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Released: 1985 In this coming-of-age story, Louden Swain is a high school wrestler who has just turned eighteen and decided that he needs to do something truly meaningful in his life. Against the wishes of those around him, he embarks on a mission to drop two weight classes in order to challenge the toughest opponent, Brian Shute -- a menacing 3-time state champion from nearby rival Hoover High School, who has never been defeated in his high school career. In his zeal to drop from 190 pounds to 168 pounds, against the wishes of his coach and teammates, he disrupts the team around him and creates health problems of his own. |
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John Anderson performs "Reflets dans l'eau", the first of Debussy's series of Images, book 1. www.johnclementanderson.com Debussy's Images, finished in 1905, are among the most masterful pieces he wrote for the piano, and have become central to pianists' repertoire. While composing them, he wrote to his publisher, Durand, that he was creating these pieces "with a completely new approach and in accordance with the most recent findings of harmonic chemistry", and later asked him "Have you played the Images? Without undue vanity, I believe that these three pieces can hold their own and will assume a place in the piano literature... to the left of Schumann or the right of Chopin... as you like it." (trans. taken from preface of Henle edition of score). Just as Mallarmé and the symbolist poets were making poetry not of ideas, but of just words, the "musicien français" was creating musical meaning not out of linear development or progression, but out of a static juxtaposition of sound events, with musical sense inherent in sonorous effect, a triumph of art for art's sake. Debussy, in spite of his Germanic conservatory training, managed to refocus attention to the actual sound event, and it was thus largely he who provided the gateway to modern music; Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Berg all acknowledged their great debt to him. If one were to look for his equivalent in painting, Debussy could be called an "impressionist" composer, though he himself preferred the term <b>...</b> |
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Bought this cologne for 28.99 on EBay including shipping. This to me is too good to be true. I was just wondering if anybody out there could help me out. HERES THE EBAY LINK: cgi.ebay.com Thanks |
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video for "The Wolves (Act I & II)" by Bon Iver from the Jagjaguwar release For Emma, Forever Ago Directed by Matt Amato for The Masses Filmed on location in Fall Creek, Wisconsin January 2008 This is by any description, a project that almost never happened. Rushing to get to Wisconsin for fresh snows and still frozen air, Director Matt Amato arrived in Eau Claire, hometown of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, in late January. In the midst of warming up after a long journey and excitedly telling Justin about all the projects he had on the horizon, Matt received a phone call. One of his best friends had suddenly and tragically passed away. All logic and reason were thrown out. Nobody knew what to do. Matt didn't know whether to stay or go, or how he would even manage to get back to the airport in his state of shock. Justin just tried to stay calm. Between a flurry of phone calls and attempting to contact some of Matt's family to accompany him home, night fell. Almost by default, Matt remained in Eau Claire in the company of his newest acquaintance. Something about it was safe, and that was enough. The next morning, Matt read the lyrics to "The Wolves" and felt as if those were the exact words he needed to hear from his departed friend. That pretty much sealed it. Matt would stay and work, even as the thought of making a video became the last thing on their minds. They built a bonfire and just let it burn all day and into the night, and Matt filmed. The weight of the circumstances <b>...</b> |
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John Anderson performs "Hommage à Rameau", the second of Debussy's series of Images, book 1. www.johnclementanderson.com Debussy's Images, finished in 1905, are among the most masterful pieces he wrote for the piano, and have become central to pianists' repertoire. While composing them, he wrote to his publisher, Durand, that he was creating these pieces "with a completely new approach and in accordance with the most recent findings of harmonic chemistry", and later asked him "Have you played the Images? Without undue vanity, I believe that these three pieces can hold their own and will assume a place in the piano literature... to the left of Schumann or the right of Chopin... as you like it." (trans. taken from preface of Henle edition of score). Hommage à Rameau is based on a melody taken from Jean Philippe Rameau's "Castor et Pollux", and is a tribute to this great baroque forefather of French music and style. It harkens back to an old courtly dance--the sarabande--but innovates its form and harmonizes it according to his most modern "harmonic chemistry". However, he maintains its introspective, melancholic character without exception. Just as Mallarmé and the symbolist poets were making poetry not of ideas, but of just words, the "musicien français" was creating musical meaning not out of linear development or progression, but out of a static juxtaposition of sound events, with musical sense inherent in sonorous effect, a triumph of art for art's sake. Debussy, in <b>...</b> |
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