which was the highest achievement in high school for choral programs. After this achievement passed‚ I decided to continue bettering myself though choir‚ piano class‚ and music appreciation‚ to make myself an ideal candidate to help others with their musical journey. I have always wanted to be a music teacher because I feel that music is what teaches people how to recognize true beauty and develop insight. Music is my passion and that passion will never become burnt out. Music has been frustrating but
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American Musical Theater is something most Americans enjoy today‚ musicals such as West Side Story‚ Sweeney Todd‚ Jersey Boys‚ Wicked and Into the Woods. These are all some examples that have made it big in today’s society. These musicals didn’t appear out of nowhere though and neither did American Musical Theater‚ nor was the theater the same when it started as it is today. The American Musical Theater has evolved from its simple beginnings into it’s own genre in today’s society through the help
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Prior to what we believe to be the “Golden Era” of American Musical Theatre‚ one must first delve into the dark past modern musical theatre tries to bury beneath today’s jazz hands and glitter covered performers. The era of the Virginia Minstrel shows not only is derogatory towards African American slaves and recently freed slaves with the use of stock characters‚ but it uses exaggerated stereotypes and costuming to create the illusion that the African American race is inferior to Caucasians. These
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Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor
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winning show. The room becomes dark and a soft light shines on Leslie Odom Jr.‚ and the company. Musical notes begin and the theater becomes silent as they watch closely. Hamilton: An American Musical is an incredibly popular show and has made many changes to broadway. Broadway shows used to not be appealing to every generation‚ but since opening night of Hamilton‚ it has a whole new meaning. Musicals have been interesting to every generation since the two acts about a founding
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Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mughal-e-Azam is a musical based on the 1960 movie of the same name. It has been directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and produced jointly by Shapoorji Pallonji and the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The show created new benchmarks in theatre production in India and has taken it to an entirely new level gaining plenty of national and international recognition. It also happens to be India’s first grand-scale Broadway-style musical. The show
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advanced music rapidly changes‚ the public seemingly fails to posses the musical knowledge necessary to appreciate modern works of contemporary music. In 1958‚ Milton Babbitt examined this relationship in a piece entitled “Who Cares if You Listen?” In the article‚ Babbitt asses the public’s feelings on “advanced” music and concludes that it should not concern composers if their work doesn’t get an audience beyond a few colleagues. Musical masterpieces including Babbitt’s Semi Simple Variations and Stockhausen’s
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the A Major with a 5/4 time signature. River Flows features finger positions indicated in numbers. In the musical score‚ the piece uses fermata and grace notes. The positioning of the fermata notes bring about the needed “rest” or “breathing” since the piece generally sounds fast-paced. On the other hand‚ grace notes add interesting resonance in River Flows in You. Aside from these‚ the musical score also indicated the finger positioning of the instrumentalist. Its rhythm and base of the song is
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I had just gotten home from my best friend Emily’s house the sun was shining so bright I could barely ride my bike home. I pulled up to my white house on Holiday Rd. I saw that my Mom had just planted new flowers in our yard it looked so colorful like a pack of skittles. It was finally spring. Summer was approaching so quickly. I walked into my house to find my parents sitting at the dining room table and my sister no where to be found‚ I knew something was up. Naturally my parents sat me down and
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Musical theatre can be a great tool for teachers as it can help teach a variety of skills and provide information. However‚ musical theatre is often ignored in the classroom. This is not only a fault of people with distaste for theatre‚ but also lovers of theatre. As David Savran says‚ “And even for many devotees of the so-called straight theatre‚ musical theatre remains (at best) a guilty pleasure-a little too gay‚ too popular‚ too Jewish‚ and too much damned fun” (216). This blockage between
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