Georges Bizet, who is best known for his opera, Carmen, has remained
somewhat of a mystery as far as his musical education, social life, and
personal life. He is not like so many other composers and musicians of the
Romantic Period who led a highly publicized life like Hector Berlioz, Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, or Johannes Brahms. He spent his short life devoted to music
and he did not quite make it into the limelight like these other Romantic
composers. The most believable explanation for his obscurity would be the
lack of scandal in his life. He had a happy childhood, was well awarded with
musical scholarships, and a happy marriage.
Georges Bizet grew up in a musical house. His father was a singing
teacher and his mother was a well-known pianist who had attended the Paris
Conservatory. His parents encouraged him in music. His father was confident
that his son would become a great musician. His father was actually too
supportive of his musical education. He had been known to hide young Georges'
other school books so he would not be distracted from his musical studies. He
received his first music lesson from his mother when he was just four years old.
She was teaching him to read music at the same time she was teaching him his
alphabet.
Bizet was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory when he was nine years old.
This was a special exception arranged by his uncle who taught at the
Conservatory, since Bizet was still a year younger than the minimum age
requirement. Here he studied piano, organ, singing, harp, strings, woodwinds,
and composition. His instructors were the composers Charles Gounod, who is
known for his opera Faust, and who is considered the greatest musical influence
in Bizet's life. And Jacque Halevy, who wrote the opera LaJuive, is also
considered an important musical influence. He had a unique, unstructured
teaching style. Halevy would listen to and correct his students but he would
never require them to do any specific types of composition. This was to affect
Bizet throughout his life as he would be known to start and abandon work after
work. This was blamed directly on Halevy's lack of discipline. At age fifteen,
Halevy tried to convince Bizet to go and compete for the Prix de Rome. Bizet
refused sighting his immaturity and need for additional background.
During his time as a student he wrote Symphony in C Major (1855), which
was not performed during Bizet's lifetime, but from it's first performance in
1935 it has become an established symphony in a standard repertoire.
Although it may seem impossible that the human who spawned this cell line would go unrecognized, this was exactly the case with Henrietta Lacks. In fact, her name was purposely altered in many publications to Helen Lake, Helen Lane or some variation of the sort, in order to hide her identity. As crazy as it may seem, Even Henrietta 's ' own family were unaware that the cells were taken from her and were being used in labs across the globe. The purposeful alteration of the name Henrietta Lacks is a sort of symbolic violence; a symptom of the structural violence which led Henrietta to Johns Hopkins hospital in the first place. By altering her name, and referring to her cell line as "HeLa," the scientific community effectively reduced the memory and image of Henrietta to something less than human. Scientists began to think of HeLa as something which was only a cell line, not as cells which had once been attached to a human being, with a life of her
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great enthusiasm to stay out of the war and to create world peace. He showed
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just because the guy he was. He a big effect in his family and had a big influence on his family.
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won millions to his cause. Even though he said that at his death he was "...the
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