Dionne Warwick

How would you feel if you traveled to a country where there were parties on the streets, families enjoying life, laughter all around and the majority of people are actually happy? Here people are happy, but you don't see happy people too often, because most people only care about money. To be popular is to have the right brands of clothes and the right kind of personality but in other places that doesn't matter, unless you are really wealthy. Living in a carefree environment where that doesn't…

When I originally listened to Choplin’s Prelude in Minor E, my initial response to the piece was that its goal was to evoke sadness. My first impression was that it gave a very dark, lonely tone while I listened to the Prelude. When I listened to the piece, I pictured someone going through a difficult time and dealing with a lot of sadness. I imagined the individual to be walking home on a very dark and gloomy day. The weather brought out their sadness even more. I sensed that the issue they…

million dollars for AIDS (White, 1997). John also sang at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, an AIDS charity, in 1992 for Freddie Mercury who died from AIDS. He sang a song for Ryan White called "That's What Friends Are For" with Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, and Stevie Wonder in 1985 that raised funds for AIDS research. He raised funds for the Elton John AIDS Foundation by joining Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, and the Black Eyed Peas on American Idol in 2010 (Prono, 2015). The Elton John AIDS…

“My Jeans” songs are in quotes—Jenna Rose year? Quinn Danielson: Hey Jenna, I glad you were willing to be interviewed. First, tell me a bit about the origin of your song “My Jeans”. How involved were you in the production and writing of the song? *Wait, are you conducting interviews with these artists??? If so, tell us that in intro! Jenna Rose: I had no involvement of the writing or the production of the song. It was written for me after Baby Triggy (1) saw me perform at a showcase for…

Ever since jazz was born in 1895. Everybody started to have their own taste what jazz is the person that listens to it. Now jazz has evolved into a culture where we can play jazz the way we like it. The real timeline of jazz style development has evolved so much its spanned or stretched for 3 centuries. When it comes to different styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago…

This expansion of the traditional soundscape, of course, isn’t without its justified criticism. Overdubbing and multi-track recording, by definition, allows artists to potentially polish their studio recordings to a degree of artificial perfection. Many critics agree that overdubbing induces a certain stiffness that isn’t present in live or single session recordings, and this rigidity directly contradicts the tenets of rock and roll, which decree it an organic expression of thought. For all the…

Involvement at Tech Mr. Rogers joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity. He was only a part of it for a year and a half. One of the advantages of being a football player in that era was that you were well received at all fraternities. When he decided to join he became friends with the other members, but he had so many friends outside being an athlete. SAE’s sweetheart was from Emory because there were very few women at Tech at that time. Mr. Rogers ate at the Athlete’s table with Helen…