older brothers smirked at the “old white haired guys” (also known as the best of classical composers) that I listened to through elementary school. In fifth grade‚ I picked up the trombone and fell in love with it too. In high school‚ the years of musical practice started to pay off. By junior year‚ I was playing in six regular ensembles (orchestra‚ jazz‚ church orchestra‚ brass quintet‚ trombone choir‚ and school band). I added up 72 performances that year. At the Tennessee Governor’s School for
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WRITTEN ANALYSIS OF CASE Olympic Rent-A-Car US: Customer Loyalty Battles Company: The case talks about Olympic Rent-A-Car the 4th biggest car rentals company‚ having 7% market share in USA. It has a very reactive type of strategy in terms of always following Hertz in pricing slightly lower than it and placing operations around it as well. The company had a flagship loyalty program called Medalist Rewards program which was also inspired by other competitors in the industry. The program was managed
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well educated musician and an activist. He studied music at the Trinity College of Music London. Upon his return from abroad‚ he was exposed to highlife and jazz and later on developed afrobeat music. He died in Some of the foreign and indigenous musical elements in afrobeat music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti are: JAZZ: This is a combination of elements of western music and characteristics traceable back to the music of west Africa. The fundamental in distinguishing features of jazz is based on simple
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look ahead to the future and see what lies ahead of me. Something that I enjoy that keeps my mind off of all the negative aspects of life is Musical Theater. I had a wonderful opportunity to audition for the Kristin Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp back in February 2015. I felt completely unprepared as I walked into this audition with little to none musical background. I walked in the room
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Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Hyperion‚ New York‚ N.Y. Glebbeek‚ C. & Shapiro‚ H. 1990. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. St. Martin’s Press‚ New York‚ N.Y. Waksman‚ S. 1999. Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. Harvard University Press‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. London‚ England.
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The clarinet is perhaps the most underrated musical instrument. It was introduced to the orchestra during the classical period1. Since then it has been a very integral part of modern music such as jazz and can produce tones rapidly and has a wide range of dynamics and tone color2. The clarinet does not have direct ancestry to any other instrument. Though the chalumeau; the earliest European single reed instrument is the closest one3. Clarinet’s roots can be traced back to ancient Egypt‚ but the
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Jersey Boys I watched this play on Thursday‚ April 18th at 8:00 PM at SHN Curran Theatre in San Francisco‚ California. Jersey Boys is about the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (Four Seasons) made extraordinary music under the genre of rock and pop. The story took place back in the 1950’s when the Four Seasons were just starting up. Location of the tale is in New Jersey. The purpose of Jersey boys is to tell a tale about the hardships that Frankie
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forest of the night‚ What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Genres of Poetry *Narrative Poetry- a narrative poem is one that tells a story.Types of narrative poetry include ballads and epics. *Lyric Poetry- a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker. Common types are sonnets‚odes‚free verse‚and elegies. *Dramatic Poetry- a dramatic poem is a verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue. Two types of dramatic poetry
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Name _________________________________ Date_________________ ELA 8 Poetry Terms Musical Devices - Couplet - Satire - Allegory - Dialect - Rhyme Scheme - Allusion - Symbol - Personification - Diction - Voice - Mood - Tone - Ambiguity - Theme - ___________ a typical character‚ an action‚ or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. Also known as “universal symbol” may be a character‚ a theme‚ a symbol‚ or even a setting. __________
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being bow harps up to 2 metres with 19 strings. Vertical harps known as lyre harps were created in ancient Greece and coincided with the creation of the mathematical musical scale where Pythagoras discovered numerical ratios corresponding to intervals of the musical scale. During the Roman times the use of the harp and musical instruments in general declined and did not reappear for many years. The triangle harp seems to have been developed in Europe and incorporated a vertical pillar to
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