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Marian Anderson Metropolitan Opera Philadelphia
563 wordsMarian Anderson During The Harlem Renaissance The Century's Contralto Marian Anderson, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A variety of sources suggested February 17, 1902 as her birth date, however Andersons birth certificate showed differently. On her birth certificate the date listed was February 27, 1897. She was born into a working class family in South Philadelphia. Her family had a few obstacles to overcome, but managed. Her father John worked selling ice and coal at the Reading Termi...
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Credited With Inventing Numbers In Parentheses Refer Strings
1,101 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for "harpsichord with soft and loud"). It was built by Bartolomeo ...
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1,094 wordsGeorge Gershwin was one of the most widely remembered composers in America. Gershwin's style of jazz was one all on its own. Naturally he was born in America, but his roots grew from St. Petersburg, Russia. (Charles Osborne; Page 136) In the late 1800 's Morris and Rose Gershwin immigrated to the USA. (; Page 1) George's parents were married in 1895. (Charles Osborne; Page 136) George's father Morris Gershwin was originally Gershovitz, but changed to Gershwin after his emigration. (; Page 1) Geo...
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Facial Expressions Communist Countries
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Bob Marley Record Label
1,302 wordsbob marley was found and died in the same place. he now has over 200 fan websites and his latest son ziggy marley is writing in his throne Reggae singer, guitarist, and composer. Born Robert Nesta Marley, on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. Raised mostly in Trenchtown, a poor section of Kingston, Jamaica? s capital, Marley began singing with his friends Bunny Livingston and Peter Mackintosh (later shortened to Tosh) when he was a teenager. Marley? s first single, ? Judge Not,...
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Rock N Roll Paul Mccartney
634 wordsHow The Beatles Changed Rock Music Rock music consists of many individual styles. Even though there is a common spirit among all music groups, all music made by them are very different. Rock music evolved in the 1950 s and the early 1960 s. At that time that Beatles entered the world of music from Liverpool. Rock music was a large piece of the centerpiece of a largely rebellious group of young people. Before the era of the Beatles, Elvis Presley first took Rock? n Roll to the public. Elvis blend...
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466 wordsOne of the Chopin Chopin One of the most profoundly original composers in history, Frederic Chopin was not at all a traditional Romantic musician; in fact, most of his music defines a separate category all its own. Born in Zelazowa Will, a small city near Warsaw, Poland on February 22, 1810, Chopin first studied the piano at the Warsaw School of Music, and was quite proficient on that instrument by his early teens. He played his first public concert at age 7, and was a published composer at 15. ...
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L S M S
378 wordsThis past Sunday I attended one of many classical concerts that the Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society (L. S. M. C. M. S. ) hosts. The one I sat in on was their season opener at the San Dieguito United Methodist Church. It featured Michele Zukovsky (clarinet), Daniel Rothmuller (cello), and Joanne Pearce Martin (piano) as they performed an all-Brahms program. The musicians presented three pieces by Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major for Cello and Piano, Op. 99, Sonata in F minor for Clarinet ...
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Bloody Sunday Peace Accord
1,729 wordsJack Sheehan March 25, 1999 Mr. Howard Period 7 During the early eighties there was social and political turmoil all over the world. At the same time a band was forming in Northern Ireland. The band was U 2, and they used all of the problems around them in their music. U 2 is one of the most politically involved groups of the eighties, and it showed in their music. U 2 was not only influenced by the events around them. They also took part in helping the cause. U 2 is an Irish rock group that con...
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Corpus Christi Romantic Era
738 wordsReaction Paper I chose to attend the Corpus Christi Chorale performance, Davids Psalms and Pauls favorites. A chorale is basically just a choir, an organized group of singers. The performance took place on Tuesday, October 3 at The Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal. It was a particularly special performance because one of the members, Paul Giraudin, was starting his 45 th season in the Corpus Christi Chorale, and celebrating his 80 th birthday. On Tuesday, three friends and I had arranged to...
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Middle Ear Surround Sound
1,504 wordsDiscuss The Problems Involved In Analysing The Discuss The Problems Involved In Analysing The Auditory Environment And Describe How The Human Audit This essay will examine the human auditory environment, highlighting some problems of analysing it and the way our auditory system overcomes them. Since it is such a broad subject, the essay will largely confine itself to examining localisation of sounds, and that most human of traits, speech perception. Sound consists of variations in pressure as a ...
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1,019 wordsThis book is a diary that goes through the last two years of a young teenage girl? s life, who got infected with the HIV virus after being date raped. The girl in the book is named Nancy and she is important enough to have her diary published because her life went from being a normal teenage girl with normal problems, to an abnormal girl with AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to have her diary published so that other people who think that AIDS and rape can? t ever happen to them can have a ...
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Kurt Cobain Committed Suicide
435 wordsDougherty, Steve, ? No Way Out. ? People Weekly April 25 1994. Pg. 38 Goulding, Phil G. Classical Music New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992 Rosen, Craig, ? Cobain death spurs rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. ? Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton &# 038; CO. , 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, ? The Day the Demons Won. ? Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108 Franz Liszt was one of many classical compo...
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York Henry Holt George Gershwin
2,553 wordsWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that? s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920 s. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gersh...
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Corpus Christi Hispanic Whites
985 wordsHispanic Heritage Month When Europeans first came to the Americas more than five hundred years ago, there were 60 to 75 million indigenous peoples already inhabiting what we now call Latin America. Most of these Native Americans that were already here came from Asia around forty thousand years ago. They crossed the Bering Straight and fanned out through North, Central, and South America. The dispersion of their geography led to many distinct languages, cultures and civilizations. Two major Empir...
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Time When Ive Escape From Reality Free
741 wordsHow do I know Im free? Well, in the country today, we dont have near as many freedoms as we would like. Most of the freedoms that were originally written in the Declaration of Independence have been distorted from their original purpose. Take freedom of speech, for one. These days you cant just go around and say what you want, when you want. Yes, a lot of our freedoms come with responsibilities, but there is no excuse for prosecuting a person for exercising their rights. But there are times when...
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Hit And Run Serial Killers
880 wordsThis book, in Solo Solo This book, in my opinion, is a very good example of a serial killer, and his ironic demise. The book begins with an example of serial killing, where a powerful, influential man is killed by an assassin. The book, after the killing, follows the killer to an unusual place-a concert hall. There it is found that the killer is internationally famous concert pianist John Mikali. This man, Mikali, has been tormented by death and pain all of his life. His family has been based th...
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Wind Symphony Symphonic Band Piece
235 wordsTonight I went to my first concert. I saw the Duquesne University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. Robert C. Cameron conducted both the Symphony and Band. The Wind Symphony began the night by playing the Dedication Overture and then proceeded on to what was my favorite piece of the concert, Old American Country Set. This set consisted of five parts, my favorite being the last. It was called Cornhuskin? Hornpipe. I felt this piece was wonderfully played. I h...
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Type Of Music Rock And Roll
1,582 wordsThe Music Made Me Do It Music has a huge impact on the everyday lives of individuals in America today. It is an important part of the sociological self, which causes a person to feel and act in a certain manner. Sensual guitar playing, a suggestive song, hard rock power chords, or a tune from the past are all highly powerful forces in shaping ones actions. I have taken a particular interest in the way that different genres of music affect students actions at this university. This paper will take...
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Left Hand Classical Music
1,144 wordsThe music of India is a mosaic of different genres and levels of sophistication. At one extreme, classical music is performed in the urban concert halls for purely artistic reasons, and at the other, many kinds of functional rural music accompany life-cycle and agricultural rites. In between are many other musical genres of different regions of the country, reflecting the diversity of its peoples. The origins of classical music can be traced to the Navy Shastra, a Sanskrit treatise on drama, whi...
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