He was influenced to write and make plays due to his interest in them starting in childhood. He also influenced by his father who was also a newspaper editor. His wife was also an influence for him to create plays because she was a play director.…
Marshall Applewhite, was a music professor at first known for his musical and dramatic talents, he sang opera, and was a very good public speaker.…
Have you ever heard a story from a hip hop point of view? “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda is about Alexander Hamilton’s life and the role he played in the American Revolution and how he impacted the American people through music and how his life was and how he grew. Miranda accurately portrays history within Hamilton through historical facts and inaccurately through making it modern. These choices in portrayal impact the reader or listener’s understanding of the characters, time period, or musical by making it modern and not as realistic for the time. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an accurate portrayal of the characters by giving most of them the right historical background for them and the events they go through…
Hamilton’s Military Career and How it Helped to Shape His Political Career Many people know of Alexander Hamilton’s successful political career as the first Secretary of Treasury of the United States of America under George Washington, but how he got there in the first place is a somewhat unknown topic. After the hit Broadway show, Hamilton, written by Lin Manuel-Miranda, became and widely popular rendition of Hamilton’s life, the interest in the founding father and face of the $10 bill sparked. Many people further educated themselves on his political career and his creation of the first national Bank of America.…
“In the Heights” was his first musical to reach Broadway. The musical was about a young man, played by Lin, growing up as a teenager in the rough parts of Puerto Rico. He had used a lot of his grandmother’s stories to really get a connection with what Puerto Rico had been like. After “In the Heights” Lin was hired to help write the score for the Broadway musical “Bring it On”. While on vacation from writing, Lin decided to pick up the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, and started reading. Automatically Lin compared to hard life of Alexander Hamilton to the struggles he often heard in hip hop or rap songs. After this he decided that he would write a modern, hip hop, musical about Hamilton’s life. It took him over one year to write the first song and another year for the second. Finally, after six years of work he was finished writing “Hamilton”. “Hamilton” alone was awarded eleven Tony awards that Lin could add to his four other Tonys from “In the…
Alexander Hamilton is probably the most underrated founding father. Hamilton was an immigrant from the Caribbean who severed in the revolutionary war under George Washington. He would later become Washington’s secretary of treasury, and write Washington’s Farewell Address. Hamilton never stopped trying to improve and build upon our nation. He defended the Constitution, along with James Madison and John Jay, with the Federalist Papers writing in total fifty-one of the eighty-five essays which swayed many to the Federalist party. Hamilton also fought against Jefferson for his purposed financial plan, which we still use today.…
Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film. He was also a well known pianist. He was born in 1900 and died in 1990. The style of music Aaron Copland wrote was modern music with a combination of American folk styles. He has said he wanted his music to make people feel alive and what it’s like to live in Brooklyn where he is from. Aside from composing he was a teacher, writer and critic for music. He studied in Paris and got under the wing of many famous composers. He learned many things and got influenced heavily while studying in Paris. When he returned from Paris he became well known through his composing in ballet, film and musicals, and also his lectures.…
To support himself financially he played piano at a local resort and joined the League of Composers. He composed Appalachian Spring and wrote The Red Pony for a movie. He liked to compose for younger audiences and composed several orchestral works for student audiences. In 1960 he stopped composing and started conducting because he felt a lack of inspiration. He wrote some pieces for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He believed that jazz inspired a sound that was distinctly American. Copland was very interested in jazz, but started getting more interested in folk music. In 1935 he composed El Salon Mexico, this was the beginning of his popular composer years. One of his very popular films was Our Town. Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg influenced a lot of his pieces.…
His ability to write so many different styles of music, from Schindler's List to Indiana Jones, is a skill I which greatly inspires me, as well as his flair for conveying a particular theme; particularly in E.T, where his music depicts the childlike innocence of the film. He is a chameleon of sorts and his seemingly effortless approach to composing exquisite pieces of music for completely different genres makes him stand out amongst other notable musicians of our modern culture. He also takes a lot of inspiration from composers such as Richard Strauss and Wagner, and it is evident in the style of some of his work that he admires the grand, symphonic scores and neoromatic style of Golden Age composers Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang…
made a short film for Disney. This is important because after Disney he became a film director.…
Hamilton started off as an influential leader in the Revolutionary War successfully completely several missions. Later after the war he was leading cabinet member serving as the first Secretary of Treasury, it was during this time that he essentially founded our country’s financial system. Along with that he helped to create the Federalist Party, the US Coast Guard, and The New York Post. Hamilton is also credited with having helped to write the Constitution and written fifty-one of the eighty-five Federalist Papers which helped to defend the Constitution. As a Founding Father Hamilton helped to lay down the bedrock for this…
George Gershwin is still a prevalent composer who holds high acclaim in the music world and has shaped the way music is written…
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.…
The original Disney cartoon of a lion cub blamed for his father's death has been remade into a Broadway musical acclaimed all over the world. Seen by over twenty five million people in over 15 thousand performances this intricately designed wonder has taken over 37 thousand hours just to build the puppets and masks. Julie Taymor the director and costume designer was faced with a problem of whether to create humans or animals playing the part and she decided to make masks that show the animal face, as well as, show the human face giving the character his or her personality. As for expressing other animals that are not part of the main cast or to express a certain theme, 2 different kinds of puppetry were used to express an African theme.…
George Gershwin is one of the greatest influences to American music in the 20th century. His compositions can be found throughout the entertainment world, ranging from Broadway to motion pictures. Though he had a short career, George Gershwin's music continues to bring inspiration and delight almost sixty years later.…