significant impact on American society because of his company’s contributions to the tech world: Apple revolutionized music, computing and the cell phone industry. Listening to music before the twentieth century was complicated, exasperating, and dull until the creation of digital music. If a person was interested in new music, he/she would have to “go to a local music store, buy a CD of the whole album, take it home, and play it on the stereo system [...] if he wanted to listen to the
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form of jazz, had blossomed in the 1940s. Featuring young geniuses such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the younger generation of musicians saw themselves as artists, not as entertainers; they saw Armstrong's stage persona and music as old-fashioned and criticized him in the press. Armstrong fought back, but for many young jazz fans, he was regarded as an out-of-date performer with his best days behind him. The struggle for the civil rights movement was growing tenser with each
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Topic: Being involved in the arts makes people feel better. To what extent you agree or disagree? We cannot deny the fact that the art which includes music, film, novels and so on is an essence of human’s life. Either artists or audiences find the benefit of the arts as the role of education and recreation A sensitive reader may find the message hidden in each work of art. A well- known novel namely “Uncle Tom’s cabin” by American author which depicted the reality of slavery in Civil War can
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October 9, 2012 Music 290 The Dirty Heads A few weekends ago, on September 28, 2012, I attended The Dirty Heads (TDH) concert. The concert took place at Senator Theater. The doors opened at 7:30 PM and the concert started at 8:30 PM. The Dirty Heads has a full band. This means that they had a percussionist (Jon Olazabal), a drummer (Matt Ochoa), a bassist (David Foral), a vocalist/guitarist (Dustin “Duddy B”) and a singer/song writer (Jared “Dirty J” Watson). The style of music that they play
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was able to watch Julie Pentz’s Echo piece during the first dress rehearsal for Spring Dance. This piece was a jazz style with a large number of dancers all in black dresses, entering and exiting the stage in a random, sporadic manner. It started with dancers one at a time sprinting across the stage. The piece felt dark and chaotic as the music matched the movements with high tempo, instrumental sounds. The lighting was dark with a heavy reliance on backlights to create a darker feel. The spacing of
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lacquered shine, and midnight black pegs. I loved to play—I just did not love to practice. I distinctly remember many afternoons where I fought with my mom or dad. They said I could not go outside and play until I practiced for thirty minutes. Wisely, I chose to fight and argue so that what should have taken thirty minutes, took an entire hour. (Not much has changed.)
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front of him, and he was blown away at the fact t that she improvised the different songs. When Billie was 18-years-old she made her first record. She used profanity as if it were nothing., and coming from her it didn’t sound so harsh. “Symphony in Black” was a short film which featured Billie and was a part of her big breakthrough. She played the role of a rejected woman. She soon got the agent, Joe Glazer, whom was already Billie’s idols agent,
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Music Appreciation Reflection At first the performance started of slow and i was thinking what was going on because when i thought wind symphony I expect like high fast and up beat. But then it began. “Danzon” was fast and in my mind I was thinking, “whoa this one is really good because its fast” and then it ended really quick, faster than expected. When the conductor said that they were going into solo pieces, i automatically assumed that someone was going to be performing by themselves
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Science/Description and Value/Meaning. Art/Expression According, to the official curriculum laid out by the school this category is that is highly concentrated in being capable of expressing self through art or speech. It spans from painting, to music, dance, language and communication. The manual’s description is, “how we express ourselves in spoken and written communication and the arts, looking at strengths, experiences, and new opportunities for challenge and growth.” Like, most people art
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What is art, how can it be defined? Art is a way of expressing feelings in numerous ways. Some examples of art: drawing, painting, dance, music, etc. The art that is used in my project is a mixture of shading and a type of drawing style called Grid method of sizing. This project was originally a project that was for Art. I hadn’t really put much work into it, until I had this opportunity to compete in STEAM. The furthest recording that scientist can acquire are those of the people of the caves
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