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    On May 26, 1895, Henry Nutzhorn, a lawyer, and Joan Lange, a soprano concert singer, had a child.[1] They named her Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn.[2] In 1902, at the age of seven, Dorothea contracted polio, leaving her right leg and foot weakened and giving her a limp. When Dorothea was twelve, her parents divorced and her father left the family. Dorothea, her mother, and her brother Martin moved in with Joan’s mother, Sophie. Sophie, along with all of Dorothea’s grandparents, had immigrated from…

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    "Ombra mai fu" is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel. It has often been arranged for other voice types and instruments, including solo organ, solo piano, violin and piano, and string ensembles, often under the title "Largo from Xerxes", although the original tempo is marked larghetto. For most of the piece the vocalist is in piano (soft) and only forte (loud) one time close to the end of the piece. Even though many composers write on the music sheet how the…

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    Giuseppe Fortunio Francescp Verdi was a Italian composer in the 19th century, he was known as one of the most influential composers in the 19th century. Giuseppe was born to Luigia Uttini and Carlo Giuseppe Verdi in Le Roncole Italy in the parm region of Italy. Since days were often considered to begin at sunset, this could have meant he was born on October 9th or 10th of 1813 accordingly to La Traviata Education Materials. One day after Giuseppe was brought until the world he was baptized in a…

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    For the past two decades, there has been a growing trend of television shows that don’t conform to narrative storytelling norms. Jason Mittell’s conceptualization of “narrative complexity” analyzes the mechanics behind shows such as Game of Thrones; their unconventional storytelling becoming more of the norm for contemporary television. Within narrative complexity, Mittell explores television shows’ operational aesthetics, which are seen in Game of Thrones’ unorthodox plot structure. The…

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    There were six pieces presented in the Student Concert Series. I want to talk about five of them. The first piece was Duo Sonata. It was composed by Gregory Wanamaker in 2002. Its style is modern and its genre is a duo sonata. Sonata is a piece that is composed for a small number of instruments. This piece is for two instrument to play, so it is called duo sonata. It was performed by two students. Reese Burgan played saxophone and Courtney White played clarinet. The piece is not so long and…

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    Speak: A Short Story

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    It all started in English class. I sighed as I stretched, ready for another uneventful class on another uneventful day. Oh how wrong I was. On that day, we were on the first reading of a book called Speak. We began the discussion with a summary of the main character, Melinda. I realized that I related to Melinda. Maybe a little too much... Melinda calls the cops on a party that she went to at the end of eighth grade. Because of this, when she starts Freshman year, she is ostracized. No one…

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    flute lessons. I loved playing flute more than anything; something about hitting the high notes was exciting, as if every note above the staff was its own achievement. Years down the road I would join choir and feel the exact same way about singing soprano…

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    Lisette Model is a key figure in the history of photography, both for her unique style and her work as a teacher. Lisette Model was a modernist photographer and is widely known for her portraiture style photography of people on the street. Model saw her camera as a way to detect and expose the reality of her subjects. She would carefully frame and crop her photos, but never retouched them. We now live in a world of Photoshop where you can manipulate images. As for Model, she captured the world…

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    My Inspiring Song Music. The one aspect of life that can change my bad mood into a good one. The one thing that can make my world stop in from spinning out of control when stress is trying to take over. The one simple song can bring back a million memories of a lifetime within a few seconds. Music helps many people overcome the challenges they face whether they are big or small encounters. There have been many songs that have impacted my life; these songs vary from the rap songs my friends and…

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    For this final project, several classmates and I have assembled an eight-part vocal ensemble, accompanied by a pianist. We have chosen a piece that also has eight-parts, to add variety and layers on the basis of each vocal part. This piece we are performing as an ensemble is titled “Weep No More,” arranged and composed by David N. Childs, and adapted from a poem by John Keats. David N. Childs is a well-known freelance composer of music, with his ideology being, “music has the power to transform…

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