Envision a barrack‚ congested and overcrowded with the exhausted and emaciated. Even the dead and dying are your assailants as you fight through a massive wall of bodies for the chance to drawn in a breath. The living are as pitiful as the forgotten corpses they abandoned while marching through the snow‚ devoid of feeling and sentiment. Suddenly‚ the song of a lone violin‚ resonant in its isolation‚ floats through the dismal barrack. The musician is not a glorious soloist with thousands of adoring
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though they agreed it was better than his previous opera. With that in mind‚ can it be argued that outside of his own career‚ King Priam had a significant impact on opera? To add to the doubt‚ the day after its premiere‚ Britten premiered his War Requiem in the same location. The same reviewer (Andrew Porter)‚ said about Britten’s work ‘In short‚ the work is a masterpiece’ . Although they are two different genres‚ it is important to realise that for both premieres‚ the audience would have been quite
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On November the 25th of 1963 this was John F. Kennedy Jr.’s third birthday and the day began with his sister Caroline and nanny Maude Shaw singing "Happy Birthday" to him. At 10:50 a.m. The Kennedy family assembled at the Capitol to be with John F. Kennedy on his historic final journey. Servicemen from the Army‚ Navy‚ Marines‚ Air Force and Coast Guard very concerned that the coffin was really fucking heavy and heavy is a bad thing going downhill. They practiced all night trying to insure that no
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Ode to a Nightingale This ode was inspired after Keats heard the song of a nightingale while staying with a friend in the country. This poem was also written after the death of his brother and the many references to death in this poem are a reflection of this. Among the thematic concerns in this poem is the wish to escape life through different routes. Although the poem begins by describing the song of an actual nightingale‚ the nightingale goes on to become a symbol of the immortality of nature
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Johann Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was baptized on September 14‚ 1737‚ in Rohrau‚ Lower Austria‚ the exact date of his birth is unknown... Five years after his famous brother Joseph‚ their parents being a wheelwright and a cook. Michael Haydn left home around 1745 to attend the choir school at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna‚ where he received instruction in singing‚ keyboard and violin. It was at St. Stephen’s that Haydn gained a reputation for his unusually clear and beautiful voice
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He roused my admiration when I was young; he causes my to despair when I reached maturity; he is now the comfort of old age"‚ said Gioachino Rossini. In this quote‚ Gioachino Rossini was talking about one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music‚ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756‚ in Salzburg‚ Australia. His father‚ Leopold Mozart‚was a famous instructor and an esteemed composer violinist at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold and Anna Maria
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My heart raced when I looked out into the audience and realized my soul was exposed to hundreds of eyes staring back at me. I closed my eyes‚ took a deep breath‚ and began to sing. The music engulfed me and allowed me to escape the challenges around me. The final word “Hallelujah” sent chills down my spine. As a singer‚ you are in a vulnerable state. Your emotions and imperfections are on display. However‚ that vulnerability and emotion unites the singer with the audience. I experience this connection
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Anthony Gross Wayne Smith Music 117 May 20th 2012 The Musical Life of Frederic Chopin Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was born in a tiny village of Zelazowa about thirty miles away from Warsaw where he was raised as the son of a Polish mother and French father. While growing up in Warsaw much of his childhood compositions are known today as some of the most significant achievements for a composer in the Romantic era. At a very young age his original style of playing and composing astonished the
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For a story to be a good story‚ it has to keep the audience thinking during and long after the story is finished‚ through its display of literary elements. “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ by Edgar Allan Poe has many literary elements that give identity to the story. Through point of view‚ the audience enters the story through the mind of a madman‚ a man that if the audience had a choice‚ would keep their distance from. Through theme‚ the venom of revenge is pierced into the minds of the readers. Through
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The Spirit of the Classical Era : The Classical Era saw the convergence of two opposing schools of thought in society. The first was the leftover from the Baroque Era‚ which said that the nobility had absolute power of society. The second was from the middle class‚ who said that the nobility had gone too far with their power and should give some of their power over to the middle class. The result of this was many opportunities for composers. Not only could they have theirtraditional occupations
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