Antonín Dvořák

The second case was over religious businesses being forced to provide birth control to all employees. The Supreme Court voted down this specific mandate as it violated the freedom of religion. You may want to expand here? The third and most recent Obamacare case was in regards to the federal subsidies( money) being awarded to individuals from the federal government, even though the law specifically states that these subsidies should be, “Established by the State”. This case held an interesting…

Introduction Ever since its creation in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has received a great deal of backlash. The law has been brought to the courts three times now due to many Americans having issues with certain provisions in the law. Two of the cases that challenged the Affordable Care Act have made it to the Supreme Court. The issues that have been challenged have been in reference to the provisions that expand Medicaid, grant subsidies to states that have established exchanges, and the…

Antonin Scalia was a Supreme Court Justice who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He was a well-rounded judge who stood for the Constitution, and the way the founders intended the constitution to be conceived. He was a conservative judge who stood his ground for what he believed was the correct thing to do. Leaning to the conservative side, Scalia made a decision to uphold the constitution. He believed the constitution was not to make change easier but delay or prevent change. Scalia…

Death penalty on juveniles Capital punishment has continued to elicit raging debates over the years. Inferring from the Furman v. Georgia (1972), Gregg v. Georgia (1976) and the resumption of death penalty as the retribution, the issue of innocence continues to haunt and cause contentious public debates in the United States (Foley, 2004). With regards to this, consignment of juvenile offenders to the gallows have consistently been disputed as a disproportionate punishment to minors; those below…

Antonin Dvorak vs. Howard Shore What makes a great composer, one who will stand the test of time and create sounds that evoke feelings such as love, anger, happiness, or sadness inside the listener? While listening to various classical music pieces, one might discover that, although composers develop their own distinct characteristics while creating various, new styles unique to their own individuality, they have many well-defined similarities. The time period in which the composition was…

YuEun Kim and Sung Chan were successful when they perform “The Sonata No.5 in F major, Opus 24, Spring” of Beethoven. This piece of music started with soft dynamic at first that made me feel calm and peaceful. The tempo was slow at the beginning, and then the piano suddenly came with the fast tempo while the violin was slow. Sung Chan who played the piano gave an impressive performance at the first movement. The scale had changed from minor to major, and major to minor that made the audience…

Stepan Filipek and pianist Katelyn Bouska. There was a wide range of contemporary music played by the duo including “Cello Sonata, op. 6)by Samuel Barber, “Pohadka” by Leos Janacek, “Klid Lesa, op. 68” and “Rondo for Cello and Piano, op. 94” by Antonin Dvorak, “On an Overgrown Path” by Leos Janacek, “Dos sonetos de amor” by Jeremy Gill, and “Cello Sonata” by Miloslav Istvan. For the most part, the performed pieces were a mixture of both extremely uplifting pieces and rather serious somber…

his own words, Dvořák said, “I am just an ordinary Czech musician, who does not love such exaggerated humbleness, and although I have moved quite enough in the great musical world, I still remain what I have always been – a simple Czech musician.” In his manuscripts, he would begin with the date and “With God” and end with the date and “Thanks be to God!”; “God be praised!” and “God requite you!” to express his thankfulness to God. In the interview with Dvořák’s grandson, Mr. Dvořák III…

this concert. The UTSA Orchestra performed some famous masterpieces by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) and John Williams (b.1932), which include Dvořák 's most popular piece "Symphony No.9, op.95, in E minor" or sometimes called "From the New World" and William 's most famous "STAR WARS Suite". The program was set up with Dvořák 's piece first, followed by a 10-minute intermission and ending with Williams work. Dvořák 's symphony included "Adagio-…

Justin Gedeon Professor John Tribelhorn MUS 100 – 1343/Concert Report 26 November 2016 Echoes of Nations On Friday evening, November 18, 2016, at 8 PM, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra presented Beyond the Score: Dvorak Symphony No. 9: Whose World? inside the beautiful Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. Instrumentation included one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, triangle, symbols, violins, violas, cellos, and…