...born in England in 1957. He studied composition with Joseph Horovitz at the Royal College of Music and later privately with Wilfred Josephs. He has written in most forms of music including 5 symphonies, 12 concertos, and a large-scale Requiem for choir and orchestra. Paris Sketches: Homages for Wind Band was commissioned by a consortium of schools put together by Richard Jones for the 1994 Huddersfield Conference. Receiving its first performance by the Cleveland Youth Wind Orchestra, John MacKenzie in Ripon Cathedral on 26, July 1994 was the conductor. Martin Ellerby's Paris Sketches offers four short scenes 1) Saint-Germain-des-Prés recalls a Ravel bell-like sunrise, 2) Pigalle is an off-Broadway, jazzy, witty, and full of fun, 3) Père Lachaise is dreamy, romantic and beguiling, while 4) Les Halles opens with a dramatic fanfare and offers a rousing celebration. This celebration, echoing consistently throughout the entire piece, is evident and Ellerby comment, “This is my personal tribute to a city I love.” Additionally, noteworthy in the notes of the score is mentioning of “bells” as a unifying thread to the work. Composer's Program Note: This is my personal tribute to a city I love, and each movement pays homage to some part of the French capital and to other composers who lived, worked or passed through – rather as Ravel did in his own tribute to an earlier master in Le Tombeau de Couperin. Running like a unifying thread through the whole piece is the idea of bells...
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...is a religious duty of every able bodied Muslim who can afford to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, at least once in his or her lifetime. In contrast to a religious pilgrimage a “modern” pilgrimage is no less of a transformative experience but tends not to have organised religion as its motivation. An example of a modern pilgrimage is, visiting ground zero in New York, the site were the world trade towers stood, which attracted five million visitors, who paid their respects to the dead in 2011, the tenth anniversary of the attacks. It is common to refer to “pilgrimages” to sporting arenas by fans of that team or to visiting the resting places of celebrities and important historical figures, such as Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris the resting place of Jim Morrison or Highgate cemetery in London were Karl Marx is buried. The Grand Tour In 17th and 18th century England, children of the wealthy elite received a classical education, which centred around classic languages, Greek and Latin,...
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...New Orleans New Orleans (viết tắt NOLA; dân ở đấy dịch là Ngọc Lân; cũng được đọc như "Níu Liên") là thành phố lớn nhất trong tiểu bang Louisiana, Hoa Kỳ. Thành phố này nằm thuộc miền đông nam Louisiana, giữa bờ sông Mississippi và hồ Pontchartrain, khoảng 100 dặm ngược dòng sông từ vịnh Mexico ở 30,07° vĩ độ bắc, 89,93° kinh độ tây. Về mặt luật pháp và hành chính thì thành phố New Orleans với Quận Orleans là một. Thành phố này được đặt tên theo Philippe II, Công tước Orléans, công tước nhiếp chính Pháp, và là một trong những thành phố cổ nhất ở nước Mỹ. Đây là trung tâm công nghiệp và phân phối và là cảng biển lớn của Mỹ. Thành phố này nổi tiếng với những di sản văn hoá đa sắc tộc, không khí lễ hội với nhạc và nghệ thuật ẩm thực địa phương. Nó được coi là nơi sinh của nhạc jazz. Nó là nơi du lịch nổi tiếng khắp thế giới do kiến trúc, nhạc, và thực phẩm đặc biệt, cũng như là Mardi Gras và những tổ chức khác. Theo Thống kê Dân số năm 2000, dân số thành phố là 484.674 người. Cộng thêm những ngoại ô trong Quận Jefferson, Quận St. Bernard bên cạnh, và những khu gần khác, con số đó tới khoản 1,4 triệu người. Tuy nhiên, New Orleans bị cơn bão Katrina tàn phá vào ngày 29 tháng 8 năm 2005, làm khắp thành phố bị lụt lội thê thảm, bắt mọi người dân phải sơ tán và làm nhiều người thiệt mạng. Vào những năm sau, dân số lên lại khoảng 1,2 triệu người. New Orleans có một khu Việt Nam lớn trong phía Đông New Orleans gọi Versailles ("Vẹc Sai") nhưng có nhiều người gốc Việt ở khắp New Orleans...
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...Tourist Studies http://tou.sagepub.com/ Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung and Stijn Reijnders Tourist Studies 2013 13: 287 originally published online 30 August 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 The online version of this article can be found at: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Tourist Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://tou.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287.refs.html >> Version of Record - Nov 18, 2013 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Aug 30, 2013 What is This? Downloaded from tou.sagepub.com at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on January 5, 2014 498164 2013 TOU13310.1177/1468797613498164Tourist StudiesDung and Reijnders ts Article Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung Stijn Reijnders Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tourist Studies 13(3) 287–303 © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 tou.sagepub.com Leiden University, The Netherlands Abstract This article examines from a European-Asian perspective the relationship between media representations and the tourist’s imagination...
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...Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Lenka Drbalová Comedy of Manners: William Congreve and Oscar Wilde Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. 2014 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Author’s signature Acknowledgement I would like to thank prof. Mgr Franková , CSc., M.A. and PhDr. Věra Pálenská, CSc. for their guidance, advice and kind encouragement. Table of Contents Preface ...............................................................................................2 Introduction ......................................................................................3 Chapter I – The Way of the World 1.1 In General ..................................................................................8 1.2 True Wit and False Wit ............................................................9 1.3 Courtship and Love .................................................................14 1.4 Invention vs. Reality ................................................................18 Chapter II – The Importance of Being Earnest 2.1 In General ................................................................................22 2.2 True Wit and False Wit ..........................................................23 2.3 Courtship...
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...Until I Die ONE I LEAPT, DRAWING MY FEET UP BENEATH ME, AS the seven-foot quarterstaff smashed into the flagstones where I had been standing a half second before. Landing in a crouch, I sprang back up, groaning with the effort, and swung my own weapon over my head. Sweat dripped into my eye, blinding me for one stinging second before my reflexes took over and forced me into motion. A shaft of light from a window far overhead illuminated the oaken staff as I arced it down toward my enemy’s legs. He swept sideways, sending my weapon flying through the air. It crashed with a wooden clang against the stone wall behind me. Defenseless, I scrambled for a sword that lay a few feet away. But before I could grab it, I was snatched off my feet in a powerful grasp and crushed against my assailant’s chest. He held me a few inches off the ground as I kicked and flailed, adrenaline pumping like quicksilver through my body. “Don’t be such a sore loser, Kate,” chided Vincent. Leaning forward, he gave me a firm kiss on the lips. The fact that he was shirtless was quickly eroding my hard-won concentration. And the warmth from his bare chest and arms was turning my fight-tensed muscles to buttery goo. Struggling to maintain my resolve, I growled, “That is totally cheating,” and managed to work my hand free enough to punch him in the arm. “Now let me go.” “If you promise not to kick or bite.” He laughed and set me on the ground. Sea blue eyes flashed with humor from under the waves of black...
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