Mount Everest Successful Climb: On Top of the World
Stacy Allison: the First American Woman to Reach Mount Everest.
Stacy Allison is famous for becoming the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, on September 29, 1988. She has been involved in many climbing expeditions. She first began by climbing New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
Allison attempted her first major climb at age 21. Unfortunately, her climbing partner broke his ax only 200 feet from the top, forcing them to turn back.
Saturday 26 September 2015, 1:30pm
Sunday 27 September 2015, 1:30pm
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
A rare concert performance of 'Of Thee I Sing' by George Gershwin (music) and brother Ira Gershwin (lyrics). Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Presented by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs (Festival Chorus) in collaboration with Squabbalogic.
The complete 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning musical will be recreated live
on stage in a special concert performance featuring four talented
singer-actors, a choir of 400 and an orchestra playing the original
orchestrations from 1931. Produced in collaboration with Sydney's most
prolific music theatre company, Squabbalogic (The Drowsy Chaperone),
this is a first for Sydney and not to be missed as words and music come
together in the political satire 'Of Thee I Sing'.
Here's a sneak peek of our rehearsals for George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing, timely for the composer's (George Gershwin) birthday. In 1932, Of Thee I Sing was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Spiegel im Spiegel ('Mirror in the Mirror') is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just before his departure from Estonia. Simply, the piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonac scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. It is about ten minutes long.
Arvo Pärt (pronounced: 'Arvo Pært') is born on September 11, 1935. He is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, 'tintinnabuli.' His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. One of his most famous works include Spiegel im Spiegel (1978).
Suggested Listening:
Spiegel im Spiegel, performed by Sally Maer (Cellist) and Sally Whitwell (Pianist). Accessed September 11, 2011
Here's another interpretation. Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano (Arvo Pärt) Youtube, uploaded by Leonhard Roczek. Accessed September 11, 2011.
Spiegel im Spiegel was originally written for a single piano and violin – though the violin has often been replaced with either a cello or a viola. The piece is an example of minimal music. It's in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising crochet triads and the second instrument playing slow F major scales,
alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which all end on
the note A (the mediant of F). The piano's left hand also plays notes, synchronized with the violin (or other instrument).
In German, "Spiegel im Spiegel" can literally mean both "mirror in the mirror" as well as "mirrors in the mirror", referring to an infinity mirror, which produces an infinity of images reflected by parallel plane mirrors: the tonic triads are endlessly repeated with small variations as if
reflected back and forth. The structure of melody is made by couple of
phrases characterized by the alternation between ascending and
descending movement with the fulcrum on the note A. This, with also the
overturning of the final intervals between adjacent phrases, contribute to give the impression of a figure reflecting on a
mirror and walking back and towards it.
Resources:
Arvo Pärt. en. wikipedia.org. Accessed September 11, 2015.
Mount Everest Successful Climb: On Top of the World
