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John Heard was found dead Friday in a hotel room. The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear at the moment. Heard had minor back surgery just a few days ago and now, he has passed away. The coroner is looking into the cause of death, but as of now, nothing has been confirmed about how or why he died. His death comes as a shock to fans. Initially, it was believed to be a hoax, but that is not the case. According to TMZ, John Heard was staying at the hotel while recovering from a minor…

that were not included in Miles’ previous studio albums and one of those “rejects” was this piece of beauty. Originally recorded on March 7, 1970, Go Ahead John is brought to life by many musicians like Miles Davis on trumpet, Steve Grossman on the soprano saxophone, John McLaughlin with his electric guitar and Jack DeJonette on the drums. Miles Davis, the now legendary Cool Jazz pioneer from Illinois, started off playing Bebop (the notoriously crazy fast jazz which was terrifyingly difficult…

Sigler is best known for playing the role of Tony Soprano’s daughter in the award-winning HBO drama The Sopranos. Sigler was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of twenty, and at the time only a few of her trusted colleagues knew about it. About fifteen years later Sigler was ready to come out to the public about her having multiple sclerosis. Some…

I attended The Nutcracker Christmas Carol at the campus’ Humanities Theatre. I was not sure what to expect from this play since I did even know the nutcrackers storyline. I was worried that I would not be able to write a concert report on this musical since I had never been to a live musical play, but it turned out very successful. They performed a musical skit for each storyline of this play. The live musical play was intertwined as the story was acted out. Some of them were solo performances…

In the book Sula, I actually came up with many different narrations that were used throughout the book. There were examples of third person, first person, and omniscient. However, the narration that I think was used throughout the book the most was third person omniscient. I chose this one by how there is a narrator who is able to describe all the characters in the book, what they are thinking of, and some hidden events that happened in the book that all the characters did not know happened. An…

Franz Joseph Haydn was a Austrian composer that was born on March 31, 1732 and died on May 31, 1809 . He became the main composer of the classical style of music. Franz Joseph Haydn is also known as the “ Father of the Symphony.” Two of his most famous pieces are The ‘Surprise’ Symphony and “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” With his musical talent he became rich.He composed about 100 symphonies. Franz Joseph Haydn influenced music very much. During his early life in 1740 around…

Claude Debussy’s, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, helped push the transformation of music in the 20th century. Tired of the tender melodies and the emotional tone of the romantic era,these composers experimented with tone, rhythm, and melody eventually defining news styles of music. The purpose of this paper to identify the similarities and the differences between Debussy’s La Mer, Stravinsky’s Right of Spring, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Claude Debussy’s La Mer is an orchestral…

“Off-Objekt” is a tragicomic outburst; a disrupted cacophonic razzmatazz colored by vibrant soprano sax trills that efficiently counterpoint with trombone and less often with trumpet lines. On and off, they intersect, taking the form of impactful unisons that also serve to indicate a changing in pace/mood. Greene’s trombone's extended pitches open…

The opera Madame Butterfly written by Giacomo Puccini is a story about a young maiden from Japan who is in an arranged marriage to Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton a soldier in the U.S. Navy. Lieutenant Pinkerton sees the marriage as a business deal, purchasing a house and servants, as well as receiving the fair maiden Madame Butterfly as a wife. Yet, Madame Butterfly believes that Lieutenant Pinkerton is marrying her for love. Not long after their marriage, Lieutenant Pinkerton tells Madame Butterfly…

of Greenwich Village, Once Upon A Time in America, Convoy, Downtown: A Street Tale, Last Exit to Brooklyn. He took many television projects, appearing as an actor in The Rockford Files, Baretta, Law and Order, Walker, M*A*S*H, Texas Ranger, The Sopranos as Bobby Baccalieri’s father. After his appearance on Baretta, he started his career as a writer and scripted the CBS television movie Daddy; I Don’t like It like This in…