Harry Connick Jr. Is a well known famous jazz pianist turned actor selling over 25 million records and counting. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, The pianist is from my hometown New Orleans to a Jewish mother, whose family owned a local record store. Connick began playing the piano at the young age of three, so well he began making public appearances by the time he was five. Giving his mother all the credit for teaching him Christian behavior , and his parents faith with shaping his values more than the doctrines of the church, though he values those deeply. It wasn't …show more content…
“As she sat in a recliner to rest one evening for her on his Yamaha Grand Piano, he played a Mozart Concerto running to her after each performance says Connick to ask what she thought”. The day she died, he heard the news during an intermission of one of his recitals. Connick was baptized at age 14 while a student at Jesuit a Catholic High School in New Orleans, Connick had not made a commitment to faith before then because his mother was a Jew, and she wanted her children to decide on religion for themselves. His mother knew more about the Bible and the Catholic faith than most Catholics do. She had a very interesting perspective on the whole thing .Harry performed well in certain markets, such as Ft. Myers, where it served up 125 percent improvement in its time slot compared to a years ago. ( Thewrap.com) Connick is a magnificent musician and this DVD shows one of his best performances. Harry Connick Jr explained that his style of work has exemplified excellence in every aspect of the entertainment world he has received recognition with multiple Grammy and Emmy Awards as well as Tony nominations for his his life and recorded musical performances his achievements on screens large and small and his appearances on Broadway as both an actor and a composer (HCJ.com) Connick has shown the craftsmanship and execution of his work does reflects an understanding of his art as a gift …show more content…
I didn’t ask for that and I don’t think anybody had anything to do with the fact that when I was three years old I was running up to pianos and playing them. It’s my desire to do that and it comes from somewhere else I think. But any kind of accomplishment is based on things I learned from my parents like work ethic, realistically understanding your goals, and doing what you have to do to attain it practice, focus, drive, and more practice. (Risen Magazine) Connick built his musical career on his versatile style and emotional honesty and while Connick keeps the details of his personal faith practices of prayer, worship and charity work private, Connick says for him his faith is always on his mind and always evolving. His music waxes and wanes throughout people’s lives especially in his hometown, and I think ultimately all of us want to be at peace and understand our faith intimately. Any show as ambitious as this is bound to have its weaker moments, and these included Connick's unfortunate attempts to play trumpet and an apparently spontaneous but ultimately underwhelming duet with Chicago actress/singer Jessie Mueller in "All of Me" (Mueller starred opposite Connick in the 2011 Broadway production of "On a Clear Day You Can
Religion has been an important part of man’s life. Man has allowed religion to control and influence his life in many different ways, affecting both his behavior and his actions. So its not surprising that music, one of man’s earliest expressive forms, has also been influenced by religion. Religion has had an effect on man’s music all throughout history, from the early Egyptians to even now. So it is only natural that Western music should also have been affected by religion. Western music, and its development by composers, has been strongly influenced by the Christian religion, especially in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. The music in these periods laid the foundation for all the different types of music we enjoy today.
Before even attempting to understand any of this, however, some background information on Sinatra and his family would be helpful. Sinatra came from a family of orthodox Italian heritage. His mother and father were the first of his family to move from Sicily to America and settle down in the “land of the free';. After arriving in the United States, they ended up making their home in Hoboken, New Jersey, a very poor area where people resided with those of their own ethnic background. Their history was very important to the Sinatra family, and good moral values, as well as the importance of a good education, were instilled in all their children. Frank’s parents could barely read or write; that’s why good schooling was a priority to them. Sinatra’s parents looked down on the entertainment business, and with little success, did everything to lure Frank away from his attraction to the glitz and glamour of show business (Sinatra 15).
Phil Jackson is a well-known man in the basketball world, as a championship coach and leader. Not only for his knowledge of basketball was he considered great, it was also for his use of alternative spiritual methods to assist his coaching. Through his Naturalist and Pantheist worldview he left a legacy of a role model. Phil Jackson’s views about the nature of God, career, and family are ultimately shaped by his worldview of Naturalism and Pantheism. Comparing my worldview of Christianity to Phil Jackson’s nature of God, career, and family, we will determine whether the role model status is relevant to how I perceived a role model.
Johnny’s mother loved to play the piano. And the family was from a musical heritage. Johnny’s maternal grandfather loved music as well, and although he struggled with poverty as well he was known to always own musical instruments. The Cash family managed to get a piano when Johnny was young and music was always a part of their lives. The house was alive with music, most of it hymnals led by his mother. Johnny took to the music and it deeply impacted him. He would sing while doing work, and sing at home. When he was just 12 he composed songs, stories and poems. He carried his love of ...
...erself expanded gospel’s exposure when she appeared twice on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Meanwhile, television producer Bobby Jones reaches four and a half million viewers each week with his BET program, “Gospel Explosion.” However, the test for Gospel music reflects one that all Christian musicians must wrestle with: Can Gospel continue to increase its fortune in the mainstream marketplace while still maintaining its spiritual base? Despite what you believe the answer to be, African American Religious music will continually evolve. Since Thomas Dorsey first stretched the boundaries to create gospel music, choirs, quartets, and power vocalists have been singing the same song, albeit in different styles and places. As African American religious music continues to grow beyond even Dorsey’s expectations, one can only hope that it will be embraced regardless of how it is labeled by everyone who needs to be reminded of the good news it represents.
To understand a musician’s work, one might need to understand their personal journey. While delving into the effects of musical therapy, I had a chance to interview Matt Jennings a songwriter/musician who plays piano in a worship band at Bear Creek Community Church in Merced, California. On Saturday, February 19, I sat down with Matt ...
Steve Reich was recently called “America’s greatest composer” (The Village Voice). That is exactly what he is. He was born on October 3, 1936 in New York City, NY. Reich had his first big music debut at the young age of 14 when he was introduced to Stravinsky and Bach (Morrison). He went to Cornell University at the age of 16 and received a degree in philosophy (Morrison). After that, Reich entered The Julliard School in 1957. While he was there he studied with a tonal composer, William Bergsma, and pianist, Vincent Perschetti (Morrison). In 1970, Reich went to Africa and studied at the University of Ghana. After spending a few weeks there and listening to the Ghanaian style of music he was inspired to write his musical composition, “Drumming” (Morrison). This happening, and many others helped to develop Reich’s musical style. Reich also wrote his most famous compositions, Music for 18 Musicians, during this time.
Steve Reich was born in New York on October 3, 1936. His parents soon divorced, leaving Reich to constantly commute between New York and California via passenger train. Reich has stated that is was the sound of the wheels on the train tracks that helped to develop his strong rhythmic sense at an early age (Ross, 541). He studied philosophy at Cornell University with a minor in music before switching to composition full-time at Juilliard School and Mills College with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud (Mertens, 47). Although both great composers, Reich didn’t fit well within either of their styles. In the early seventies, Reich studied with a drummer of the Ewe tribe in Ghana and participated in a Balinese gamelan seminar where he began to develop a strong concordance with world music. This influence is clearly evident in many of Reich’s compositions.
Doris Horton Thurston, my seventy-five year old grandmother, has always had a song in her heart and on the edge of her tongue, waiting to flow over in a cascade of expression. She sees music as a connection to the world, a form that lets her reach outside of everyday life to different people, different cultures and different times. From generations before her and for generations to follow, from the memory of her mother's piano playing and her father's voice as a child to the orchestra concerts of her youngest grandchildren, she holds the connection to music close to her heart.
Aaron Temkin Beck "The Father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy" is an American profound psychiatrist who is currently a professor Emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for founding Cognitive therapy which is a treatment for Clinical depression. Beck also developed Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) a way to self-measure depression and anxiety. He has earned many honors and awards in the field of Psychology for findings and treatments of depression and anxiety. He has written over 600 articles and 25 books. He is also known as one of the five greatest psychotherapists of all time.
...ore significant of an impact than it does now, if the heart of the Church doesn’t change. It’s stuck. At the same time, I can perceive in various people a certain movement that the conventional church fails to recognize because it’s not explicit doctrine. It involves personal responsibility, empathy, and most importantly, a humility in oneself concerning the fate of their own soul, in favor of the well-being of others. I believe the artists among them are doing powerful things, I believe that the whole world sees it, and I further believe that God works through them. In a world that mocks Christ, they unknowingly embrace him with open arms, more by the more.
Phil Jackson is a well-known man in the basketball world, as a championship coach and leader. Not only for his knowledge of basketball was he considered great, it was also for his use of alternative spiritual methods to assist his coaching. Through his Naturalist and Pantheist worldview he left a legacy of a role model. Phil Jackson’s money and career, views about the nature of God, and family are ultimately shaped by his worldview of Naturalism and Pantheism. Comparing my worldview of Christianity to Phil Jackson’s family, career, and nature of God, we will determine whether the role model status is relevant to how I perceived a role model.
Cage was born into an Episcopalian family and when he was young planned to be a minister. His father was an eccentric inventor of items that seemed ridiculous and, frankly, useless. But Cage always admired him, and his father once told him, “If someone says you can’t, that shows you what to do.” (1) Cage describes his mother as a woman with “a sense of society” (1) but also goes onto say that she was “never happy”. She was a very critical, fussy woman, but his father said that she was always right. Cage took piano lessons as a boy and when he was old enough went to Pomona College. An incident that happened in his sophomore year completely changed his life. One day, he walked into the library and saw all the students there reading the same textbook. Cage decided to rebel and picked the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. He later received the highest grade in the entire class, and, convinced that the school wasn’t being run correctly, he quit college and went to Europe. It was there that his work as a musician truly began.
This book discusses the life of Glenn Gould who was a profound pianist known for his classical music, Peter Ostwald a late violinist who wrote “The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius of Glenn Gould” believed that Gould was extraordinary gifted and that his music gained much appreciation among the people in the community. He not only saw Gould as a genius but also as a companion who struggled to find peace in his life through the sound of music. Gould didn’t act like a normal child he isolated himself from others because he felt that others around him did not share the same passion for music. His father noticed when he was born that instead of crying, “Glenn always hum” (Ostwald, 1997). This showed that Glenn was born with a passion towards music from the very early stages of life. Gould formed behaviors of an ambivalent attachment style towards his mother and behaviors of a secure attachment towards his father this impacted his ability to form long lasting relationships with people during his childhood progressing into his adult years. (My thesis)
It is with these four possibilities, religion in late modernity, scholarship on religion and celebrity, the way we think of, and define religion, and Riddell (2008), that I consider Jim Morrison and religion.