BOOK REVIEW About the Author Peter Barsocchini he was born on 1952 in San Francisco. He is an American screenwriter‚ author‚ and television producer best known for his scripts for the High School Musical series. In his early career‚ Barsocchini began his professional writing career while attending high school in the San Francisco Bay Area‚ writing more than 300 columns about popular music for the San Mateo Times. He also worked as a freelance reporter for the Associated Press and the San Francisco
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High School Musical is a jock and captain of the basketball team. Both the girls‚ Sandy is in Grease and Gabriella in High School Musical are sweet and studious. It is a discovered shared interest in music that brings Troy and Gabriella together in High School Musical; throughout the film they have to contend with the desire of their respective groups‚ the basketball team and the academic decathlon team as well as the ambitions of peers wanting the lead roles in the high school musical that try to
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For the Solo Theater project I have chosen Harold Prince and his theory on Concept musicals. After research on the life of Prince from his book “Contradictions” and biographies‚ I have learned about his major influence within the world of theater. Creating an entire new genre of musicals. To understand this theory I had to understand the the man behind it. Prince (born in 1928) adopted by Milton A. Prince. Rightful upbringing led him to finish school and serve in the military post WWII Germany
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A. INTRODUCTION The Short and Sweet Musical was premiered at The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) on Friday‚ 1st of October 2010 at 8.30 p.m. was an excellent play. The Short and Sweet Musical is divided into four different acts namely A Grave Matter‚ Ghosts‚ Cupidity and Little Girl Lost. B. ACTING The character that I like the most is the mad scientist portrayed by Iedil Putra in A Grave Matter. The actor’s voice projection is also loud and clear which pleased me because if not I
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When we think of musicals‚ the first thing we think of is ‘Wicked’‚ or ‘Lion King’‚ or the “Book or Mormon’. Chicago is a musical which defies all these cutesy stereotypes. It’s a powerful 113 play which is all about corruption‚ crime‚ and media manipulation. This dark play‚ directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse‚ is the longest running musical on Broadway. Originally opened in 1975‚ it failed to impressed audiences and it was shut down‚ after a meagre two-year release. It was reopened on Broadway
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Creating Musical Theater is a collection of interviews that the author‚ Lyn Cramer- a professor of Musical Theater Dance at The University of Oklahoma‚ conducted with directors and choreographers that make up today’s Broadway elite. For a student who have not had much chance to get to know and understand musical theater‚ this book is a great exposure to both the Broadway stages and the behind-the-scene actions. In this short review‚ I would like to narrow my experience of this book into two directors/
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STYLE OF MOZART Mozart exemplified the Viennese Classical styles of elegance‚ balance‚ and sophistication. Through this he exemplified and expanded all Classical styles‚ such as the sonata form and the double-exposition sonata (which gave the solo-ist new material). He was able to be counterpuntal yet homorhythmic at the same time. He frequently used symmetry in his phrasing‚ like four-measure phrases‚ for example. He composed both diatonically and chromatically. He expanded the use of wind instruments
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Into the World Essay An individual must overcome obstacles and challenges in order to grow up and enter a new phase in life. The challenges a person may encounter could be anything from moving schools to a change of authority in the family home. In the movie Billy Elliot (2000) by Stephen Daldry‚ the audience sees the many challenges a young boy names Billy faces. Also‚ in the poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling‚ the audience reads about what a young boy must go through to ultimately grow up and become
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Emotions are a product of the human mind. They are the basis for many psychological studies yet are still regarded as mysteries among scholars. Every day the brain processes thousands of stimuli including sights and sounds. The majority of time these stimuli are picked up by our senses and processed by our brains without us even knowing that we encountered them. One of the major stimuli that the brain encounters is that of music. The brain processes music in many different ways but it affects
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The Glory of the Lord by Handel has four motifs which are: ‘And the Glory the Glory of the Lord’ – This motif outlines the chord of A major‚ the tonic chord‚ and moves up the last three notes of the scale. This helps to establish the key. The word-setting is syllabic‚ one word to a syllable. ‘Shall be revealed’ – In this motif the second bar is a repeat of the first bar but a tone lower. The word ‘revealed’ is melismatic (several notes to one syllable). ‘For the mouth of the lord hath spoken it’
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