Dancing Through the Night and All That Jazz From the very beginning of the 1800’s‚ musicals and operas have always been an interesting and popular source of entertainment. With the introduction to film and the use a vitaphone in the early 1900’s‚ the production of musical films were created. A musical film had the actors singing songs that are related in with the storyline. In the years of silent films‚ musical films were unable to be produce because the audience would be unable to hear the actor’s
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Mercury‚ who goes to Aeneas and reminds him of his obligation to the gods to discover Rome. Dido‚ devastated that her beloved Aeneas must leave her to fulfill his commitment to the gods‚ decides to take her own life by throwing herself on a fire. The opera ends with Dido’s Lament‚ written for instruments common of the era and a solo female voice. It opens with a recitative sung by Dido to her handmaiden Belinda. She expresses with desperation that she cannot go on living without Aeneas. The melody
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He wrote 48 operas- some of which were in collaboration with other composers. 59 secular cantatas and serenatas. 100 were separate arias. 2 were oratorios. There were 60 0ther works of vocal sacred music. 78 were sonatas. 21 were sinfonias. Finally 456 were concertos. Today the vocal music of Vivaldi is little known. But‚ in his day he was famous and successful as an opera composer. Vivaldi was also one of the great violin virtuosos of his time
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is supposed to be drama. This composition genre is an oratorio‚ which is a large-scale dramatic genre originating in the Baroque. Baroque is based on text of religious or serious character‚ performed by solo voices‚ chorus‚ and orchestra; similarto opera but without scenery‚ costumes‚ or actions. This specific oratorio is different because this composition is in three parts but is compilation of biblical verses from Old and New Testaments. The text for “Rejoice greatly” is actually from the New Testament
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The Oglethorpe University Singers and the Oglethorpe Chorale performed the concert at Conant Performing Arts Center on Friday‚ November 1‚ 2015‚ at 8 pm. The concert setting was smaller than the other venues we visited for previous concerts. The room was semi-lit‚ and classmates filled the concert hall. The concert conventions were not surprising as we have attended other concerts‚ and the conventions were the same. The Oglethorpe Singer and the Oglethorpe Chorale performance was excellent‚ they
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interviewed him for his treatise On the Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771). In the century after his death (long before Corbiau ever had the idea) at least half a dozen playwrights and composers used his life as a source of inspiration for operas‚ comedies and historic plays in French‚ English‚ Spanish and German. (3) In other words‚ the Corbiau film had a good number of precedents‚ and a good deal of information from which to construct a plausible picture of this curious historical figure
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Romantic and Modern Composers As social and political views changed throughout history‚ a revolution in the art world followed. Artists use their pieces to explain their point of view‚ this includes writers‚ painters‚ and especially musicians. The end of the French Revolution inspired hope and visions for the future‚ which musicians responded by entering the Romantic period. In order to compare musicians in the Romantic period and those in the modern era‚ we must look into the stylistic choices
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pop up exhibition for students at Central Saint Martins in a vacant space on the Portland estate in Marylebone. I also worked in collaboration with commercial clients; Art related fashion Installations at The Saint Martin’s lane hotel alongside the Opera Gallery on Bond Street and also in New York for the Morgan’s hotel group. I started up an event management company with two other people. We parted company and i used the quite challenging period after this to rethink my ideas and what i wanted to
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had a nervous breakdown. Later‚ in the 1880s‚ he became depressed due to the failure of his marriage‚ which is said to be because of his homosexuality‚ which resulted in an attempt to take his life. Due to these events‚ Tchaikovsky composed the opera Eugene Onegin‚ which was about an unrequited love. Sometime during the same year‚ Tchaikovsky composed the “1812 Overture” in celebration of Napoleon’s defeat by Russia. In addition‚ during his time‚ Czar Alexander II was promoting reforms in Russia;
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Wesley WInfield The Farinelli Film The Farinelli film is about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli‚ considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time. A castrato is a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he could retain the high‚ clear voice of a child while gaining the control of an adult vocalist. Farinelli was given no choice but to give up his manhood. Farinelli’s father said that he should only sing the
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