Every spring, students and professors of the Glendale College, as well as members of the local community, have a chance to enjoy annual concerts performed by the Glendale College Community Orchestra (Glendale.edu, n.d.). On May 22, the Orchestra performed in a huge concert, which took place at the Mainstage Auditorium. Bethany Pflueger was the conductor of the Glendale College Community Orchestra, and, probably, this was the key thing why the performance was so successful. This concert featured Glendale College Concert Singers, and it was also led by Chris Rios and Chris Coulter as musical directors. The Glendale College Community ...

Music could be one of the greatest inventions that happened in our history. It is a form of art and a form of cultural activity which is created out of various elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and even the audible qualities of texture and timbre. There are many types of music that were created that may have started in the early days. One of which is the Jazz music. This type of music represents a perfect combination of music components and elements in order to create an audible sound that many people have been enjoying since the early ...

The university of South Alabama provides students with an opportunity to visit Symphony Orchestra and enjoy well-performed classical music concert. This month, on April 7, the University of South Alabama Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Robert Seebacher, presented its Spring concert. The series of concerts included works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Weber and Hindemith. This concert featured the University Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Laura Moore, Dr. Jasmin Arakawa on piano, and six vocal soloists as well: Dr. Thomas Rowell, tenor, Dr. Patrick Jacobs, baritone, and four student soloists: Elizabeth Bemis, soprano, Kate Frazier, soprano, Brianna Smith, alto, ...

Learning a foreign language can be a challenge especially for someone facing appropriacy and cultural issues. The objective of this paper is to examine the difficulties that learners of a foreign language encounter whenever they try to understand and correctly use a foreign word or phrase. The thesis statement of this paper suggests that it is difficult for learners of a foreign language to understand and use correctly the features of appropriacy; this is due to the fact that appropriacy is extremely complex as it is specific not only to a context but also to a culture. By reviewing ...

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Dedicated Fixed-income portfolios                             1. What are the fixed income investments we should consider? Why?

A. Cash

Among all assets cash is the most liquid, that is, there would be no required intermediary to convert the cash, as it is considered legal tender. Moreover, cash is easily accessible and disposable. However, cash has its downside. Too much cash or that is saving too much is costly. There exists an opportunity cost. With current low level interest rates, cash that is kept at the bank will depreciate in value due to inflation. Inflation rates are higher than interest rates, thus the purchasing power ...

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Abstract Every speech is embellished by metaphoric expression, despite its context, content, and tone. In different fields the application of metaphors may vary, yet still they are applied regardless the situation consciously or unconsciously. In the speech of adults, metaphoric expressions play pivotal role serving as the instruments of persuasion, simplification, and demonstration. There is less evidence that explain the utilization of metaphors by children. Some scholars insist that children use metaphoric expressions unconsciously, while the other researchers imply that they implement the metaphors due to their symbolic perception of the environment. There is certain inconsistency in the results ...

Artist: Ella FitzgeraldTitle: “Smooth Sailing”Recorded: New York, June 26, 1951Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals), Hank Jones (piano), Everett Barksdale (guitar), Arnold Fishkin (bass), Bill Doggett (organ), Johnny Blowers (drums), and the Ray Charles Singers. Composed by Arnett Cobb.

Ella Fitzgerald, the celebrated jazz singer, is known for many things. One of the most important vocalists to emerge from the big band era, her command over her voice and sunny, lighthearted style characterize many of her pieces. From soulful ballads to the fast-paced bebop, Fitzgerald’s voice is renowned as one of the most virtuoso instruments of jazz. ...

Advertising and Promotion Strategies

Advertising and promotional strategies can be an extremely important part of a business plan, especially for new businesses or those that are currently in their startup phase . This is because the products and or services being offered by startup companies are often not yet known to the market or if they already are, they are still considered as alternatives over the more mainstream products and or services being offered by more established industry players. Poor advertising strategies can be a reason for lackluster sales in the early stages of opening up the business. Being in the startup phase should not be a ...

Billy Joel’s 1973 song “Piano Man” is one of the most popular pop songs of its era, and an endlessly catchy and fascinating song to listen to. A piano and harmonica-driven ballad about a piano lounge singer and the characters that inhabit that lounge, Joel provides wonderfully clear, tenor singing to back up sprightly instrumentation

The song begins with a piano solo that has its roots in jazz improvisation; syncopated piano playing starts out the song, uneven rhythms providing an explosion of music right at the beginning before the song settles into its harmonica-and-piano melody. A steady 3/4 tempo ...

Banking and Loan Arrangements

It is important to remember that banking and loan arrangements vary per banking client. So, if one banking client managed to get a $50,000 worth of loans under a long term tenor of ten years with only a fixed interest rate for five years of 5%, that does not mean that all banking clients would be able to enjoy the same deal by the time they apply for a loan. There are factors and variables which creditors, which in this case would be the banks, have to consider before making banking and loan arrangements. Credit worthiness and the ability of the ...

1956 – Hard Bop. Hard Bop developed from Bop and spread through the East Coast. Adherents of this style believed that cool jazz was too “European” and wanted to return more blues and Afro-centric elements. Hard Bop was an assertive style that characterized by more active drummers, improvisations, darker and heavier ambience. Style was preferred primary by urban musicians from Philadelphia and Detroit (“Cool Jazz and Hard Bop”). In 1956 Sonny Rollins with different musicians created several significant albums: “Tenor Madness”, “Volume one”, “Colossus”, “Plus Four” and other. Rollins also became a tenor saxophonist of Miles Davis Quintet that was ...

I. INTRODUCTION Systemic-Functional Linguistics, otherwise known as SFL, is a theory of language and language structure that is separate and distinct from the other theories of language that have arisen in the field of linguistics. Systemic-Functional Linguistics is a theory of language that is focused on the theory of language function as a method for language evolution and derivation (Halliday, 2005, pp. 133--135). Systemic-Functional Linguistics accounts for the syntax of any given language structure, but it is more concerned with the function of the language as the central issue within the analysis (Halliday, 2005, pp. 133--135). Halliday (2005), the first linguist ...

For our music class, we had to attend a live Jazz concert. There were many several concerts, which we could choose from, both varied from on or off campus. The recommended concert that we chose for this this semester was on Thursday, November 13th in Gusman Concert Hall. We attended a “Jazz Vocal II Ensemble & Jazz Vocal III Ensemble”. The directors for this ensemble were Sherrine Mostin and Eliot Weeks. There were 2 Jazz Vocal Ensembles that consisted of different people playing and supporting during the concert. There is some information regarding these two excellent Ensembles Jazz Vocal III Ensemble ...

Jazz music was the major music trending in 1920s with recognition throughout the world. Perhaps, this was possible through the efforts made by the vocalists who seemed to gain dominance in the spotlight. Since this type of music seemed to be fashionable in the music industry, several improvements were to be improved in its vocals through the use of saxophones. Jazz age was described as the time when the world war ended to when the depression begun in the year 1929 (Vladimir, 54). Jazz music gained popularity in America, alththough the past generations viewed it as evil and threatening ...

Finance and Economics

Financing a business can be a challenging and at the same time, a time consuming job. However, as long as the business or the product whose production, marketing, and sales needs to be financed possess the qualities that investors look for, the process can be made exponentially easier and faster than it often has to be . This leads us to the question, what are those qualities? The proposed scheme to finance this business and or new product introduction venture is to get financial support from the capital market. This main option is divided into three sub-options: 1. to attract an angel or ...

A saxophone, also referred to as the sax, is a musical instrument that belongs to the woodwind family. Mostly, they are made of brass and are played by the mouth. Adolph Sax, from Belgium, was the founder of the saxophone, and he came up with this instrument in the year 1840. The saxophones were made of different series and the most popular one today was meant to be used by the military band. Apart from being used in military bands, saxophones are mostly used in classical and jazz genres of music. People who play the saxophone are referred to as ...

1.0 Introduction Lee Iacocca has been chosen because is one of the few leaders in the world’s history who have managed convert companies on the verge of collapse to some of the most successful organization. Moreover, he achieved exemplary performance wherever he worked. During his tenor as the president of Ford Motor Company, Ford became one the most successful automobile companies. Even after being fired from Ford, he did not give up but was employed Chrysler where he managed to turned an ailing company into one of a very successful automobile entity. 2.0 Executive Summary This ...

Language has different systemic functional perspectives which allow a writer to express and connect ideas, interact with others and create cohesive and coherent texts for the readers (Derewianka 2012). The first text is an information report written to give generalized information about Antarctica and its food web. An information report structure involves a general statement identifying the topic of the report, followed by various descriptions of the topic. The second text is a narrative about a dramatic event that occurred during a family holiday at the beach. It was written as a first person narrative with the clear intent to entertain and instruct through ...

Steel drums or what we called Steel Pan were originally created on the island of Caribbean, Trinidad in year 1930s.However, Steel Pan’s history can be traced back to the confined Africans who were brought to the islands during the 1700s (Steelpan-steeldrums-information.com par. 1). They had taken with them components of their Africa lifestyle such as the enjoying of hand percussion. 2). Hand drums are percussion at Africa called Membranophones. These drums became the main percussion gadgets in the yearly Trinidadian event festivities. In year 1877, the judgment English Government prohibited the playing of percussion in an effort ...

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Introduction

Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the family is a very heart-touching account of how much he wants to travel to his motherland and relive his childhood which he missed. Each passage describes how he is connected somewhere to his past and craves for getting more connected to it. Though he has been living in Canada and evolved as a usual resident of the country but in his heart, but he is imbued in the memories with his family, motherland, trees, forests, animals and the essence of being connected to Ceylon or Sri Lanka. His emotions and nostalgia ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Cast of Characters:

FIRRAS, VCU graduate student and communications major R. JANKAUSKAS, Professor of Anatomy, Histiology and Anthropology at Vilnius University in Lithuania. JAMES THOMPSON, Professor at the University of Chicago SAMUEL PEPYS, English naval administrator and Member of Parliament SAMUEL K. COHN JR., Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow

ACT ONE LIGHTS UP on FIRRAS, a beleaguered college student, poring over papers at a small wooden desk, exhausted. He has been cramming for a test for ages; going nearly 24 hours without sleep or even a break, the man is clearly beset upon with stress. FIRRAS: (muttering to ...