“I feel pretty. Oh‚ so pretty‚ I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn’t me tonight”. One of the most popular songs from the world wide successful musical West Side Story. The book was written by Arthur Laurents. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and Music by Leonard Bernstein. The star Maria who moved from Puerto Rico to live in New York wasn’t feeling pretty all the time. It was a temporary joy when she decided to love the American sharks gang member Tony. Her love lead to many major
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Intermediate piano/2B October 8‚2013 Ah-Leek Mitchell Multi-Song Review Max Schneider covers “Breakeven”‚”Treasure”‚And “ Waiting on the world to change” Treasure:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgiMCCDRoA&list=PLIu9b2uUt31OMfZ1S0SgwR94v2NBCGRJx Breakeven:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKcVt1Cn5BI&list=PLIu9b2uUt31OMfZ1S0SgwR94v2NBCGRJx Waiting on the world to change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WDppVEpRo&list=PLIu9b2uUt31OMfZ1S0SgwR94v2NBCGRJx I’m
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which was the highest achievement in high school for choral programs. After this achievement passed‚ I decided to continue bettering myself though choir‚ piano class‚ and music appreciation‚ to make myself an ideal candidate to help others with their musical journey. I have always wanted to be a music teacher because I feel that music is what teaches people how to recognize true beauty and develop insight. Music is my passion and that passion will never become burnt out. Music has been frustrating but
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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. These
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American Musical Theater is something most Americans enjoy today‚ musicals such as West Side Story‚ Sweeney Todd‚ Jersey Boys‚ Wicked and Into the Woods. These are all some examples that have made it big in today’s society. These musicals didn’t appear out of nowhere though and neither did American Musical Theater‚ nor was the theater the same when it started as it is today. The American Musical Theater has evolved from its simple beginnings into it’s own genre in today’s society through the help
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Rent is a rock musical that was created by Jonathan Larson. It’s based on the opera La Bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City in a village called Alphabet City‚ under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production in a New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical’s initial home following its official 1996 opening. Jonathan Larson‚ the
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Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor
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winning show. The room becomes dark and a soft light shines on Leslie Odom Jr.‚ and the company. Musical notes begin and the theater becomes silent as they watch closely. Hamilton: An American Musical is an incredibly popular show and has made many changes to broadway. Broadway shows used to not be appealing to every generation‚ but since opening night of Hamilton‚ it has a whole new meaning. Musicals have been interesting to every generation since the two acts about a founding
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Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mughal-e-Azam is a musical based on the 1960 movie of the same name. It has been directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and produced jointly by Shapoorji Pallonji and the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The show created new benchmarks in theatre production in India and has taken it to an entirely new level gaining plenty of national and international recognition. It also happens to be India’s first grand-scale Broadway-style musical. The show
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advanced music rapidly changes‚ the public seemingly fails to posses the musical knowledge necessary to appreciate modern works of contemporary music. In 1958‚ Milton Babbitt examined this relationship in a piece entitled “Who Cares if You Listen?” In the article‚ Babbitt asses the public’s feelings on “advanced” music and concludes that it should not concern composers if their work doesn’t get an audience beyond a few colleagues. Musical masterpieces including Babbitt’s Semi Simple Variations and Stockhausen’s
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