Giuseppe verdi biography online games
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Verdi for Kids
Vincent van Gogh’s admiration for and departure from Impressionism and his relationships with the other enthusiastic, like-minded artists who ultimately formed the Post-Impressionist movement are explained and explored in this collection of art activities for kids. Debunking the persistent stereotype of the mad pauper who cut off his ear, van Gogh is revealed as the serious boy who loved nature and reading and spoke four languages; the young man who took great satisfaction in the study of art, his successful career as a gallery salesman, and the “brotherhood of artists” he helped to create; and the increasingly troubled and ill man who cared deeply for family and friends and tried in vain to recover. Through a series of fun and creative projects, such as a Starry Night Peep Box, a Pointillist Sailboat, and a Japanese Fold-out Album, kids will be exposed to such art as van Gogh’s vibrant landscapes, Paul Signac’s
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On Golden Wings – Play about Giuseppe Verdi
ON GOLDEN WINGS – PLAY ABOUT GIUSEPPE VERDI
The time – 1841. The place – Milano. Bartolomeo Merelli, Inspector General of the Royal and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Theatres makes his way to the poorer quarters in Milano avsikt on a special uppdrag. The uppdrag – to make composer Giuseppe Verdi compose once more. Verdi, once a talented musikdrama composer has given it all up and means to teach following several tragedies in his life including the death of his beloved wife and their two children and the failure of his most recent comic musikdrama. Merelli means to change all that by convincing him to write a masterpiece, namely, the musikdrama ‘Nabucco,’ about the Hebrew slaves in Babylon. But will he convince him to do so in this play about Giuseppe Verdi?
‘On Golden Wings’ was a runner up at the Mark Twain Playwriting Competition in Harford, CT and was performed at Theatre Studio NYC in two produc • A legendary quote from Casey Stengel, when he managed first season of the then-hapless New York Mets. A publicist for the Boston Symphony asked me to mention the latest edition of their online “Concert Companion,” which is mostly about Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, an opera they’re performing in a concert version starting right now. So I’ll oblige. What they’ve done is very lame. And it’s lame in instructive ways. Mostly they offer videos — a Verdi biography, something about the historical context of Verdi’s work, an interview with James Levine, and a synopsis of the opera. Maybe they think they’re marvelously up to date, offering multimedia. But they apparently don’t understand how the Web works these days. The Web now is interactive, offering chances for participation, or at least for play. The BSO’s Simon Boccanegra stuff, by contrast, forces me to be
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