The street was named after Wilshire when he agreed to let the city build a street across from his property. In the 1920s, many hotels and high-rise buildings modeled after New York buildings were erected and the area saw a massive increase in its population. Many movie stars and people of high social economic status occupied the area due to its proximity to Hollywood and the new exclusive real estate. During the 1930s, the area’s popularity grew because many movie stars were moving to the new district. Wilshire Boulevard became better known for movie star spotting than Hollywood Boulevard.
Handel shaped two operas a year for the next decade in the New Royal Academy of Music, but Italian opera fell gradually out of bravura in London. Handel self-possessed two more Italian
Tin Pan Alley paved the way for musical entertainment that we enjoy to this day. According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, The term “Tin Pan Alley” originally referred to W. 28th Street in New York around 1910 when during it’s heyday because songwriters would be creatively banging around on lower end pianos that you could hear from the street. Tin Pan Alley was the basis for traditional music that surrounds us to this day. Without the pianos that wailed their tunes through publisher’s doors beginning in 1880, people would have been deprived of the musical entertainment that Tin Pan Alley so strongly influenced. From Vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood musical movies, to ragtime, jazz, swing, and rock and roll, all the way to television variety shows after the depression; the pianos of Tin Pan Alley are credited for laying the foundation for the many entertainments that have endured for over two hundred years.
Tell as much as you can about the organized labor movement. Throughout our world today, the Industrial Revolution is responsible for the beauties of life that we enjoy today. But in the late 1800’s not all things were glamorous for the workers and their families once the Industrial Revolution began. First of all, cities throughout the world were building so rapidly, a lot of building became inhabitable. Tenement houses within these cities became incredibly crowded and crammed along narrow paths or streets.
If it stumbles in illustrating this lesson, it also opens its author’s ears to a new, richly human music. "[1] The Broadway production, also directed by Kinney, began previews at the Lyceum Theatre on March 13, 2009, opened on April 2, 2009 and closed on June 14, 2009 after 85 performances. The cast included off-Broadway
The massive number of European immigrants that entered into America’s east coast from the late 1800’s and on forever influenced the growth and development of the country. Fleeing crop failure, famine, rising taxes, and land/job shortages, many immigrants journeyed to the United States because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 27 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920. The majority of the immigrants entered through Ellis Island, leading it to become the gateway to America and become recognized as a national symbol. Many of the immigrants, not knowing the way America worked, didn’t stray too far from the East Coast and moved into areas filled with people of similar languages, traditions, and beliefs.
Vaudeville being one of the many types of broadway type of shows and act for family, having many actors perform acts and shows for the people vaudeville becoming a hit opened up in New York City, The shows were very popular with only being a few cents to see a show. Mark Strand Theatre opened up and became the biggest theatre in Manhattan, New York City. Being able to hold 3,000 people with also a second floor many people watched
The story was turned into a musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, famous for writing the song “New York, New York”, which opened on Broadway in 2010. The musical used the format of a classic minstrel show in order to tell the grotesque story of the ‘Scottsboro Boys’. The minstrel show format, which once was the main form of entertainment, is now deemed highly offensive but is it possible for the format to be used to demonstrate racist stories and be an effective form of story telling. The story of the ‘Scottsboro Boys’ has been studied and analyzed since it first the 1930’s. Douglas O. Linder, a legal professor at the University of Missouri, writes: “No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern Railroad freight run on March 25, 1931.
University of Maryland’s production of the famous Broadway play RENT (directed by Alan Mingo) was truly a sight to behold. It was arguably the biggest show of the entire year, and thus tickets sold out quick. To be able to see the show, I had to borrow a ticket from a friend who had decided not to attend. The acting was much more mature and professional than I had expected. I’d never experienced a college play before; only high school ones.
In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) thrived on the sales of sheet music and recordings of Tin Pan Alley songs, the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S. at the time, but the creation of radio in the 1940’s was geared toward recorded music and things started to change in the industry. After a fierce battle between radio stations and ASCAP over royalty payments, stations decided to refuse to play any recordings registered with ASCAP. So, in 1940 radio stations created and began operating their own publishing company called Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI). ASCAP didn’t want to share any royalties with radio stations and they tended to ignore and refuse to play any music composed by “blacks and