John Cage's Prepared Piano

John Cage's Prepared Piano. Click on the link to see how to change the sounds on an acoustic grand piano

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971

The Rite of Spring, French title Le Sacre du printemps (Russian: «Весна священная», Vesna svyashchennaya) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. When the ballet was first performed, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience. Although designed as a work for the stage, with specific pasages accompanying characters and action, the music achieved growing success as a concert piece and later became recognised as one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century. It is widely performed in the concert hall, and is frequently revived on the stage.

Click on this link to watch the opening of Stravinsky's ballet THE RITE OF SPRING which was first performed in 1913 and caused a riot in the theatre!

John Cage 1912-1992

Listen to John Cage's unique piece 4'33" by clicking on this link

GOOGLE ART PROJECT

Check out the GOOGLE ART PROJECT by clicking on this link

Hopper. Woman in Cafe

Edward Hopper: Nighthawks

Put Your Hand in My Hand lyrics

Put your hand in my hand,

You can be my friend.

We don’t have to look the same, to let our voices blend.

We can trust each other

We can try again

If you put your hand in my hand

I will be your friend.

We can share the whole world,

We can understand

We don’t have to think the same to stand here hand in hand.

We can live together

Learning to depend

If you put your hand in my hand,

I will be your friend.

If you put your hand in my hand,

I will be your friend.

Singing All Together lyrics

Singing—Altogether

Singing—Just for joy.

Singing—Altogether

Every—girl and boy.

Everybody singing a song,

Everybody singing a song,

Everybody sing all day long,

Everybody sing all day long.

La la la la la la, la la la la

Pom pom pom, pom pom pom,

Pom pom pom, pom pom pom,

Sing your song, and sing it all day long.

Sing your song, and sing it all day long.

All you do is raise your voice,

It’s a simple choice.

Molly Malone lyrics

In Dublin’s fair city,

Where the girls are so pretty,

I once set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone

As she wheeled her wheelbarrow

Through the streets, broad and narrow,

Singing, Cockles and mussels,

Alive alive-o

Alive alive-o

Alive alive-o

Singing, Cockles and mussels,

Alive alive-o

She was a fishmonger

But sure ‘twas no wonder,

For so were her mother and father before,

And they each wheeled their barrow

Through the streets, broad and narrow,

Singing, Cockles and mussels,

Alive alive-o

She died of a fever,

And no one could save her,

And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone

And her ghost wheeled her barrow

Through the streets, broad and narrow,

Singing, Cockles and mussels,

Alive alive-o

Edward Hopper: Trio in Room

Edward Hopper: Cafe with 2 Women

Cirque du Soleil Audition documentary

Check out this documentary about how people become members of the Cirque du Soleil