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    time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again? At my Boston-area elementary school, I was truly an all-star as far as achievement went. I got straight A’s with ease. I sang as a boy soprano in professional operas, and I was one of the top swimmers on my swim team. I consistently made efforts to be a good and kind person, but I did not take nearly as much pride in that as I did in my accomplishments. Theorizing one day in sixth grade

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    Barbershop vocal harmony started in the 70’s with some guys in a barbershop cutting hair. Barbershop is considered an American invention, but the idea had its roots in England. Barbershop Vocal Harmony is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. Barbershop vocals are characterized by the second tenor the “lead” carrying the melody, with the first tenor singing harmony

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    Sidney Bechet was one of many fantastic up and coming jazz musicians in the Roaring Twenties. He started on the clarinet, but eventually became one of the first performers to adopt the soprano saxophone as a main instrument, as well as one of the first to improvise with the swing style of jazz. In addition, he was one of the first artists to record using a multitrack which was a way of recording where you would play back the track from one instrument while you recorded with another instrument and

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    Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul, it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us -Martin Luther. Music was a part of life then and it is a part of life today. Without music, life itself would be a mistake. Seeing the changes over the years is a great way to follow the patterns and differences this way of communicating has shown us. Some of the more popular music was the Gregorian Chant, Organum, Motet and Madrigal. In

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    Exposition IV: An Appalachian Spring, is a performance of various musicians within Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts. The event took place at Moss Arts Center in the Anne and Ellen Fife theater, with musicians stationed on stage and on the side balconies. A different instrument section played each segment of the performance, including: horn ensemble, string ensemble, bassoonists, percussion ensemble, jazz ensemble, the Linux Laptop Orchestra, Kinect sensor and computer, and male and female

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    of his score, but the real conduction was done by Michael Umlauf. The orchestra leader was Schuppanigh. The dedication was to King Frederick William III of Prussia.( Steinberg 47-48)The first vocal soloists to perform this were Henriette Sontag (soprano), Karoline Ungersabatier ( alto), Anton Haizinger ( tenor), and Joseph Seipelt (bass). Only two rehearsals were gad been possible for the performance with mixed critical success. The symphony's required orchestration includes: two flutes and piccolo

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    On April 16, the talented NY-based Cuban pianist and composer, Elio Villafranca, returned to the ‘Jazz at Lincoln Center’, after the 2015 performances at the Appel Room, to present his refined musical project ‘Cinqué – Suite of the Caribbean’, this time at the Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, where he previously recorded his record ‘Caribbean Tinge: Live From Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola’ dated from 2014. The cozy venue, allowing us to contemplate the blue skies and tall buildings of Manhattan through the glass

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    On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Sarah, my uncle and I traveled to the Winspear Opera House in downtown Dallas to see Matilda the Musical. Audience members observed the beloved story by Roald Dahl come to life on stage. This is the musical’s first national tour filled with an incredibly young and talented cast that draws readers into the story. One exciting detail worth mentioning is I’ve had the pleasure of personally meeting two of the talented cast members, Michael Fatica and John Michael Fiumara

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    The most notable of his accomplishments is the soundtrack from ‘Moana’, the 2016 Disney film. Miranda received a Grammy Award and an Oscar Nomination for ‘How Far I’ll Go’, one of the most popular songs from the film. He also made appearances in ‘Sopranos’, ‘How I Met Your Mother’, ‘Modern Family’, ‘200 Cordos’, and ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green’. The music from ‘Bring it On: The Musical’ was also written by Miranda. In addition, he wrote a song with Tom Kitt called “Bigger”, which is used in some

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    This trend has continued to the present day. The stereotype of Italian Americans has been fostered especially through commercially successful movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas and Casino; and TV programs such as The Sopranos. In actuality, as recent FBI statistics shows, only one IA in 6,000 has any involvement with organized crime. The mass media has consistently ignored five centuries of Italian American history, and has elevated what was never more than a minute subculture

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