The album sales topped the 7 million mark at home and abroad. In 1982, Quincy and Michael collaborated to produce one of the greatest albums of all time, Thriller, that lifted Michael to superstar status. Thriller sold over 40 million copies and became the highest-selling album in history. Thriller changed Michael into a sex symbol and highlighted his amazing dance moves. He electrified 50 million viewers of the 1983 Motown 25 television special by singing and dancing to “Billie Jean.” This performance included many of Michael’s trademarks that stand to this day.
At the age 20 Richard started company named ‘Virgin’, which was operated with the mail. At the age 22 Richard opened company called ‘Virgin Records’, one of the first artists which sing with ‘Virgin Record’ was Mike Oldfield, he sold more than 5 million copies of single. Later on there was many other artist which sing with ‘Virgin Record’, for example Sex Pistol, Janet Jackson and Rolling Stones and may other singers and bands. At the age 34 Richard decide start business which is more serious. He moved into airline industry, starting ‘Virgin Atlantic Airways’, which become second biggest English haul in international airline, which had flights to New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Orland and many others international cities.
He has written nearly 400 film scores (Imdb.com. Web) so adding him to the crew for Hamlet seemed like a good move to make. Some might wonder, why him? Why did that maker of this movie pick him to be the music director? Ennio Morricone has won numerous awards for his works some including a honorary award in 2007 at the Academy Awards for his magnificent and multifaced contributions to the art of film music as well as a win at the Golden Globes in 2000 for best original score for the film The Legend of 1900 ("Ennio Morricone."
He earned gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards. He starred in 31 successful films from “Love me tender” his first film in 1956, to “Change of habit” his last film in 1969. His famous songs are: “Love me tender”, “All shook up”, “In the ghetto”, “Jailhouse rock”, “Hound dog”, “Heartbreak hotel”, and “Burning love”, and much more. These songs were from, 1956 to 1969. Elvis is the single highest-selling performer in history.
Arthur Miller About him Arthur miller was born in New York in 1915. Arthur Miller went to the University of Michigan before moving back produce plays for the stage. His first critical and popular success was Death of a Salesman, which opened on Broadway in 1949. Miller also married Marilyn Monroe. The Crucibles Context The crucibles was initially called “the chronicles of Sarah good” In 1953 Thr Crucibles won the best play tony award and a year later it became a new production and succeeded and became an American classic.
Kayla Pasake HL English Mr. Hall 8 February 2013 Word Count: 1,002 Clybourne Park Essay The Broadway play “Clybourne Park” is based off the movie and play “The Raisin in the Sun”. It is written by Bruce Norris and was honored with many awards including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play. Bruce Norris wrote the play by having it pick up right where “The Raisin in the Sun” left off. By doing this, Bruce Norris picks up where the drama was and shows the racial tensions in the 1950’s and 1960’s up until present day. To create this, writer Bruce Norris created a play with only two acts.
During the 1950’s, Fosse moved to New York, hoping he will he will become the new Fred Astaire. During this time he appeared in the movie “Call me mister,” which caught the attention for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He later appeared in movies with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, but his career in movies was cut short due to him balding, so he switched to Theatre. He choreographed his first musical. He later on directed and choreographed plays like “Redhead,”
He has written ten novels including westerns, modernist genres, and southern gothic. He has won many awards including 1959 and 1960 Ingram-Merrill awards, 1965 Faulkner prize for a first novel for The Orchard Keeper, 1965 Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1992 National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses. In 2005 his novel No Country for Old Men was made into a major motion picture. In 2006 he was named joint runner up in a poll surveyed by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. In 2007 he won four Academy Awards including Best Picture for No Country for Old Men.
It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century. The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, opus 98. It considered being the first true song cycle by a major composer. He composed in 1816, and it can be seen as the first real song cycle by a great composer in the sense that it is a number of songs by voice and piano that are clearly related with each other. The six songs of the cycle flow into each other, the tonal structure is very clear, and the poetic structure is also clear.
In my own opinion I believe this play to be the most well-known and most iconic play in the world. I don’t believe that William Shakespeare’s expectations were to have this play be has big as it has become. As I previously stated, this play was written in the later months of 1594. He had written this play in the early years of his literary career. I myself can only give my opinion on what I believe to be the main purpose for this play and I believe it to be that he wrote it with intentions to share his work with an audience.