when I introduced an opera that no one had heard of‚ Sorochintsy Fair; but we all knew a part of it: ’Night on Bald Mountain’. Thank you Walt Disney. That night I made a mistake . . .mixing up the performer’s names on my handout. There was a wonderful gentleman‚ Mischa; an Austrian or Hungarian who had actually seen the opera and heard the singers on my recording‚ many years before. The names were archaic to me‚ but he told me: "This was not a
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The History of Ballet The first experience of watching a ballet‚ for me or any little girl‚ can be fascinating and exhilarating. Wondering how a dancer can be so steady on her toes as she spins in circles and leaps through the air. Watching a ballet‚ there is a feeling of wanting to be graceful‚ as well as the warm sensation felt by a little girl as she slips into dream land. My mom had taken me to my first ballet when I was 11 years old. When we returned home home‚ she signed me up for classes
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- Why Was it Written? Giuseppe Verdi’s opera‚ Rigoletto‚ was written during a time when the major Italian cities were especially sensitive with any political‚ moral‚ and religious implications of all public displays. Based on the controversial drama‚ Le roi s’amuse‚ by Victor Hugo‚ the production of Rigoletto was taken negatively because of the beliefs of that time. However‚ when asked to write an opera specifically for San Carlo‚ Verdi took Le roi s’amuse and censored it enough‚ to
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Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian operatic composer. He was raided as a duchy. He was born on October 10‚ 1813‚ in Roncole. Berdi first studied music in the town of Bussesto. In 1832 Verdi was rejected to study with the Milan Conservatory because of his age. He became the pupil of composer Vincenzo Lavigna. Then returned to Bussesto in 1833 as conductor. At the age of 25 Verdi again went to Milan. His first opera‚ Oberto‚ was produced at La Scala with some success in 1839. His next work‚ the comic opera
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be turned into an opera. Verdi wrote the opera with librettists Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. The opera was written around 1846 and premiered on March 14‚ 1847 at the Teatro dell Pergola in Florence‚ Italy. A few years later the Verdi revised the opera adding a ballet into it and taking out some things and was performed at the Teatre Lyrique in Paris on April 21‚ 1865. This opera in comparison to the play begins with the third scene of the play. Unlike some of Verdi and other composer
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Romantic Dates: 1800-1900 1. What was going on historically during this era? What was life like? Profound Political and Social changes going on; many moving into cities for work. Renewed interested in expressing emotion through music. 2. Does romantic music continue to use the same forms used in the classical era? No 3. Explain the Individuality of style. Composers wanted their music to be uniquely identifiable to them. They worked hard on self-expression. 4. What are the expressive aims
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Recognize the structure‚ sculpture or painting (There will be 15. I will provide the names of the artists.) Chapters 10- 11 1. El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz [pic] 2. Diego Velazquez: Las Meninas [pic] 3. Bernini: Colonnade of St. Peter’s; David [pic] [pic] 3. Caravaggio: The Calling of St. Matthew [pic] 4. Peter Paul Rubens: Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici [pic] 5. Johannes Vermeer: The Milkmaid [pic] 6. Rembrandt: The Nightwatch
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Giuseppe Verdi was born on the 10th of October 1813 in Roncole of Busseto‚ Parma. Since Giuseppe was a young boy‚ he showed a lot of talent when it came it to music. When Giuseppe was 12‚ he worked for a shopkeeper in Busseto. There‚ he studied music with Ferdinando Provesi. In 1835‚ he married the shopkeeper’s daughter‚Margherita Barezzi. She died‚ along with her two children‚ sometime between 1838 and 1840. The first opera Giuseppe wrote was called Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio ‚ written in 1839
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Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century
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Music is a living moving thing Ppl have been dealing with music since the beginning of the history. At the beginning it was not the kind of music we have today. The first people imitated music from nature. They mimicked the sound from their everyday life. It had no rhythm or tune it was just noise‚ but later turned into what we now call music. Ancient people used music for much more than entertainment. They used it during the battles‚ had ceremonies in honor of smb or smth‚ to show smb’s
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