It's like watching a movie while the director is breathing down your neck, telling you what every symbol, line The symbolism is either so blatant you barely need to do any thinking or so vague that it becomes pretentious. If only I could go back in time and prepare myself for a massive disappointment.īefore someone tells me, "You didn't understand the symbolism and metaphors." I understood it, but I don't think it's as deep as people say. I praised its first few episodes like it would be the best anime of the year. Subtitled "The School for Lovers," for 10 points, name this opera buffa by Mozart, whose title roughly translates to "they're all like that.I had such high hopes for Wonder Egg Priority. In this opera's first scene, Ferrando and Guglielmo swear that their fiances will be eternally faithful to them, but after disguising themselves and successfully seducing Fiordiligi and Dorabella, they lose a bet to the cynical Don Alfonso. A soprano in this opera compares herself to a rock in the aria "Come scoglio," but is eventually seduced after being encouraged by her maid, Despina. During the first act's final scene, extended woodwind trills play when a fake doctor based on Franz Mesmer uses a huge magnet on two characters who pretend to poison themselves. This opera parodies oversentimentality in its arias "Vorrei dir" and "Smanie implacibili." A bass in this opera sings "Io crepo se non rido" and undercuts a farewell scene by laughing during its quintet "Di scrivermi ogni giorno." After being given a locket, this opera's leading baritone sings "Donne mie, la fate a tanti" in its second act. For 10 points, identify this work sometimes credited with saving polyphonic music, a mass dedicated to and named for a particular pope, which was composed by Giovanni Palestrina. Its Kyrie and Sanctus were written to show that imitation didn't have to obscure the content of the words and was presented to the Council of Trent. This work, which was first played at Cardinal Vitellozzi's home, included a dedication letter detailing its composer's "novo modorum genere", or "new stylistic approach." Its last section is scored for a countertenor and a treble rather than a tenor, and that section, the Agnus Dei, is in two parts rather than three. Its composer structured the longer movements homophonically and deployed a slow contrapuntal technique. That opera by Hans Pfitzner sees this work recovered by its composer's pupil Silla and his son Ighino. FTP, name this jazz bassist who died of ALS, best known for Ah Um and Pithecanthropus Erectus.Īn opera named for this work's composer claims that this work was inspired by angels and written in one night shortly after the death of its composer's wife Lukrezia. He eulogized the Attica Prison Riots in Changes One, and composed a piece about school integration in Arkansas, "Fables of Faubus." That track appeared on an album along with "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" and "Better Git in Your Soul," though the best known track off that album may be "Good-bye Pork Pie Hat." The influence of his hero Duke Ellington can be seen in tracks like "My Jelly Roll Soul" which appeared on his album Blues and Roots, while his masterwork may be Epitaph. That album, Black Saint and Sinner Lady, was one of many to feature Dannie Richmond, a longtime collaborator who first appeared on The Clown. He was the first musician to use overdubbing on a jazz album in his recording of a six-part suite originally intended to be a ballet. After Oscar Pettiford broke his arm playing baseball, this man stepped into a lineup that included Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Max Roach to play in a stellar live show at Massey Hall.
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