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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 ...
Anna Robena Laidlaw. Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12, is a set of eight pieces for piano, written in 1837.The title was inspired by the 1814–15 collection of novellas, essays, treatises, letters, and writings about music, Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier (which also included the complete Kreisleriana, another source of inspiration for Schumann) by one of his favourite authors, E ...
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 "Anthon Transcript" (often misidentified with the "Caractors document") is a piece of paper on which Joseph Smith wrote several lines of characters. According to Smith, the characters were copied from the golden plates (the ancient record from which Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon ) and represent the reformed Egyptian ...
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 ...
The New York Times review of the play in 2006 was mixed: “A comedy comprising almost a dozen two-character vignettes exploring the sudden thunderclap of love and the scorched earth that sometimes follows, John Cariani’s play will evoke either awww-s or ick-s, depending on your affection for its whimsical approach to the joys and perils of ...