An essay on The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-Ford The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress‚ as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased‚ childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit descriptions that shows the protagonist’s maturity. There is a good balance of insight‚ as if to give
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Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney‚ New South Wales‚ Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon‚ opening in 1973 after a long gestation that had begun with his competition-winning design in 1957. Joseph Cahill’s New South Wales Government gave the go-ahead for work to begin in 1958. The government’s bold decision to select Utzon’s design is often overshadowed by the scandal that followed. The Sydney Opera House
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Research paper Opera: Timeless or Timed out What is Opera’s appeal? what makes it timeless as an art form? However‚ is it now as timeless as it once was? According to Leon Boutstein a writer for The Musical Quarterly “ out of all traditions in classical music of the western world opera has been the longest lasting of these art forms. … Despite in popular culture it being viewed as a representation of lavish wealth (Musical Quarterly 2015)”. Another important factor that Leon Boutstein points out
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The Duet Papagena/Papageno is a duet from Act 1 in the Opera Magic Flute that was written by W.A. Mozart in 1791. It starts in a 2/4 time sang allegretto. It starts with an ostinato ‘pa pa pa’ by the two voices while the orchestra blends in harmony. Staccato is used to give it a joyful‚ jumpy and light feel to the music. The instruments that have been employed have bright timbres and include violins and oboe; there is also prominent use of the panpipe which makes the piece quite expressive. The voices
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Phantom of the Opera is a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magnificent musical. The story is about an opera ghost who drives everyone in the opera house crazy. The owner of the opera house quits and is soon followed by his lead singer. A beautiful young girl named Christine takes over the lead. She claims she has been taking lessons from a man whose name she does not know. Her secret tutor turns out to be the opera ghost. Although the original lead decides to come back‚ the opera ghost wants
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Case xx - Boston Lyric Opera Depended on digh donations from board members Opera is very expensive to produce Founded in 1976 Mission statement BLO BLO has 46 doard of directors and 51 board of overseers 1998 expanded moved theatre. From 890 -> 1500 seats BLO is the fastest growning firm BLO challenges: More subcribers to doners Attact more funding Contemplate a 2200 seat facility Participants of the BSC process Janice (general director‚ driving force) Sue (introduced the BSC to
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Discuss the relationship between words and music in the operas of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Words and music have been playing an important role in the human culture‚ people express themselves and communicate with each other through words and music. Different styles and techniques in music and the link between words and music are found in operas. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600‚ and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in music history until
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for some reason‚ the audience did not perceive the show as realistic. Some individuals included shows that were not necessarily reality based in their definition of reality programming because they perceived the shows as unrealistic like soap operas. Therefore‚ when studying reality television it is important to examine the subcategories within this genre.
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phantom of the opera is a long lived novel written by Gaston Leroux in the early 1900’s with a French background. This classic work enjoys worldwide fame as a tragic love story containing amazing special effects on film and on stage as well as stunning music. Gaston Leroux wrote the horror novel "Le Fantome de l’Opera‚" published in 1911. Leroux had heard stories of ghosts haunting the Paris Opera House and decided to base a novel around these tales. He even boasted having researched the opera house and
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[i](Mission Statements‚ Quotescape‚ 2016)‚ and selected a category‚ since technology was a thing that‚ I confess‚ I have something of a passion for. There I was presented with a plethora of choices. I eventually chose a company I was somewhat familiar with‚ Opera software. Then I looked and saw what the stated mission statement actually said. As I said I observed the mission statement. This particular mission statement said that they wished to lead the market of their profession by going beyond their customers’
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