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The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song [clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.
Gaga speaks the first verse and parts of the chorus of the song in faux-German, as the name of the song is German. The lyrics have a feminist tone, speaking of female empowerment . The song received positive reviews from contemporary critics, who complimented its heavy dance beat and catchy chorus, despite criticizing the faux-German lyrics and ...
The Lexicon of Musical Invective project, which is a collection of negative musical critiques, spanned over twenty years and was shaped by the career path of Nicolas Slonimsky, a brilliant student of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, [P 1] and his encounters with the most significant composers of his time.
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.
Because you speak to me in accent sweet, I find the roses waking 'round my feet, and I am led through tears and joy to thee, because you speak to me! Because God made thee mine, I'll cherish thee! Through light and darkness through all time to be, and pray His love may make our love divine; because God made thee mine!
From January 2008 to May 2012, if you bought shares in companies when R.R. Harkin joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -36.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a -4.2 percent return from the S&P 500.
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