The Sopranos

thinking or makes us smarter. Johnson starts by explaining what he calls the Sleeper Curve. He does this by comparing older TV shows like Starsky and Hutch to recent shows like The Sopranos and 24. He explains how earlier television followed a linear narrative that focuses on only one to two characters while The Sopranos “will often connect to three different threads at the same time,…

Firstly, the music is restrained because it is characterized by a clear singing melody. The singers use soprano and mezzo-soprano voices to sing. Also, the music expresses austerity because of the plainness and simplicity that it posse. A single instrument and voice are used in the music thus making it simple. Lastly, the music exhibits distributional evenness since…

school I joined the ladies’ ensemble. Besides mumbling “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” once with a class of forty students in elementary school, I had no singing experience. The ladies’ ensemble consisted of four students; Teddi (soprano), Ricole (soprano), Iole (soprano), and I (bass). I enjoyed being the foundation of all the music that we rehearsed and performed together. However, I dreamed of singing a solo by myself, and the state singing competition at Emery High School gave that…

remains one of his most powerful pieces that acted as a vehicle for his artistic and moral resistance against the rise of anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia during the end of Stalin’s life. From Jewish Folk Poetry was first composed in 1948 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano, and then later orchestrated in 1963. In 1948, not only was Shostakovich aware of Stalin’s efforts to destroy Jewish culture which was deemed as a threat to Soviet society, Shostakovich knew the horrors of Nazism and…

Clemenzo di Tito, sings two main arias, Parto,Parto and Deh, Per Questo Istante solo. Both of these arias are difficult to sing and require stamina and power that is not found in a countertenor or light soprano. In modern productions, these roles are typically sung by very strong and dramatic mezzo-sopranos such as Elīna Garanča. In the operas they are typically dressed like men and portray very masculine behavior to portray a castrati as closely as possible. Since a castrato voice was so…

stories for their daughter. During WWII, Ionesco moved his family back to France and lived in Marseilles. After the war, they relocated to Paris. Ionesco would be known as a great play writer, but he did not actually write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. Ionesco decided at the age of forty to learn English. He found the English language and its simple words and…

careers of countless imitators” (Powers). She was a legend and Powers so eloquently describes Whitney's grandeur. She describes Whitney’s voice as “huge, clean, cool mezzo-soprano”(Powers). I had to google that, it means “a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto” (Phillips). Which led me to have to look up soprano and contralto so I could grasp the greatness being described by Powers. Ann Power’s review was written very intellectually and formal as opposed to Zcamp’s…

1888 at La Madeleine in Paris for a funeral mass with Fauré conducting. The third and final version also received its premiere in Paris on July 12, 1900 with Paul Taffenel conducting. This version of the Requiem is scored for mixed choir, solo soprano, solo baritone, two flutes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four…

masterpiece later became a monumental setting for advertising when Annie Leibovitz an american photographer created what was to become a popular idea for 21st century tv promotional shots. In 1999 shortly after the debut of American gangster drama ‘The Sopranos’ created by David Chase, Leibovitz shot the entire cast in New York in a Last Supper setting. The show had an immediately positive response although Leibovitz describes the actors as “a little taken aback by all the attention they were…

Vocal Performance is an important class to me because it is a helpful and useful way to prepare me for when I am going to perform and make me more confident in what I am trying to portray. I want to be a vocalist as a career when I get older. I will need to be able to learn different techniques, how to breathe the correct way, how to use my voice right, different styles and ETC. for confidence preparation, and knowledge. I will have to take everything that I learn very seriously and work really…