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  Red Rose Music Passion
Although compact, Passion is heavy and solidly built to last for decades of musical enjoyment.
Passion features all-discrete low noise circuitry throughout, and has a headphone jack on the front panel for private listening or monitoring.
Sonically, the Passion is the favorite of many listeners, combining warmth and delicacy with great body, authority, speed, and clarity.
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 Johann Sebastian Bach
Typically for the large musical family into which he was born, his career comprised a series of court and church posts in which he acted as a general musical factotum: composing, arranging, conducting, teaching and playing organ, harpsichord and violin.
With regard to the fundamental musical technical discipline called "counterpoint", the combination of independent melodies to form a harmonically and rhythmically vital union, Bach's incomparable achievement dominates all of musical history, and is today the basis and touchstone for the entire discipline.
The Passion According to St. Matthew is the apotheosis of Lutheran church music: in it the chorale, the concertato style, the recitative, the arioso, and the da capo aria are united under the ruling majesty of the central religious theme.
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 Bach Choir of Bethlehem
Some versions of the Passion begin earlier in the week, with Christ's triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem; while this sets up the dramatic turn of events, as the jubilant welcome of Christ is abandoned for his death, it is technically not part of the Passion story.
The problem with this genre of Passion was that the same texture and timbre was used for everything, so individual characters in the story could not be developed or distinguished by the music.
In creating his Passions, Bach drew on parts of all these traditions, plus the musical practices common to his day, including the use of basso continuo, recitative, and a colorful orchestra.
www.bach.org /bach101/passions/st_matthew_passion.html   (833 words)

  
 Amazing Journey
At the start of the musical, Giorgio is in love with an exquisite married woman named Clara, portrayed by Rebecca Luker with grace and loveliness that extend to her bell-like singing.
In Passion, these louvered walls serve as backdrop for Giorgio and Clara's intimate boudoir scenes as well as the scenes at the military base, and despite Howell Binkley's stunning lighting, the result fails to effectively evoke either locale.
Passion won the Tony Award for best musical (and book and score) in a year when its chief competition was Beauty and the Beast.
www.amazing-journey.com /regional_passion_baltimoresun723.htm   (805 words)

  
 Passion
The word passion is now used to mean a great enthusiam for some thing, but in a Christian context, the Passion (with a capital P) is the suffering of Jesus Christ in his final days, or a telling of this story in the Gospels.
The word is also used to refer to a musical setting of this story.
The best known musical settings of the Passion are by Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote two Passions which have survived intact to the present day, one based on the Gospel of John (the St.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Passion.html   (171 words)

  
 Passion | The A.V. Club
By the time Sondheim and author/director James Lapine's 1994 musical Passion hit Broadway, critics and audiences alike had begun complaining that Sondheim was giving them nothing to hum on the way out of the theater.
Passion's complex score and overtly operatic story—about 19th-century Spanish soldier Jere Shea, who nurtures a love affair with comely Marin Mazzie while fighting off the romantic advances of unattractive invalid Donna Murphy—doomed its prospects at the box office, and it was nearly 10 years before Sondheim mounted a new musical.
Passion is Sondheim and Lapine's most relentless piece, with Murphy's literally lovesick character serving as both heroine and villainess in her irrational pursuit of the exasperated Shea.
www.avclub.com /content/node/7227/print   (405 words)

  
 Essentials of Music - Glossary
Musical setting of the Crucifixion story as told by one of the four Evangelists in the Gospels.
A technique in which a musical pattern is repeated and manipulated so that it separates and overlaps itself, and then rejoins the original pattern; getting "out of phase" and back "in sync".
Musical unit; often a component of a melody.
www.essentialsofmusic.com /glossary/p.html   (949 words)

  
 Concert Review: Handel's 'Brockes Passion' moving   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Composers have traditionally lifted texts for their settings of the Passion, the accounts of Christ's life from the Last Supper through the Crucifixion, directly from one of the Gospels--then added dramatic expression and commentary through chorales, recitatives and arias that reflect on the action from the outside.
Passion plays were repertoire favorites in medieval sacred drama, so a theatrical version by Handel, written when he was well-established as a star opera composer, isn't that much of a stretch.
Central to a musical Passion setting is the Evangelist, the singer (usually a tenor) given the narrative and descriptive sections of the texts.
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 Musical Forms - Passion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The responsorial Passion is widespread in 16th-century Italy, often with the words of Christ in the polyphonic sections (e.g.
The most vital development of the Passion in the 17th and 18th centuries was in Lutheran Germany, where both types were followed though the strongest tradition in the early 17th century was based on Walter.
The oratorio Passion, closer to Lutheran devotional requirements, is the commonest in the first third of the century; the genre reached its height in Bach's St.
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 Peter Gabriel - Passion SACD review on AudioRevolution.com
I find this album Passion, the music for the Martin Scorsese film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” to be yet another level of refinement in a stellar career from a master songwriter and, in this case, an excellent composer.
Passion is mostly instrumental, with vocals (some from Gabriel himself) used as additional layers on an abstract musical composition.
The closest thing to a single on Passion is “A Different Drum,” which lays down a hard-hitting beat as a base and builds on that with musical layers that, like a fine meal, just gets better and better as it goes on.
www.avrev.com /music/revs/gabrielpassionsacd.shtml   (723 words)

  
 Stephen Sondheim's Passion with Michael Ball - About Maria Friedman
Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine based on the film Passione d'Amore (1981) directed by Ettore Scola, and on the novel Fosca by I. Tarchetti.
Passion moves between 19th century Milan and an austere provincial army post as a young soldier, Giorgio (Michael Ball), tries to resolve his passion for his mistress Clara (Helen Hobson) and an increasing attraction to the strange isolated figure of Fosca (Maria Friedman) - his Colonel's cousin.
Passion was the third musical created by Stephen Sondheim with writer and director James Lapine following Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.
www.aboutmaria.com /passion.html   (1146 words)

  
 Passion
Based on the Italian movie Passione d'amore, it tells of Giorgio (Jere Shea), a soldier, and Clara (Marin Mazzie), a woman with a husband and child, who are deeply in love.
The story, a breathtaking look at the very lengths people go to find passion in their lives and, at the cost of their own sanity or lives, the peace that feeling of passion brings to one's life.
All of the elements combined make Passion an unforgettable experience and a truly wonderful and entertaining video that allows you to cry openly and unregrettably for the tragic consequences of the characters choices and actions.
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 Passion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passion is the emotion of feeling very strongly about a subject: see, for example, limerence.
Passion (song), Utada Hikaru's music single for Kingdom Hearts II
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, a sound recording by Peter Gabriel, and a related compilation album, Passion - Sources
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 Amazon.com: Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast): Music: Stephen Sondheim,Donna Murphy,Marin Mazzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He gives shape and understanding to the conflicting feelings of love and passion in all their caprices and disappointments, and he pulls no punches in the disappointment and brokenheart department.
The Passion OBC soars to the heavens with the voices of Marin Mazzie and Donna Murphy as the opposed Clara and Fosca, with Jere Shea solid as the soldier Giorgio.
Passion is an operetta style love triangle that is complex, poignant, and beautiful.
www.amazon.com /Passion-1994-Original-Broadway-Cast/dp/B000002SLC   (1980 words)

  
 Passion (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passion is also notable in being the only other show, apart from Sweeney Todd, that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived.
Beginning previews on March 24, 1994, Passion opened on Broadway on May 9, 1994 and closed on January 7, 1995.
Passion - A musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
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 Passion Music - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Passion Music - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Passion Music, musical settings of the gospel accounts of Christ's betrayal, trial, and crucifixion—the narrative commonly known as the Passion....
The outstanding composers of the late Baroque, Handel and Bach, were masters of their native German style as well as of advanced Italian, French, and...
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 Bach and the Play of Passion
The expectations of ‘play’ as performance and ‘passion’ as expression in Bach’s oeuvre have been ingrained in mainstream culture for over 200 years, and for most of those years performance ideals have been sought with the same methodological and philosophical fervour as for all music that went before and after.
Hermann Scherchen’s identification with this music and its curvature of line is a wonder of the sophisticated Viennese Bach tradition, one which, if not as prolific in quality as in quantity, represents a gold standard of achievement in the early years of cantata recordings.
To be released to attendees at the conclusion of the lecture.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Articles/Passion-JFA.htm   (9082 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Passion: A Musical: Books: James Lapne,Stephen Sondheim,James Lapine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Passion is--even for Stephen Sondheim--a remarkable musical, a brooding meditation on love and passion that is at once simple and deeply moving.
Based on Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola's Passione d'Amore (1981) and its source, the novel Fosca (1869) by I. Tarchetti, Lapine's book has a polished singleness of purpose rare in musical theater.
The dialogue is spare, and the story--about an army officer torn between two lovers, one pretty but shallow the other plain but deep--advances with breathtaking economy.
www.amazon.ca /Passion-Musical-James-Lapne/dp/1559360879   (361 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/passion
While each influence is not directly seen through the music that Passion makes, the bridging of each musical gap is where we are most affected.
Passion is a band from the Philadelphia area playing music from their hearts, and screaming at the top of their lungs in hopes of affecting at least one person's current state of mind.
Passion is more than a band to its members, it is a way of life.
www.myspace.com /passion   (721 words)

  
 Top Musical Theater Writers
When you spend as much time reading about musical theater as I do, you develop an abiding affection and respect for the people who spend countless hours documenting the development of this art form.
Peter's mastery of trivia is as much a reflection of his abiding passion for musical theater as it is an ongoing source of witty entertainment for the rest of us.
Ethan Mordden - One of the most deliciously opinionated and dedicated musical theater lovers to ever put pen to paper, his ongoing decade-by decade series on Broadway in the 20th Century is an unparalleled treasure trove of information.
www.musicals101.com /writers.htm   (926 words)

  
 Passion Musical Theater Review Cabaret Scenes
Passion is not the easiest musical to watch and after it’s over, it still remains controversial.
Meanwhile he continues to write passionate letters to Clara, which are beautifully sung by McDonald, but slowly, melodic messages turn melancholy.
By focusing tightly, this concert version illuminated the brilliance of a somber tale with its musical emotionalism and character development.
www.cabaretscenes.com /TheaterReviews/Passion.htm   (683 words)

  
 Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - There are days - Musical passion
There are more days than not when the music enthusiast (such as me) finds the entire subject of Music an essential condition of life.
Either way, and regardless of our own estimation, Music is unequivocally unique and unquestionably significant as an enormous influence upon Mankind, a role it has played from Man's earliest habitation of this planet.
I've always been fascinated by musical memory, especially from childhood when musical response is early in its development.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/07/emdays.htm   (493 words)

  
 Marcela Bovio | Stream of Passion | Elfonia at Musical Discoveries
Musical Discoveries: We have always admired Arjen's taste in female singers and were delighted with your contributions to The Human Equation and on the re-issue of The Final Experiment.
One of the great strengths of Dutch musical auteur Arjen Lucassen is his ability to spot genuine talent, and his decision to build a band around the stunningly passionate vocals and lyrics of singer Marcela Bovio can be seen as something of a masterstroke.
Stream of Passion are one of the few bands today that genuinely reach beyond musical boundaries and listening ages.
www.musicaldiscoveries.com /reviews/marcelabovio.htm   (2840 words)

  
 AMTSJ - About Us
We are committed to presenting, preserving, producing, and promoting musical theatre that ignites the human spirit and we excel by incorporating our core values into every aspect of our business.
We are driven by a passion for musical theatre, a passion to celebrate this art form with others, and a passion to pass this living tradition on to the next generation.
As one of the nation's largest producers of professional musical theatre we continue to do what we have done best for the past six decades, produce and present high-caliber professional musical theatre.
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 Simon Bull
550 SN We are living at a time when music can accompany us wherever we go.
The sheer availability of it can sometimes diminish its power, that is probably why I love playing the piano or watching it being played.
I love to be drawn in to the passion of the music, to be lost in another time, another place, to be moved not merely entertained.
www.bullart.com /gallery/giclees/musical/passion/?usr=76698170   (66 words)

  
 Friends share musical background, passion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Nathan Thomas, a senior at St. James High School, and McKendree Player, a junior at Waccamaw High School, are drum majors at their schools, responsible for conducting rehearsals and getting the band moving with precision and purpose.
Beyond their love of music, the friends have different plans for the future.
Regardless of their career paths, music will always be part of their lives.
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At the time, Ev started a music store using the Hal Leonard name while Roger and Harold were both directing award-winning high school bands in Winona.
Eventually, many music publishers in New York were licensing Hal Leonard to do school band arrangements of their songs.
American Musical Supply is not responsible for typographical errors in pricing or product specification inaccuracies in our catalog or web site.
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 VanJo Productions - Verizon Presents If This Hat Could Talk: A Musical of Passion, Power, and Triumph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Verizon Presents If This Hat Could Talk: A Musical of Passion, Power, and Triumph is a musical journey through the life of a committed woman set on creating a life of equality for all humanity.
It is a story that must resonate with our youth, many of whom have no idea of the lives lost nor the hard work and angst endured by those who fought for this generation to be free.
It is a heartwarming, passionate portrayal of the civil rights era and the many brilliant role models and martyrs who gave their lives to see that children of the 21st Century would have the freedom to accomplish their dreams.
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 Dickinson College Musical Ensembles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The college boasts five large ensembles and several smaller chamber groups that allow students to continue their passion for musical performance in both large and intimate venues.
The Dickinson College Collegium, approximately 24 voices, focuses primarily on the a cappella performance of music literature from the late-Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Each semester, our ensembles engage with a diverse musical repertory and then share that music in a series of concerts designed to showcase the talents of one or more ensembles.
alpha.dickinson.edu /departments/music/performing/cocurricular.htm   (380 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Music & nightlife: Great partnerships and musical passion
One of the festival's most accomplished artists, Thomas is always a pleasure to hear, but it's unusual for any musician to find a partner who so thoroughly shares the musical vision of the soloist.
The Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival continues tonight at 7 and throughout July; tickets are scarce, 206-283-8808.
If the main concert is sold out, there's always one consolation: free outdoor seating on the lawn, where the music is broadcast for all comers.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/musicnightlife/2002376855_fest13.html   (448 words)

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