Candide

especially when to comes to local talent. The Queens College Orchestra has a broad range of talented students that very few people get to experience. Leonard Bernstein 100th Anniversary Festival displayed unique renditions of three classical pieces: Candide Overture, Halil, and Three Meditations from Mass. The concert took place at LeFrak Concert Hall in a small auditorium with an ecclesiastical background. The audience was small but very enthusiastic. The event begins with the maestro entering…

The boundless achievements of Leonard Bernstein qualify's as a standout among the most essential figures ever. As a television character, he acquainted established music with an era of viewers. As the arranger for WEST SIDE STORY, Bernstein upset the sound of Broadway. As a conductor, he has reveled idealization of traditional music beaus far and wide an uncommon circumstance for an American maestro. Constantly in people in general this effective and complex man has been seen as both a…

The UNL Symphonic Band concert, I Raise My Song To You, was on Tuesday, October 13. The first piece was the Overture to “Candide”. It was in a major mode and in triple meter. The piece started off with a quick paced forte dynamic with monophonic texture. In the beginning, brass instruments would play a melody and the percussion and woodwind instruments would play a melody in response. There is a decrescendo about halfway through, and the piccolo comes in quietly playing the high-pitched melody.…

Who was Voltaire? Voltaire was a French rationalist and essayist of the Age of Enlightenment. His knowledge, mind and style made him one of France's most prominent authors and thinkers, in spite of the debate he pulled in. What is the moral of Candide? Candide is a man of apparently solid good character, he has solid confidence in his theory and tails it, yet he is depicted as one who does not have any comprehension of his general surroundings or humankind overall. When he is presented to the…

words, Europeans used social Darwinist thinking to justify imperialism and the cruelty on the Africans, which benefited the Europeans because then they didn’t see it as wrong they thought of it as helping them . Another example of this came out of Candide, where the nobility was born on a higher social status. Through natural selection at birth they were chosen to be a part of a nobility family which gave them special privileges and powers. It needed up causing more harm than good for the…

Voltaire's largest philosophical work was the "Dictionnaire philosophique" ("Philosophical Dictionary"), published in 1764 and comprising articles contributed by him to the "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" ("Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts") (1751 - 1772) and several minor pieces. It directed criticisms at French political institutions, Voltaire's personal enemies, the Bible and the Roman Catholic Church. He…

in her prologue that men and women should be equal in marriage and in general. For she has outsmarted all five of her past husbands, so she is not lacking intelligence and is not any less capable of achieving great things in life. From Voltaire’s Candide: A Tale of Women’s Equality, “In Voltaire’s own life women played a far greater role than men” (Scherr). The prior quote implies that women play a larger role than men in life, and as a result should deserve equality. Fortunately, society has…

Charjully Goff Ms. Lippay English 9th September 23rd, 2014 Banned Books “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame”- Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. Banned books are books that people can’t have access to. This is considered also as book censorship, sometimes due to religious, political and moral purposes. The main books that have been banned are usually because they contain religion purposes that might offend, sex scenes, drugs, prostitution,…

On December 3rd, at 7:30 PM, I had the opportunity to go see San Jose State University’s wind ensemble performance. The wind ensemble consisted of people who played piccolos, flutes, oboes, bassoons, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas, the triangle, the xylophone, the double bass, and finally, the piano. The wind ensemble performance was conducted by Paul Herrera. Accompanying the band was Michael Martinez, a well-known soprano saxophone soloist. The venue itself took…

Few genres in history have sparked the imagination of the readers such as dystopian literature. The dystopian genre combines fiction with prophetic truths to not only entertain the reader but to warn him of possible futures. The main core message of the books is that power and the search to obtain it and keep it corrupts many making them do horrible thing. In this genre there are few works more moving than 1984 and A Man Was Thursday which show the progression of the virtues to the extreme…