May 2006 Issue 6

And Dance

Music

Around

The World GL BAL TALK The First UO Multilingual Publication- 6th ISSUE, May 2006

The sun seems to have decided to shyly come out of the clouds and especially in this month of May he is generously sharing his mild sunrays upon the humid and fertile land of Eugene. In this optimistic and charming spring atmosphere, it seems hard to believe that we are still living under various worldwide tensions that seem to encourage mutual international misunderstandings among all different nations and countries throughout the world. If there is a war, a terrible tragedy, and a natural catastrophe in a particular area of the world, thanks to our media we are informed instantly about the generality of the accident. Even if the account in the News tries to present accurate and detailed information regarding an international event, it is, however, always a speculative delivery that seems to lack something important. In general, what I believe is missing in relating to other nations and regions throughout the world by any

Media, not only in relation to certain problematic events but also to general perceptions of differences, is a cultural understanding . I believe that cultural understanding comes from performing and thus dialoguing with a different traditions bringing about not so much a fusion between the foreign and our personal culture, but rather a moment of understanding that take place in a zone of maximal proximity without obliterating any distinctions. While you are reading this sixth issue of Global Talk and you are roaming through the pages of all different sections, take a moment and consider this way of understanding other cultures as we seek to bring them to a moment of maximal proximity. Maybe you can pose yourself this question: “Is it possible to understand difference and other people with an active and performative cultural understanding? Maybe considering something universal as music and dance you will see as those differences highlighted in every section do not dissolve or exhaust the question, but rather enrich it and bring it closer to you while you engage in one of the most intimate human acts: reading. Reading is indeed an act of an unfinished dialogue. So I would like to invite you all to read and enjoy all these sections, and having done that, the next stage would be do respond to the invitation offered by Global Talk and go ahead and write us. Write what do you think or know about our complex and yet fascinating world.

As always, we are looking for submission for all sections. You can submit articles, questions or any type of writings, creative or testimonial, as well as drawings and photographs to [email protected]. Next month topic will be “Summer Vacation.” Global Talk is going to address these questions: What have you seen, learned, and understood from other cultures and places you have visited throughout the world?

As the spring sun, Global Talk too would like to exchange and stimulate warm thoughts and piercing insights to endorse a new perspective of a worldwide cultural understanding.

Nicolino Applauso Founding Editor of Global Talk

.CREDITS:

COVER: Megan Edmunson INTRODUCTION : Nicolino Applauso CHINESE SECTION: Benjamin Sky Brandt, Dr. Jean Wu and Denise Gigliotti (Editor), FRENCH SECTION : Laura Kramp and Marianna Shagalova (Editor), GERMAN SECTION: Hollie Welch and Matthias W. Vogel (Editor), ITALIAN SECTION: Monica Remus, Matteo Misley, Nicolino Applauso (Editor) JAPANESE SECTION: Jared Peacock, Satomi Ohashi, and Dr. Naoko Nakadate (Editor) MIDDLE EAST SECTION: Sara Mostafavi RUSSIAN SECTION: Amberle Johnson, Brittany Brown, Stacey Lennon, Clara leon , and Dmitri Venkov (Editor) SCANDINAVIAN SECTION: Paul Quillen and, Dr. Micheal Stern (Editor). SPANISH SECTION: Jennifer Lee Brown, Robert Davis, Max Gimbel AROUND the WORLD Theodora K. Thompson. FOUNDING EDITOR: Nicolino Applauso. GLOBAL TALK is seeking people for contribution in any language sections, email [email protected] if interested.

ACKNOWELDGEMENTS: We would like to thank: the East Asian Languages Department, The Germanic Department, The Yamada Language Center, and the Romance Languages Department.

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HINESE Section (2006  )

MUSIC AND DANCE (-$,) “Traditional Chinese music can be traced back 7,000 – 8,000 years based on the discovery of a bone flute made in the Neolithic Age. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, only royal families and dignitary officials enjoyed music, which was made on chimes and bells. During the Tang Dynasty, dancing and singing entered the mainstream, spreading from the royal court to the common people. With the introduction of foreign religions such as Buddhism and Islam, exotic and religious melodies were absorbed into Chinese music and were enjoyed by the Chinese people at fairs organized by religious temples.”

Source: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/arts/chinese-music.htm

Vocabulary (!') 1. Would you like to dance? -  * +$? 2. Rhythm - #. 3. Music - - 4. What kind of music do you like? -  0/"-? 5. Street dance - %$

Found Traditional Music ( -) Expressing the essence of music or dance in words is a difficult task. With this in mind, anyone who wants a special treat should visit the following website, where traditional Chinese music can be enjoyed without limitation. (http://www.chinapage.com/sound/mp3/music.html ) This is a collection of traditional, mainland Chinese music of varying styles and locale. The following two songs will undoubtedly add a little spunk to anyone’s day,  (love my china) and a Mongolian Folk Song  (My Three Precious). You can find them here: http://www.chinapage.com/sound/mp3/awzh.mp3 http://www.chinapage.com/sound/mp3/3treasures.mp3

Saying of the Month: & )( Under an overturned nest, can there be unbroken eggs? rench Section (MAI 2006) Danse contemporaine Le plus affirmé est certainement Vocabulaire en Afrique celui de la danseuse sénégalo- Veux-tu danser avec moi? française Germaine Acogny, La danse africaine, dans sa Would you like to dance? remarquée par Béjart qui lui avait version contemporaine, compte le rythme demandé d’assurer la direction aujourd’hui une vingtaine rhythm artistique et pédagogique de d’années. Née, pour une grande la musique Mudra. De spectacle en spectacle, part, d’initiatives individuelles music elle innove et aboutit avec son qui, au fil des années, se sont Quel genre de musique aimes-tu ? solo Yé’ou, présenté à Dakar en retrouvées, elle témoigne d’une What kind of music do you like? 1988, à une véritable rupture avec identité toujours plus singulière. Louvre to Offer Da Vinci les pratiques traditionnelles. « J’ai Si la danse africaine était une été la première Africaine à créer Code Tour famille, elle comporterait une un solo en Afrique », explique-t- The Louvre, the Paris gallery at the multitude d’ancêtres. Tous ceux elle. Un geste fondateur qui fait heart of The Da Vinci Code plot, will qui, au cours des siècles, ont de Germaine Acogny la mère de offer fans an interactive audio tour to tie pratiqué des danses la danse contemporaine sur le in with the film's release. French actor « traditionnelles » à l’intérieur continent. Jean Reno, who plays detective Bezu d’un cercle formé par les Fache in the Hollywood adaptation, membres d’une communauté. narrates the guided tour. The tour has Conscients de la richesse de ce been produced by Soundwalk, a patrimoine, les États africains company that makes "sonic journeys" indépendants ont créé, dès les for New York and Paris and has said it années soixante, des is discussing deals for other museums nationaux qui avaient pour that have been featured in films. ambition de réhabiliter une ©news.bbc.co.uk culture déniée par les colons. Biennale de la danse Au milieu des années En 20 ans et 11 biennales, la biennale a soixante-dix, pour faire vivre la presque fait le tour du monde et a danse en Afrique à côté de la feuilleté le grand livre de la danse - préservation des aspects toutes techniques, toutes expressions anciens, Maurice Béjart a pris bienvenues - et gravé dans les cSurs et À la même époque, un une initiative qui pourrait lui les esprits des images inoubliables. chercheur ivoirien commence à valoir le titre de grand-père de Crée en 1984, la Biennale de la danse s’interroger sur les pratiques de la la danse contemporaine s'est progressivement imposée comme danse en Afrique, en tentant africaine. Appuyé par le un événement majeur dans le paysage davantage de les relier au passé. Président sénégalais, il fonde ex artistique français et l'un En 1983, Alphonse Tiérou crée la nihilo à Dakar en 1977 l’école des principaux événements mondiaux première notation du vocabulaire Mudra Afrique, première école consacrés à la danse. Elle jouit d'une de la danse traditionnelle. En de danse contemporaine du reconnaissance incontestable auprès des 1989, il poursuit sa démarche continent. En 1982, Mudra professionnels et de la presse. Elle a dans son ouvrage Dooplé, loi Afrique doit fermer ses portes, souvent contribué à révéler de éternelle de la danse africaine, où faute de financement. Mais la nombreuses compagnies et il introduit également une démarche est suffisamment des artistes de talent aujourd'hui notation pour la danse originale pour amorcer une présents sur les scènes internationales. contemporaine africaine, faisant pratique et favoriser Cette année, Biennale de la danse aura passer celle-ci dans le domaine de l’émergence de nouveaux lieu à Lyon le 9 au 30 septembre. talents. la chorégraphie. ©http://www.francofffonies.fr Excerpts ©www.francoffonies.fr

Page 5 ERMAN Section (Mai 2006)       Vocab     The Viennese Waltz Möchten sie tanzen?

     Would you like to dance? Rhythmus rhythm      Musik music Was hörst du für Musik? (informal) Was kind of music do you like? Tanz, als ob niemand dich anschaut! (informal) A translation of the American The “original” waltz expression: Dance like no one’s comes from Vienna, Austria and watching. was started in 1786. The Vienna waltz was created from the Some German speaking bands from all Ländler, an Austrian dance that music tastes to check out: was quite famous at the time.

This waltz is fast paced, much Victory Column in Berlin quicker than other, newer waltzes and is danced at a  time. When it comes to techno music, Berlin, Germany is the The definition of Waltz is: “to turn forward from one place or place that knows how to do it to advance by turning.” best. Every year for the last sixteen years in mid-July, the Quote from: Die Toten Hosen, Es ist Juli (see entire city is turned into techno http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3vwalt z.htm picture), Herbert Gronemeyer, Miss central. Over 1,5 million Kitten, Nena, Sportfreunde Stille, Wir people from all over the world sind Helden, Zweiraumwohnung travel to experience the biggest Sources: techno celebration known as http://www.loveparade.net/ Loveparade. Hundreds and http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/links/lovepara de.htm thousands of floats, DJs, and http://www.leahpar.blogger.com.br/juli.JPG people gather at different http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3vwaltz.htm http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1867/february_13 points in Berlin and travel _1867_56741.html towards the victory column http://www.aboutvienna.org/composers/waltz.htm http://www.geocities.com/stevenneville25/Viennese_W (Siegessäule in German), altz_solo.jpg where the kick-off starts and http://www.eaglem.com/vienna/rhythm/dancers.gif http://www.2camels.com/images/festival-photos/berlin- where dancing prevails. love-parade-4.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.2c amels.com/images/festival-photos/berlin-love-parade- 4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.2camels.com/festival_phot os123.php3&h=450&w=300&sz=45&hl=en&start=4&t bnid=YcckLYFucai2LM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=82&prev=/ images%3Fq%3DLove%2BParade%2Bin%2BBerlin,% Foot plan of the Viennese Waltz 2BGermany%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

TALIAN Section (MAGGIO 2006) Umbria 2006 VOCABULARY I migliori musicisti del mondo Vorresti ballare? saranno ad Umbria quest’estate. - Would you like to dance? A Perugia, 7-16 luglio, ci sarà Il ritmo una festa indimenticabile. - the rhythm Quest’anno, i musicisti sono Che tipo di musica ti piace? molto famosi. Eric Clapton, - What type of music do you Diana Krall, Santana e altri like? musicisti importanti verranno Canti bene? per cantare sotto la luna sul -Do you sing well? corso vanucci. Questa festa non Si! Canto bene! è un concerto solo all’aperto. La - Yes! I sing well! città e la provincia dell’Umbria No! Canto malissimo! sono bellissime. Andate a -No, I sing terribly! Perugia quest’estate, ma comprate i vostri biglietti presto! -Courtesy of Alison Ecker - Courtesy of Bryan Davidson NEW!: Pavarotti Watch Musica: Le Verità Supposte di Caparezza This marks our Le Verita’ Supposte (Supposed Truths) is Caparezza’s second CD first installment release. His songs move from pop-based hip-hop to rock influenced in an ongoing series rhythmes to truly original beats. He deals out his own unique blend where we here at of hip-hop that takes inspiration from everywhere. One song, Stanco Global Talk will E Sbronzo (Tired and Wasted) features an accordion riff that literally keep you updated gives the song a drunken, stumbling feel. You can practically see a every month on the happenings drunken Italian hobbling along the cobble streets after one-too-many of big ol’ Papa Pava himself! glasses of wine. Everyone’s favorite tenor is Other Italian influences continue to shine throughout the album, currently recovering from back such as Nel Paese Dei Balordi (In the Land of the Fools) which is injuries and other ailments that based loosely on the famous children story Pinocchio and the lyrics have set back his farewell tour of of 2006. The 70-year-old’s Il Secondo Secondo Me (The Second treatment is expected to be According to Me) that deals with Italy’s finished by the end of this tumultuous political past. All in all the end month. In related news, il Giro product is a CD that can be enjoyed by hip d’Italia (Tour of Italy), the hop aficionados and the uninitiated alike, annual bicycle race through Italy even those that can’t speak la bella lingua, started on May 6th and continues Italian. until the 28th of this month. -Courtesy of Matthew Misley Unfortunately, Pavarotti is not HISTORY: The Mandolin: Mandolins evolved from the participating this year, much to Lute family in Italy during the seventeenth and eighteenth the chagrin of everyone who centuries, and the deep-bowled mandolin produced enjoys seeing older, heavy set particularly in Naples became a common type in the Italian tenors riding bicycles nineteenth century. The original instrument, the mandola (mandorla around the breathtaking is "almond" in Italian, describing the instrument's countryside in a thrilling race to body shape) , evolved in the fifteenth century from the finish line. Until next time! -Courtesy of Matthew Misley the lute. -Courtesy of wikipedia.com

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This summer, singer will Cultural exchange through music might be embark on her first national tour in 6 years the easiest way to relate to different cultures. "  4 following the release of her fourth original I would like to introduce a reformed style of 2Dansu wo shimasenka? album under the -EMI label. This music that is very traditional, but mixed with Won't you dance [with me]? tour has been named "Utada United 2006" contemporary music in this issue. and is rumored to contain material from both The professional Shakuhachi player " %+  her Japanese and American careers. 2Anata Wa dansu ga sugoku jyozu Kinohachi, 35, challenges to break the old image of the flute-type of Japanese traditional desuyo. instrument. Shakuhachi literally means “1.8 You are a great dancer! feet”, which is the standard length of this instrument. Shakuhachi are made from the 1-. root end of bamboo stalks and shaped like a 2ongakuuta recorder. music, song The bamboo flute first came to from China via Korea. The Shakuhachi, however, 1-* 4 is quite distinct from its continental 2donna ongaku ga suki desuka?

ancestors; the result of centuries of isolated 5what kind of music do you like? Utada Hikaru Official Website: evolution in Japan. During the medieval period, shakuhachi were most notable for http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/hikki/ 2! ______their role in the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhist 5Karaoke is an abbreviation of monks, known as komuso ("priests of “Kara(empty)-orchestra” Artist Cocco, who made a triumphant nothingness"), who used the shakuhachi as a return to the music scene after putting her spiritual tool. solo activities on hiatus for nearly 5 years, Because of this history of Shakuhachi, it is will be releasing her second single since her popular among the older generation, yet only re-debut on 24th May 2006, nearly 3 months a few of younger generations, including since her first, "onsoku PUNCH". Titled "hi Kinohachi, engage in succession of the no teri nagara ame no furu", it is supposedly a traditional culture. grand ballad encompassing her love, wishes and prayers, with a 70-member choir backing “The depth of Shakuhachi sound and her. earthy element of this kind of music relate to Tracklisting: the quietness in Japanese culture. I paid 01. hi no teri nagara ame no furu attention to this element every time I 02. te no naru hou e composed Shakuhachi sound," Kinohachi 03. COMPOSITION A said. For maintaining the long Shakuhachi tradition, he started creating a new future combining contemporary dance and with the traditional Shakuhachi sounds. He begins with solo Shakuhachi ______melody, which might remind you of earth and http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyo/556/music_beat.asp nature, mixes it with contemporary music and Kinohachi produces an almost indescribable semi- western sound. Euro-sound and Shakuhachi

The single's up for pre-order at most online are perfectly in tune: Kinohachi has already merchants like CDJapan, neowing and performed in countries such as Germany, .co.jp. Italy, and Cuba, but his journey has just http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62258 started.

 #$$/  7 IDDLE EASTERN Section News Vocabulary Beauty of Persian Dance Music Featuring this month: Quote by Robin Friend The female “ Like Persian poetry and visual arts, 1-FARSI [Iran] face of the dance is delicate, intricate, subtle, Persian pop in and full of meaning. Delicate hand the days movements, gentle upper body before undulations, and facial expressions Islamic rule [are] the essential elements of this “Would you like to dance?” was dance. Googoosh 1] Mikhahi beraghsi? [left], a genuine “Rhythm” superstar 1] Reng there with the status of a “Music” or 1] Moosighi Janet Jackson. She hasn't performed in public since the revolution. For the first time, an all-female Persian pop group “What kind of music do you named Silhouett has formed. "We try to like?” bring the Persian music, as far as the old Unlike Arabic dance, which emphasizes 1] Che moosighi ro bishtar doos traditional music, and modernize it a movements of the hips, or western , dari? little bit so we can connect with the new where the legs are lifted and feet moved generation," one band member says. "I in intricate patterns, the movements of don't want our culture, our past to be lost Proverb: […] I'm a proud Persian woman. I speak Persian classical dance mostly involve “Behesh goftan beraghs goft my language. I play my songs. I want to the upper body: the face, head, torso, zamin kajeh" bring it into the international market,” and hands. Professional dancers may also One blames the slanted floor for says ‘Leila’.—Los Angeles [CNN] dance with tea glasses or finger cymbals why they can’t dance. to mark the rhythm. The movements [There’s an excuse for everything]

require extreme flexibility and grace of the upper body and varied facial expressions, including moving both eyebrows independently. Indeed, Persian

-- classical dance emphasizes feeling, -Black Cats Music Group rather than movement. The dancer teases Zenaida, middle-eastern belly dancer The curtain may have been raised on a the audience with her coquettish glances, Events musical revolution in Iran. In February, and displays a variety of expressions: the Tehran government permitted a pop Monthly Poetry Night reluctance, joy, sensuality, pride, and concert to be held -- the first in 20 years - June 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room - as part of the country's observance of laughter. Of course, the arms move, and 187, Cramer Hall, Portland State the Islamic Revolution's anniversary. turns and small hip movements are part University, Many Iranians were able to enjoy for the of the style. But movement without 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, first time in public what they'd listened to expression cannot be considered true Oregon. Free Admission. All are behind closed doors for decades. Persian style.” welcome. For more information, [sources: Habibi, volume 15, spring edition] call: 503.725.5214 or visit [sources: www.cnn.com] http://www.persia.pdx.edu

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Picture Танцевать (Tants-ye-vat) - To dance of Потанцуем? (Po-tan-tsu-em?) - Would you like to dance? Ulanova Pитм (Ritm) - Rhythm Музыка (Moo-zsi-ka) - Music Какая музыка вам нр авится? (Kakaya moo-zsi-ka vam nrav-itsya?) - What kind of music do you like?

Katyusha: A Famous Song of the Soviet Era Women That Influenced 20th Century By: Clara Leon By :Stacey Lennon Many songs were written in the Soviet era to inspire the people and give glory to the USSR. One particularly was born in St Petersburg in 1910. She famous song is “Katyusha,” a song written by Blanter studied with her mother Maria Romanovna and Agrippina and Isakovsky during WWII. The song speaks of a Vaganova at the Leningrad Choreography School. Ulanova young girl, Katyusha, dreaming of her love, who is off graduated in 1928 and danced with the Kirov Ballet until fighting on the front. Although it is not technically a folk 1944 when she transferred to . Her impact song, it has the structure of a traditional folk song. For on both Russian and Western ballet was enormous. Unfor- example, the song begins with a depiction of nature that gettable are her roles in Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping then is related to the feelings of the characters, a tradi- Beauty, Les Sylphides, Fountain of Bakhchisaray and many tional style in Russian folk music. Katyusha was so others. In 1959, she became ballet mistress of the Bolshoi popular that it even gave the name to Soviet rocket and coached many of the Bolshoi’s future stars. As a great launchers used during the war! Now it has begun to be Russian ballerina she created magnificent images and considered a folk song of sorts and can be heard on both incarnated in her dancing the most complicated dramatic CDs of the Red Army choir and folk ensembles. collisions and developed the principles and traditions of the Russian school of choreography. Maya Plisetskaya was born in in 1925. She studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Plisetskaya became a principal dancer with the as soon as she joined in 1943 and prima ballerina in 1962. After being excluded for political reasons many years from tours to the West, in 1959 she was finally allowed to join the American tour with the Bolshoi. She had great success in America. Since then she danced widely outside Russia and was a guest artist at the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1961 and 1964. She is . Plisetskaya's first work as a choreographer was a ballet based on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina using music composed by her husband, the conductor Rodion Schedrin; it was staged in 1972 and filmed in 1974. Plisetskaya’s last performance with the Bolshoi was at the age of 64 and she is still considered the number one ballerina from the Soviet era.

Natalia Makarova was born in Leningrad in 1940. She studied at the Kirov Ballet School and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1959. She danced mostly romantic roles in Russia due to her long neck and ethereal qualities. Makarova defected to the West in 1970 and joined the American Ballet Theatre where she won overwhelming acclaim. She has worked closely with the Royal Ballet in and was the frequent partner to British star Anthony Dowell. Her choreographic works include restaging the “White Act” in La Bayadere and reviving a lost act from Marius Petipa’s original choreography. This new act in the ballet premiered with American Ballet Theatre, the first company to aquire the work. In 1989 Makarova was the first artistic exile to be invited back to the USSR and she danced her final performance on the stage of the Kirov Theatre. страница 9 CANDINAVIAN Section (May 2006) News Musical styles span jazz, folk, rock, Railway Warehouses in Latin music and traditional style Some Useful Phrases Helsinki Catch Fire After ballads and folk pieces topped Clash Between Police and nicely by lyrical eloquence, Ska vi dansa? - Shall we dance? ingenuity and prowess. Cornelis Activists was a poet and pioneer, inspired by Rytm - Rhythm American music (Johnny Cash for example) and his travels in Latin Musik – Music America and elsewhere. He and his family immigrated from the Vilken sort musik tyker du om? during World War II to - What kind of music do you escape the Nazi occupation, and not like? only did he learn Swedish, he left a mark on the language, weaving in Jag vill dansa i neon – I want to his own style and poetic flexibility. dance in the neon (lights that is; His lyrics range from intelligent This is a lyric from a song local and global political entered by into the

A railway warehouse caught fire commentary during the sixties and Eurovision contest.) seventies, to the traditional topics of in Helsinki after May Day (April 30th) celebrators began setting love, sex, pain, alcoholism, and the late 1700’s who sang about fire to debris, which was soon to family. the festivities of drinking be removed along with the philanderers. Cornelis’ own songs buildings, for a remodel. Riot carry a touch of the same style and police attended to the situation, content, sometimes following which only escalated with their around a number of indulgent arrival. There is no clear characters on their escapades, but evidence who was responsible never far from more emotionally for the fires, while investigations gripping and poetically embellished are still underway. content. He also released a moving Paul Quillen Adjusted from album of Victor Jara songs, a http://www.hs.fi/ Chilean singer/activist, beaten to Musik death following the placement of is Augusto Pinochet to power. God, or Gud? At the top of the list for lyrical content with the likes of I was living in San Francisco and Woody Guthrie, though far with two Swedish roommates I more interesting musically, Cornelis had befriended at the university I Described as a “Troubadour,” a is a treat lost to the wider world, as was attending. One day one of term for traveling performers during his songs are sang in Swedish and them came to me and said, “I the Middle Ages, the title was Dutch. His albums are also have this musician I have to resurrected during the sixties and virtually impossible to find in the show because I know you’ll love seventies to include Cornelis and U.S. so you may need friends in his music. “Okay,” I said. others such folk style singers as Holland or Sweden to send you a This was my introduction to Evart Taube. Suitable to this style, copy. Or you can locate some geek Cornelis Vreeswijk. A fine day Cornelis recorded songs by Carl like me, and perhaps I can help you in my personal history. His Micheal Bellman, a composer from out… Perhaps. Paul Quillen Sidan 10 PANISH Section (mayo 2006) NOTÍCIAS April rally for immigrants in Washington D. C. VOCABULARIO

Interestingly, this isn’t the first Bush Pans Spanish "Star- Shall we dance? - ¿Quieres Spanish version of the anthem. Spangled Banner" bailar? The U.S. Bureau of Education actually paid for a Spanish The "Star-Spangled Banner" Rhythm – El ritmo translation of the song in 1919. It debuted last month with a new was titled La Bandera de Las Latin beat and Spanish lyrics but Music - La música Estrellas, according to the original it did not win a glowing review sheet music, which can be found from Pres. George W. Bush, who What kind of music do you on the Library of Congress like? - ¿Qué tipo de música said the cherished national website. Reuters and ABC News anthem should be sung in prefieres? English. Latin American artists To play dumb - no entender uno recorded "Nuestro Himno" (Our la música Anthem) to stir immigrants to turn out for a national boycott and marches for rights across the country on May 1. They also EVENTOS stirred up the ire of those who see it as further polarizing Tertúlia at UO Americans. One Internet Spanish speakers of all levels meet Wednesdays from 3:30 – 5:00 at the columnist dubbed it "The Illegal Alien Anthem." Buzz in the lower level of the EMU. The Immigration Station Bush told reporters at a White Intercambio House Rose Garden news Below are a variety of artists who 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month, conference that “the national have decided to tackle the question 6:30 - 8PM. Join people of all ages anthem ought to be sung in of immigration. making friends and conversation at English. And I think people who Intercambio conversation circles at want to be citizens of this country Ricardo Arjona the Eugene Public Library. ought to learn it in English. They Mojado ought to learn to sing the national Si el norte fuera sur Extranjero Salsa Dancing anthem in English." Mana Saturdays at Cozmic Pizza, $5 The artists on the song include Pobre Juan includes intro dance lesson, 8th and Gloria Trevi, and Manu Chao Charnelton. Salsa dance competition . The idea of Clandestino on Sat. May 20. Class at 8:30, open translating the U.S. national El viento dance at 9:30 and competition at 11 Gloria Estefan Mi tierra 2006 Latin American Film Festival Santo de los mojados Dreams and Nightmares: Mujeres de Juarez Latin America in the 21st Century Thursdays through June 1, Cuando sali de Cuba 240A McKenzie Hall, 7 pm Schedule of free films Source: FLTEACH http://las.uoregon.edu/

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”Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it…. Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and - I like them all.” Sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Vanessa-Mae was just in her mid-teens Shankar, often lauded for when she shattered the mold of the classical pioneering collaborations with Balinese music can be compared to virtuoso with the release of her first fusion musicians from the West, does Javanese music, especially that of the pre- album The Violin Player, forging a new style not identify with the fusion Islamic. During that time, Javanese tonal that has made her a multi-million-selling music of today. "I was never systems were imported to Bali. Balinese worldwide phenomenon and the breakthrough involved in fusion music as it is gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical artist who virtually defined the fusion of understood today." The maestro, music, is louder, swifter and more classical and pop that became known as christened the "Father of world aggressive than Javanese music. Balinese crossover. Now she makes her Sony Classical music" by the late Beatle George gamelan also features more archaic debut and marks a new musical direction with Harrison, felt fusion music of instrumenta-tion than modern Javanese the release of Choreography, a highly original today was more of a commercial gamelans. Balinese instru-ments include album that celebrates dance rhythms from attraction, a gimmick. "But I do bronze and bamboo xylophones. Gongs around the world. Original pieces and fresh agree there are many brilliant and a number of gong chimes, are used, arrangements have been created for the album musicians doing a lot of good such as the solo instrument trompong, and by the Oscar-winning Vangelis, Bill Whelan work in the area." The sitarist, a variety of percussion instruments like of Riverdance, Indian film composer A.R. who has popularised a number of cymbals, bells, drums and the anklung (a Rahman (the musical Bombay Dreams) and Carnatic ragas like Charukesi, bamboo rattle). There are two sizes of Tolga Kashif (The Queen Symphony), Janasammodhini, Keerawani, bamboo flutes, both used in theatrical amongst others. Malayamarutam and Revati music, and a rebab (two-stringed spike Born in Singapore on October 27, 1978 - (which he called Bairagi), was fiddle). Modern forms of Balinese she shares a birthday with the first awarded the Bharat Ratna, gamelan include kebyar, an energetic international violin superstar, Niccolò India's highest civilian honour, style played by clubs, which generally Paganini - Vanessa-Mae moved to London in 1999. The maestro had mixed compose their own music. with her family when she was four, began views on the future of classical Kecak (pronounced: "KEH-chahk") classical violin studies the following year and music. He maintained that while a form of Balinese music drama, made her professional debut on the audiences for classical music originated in the 1930s and is performed international stage at the 1988 Schleswig- was not diminishing sponsor- primarily by men. Also known as the Holstein Festival in 1988, the same year she ships are. "Until two years ago, Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, made her concerto debut in the U.K. with lots of big business houses did performed by a circle of 100 or more London's Philharmonia Orchestra.Shanghai. sponsor classical music concerts. performers wearing checked cloth around Beyond the bounds of typical concert The trend has slowed down in their waists, percussively chanting "cak", venues, Vanessa-Mae is constantly bringing the recent past and that's what and throwing up their arms, depicts a music to new places and new people She was scares me." While he lauded the battle from the Ramayana where monkeys the first foreign performer invited to play the government's role in patronizing help Prince Rama fight the evil King U.S. national anthem at Wrigley Field and classical music over the years, Ravana. Wayan Limbak popularized the Comiskey Park in Chicago. She was the only he felt more business houses dance by traveling throughout the world foreign artist invited by the Chinese to should come forward to sponsor with Balinese performance groups. These perform at the pivotal moment of performances. travels have helped to make the Kecak Reunification of Hong Kong to China at Source: famous throughout the world midnight Source: http://www.vanessa-mae.com/ http://www.ravishankar.org/bio_frame.html Source: http: wikipedia.org

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