Composers

Russia

Mozart wrote symphonies, concertos, sonatas and operas as well as a requiem.

Arguably Mozart's most famous musical compositions are:

Eine klein nachtmusik

Symphony number 40

The Magic Flute (opera)

Burgundian

Requiem For a Dream is a movie about drug addiction and how drugs effect 4 people, three of which are addicted to illegal drugs and one addicted to diet pills.

The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connolly and Marlon Wayans.

I'm 16 years old and I bought it just after my 16th birthday from Amazon. I would have got it from HMV but they didn't seem to have it at the time. I first properly looked up this film when I heard a piece of music playing on the trailer for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Virgin 1. This track I found on the internet by simply typing in "track on Virgin 1 Sarah Connor Chronicles trailer" (well along those lines). It was "Lux Aeterna". I didn't immediatly find out where it was from as I was more interested in finding a website where I could listen to the track and possible download that where it came from. After I listened to it again I found out what movie it was from and I remembered it was one I had heard of before in personal movie research a few years before. This got me interested and I spend a few days looking everything up about it, every single detail. Eventually I bought it and my quest was complete. The only thing I needed to do was watch it and so I did.

By the end I was shocked, I felt dizzy, sick and petrified. I didn't want the movie to stop as it had terrific acting, an adapted screenplay, music and directing but yet I wanted to escape from the scary realistic portrayal of drug addiction. For the rest of the day I was in shock, I wasn't speaking, my eyes weren't moving off the empty space on the wall. I told my parents about it of course and that they had to see it. The next week I sat down with them and me, my mom and dad watched it after my sister had gone to bed.

By the end they were almost as shocked as I was, if not as shocked. They loved it but were scared of the realism and the last frightening fifteen minutes. The movie stuck with me as much as 28 Days Later did when I watched that for the first time a year and a bit before. As I am huge movie fan and love every and any movie genre my parents knew they could trust me watching it by myself for the first time and not letting them watch it to "see what it's like". They know I can handle mostly any movie that is disturbing, violent, gory, graphic and depressing.

For the next couple of months the movie stuck with me like 28DL did. It still does. Before I watched 28 Days Later I never would have thought when I was alone in my house that a zombie/infected would jump through my lounge window while I'm watching TV. Never before I watched Requiem for a Dream had I ever cared for my friends who I knew had most likely tried drugs, but never got addicted. I never have tried any, not because of the film but now I definatly won't. The only drug I was addicted to was coffee for about two days and after I had one coffee I needed another "fix" and drank more and more until I stopped suddenly realising that what I was experiencing even though very strong to me, was mild--- very mild compared to what people on drugs would be like.

It's now almost if not nine months since I first saw the film back in very early June 2009. I am now planning on getting the book when I get more money and decide to finally get it out of the way and buy it instead of constantly adding more DVDs to my 300-400 collection of films ranging from Calamity Jane and Enchanted to The Exorcist and The Godfather. In 10 years time I reckon I will have twice as many and most likely have no more films to collect, just ones that have been on at the cinema and never-ending sequels.

What was one of the things that suprised me about this film, not the film itself but the effect it had on my parents. My dad likes to re-watch good films once in a while so it was no suprise when he said "I'd like to watch Requiem for a Dream again" but it was a major suprise when my mom said it. She doesn't really agree with me watching films like this but she knows I can cope and we both know and she's even admitted it that she's just trying to be a protective mom which I thank her for and then tell her that she doesn't need to worry about what films I watch. She doesn't like films like The Exorcist or The Descent or any horror film from any horror genre but she said she would like to see this again. For her to say that about this particular film is like the nicest person on the planet wanting to watch a video nasty for the first time.

I only know a few people who have watched this film as it's a film that most film-fans would have probably heard of but never gotten round to watching it and a film that just normal average film fans wouldn't have heard of and would more likely think the remake of The Crazies is an original film that it actually being a remake of the under-rated, now cult classic 70s original. One woman, who is actually someone I see more often (on average at least once a month or two) than other people I know is the mother of my sisters best friend and my mothers best friend and she said she's seen it and it made her feel sick and feels sick anytime, every time she thinks about it. I told her that in the movie industry and is excellent, that is what they want, they wouldn't care if she was literally sick every time she thought of the film because for a film to have an affect on people like that is what every film maker wants. She was kind of awkwardly re-assured by that.

But one of the things about this film is that it sticks with you and will stay with people who you know after you get them to watch the film. The film itself is an addiction as people become addicted by remebering it and not forgetting about it like some stupid horror film from the mid 90s. And one of the main things I love about this film is that its unintentionary educational, meaning it teaches everyone, anybody, every single soul who sees it that this is what will happen if you take drugs. This is also a film that even though in America in it's original un-cut version it's an NC-17 in the UK and Ireland an 18 this is a film that if they showed in schools, even though it would be illegal it should be made legal that no matter what late middler schoolers/early Secondary schoolers and high schoolers/secondary schoolers should watch this film because if they watch this, no matter if they think it's rubbish or generally thought-provoking or even life changing then drug taking in young children will decrese rapidly.

So if your looking for a film that's entertaining and educational maybe for you and even your own children or friends then this is the film. Some people will argue that Trainspotting would do the job but I'm going to have to disagree because Trainspotting is more of a black-comedy drug related drama film than this dark, very mildly comic, depressing and scary film is.

Requiem for a Dream IS the film that could literally change every Humans' lives and their views on the world and theirself.

I decided to write this after seeing "Shinach"'s previous review on the film and how it effected him badly like all of us. And just to let you know, after I read his review I've more or less covered what he's said and I'm sure he would truly agree on what I've said so your not missing anything out from that.

So, using words and a final sentence like Shinach said in the previous review/answer on here. I am 16, almost 17 years old that maybe if I was older then it wouldn't have the same effect, but I'm going to have to disagree and agree at the same time because no matter what age you see this film at, at 6 or 60 this film will change your life forever even if you hated it or loved it, there is no escaping with this film from your mind.

Written by Rowan Charlton

Orcas Island in Washington state

Chopin died on Oct. 17, 1849. Over 4,000 people attended his funeral services, when, by instructions in Chopin's will, Mozart's Requiem was performed. His body was interred in the Pere Lachaise cemetery.

The death certificate mentioned tuberculosis, but an autopsy undertaken later by the eminent Parisian physician Dr. Jean Baptiste Cruveilhier declared that no tuberculosis was encountered in the lungs or elsewhere. He stated that in the lungs were pathologic changes that he had never previously seen.

What then caused Chopin's death? Some students of pulmonary disease have conjectured that Chopin was the victim of a heritable disease of altered mucous secretion, called mucoviscidosis, which impedes the absorption of oxygen in the lungs and encourages the growth of pneumonia-causing bacteria.

A further exploration of the medical conditions afflicting members of Chopin's immediate family reveals that his younger sister, Emilia, died of an undiagnosed lung disease before she turned 14 and his older sister, Ludovika, also died of an unspecified lung affliction when she was 47.

The more serious manifestation of this genetic disorder, affecting the lungs primarily, is now called cystic fibrosis. The disease and its genetic ramifications were not fully described until 1932, 83 years after the death of Frederic Chopin.

Dave Richardson, who was a Victoria, BC, Canada police officer at the time wrote a poem for his girl friend ; he gave the poem to his friend David Foster who was the keyboardist in the band Skylark. Below is an excerpt from an interview where he tells the inspiration of the song. How did you and David Foster became friends? David Foster and I became close friends in 1967 when he was 17 and I was 25. He was playing piano in a night club ("The Old Forge") here in Victoria. I was a cop with the Saanich Police Department (Saanich is a municipality in Greater Victoria) and I used to go to the "Forge" quite often. I had been writing songs and poems since I was a child, so we had music in common in our friendship. "Wildflower" was a Top 40 hit on BillBoard chart with the group Skylark. You wrote the lyrics, how did you got the inspiration ? In 1970 I was dating a nurse, whom I would eventually marry in 1971 (it only lasted four years, though - we were both not ready for such a commitment). One night I went to pick her up at her apartment, as we had planned on going out. When she opened the door I saw that she was upset to the point of tears. She still had a housecoat on and had her hair wrapped in a towel after a shower. She told me that two elderly ladies she had been caring for in the hospital had died that day at work, and she felt terribly sad about it, as she had come to know them fairly well over a period of time. Anyway, she more or less vented her feelings and I just listened. After she was finished, she thanked me for listening, and said she would get ready for our date. She went into the bedroom and closed the door, and I sat and watched TV waiting for her to come out. When she didn't return, I knocked on the door but she didn't answer, so I went in to find her fast asleep on the bed, still in her housecoat and with the towel still wrapped around her head. I guess she was just exhausted after her emotional day. So, I put a blanket over her, being careful not to wake her, and went home and wrote the song in about fifteen minutes or so. It was absolutely inspired. I have always felt that all I did was hold the pen in my hand, and that God did the writing. The "Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken" part, refers to when I put the blanket over her. "The way she's always paying, for a debt she never owes…" - It wasn't her fault that the two ladies had died, and yet she felt so badly for them that she was crying.

Count Nikolaus Esterhazy

Tchaikovsky wrote three ballets; in chronological order they are Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty. Choreographers have created ballets from other music by Tchaikovsky as well.

While completing the Op. 121 songs Brahms fell ill of cancer (sources differ on whether this was of the liver or pancreas). His condition gradually worsened and he died on April 3, 1897. Brahms is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.

He never married, probably because he was so busy creating a new American music style. But he did have a couple of "girlfriends" during his lifetime. He died when he was 38 of a brain tumor, and never was engaged.

Palmer Hayden is a famous African American artist it is known that he taught himself how to paint he painted most of his creations as oil paintings

Brahms was born in 1833, so when he was 57 that would be the year 1890.

In 1896 (when he was 63), he wrote Four Serious Songs. So no, he did not stop composing at age 57. Although he slowed his compositional output and chose to help Clara Schumann take care of her family while Robert Schumann was placed in an asylum.

He first learnt his music when he was 5 years old.

Temple Emanu-El - 1 East 65th Street, New York, New York. (The same synagogue where the highly-decorated American composer Marvin Hamlisch was memorialized on August 14, 2012)

Bach was know for composing Great classical music, such as the six Cello suites,

Jesus, Joy of mans desiring...ect.... and many other famous organ music including the great toccata and fugue in D Minor.

In music notation, f is an abbreviation for forte which is a dynamic term meaning loud or strong. This denotes that the section of the music should be played loudly. Here is a list of some dynamic levels from quietest to loudest.

pp (very quiet), p (quiet), mp (medium quiet), mf (medium loud), f (loud), ff (very loud)

Bela Bartok was Hungarian, and moved to the United States of America to work, but never felt at home there.