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Gabriela Montero (born May 10, 1970) is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical repertoire.
An art song is most often a musical setting of an independent poem or text, [1] "intended for the concert repertory" [2] "as part of a recital or other relatively formal social occasion". [3] While many vocal music pieces are easily recognized as art songs, others are more difficult to categorize.
Parsons covered around 15,000 classical, popular and folk pieces in his dictionary. In the process he found out that *UU is the most popular opening contour, used in 23% of all the themes, something that applies to all the genres. [7] The book was reissued in 2008 as the Directory of Classical Themes. [8]
Women's interpretive dance class, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1949. Interpretive dance is a family of modern dance styles that began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan.It used classical concert music but marked a departure from traditional concert dance, as a rebellion against the strict rules of classical ballet.
Bellini's Composizioni da Camera have become a recital favorite of many singers. This resurgence of interest in Bellini's non-operatic works may perhaps be attributed to performances by singers like Luciano Pavarotti. The famous tenor performed five of these songs at the Metropolitan Opera with James Levine in a 1988 recital. Like Pavarotti ...
The final, twelfth, published étude was a variation on the theme from the Romance Du stolzes England freue dich (Proud England, rejoice!), from Heinrich Marschner's opera Der Templer und die Jüdin, which was based on Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (as a tribute to Schumann's English friend, William Sterndale Bennett). The earlier Fricken theme ...
Usher's new album is for the lovers and friends!ET spoke with the GRAMMY-winning superstar before he takes the stage on Sunday during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show and he broke ...
Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Seven is an album of solo jazz piano performed by John Hicks recorded in 1990. [1] The album was the seventh of 42 piano recitals at the hall released on CD by the Concord label.