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"A felicidade" ("Happiness") is a bossa nova song by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, composed in 1958 for the French film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). [1] The theme of the song is the fragility of happiness. The lyrics begin: "Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim" ("Sadness has no ending. Happiness does").
Songs for Beginners is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.Released in May 1971, it was one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970, along with After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, September 1970), Stephen Stills (Stephen ...
Anne Sexton Songs (1977), for mezzo-soprano and piano. Three songs after the American poetess, premiered by singer Sheila Allen in July 1977 at Tanglewood. Orpheus (1977), for two bassoons and marimba. Programmatic work depicting Orpheus' descent into the underworld to rescue Eurydice. Music for Doctor Who (1979), for bassoon and piano. A short ...
Orpheus is an American rock band originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, that enjoyed popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s, featuring lead singer/songwriter Bruce Arnold. They had two charted Billboard Hot 100 singles, "Brown Arms in Houston" and " Can't Find the Time ," both released on MGM Records .
The song is also Brown's longest charting single since his 2005 debut single "Run It!" (which ran on the Hot 100 for 38 weeks). [15] "Under the Influence" was the tenth most-heard song on U.S. radio in the first half of 2023, with a cumulative 1.142 billion audience impressions across all formats monitored by Luminate. [16] “
Orpheus, the Greek hero whose songs could charm both gods and wild beasts and coax the trees and rocks into dance, has achieved an emblematic status as a metaphor for the power of music. [1] The following is an annotated list of operas (and works in related genres) based on his myth.
Hadestown is the fourth studio album by American folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and was released by Righteous Babe Records on March 9, 2010. The concept album, which became the basis for the stage musical of the same name, follows a variation on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus must embark on a quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld.
Trombone first saw use in the jazz world with its entrance into traditional jazz where it played along with the chord changes, often connecting the seven to third or third to root resolutions of cadences, allowing the other musicians of the group to improvise along with it. In a standard dixie group, the players marched through the streets or ...