Molly Fox Molly Fox @02927528 Honors English 12 Description – G.A. 17 September 18‚ 2013 Ophelia Parker’s Moment with Chanel—(Writer’s Choice Piece) Ever since I was a little girl‚ all I wanted to be was rich and famous when I grew up‚ which I guess comes from being born and raised in New York City. Whenever I went through the illuminated metropolis‚ I would always see the most glamorous women
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Swan Lake and The Rite of Spring are ballet performances with Russian backgrounds. Swan Lake‚ a well known classical ballet‚ was choreographed by Marius Petipa in the late 1800s. The Rite of Spring‚ however‚ was performed in the early 1900s with a contemporary twist on classical ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinksy. Both pieces presented numbers of similarities such as the dancers‚ symmetry on stage‚ the act of pantomiming and music. The dances contained the principals and the corps de ballet
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Music Analysis – Asher Harris Contemporary Classical Music‚ a modern from of art music that began in the 1920s to the present day. This style will be able to show the audience for the annual Young composers’ symposium the characteristics‚ tone and style of Contemporary Classical Music. A Brief history At the turn of the century‚ music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav Mahler‚ Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic
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The Rite of Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) had been composed in 1913 and is considered a masterpiece of the twentieth century. Despite being considered such a prolific piece‚ it serves as quite paradoxical when it comes to its rather contradictory and ambivalent background. The composition process had been approached in a different style to much of his other works‚ involving myth‚ folklore and traditionalism and all of which surround this rather haunting yet admirable
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DANC 100-6 Research Assignment Michel Fokine When ballet director Sergei Diaghilev ordered a young artist to “astonish” him‚ he was setting the tone of his own temperament as well as that of the twentieth century modern art in general. Diaghilev greatly valued imaginative‚ creative choreography and strongly encouraged it within his Ballets Russes to five of the biggest ballet choreographers of the century‚ including Michel Fokine. All of Diaghilev’s early triumphs were choreographed pieces
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Topic: Coco Chanel General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech the audience will know better about Coco Chanel. Thesis: Coco Chanel brought the world of high fashion to the masses. Introduction I. Does anyone know what this logo is? A. I am assuming most of women in this room know what this is. B. This is Chanel logo‚ one of the most famous fashion brand in the world. C. A lot of women know Chanel and they are fascinated of Chanel products‚ but how many people
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The Rite of Spring was only performed seven times before the breakout of the First World War. Prior to the war‚ Diaghilev‚ the director of Ballets Russes has dismissed Nijinsky after he had married on tour with Ballets Russes but due to the upheaval of this event‚ Diaghilev was ready to revive the performance under Nijinsky’s choreography. However‚ Nijinsky was in mental decline and thus‚ this was not possible and he took no further part in the ballet after 1917. It was now important to find another
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As I watched The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker‚ the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet. The music in The
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concertos‚ ballets and symphonies that have been written and performed since 1900. This era had no particular dominant style and composers have created highly diverse kinds of music. One impressionist piece that demonstrates these characteristics is Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring‚ The Kiss of The Earth (1913) is a pinnacle 20th century orchestral piece‚ which boldly rejected structured harmony and the comfort of a traditional orchestral composition (Toor‚ 2010). Furthermore
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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