Cole Porter has been know as a musical theater composer and lyricist. He was born in Peru, Indiana on June 6, 1891. Throughout his life, he has been written many and many pieces of music, mainly focusing on musicals theater music type. Cole Porter’s family was not as much as supporting him on his way becoming a musician. “As his grandfather didn't want him to have a career in music, Porter was dispatched to Harvard's law school.” In the later years, he makes his decision to still keeping on studying music without the support and permission of his grandfather. His mother though, Katie Cole Porter, was supporting him and helping him published his first song at his age of eleven. Cole’s Mother and Grandfather had many arguments on his future …show more content…
However, the passion of music is still in him, Cole is still keeping writing and creating new songs. In 1928, his most hit song came out and successfully made it into the Broadway called "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" and reached the news by 1930s. Later on, “For Gay Divorce (1932), which starred Fred Astaire, Porter wrote ‘Night and Day.’ Anything Goes (1934) contained more popular numbers, including ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’ and ‘You're the Top.’” (bio). Cole Porter later than got in a riding accident where his horse fell on him, both of his legs were crushed (his right legs was amputated later on). Even though he is sad, his love for music has never come to an end. He released “Friendship” in 1939 and “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” in 1942, which are now has been memorable songs in the audience’s heart. In later years, he have released many more pieces of music that are also became famous; however, Cole Porter stop writing song after his wife’s death (1954) and one of his legs got amputated. In sadness life, he passed away on October 15, 1964 (in his seventythree) in Santa Monica,
There are more than three billion people living on Earth; however, not everyone adores each other. On the other hand, if people met Bill and Bud, two main characters from The Tender Bar, they would find them charming. J.R. Moehringer wrote an emotional autobiography about himself and his devastating life, in The Tender Bar, J.R. walked into a bookstore in an unhabituated mall, and met Bill and Bud, who changes his life forever. Many youth, teens, and adults would find Bill and Bud likeable, because the pair of them are smart, optimist, and loving.
Born in March of 1916 as Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, he was the third child to Benjamin and Augusta Katz. His parents were both Polish immigrants of Jewish descent and they raised him in East New York, the predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn. As immigrants they were plagued with financial difficulties and this was further aggravated when they struggled through the Depression. Despite all of these hardships, Keats had already begun to showcase his artistic abilities. At the age of eight he was hired to paint the sign of a local store. Naturally, his father was quite proud of him when he earned twenty-five cents for his work and hoped that this might endeavor might lead to a steady career as a sign pa¬inter. Unfortunately for him, Keats was smitten with Fine Arts and won his first award in Junior High School: a medal for ...
this paper I will discuss Gershwin’s life as a child and his upbringing and how his music
Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.
The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or could be the characters' true feelings because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream. Overall, the author uses this conversation to show that when a relationship first begins, the people involved may have misconceptions about their love, but this love will eventually die off or develop into something much more meaningful.
Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809, was an American poet, widely known for his literature and his belonging toward Romanticism. Born in Boston, he was soon orphaned after the abandonment of his father and death of mother between 1810-1811. In 1827, Poe released his first book, “Tamerlane and Other Poems”. This was not the only one, however, for he released several other books before the death of his older brother in 1831. After his brother’s death, Poe made the decision to become a writer.
“Daddy, can I come back home?” A repetitive quote in the heart-warming movie, “Preacher’s Kid”. Directed by Stan Foster, the film guides viewers through the rough life of this preacher’s kid. Angie King (LeToya Luckett), daughter of the bishop, Mr. King (Gregalan Williams), endures a rollercoaster ride as she leaves home to pursue her music career, as well as, pursue a romantic relationship with her bad boy, Devlin Mitchell(Durrell “Tank” Babbs). As Angie travels around the world, she begins to experience the trial and tribulations the real world brings, changing the way she feels about being away from home. She longs to return home, but is afraid her father no longer welcomes her. The film encourages the appreciation of family and home, and teaches the values of life not only as a preacher’s kid, but as anyone.
One of the American prolific and versatile latest writers, Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the spiritual, sexual, and intellectual decline of modern American society. Joyce Carol Oates born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York. She is the oldest daughter of Fredric and Caroline Oates’s children and is the only child in the family that taken reading and study seriously. She can tell a story by drawing the picture even before she knows how to write.
Oscar Hammerstein II, born July 12, 1895, came from a family of theater people. His grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, built theatres and loved opera. Following him, would be a generation of theatre managers and Vaudeville presenters. But the true love of theatrical storytelling was in Hammerstein II. From an earlier age, Hammerstein was a quick worker and very productive when it came to his work. Unlike all lyricists at the time, he wrote the libretto to most of the musicals for which he contributed the lyrics. Therefore, the scenes in which his lyrics are place stemmed from the same creative mind. Much of his early career was with many different composers like Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, and Jerome Kern. Yet, his name was often
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were itinerant actors (Edgar Allan Poe). His father David Poe Jr. either died or vanished in 1810 and his mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died in 1811, leaving Edgar and two other siblings to fend for themselves. Edgar was taken into the home of a Richmond, Virginia tobacco merchant named John Allan while the others were cared for by different foster parents (Allen). Poe started his education in Richmond and rapidly developed his skills in writing and reading. By the age of five Poe could readily recite passages of English poetry. Even at a young age Poe showed a natural talent for writing. One of his teachers in Richmond said: “While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet,” (Allen).
A Love Affair in The Storm by Kate Chopin Kate Chopin's "The Storm" is a short story about a brief love affair that takes place during a storm that has separated Calixta from her husband and son. The title "The Storm" is an obvious reference to the storm outside, but more importantly to the love affair that takes place. The title refers to nature, which is symbolically used again and again in the story. Chopin uses words like "somber clouds", "threatening roar", and "sinister intentions" to describe the approaching storm. Later in the story those same words in reference to the storm outside, will also be represented symbolically to the storm brewing inside with the love affair.
George Michael Cohan was a great American playwright, composer, producer, and actor. He was famous for his fast-paced style as a song-dance man and for his lively musicals, which set the trend on Broadway in the 1920s. Cohan was a dedicated man who spent 56 of his 64 years on the stage. During his lifetime, he wrote 40 plays, collaborated with others on another 40 plays, and shared production of still another 150 plays. He made over a 1000 appearances as an actor. Some of the more than 500 songs that he wrote were major national hits. Born in Providence, Rhode Island on the 4th of July, George Michael was named after George Washington. It seems George Michael Cohan was destine to be a patriotic leader from the beginning. His parents were circuit-traveling vaudevillians, Jeremiah and Helen Cohan, who had three children. The first died in infancy, George was the second child and Josephine followed him two years later. The life of all vaudevillians in those days was to have the family 'lived out of a trunk', traveling from town to town, staying in shabby boarding houses. Often the children would sleep in the theater dressing room while the parents were on stage. George had only a mild taste of public school education, as well as just a few lessons on the violin. The theater became his school, - and he was an apt pupil. He appeared in one of his parent's stage sketches as a 'prop' while still an infant. When he was nine years old, he became a member of the act, with his sister Josephine joining him just one year later. Now, the act was officially known as 'The Four Cohans'. George would do sentimental recitations, and often perform a "buck and wing dance." By age ...
Simone de Beauvoir, the author of the novel The Second Sex, was a writer and a philosopher as well as a political activist and feminist. She was born in 1908 in Paris, France to an upper-middle class family. Although as a child Beauvoir was extremely religious, mostly due to training from her mother as well as from her education, at the age of fourteen she decided that there was no God, and remained an atheist until she died. While attending her postgraduate school she met Jean Paul Sartre who encouraged her to write a book. In 1949 she wrote her most popular book, The Second Sex. This book would become a powerful guide for modern feminism. Before writing this book de Beauvoir did not believe herself to be a feminist. Originally she believed that “women were largely responsible for much of their own situation”. Eventually her views changed and she began to believe that people were in fact products of their upbringing. Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris in 1986 at the age of 78.
When you listen to a song, do you understand what the artist is trying to tell you? In the song “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, Elvis Presley sang about how there is no resistance of falling in love. The connotation of the song includes using similes and repetition to explain the mood and tone, also the theme of the song.
Franz Liszt was one of many composers to emerge out of the Romantic era. According to A History of Western Music, he was born in a German speaking area of Austria, known as western Hungary at the time. His father taught him piano from the age of six and when they moved to Vienna, Liszt studied piano further with Carl Czerny and was taught theory and counterpoint by Antonio Salieri. From an early age it can be seen that Liszt’s interested in music was encouraged by his father and if he was willing to move to Vienna so Liszt could improve, this would suggest that Liszt showed a lot of potential at such a young age. Because he was taught at an early age and developed an interest in the piano, his father was clearly one of his greatest influences in what Liszt is now known for. The achievements he accomplished in his later life can date back to when he first started playing piano. When Liszt was eleven, he began to play in several public concerts and a year after that, his family moved to Paris where he could study theory and composition private teachers. His family wanted to encourage Liszt to take this as a career path and they made the right choice to encourage him at an ...