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Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the "Four Seasons". Many of his compositions were written for the
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to present "Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia", a 21st-century interpretation of Bach’s masterpiece in which musicians are choreographed on stage alongside dancers. In 2016, Scottish Ensemble collaborated with composer/producer Anna Meredith and her sister, the visual artist Eleanor Meredith, on "Anno". This new commission combined Vivaldi's Four Seasons with new electronic compositions by Anna Meredith, creating one continuous piece of music. "Anno" was released as a recording in August 2018 to great critical acclaim, including BBC 6 Music's Album Of The Day. In 2017, the group joined with pioneering Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point to create "Tabula Rasa",
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appears to have started this trend of adapting music from "The Four Seasons", and since then it has expanded into many aspects of the performing arts (as have other instrumental & vocal works by the composer). This "contest between harmony and invention" (as it were) now involves various genres around the world: 1775 The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons () is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight
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Threads (David S. Ware album) Threads is an album by saxophonist and composer David S. Ware's String Ensemble which was recorded in 2003 and released on the Thirsty Ear label. In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states ""Threads" is easily Ware's classic thus far in that it showcases the musician at the height of all of his powers: improvisational, compositional, and as an arranger and bandleader. This is Ware's masterpiece and the first really new compositional statement in jazz in years" The Guardian's John Fordham stated "Some fascinating free-improv, often against startlingly tender and conventionally-harmonised textures, though unlikely to
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The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons () is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as ("The Contest Between Harmony and Invention"). "The Four Seasons" is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows motifs from a Sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera "Il Giustino". The inspiration for the concertos was probably
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which also contains a transcription, copyright 1930, by the slightly older composer of Steinberg's third symphony for piano four-hands.) Maximilian Steinberg Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (Russian Максимилиан Осеевич Штейнберг; – 6 December 1946) was a Russian composer of classical music. Though once considered the hope of Russian music, Steinberg is far less well known today than his mentor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his rival Igor Stravinsky, or his student protege Dmitri Shostakovich. During the early 21st century, however, Steinberg's choral concerto "Passion Week" was rediscovered and performed for the first time. It was instantly lavishly praised as a masterpiece by both lovers and
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La damnation de Faust La damnation de Faust (English: "The Damnation of Faust"), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "légende dramatique" (dramatic legend). It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846. The French composer was inspired by a translation of Goethe's dramatic poem "Faust" and produced a musical work that, like the masterpiece on which it is based, defies easy categorisation. Conceived at various times as a free-form oratorio and as an opera (Berlioz
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D.C. During the period in which Rothko worked on his murals, the Four Seasons rented Jackson Pollock's masterpiece "Blue Poles" from its then-owner, art collector Ben Heller. John Logan's Tony Award-winning 2010 play "Red" dramatizes Rothko's time working on the Seagram Murals. From 1975 until 1985 four paintings by Ronnie Landfield from the collection of Philip Johnson were installed on the wall that had been initially planned for the Mark Rothko commission. In 1985 the artist James Rosenquist was commissioned to install a permanent mural on the wall; the Landfield paintings were returned to Philip Johnson. A major Richard Lippold
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Yellow Fields Yellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1975 and released on the ECM label. The Allmusic review awarded the album four out of five stars. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" awarded it the maximum four stars and placed it in their Core Collection, writing "Weber's masterpiece is essentially a period piece which nevertheless still seems modern. The sound of it is almost absurdly opulent: bass passages and swimming keyboard textures that reverberate from the speakers, chords that seem to hum with huge overtones. The keyboard textures in particular are of
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a kind that will probably never be heard on record again." All compositions by Eberhard Weber. Yellow Fields Yellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1975 and released on the ECM label. The Allmusic review awarded the album four out of five stars. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" awarded it the maximum four stars and placed it in their Core Collection, writing "Weber's masterpiece is essentially a period piece which nevertheless still seems modern. The sound of it is almost absurdly opulent: bass passages and swimming keyboard textures that reverberate from the
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Rob Morsberger Robert E. "Rob" Morsberger (August 9, 1959 – June 2, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and classically trained composer. As a sideman/arranger, his credits include Patti Smith, the Grammy-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack album, My Morning Jacket, Crash Test Dummies, Marshall Crenshaw, Willie Nile, Jules Shear, Loudon Wainwright III, and more. Morsberger was born in Ohio, raised in Oxford, England and studied composition at the University of Edinburgh. He composed music for PBS programs including Masterpiece Theatre, NOVA and Frontline. He was composer for the award-winning PBS series NOVAscienceNOW for its first five seasons. Morsberger was diagnosed with grade
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Masterpiece (Mami Kawada song) "masterpiece" is the seventh single released by the J-pop singer, Mami Kawada, and was released on February 4, 2009. The title track was used as the second opening theme for the anime series "A Certain Magical Index" which is her third tie-in with the anime series. This is also Kawada's first single to be produced by a female composer/arranger of I've Sound, which is Maiko Iuchi. The coupling song jellyfish was used as an insert song on the twenty-third episode of "A Certain Magical Index" making this Kawada's 4th tie-in with the said anime series. The
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separate models in the post World War II years. One of these was the K-38 Target Masterpiece, which began production in 1947. The Target Masterpiece included a number of new and/or special features, including a six-inch barrel with a narrow rib to provide a level sight plane, a Patridge front sight, a micrometer click rear sight, S&W’s .375” short-throw hammer, a trigger adjustment for overtravel, and improved grips. Noting the accuracy of the Target Masterpiece, a number of police departments and the FBI soon requested the same revolver with a four-inch barrel and a Baughman Quick Draw front sight. The
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teases out and heightens this colour, sometimes with Vivaldi uppermost, sometimes himself. It is a subtle and often moving piece of work, which suggests that after years of tedious disco and trance versions of Mozart, the field of the classical remix has finally become interesting. Main personnel Additional personnel Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is the 2012 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on August 31, 2012 on Universal Classics and Jazz (Germany), a division of Universal Music Group, and Deutsche Grammophon. The album is a
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and mechanical phenomena. Xenakis released a set of recordings between 1957 and 1962, from which "Diamorphoses" was the first and most notable one. It was eventually finished and presented on October 5, 1958, in Brussels. "Diamorphoses" was created on a 2-track tape and, therefore, has a fixed total length of 6 minutes and 57 seconds. It is typically played on at least four speakers. Diamorphoses Diamorphoses () is the first electroacoustic composition by French composer Iannis Xenakis. It was created between 1957 and 1958 and is considered a masterpiece in several academic books on history of electroacoustic music. After the
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music to the ninth season of 24, "", a special event-series, after a four-year hiatus. In 2015, he scored the music to Marvel's "Jessica Jones" on Netflix, for which he won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Music, which brings his total Emmy wins up to four. Sean Callery Sean Callery (born 1964) is a film and television composer best known as the composer for the action/drama "24", a TV series for which he also composed three . The first soundtrack, containing music from the first three seasons was released on December 7, 2004. The second soundtrack, containing
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Schoenberg substituted the Intermezzo at Zemlinsky's suggestion. A large work consisting of one movement which lasts longer than 45 minutes, Schoenberg's First String Quartet was his first assured masterpiece, and it was the real beginning of his reputation as a composer. Begun in the summer of 1904 and completed in September 1905, this quartet is remarkable for its density and intensity of orchestration with only four instruments. Unlike his later works, this work is tonal, bearing the key of D minor, though it stretches this to its limit with the thoroughly extended tonality of late Romantic music, such as the
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Vivaldi, this "Four Seasons" uses the calendar year as a metaphor for a circle of life... "Pittsburgh Live" By Mark Kanny / TRIBUNE-REVIEW CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC / Monday, August 5, 2002 Vache Sharafyan’s "The Four Seasons" was the significant world premiere, including Armenian poetry as a prelude to each of the four movements… Sharafyan’s language includes remarkable solo writing … The composer is not afraid of dissonance, and the furious intensity he achieves serves clear narrative intent, including real satisfaction. David Harrington (Kronos Quartet) wrote: “I find him (Sharafyan) to be a fascinating and expressive composer whose music unites the
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Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is the 2012 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on August 31, 2012 on Universal Classics and Jazz (Germany), a division of Universal Music Group, and Deutsche Grammophon. The album is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". Although Richter said that he had discarded 75% of Vivaldi's original material, the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music. The album was composed by Max Richter, played by the violinist
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eighth film adaptation, which will be directed by Greta Gerwig, is scheduled for release on December 25, 2019. "Little Women" was adapted into a television musical, in 1958, by composer Richard Adler for CBS. "Little Women" has been made into a serial four times by the BBC: in 1950 (when it was shown live), in 1958, in 1970, and in 2017. The 2017 series development was supported by PBS, and was aired as part of the PBS Masterpiece anthology in 2018. In the 1980s, two anime series were made in Japan "Little Women" in 1981 and "Tales of Little Women"
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unconventional, revered Nikkatsu films and an international cult classic. It has been declared a masterpiece by the likes of film critic Chuck Stephens, writer and musician Chris D., composer John Zorn and film director Quentin Tarantino. Writer and critic Tony Rayns noted, "Suzuki mocks everything from the clichés of yakuza fiction to the conventions of Japanese censorship in this extraordinary thriller, which rivals Orson Welles' "Lady from Shanghai" in its harsh eroticism, not to mention its visual fireworks." Modified comparisons to the films of a "gonzo Sam Fuller", or Jean-Luc Godard, assuming one "factor[s] out Godard's politics and self-consciousness", are
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as a freelance composer and songwriter. Billy West handed Patterson’s demo CD out around Los Angeles and it soon found its way into the hands of Doug Langdale and Audu Paden, who hired him as composer for the animated series, Project G.e.e.K.e.R. in 1995. Patterson was the score composer and songwriter for three seasons on the Emmy Award winning series "Robot Chicken" and series score composer for the award-winning TV series, "", directed by "The Book of Life"’s Jorge R. Gutierrez. Patterson is also the score composer and songwriter on DreamWorks Animation’s "The Adventures of Puss in Boots", a Netflix
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of beauty, and therefore as the paradigm of femininity. Sarrasine’s Pygmalion-like sculpted image of the “female” La Zambinella accordingly represents the “complete woman.” This “masterpiece,” however, is highly problematic given its original starting point as a male body—and its refashioning into a female one through the psychological projections and artistic expertise of a man. What ultimately grounds the text is the fundamental destabilization caused by Zambinella’s anatomy, which is perceived by Sarrasine as masterpiece, origin, and referent: in Zambinella, therefore, lies Sarrasine’s own potential for castration. S/Z S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes's structural analysis of "Sarrasine", the short
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trio "enriched" the song, which was already a stand-out track from "MDNA". Journalist Liz Smith wrote in her blog for "The Huffington Post" that Madonna's vocals, when she sings live is "effective and moving", especially in the performance of "Masterpiece". This view was shared by Dean Piper from "Daily Mirror". "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"s Melissa Ruggieri considered it the show's highlight, while a writer for "The Glasgow Herald" felt that the performance invigorated Madonna's artistic side. Credits and personnel adapted from the liner notes of "MDNA". Masterpiece (Madonna song) "Masterpiece" is a song by American singer Madonna for the soundtrack of
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The Seasons' last single on Philips, 1970's "Patch of Blue", featured the band's name as "Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons", but the change in billing did not revive the band's fortunes. Reverting to the "Four Seasons" billing without Valli's name up front, the band issued a single on Crewe's eponymous label, a rendition of "And That Reminds Me", which peaked at number 45 on the Billboard chart. After leaving Philips, the Four Seasons recorded a one-off single for the Warner Bros. label in England, "Sleeping Man", backed by "Whatever You Say", which was never released in the USA. John
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American modern classical composer Richard Einhorn for the American Revolutionary War-era Public Broadcasting Service documentary miniseries, "Liberty! The American Revolution" (the companion album is "Liberty!"). The theme music for the miniseries is O'Connor's "Song of the Liberty Bell." In 1999, he recorded his "Fanfare For The Volunteer" with the London Philharmonic for Sony Classical, and one of his most critically acclaimed orchestral pieces "American Seasons", which alludes to The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), for Sony Classical as well. "American Seasons", and his "Strings & Threads" Suite (1986) was performed by The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in 2001 at the Great Performers concert
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from the General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles for performing Chopin's music in Arizona. The Four Seasons Orchestra has performed for the Ambassador's Ball in Phoenix numerous times hosted by various consulates here in Arizona and delivered numerous notable performances around the world with positive reviews. In the year, 2000, the Four Seasons Orchestra was nominated in two Grammy Award categories; "Best Small Ensemble" and "Best New Composition". Four Seasons Orchestra Four Seasons Orchestra a Scottsdale, Arizona-based Orchestra founded by the conductor, composer, violist and writer Carolyn Waters Broe in 1991. The orchestra was founded in
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It was recorded in 1954 by Vogue Records in Paris, France, and was later remastered in stereo and re-released by Nonesuch records in the 1960s. During the first seasons in the 1970s, the theme music accompanied varying closeup shots of a waving British flag, which panned out into a still image of a British flag on a staff serving as the P in "Masterpiece". In the late 1970s, the opening video switched to views of antique books and other literary artifacts, many of which titles had been dramatized on the program. In 1980, "Masterpiece" gained a sister series, "Mystery!", featuring
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The Private Life of a Masterpiece The Private Life of a Masterpiece was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing on 8 December 2001 and ending on 25 December 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 8 December 2001 to 17 April 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long. A seven-DVD box set of the first five series was released in 2007, which re-arranged the documentaries into genres from art history. A further seven episodes
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Tim Jones (film composer) Timothy Stuart Jones (born 1971) is an American composer and musician. Jones has composed scores for film and television. In 2012, Jones composed the score for 13 episodes of "Cult". Jones is perhaps best known as the composer for five seasons (91 episodes) of "Chuck" on NBC. Jones also took over scoring duties on season 2 of "Human Target" on Fox. Tim Jones, who majored in film scoring, graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Jones has had several collaborations with writer/director J. S. Cardone ("The Forsaken", "True
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J.R.'s Masterpiece "J.R.'s Masterpiece" is the eighth episode in the second season (2013) of the television series "Dallas". The episode features the funeral of J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman), who was killed in the previous episode "The Furious and the Fast". The plot of the episode featured the funeral service of J.R. Ewing, as well as the memorial service, held at the Dallas Petroleum Club. Guests in attendance include Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes, J.R.'s longtime rival who comes to pay his "disrespects", Ted Shackelford as Gary Ewing, the sober black sheep brother of J.R., Steve Kanaly as half-brother
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first time J.R.'s absence from the show had to be written in. Cynthia Cidre's original pilot script included J.R. in a relatively important role to the series, but due to contractual disputes between Hagman and TNT, she was made to rewrite the script to utilize archive footage of the titular character, as well as reduce characters Sue Ellen Ewing and Bobby Ewing to recurring characters. As negotiations with the actors were completed, the roles of the series veterans were restored in the pilot and beyond. J.R.'s Masterpiece "J.R.'s Masterpiece" is the eighth episode in the second season (2013) of the
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American play ""The Indians Discover Columbus"" of Jefferson Award Winning storyteller Jean Chadhuri for the 500th anniversary of Native American Hospitality Day (also known as Columbus Day). World Premiere of Carolyn Broe's ""Rebirth of the Goddess"" and an Arizona premiere of Native American composer Brent Michael Davids' ""Indian Overture"" for flute and orchestra were also given. The Four Seasons Orchestra performed at an 9-11 Tribute Concert in 2002 at the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church as well as gave the world premieres of Tucson composer Thomas Woodson's ""Fanfares for the Fallen Heroes and the Victims of 9-11"". The Four
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bowling alley. It was called the Four Seasons." Despite the last few years of frustration of the Four Lovers, this proved to be the turning point for the band. Later, on a handshake agreement between keyboardist/composer Bob Gaudio and lead singer Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons Partnership was formed. The Four Seasons signed as artists to Crewe's production company, and they released their first Crewe-produced single under their new name in 1961 ("Bermuda"/"Spanish Lace" on Gone Records). The single did not chart. The band continued working with producer Bob Crewe as background vocalists, and sometimes leads under different band names,
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Ray Krebbs, Charlene Tilton as niece Lucy Ewing, Cathy Podewell as J.R.'s second wife Cally Harper, and Deborah Shelton as Mandy Winger, J.R's mistress during the 1984–87 seasons of the original series. Appearing as themselves are Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings. As a result of Hagman's death, and therefore his character's, the remaining season's plot will focus on the same question raised in the original series, "Who shot J.R.?" dubbed into "Who killed J.R.?" Larry Hagman appeared in seven of the fifteen episodes slated for the season before his death.
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Chater, who listed it at Number 30 in "The top 50 TV shows of the Noughties". The Private Life of a Masterpiece The Private Life of a Masterpiece was a BBC arts documentary series which told the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing on 8 December 2001 and ending on 25 December 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 8 December 2001 to 17 April 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode was 50 minutes long. A seven-DVD box set of the first five series was
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World Masterpiece Theater The first several series were produced by Mushi Production and then by Zuiyo Eizo, and then by Zuiyo's successor Nippon Animation, which was officially established in June 1975 during the run of "A Dog of Flanders". In both cases, the series originally aired primarily on Fuji Television. Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata both worked on several of the series. "World Masterpiece Theater" as produced by Nippon Animation lasted for 23 seasons, from "A Dog of Flanders" in 1975 to "Remi, Nobody's Girl" (家なき子レミ, "Ie Naki Ko Remi", "Sans Famille") in 1997. Nippon Animation restarted the series in
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Four Seasons Orchestra Four Seasons Orchestra a Scottsdale, Arizona-based Orchestra founded by the conductor, composer, violist and writer Carolyn Waters Broe in 1991. The orchestra was founded in 1991 by Carolyn Waters Broe and started with its first performance in January 1992 at Phoenix Civic Center with an audience of 2,000 people at the first MLK Arts and Education Concert on Arizona's first MLK Day. The orchestra started performing regularly in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The orchestra has been reported to comprise 25 to 30 members. In 1992, the Four Seasons Orchestra and Indian Women in Progress performed the Native
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AD&D Masterpiece Collection The AD&D Masterpiece Collection is a collection of roleplaying games for Microsoft Windows, produced by Mindscape/SSI in 1996. The "Masterpiece Collection" included six of SSI's official "AD&D" licensed games in one box: "", "", "", "", "", and "Forgotten Realms: Menzoberranzan". The games are all contained on four CD-ROMs, each of which also contains the relevant manuals in Adobe Acrobat format, allowing them to be printed out with exactly the same layout that they had originally. Andy Butcher reviewed the "Masterpiece Collection" for "Arcane" magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. He concluded that "six
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Iberia (Albéniz) Iberia is a suite for piano composed between 1905 and 1909 by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. It is composed of four books of three pieces each; a complete performance lasts about 90 minutes. It is Albéniz's best-known work and considered his masterpiece. It was highly praised by Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen, who said: ""Iberia" is the wonder for the piano; it is perhaps on the highest place among the more brilliant pieces for the king of instruments". Stylistically, this suite falls squarely in the school of Impressionism, especially in its musical evocations of Spain. Dedicated to
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and the general public and caused a major controversy through the Japanese film industry. Suzuki was blacklisted and did not make another feature film for 10 years but became a counterculture hero. The film grew a strong following, which expanded overseas in the 1980s, and has established itself as a cult classic. Film critics and enthusiasts now regard it as an absurdist masterpiece. It has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, John Woo, Chan-wook Park and Quentin Tarantino, and composer John Zorn. Thirty-four years after "Branded to Kill", Suzuki filmed "Pistol Opera" (2001) with Nikkatsu,
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Rockne S. O'Bannon Rockne S. O'Bannon is an American television writer, screenwriter and producer. O'Bannon has created five original television series ("Farscape", "seaQuest", "Defiance", "Cult", and "Alien Nation"). O'Bannon made his writing debut selling spec material to NBC's "Amazing Stories" (1985) and CBS's "The Twilight Zone" (1985), but first garnered critical attention for his film "Alien Nation" (1988) and its subsequent spinoff television show. His next notable achievement was his original series "seaQuest DSV" (1993) which ran for three seasons. O'Bannon's most critically acclaimed success was the space epic "Farscape" on The Sci-Fi Channel (1999–2003) which ran for four seasons
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the Palace of Versailles This "rondeau" from the first "Suite de Symphonies" is well known as the theme from "Masterpiece Theatre", and remains popular at weddings. In 2008, the first four episodes of "Boing Boing Video"s "SPAMasterpiece Theater" opened with a chiptune remix of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson as a parody of "Masterpiece Theatre". Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1 The Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings & timpani No. 1 (Suite De Symphonies, Première Suite de Symphonies) was written by Jean-Joseph Mouret, in the baroque era of music. The first movement
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Off You", a Gaudio-Crewe composition, which rose to number two. It was the last Gaudio composition for the Four Seasons to chart in the Top 20 until 1975's "Who Loves You". The song is included in Act Two of the Broadway musical about the Four Seasons, "Jersey Boys". It was used as the main theme of an ad campaign for Adidas, celebrating the company's 60th anniversary. In 2007, French disc jockey Pilooski re-edited and released his version of the Four Seasons song on 2 June. This version reached #32 in the UK and #1 on the UK Dance Chart. It
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their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantatas. The most significant composer of "oratorio latino" was Giacomo Carissimi, whose "Jephte" is regarded as the first masterpiece of the genre. Like most other Latin oratorios of the period, it is in one section only. In the late baroque oratorios increasingly became "sacred opera". In Rome and Naples Alessandro Scarlatti was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet Metastasio produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Caldara, Hasse and others. Metastasio's best known oratorio libretto "La passione di Gesù Cristo" was set
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Charles Calello Charlie Calello (born August 24, 1938) is an American, singer, composer, conductor, arranger, and record producer born in Newark, New Jersey. Calello attended Newark Arts High School and the Manhattan School of Music, in New York City. In the late 1950s, Calello was a member of Frankie Valli's group The Four Lovers, but left before the group was transformed into The Four Seasons. In 1962, he became the group's musical arranger. In 1965, he joined the Four Seasons' lineup as bassist, replacing Nick Massi (who was Calello's replacement in The Four Lovers five years earlier). Calello departed the
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José Macias Composer(s): Mario de Jesús Composer(s): Rodríguez / Soliño Composer(s): No rights reserved Composer(s): Mario Suárez/ Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): Luis Cruz Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): no rights reserved Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba / L.G. Fleitas Beroes Composer(s): Chucho Monge Composer(s): Alvaro Carrillo Azopardo Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Moliendo Café (album) Moliendo Café is a 2002 compilation album by Mario Suárez on the Yoyo USA label. The album presents songs of Venezuelan music. Composer(s): Hugo Blanco Composer(s): Ismael Orozco/ C. Ramírez / R. Cesar Composer(s): Billo Frómeta Composer(s): Juan Vicente
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Moliendo Café (album) Moliendo Café is a 2002 compilation album by Mario Suárez on the Yoyo USA label. The album presents songs of Venezuelan music. Composer(s): Hugo Blanco Composer(s): Ismael Orozco/ C. Ramírez / R. Cesar Composer(s): Billo Frómeta Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba/ L.G. Fleitas Beroes Composer(s): Johnny Quiroz Composer(s): Amado Lovera Composer(s): P.E. Sánchez Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): William Atencio Composer(s): Juan Vicente Torrealba Composer(s): D. Ramos / Dario Composer(s): M. Toedorakis / W. Sansón / R. Pentágonos Composer(s): Lito Bayardo / Juan Larenza Composer(s): José La Riva Contreras Composer(s):
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1967 and 1973. Other major orchestral works include "Aura" and "Biogramma" (both 1967) and "Quadrivium", for four percussionists and four orchestral groups (premiered at the 1969 Royan Festival). Giuseppe Sinopoli recorded all three of these pieces with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1979. Maderna's "Requiem", composed between 1944 and 1946, was rediscovered and performed in 2009; the American composer Virgil Thomson saw an unfinished version of the score in 1946 and praised it as a masterpiece. Bruno Maderna also produced scores for eight films and two documentaries. The last of these was for Giulio Questi's thriller "La morte
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compilation "Something to Remember". Blogcritics editor Tyrone S. Reid called the song a "slow-burning instant classic," which recalls Madonna's "Ray of Light" era. A writer for Idolator website said that the song's minimal production "remind[s] us very much of Madge's "American Life" days, allowing us to focus on the lovely lyrics and Madonna's gorgeous vocals. All in all, a terrific effort that bodes well for ["MDNA"]." Robert Copsey from Digital Spy felt that the song's production is more "organic" and "it doesn't try to be anything other than a solid pop song." On January 15, 2012, "Masterpiece" won the Best
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launched on 19 June 2012 at Prasad Studios in Chennai; directors K. Balachander and K. S. Sethumadhavan released the audio. "Thappattam", a club number, was sung by Lakshmy's daughter Sharadha along with the composer. The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV. "Aarohanam" opened to mostly positive reviews from critics. Vivek Ramz from "in.com" gave the film 4.5 out of 5 and said that it's a must watch experience and added that It's a unique masterpiece of cinema and one couldn't afford to miss this film at any cost! N. Venkateswaran from "The Times of India" gave
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Symphony No. 3 (Madetoja) The Symphony No. 3 in A major, Op. 55, is a four-movement orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja, who wrote the piece from 1925–26 while vacationing in Paris, before returning to Helsinki, Finland to complete the work. Optimistic and pastorale in character, the symphony is today considered one of the finest symphonies in the post-Sibelian, Finnish orchestral canon; indeed, a "masterpiece ... equal in stature" to Sibelius's seven essays in the form. Although technically his penultimate symphonic composition (a fourth symphony was lost and thus never completed), the Third is nonetheless—due to its successor's
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was hailed by critics, fellow composers, and other musical experts as a masterpiece of the post-war avant-garde from its first performance in 1955. Interviewed in 2014, the composer Harrison Birtwistle declared that "Le Marteau sans maître" "is the kind of piece, in all the noise of contemporary music that's gone on in my lifetime, I’d like to have written" . Another British composer, George Benjamin, described the work as “a breakthrough. It is a work in which you can also hear the profound influence of extra-European music, above all from Asia and Africa. This radically alters the sonority and the
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rag, and has been seen as demonstrating Joplin's excellence as a classical composer. The work has been described as "an enchantingly beautiful piece that is among the greatest of Ragtime Waltzes", a "masterpiece", and "Joplin's finest waltz". Joplin's principal claim to fame was the publication in 1899 of the Maple Leaf Rag, which became a best-selling instrumental hit, and provided the composer with a steady income for the rest of his life from the royalties. Despite this success early on in his career (he was named as the "King of Ragtime" by numerous contemporaries), he had continued financial problems and
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Marc Giacone Marc Giacone is a composer, organist and improviser from Monaco. Born in 1954 at Monaco, he studied pipe organ with the masters Émile Bourdon, Canon Henri Carol, and Jean Wallet, musical improvisation with Pierre Cochereau and musical composition (harmony, counterpoint, orchestration). Composer, electroacoustic researcher, virtuoso improviser, he belongs to the new generation of contemporary musicians for which all the forms of musical expression can find their place in masterpiece and even combine (jazz, fusion, folklore, atonality, dodecaphony, sound effects, etc.). He composes many pieces for organ, harp, piano, flute, trombone, vibraphone, orchestra, synthesizer, cinema, television, radio, etc. He
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the 1965 Beach Boys song "California Girls", performed by Gidea Park (a tribute band), is used during a chase in which Bond snowboards; it has been suggested that this teaser sequence helped initiate interest in snowboarding. The film features Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", which is performed during the reception that Bond attends undercover at Zorin's stud in France. In the remastered CD edition, the third track is incorrectly labeled "May Day Jumpers" on the back of the case. Composer John Barry utilizes four leitmotifs on the soundtrack, that recurs in two or more of the tracks listed. One is pinned
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2006 DVD release, since which the film has proven highly polarizing for audiences. Of four user reviews currently on IMDb, opinion is split between two hailing it as a misunderstood masterpiece and the others disparaging it as one of the worst movies ever made. One of the two positive reviews argues that its genius lies in its prophecy of 21st century reality television. Both also find value in the film as a sociological study of late 1960's America. The negative reviews both regard Mailer's massive ego as intolerable, but one review finds the film's only purpose is to serve as
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Music has seen the group record the 2013 album "composed NOISE", consisting of all new string quartets with elements of improvisation by seven leading Australian composers including Andrew Ford and Rosalind Page. Their 2015 release "Stream" was a double album consisting of all improvised material, which just like "composed NOISE" received four-star reviews in the Sydney Morning Herald, with SMH jazz critic John Shand describing the aesthetic as "...melodic, evocative, starkly beautiful... and coher[ing] with sometimes uncanny precision...". Due for release is Georges Lentz's 6-hour masterpiece "String Quartet(s)" on which The Noise collaborated. The Noise (string quartet) The Noise are
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for the third act. As for fears for the opera's success, the composer had none: "Have no fear for me...My work will be a success", he stated. At its premiere "Don Pasquale" was performed by four of the most celebrated singers of the day and was an immediate success. It was recognized at the time as Donizetti's comic masterpiece and, to this day, is still considered as such. "Pasquale" remains one of the most popular of his 66 operas, as well as being one of the three most popular Italian comic operas, the others being Rossini's "The Barber of Seville"
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opera based on the novel in two acts was composed by Chinese American composer Bright Sheng, with libretto by Sheng and David Henry Hwang. The three-hour opera had its world premiere on September 10, 2016, by the San Francisco Opera. Dream of the Red Chamber Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was written some time in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing dynasty. Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the novel is generally acknowledged to be the
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Songs and Dances of Death Songs and Dances of Death (, "Pesni i plyaski smerti") is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer. Each song deals with death in a poetic manner although the depictions are realistic in that they reflect experiences not uncommon in 19th century Russia: child death, death in youth, drunken misadventure and war. The song cycle is considered Mussorgsky's masterpiece in the genre. "Songs and Dances of Death" consists of four individual songs, as
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Songs and Dances of Death Songs and Dances of Death (, "Pesni i plyaski smerti") is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer. Each song deals with death in a poetic manner although the depictions are realistic in that they reflect experiences not uncommon in 19th century Russia: child death, death in youth, drunken misadventure and war. The song cycle is considered Mussorgsky's masterpiece in the genre. "Songs and Dances of Death" consists of four individual songs, as
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Paul Drayton (composer) Paul Drayton (born 28 December 1944) is a British composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher. He was educated at High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1956 to 1962. He studied music at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was subsequently Director of Music at New College School, Oxford. He later taught and was composer-in-residence at Stowe School near Buckingham. Many of his compositions are vocal. His piece entitled "Masterpiece" was sung by the King's Singers in their 2005 DVD release "From Byrd to the Beatles". He is the author of a listeners' guide to music entitled "Unheard Melodies or Trampolining
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Beggin' "Beggin" is a song composed by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. In 2007, the song received new popularity when it was remixed by the French DJ Pilooski and then covered by the Norwegian hip-hop band Madcon. Keyboardist/songwriter Bob Gaudio had not written a Four Seasons single since 1965's "Girl Come Running", although he had written or co-written almost every Four Seasons hit up to then. "Beggin, the second single from the Four Seasons' "New Gold Hits" album in 1967, marked Gaudio's "return" as the Seasons' songwriter, with a combination of Frankie
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what we call SPAM." The hosted series included dramatic readings by Hodgman in a parody of "Masterpiece Theatre". In 2010, "Boing Boing Video"s Jardin was picked as "Curator of the Month". She commended the series with "These were so much fun to put together." The first four "SPAMasterpiece Theater" episodes opened with a chiptune remix of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson. "PopSugar"s Lee Pace called the first episode of "SPAMasterpiece Theater" "the best viral video of the week." "Vulture"s Matthew Perpetua praised the series with "Hodgman's deadpan delivery is typically excellent, but we're particularly fond of
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Marianas Trench (band) Marianas Trench is a Canadian pop rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 2001. The band consists of members Josh Ramsay (lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, pianist, songwriter, and occasional drummer), Matt Webb (lead guitarist and backing vocalist), Mike Ayley (bass guitarist and backing vocalist), and Ian Casselman (drummer, percussionist, and backing vocalist). The band has released four full-length studio albums, the most recent titled "Astoria", released on October 23, 2015, along with 2011's "Ever After", 2009's "Masterpiece Theatre" and 2006's "Fix Me". Their third album "Ever After" was nominated for a Juno Award. Singer, guitarist, producer,
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expunge Alavida’s registration. O’Reilly J. at the Federal Court dismissed Masterpiece Inc.’s application to expunge the Alavida trade-mark. The trial judge observed that since the choice of retirement residence was an "important and expensive decision," consumers could be expected to research their decisions carefully, thereby reducing the likelihood of confusion. The trial judge found that Masterpiece Inc. had not satisfied the likelihood of confusion considerations. The Federal Court of Appeal also dismissed Masterpiece Inc.’s appeal and generally agreed with the trial judge’s approach to the confusion assessment. In both courts, the relevant date for confusion analysis was the date of
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Masterpiece Theatre (En Vogue album) Masterpiece Theatre is the fourth studio album by American recording group En Vogue, released worldwide Upon its release, "Masterpiece Theatre" received mixed reviews from critics, who acclaimed the group for their vocal performances on the songs but were divided by the overall sound of the album. A commercial disappointment, it reached number 33 on "Billboard"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 67 on the "Billboard" 200, becoming En Vogue's first album not to enter the top ten on either chart in the United States. "Masterpiece Theatre" saw similar success in international territories, where it reached
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S. Janaki Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938), popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh. She is one of the best-known playback singers in South India and has recorded 48,000 songs in 17 languages including those native to India and also languages such as Japanese and German. Starting in 1957, her career has spanned six decades. She has won four National Film Awards and 33 different State Film Awards. Widely acclaimed as one of the most versatile singers, her association with singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and composer Ilaiyaraaja is well known.
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Year" 2014. In his review of the album for AllMusic, critic Marc Deming said that "the fact that one man with a guitar and some occasional overdubs can make something this powerful and challenging is truly impressive..."Nothing Important"s best moments clearly belie its title." "Guardian" reviewer Michael Hann wrote that "this is a record that unsettles and subverts. Whether it’s a masterpiece or a fraud will become apparent with the passage of time." Nothing Important Nothing Important is a studio album by Richard Dawson, released in 2014 by Weird World. The album consists of four songs, two of which ("Nothing
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Candy Girl (The Four Seasons song) "Candy Girl" is the title of a hit single recorded in 1963 by the Four Seasons. Written by Larry Santos, it is the first original Four Seasons single not composed by either Bob Gaudio or Bob Crewe. The writer, Larry Santos, would become a chart artist in his own right with 1976's "We Can't Hide It Anymore". "Candy Girl" reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart and No. 13 on the R&B chart, the last of the group's entries to make the R&B chart. The song tackles the subject of a
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produced a number of other seminal northwest albums, particularly Trillian Green's "Metamorphosis", "Awesome"'s CD, "Delaware", and Manooghi Hi's debut "Hi". In many countries in Europe his orchestrations for Sub Pop, Glitterhouse Records, folk rock artists The Walkabouts have been widely heard. He received honors for his string arrangements for Norwegian Band Midnight Choir. His score for the Brecht masterpiece Caucasian Chalk Circle has been performed in Cape Town, London, Boise, Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Helena, Walla Walla, and New York. His surround-sound design for Lauren Weedman's "Bust!" has been duplicated in many venues around the United States. In 1987 The "epic
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Masegne, masterpiece of Gothic sculpture (late 14th century). Behind the screen, marble banisters with Sansovino's bronze statues of the Evangelists and Paliari's of the Four Doctors mark the access to the high altar, which contains St Mark’s relics. Above the high altar is a canopy (“ciborium”) on columns decorated with fine reliefs. The altarpiece is the famous Pala d'Oro, a masterpiece of Byzantine craftsmanship, originally designed for an antependium.This masterpiece incorporates 1,300 pearls, 300 sapphires, 300 emeralds, and 400 garnets. They are all original and highly polished, unfaceted gems. The original altar frontal is now in the treasury. The choir
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The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, "Vremena goda"; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The score for Marius Petipa's "Les Saisons" ("The Seasons") was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and "chef d’orchestre" to the Ballet of the
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Harlem ... passes by folks working and shopping, fighting for equal rights, festively parading, mourning at a church funeral, and includes other honest, affirmative glimpses of everyday life. ... "Harlem", with its three well-integrated themes, is regarded by a number of observers (including, reportedly, the composer himself) as Ellington's best extended work, and he chose to perform it fairly frequently at concerts. It has been called 'every bit as much a miniature masterpiece as is Rhapsody in Blue'." Jazz critic and historian Ted Gioia notes that the work is among "Ellington's more visionary projects" and is "a masterpiece by almost
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guitar, that most would have considered long since dry." In 2006, "The Wire" described "Halo" as "a criminally overlooked post-Metal masterpiece" and called Hawkins "a master of oceanic reverb and sustain, turning riffs from concrete slabs to gentle, body-caressing ripples." Adapted from the "Halo" liner notes. Halo (Azonic album) Halo is the debut album of guitarist and composer Andy Hawkins, issued under the moniker Azonic. It was released on July 1, 1994 by Strata Records. Marking a departure from his work with Blind Idiot God, the album comprises four lengthy improvised guitar drones accompanied by electronics. Hawkins described the music
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portrayals and mythological motives Herrfeldt shared with his contemporaries and relative art movements such as the Vienna Secession, with well renowned representatives such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Exploring the treasury chest of antique mythology, his preoccupation with nude painting and women portrayals are accompanied with Max Drost`s dictum that Herrfeldt is the herald of women`s beauty. His affinity to antique Mythology is pivotal and explicit in his masterpiece Poseidon, completed in 1960, a phase Herrfeldt himself refers to as his peak. Herrfeldt only dates this piece of art. Herrfeldt`s masterpiece is created by a time when the Age
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were again in accord with the seasons. However, following the collapse of the Sassanian state, after which Zoroastrianism had no central authority to govern intercalation, the practice was not maintained. As a result, in living Zoroastrianism, the Gahanbar are again no longer synchronous with the seasons. There are fifteen name-day feasts in a Zoroastrian religious year. Each of these feasts is held on the day(s) on which the day-of-the-month/month-of-the-year dedications to a "yazata" intersect. Eleven of these intersections are dedicated to individual "yazata"s, and four intersections are dedicated to Ahura Mazda. A special "Yasna" or "Jashan" (meaning "worship", "oblation") service
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for its "Kalari" (martial art), natural treatments, Sanskrit, philosophy, and spirituality. Mooloor's poetic masterpiece, "Kirathom", was what brought him accolades from different quarters in his teens. His literary masterpiece, "Kavi-Ramayanam", which he wrote at the age of 25, is deemed to be the motivational force behind the 1936 Temple Entry Proclamation, which abolished the ban on low-caste people entering Hindu temples in the state of Travancore. Padmanābhan initially studied Sanskrit, Ayurveda, kalari etc. from his father Mooloor Sankaran Vaidyar. He started writing poems right from his childhood. He is a man of letters who dedicated his life not only for
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used it as a sample in his Young Sinatra mixtape. Beggin' "Beggin" is a song composed by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. In 2007, the song received new popularity when it was remixed by the French DJ Pilooski and then covered by the Norwegian hip-hop band Madcon. Keyboardist/songwriter Bob Gaudio had not written a Four Seasons single since 1965's "Girl Come Running", although he had written or co-written almost every Four Seasons hit up to then. "Beggin, the second single from the Four Seasons' "New Gold Hits" album in 1967, marked Gaudio's
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become the site of Four Seasons Mall began in late 1958, when Joseph S. Koury, a local developer, began purchasing land south of downtown Greensboro with the intent of developing new suburban housing and shopping centers. The Four Seasons site, at the new intersection of Interstate 40 and US 29-A/US 70-A (modern day Gate City Boulevard), was earmarked as the location for the signature development of Imperial Construction, the predecessor company to Koury Corporation, which was also owned and operated by Koury. The first development on the site, a Holiday Inn hotel, opened in 1970. The mall eventually followed, with
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Aurora (Guido Reni) L'Aurora ("The Aurora") is a large Baroque ceiling fresco painted in 1614 by Guido Reni for the Casino, or garden house, adjacent to the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, in Rome. The work is considered Reni's fresco masterpiece. The casino and the paintings were commissioned by the Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a prominent art patron, and designed by Giorgio Vasanzio and Carlo Maderno, and the rear overlooks the Piazza del Quirinale in Rome. The facade is towards the small garden next to the palace. On the walls of the room are four frescoes of the "Seasons" by Paul Bril, and two
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released as a four-track extended play fittingly titled "Something Old / Something New" that was released on May 26, 2015. Similar to their previous two albums (2009's "Masterpiece Theatre" and 2011's "Ever After"), "Astoria" is conceived as a loose concept album, with a cohesive theme and transition tracks bridging the individual songs composing the album. According to Ramsay, this album is inspired by 1980s fantasy and adventure films, and "The Goonies" (1985) in particular. That film inspired the title (as it was set in Astoria, Oregon), the album's artwork, as well as the title of their accompanying US tour ("Hey
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his review. He described the album as a, "dense, beautiful collection which sees them bring in orchestras, drum loops and programming and find space for killer choruses, ballads and left field forays. The shortest song is under three minutes, the longest over 16 and the more you listen to all of them the more you'll wonder why this masterpiece wasn't massive" "Record Collector" were also highly favourable. Eleanor Goodman awarded four stars out of five in her review and commented, "though the multicoloured cover of 1999’s Clarity became familiar in music shops. Its combination of melancholy, introspective pop with faster
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presented. Academics including Ato Quayson, Bruce Janz, Adeleke Adeeko, Judith Butler, Stephen Ellis, Tejumola Olayinan, Jeremy Weate, Rita Barnard, Carola Lentz, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, and Mikael Karlstrom have published their perspectives on Mbembe's book since it was released in 2001. Ghanaian intellectual Ato Quayson of the University of Toronto calls the book “a masterpiece of rhetorical and discursive styles… as much a "philosophical" treatise on questions of power as such as it is about African politics and political economy.” He praises how Mbembe “set[s] up a peculiarly rich variety of perspectival modulations” which shed light on the four main difficulties regarding
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lynchpin of the album, which Rolling Stone called ""a masterpiece of widescreen psychedelic soft rock."" R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe collaborated on a cover of "Greenfields", a piece of dark Americana from late-50s folk revivalists The Brothers Four. (Kosten expressed incredulity about recording this, his favourite childhood song, with the R.E.M. singer). "We Came from Lego Blocks" is a fractured, downbeat lullaby featuring vocals from Vordul Megilah of East Coast underground hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox. Cult singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur collaborates on a truly eerie cover of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses", while "Biting Tongues" features Ras B, a ragga-styled MC from Adrian
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masterpiece, which he began writing in 1888 and finished in 1933, with a successful premiere one year later. He died at Aerdenhout in 1935, specifying in his will that a fund should be created under his name to promote concerts and art exhibitions each year in the Netherlands. Gerard von Brucken Fock established his reputation as a composer of piano sonatas, preludes and moments musicaux, which were performed many times during his lifetime. Many of his compositions were published in the Netherlands and abroad, mostly with positive reviews. He was very active as a composer and also as a visual
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Chen Yi (composer) Chen Yi () (born April 4, 1953) is a Chinese violinist and composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji (Four Seasons), and has received awards from the Koussevistky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lieberson Award), as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded
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historical figures, including "Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), which was composed between 1868 and 1873, and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605). Equally famous is Alexander Borodin's "Prince Igor", the libretto for which the composer developed from the Ancient Russian epic "The Lay of Igor's Host", which recounts the campaign of Rus prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. Historical reenactment is an educational or entertainment activity in which people follow a plan to recreate aspects of a historical event or period.
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philosophers, the Graces and Virtues, and Diana of Ephesus, the goddess of Fertility, who also has a fountain dedicated to her in the garden. The Hall of Glory was completed between 1566 and 1577 by Federico Zuccari and eight assistants. It is a masterpiece of Roman mannerist painting, with painted illusions of doors, windows, tapestries, sculptures, and of everyday objects used by the Cardinal. The central painting of the ceiling, the Allegory of Glory, has been lost, but there are allegorical depictions of the virtues, the Four Seasons, and of Religion, Magnanimity, Fortune and Time. The Hall of the Hunt
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He. He Luting He Luting (traditional: 賀綠汀; simplified: 贺绿汀; pinyin: Hè Lǜtīng; July 20, 1903 – April 27, 1999) was a Chinese composer of the early 20th century. He composed songs for Chinese films beginning in the 1930s, some of which remain popular. At the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, He won a contest in 1934, which was sponsored and judged by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin, for his composition "Buffalo Boy's Flute" (牧童短笛). His best-known compositions are "Song of the Four Seasons" (四季歌) and "The Wandering Songstress" (天涯歌女, with lyrics by Tian Han), both composed for the 1937 film "Street
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He Luting He Luting (traditional: 賀綠汀; simplified: 贺绿汀; pinyin: Hè Lǜtīng; July 20, 1903 – April 27, 1999) was a Chinese composer of the early 20th century. He composed songs for Chinese films beginning in the 1930s, some of which remain popular. At the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, He won a contest in 1934, which was sponsored and judged by the Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin, for his composition "Buffalo Boy's Flute" (牧童短笛). His best-known compositions are "Song of the Four Seasons" (四季歌) and "The Wandering Songstress" (天涯歌女, with lyrics by Tian Han), both composed for the 1937 film "Street Angel"
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En Vogue were soon dropped from Elektra Records, with subsequent albums such as "The Gift of Christmas" (2002) and "Soul Flower" (2004) released on independent labels. Notes Sample credits Masterpiece Theatre (En Vogue album) Masterpiece Theatre is the fourth studio album by American recording group En Vogue, released worldwide Upon its release, "Masterpiece Theatre" received mixed reviews from critics, who acclaimed the group for their vocal performances on the songs but were divided by the overall sound of the album. A commercial disappointment, it reached number 33 on "Billboard"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 67 on the "Billboard" 200,
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Carlo Pedrotti Carlo Pedrotti (12 November 1817 – 16 October 1893) was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci. Pedrotti was born in Verona, where he studied music with the composer Domenico Foroni. He composed two operas which were never performed, but his opera semiseria "Lina" was successfully given at Foroni's Teatro Filarmonico in 1840, and his next opera, "Clara di Mailand", was performed there later that year. This was followed by four seasons as conductor of the Italian
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Sonic Seasonings Sonic Seasonings is a studio album from the American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name, Walter Carlos, in 1972 as a double album on Columbia Records. The album features four ambient tracks, each loosely based on each of the four seasons, combining various field recordings with sounds from a Moog synthesizer. It marks a departure from her previous two albums which featured synthesized renditions of various pieces of classical music. The album reached No. 168 on the US "Billboard" 200. In 1998, it was remastered for CD with two previously unreleased tracks. Following
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a post-modern western. For the final episodes of the series, Porter incorporated four important themes that were in previous seasons. Porter currently composes music for NBC's crime thriller "The Blacklist", as well as for the "Breaking Bad" prequel series "Better Call Saul". Porter has a wife, Jeanine, and a son. Dave Porter (composer) Dave Porter is an American composer, best known for the original score for the television series "Breaking Bad". At Sarah Lawrence College, Porter studied classical and electronic music composition. For his work on "Breaking Bad", Porter has won an ASCAP Award. Bryan Cranston, who portrays Walter White,
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that some have seen this as a reference to the composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, both born Jewish. In 1912 Debussy had remarked to his publisher of the opera "Ariane et Barbe-bleue" by the (also Jewish) composer Paul Dukas, "You're right, [it] is a masterpiece – but it's not a masterpiece of French music." Despite his lack of formal schooling, Debussy read widely and found inspiration in literature. Lesure writes, "The development of free verse in poetry and the disappearance of the subject or model in painting influenced him to think about issues of musical form." Debussy was influenced
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of the show's sixth season, and brand new sequences for its fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth seasons. "Archer" did not employ a composer to develop a soundtrack in its first four seasons, but instead used a compilation of needle drop stock music. By season five, musician JG Thirlwell was hired as the composer for the comedy's jazz-influenced score, brought to the producers' attention for his work on "The Venture Bros.". "Archer" has a principal cast of eight actors: H. Jon Benjamin, Jessica Walter, Aisha Tyler, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, Chris Parnell, Lucky Yates, and Adam Reed. Benjamin voices the show's
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US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed live. "Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons" received widespread acclaim from contemporary classical music critics. Ivan Hewett of the "Telegraph" gave the album a very positive review, stating:As you would expect of a composer who once studied with the great modernist Luciano Berio, Richter is very self-aware. He notices that his own taste in repeating patterns doesn’t mesh with the apparently similar patterns in Vivaldi. They obey a different logic, and the friction between them generates a fascinatingly ambiguous colour. Richter
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
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musicians have sought distinguish their recordings of "The Four Seasons", with historically informed performances, and embellishments, to the point of varying the instruments and tempi, or playing notes differently from the listener's expectation (whether specified by the composer or not). It is said that Vivaldi's work presents such opportunities for improvisation. Derivative works of these concerti include arrangements, transcriptions, covers, remixes, samples, and parodies in music—themes in theater and opera, soundtracks in films (or video games), and choreography in ballet (along with contemporary dance, figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, etc.)—either in their entirety, single movements, or medleys. Antonio Vivaldi
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Since Drigo was well known as a composer, Vsevolozhsky employed him in the dual capacity of kapellmeister and Director of Music, a position which would require Drigo to fulfill all of the duties of the staff composer with regard to adapting and correcting scores at the behest of the Ballet Master. The Imperial Theatre's renowned Premier Maître de Ballet, the Frenchman Marius Petipa, revived Jules Perrot's 1841 romantic masterpiece "La Esmeralda" for the visiting Italian ballerina Virginia Zucchi in 1886. For the revival Drigo was assigned the task of refurbishing the old score of Cesare Pugni. Drigo was commissioned to
Riccardo Drigo