Musicals of the 1960s through 1980s differ from that of the musical Crazy for You, by George and Ira Gershwin in style and subject matter. According to IBDB.com, Crazy for You premiered on Broadway in 1992 and ran for four years (“Crazy for You.” IBDB.com). Although it came out in the 1990s, long after the Gershwin brothers died, the lyrics and music were still done by them because the soundtrack of the musical consisted of old Gershwin songs from earlier musicals by them and were then mix-matched to create a coherent story, therefore all of the music in the show was written in the early 1900s and has the classic Broadway, swing to it. There is a feeling of relaxation in the music, unlike that of contemporary music. Modern music gives off a
Music can change time, tempo, dynamics, and mood very fast. This music can also be easy on the ears to quite difficult to listen to. “It is natural enough for the uninitiated to imagine that all problematic music may be safely damned under a single heading. But actually, even in the old days of "ultra-modern" music, a great many different kinds of music were grouped indiscriminately together,
Devin Dew Frisch ELA 10 Honors 27 March 2023 How Music has Shaped America In the United States a person listens to approximately 20 hours of music per week. Music plays a large role in most people's daily lives. It can change a person's mood, keep people focused, and be a good conversation topic. What most people don't realize is that music has played an important role in shaping America.
Rodger and Hammerstein 's Oklahoma! changed the form of musicals. By writing the music around the book, artists were able to focus more on stories, and how the music would support these stories. Along with Oklahoma!, shows that followed, such as Carousel, Kiss me Kate, and Guys and Dolls, used music as a means to further the story or a characters arch. Musical 's content during this time period were very different from their predecessors. For example the show On the Town explores women sexuality.
Heinrich Heine once said, “when words leave off, music begins.” These words are the illumination for my sought out career. When the audience cannot react to the emotions that the actors attempt to portray in a film, I want my music to bridge the connection of a viewer and the atmosphere of the film. I saw my favorite band, Florence And The Machine, in the summer of 2016. I found myself in a room full of people who could escape reality with the simple act of playing a song.
Sadly, it doesn’t communicate Its intentions thoroughly. The performance lacks in many areas including but not limited to music choice, diversity, and modernism. Music throughout the night was disappointing and simple. An example of this is in the beginning of the performance when the lights dimmed and the crowd “oohed” and “awed”. The first thing to attack their vulnerable senses was the music.
One of my favorite authors of all time has to be Maurice Sendak, he started off as a comic book writer and then eventually found his passion for picture books and made one of the greatest picture books known to us today “Where the Wild Things Are”. Maurice Sendak is one of the most renowned children’s author, he was born on June 10, 1928 in New York City he also studied at the Art Students League and illustrated more than 80 books by other writers before authoring one himself. One of his most famous books that got him noticed the most was the captivating picture book of Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendaks childhood was one of art, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York who started to draw to pass the time but it was ultimately his talent and passion for art that landed him a part-time job at All-American Comics while in high school.
Broadway musicals were a major part of American popular culture in the 1950s. Every season, new musicals of the 1950s sent songs to the top of the charts. Public demand, a booming economy and abundant creative talent kept Broadway alive hopping. In the 1950s Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein remained the musical theater’s most potent creative team. At one time they had four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway and film versions of their musicals Oklahoma, Carousel and South Pacific grossed millions of dollars worldwide.
The songs in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals are memorable. I believe that is why they are still popular today. My family is musically inclined and my sisters and aunt always sing songs from "Cinderella", "The King & I" and "Oklahoma. " I found myself singing along with the actress during "Never Walk Alone."
While the subject of the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke has spurred passionate academic debate from professors, scholars, and students alike, the imagery, syntax, and diction of the poem clearly support the interpretation that Roethke writes “My Papa’s Waltz” to show him reminiscing on his relationship and many memories, good and bad with his father from when he was a child. Imagery is used to represent the joyful or even unsure times that Roethke and his father experienced. His father arrives home, after work not wasting time to wash his hand leaving them “a palm caked hard by dirt,” to make sure that he gets to hang out with his son before bedtime. As the boys played around making messes and maybe breaking something here and
The Senior English Curriculum currently uses texts that are easy to read and have very amusing contexts and allow students to pick different themes to read about. Like the theme of identity and acceptance which are evident in the novel Looking for Alibrandi, or the corrupting sensation of guilt which is seen throughout the novel of The Song of an Innocent Bystander. Poems are also analysed, and the poem The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, represents the concept of love and romanticism, and what better way to show the effect of love is through the supremacy of jealousy and manipulation in the Shakespearian play Othello. All these texts have their own ideas and representations of concepts, which are all deemed suitable for a senior English class.
It is incredible to know that using music during war can have such an influence on the modern
Younger generations are inseparable from their headphone but when asked about music, they become soundless and grow distant. In “Can Music Save Your Life,” college professor Mark Edmundson describes his studies of how music affects the mind and concludes that music makes the generation feel like their voices are heard through the lyrics. He believes that people use music to escape our fears, reality, and to soothe ourselves. When individuals listen to a specific song that opens a door in their minds, they tend to listen to the song repeatedly until it has no effect anymore and the door closes. Music makes people search further into themselves and they begin to flourish through every lyric, every note, and every instrument played in the song.
Music has been an object of miracle, amazement, and even fear since the start of its presence. It has been used as a tool to shape culture and society through history. Music and its people influencing the lives and activities of society. Is this a good thing? Most would say yes.
This is because music has a powerful impact to human’s emotions