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the stadium, as the two ogres stood, side by side, ready to take on this legendary beast. MOARRR!! A loud roar shook the stadium, and a huge twenty foot shadow stretched over the ground, just touching the ogres feet. DUN, DUN-DUMDUM, rang out the trumpets, as the ogres stood ready with their compret, to defend themselves against this beast from the darkness. The creature in the darkness snarled and spat, and the two ogres roared, showing in tgheir own way they were not afraid one bit of this…

was short. The only years growing up when I sought peer approval was middle school. In seventh grade, I woke up dailey, dressing myself with curiosity and rebellion. Inact, one time I got suspended for knocking this id pide the head with his own trumpet. Summer of 8th grade was when that all changed. It was July of 2013 when I went to a youth conference in Dallas, Texas. The camp was only a week, but it equipped me with motivation to last my entire life. That week, I encountered God for the…

Flora from the book, The Game of Love and Death, by Martha Brockenbrough. I chose the song, Dream a Little Dream of Me, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Flora because it sounds like a song Flora would sing at the Domino. The jazzy trumpet with the noticeable walking bassline, paired with the chemistry of Fitzgerald’s and Armstrong’s voices produces a song that undeniably represents Henry and Flora. When I heard the version of this song sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong I…

Through the years jazz became a widespread music genre enjoyed by whites and blacks alike, though not without injustice during the 1920s. Many jazz bands started to form in New Orleans, combining traditional jazz instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones, with traditionally upper class instruments, like piano and strings (Boundless). With this combination the bands were able to appeal to a wider range of people and begin to transcend the cultural prejudice the dominated american society of…

A concert band, often called symphonic wind band, consists, as the name suggests, predominantly of wind instruments. Woodwinds like flutes, piccolos, oboes, clarinets, bass-clarinets, bassoons and contrabassoons as well as brass instruments like trumpets, french horns, trombones, euphoniums or baritones and tubas are joined by saxophones, percussion…

In Act one, Scene one of Hamlet, Barnardo, Marcellus, and Horatio wait to encounter the ghost of King Hamlet of Denmark. When they finally do encounter the ghost, he does not speak. After the disbelieving Horatio encounters the late King Hamlet’s spirit, he is determined to tell Prince Hamlet. The first scene in Hamlet is crucial because it establishes the tone of uncertainty and internal distress, as well as the major conflict of the late King Hamlet’s appearance. The first line of the play…

Morgan, Evan Bennetch, and Robert Hoffman. These songs were in many languages, such as: French, Italian, German, Swedish, and English. The first song was “Let the Bright Seraphim” by G.F. Handel, which is accompanied by Christopher Morgan playing trumpet and Kristin Ivers with the piano. This song is about praising the highest type of angel that is in the heavenly hierarchy. The second song was an Italian song known as “Sono Unite a Tormentarmi” by Antonio Scarlatti. This song is about the pain…

Who Was at Fault for the Bloodshed in The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is filled with . With supernatural forces and social pressure, Macbeth, who was previously kind and honorable, becomes a vicious man who is willing to assassinate the ones he holds dearest. These two main forces that lead to the bloodshed in Macbeth are the Weïrd Sisters and Lady Macbeth. This chain of events begins with Macbeth’s first encounter with the Sisters after the battle against the Norwegians, as a…

Music from the Pre-Civil war period (early 1800s) was divided into two main types: white music and black music. White music consisted of mostly classical and minstrel music. Black music was mostly religious music; however, there were also some secular black songs. Classical music was heavily influenced by European Composers, and would often be played for wealthy, white people. Minstrel music was played for common people and included blackface, where white people would pretend to be black people…

Looking at both James Brown and Ray Charles you can see that they were very similar in their own musical way. Brown was born in Bardwell, South Carolina, on May 3, 1993. He was born into extreme poverty, but later worked his way to the top of the funk and R&B music earning the moniker "The Godfather of Soul". Ray Charles was born in Georgia in 1930, on September 23. Charles was a legend who was the mainstream of soul music, giving him the name of "Father of Soul". His father was a mechanic,…