Powell’s captivating book‚ Why You Love Music‚ digs deep into the minds of all to uncover why some musical elements make us cry‚ laugh‚ and love. This book promises to strengthen our knowledge on music‚ and focuses on the big question: Why? Why does a certain beat make us feel nostalgic‚ or why are we more focused under the influence of different styles of music. Powell’s intent is to inform readers of musical elements we would never even know to think of‚ and how those elements affect our lives. For example
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Op’nin’‚ Another Show! Kiss Me‚ Kate is not just another show. It is definitely a Broadway musical and a show that has remained an audience favorite since it’s opening in 1948. Kiss Me‚ Kate is a musical comedy with wit‚ with style‚ with humor‚ with exuberance‚ which simply aims to entertain. It’s cleverly crafted story‚ ingenious writing and unforgettable music and lyrics‚ make for a rich and fascinating musical for all ages. The eternal tug-of-war between the sexes is perfectly captured in Kiss Me
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Lin and Hamilton before that‚ but this report Kate was doing inspired me to learn more. Even now‚ Kate and I will sit either in the car‚ our rooms‚ basically anywhere and sing the Hamilton songs for hours. Hamilton is just so more diverse than any musical the
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Bob Fosse is a choreographer‚ dancer and director best known for Tony Award-winning musicals including Chicago and Cabaret. Bob Fosse was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ on June 23‚ 1927. A trained dancer‚ Fosse achieved success as a choreographer and director of stage and screen musicals. Fosse took an early interest in dance‚ displaying unusual skill. His parents supported his interest‚ enrolling him in formal dance training. By his early teens‚ Fosse was dancing professionally in local nightclubs.
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Rent is personally one of my all time favorite productions. It is a Broadway musical and motion picture that is set in New York City’s East Village during a time period when HIV and AIDS was a common issue. This musical expresses many other issues through its content. Most of these issues are things that the characters must learn to deal with and try to fix throughout the span of the film. Some of the problems depicted are the characters struggling with drugs‚ understanding sexuality‚ paying their
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years‚ under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer‚ Dore Schary‚ and others‚ the studio created magnificent musical films that remain unsurpassed creations in movie history. Mainly‚ there were three musical producers‚ Arthur Freed‚ Joe Pasternak‚ and Jack Cummings. Each producer had his team‚ these were referred to as “units”‚ such as the famous “Freed Unit”‚ known for making the most sophisticated musicals with popular songs. Freed also adapted Broadway shows into films. Joe Pasternak’s unit made films with
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"Tin Pan Alley" was the nickname given to the street where many music publishers worked during the period of 1880 to 1953. In the late 19th century‚ New York had become the epicenter of songwriting and music publishing‚ and publishers converged on the block of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. There are several stories about how the block got its name. One that is often repeated tells of a reporter for the New York Herald who was hired to write about the new business
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comparisons to his real life experience of loosing his mother. Nas goes on in this exclusive interview about his experience working on the film‚ the cast‚ and the importance of the holiday musical that’s in theaters everywhere this season. Famed writer and director‚ Kasi Lemmons brings movie goers a holiday musical drama based on a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes’ celebrated play‚ "Black Nativity". The film follows Langston (Jacob Latimore)‚ a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a
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fell in love with the sets‚ characters‚ costumes‚ stages‚ and even the other actors. So‚ I went on to take bigger roles- I was an evil stepsister in Cinderella‚ followed by increasingly bigger parts in school plays‚ a lead in an obscure musical at the Stage Door Theatre
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encountering a gemstone from this collection of treasures and trinkets known as “The Phantom of The Opera.” It should be quite obvious by now the fact that the Phantom happens to be the cunning culprit responsible for the act of my Broadway musical ‘cherry popping’ exposure. I hope the reader would excuse my French simply because I mean no disrespect in any profane way to a long time next door rival production called “Mary Poppins”. In other words “The Phantom of the Opera” has comfortably
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