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Celtic Woman and Sarah Chang Concerts--EVERYTHING CLASSIC !

2008-11-16T02:12:00.000-08:00

Lyrics:

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;When troubles come and my heart burdened be;Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,Until you come and sit awhile with me.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up... To more than I can be.[Instrumental break]You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up... To more than I can be.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up... To more than I can be.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up... To more than I can be.You raise me up... To more than I can be.

Sarah Chang Vivaldi A Genius In Violin
Her music is really beautiful. Just look at how elegantly the woman is playing the instrument. Her bowing and holding of the instrument is so light and beautiful.

Not only that, her expression of the music is very soft, smooth and elegant.
Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. Min-Soo Chang, her father, is a violinist and Myoung Jun Chang, her mother, is a composer. Her family had moved to the United States in 1979 so that Chang's father could study for an advanced music degree at Temple University. Her mother was taking composition classes at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8, was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements.
At 9, she was possibly the youngest violinist ever to record. Her first album, aptly entitled Debut, was recorded in 1989 when she was nine years old, but was not released by EMI Classics until 1992. It quickly reached the Billboard chart of classical best-sellers. Her teacher in an interview claimed that no one had ever seen "anything like her."

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Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood

2008-11-06T01:42:00.000-08:00

最著名的剧院在世界上, Grauman 的中国剧院。好莱坞, 加利福尼亚。
The most famous theatre in the world, Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Hollywood, California.
Le théâtre le plus célèbre dans le monde, le Théâtre de Grauman chinois. Hollywood, Californie.
El teatro más famoso en el mundo, el Teatro chino de Grauman. Hollywood, California.

Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood from a nearby hotel window.
The theater is famous for the signatures, handprints and footprints embedded in cement of Hollywood's most famous stars.
Grauman's Chinese Theater Address: *
Grauman's Chinese Theater
6925 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028
Grauman's Chinese Theatre is arguably the most famous movie theater in the world. Built in 1927, the Chinese has been the site of thousands of movie premieres and the destination of millions of tourists. Scores of celebrities have left their footprints, hand prints and hoof prints on the walkways near and on the theater's courtyard. In 1973, Mann Theatres bought the Chinese and in 1999, two theaters were added next to the Chinese turning the Chinese into a triplex. The Chinese remained a three screen theater until 2000 when the two added theaters were razed to make way for the construction of the Kodak Theater -- the new site of the Oscars. The theater underwent a recent renovation to return its exterior to its original design and Mann Theatres also added an adjoining 6 screen multiplex theater.Still opulent in red tonality and Asiatic influences, Grauman's Chinese remains the ultimate movie palace experience
n 1927, Norma Talmadge and Douglas Fairbanks stepped in a wet concrete slab outside the theater. It was the first of many ceremonies carefully planned out by Sid Grauman (the owner) and Jean Klossner (the builder). The rest (as they say) is history. The full 'Forecourt of the Stars' at Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theater holds the hand and foot imprints of the following 180+ celebrities:
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History of Charlies Chaplin,The Crown Of Clowns.

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Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977), English motion-picture actor, director, producer, and composer, one of the most creative artists in film history, who first achieved worldwide fame through his performances in silent films. His full name was Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin.Born in London, as a child Chaplin appeared in music hall and pantomime performances. In 1910 he toured the United States with a pantomime troupe and decided to remain in the country. Chaplin first appeared on the screen in 1914 with the Keystone Film Company of American director Mack Sennett. In Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), wearing baggy pants, enormous shoes, and a bowler hat and carrying a bamboo cane, he originated his world-famous character, the Tramp. He played this classic role in more than 70 films during his career. He was associated later with the Essanay Film Company, the Mutual Film Company, and the First National Film Company. In 1918 his own studio in Hollywood, California, was completed. During these years Chaplin gradually developed the tramp character from a jaunty, slapstick stereotype into the compassionate human figure that came to be loved by audiences throughout the world. In 1919 he helped found the United Artists Corporation, with which he was associated until 1952. Important pictures Chaplin produced, directed, and starred in include The Kid (1921), The Pilgrim (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), and A King in New York (1957). Chaplin wrote, directed, and played in A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). He also composed background music for most of his films.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s Chaplin was criticized for his leftist political views. As a result, he left the United States in 1952 and established permanent residence in Switzerland. In 1972 he briefly returned to the United States to receive several tributes, among them a special Academy Award for his contributions to the film industry. He was knighted in 1975.Chaplin perfected an individual style of performing, derived from the circus clown and the mime, combining acrobatic elegance, expressive gesture, facial eloquence, and impeccable timing. His portrayal of the little tramp, a universally recognized symbol of indestructible individuality triumphing over adversity and persecution, both human and mechanical, won him critical renown as a tragicomedian. Film sound recording in the late 1920s, however, imperiled the effectiveness of the pantomime on which much of his creative imagination depended; also, he became concerned with themes of contemporary significance. In his first two films of the sound era, City Lights and Modern Times, Chaplin's little tramp remained silent. Subsequently, he abandoned the role of the tramp and relied upon specific character portrayal. The Great Dictator, which uses all the resources of sound recording, marks this transition. Chaplin's treatment of his subjects compounds satire and pathos, revealing a love of humanity and of individual freedom. He wrote My Autobiography (1964; reprinted as My Early Years, 1982) and My Life in Movies (1975). Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film Chaplin appeared in 1992.["Chaplin, Charlie," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.]

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2008-10-13T15:41:00.000-07:00

History Of Bollywood

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The Indian film industry has a huge fan base not only at home but also abroad, especially in countries which have a significant Indian population. The term Bollywood is a term coined for the Hindi-language film industry set in Bombay, India. Bollywood is often incorrectly referred to the whole of Indian Cinema. It is in fact just a part of the film industry.

The introduction of Cinema in India began with the Lumiere Brothers' screening six silent short films at the Watson Hotel in Bombay. In 1910, Dadasaheb Phalke attended a screening of The Life of Christ at P.B. Mehta's American - Indian Cinema and decided to become a filmmaker himself. His first silent film Raja Harishchandra was released in 1913. The first Indian feature film with sound was Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931) which became a super hit. The period between the 1930's and 1940's saw a great number of social upheavals and the partitioning of India. While most filmmakers chose the easy way out, there were some directors who embarked upon various social issues and used the freedom movement as a backdrop for their scripts.

The 1950's brought with it colour films, yet people continued to ardently follow black and white films till the mid-1960s. Story plots usually revolved around romance and melodramatic themes. Success stories from this generation include actors like Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Madhubala, Nutan, Raj Kapoor, Meena Kumari, and Dev Anand. Directors soon changed focus from romance in the 1960's to action films with stars like Dharmendra, Anil Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan and Rekha. This trend continued till the early 1990's.

The 1990's saw the focus of films shifting back to family-centric love stories. Successful films of that period include Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995). The actors noted for their performance and who later on went on to bag bigger and better roles include Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and actresses like Madhuri Dixit and Kajol. At the same time comedy and action films continued to hold the audience's attention with popular actors such as Govinda, Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor. Independent art films slowly started succeeding commercially around this time as well.

In 2000 Bollywood started garnering attention overseas due to box office hits such as Devdas, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Dhoom 2, while delivering a whole new generation of fresh young faces such as Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji.[ Courtesy from: enzine article]

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2008-10-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

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History of Symphony

2008-10-12T04:17:00.000-07:00

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Orchestra - Historical outline
Briefly classified in the time zone as:

Baroque period (c.1600-1750),
Classical period (c.1750-1820's),
Romantic period (c.1820's-1900), and

the 20th century to the present.

Early history - Baroque period (c.1600-1750)

During the Baroque period, instrumental ensembles accompanied ballets, dances, operas, church services, and banquets.
Up to the 17th century, the notion of a standard ensemble whose members play throughout an entire performance had not been developed musicians merely played for purpose of dramatic scene in a theatre
Instrumentation. Instruments from the violin family. The French Baroque instruments (e.g. recorders, flutes, oboes, and bassoons) gradually replaced Renaissance wind instruments (e.g. cornets, shawms, and curtals). Orchestras started to include pairs of horns.

Roles of the instruments

doubled the vocal line and filled in the harmony.

Instruments brought forth symbolism or imagery. For instance, certain instruments commonly accompanied scenes with the Gods( lutes, viols, and harps.) In pastoral scenes( flutes, shawms and pipes). the underworld( trombones and bass viols).

Size of the ensemble

The number of strings instruments,as many as 40 to 70 players.

The leader usually a violinist who set the tempo, and made decisions about bowing and ornamentation.

Around 1730, J.S. Bach’s requirements for an orchestra in the church consisted of: 2-3 first violins, 2-3 second violins, 2 first violas, 2 second violas, 2 violoncellos, 1 violone (precursor of the double bass), 2-3 hautbois (oboes), 1-2 bassoons, 3 trumpets, and 1 kettledrum. The ensemble would have included at least 18 musicians.

Key figure:Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) of France.
Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713) of Italy,from 1680 to 1712, Corelli directed large excellent violin bands, in Italy
Classical period (c.1750-1820's)
Mainly string ,wind instruments, , keyboard continuo. Brass occasionally. By the 1780s and 1790s, more instruments joined the standard orchestral palette, including flutes, clarinets, trumpets, and timpani. On the other hand, the keyboard continuo relinquished its spot in the orchestra.
With the master Viennese composers – Franz J. Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791), and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – orchestral writing for individual instruments advanced. The wind instruments rose to the challenge of playing more thematic material, at times taking the melody and the solos. The lower-pitched instruments played more independent parts.

During the 18th century, only a few concert halls featured mainly orchestral music. Rather, orchestral concerts often took place in theatres, halls of palaces, large houses, inns, and other public buildings. By the latter half of the 18th century, larger cities offered concert series featuring their orchestras.
Instrumentation

The typical orchestra included:

violins, violas, cellos, double basses, two oboes, one or two bassoons, two horns, and keyboard continuo such as a harpsichord.

In festive or military music Trumpets and timpani appeared,

In church music.trombones Violins were divided into two sections of roughly equal size, playing two parts. Violas as a single section playing one part (except in France), although “divisi” parts were sometimes written. This represented the typical orchestra for Italian opera, spoken theatre, private and public concerts, important church services, and dancing.

Beethoven further transformed the orchestra, providing double basses with their own part, adding third and fourth horn parts, and including the trombone as a standard orchestral instrument.

By the 1780s and 1790s, the first violinist directed most orchestras (except in France where baton conductors appeared as early as the 18th century).

The orchestra evolved somewhat differently in France, especially in Paris. Musicians continued to follow the traditions established by Lully into the 1770’s. However, by the 1780s the large orchestras in Paris resembled the many other Classical orchestras throughout Europe.

Key figures

The core Viennese composers - Franz J. Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791), and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – advanced the symphony as a musical genre, and helped establish the standard orchestral ensemble.

Romantic period (c.1820's-1900)
Significant changes took place:

The number of orchestral ensembles increased worldwide along with the establishment of orchestral organizations (2) orchestral performances reached wider and more public audiences, extending beyond the aristocratic court audience of the previous century; (3) musical centers offered concert series; (4) the baton conductor became an established leader of the orchestra; (5) the size of orchestras increased, (6) new inventions transformed the construction of many orchestral instruments, (keyholes on wind instruments and valves on brass instruments.)

Some European concert orchestras that were founded during the 19th century continue today: London Philharmonic (founded in 1813), Vienna Philharmonic (founded in 1842), Budapest Philharmonic (founded in 1853), Berlin Philharmonic (founded in1887), and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (founded in 1888), for example.

During this period, orchestras were founded in other parts of the world including the United States: New York Philharmonic (founded in 1842 as a society of professional musicians), Boston Symphony (founded in 1881), Chicago Symphony (founded in 1891), Cincinnati Symphony (founded in 1894), and the Philadelphia Orchestra (in 1900), for example. These American orchestras hired mostly European immigrants at first, such as English and French musicians, and later German and Italian musicians

Instrumentation

By 1810, the piccolo, double bassoon, and trombones were introduced. By the 1830’s, the tuba started to replace other low brass instruments.

By the mid-19th century, the bass clarinet and cornet were invented. The English horn was reintroduced into the orchestra, and harps were included as well.

The addition of keywork on wind instruments, musicians could execute more rapidly and play more easily in tune. ,and wind players to play louder and more legato over the From the 1820’s, orchestras included one or even two harps.

Roles of the instruments

Musicians became highly specialized in playing a specific instrument, often receiving special training in orchestral playing from conservatories. Orchestral playing became a profession, and associations formed on behalf of orchestral musicians.Orchestras during the 19th century continued to play masterpieces from the Classical period. To some extent, the organization of the orchestra remained as it was near the end of the Classical period.

Key figures

Besides conductors, other key figures during the 19th century include composers who significantly expanded the orchestral timbral palette, dynamic range, and further advanced the symphony as a musical genre. Notable composers include: Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler to name a few. Although Wagner was primarily recognized as an opera composer, his influences can be found in later orchestral repertoire.

A key figure in promoting the orchestra in America was Theodore Thomas, a German-born violinist who emigrated to the United Stated and formed his own orchestra. He toured with his orchestra for almost 30 years throughout the country.

20th century to the present

During the 20th century. the percussion section grew both in number and type of instruments, often incorporating non-Western instruments(e.g. temple blocks, gongs, maracas, guiro). The piano was reintroduced In addition, instrumental playing technique evolved, consequently influencing the sound of the orchestra.

Roles of the instrumentation

During the first decades of the 20th century, musicians started incorporating continuous vibrato.

By the 1930’s, continuous vibrato was a commonly accepted practice. Wind players also added vibrato, first by the French, Russian and American players, and by mid-century by the English, Italians, and Germans.

Due to changes in construction (e.g. longer necks, higher string tension, steel strings replacing gut strings), string instruments increased in volume and brightness.

During the latter half of the 20th c, “extended” instrumental techniques developed, such as harmonics, microtones, sul ponticelo, col legno for the strings, and multiphonics, hypervibrato, flutter tonguing, glissando for the winds.
Size of the ensemble (and arrangement)

The modern full orchestra typically includes: 32 violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, 8 double basses, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets, 4 bassoons, 8 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, and percussion.
In 1970 the Boston Symphony Orchestra included: 33 violins (18 first violins, 15 second violins), 12 violas, 12 cellos, 9 basses, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets, 4 bassoons, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 1 timpani, 4 percussion, 2 harps, and 1 piano for a total of 104 musicians

Smaller chamber orchestras after the Second World War and offered an alternative to the expensive large ensembles of previous decades. Chamber orchestras typically include about 40 musicians.
Key figures

During the latter half of the 20th century. Many women came into the scene. At first women played in all-women orchestras, except for harpists who played in already established orchestras with male musicians.
During the Second World War, women replaced missing male musicians. By the 1950’s and 1960’s, orchestras gradually started accepting women. Most German orchestras did not accept women until the 1980’s, and the Vienna Philharmonic did not accept women until the late 1990’s.
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Italian And German Vocal Styles:

by Chris A. Mooney

Why is it that most persons are more interested in vocal than in instrumental music? Obviously because, as Richard Wagner remarks, "the human voice is the oldest, the most genuine, and the most beautiful organ of music—the organ to which alone our music owes its existence." And not only is the sound or quality of the human voice more beautiful than that of any artificial instrument, but it is capable of greater variation. Although a good artist can produce various shades of tone on his instrument, yet every instrument has a well-defined characteristic timbre, which justifies us in speaking, for instance, of the majestic, solemn trombone, the serene flute, the amorous violoncello, the lugubrious bassoon, and so on. The human voice, on the other hand, is much less limited in its powers of tonal and emotional colouring. It is not dependent for its resonance on a rigid tube, like the flute, or an unchangeable sounding-board, like the violin or the piano, but on the cavity of the mouth, which can be enlarged and altered at will by the movements of the lower jaw, and the soft parts—the tongue and the glottis. These movements change the overtones, of which the vowels are made up, and hence it is that the human voice is capable of an infinite variety of tone-colour, compared with which Wagner admits that even "the most manifold imaginable mixture of orchestral colours must appear insignificant."

History of Latin-American Dancing.

2008-10-12T03:39:00.000-07:00

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This article traces some of the history of the International Dancesport championship 'Latin-American' Dances: Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, Cha Cha, and Jive.

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India famous for HOT Spieces even World Beauty. So...Goes the story..

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Let us eat,drink and dance,
But dont get into the trance,
Yesterday is gone,tomorrow may never be mine, today(NOW) let's be merry and happy;
Fellowship in this short journey in time and space of eternity!

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