The name and the Jacob story also relate to a road in the area, which was previously named Jacob’s Ladder. Later in the 1800’s, Jacob’s Pillow gained some relevance in American history by being a stop in the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping the South. In 1931, the farm was purchased a place for retreat by a man named Ted Shawn. Ted’s dream was to have dancing as a career become honorable for men in America. He started this by recruiting eight men for his dance team.
Born April 16, 1889, in London, England, Charles Spencer Chaplin was no stranger to the stage. His mother and father, both British music hall entertainers, exposed him to the limelight from birth. He made his own stage debut at age five, filling in when his mother lost her voice mid-song. Chaplin found his escape from a life of poverty by landing a spot in the Karno Pantomime Troop. This allowed him to develop his comedic skills and brought him to America, where he signed a contract with the Keystone Film Company.
Project part one: Paul Lynde By Marie Fullmer I chose Paul Lynde as the subject of my project. He was a very funny man, and was most famous for being the center square on the game show Hollywood Squares in the 60s and 70s. Paul was born on June 13, 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University and studied drama with other now-known-celebrities Charlotte Rae, Patricia Neal, and Charleton Heston. He graduated in 1948 amd moved to New York where he started performing as a stand-up comedian.
Then, I will discuss how he was able to establish significant connections with important entrepreneurs until he became a successful entrepreneur himself. I will demonstrate how this positively affected his fame and career in musical theatre. Furthermore, I will give an overview about his unique songwriting methods and music styles. I will also discuss in some detail two of his well-known patriotic songs, “White Christmas” and “God Bless America” that have had a substantial influence on the American culture and the history of musical theatre. Israel Isidore Baline was born on May 11, 1888 in Russia.
Morawetz’ compositions have been commissioned by internationally acclaimed artists and have garnered him many awards. Oskar Morawetz was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia in January of 1917. Following the footsteps of his older brother, Oskar was started piano lesson at the age of 6. As a young child he was give piano music and piano reductions of operas and symphonies. By being forced to play through the pieces, Morawetz increased his knowledge with the composition of each individual piece, allowing him to be familiar with a large variety of the musical literature.
Although his mother was a piano teacher, Arnold was self-taught; when he was eight years old he started to learn the violin and soon after began composing violin duets. The only lessons he took were from the composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and he gave him instructions on composition. At the age of 25, he produced his first major piece of work, the tone poem Verkarte Nacht for string sextet, which translates to Transfigured Night. In 1901 at the age of 27 he married Alexander Zemlinsky’s sister, Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The couple moved to Berlin and lived there for two years while he orchestrated operettas and directed a cabaret orchestra.
In 1972, the film was given a wide U.S. release and honored at the Academy Awards. The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I. 1914 was the year Chaplin made his first movie. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza Ambrose, alias Terry (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career.
Ballet – The Classical School Dance and mime were used in Greek plays. Actors told stories and dancers expressed the actions, emotions and moods of the narrative. Ballet evolved from the Renaissance Spectacles, which involved all forms of art in one performance (music, poetry, drama, scenery etc). They were put on to celebrate important events. In 1643 Louis XIV became King of France.
You could say that was the start of his career as a composer. Menken attended Rochelle High School in his home town and after graduation went to Pre-med school to become a dentist. Lucky for us he later changed his major to music. After college Alen attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York where he worked at local clubs writing jingles and songs as an accompanist. Alen Menken got his first big break in January of 1979 with Howard Ashman in the Off-Broadway production “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater.” Three years later he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in his Off-Broadway Production “Little Shop of Horrors” and from that in January of 1987 Menken was given his first Oscar nomination for a song with in it called “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space.” In 1990 Menken was nominated for three Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Nominations and went on to win two of each for his work in the Walt Disney production “The Little Mermaid”.
He began selling hair goods, imported cosmetics and stage greasepaints to local stage actors in St. Louis. As his local fame spread, actors from the emerging film industry also came to Max for make-up advice. Thus, the motion picture industry, then beginning in Hollywood, beckoned. He settled in Los Angeles with his family in 1909 and got a job with the Pantages Theatre. By 1914, he was perfecting make up for the movies.