playing style‚ without losing any of his accuracies. As a child Art was also very sensitive to the piano’s intonation and insisted it is tuned often. Yet‚ of his talents‚ his influences got him to where is today as well. His inspirations from the pianists James P. Johnson and Fats Waller‚ who exemplified the stride piano style. Tatum identified Fats Waller as his main
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The Bicycle Short Story In the story “The Bicycle” by Jillian Horton‚ Hannah‚ the main character‚ is a pianist who lives with her aunt‚ Tante Rose. She is given the opportunity to travel to New York so she can audition at a school. Unfortunately Hannah does not take that opportunity and decides to stay. In this case I agree with her decision at the end Firstly‚ Hannah lived all her life with very limited time for herself. Everything revolved around piano and her Jewish religion. She wanted to live
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During the Harlem Renaissance white art enthusiast aided the development of black artist‚ by funding these artists. The Blues I’m Playing by Langston Hughes is a short story where a young African American pianist‚ Oceola Jones‚ who studies music under the patronage of Dora Ellsworth. Dora is a wealthy‚ white middle aged‚ widow with no children. Langston Hughes uses this connection between these characters to express the meaning of the blues. The meaning blues isn’t very clear until the very
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Alicia Augello Cook is a singer-songwriter‚ pianist‚ music producer‚ actress‚ and philanthropist. She is best known professionally as Alicia Keys. Apart from writing and singing influential songs‚ she is a leader that most aspire to be. Alicia Keys is important to society because‚ of her powerful use of words and her contributions made to help others in need. Alicia Keys is the co-founder of the Keep a Child Alive foundation. “Our mission is to realize the end of AIDS for children and families‚ by
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doing a complicated task‚ we tend to perform worse because the presence of others makes us nervous. On the other hand though if we are performing a simple task we perform better and faster than usual in front of an audience (Janowsky‚ 2010). When a pianist for instance is attempting to learn a new piece in the presence of his classmates‚ he is more likely to learn more slowly than if he were practicing alone at home. But if this were a piece he had been playing for years‚ he would play more beautifully
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Name: Candy Due: 06/05/2013 Dear Albert‚ My name is Candy. I’m Vietnamese and I was born in the Middle of Vietnam. Most of my family members and my relatives live here. Three years ago‚ I graduated from National Economics University in the North of Vietnam‚ one of the biggest and the most famous universities in my country. My major is finance and banking. After that‚ I moved to the South of Vietnam. It’s the place where I found my first job in my life. I had been a banker for 2.5 years
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fascinated by the American dream. She thinks that you need to work your way up. However‚ Jing-mei do not want to be someone else. She cannot play piano. She says that it would not happen. She only wants to be herself. The mother hire a professional pianist that should teach her daughter to play piano. Some examples of the American dream from the text: “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant…. You could become rich. You could become famous
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Pioneer developments in "moving pictures" occurred during the 1890s with the patenting of the kinetograph and kinetoscope (1891) by Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson in the United States and the cinematograph (1895) by the Lumiere brothers in France. By the turn of the century‚ films less than a minute in length were being exhibited at major fairs in the U.S. and abroad. Soon after‚ audiences began flocking to movie houses called "Nickelodeons‚" one-floor venues‚ where short films (approximately 10
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In Twentieth Century Theatre from the time of the Renaissance on‚ theatre seemed to be striving for total realism‚ or at least for the illusion of reality. As it reached that goal in the late 19th century‚ a multifaceted‚ antirealistic reaction erupted. Many movements‚ generally lumped together as the avant-garde‚ attempted to suggest alternatives to the realistic drama and production. Paralleling modern art movements‚ various theoreticians turned to symbol‚ abstraction‚ and ritual in an attempt
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BARTOK VIOLIN CONCERTO Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 In B Minor‚ SZ 112‚ BB117. (1937-1938) 1. Allegro Non-Troppo 2. Andante Tranquillo 3. Allegro Molto Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist‚ and was one of the most profound musicians of the twentieth century. A smallpox inoculation gave the infant Bartók a rash that remained with him until he was five years old. As a result he spent his early years detached from other children and people and
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