Program Notes By Xiaohan Sun Béla Bartók Born 1881‚ Nagyszentmiklós‚ Hungary Died 1945‚ New York‚ New York Viola Concerto (1945) Bartok left two major concertos unfinished: the Third piano concerto and the Viola Concerto. The former was complete except for the orchestration of the last seventeen measures‚ but the latter required much more extensive work. The manuscript for this unfinished work was given to Bartok’s friend and informal student Tibor Serly‚ who reconstructed the work and prepared
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song. Seguidilla distinguishes Carmen with unique Spanish flavor‚ which employs major and minor tonality with guitar accompaniment. This number is not purely a solo due to the inclusion of replicas by Jose‚ which turns it into dialogic scene. The finale of Act I replays the same melody as in Habanera. The Entracte employs adagio tempo military melody it employs the same melody that was introduced in Prelude. The music features solo bassoons‚ clarinet‚ flute; and all sharing the same
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his masterpiece‚ Symphony No. 9 in D minor‚ Op. 125 in 1824. During nineteenth century‚ Beethoven’s Ninth was an icon of symphonic genre universally. In 1840‚ a talented genius‚ German composer‚ Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major Op. 52‚ “Lobgesang” After its premiere‚ this work performed continuously and enjoyed by audience with success. However‚ Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang received criticism: that his work lacked “inner necessity”
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HISTORY OF ANIME: Osamu Tezuka ________________________________________ (picture) Dr. Osamu Tezuka: Legend. by Brian Cirulnick "Walt Disney of Japan"‚ "God of Comics"‚ "A Legend in his Own Time". Many of these phrases will forever be used to describe Dr. Tezuka‚ but mere words cannot even begin to describe his work‚ or how it changed an industry‚ or even the incredible wealth of material produced by this one man. As I began to research this article‚ friends sent me copies of
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Contemporary Ballet Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance which originated in the Italian Renaissance Courts of the 15th century and further developed in France‚ England‚ and Russia as a concert dance form. One of the genres of ballet is Contemporary. It is defined as a form of dance that is influenced by both classical ballet‚ modern dance‚ lyrical‚ and jazz (Wikipedia). It takes its technique and is used of point work from classical ballet‚ although it permits a greater
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fighting or violence involved‚ the conflict was more of a standoff although there was violence in many other countries that were involved. Canada was quickly and unexpectedly forced into the Cold War. On September 5‚ 1945‚ an obscure Russian named Igor Gouzenko entered the newsroom of the Ottawa Journal and announced that he had evidence of an extensive Soviet spy ring functioning in
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Dear Sir/Madam‚ I am writing this letter in order to show my interest in applying for a bachelor’s degree in Law. The main reason for applying is that I am convinced that Maastricht University would give me such academic preparation‚ knowledge and practical experience of working and collaborating with people of same thoughts‚ by discussing‚ analyzing and solving real cases. I am fully confident that I have the ambition to be a successful lawyer‚ because of my leadership‚ resourcefulness and willingness
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Finally‚ the objects described above are the end result of a process through which value is socially ascribed to the inanimate. Igor Kopytoff (1986) defines this process in modern nations as a tension between culturally ascribed and individually determined value‚ which takes into account the degree to which something is unique. Returning to Marina’s Happy Meal toys helps to illuminate this process. Firstly‚ McDonald’s toys are mass produced from widely-available materials. Culturally‚ this detracts
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The personal essay Find Your Beach appeared in The New York Review of Books the 23th of October 2014. It is written by Zadie Smith and features her thoughts on life and happiness. These thoughts originate from an ad across from her window and Smith gives us a tour inside her head‚ showing us how a New Yorker and an Englishwoman regards the concept of happiness. This non-fictional analysis of the essay will include an analysis of the tone of the essay‚ an analysis of the ways in which the Smith
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By all but one definition‚ Misty Copeland‚ is an unlikely ballerina. According to dance legend George Balanchine‚ “the perfect ballerina has a small head‚ sloping shoulders‚ long legs‚ big feet‚ and a narrow rib cage”. Despite fitting this description‚ she recounts in a number of response letters received from dance tryouts that she “lacked the structure”‚ “had the wrong body for ballet” and was “too old to be considered”. It seemed as though the dance world had in its mind another idea of what
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