Musical film

Sufjan Stevens is a man of many musical talents. Last night, I had the privilege of experiencing his latest film and music project, Round-Up, a contemplative film with a live score performance. Round-Up is a well executed film that documents the rodeo events at the 2013 Pendleton Round-Up. Accompanied by a live music ensemble, Sufjan Stevens and musical quartet, Yarn/Wire, served up a magnificent concert. The music event took place at the Harvey Theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The

humankind, in which we transform nature, create civilization, and materialize dreams through art making. The idea of global culture sets the foundation for this piece. It combines Chinese ink drawings with a soundtrack composed of sounds produced by musical instruments from different origins: the Native American flute, the Arabian drum, the Armenian duduk, the Brazilian berimbau, the Chinese wind chime and hulusi, the Christian church bells, the Hindi drum and tanpura, the Italian piano, the Pakistan

The song, “I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy” was performed by James Cagney in the 1942 film “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Cagney totally captured Cohan’s brash spirit in the film that depicted the life of George Cohan and commemorated his contributions to American musical theatre. Among many accolades, in 1993, Yankee Doodle Dandy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”

25 April 2017 South Pacific “South Pacific was a highly popular Broadway musical and hit movie. “ “The story for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 musical South Pacific, is drawn from a Pulitzer-prize- winning novel by James A. Michener, entitled Tales of the South Pacific, which dealt largely with the issue of racism” (Kurtus). It is also considered by many people to be among the greatest musicals of the twentieth century (Kurtus). The Broadway production won ten Tony Awards, including

The song “Ten Minutes Ago” is from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. A musical adaption of the classic fairytale by the same name, it became a musical sensation when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein transformed it into a live musical television broadcast in 1957. Starring Julie Andrews, it retold the fairytale of a young girl living a miserable life under the roof of her evil stepmother and her three equally vicious stepsisters. With the Prince’s Ball nearing, the four women in her family

Phantom of the Opera has been around for longer than I can recall, being the musical to talk about among my family as something grand. When I was the age of only fourteen I received the honor of performing the musical for the first time, although I had to learn a great deal about the script for that performance, the history behind The Phantom of the Opera is not clear to me. So I started my research their tied to the original piece. Phantom of the opera.com gave a timeline that had the background

So famous are the classic musicals he created as part of not one but two of America’s most celebrated songwriting duos, that his name is rarely heard or seen alone. More commonly it’s linked to the name of one of his lyricist-partners, either Lorenz “Larry” Hart or Oscar Hammerstein, because it’s as the musical half of both Rodgers & Hart as well as Rodgers & Hammerstein that Richard Rodgers is best known. Without him, the Broadway musical as we know it would have been something else entirely; his

was “neither an operetta nor a musical comedy, neither a vaudeville nor a revue.” For the first time, composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II seamlessly integrated plot, character, music, and dance into a modern musical production -- starting a new genre of musical, which is often called “musical theater” or “book musical.” Show Boat also brought serious themes that left the audience unable to react the way they had to the previous Broadway musicals. For the first time, there was

One of the most important aspects of a Broadway Musical is the music. As we have learned through this course, a Broadway Musical is more complex than a regular theater show. The added musical component, when executed properly, adds further depth which can completely transform a show. Making sure that the music and playbook work together, and that the music is catchy and well written are essential parts of the success of a show. George and Ira Gershwin knew how to coordinate their work in such a way

Columbia undergraduate named Richard Rodgers in writing a Varsity Show called Fly with Me. Not long after, Hammerstein dropped out of grad school at Columbia to concentrate his efforts entirely on musical theater. Lorenz Hart was 7 years older than Richard Rodgers, who was only 16 when they began their musical collaboration, with Rodgers acting as the composer and Hart as the lyricist. Manhattan was their 1925 breakthrough hit, and scores of other songs yielded many of today's standards, including Blue