Joe Raposo was a very talented man. He was a composer, songwriter, pianist, and a television writer and lyricist. He was well known for his children's television series Sesame Street. Joe Raposo was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, on February 8 1937. He got his love of music from his father, who was a music teacher and conductor, although, he did a major in law, and graduated later on, he still ended up being a conductor. One of Joe's first pieces that he had conducted was an out of town tryout for broadway. The show he was trying out for was called "Sing Muse!" After starting his career on broadway, he later composed many more hits on broadway. Finally in 1969, he started working on his Sesame Street collection. Joe contributed happiness, and enjoyment to the music society, and younger kids on his Children's Television series of Sesame Street. Sadly, after his years of success with Sesame Street, his years had to end. Joe Raposo died February 5, 1989, 2 days before his 52nd birthday. …show more content…
One of Joe Raposo's bosses, Jimmy Henson helped encourage, and motivate Raposo to keep going on his project. Later, Henson recommended Raposo to a producer named Jon Stone. Raposo did years of writing music for all components and for all aspects of the show. Writing all the Music for all the seasons of Sesame Street was always a joy for Raposo. He always loved to write for the Children's television show Sesame Street. Writing all the components to the show, and just writing the theme song itself was very important to Raposo, and for the Sesame Street cast and
The Andy Griffith Show and I love Lucy have been two of the most watched shows in the history of television aired on CBS. I Love Lucy was a scripted sitcom recorded in front of a live studio audience with multiple cameras to give it better comic energy. It took place in an apartment in New York and her husband was an upcoming Cuban American who sung in a band. Although this was a black and white film, Lucy and Ricardo had colorful personalities. Lucy was always dressed nicely and Ricardo was always in a suit or business like attire. The house was always spotless as she was a housewife and an excellent mother later on. Lucy had a way of getting into trouble but Ricky somehow managed to get them out. She also displayed some traits that women were stereotyped for such as not showing or looking your age, being careless with money, and other secretive things. Ricardo on the other hand was the total opposite of Lucy which in the end balanced out their relationship. He has more patience than most and when he gets extremely mad, he would speak reall...
Joseph Nathan Oliver, also known as King Oliver, was THE MOST important person in all of jazz history. Joe was born on May 1885, Abend, La. Joe was a Bandleader, composer, and soloist cornet/trumpet player that arose from New Orleans. Oliver was also the mentor of Louis Armstrong and together, they changed jazz and American music forever.
There are stunning parallels between Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and the film The Truman Show in terms of character, action, and structure.
Extract three is from an episode of the Nickelodeon TV show 'Drake and Josh', this particular TV show is aimed at male and female young people from age 8 to 13. It was first aired in 2004 and it only has male speakers within the extract. During this extract, Josh is working his usual job at the movie theatre, which his brother Jake is sitting in the foyer with his friend. A woman walk in that takes both of the brothers' interest because of her looks. For the most part, this extract outlines a stereotypical mind set of a teenage boy: obsessed with looks and very self-absorbed. Therefore, this definitely adheres to the idea of masculinity being based on dominance, self-assuredness, as well as autonomy. Deborah Tannen’s theory of difference states that women use cooperative overlapping, yet men just use adjacency pairs. Drake and Josh uncooperatively overlap throughout the extract, this displays that they are rather argumentative, so do not fully comply with Deborah Tannen’s theory.
The bildungsroman ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D Salinger and the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams are both post-World War Two narratives which incorporate protagonists that challenge contemporary American attitudes. Blanche DuBois and Holden Caufield are quintessential examples of characters who subvert societal expectations, impositions and hegemony of America in the late 1940s and early 50s, the author and playwright have the plot revolve around these characters and their itinerant lifestyles as they literally and socially move from one milieu to another. Both Salinger and Williams use a plethora of literary devices such as symbolism, juxtaposition and imagery whether it is visual, auditory or olfactory to highlight
John Milton Cage Jr. also known as John Cage was born in Los Angeles, California on September 5, 1912. Although he passed away on August 12, 1992 his legacy as an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist lives on. Not only was he a participant in a wide variety of music genres but he became the father of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments. Cage also became very active in a lot of contemporary and unique artistry and many of his influences can be found in the works of musicians globally. Every great artist has someone or something they can look to as a basis and guideline to start off their own work. In John’s case, he used South/ East Asian cultural components, largely implementing
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2007) women’s labor force participation raised from 33.9% in 1950 to 57.5% in 1990. The TV shows Married with Children and Roseanne are similar and different in the way they portray that statistic through their gender roles. Married with Children shows the more traditional type of gender roles, while Roseanne shows gender roles that were not as common in past decades. Both shows exemplify gender roles that were common and rare compared to decades prior. The TV shows, Married with Children and Roseanne are similar and different because of the gender roles each television show displays.
Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in New York City. His musical works ranged from ballet and orchestral music to choral music and movie scores. For the better part of four decades Aaron Copland was considered the premier composer of 20th Century American Music.
His varied music background came from the many people he studied under and his own studies which allowed him to mix and blend styles together seamlessly. I’m going to look at Summertime from Porgy and Bess and I’ve Got Rhythm from the Girl Crazy.
successful lyricist. Also, it was Ira’s interest in music that made their parents purchase the
Patrick star is actually went to a community college but doesn’t remember what he study so many of people in bikini bottom thinks he’s dumb. Homer Simpson and his family have been banned from every states except North Dakota and Arizona. Stewie Griffin had a normal size head until he was on a bed and bounced off the bed and hit the ceiling making his head into a football head. Patrick star and Homer Simpson share the same character traits of being lazy and have short attention span. They both zone out when they are being talk to or when they're explaining something to them. Stewie is the youngest child of the family which he mostly wants attention.The three fictional characters that most represent my personality are Patrick star from Spongebob
...rming Arts, “Hammerstein also served as a mentor to Alan Jay Lerner, and to Stephen Sondheim, who met Hammerstein when he was still very young. Sondheim credits his success with the lyrics to West Side Story to Hammerstein’s influence and guidance.” He was very influential and provided wisdom and guidance to these men. Hammerstein said, “You got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you going to make a dream come true?” He always had a passion for the arts and shared this with all who were interested.
The only a child of a white TV news producer Sy Kravitz and the late African American actress Roxie Roker (known for her role as Hellen Willis on the TV sitcom The Jeffersons, Kravitz was born May 26, 1964, in Brooklyn New York. It was only upon reaching elementary school did he come to realize that his mother and father were of different races, but in any case the matter was never much of an issue for him. As an infant, Lenny displayed a strong predilection for music, and he often surrounded himself with pots and pans which served as his makeshift drums. His parents encouraged these proclivities. By age ten, Lenny had already been escorted to performances by Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown, and the Jackson 5.
Francis Albert Sinatra was born on Dec.12th,1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. His parents were Italian immigrants and he grew up poor in the streets of Hoboken. Those tough early years made him all the more determined to work hard and make something of his life. He was a very ambitious person. Since he was a little boy he loved to sing. In his teen years he attended a Bing Crosby concert and that is when he decided that he too would become a singer. At the age of 19 the first break of his musical career came on when he sang with a band called the Hoboken Four. After ...
John Cage became famous for his unorthodox theories and very experimental compositions. He was an American composer born in Los Angeles on September 5, 1912. Neither of his parents went to college, and John himself dropped out after a mere two years in college. His father earned a living being an inventor. Cage credits his father, being an inventor, as very influential to the way in which he wrote music. John also considered himself as an innovator and discoverer in the field of music. John Cage took traditional classical music and turned it into a futuristic collection of sounds totally different from what everyone was used to. He has expanded the idea of what sounds constituted music, and was the influential impetus behind indeterminacy in music. He is credited with enhancing the thinking of many other modern composers, Philip Glass being one of them.