Western Europe culture and society from 1800 to 1850 is characterized as being the peak of Romanticism. This intellectual‚ artistic‚ musical‚ and literary movement was in response to the Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815‚ coinciding with Neoclassicism) which was an earlier movement in Europe that held rationalization of nature and universal truths above all else. The disillusionment with the ideas of the Enlightenment and skepticism of the pursuit of reason caused influential philosophers and more
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Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal The Utah Symphony (USO) and the Utah Opera (UOC) Merger was a union that was brought forth by the leadership committee at the USO in Salt Lake City. The proposal was an opportunity to strengthen a struggling symphony with a financially sound opera company. Although mergers between opera and symphony companies in the United States had been successfully in the past‚ the merging of a two major companies had yet to materialize (Delong & Ager‚ 2005‚ p
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Everyone in this society has his or her own definition of the word “romantic.” The word gives off the notion of “sentiment and sentimentality‚ a visionary or idealistic lack of reality. It connotes fantasy and fiction. It has been associated with different times and with distant places: the island of Bali‚ the world of the Arabian Nights‚ the age of the troubadours and even Manhattan.”(Kreis) Romanticism is used all over the world as it relates to many different things. From advertisements in
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Concert Report 1 On 4th December‚ 2010‚ a concert named Philharmonic Orchestra is being held in DVC Performing Arts Center. The program of this performance is remarkable and filled with uniqueness and superb quality of music and sound which make me feel wonderful and worthy to participate as their audience. The program is divided into 3 sections‚ each section not only consist of different pieces of orchestral music‚ but it also has its own unique settings of amount and type of
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The title "Arms and the Man" derives from the opening lines of the popular epic of Virgil‚ "Aeneid" : "I sing of Arms and the Man" However‚ as Virgil highly praises war as described by its heroes‚ Shaw’s aim in writing "Arms and the Man" is to provide a more realistic picture of war and to remove all pretensions of the nobility from war. As General Philip Henry Sheridan put it "Many of you here believe that war is all glory; but let me tell you‚ boys‚ it is all Hell". Even though Shaw is
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JFT2-Organizational Management Task 1 A1. As the chairman of the board of the Utah Opera‚ Bill Bailey is in a position of influence to motivate the Opera’s board of directors to oppose a merger with the Utah Symphony by employing the use of Vroom’s Expectancy Theory. This theory suggests that people are motivated by three distinct determinants; valence (reward)‚ expectancy (performance)‚ and instrumentality (belief). Vroom believed that motivation is a result of the level to which a person desires
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The Light and Darkness in the Poems of George Gordon Byron Abstract: The thesis is about the analysis of light and darkness in the poems of George Gordon Byron. The analysis is based on the two poems-She Walks in Beauty and Darkness. Key words: light‚ darkness‚ Byron‚ contrast‚ beauty‚ fight. As a leading figure of Romantic Movement‚ George Byron is widely regarded as the most flamboyant and notorious one of the major Romantics. He was the ideal of the Romantic poet‚ embracing the power of
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Haley Danna Engl 1302 Professor Armstrong 4/25/13 Haley Danna Engl 1302 Professor Armstrong 4/25/13 Romanticism in Persuasion In the Romantic Era‚ women thought to not make rational decisions and instead go by their emotions. Jane Austen uses her writing in Persuasion and many other novels to prove that society is wrong and women can and do make rational decisions. For example‚ Anne in Persuasion‚ she starts as a meek girl who is easily persuaded by her family‚ but she eventually grows
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An “Association Loi 1901” is the term used in France for a non-profit-making organisation of two or more people. This is the legal structure of most youth orchestras and other cultural democratisation projects in France. The name comes for the convention having entered into French law on 1 July 1901. The association must be declared if a bank account is required‚ if it collects membership fees or organises fundraising‚ or if the members undertake any legal action or buy or sell on its behalf. 3
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Classical music is boring. That sentiment may be most closely associated with the unappreciative philistine or perhaps someone who has simply never developed a taste for classical music. However boredom with the classical forms of music must have been widespread amongst some of the nineteenth century’s most prominent musicians and composers.Tired of the conventional standards of music‚ composers began to adapt classical models to create a new form music which allowed them to more freely express emotions
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