REPERTOIRE LIST Notable Orchestral Repertoire Performed – - Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 - Britten - Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra - Buxtehude/Chavez - Chaconne - Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 - Bernstein - Suite from On the Waterfront - Mendelssohn - The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture - Brahms - Symphony No. 4 - Marshall - Kingdom Come - Bizet - L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 - Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 - Kabalevsky - Overture to Colas Breugnon - Cimarosa - Overture to Il Matrimonio
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reality‚ and focused less on the present than on the past and future. Music was seen as the best medium to express the values of the Romantic Era. Many composers‚ apart from Mussorgsky‚ are renowned for their Romantic works; these include: Schubert‚ Mendelssohn‚ Chopin‚ Liszt‚ Verdi‚ Tchaikovsky‚ Dvorak and many others. During the Romantic period musical style and its characteristics were dramatically different from the style of the Classical period preceding it. Lyrical melodies were emphasized‚ rather
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Civil Rights Diary: Assassination of Malcolm X Shatari Wilburn HIS/145 April 6‚ 2015 Justin Horton February 21‚ 1965 Today we have lost a legacy. Malcolm X was one of the greatest influential African Americans the world has ever known. On February 21‚ 1965‚ Malcolm X was assassinated after delivering a speech to the Organisation (the spelling used by the group) of African-American Unity at Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom in New York City at the age of 39 at 3:10 p.m. While in the midst of giving his
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The time period from 1955-1968 was the boiling point of black civil rights activism. When people think of civil rights‚ they usually think of either Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ or Rosa Parks. However‚ there were many other civil rights activists who were fairly popular at the time‚ but vaguely remembered. Malcolm X‚ born Malcolm Little on May 19th‚ 1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ grew up to be one of the most radical Civil Rights activists of all time. Malcolm Little grew up in a home where his father was
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how The Underground Railroad operated. Levi Coffin was known as the “president of The Underground Railroad” he was claimed to help and assist more than 3‚300 slaves. Coffin also held anti-slavery lectures and abolitionist sewing society meetings. Elijah Anderson was apart of the black middle class‚ he was light skinned enough to pass for a white slave owner. Anderson took a several trips to Kentucky and would round up about 20-30 slaves at a time and took them to freedom. He was then caught and put
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1. Fredrick Douglass: Radical Egalitarian‚ former slave‚ abolitionist‚ orator‚ writer‚ statesman‚ anti-emigrationist‚ anti-colonialist - Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall (online) → Fourth of July speech criticizing Americans for celebrating independence while preserving slavery - The Colonizationist Revival (p. 65) - African Civilization Society (p. 76) 2. Martin Delaney: Black Nationalist (“nation within a nation”)‚ abolitionist‚ emigrationist‚ journalist‚ physician‚ writer‚ advocate for
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Contained in the text of Moby Dick‚ Herman Melville uses many widely cultural symbols‚ stories and actions to tell the tale of a whaling ship bent on the desires of its captains abhorrence for a real‚ and also symbolic‚ creature in the form of an albino sperm whale named Moby Dick. The time is 1851 and civil unrest is looming just over the horizon: slavery is the main point of interest in American politics‚ the last major novel released was The Scarlet Letter‚ Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th
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activities such as karate‚ played piano‚ and volunteered at a senior citizen home a couple of hours every summer break. While being involved in many activities he met a guy named Elijah Hearth. Elijah Hearth was a good friend‚ but also a troublemaker. In addition‚ while Damion Booker was hanging out with his friend Elijah Hearth he met a new agent and felt he was fit for the job. His first agent was unreliable and not trustworthy. A few days later Damion Booker got a call saying there was an NBA
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have any open rooms. God has their whole lives planned out; fate is shown by the fact that they will meet by such a slim chance‚ become friends‚ and eventually become shipmates. The two men were confronted by Elijah‚ a prophet‚ who warns them that they are doomed if they board ship. Elijah says‚ “Ye’ve shipped‚ have ye? Names down on the papers? Well‚ well‚ what’s signed‚ is signed; and what’s to be‚ will be; and then again perhaps it won’t be‚ after all. Anyhow‚ it’s all fixed and arranged a’read;
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Essay Question: Assess the extent that Malcolm X achieved his goals in "The Civil Rights Movement’ in America. (Consider the legacy Malcolm X left behind) Malcolm X aspired for justice and liberalisation for all African-American people during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. He was a dynamic spokesperson and used religious concepts from the Nation of Islam to appeal to many African-Americans. Malcolm X was an activist for Black Nationalism and separation as solutions to the scourge of white
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