It is up to each actor to deliver the combined vision to the audience, and to insure the vision is portrayed. Each artist must understand what the playwright’s message to the audience is. In theatre, there is a promise made to the audience to deliver a message, even one consisting of pure entertainment. Whether it is a spectacle such as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, or a tragedy like “Death of a Salesman” with a message about the American dream, the performance piece is the main attraction. The audience could have easily stayed home and read the play themselves, but they go to the theatre to see it come alive before their eyes.
Explore the ways in which Romeo and Juliet are presented in Act 1 Scene 5 and elsewhere in the Shakespeare’s play, and in the performed version(s) In this essay I will consider the ways in which Romeo and Juliet are being presented by William Shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann. The essay will compare the ways in which Romeo and Juliet are presented in the 1996 film directed by Baz Luhrmann and the original Shakespearean version of the Romeo and Juliet play written in 1595. Shakespeare presents Juliet as heavenly, when Romeo first catches a glimpse of Juliet; ‘O doth teach the torches to burn bright!’ Romeo describes Juliet as a torch, and that she teaches other ‘torches to burn bright’. The word ‘torch’ connotes brightness and light which are connotations of heaven. This suggests that Juliet’s beauty is heavenly.
”may come cannon balling down through the sky”; are just examples of how the suspense and excitement are shown in ‘Something’s Coming’. Bernstein includes a prominent use of the tritone throughout the piece, for example on “soon as it shows”. Unlike in most of the pieces in West Side Story, Bernstein slightlt alters the motif to express the different atmosphere in this piece. For example, the contrast between dissonance and consonance- the tritone rises to enlighten the atmosphere. In ‘Maria’, Bernstein uses the ‘devils
The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913 at the Théâtre de Champs Elysées in Paris as a two-part ballet-suite. It was based off a vision that Stravinsky had after completing The Firebird, another ballet of his. He explained, “I dreamed of a scene of pagan ritual in which a chosen sacrificial virgin danced to her death” (Schonberg 480). About a decade later, George Gershwin premiered Rhapsody in Blue in 1924 at the Aeolian Hall at Paul Whiteman’s jazz concert. Gershwin was commissioned by Whiteman to write a piece for his concert with the jazz element; he wrote the Rhapsody in Blue (Ewen 291 “20th Century Music”).
Good evening and welcome to Open Forum’s special addition of Caesar’s bunch tonight, where you; the audience ask the questions and we provide the answers. I’m your host Debra and tonight we will be examining the popular play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Answering your questions tonight are actors from different backgrounds but all play important characters in the play; Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is set in Ancient Rome, which follows the life of Caesar; a Roman general rapidly gaining power. Many feared he was getting too powerful thus the assassination of Caesar took place in the hope of saving Rome.
Pitch -note melody volume, rhythm beat, tempo, rate of the beat, beats/minute adagio slow andante medium, allegro fast , retardando (beat slowing down), accelerando(beat speeding up) harmony-way chord are constructed, & how they follow each other volume piano, mezzo forte , decrescendo crescendo, Music Appreciation Seeing the Broadway play “Once” I went to the Broadway play “Once” at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City. This recently opened play, which is based upon a movie, is simply about the joys of making music. The original movie starred two real-life musicians that were recruited to act; Glen Hansard portrayed a street musician and Marketa Irglova
During this time he also did many chamber music concerts with other well known composers and his friends such as Pau Casals, Mathieu Crickboom, Jacques Thibaud, Emil von Sauer and Camille Saint-Saens. In 1898 his zarzuela “Maria Del Carmen” was performed in the royal theater in Madrid, which gained the attention of King Alfonso XIII. Also in 1898 because of “Maria Del Carmen” he was crowned a knight by King Carlos III. In 1911, after a rewrite because he was unsatisfied with its original form, “Goyescas” was suppose to be premiered at the Paris grand-opera for 1914-1915, but had to be given up due to the war. Goyescas was a piano suite named after scenes from the paintings and tapestries of Goya and episodes from the Goyesque period in Madrid, a time marked by bloodshed and political upheaval.
The curtain was raised and the narrator said his lines, after he turned the actress who played Mrs Johnstone. The play then began right back to the beginning. The play was just flashbacks of the boy’s life. The ripples on the curtains made me think we were looking through the ripples of time. This in affect is what we were doing.
Tonia A. Sambola Music 101 Richard Sayers November 9, 2010 Live Performance Review I attended a musical play at the Opera Company of Philadelphia where they acted out one of Shakespeare’s most popular stories of all time, Othello. Opera is truly not my style of music but after seeing the play and how it connects to music, I will definitely say there’s nothing quite as exciting as attending the opera in a professional theater like the Academy of Music. These are the real names and of the performers, next to it is the name that they use in the play; Clifton Forbis(Othello a Moorish General), Norah Amsellem (Desdemona, his wife), Mark Delevan (Iago, Othello’s ensign), Margaret Mezzacappa (Emila, wife of Iago and maid of Desdemona), Jason Collins(Cassio, Othello’s captain), Cody Austin( Roderigo, a gentleman of Venice), Jeremy Milner (Lodovico, ambassador of the Venetian Republic), and Joseph Baron (Montano, former Governor of Cprus). The performance was held at the Academy of Music, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 6:15 p.m. At the event there were over a thousand individuals mostly high school and middle school teenagers who attended the opera as a class trip or project; Ages range (10-16). Unlike actors on television or in the movies, the performers onstage are aware of the audience.
("Liberty Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution," Chapter 10 Page 1). They celebrated poems, music, paintings, songs, and engravings. Some people would come and see all these events take place and then some would not want to see all the drama. “In 1794, the French Revolution entered its most violent phase, the Terror.” ( The first major