“Today I welcome every kind of tribute to WWI memory, even if most of them have remained encrusted in rhetoric and emphasis. Unfortunately, I’ve hardly met anyone interested in recovering soldier’s songs, because Italy deeply lack of popular culture. I’ve experienced this condition when, four years ago, I played in front of some of the most eminent Italian WWI historians. I played with some members of the Toscanini orchestra during a conference, reviving WWI soldiers’ and trenches tunes. At the end of my performance, the historians were astonished: they never thought that was possible to do anything like that. They didn’t even want to leave and were asking for more and more encores. I also lost my train that night because they were begging for more songs; they were saying “we have …show more content…
That can happen because people were already used to dance to them one hundred years ago. To honour this repertoire, we have to attract people to it. We just hosed a seed that was already planted, maybe we added some fertilizer, but these songs are part of our genetic pool”. (Canossi, 2015) As a matter of fact, not only the audience is deeply changed but also the performers. Pedrotti, who linked his career to WWI repertoire, revealed that Coro della S.A.T. has been strongly transformed in the last decades, also because the human canvas has changed. “Years ago, there were really gifted voices which could sing for hours and hours with no break; while today it is impossible to find anything like that. Voices are still beautiful, but are more choral ones, more reliant on the choir director. When I started, I remember that people were more spontaneous and natural about singing. Years ago, singing was indeed commonplace and widespread among young people”. (Pedrotti, 2015) The director also noticed a transformation in songwriting and
A Victory Garden is was created during the war to help increase food production. During the war many of the food that was grown was sent to the war so communities started growing their own gardens to help supply food for the community. The way it worked was that each community would grow certain crops that were calorie rich.
The Iranian Hostage Crisis was an event that took place in the capital of Iran in November of 1979 that lasted a long four-hundred and forty-four days. What led up to the breaking point in the Hostage crisis happened fast and was a result of a bad tie between the people and government of Iran and the US’ involvement with Iran. During the crisis the US’ president Jimmy Carter had the military attempt rescues of the hostages. The Iranian Hostage crisis did not only cause tensions to flare between the US and Iran but also the crisis was a result of already weak ties between the two countries leading to a negative relationship in the years that followed.
Standing amongst musically-adept buildings that easily dwarf it and construction that does not help its aged appearance, the Schmidt Vocal Arts Center (SVAC) operates as a rehearsal, office, and studio spot for all vocal students—major and minor alike. Much like many music facilities, its fate lies in the hands of financial executives who make decisions which generally result in the defunding of programs that the SVAC houses. As a result, the SVAC has tremendous pressure to provide a quality education with depleting funds. The SVAC combats this by utilizing an artistic internal atmosphere in the attempt of inspiring music students to remain within the music department and to establish the creative arts as a necessity within both university and personal life.
Then I saw it. An open piano with a place card placed on top of it with my named on it. I ran to the stage almost tripping over my skirt; I sat down at the all-white piano, admiring the ivory keys and the solid gold lining, in complete awe. After I calmed down a little I began to play the spring portion of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi. In my opinion it was my best performance so far and I was surprised to hear applause. When I turned my back toward backstage, Vivaldi himself emerged from behind the curtains applauding. I was in utter shock. This was the best day of my life. Vivaldi told me that I was a phenomenal pianist and when I got older he would like me to go on tour with his orchestra and show my skills. I will forever be greatful for this opportunity that my uncle presented to
Contemporary Canadian reimagining of the First World war is from the book Catching the torch by a Brock University teacher Neta Gordon. She wrote this book in 2014. She tries to explain to the reader the conflict between history and collective memory of the First World War. With many other essays, she focuses on the role of the Canadian army in the First World war. As we know, the Canadian army entered the war in early 1915 to offer help to the Britain soldiers fighting against the Germans. The Canadian army was basically forced to join because they were a member of the British Empire.
According to the article ¨World War I: Aftermath,¨ written by an anonymous author, on the website United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Europe had to have many burdensome reparations imposed and had a general inflationary period all because of World War I. To begin with, the social and economic upheaval that followed World War I powerfully destabilized Germany’s fledgling democracy. After the war, many Germans forgot that they had applauded the fall of Kaiser; therefore, they had welcomed a parliamentary democratic reform and rejoiced at the truce that was made. On the other hand, some individuals like the historian Friedrich Meinecke and Nobel prize-winning author Thomas Mann, had resisted democratic reform. Also, anyone who urges someone
The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
The cause of WWII was simple: Fascism, a form of government where the people are led by a dictator, or a small group of people. The dictator has a vision of what he wants his country to be like and pushes the population towards his goals.
In 1914 the first World War broke out in the center of Europe which divided the great empires practically in half. On one side there was an alliance which was composed of the Germans who were allied with the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary were up against what was called the Triple Entente. This alliance originally consisted of Great Britain, France, Russia, and eventually after lots of deliberation, America. As battling began in the North Eastern part of France advancements in technology and a transition in battle tactics lead to millions of deaths. Trench warfare, a tactic created at the very beginning of WWI, was created essentially created September 15, 1914. Essentially what happened during this battle resulted in a longer and
“I also favor some modern world singers, who sing for change, I enjoy Idan Raichel, an Israeli singer and Zaz, a French folk singer, and in America…I guess Tracy Chapman, she has an empowering voice that describes the truths about American society […] how we overlook what actually needs to be helped, this includes poverty, abuse, education, minority rights, etcetera.”
To me, and our country, WWI was a major event in our history. It was obviously one of the first times where almost the whole world was at war at once, but it was more than that. We sent our troops across the ocean, to help another country. This was a major feat for the United States. Our army may have not been in the best shape in the first place, but we did our best to help our our allies in western Europe. What really was astonishing was the fact that we actually got a group of soldiers to band together in order to create the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces).
World War One heritage and remembrance is indeed a controversial topic for the Italian civil society: during the last decades, its memory has been widely exploited by political opportunists and a sincere and a truthful representation of the events is far to be portrayed.
When the war began, in 1914, the European governments were confident that it would have been solved quickly.
WWI is also known as the First World War, The Great War, The European War, and The War of the Nations. It was fought primarily in Europe from the year 1914 to the year 1918 and lasted 4 years.
A great many people are not give birthed singers, and most choir singers are required vocal direction to achieve their singing potential. The overall population keeps on trusting that singing is some sort of gift, which a few people have and others don 't. This is a grievous state of mind, as