This concert on Monday included many different interesting songs performed by the Bethlehem High School. I especially liked the symphony orchestra pieces. They seemed to tell a story was the people played the music pieces. These pieces were soothing and beautiful. My favorite two pieces in this concert was “Sleeping Beauty Waltz”‚ by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ and “Elegy to the Blind”. “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” was especially sweet. It was almost like a lullaby. The piece was fast and strong at times
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In 1926‚ the Gershwins read a novel about an upper class white southerner named Porgy. The novel featured a series of vignettes about life in a black ghetto called Catfish Row‚ Porgy then ends up falling in love with a women named Bess. Immediately the Gershwins called Dubose Heyward because they wanted to create an opera about the story‚ Heyward denied their request because he was was adapting the book as a play. Around 1933 the Gershwins and Dubose began teaming up and writing songs but it wasn’t
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Daniel Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has published numerous articles on art‚ architecture‚ and political culture. Dr. James Klotter is a professor of History at Georgetown College and the State Historian of Kentucky. He is the author or coauthor of many books on Kentucky and Appalachian History. Lexington was a cultural center of Kentucky and the essays in the book show its significance in antebellum America. This collection shows the influential years
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Henry Purcell was born on September 10‚1659 in Westminster‚ United Kingdom. Purcell was an English Composer who incorporated Italian and French style elements into his compositions (Baroque composers). After his father’s death in 1694‚he became under the guardianship of Thomas‚ his uncle (Henry Purcell Geni_). His uncle happened to be a musician and placed him as a chorister at a young age (Henry Purcell Bio). After he was a little older his voice broke‚so he became an assistant to the organ builder
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Johonnes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was Mozart’s full name. Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756 with his mother Anna Maria and his father Leopold Mozart by his side. Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria where both of his parents lived. According to Volker’s Biography Mozart was often called “Wolfgang Amadeus” or “Wolfgang Gottlieb” (Boehm). He was also known as a prodigy or a young one endowed with special qualities. Mozart’s childhood wasn’t like most kids’ childhoods. His was very
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The Classical Spirit as portrayed in Amadeus The Classical period of music was from 1750-1825. Mozart played a huge role as a great composer in this time. He took on new challenges and different possibilities for music in this era. Classicism of music did not mean that it was strictly traditional. A lot of composers‚ including Mozart experimented with different materials. He also used a lot of romantic elements in his music. The classical style is based off symmetry of four-bar phrases and usually
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Interesting Character from Power of One I enjoyed all the major characters in the book that had any kind of impact on Peekay. But my most favorite is Doc. Personally because I always was willing to have an older friend of mine who understood life well and could teach me how to get through circumstances that makes me feel uncertain and not sure on how should I proceed. Despite the fact that Doc‚ an old alcoholic German music instructor‚ speaks to the universe of rationale and reasonability‚ he comprehends
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Béla Bartók was born in a farming village in Romania in 1881. He had a hard childhood and his father passed away when he was seven. Bartók lived nomadically with his mother‚ sister and a piano teacher. He attended Budapest Academy of Music with concentration in piano and was eventually appointed to the music faculty in 1907 as an ethnomusicology professor. Bartók was a Hungarian nationalist and studied Hungarian folk music. While he composed in all genres‚ he is most known for his interest in folk
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Entremets was the modern French cuisine with the small simple dessert. The nobility and upper middle class in Europe during the middle ages and early modern period. In early Roman Empire. The function of the entremets was to mark the end of a course which there could be several at a banquet. The recipe for an entremets can be found in an edition of Le Viandier‚ a recipe collection from the early 14th century described a comparatively simple dish The noticeable trait of the early entremets was the
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• Hola Diana‚ I suppose we all think about what we might have been in a previous life‚ we all seem to like day dreaming about the possibilities of being someone famous or a great leader. • You were right‚ I was listening to classical music‚ and on sunday night I played the SACD I bought the other week‚ Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D op 53‚ played by the Russian national orchestra with lead violin by Julia Fischer‚ conducted by Yakov Kreizberg‚ it is a very good recording‚ glad I bought it‚ I know
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