th November. Directing this piece was Helen Rees-Bidder, alongside Alex Stephen as the assistant director. Incase you are unaware of the story ...
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