| Vince Carter (French Toast) |
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Carter's infamous dunk on the 7'2" frenchman
Frederic Weis. Longer video, more commentary
& different camera angle. Carter gets the
steal, leaps over the 7-footer & the Olympic
stadium goes nuts!!!
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| Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4) |
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Frédéric Chopin-Prelude in E-Minor (op.28
no. 4)
Played by: Aldona Dvarionaite
Fryderyk Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk
[Franciszek] Chopin, sometimes Szopen;
French: Frédéric [François] Chopin;March
1, 1810 -- October 17, 1849) was a Polish
virtuoso pianist and piano composer of the
Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the
greatest Polish composer, and one of the most
influential composers for piano in the 19th
century.
Chopin was a genius of universal appeal. His
music conquers the most diverse audiences.
When the first notes of Chopin sound through
the concert hall there is a happy sigh of
recognition. All over the world men and women
know his music. They love it. They are moved
by it. Yet it is not "Romantic music" in the
Byronic sense. It does not tell stories or
paint pictures. It is expressive and
personal, but still a pure art. Even in this
abstract atomic age, where emotion is not
fashionable, Chopin endures. His music is the
universal language of human communication.
When I play Chopin I know I speak directly to
the hearts of people!
Chopin's music for the piano combined a
unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use
of rubato), frequent use of chromaticism, and
counterpoint. This mixture produces a
particularly fragile sound in the melody and
the harmony, which are nonetheless
underpinned by solid and interesting harmonic
techniques. He took the new salon genre of
the nocturne, invented by Irish composer John
Field, to a deeper level of sophistication.
Three of his twenty-one nocturnes were only
published after his death in 1849, contrary
to his wishes.He also endowed popular dance
forms, such as the Polish mazurka and the
waltz, Viennese Waltz, with a greater range
of melody and expression. Chopin was the
first to write ballades and scherzi as
individual pieces. Chopin also took the
example of Bach's preludes and fugues,
transforming the genre in his own preludes.
Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa
Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish
mother and French-expatriate father and came
to be regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. In
November 1830, at the age of twenty, Chopin
went abroad. After the suppression of the
Polish 1830--31 Uprising, he became one of
the many expatriates of the Polish Great
Emigration. In Paris he made a comfortable
living as composer and piano teacher, while
giving few public performances. A great
Polish patriot, in France he used the French
version of his given name and, to avoid
having to rely on Imperial Russian documents,
eventually became a French citizen.After some
ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish
ladies, from 1837 to 1847 he conducted a
turbulent relationship with the French writer
George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). Always in
frail health, at 39 in Paris he succumbed to
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Chopin's extant compositions all include the
piano, predominantly alone or as a solo
instrument among others. Though his music is
technically demanding, its style emphasizes
nuance and expressive depth rather than
technical virtuosity. Chopin invented new
musical forms such as the ballade,and made
major innovations to existing forms such as
the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude,
impromptu, and prelude. His works are
mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century
classical music. His mazurkas and polonaises
remain the cornerstone of Polish national
classical music.
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| Frederic Chopin Nocturne No 9 in B Op.32 No 1 |
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Frederic Chopin Nocturne No 9 in B Op.32 No 1
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"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which
poison my happiness. And yet take a kind of
pleasure in indulging them."
- Frederic Chopin -
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Works of Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky....
Ivan Aivazovsky was born in Feodosia in 1817.
In 1833 he entered the Academy of Arts and
studied landscape painting under M.N.
Vorobiev.
Aivazovsky spent most of his life in
Feodosia, the city where he was born.
Aivazovsky himself was accomplished in many
areas, played the violin, was an architect,
dabbled in archeology, etc.
Throughout his long life Aivazovsky traveled
much, spending time in Rome, Paris and other
European cities; working in the Caucasus;
sailing to the shores of Asia; spending time
in Egypt and, at the end of his life, in
1898, Aivazovsky even traveled to America. No
matter where he went he always returned to
his native Black Sea shores.
Aivazovsky painted some six thousand works
over his sixty-year career. They all show him
to be a true master with a bright artistic
temperament.
Aivazovsky developed a romantic vein in the
landscape connected with effects of light and
atmosphere. The main theme of Aivazovsky's
work is the theme of man and nature, man's
struggle against the elements and love of
nature. During war times his paintings
depicted battle scenes.
Aivazovsky's most popular paintings are The
Rainbow (1873) and The Ninth Wave (1850).
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