Filippe Moura Dr. Polo September 22‚ 2014 ! ! Pyotr Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D Major‚ op.11 Pyotr Iliyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer born 7 May 1840. During his life as a composer he worked basically on symphonies‚ concertos‚ operas‚ ballets‚ chamber music and a choral. By the time Tchaikovsky composed this string quartet he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and with this job’s payment he was barely getting by. The composer decided to present the concerto of his own
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Michelle Deme Mr. Parry Adv. Choir H‚ A December 16‚ 2012 The Nutcracker Have you ever wanted to watch a heartfelt tale about a girl and her nutcracker? Have you ever wanted to see the Sugar plum Fairy or Snow Queen dance beautifully? Have you ever wanted to see a beautiful story only told by dancing‚ because no words were needed? I was given the opportunity to watch this wonderful ballet last Saturday. The Nutcracker was filled with several beautiful dancers and dance moves. The show was
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holds for the students at the academy. In 2017‚ pupils from Queensland Ballet will be performing classical ballet dances such as Raw‚ Swan Lake‚ La Fille mal gardee and Bespoke. Due to extreme popularity‚ they will be performing Peter Pan and The Nutcracker for the second time. In conclusion‚ Queensland Ballet has definitely had very good influences and recommendations but seeing as though they include a mix of ballet and contemporary dance into their pieces‚ there could be more contemporary aspects
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The Life and Work of Gelsey Kirkland Jaclyn Repice LA 211-301 Professor Goldberg April 30‚ 2012 According to many skilled dancers‚ knowledgeable critics‚ and essential lovers of ballet‚ Gelsey Kirkland is one of the most well-known and admired American ballerinas of our time. She was born on the 29th of December in 1952‚ in Bethlehem‚ Pennsylvania‚ to Jack Kirkland and Nancy Hoadley. Her father Jack was a play writer‚ known for his production‚ Tobacco Road. During the making of Tobacco
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During “Waltz of the Flowers‚” a part of The Nutcracker selection‚ the mood of rebirth and growth sept into the audience. The piece started very calmly with the dancers doing jumps about the stage. As the piece progressed‚ the jumps and leaps got grander and the movements became larger and more impressive‚ as the flowers “grew”. There were many long extended movements that slowly became faster and more impressive as the music grew louder. The dancers throughout the whole piece were smiling to show
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someone I would want to be. Not only do I just get to watch them but‚ I get to dance with them to! They many performances in their season such as Nutcracker‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ Alice and Wonderland‚ Swan Lake‚ and Cinderella. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to be cast as Clara in their production of the nutcracker. Along with being clara in the Nutcracker I was also in Alice in Wonderland‚Cinderella‚and was on out of eight students chosen to dance with the Dance Theater of Harlem in one of their
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“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the best known songs in The Nutcracker. Miles Hoffman‚ the music commentator for Morning Edition and a nationally renowned violinist‚ once stated‚ “And many of them [Tchaikovsky’s melodies] in this - just in this one ballet [The Nutcracker]- are immortal” (Hoffman). Tchaikovsky first began work on the music to the now internationally renowned ballet in February 1891 (Schwarm). While in Paris that year‚ he heard an instrument
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is from the the musical time period of the Romantic Era [1820-1910]. He was born in 1840 in present day Udmurtia‚ Russia. He died on November 6th‚ 1893 in St. Petersburg because of cholera. He received training from a teacher when he was younger and he also studied at the Russian Musical Society in 1861. He later studied at St.Petersburg Conservatory. In his childhood he has piano lessons at the age of 5. By the time he was 8 he knew all of the notes ‚just as well
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architecture to take the lead within the city. Mariinsky Theatre I‚ built in1860s‚ has been one of the monuments within St.Petersburg by resembling a large extent of significance for the city such as hosting the premier of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky‚ Mussorgsky‚ and Rimsky-Korsakov. Moreover this building contains many of the traditional architectural identities of St.Petersburg. However for the city to transform from the past to future it has been decided to make a new Mariinsky Theatre II
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Dance History‚ ABT‚ Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Baryshnikov‚ Russian dancer‚ choreographer and actor is considered one of the greatest ballet dancers in history alongside Vaslav Nijinski and Rudolf Nureyev. He was born to Russian parents in Latvia‚ a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe then occupied by the Soviet Union‚ on January 27th‚ 1948. After dancing with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad‚ he defected to Canada in 1974 to take advantage of opportunities in western dance. He free
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