A Harvard college graduate, Lemann graduated magna cum laude in 1976. Lemann married twice, lived near New York City with his wife, Dominique Browing and their two sons when he wrote “The Promised Land.” They divorced and he later married Judith Anne Shulevitz in 1999. They have a son and daughter. The Book “The Promised Land the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” is a National Best Seller written in 1991. It was published in the Untied States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto .
E-business: Hilton Hotels Corp. University of Phoenix EBUS 400 November 25, 2006 General Summary Introduction Hilton Hotels Corporation is recognized around the world. As a preeminent lodging hospitality company, offering guests and customers the finest accommodations, services, amenities and value for business or leisure, Hilton offers the amenities and quality its name has inspired since 1919. Hilton owns such unique and well known locations such as the Waldorf: Astoria in New York, The Hilton Hawaiian Village® on Waikiki Beach, Chicago's Palmer House Hilton and the Hilton San Francisco on Union Square. The company is a prominent franchisor of hotels. The company will have opened approximately 430 hotels and 63,000 rooms in 2000-01.
The Unnoticed Success of Astor Piazzolla Miami Dade College MUL 2380 – Jazz and Popular Music in America The Unnoticed Success of Astor Piazzolla Now regarded as one of the most prolific folk composers in recent history, Astor Piazzolla’s modern take on the traditional Argentine tango has found its way into both concert halls and dance clubs, performed by a wide range of instruments and ensembles and featured on over 321 different recordings to date. In 1985, the composer and performer won the “Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires” award, recognizing his contributions to the worldwide accessibility and popularity of Buenos Aires tango. Appearing on television and radio multiple times and featured in the New York Times throughout his career, the depth and breadth of Piazzolla’s popularity prior to his death in 1992 is undeniable. Referred to during his lifetime as the “contemporary master of the tango” and the “father of the ‘new tango,’” and serving as a benchmark for all other tango composers after his death, Piazzolla’s music has undoubtedly earned a permanent home somewhere in the gray areas between classical, pop, jazz, and ethnic music. Despite Piazzolla’s steadily growing popularity during his lifetime, however, the majority of scholarly literature written about Piazzolla definitively declares that success, and particularly his success in New York City, eluded him until just before death in 1992.
Founded in New Orleands in the early 1900's was the greatest platform for success. New Orleans was a heaven beacuse there were various coultures in a confind musical city. When Jazz became trendy everyone wanted it play, letting people from all walks of life add thier personal flare to it. That is the beauty of Jazz, though there are guidlines to what makes Jazz music there are also infanite amount of possiblities to create something unique. One of Jazz's greatest weapons for success is improvization.
My music stretched and influenced various other genres such as blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical genres. My career spanned more than 50 years and included leading my orchestra, composing an “inexhaustible” songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. I am generally considered to have “elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music” due to my charisma and eloquence. I refer to my music as “American Music” rather than jazz. I melded the “beyond category” individuals of my orchestra into the most well-known jazz orchestral units in the history of jazz.
Hip hop originated when New York DJ’s began isolating the percussion breaks on funk and rock records. Pioneering DJ’s such as Grand Master Flash, Africa Bambataa, DJ Jazzy J started scratching jazz and jazz funk records creating a new sound with immense energy. DJ’s and hip hop producers have always gravitated to jazz records for their richness and flexibility due majorly to jazz’s instrumental based structure. This makes a song ideal for sampling. In its early days
With an illustrious list of former clientele, including John and Jaclyn Kennedy, the Plaza Hotel was designed to impress upon its occupants the utmost sense of class, luxury and decadence whose essence typifies the upper-echelon of New York City residences. Located between 58 and 59th street on the esteemed 5th avenue, with each room being more venerable than the next, it is no wonder that the Plaza was made a New York City Landmark in 1969. Around Midtown, 5th avenue is notorious for expensive shopping, luxurious residences and an extensive array of businesses and office buildings which house some of the most successful companies in the world. Surrounded by skyscrapers, the Plaza is neither overshadowed nor outclassed by its much larger neighbors as it encompasses old-fashioned architectural components derived from Greek and Roman styles, along with an aged look that only reiterates its significance in New York’s architectural history. According to The City Journal’s Spring 2006 edition, the Plaza’s architecture includes a “ tripartite form of a column, separating the three-story limestone base from the shaft with a bold stringcourse.
Majestic Structures Monumental structures in ancient Rome were very similar to the magnificent structures we have built in major United States cities today. From above New York City many structures can be compared to the ones Roman architects and engineers built in their time. Amphitheaters, stadiums, bridges and other monumental structures stand out and are very distinctive from above, as well as useful for the civilians of each time. Monumental structures in ancient Rome strongly correlate to the architecture used to construct the types of architecture in New York City and were used for activities, sports, and entertainment. If I were to fly over the city of Rome during imperial times, I would clearly be able to define the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus.
Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921. He is older then 3 brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, before he returned to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the stuff of racism he had overcome.
Count Basie “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” Count Basie was born in 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey, and grew up playing the piano. He was a leading figure of the swing era in jazz and formed the Count Basie Orchestra, which was one of the first big bands made. The band reached fame with hit songs such as “One o'clock Jump” (1937), “Jumpin' at the Woodside” (1938), and “Taxi War Dance” (1939). However, I will be focusing primarily on the song “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” and educate you with an in-depth description of the piece. It was recorded on August 22, 1938 by Decca Records, whom he had a record deal with.