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Piano Great Is Given Modern Twist In London ... In order to better the birthday party thrown for Chopin in his hometown of Warsaw last year, in which hundreds of musicians united for a 171-hour concert that broke records around the world, the Polish Cultural Institute wants classical music fans from around Britain to come together to celebrate their love for the composer. The Royal Festival Hall in London will play host to audiences on selected dates this month to show a state of the art 3D film about the life of Chopin...

Traditional Vs. Modern Flamenco ... Although I enjoy listening to the more modern interpretations of traditional forms by genuine flamenco artists such as Paco de Lucia and Gerardo Nunez, at the end of the day I still prefer the older stuff...

Drums In Traditional And Modern China ... Chinese drums have come a long way since those first instruments of the Shang Dynasty. They have been incorporated into a variety of societal facets over the centuries, including religion, farming, warfare and of course, entertainment...

Why Are All Modern Modern In B& W? ... Compare the new Robin Hood with the earlier technicolor hollywood versions and you'll see what I mean. The 70s and early 80s used film stock that was a little heavy on the browns and throughout the 80s this improved until we got faithful colour reproduction...

Modern Ballroom Dancing And Ballroom Clothing ... They use modern music to dance to, use different dance steps combined with the classic and required dance steps and add lots of entertainment....

Modern Cell Phones Are More Than Just Talk ... Need directions? Just pick up your cell phone and navigation is at your fingertips. Want to know what movies are playing and the show times? A 411 operator will give you a quick rundown and you don't even have to wait on the line listening to the whole recording (then missing the one you really wanted to hear because someone interrupts you at that exact moment and you have to listen to the whole thing again!) In the case of an emergency cell phones save lives...

The Club Short Slinky Gown ... No, it is not the second coming of formal wear, nor is it something that casual fans are wearing, it appears to be an all new unique escape from modern fashion... Alright, maybe we are reaching a little too far for a captive audience, but we are using language to create a picture of a classic short slinky gown regulated to more than just modern dance halls or dinner parties full of yuppies...



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There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classics did the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.
—Paul Horgan (b. 1904)

If modernism had tried to anchor in consciousness a centre which could no longer hold—the conscience of the heroic, socially alienated artist—postmodernism had shown us an even darker side of modernity and the aporias of the aesthetic. It had shown that there is nothing for consciousness to be anchored to: no universal ground of truth, justice, or reason, so that consciousness itself is thus “decentred,” no longer origin, author, location of intentional agency but a function through which impersonal forces pass and intersect—Dover Beach displaced by an international airport lounge.
—Patricia Waugh, British educator. “Stalemates? Feminists, Postmodernists and Unfinished Issues in Modern Aesthetics,” The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics and Cultural Theory, ed. Stephen Regan, Open University Press (1992)

Music has often been compared with language itself, and the comparison is quite legitimate. While it combines easily with actual language, it also speaks a language of its own, which it has become a platitude to call universal. To understand the significance of the organizing factors of rhythm, melody, harmony, tone color and form, the analogy of a familiar language is helpful. Music has its own alphabet of only seven letters, as compared with the twenty-six of the English alphabet. Each of these letters represents a note, and just as certain letters are complete words in themselves, so certain notes may stand alone, with the force of a whole word. Generally, however, a note of music implies a certain harmony, and in most modern music the notes take the form of actual chords. So it may be said that a chord in music is analogous to a word in language. Several words form a phrase, and several phrases a complete sentence, and the same thing is true in music. Measured music corresponds to poetry, while the old unmeasured plain-song might be compared with prose.
—Sigmund Spaeth (1885–1965)



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