22nd, 2016, I saw a theatre performance of The Music Man at the Xavier University Theatre. The Music man tells the story of Professor Harold Hill, a corrupt traveling salesman who goes to River City, Iowa and poses as a boys’ band leader and organizer. He cons the people of River City and convinces them to pay him to create a boys’ marching band. He sells instruments and uniforms to them. In reality, Professor Harold Hill doesn’t know anything about music and he plans to leave town after receiving his
In the movie The Music Man con man Harold Hill, adeptly tricks the townspeople of River City, a small town in Iowa, into believing that they are need of a boy’s band. In the song “You Got Trouble,” he uses three types of propaganda to achieve this end: faulty cause and effect, exigency, and name-calling. Faulty cause and effect is a propaganda technique where one thing is presented, without proof, as if it caused another. Hill uses a pool table that was just put into one of the shops as the cause
Ya Got Trouble The play I went to see was The Music Man performed by the Mesa Encore Theatre at the Mesa Community College. I saw this performance on November 20th. The main performers in this play were Zac Bushman as Harold Hill and Lauren Koeritzer as Marian Paroo. Alongside them, a mix of both adults and children as young as 8 acted in this production. The cast and crew used appropriate clothing to match the time and place. Lights were utilized scarcely, with not much more than spotlights or
The period between early 1940s to mid-1960s or so, alternatively, the period between when the musical Oklahoma! (1943) was produced till the time when Hair (1968) was produced, is usually referred to as the Golden Age of the American musical (Kantor, 2010). It is during this period, that most of the noted titles such as “Carousel”, “South Pacific” etc. were produced. 1940s and early 1950s were dominated thoroughly by MGM musicals, while the late 1950s and 1960s belonged to Broadway. Initially, the
Meredith Wilson's play The Music Man is a musical comedy filled with a lightheartedness that draws the audience's attention. The subject is purely for entertainment that all ages can watch. The dialogue and timeless musical score provide laughter at all of the outlandish situations. The play does have life lessons mixed in throughout the play. The play is flows seamlessly because of the actions that characters take, and the behaviors of each character are well developed by Meredith Wilson. Harold
Music Man Jr. was written by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacy, and it was first performed at Majestic Theatre on December 19, 1957. The Music Man Jr. was performed at the Cedarburg Performing Arts Center, at Cedarburg, Wisconsin on November 19th, 2015, a Thursday. Harold Hill, the main guy character was played by 8th grader Jake Orthober. Marian was played by 8th grader Katie LePianka. Harold Hill is on a train, and decides he should get off at River City, Iowa. Harold Hill is trying to start
history, music has been essential by utilizing music to communicate, build communities, and empower people of all kinds. Whether it’s Rap, Rock N’ Rock, or Country, music defines who we are as a person and identifying who we are as people in society. While on a search for identity by the anonymous narrator, a black man, who is struggling to work out who he is in a setting of racism and where many people have so many ideas of what it means to be a black man, the protagonist in Invisible Man defines
Alan J. Pakula’s “Klute” is widely known in the music industry for its uncommon use of musical instruments in the non-diegetic music during mysterious parts of the thrilling movie. Alongside, the frightening tune, a pattern of low-key lighting mixed with not revealing the identity of the man whom Bree is fearful of and who Klute is looking for, is evident whenever the music starts. Combining the two patterns with the non-diegetic music gives the audience a sense of mystery, thrill, and fear as they
Even though in some cases music encourages isolation mentally and causes some people to be obsessive by inducing their love of a particular artist or musician, music, whether contained in the sound of the thumping madal-drum of Nepal or the harps of ancient Greece, is a medium which moves the heart of man far and wide. The first reason is virtually everyone has a favorite kind of musician, style, or rhythm. Secondly, music causes people to shift in feeling based off of its rhythmic patterns, tempo
Music: A Force in African American Tradition Poetry written by Langston Hughes employs several themes: the deeply- ingrained culture of his African heritage, metaphors about light and darkness, and his thoughts on dreams, and how they die. Perhaps one of the most influential of Hughes’ themes is that of music - jazz, dance, syncopated blues, and how their rhythms illustrate the soul of the black experience, and hold the traditions of Africa deep within each African Americans very being. Music is
The music if very soft and quiet to begin the scene. It is depressing, which matches well with the male character since at one point he is crying. He looks distraught and the music reflects that. After a pause, the music changes and is a little upbeat. The piano is playing lighter music to represent the man trying to free himself from the pain and voices; however it stay quiet to allow the audience to hear the conversation that is happening. For a brief moment the music stops as the audience anticipates
Similarities and Differences Between David With the Head of Goliath, Saint Bartholomew, and Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music The impact art has had on the world can be seen throughout all of history. In fact, it’s one of the most influential things in the world. Art can instill morals, tell stories, and give us a better understanding of history. There are many forms of art like drawing, music, theatre, and sculptures, but arguably the most influential form is paintings since it’s something that
Charles Ives is known in our day as the “Father of American Music,” but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Union’s youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Little Charles was influenced early
“Sonny’s Blues” and “The Weary Blues”, music serves as a form of catharsis; in “SB” Sonny is able to escape his troubled life, and in “WB” the Negro man expresses his sadness about his difficult life. The portrayal of music differs in that it’s more of a joyful presence in “SB” but a grim and depressing one in “WB”. Music is something that allows people to express feelings and emotions that can’t be easily said out loud. Sonny in James Baldwin’s “SB” turns to music as a temporary getaway from his family
In our day an age, music has been used throughout numerous spiritual occasions. For this assignment, I used my personal experience from a funeral church service I attended on November 3, 2015. Throughout my life, I 've been to numerous spiritual events and one type of event that really has a strong emotion towards it, is a funeral service. One important aspect of a funeral, is the music that is used during the services. The funeral I attended was for my parents old friend and it was a very emotional
Violin Music and art, the feelings that go through a person while the music of Mozart and Beethoven are playing, are indescribable. Listening to music can take a person away to a different era. Music like Mozart or Beethoven can really take a person's imagination soaring in a whole new perspective. Composers throughout the novel, Violin were Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Violin was a truly fabulous name for this story. It contains many fantastic elements as well as realistic elements;
his crew in the deep woods during the Northern American winter. While he is in the deep forest, the harsh environment changes him and the rest of his crew as they try to make it back to civilization. The savageness of the wilderness makes any civil man turn into the one things he never dreamed of becoming. The director, Alejandro
of modern music that the world had ever seen or heard: the blues. What the blues did for music is reflective in almost every piece of modern music heard throughout the world today. From rock and roll to country music, all the way to hip hop, the blues is deep down inside shining like a beautiful light that makes that music glow forever. Weather a person is happy or sad, compassionate or indifferent; the blues will always be there to light the way. Right at the turn of the century a man by the name
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and Slave Songs of the United States by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, both stories include the topics about music from the African-American perspective. Although both works are quite different, there are some similarities between the stories. An Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Slave Songs of the United States both show the difficulty of an outsider trying to transcribe music from a somewhat “unknown”
Man in the Mirror Michael Jackson is one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all time; he leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture. Commonly referred to as the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson continues to earn millions of dollars beyond the grave- earning over $700 million in the years since he passed away in 2009. As the pop genre derives from an abbreviation of “popular”, the King of Pop maintained record breaking popularity for extended