Requiem

Grand Canyon “Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” (Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil) This quote explains how beautiful the Grand Canyon is perfectly I think. Let’s look past how breath taking the Grand Canyon is for a moment and dig deeper in how it really became to be interesting landform it is now. So let us…

Leonardo Da Vinci’s genius has embodied the Renaissance humanist principle. Leonardo has often been portrayed as the prime example of “Renaissance Man” , a man of “unquenchable curiosity” along with “feverishly inventive imagination”. In accordance with Art Historian Helen Gardner the range and complexity of his activities were with no precedent; while “his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote”(Patrico,(20015),107). Religion was important to Da…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart and Haydn played string quartets together, and attending each other’s rehearsals. Mozart even dedicated six quartets to his dear friend. They were close colleagues and respected each other. After Haydn died, Mozart’s Requiem was played to honor him. On his way home, Haydn met a young composer named Ludwig Van Beethoven, in 1792. Beethoven showed Haydn one of his compositions, and Haydn was impressed. He took the young composer in as his pupil for a short duration…

Organized Crime During Prohibition Organized crime existed long before the 1920’s, but it wasn’t as organized or as huge. Their rise in America was mostly due to bootlegging. Prohibition allowed organized crime to flourish and increase its effectiveness. Organized crime greatly affected, and was affected by, prohibition. “Prohibition was a unique economic opening for this generation- an opening unlike anything that previous generations of criminals had known, an opportunity whereby a man who…

SLU Law School students. The first interruption, people stood up and put McCulloch on a mock trial relating to the Michael Brown case. They were eventually taken away by police. Then, the second group stood up with Michael Brown signs and sang, “Requiem for Mike Brown.” Police escorted them out as well. Finally, a third group stood…

Do you like classical music? If you like classical music, and you are its fans, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, or Schubert, all of these name may not strange to you. So, they are one of many the most famous composers of the world’s music history. They are very famous and become legendary because they are composing many valuable and incredible works that contributes a lot in the evolution of world’s music. Like these famous composers above, Igor Stravinsky as known as one of the most important…

Concertos (Piano, Violin, and Horn), Piano Solos, Violin Music, Sonatas, Trios, Quartet, Sacred music, and operas throughout his life (Gilbert). He had forty-one symphonies, operas such as The Marriage of Figaro, concertos, chamber works, and a Requiem Mass. (McGraw-Hills Education 120). Mozart had an adventure for having the mind of a famous composer. To look at the beginning of his life, Mozart first practiced on the harpsichord at the age of four. Then At the age of six, he produced five…

Elizabeth Perez 1 Dr. Elizabeth Swanson Music of The 21st Century 5 April 2017 THE MUSIC of BENJAMIN BRITTEN The tradition of classical music performance became stronger during the post war years. Audiences grew, government support in many nations rose, schools of…

Continually literature and society combine to make a statement about events transpired in the news. Authors such as Arthur Miller of Death of a Salesman and August Wilson of Fences use platforms such as plays to display a lack of reality and common sense present in their days. Both plays above inconspicuously use the Maxson brothers in Fences and the Loman brothers in Death of a Salesman to convey a truth in the underlying of society. With the brothers both authors elaborate on each brother in…

One of the most known of Shakespeare’s plays that Yukio Ninagawa directed in Japan was Macbeth also known as Ninagawa Macbeth. He used the technique of Kabuki. Ninagawa Macbeth was first played in Japan in 1980, later was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1985 and at the National Theater in London from 1987 and ahead. Ninagawa Macbeth was played many ages after the prototype Macbeth was played and therefore many things have changed like the costumes, and the way that people…