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Many 19th-century nocturnes and intermezzi are character pieces as well, including those of Chopin and Brahms, respectively. Large sets of many individual character pieces, intended to be played as a single piece of music, were not uncommon; Schumann's many works of this form (including Kreisleriana and Carnaval) are the best known examples. In ...
The character was also shown on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Damon Wayans where Anton testifies in the O. J. Simpson trial, and was also briefly in 1992's Mo' Money featuring Damon and younger brother Marlon Wayans. According to Damon Wayne on his HBO special One Night Stand, the character is based on a guy named Anton who dated ...
After seeing the film twice and hearing testimony, the English Court of Appeal agreed that the princess had been defamed. [1] In 1934, Irina and her husband Felix Yusupov were reportedly awarded $127,373 (equivalent to $2,990,000 in 2024) in damages, and $1,000,000 (equivalent to $24,000,000 in 2024) in an out-of-court settlement with MGM.
Robert Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style (German: Fünf Stücke im Volkston), Op. 102 is a set of five short pieces for cello and piano, composed in 1849 and published in 1851 with a dedication to cellist Andreas Grabau . It was Schumann's only published work designed explicitly for performance by cello and piano, though the pieces also ...
The character is inspired by the commedia dell'arte stock character of Brighella, [33] and like his predecessor he is a clever liar; moral and yet unscrupulous; good humored, helpful and brave, though somewhat embittered and cynical. Though he is normally calm, collected and intelligent, he can be irrational when angered.
Frequently, the author surrogate is the same as the main character and/or the protagonist, and is also often the narrator.As an example, the author surrogate may be the one who delivers political diatribe, expressing the author's beliefs, or expound on the strengths and weaknesses of other characters, thereby communicating directly the author's opinion on the characters in question.
The comedy-of-manners genre originated in the New Comedy period (325–260 BC) of Classical Greece (510–323 BC), and is known from fragments of works by the playwright Menander, whose style of writing, elaborate plots, and stock characters were imitated by Roman playwrights, such as Plautus and Terence, whose comedies were known to and staged ...