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Elīna Garanča – La Reine de Saba “Plus grand dans son obscurité” – Gounod
Dutch Musician Tracing Piano Napoleon Gave to Iranian King
“We have heard about a piano that Napoleon presented to an Iranian king in 1806,” Frerichs said,
“We are on track to find this piano. Perhaps it is kept at a museum or somewhere else. If you know where it is, please tell us! We are eager to perform with it,” he added.
The piano was the first of its kind known to have arrived in Iran.
According to the Encyclopaedia Iranica, it was a gift from Napoleon to the Qajar king Fath’Ali Shah.
The piano was a small 5-octave instrument and must have been hopelessly out of tune by the time of its arrival in Tehran. It is unlikely that it was ever put to any use.
No one knows about the fate of the instrument.
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How Consistent Do Pre-Performance Routines Need to Be?
Does behavioral sequence matter?
Performing the exact same sequence of actions before each free throw will improve performance.
Researchers watched each player’s free throws to determine their “dominant” pre-performance routine. This was defined as the sequence of actions that they performed before at least half of their free throw attempts (e.g. bounce ball 3 times, spin it backwards in hands, pause, look at the hoop, take a deep breath, bend knees, and shoot).
Players used their dominant routine most of the time (81.17% to be exact), but that leaves a fair number of free throws where players either messed up the sequence or added/omitted elements of their routine.
And this absolutely did seem to affect performance.
When players stuck with their dominant sequence, they made 83.77% of their free throws.
But when players deviated from their dominant routine, they made only 71.43% of their free throws.
⇒If you don’t have a pre-performance routine, it’s definitely worth exploring. But if you already do – especially if you are preparing for an audition (orchestral, summer festival, or collegiate) – it may be worth videotaping yourself starting excerpts and pieces.
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Tom Hardy on How He Prepared for His Role in ‘Taboo’
“I really think about acting in two different parts. There’s convincing and not convincing acting. Convincing acting is about hustle and the flow of narrative of what do I want and what am I going to do in order to get it, and the energy transition between two actors or more. And then there’s camouflage, the creation of silhouette and disguise, whether you use putty nose or whether you’re slightly subtler.”
And what did he do to prepare for playing Delaney? Nothing. I’d spent nine years talking about him. I did maybe 5 percent acting on the show, most of it was running around, working with heads of department, marketing. I didn’t have time to do any acting. The hat helps and the scars.”
So there you have it; to play a convincing character, all you need is a hat and some scars!
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5 Key Tips for Making a Classical Music Video
1 : Choose the piece, but film the moment
No matter how famous you are as a classical performer, you’re not going to rival Beethoven for recognition.The first step in getting views is knowing what your audience will click on.
2 : Set the scene & shoot it lean
We’ve found filming performers is more about what viewers don’t see than what they do.
3: Keep it real
It’s incredible how astute people are when they are watching video.
4: Tell a Story
We know the “Where?” and the “When?” from point 1. But what about the “Why?”
5: Get intimate
We all know what a person, sitting at a piano, playing, swaying backwards and forwards looks like.
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Jim Henson Creates an Experimental Animation Explaining How We Get Ideas (1966)
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