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Emerson String

Emerson String

Help with quote interpretation?

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. By Emerson

Can anyone give me an easy interpretation of it?

It is a masterly quote describing how completely we view the world through our own eyes.
Our lives are made up of a long series of mood swings, seen through the coloured lens of our own personal interpretation. We reorganise the externals with regard only to what is of importance to us personally.

Emerson String Quartet: Shostakovich, String Qtet no. 3, III

Cheese Incident

Cheese Incident

Hippie Music Still Continuing To Be Chart Busters

Hippie music like wine only seems to become more popular with time. The Hippie culture made an amazing impact on the world in the 60s and 70s. The rebels that they were, Hippies never liked to do anything conventional. Their different taste included their style of music too. Not for them what others listened too. They wanted and therefore created their own music style.

Even today Hippie music continues to have its fans. Jam bands such a String Cheese Incident, Phish and Widespread Panic continue to sell like hot cakes. There are many music shows that are based on Hippie themes that are still a sell out. Hippie bands such as The Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band and The Traffic continue to attract music lovers. In fact, many of the famous Hippie artists such as Crosby, Donovan, Young, Stills and Nash are still alive and playing till date.

Even today there are stores that do brisk business of Hippie music albums. The legendary Bob Dylans work continues to vanish off music store shelves as fast as they used to in the 1970s. Similarly, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and the famous Beatles Hippie tunes too find a large number of takers, till today.

While there does no doubt the popularity of this style of music, finding it can be quite a daunting task indeed. There are a few things that you can do in order to find the music that was so synonymous with the Hippie culture. Perhaps the best way to find them would be to visit Hippie Stores. There are scores of these stores that sell anything ranging from music albums to memorabilia. There are many album companies that still continue to release Hippie albums and you can easily find them in such exclusive Hippie Stores. Once you do a bit of research, you can always finding this distinct style of music is not difficult a proposition, as it may seem to be initially.

Another good place to search for the music of the 60s is over the Internet. The advent of the Internet has been a boon to every music lover. You can search almost any tune over online music resources. Make sure that you download music from a reputable website. This is important because there are several dubious websites from where you can easily end up with downloads of viruses or malware, instead of music.

Perhaps the best way to find out and get access to Hippie Music would be to get in touch with a Hippie himself. You can find several online forums that are dedicated to the Hippie culture. You can easily zero in on a Hippie near you with the help of such sites. You can also get in touch with your friends or family members, who may know some of them. There is nothing like getting to know about the unique style of music from a Hippie himself. They can provide you with valuable insights into the evolution of this unique and extremely popular style of music.

The Cheese Incident

Mozart String

Mozart String

What are some great string quartet pieces?

I love Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Mozart. Anybody have any favorite string quartet pieces by them?

I'm not sure that Bach has Stirng Quartet works.
I like Beethoven's S.Q. 3,4 & 6.
There is also the amazing Haydn's Emperor Quartet.

K516-1 Mozart String quintet in G minor movt 1

Haydn String

Haydn String

Haydn's mu-sic became immensely popular all over Europe

They were regarded as objects of reverence because the rims of tortoise-shell came from a sacred and symbolic animal, and the lenses were made from sacred stones. People wore them at first not so much to aid eyesight as for good luck, or for curing eye-ailments, or for the dignity which they bestowed on the wearer. Sometimes even empty frames were worn as a mark of distinction.

 

The English scientist, Roger Bacon, mentioned convex lenses in his Opus major and recommended them for old or weak eyes. But his knowledge was based on the writings of Alhazen, an Arabic physician of the eleventh century.The real credit for introducing spectacles to Europe goes to two Italian physicians of the thirteenth century. And by the middle of the fourteenth century .they were in general use.

 

Eyeglasses were thought to lend such distinction to the appearance that many officials and dignitaries had their portraits painted on them, whether they actually wore them or not. Renaissance painters, ignoring fact and chronology, sometimes picture the apostles with glasses, as befitting their venerability. There is at 1840 painting of St. Jerome writing at a desk from which a pair of nose-glasses dangles by a string.

 

At first the lenses were made of any transparent stone: rock crystal, emerald, amethyst any of which were loosely called beryl. Thus came the German word for glasses, Braille. The earliest ones were merely magnifying lenses, held in the hand much like the modern reading glass. Later they were framed and held by a handle before the eyes, much like the modern lorgnette. In the early sixteenth century came the first concave lenses for shortsightedness. In 1517, Raphael painted a picture of Pope Leo X holding a pair of rimmed concave glasses in his hand. This portrait is in the Pitti Palace in Florence.

 

The first spectacles in England were hugely ridiculed. Physicians scorned them and feared them, and stuck to their eye ointments and lotions. The clergy violently opposed them, saying it was impertinent defiance against the hand of Cod to try to restore failing sight. But the fame of spectacles spread, partly because of the ridiculous caricatures of the artist William Hogarth. Pantaloon, the comic old man of Italian folk dramas, often wore spectacles.

 

Gradually, of course, people needing visual aid tried them and the spectacles themselves won over opposition and ridicule. Wealthy people used to send to Vienna for the finest lenses, which they wore in ornamental frames and cherished in jeweled frames. Over a period of twenty years, Haydn's mu-sic became immensely popular all over Europe. After the death of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy in 1790, Haydn was free to go to London where a concert series was planned around his compositions. And so, a servant had become a celebrity. Rich and honored, Haydn returned to Vienna in 1795. He died in 1809 at the age of seventy-seven when Napoleon's army occupied Vienna.

 

All the earliest <a href="http://www.christian-louboutin-sells.com">Replica Christian louboutin</a> glasses were nose-glasses with round lenses. The first ad for spectacles with bows or leather thongs to tie around the head declared the wonderful fact that they allowed free breathing i George Washington had a pair of these with long jointed bows.

Joseph Haydn String Quartet op 76/3 'emperor' in C-major (mov 1/4) Allegro

String Tribute

String Tribute

Buddhist Film Festival, GameSoundCon 2010, Festival de Cannes, Jazz Foundation Benefit, DocMiami Film Festival

Following the Opening Night screening of 'Soundtrack for a Revolution', the Ninth Santa Cruz Film Festival continues the celebration with a "Southern-style" culinary offering prepared by a soul food guru, along with a no-host bar, music by a live DJ and gallery viewing in the Museum of Art & History @ the McPherson Center where festivities take place and continue through May 15. After-Film Parties are held practically every night of the Santa Cruz Film Festival. The Future of Cinema Festival is for high school filmmakers looking to become part of a global community of other passionate, driven high school students in cinema, while screening national and international works of high school students, from May 7-9 in Interlochen. The Second Annual Buddhist Film Festival, Colombo, May 9-16, is in celebration of the birth, enlightenment and the Parinibbana of Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha. The Film Festival provides an opportunity to all filmmakers from around the globe to showcase their creations on Buddhist themes. The Festival will be brought to a climax in 2011, in celebrating 2600 years of Buddhism, where "VESAK 2011" will be the home to all filmmakers on Buddhist themes. On May 10 in Seattle, popular music innovation group, Experience Music Project, will organize and host the GameSoundCon 2010 Conferences and Seminars for composers, sound designers, audio engineers and others who want to learn what it takes to work in the video game music and sound industry with a focus on craft, technology and tools for composing game music and creating game sound effects. "My Production Workshop in Commercial Advertising" will be held May 12-16 in North Hollywood, as an accelerated creative production workshop on how to create, develop, pre-produce, produce, post produce and deliver a 30 second commercial, with participants emerging from the five-day workshop with a completed reel to be able to submit in future job searches.

Evolving as a business hub  for the low-budget indie film industry, now in its third year — and for this year taking place May 12-23 — Cannes Independent Film Festival (separate from, but organized in conjunction to Cannes Film Festival) is the first major addition to the Festival de Cannes since the Director's Fortnight in 1968 started with a mission to provide independent films an opportunity to be screened at the world's most prestigious film festival and the biggest International Film Market — the Festival de Cannes. Villa Off the Croisette, the designated CIFF venue during the Festival de Cannes, combines a chilled social space with pool, garden, and is also the location of networking poolside cocktail soirees, meet-and-greet breakfasts, and other launch events. The Festival de Cannes has celebrated cinema for more than 60 years, and this year holds its festivities May 12-24, in Cannes. Festival de Cannes offers programmes and events which enable festival goers to discover its offerings differently, including: Cannes Classics, Cinema Masterclass, tributes, Cinéma de la Plage held outdoors. Services such as the Film Market, allow professionals to meet and exchange ideas: the International Village, Producers' Network and cinando.com, and the Village international, a place where all motion picture-producing countries have the chance to showcase their cinematography within a pavilion. The Ravel Orchestral Study Group Los Angeles holds an open study session at a Studio City restaurant, May 14, followed by lunch. The session — led and organized by ASCAP Film/TV composer Ron Jones — will be an in-depth examination of Ravel's art and the technique of his orchestrations and music, includes a special performance by an instrumental guitarist, and is open to anyone wishing to attend.

Peter Pappas who has been with Valko/Miller Casting doing such series as Malcolm in the Middle, Two & a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Center of the Universe, Side Order of Life, and upcoming Fox midseason comedy, Sons of Tucson, conducts a May 15 workshop in Costa Mesa. The Media-Tech 2010 Global Expo and Summit in Frankfurt, May 19-21, is an equipment show combined with a conference highlighting emerging trends in the media manufacturing industry and focusing on current optical disc formats and future growth markets such as electronic games, flash memory, and Blu-ray Disc. On May 20 in New York, The Jazz Foundation presents its annual gala concert to benefit the Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund — "A Great Night in Harlem". With hosts Michael Imperioli, Chevy Chase, Danny Glover, and David Johansen, the evening will raise money to assist  jazz and blues musicians in time of need, feature an intimate private dinner for the major sponsors, patrons and celebrity guests before the concert, and the VIP after-party  where performers, celebrities and participating audience gather, drink, dance, and get treated to rare after-hour performances with stellar musicians. The 36th Seattle International Film Festival, a large film festival generally screening more than 400 features, documentaries and short films to an audience of over 140,000, gets started this year with an opening night reception screening the comedy, The Extra Man, starring Paul Dano, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly and Katie Holmes, with both the film and gala party taking place at  Benaroya Hall with complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. Urban Individualists, Helene Ruiz, curator, opens a gallery reception for "MASQUERADE": A Multi-Media Arts Event and Masquerade Ball! on May 22 in Fort Lauderdale, an exhibition that will include masks and other art works by artists responding to symbolic and concrete uses of masks related to carnival, ceremonial, spiritual, and other societal appearances of "masking". The evening's presentation also includes performance-poetry reading by Mia Roman-Hernandez and "Masked" performance by Jean Minuchin, wine and refreshments.

London's Audio Engineering Society Convention is a known gathering point — of learning, networking and business opportunities — for audio professionals and enthusiasts for over 60 years. A slated workshop "Life in the Old Dogs Yet—Part One: Keeping Studios Alive", gives an analysis of the trends in the professional recording business in recent years and invites a new generation of recording entrepreneurs to share ideas. In addition, Professor Andrew Leyshon from Nottingham University presents his analysis of the changing worldwide recording climate followed by a distinguished panel of recording stakeholders discussing current and possible future recording business models. Competitive film festival, DocMiami International Film Festival, opens May 27-30 in Miami, and in addition to the special youth screenings, expert panels, and awards gala, are three evening benefit concerts hosted by Tito Puente, Jr. who will be joined by Music Concert Director, Ivan Van Hernandez of Radio Caracol, and others. The Mexico International Film Festival is held in the town of Rosarito, situated on the Baja coast, with the crystal azure of the Pacific as a backdrop. There are awards given in several categories, round-table discussions, and seminars that explore the craft, creative and business process of cinema, and there are also nightly live events and parties including a widely anticipated beach party and closing night awards ceremony.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter. Last month on the video news summary you saw new video from newly released single on iTunes - Make Your Move - from UK's soulful, R&B songstress, Bukola. Music producing Padded Cell Productions of Toronto with a newly released art film, Jane Doe. And there was the "spiritual fusion of acoustic sitar experimental chanting spoken word improvisation"  of Scot Aaron and Govinda Schlegel who form Shaman Strings. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.

String Quartet Tribute to Aerosmith - I don't wanna miss a thing