Jumping Off The Cliff Analysis

“On Broadway, although some female roles are narrow, demeaning, passive, or long-suffering and convey weakness, the performer sings with incredible strength. Listening to the female singing voice is a more complicated phenomenon. Visually, the character singing is the passive object of our gaze. But aurally, she is resonant; her musical speech drowns out everything in range. A singer, more than any other musical performer, stands before us having wrested the composing voice away from the lyricist and composer who wrote the score.” Said Musicologist Carolyn Abbate (Wolf, p.31)

My life would be incomplete without performing music. I’ve spent time, in concert bands, in bell choirs, in school and church choirs, and singing, playing in music festivals, and in pit bands trying not to laugh my head off at the actors’ improvisations. But the art that truly speaks to my soul does not lie in creating music, it lies in dancing to it.

- At Wickham Vocal Studios at Performer's Career Center, I have received training in advanced classical and jazz singing technique (2 years).

In "Singing Like Yma Sumac" (2005), Cheryl Merril utilizes various rhetorical techniques in order to provide the reader with the idea that there is music in vocalization of both humans and elephants. Merrill shows this by comparing the elephant to Yma Sumac, a famous singer with a wide range of vocal abilities. The author compares humans with elephants in order to communicate that elephants and humans aren't that different. Merrill addresses people who like animals by sharing a personal anecdote in an appreciative way. Merrill breaks down this abstract idea to explain the idea of communication in music, and then condenses it from a scientific standpoint.

The Big Bad Wolf Has Come to Collect: An Analysis of Riding in the Red

Andruska is also a professional vocalist that performs in various classical music settings. She is a cantor at several churches, and sings in various choirs throughout the community. When meeting with Mrs. Andruska in our pre-conference, it became clear that she prides herself on providing highly effective instruction for all of her students. She describes her teaching style as being diverse, given that she incorporates many different general music education methodologies into her teaching. She is Orff and Kodaly certified and works with students in our autism program (CAPS), special education programs, and general K-5 education

Her musical background began in a church, before getting an opportunity to be a performer, she faced a lot rejections.

Ella Fitzgerald is known as the “First Lady of Song,” and for good reason. Throughout her career, Fitzgerald took jazz singing to new heights of fame and popularity, influencing the style of jazz and future generations of musicians. Today, her music remains well-known and loved, and her long and prolific career reflects her impeccable skill and style. Her influence is still strong today, with singers such as Adele, Mica Paris, Lady Gaga, and Lana Del Rey (BBC) citing Fitzgerald as a major influence on their style and their love of music. Fitzgerald is often referred to as one of the greatest jazz vocalists, along with Billie Holiday. However, Fitzgerald’s style was not dominated by the typical approach to jazz singing, instead being

Cynthia Hilts, a competent and underrated pianist, composer, and singer, associates creativity with a predisposition for musical activism, in her latest album Lyric Fury, released on her own label, Blond Coyote.

At the age of four I was absolutely positive that in the future my career was to be the real world Kim Possible. Yet, the next year something in me clicked; my mind had been set on becoming a singer, and ever since that moment twelve years ago it has been my path. I had convinced myself that I would stand on a stage, and every time I opened my mouth the notes would just flow out; gliding gracefully through the air, dancing to the music among one another, descending upon the audience in powerful crescendos. However, as I aged, my confidence in this vision would begin to sway.

In order for Asger Leth to successfully create a suspenseful nail biting experience for the audience, the setting of Man on a Ledge had to be perfect. The premise of the movie was to commit a heist in the middle of the day without the man getting robbed have any idea what was really happening. To do this, the characters needed a setting easily manipulated and filled with distractions to use at their disposal. This is why New York City was the ideal location for this film to be set. Without this setting, many of the thriller scenes throughout the movie would lose their effect on the audience. For example, the main protagonist Nick Cassidy threatens to jump from a 30 story building in the middle of New York to end his life. If this height was decreased, nobody would care about him jumping and his plan would be ruined. People only stayed and watched Nick because they wanted to see what would happen to the man and whether or not he could survive such a fall. If the height was decreased, and he was only jumping from a two story building, it is likely that only a small crowd would gather and others would just go about their day and ignore his fiasco. While the audience sees the crowed being morbid because of their want to see Nick jump to his death, Asger Leth strategically implements them into the setting using them as another distraction to aid Nick in his efforts. It is only until later in the movie that the audience sees how much the crowd truly affects the storyline and

Amy Beach (1867-1940) was born musically gifted. She grew up with a mother who was a “pianist and singer” and a maternal grandmother who “was a high soprano” (Block, 3). Before the age of four, she was able to “over 40 tunes accurately” (Grimshaw, 1), and harmonize accurately to her mothers singing. Her mother wrote down that ‘if we [her and her mother] sang a song that she didn’t want to hear […] she would show such anger’ (Block, 4). As she grew older, she wanted to play the piano with her mother, but religious

For offensive tackles broad jump and vertical leap showed the greatest positive relationship because offensive tackles need those skills in order to perform their tasks in the field and if someone have a high broad jump it means that score in a vert leap also going to be positively correlated.

1. After learning more about the story branding process, I strongly believe that people in marketing and selling are just like people in other business. That is, in the beginning, they are both taught the ethics of their chosen profession and given all the tools to go about conducting business in a truthful and honorable way. Somewhere along the way greed can creep in and cause those lessons to become less important and branding can slide further and further away from the truth. In my youth group, we covered lessons on being a peacemaker and the slippery slope on addressing conflict. The steps are similar to that addressed in the slippery slope fallacy whereas a person says that event A has occurred and soon events B, C and D will follow no matter how exuberant they

Rock and a Hard Place is a 2017 documentary by producers Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Jon Alpert, Susan Caney, Rasha Drachkovitch, Christian Lopez, Matthew O’Neill, and Rosalino Ramos. The documentary is about a Miami-Dade County military style boot-camp prisons for juveniles that is intended to prevent recidivism. I found the topic interesting and wanted to learn if possible a short-term intensive military program would be effective to rehabilitate juvenile criminals long-term and if it is effective throughout the nation. I was interested what factors would contribute to its success, when some of the program’s participants found it too difficult to successfully complete.