Lesson 9 welcome A cold welcome The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. I extend a warm welcome to you on the behalf of my colleagues. We hold a party to welcome a friend. crowd A large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. H

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(609) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语词汇随身听手册2

Topics: The Roaring Twenties; The Empire State Building; Indians (Asians) versus Indians (indigenous peoples); to blow up versus to explode; staging ground Words: decade booming to be independent roaring invention flapper corset jazz to improvise to

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play jazz music by a young saxophonist, Hailey Niswanger And answer a question about the history of blue jeans ... But first, we tell about one company's pla

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

Also: The story behind the century-old song ''Take Me Out to the Ballgame.'' And music by performers at the JVC Jazz Festival taking place in New York. Transcript of radio broadcast: 26 June 2008 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special Engli

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CD Celebrates Music of New Orleans 发行CD纪念新奥尔良音乐 While Mardis Gras has come and gone and the Jazz and Heritage Festival is weeks away, don't think the city of New Orleans, Louisiana

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The music world is in shock with the news that British soul singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her north London home aged just 27. They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'no, no, no' The troubled singer had a long battle with alcohol and

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Home Birth Movement Grows in the US Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. On the show today a report on an old and newly popular birthing practice. We also hear some great jazz from the past brought to new life in a Bro

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18 Lionel Hampton 18 莱昂内尔汉普顿 Lionel Hampton is a frenetic jazz vibraphonist, gifted bandleader and storied showman 莱昂内尔汉普顿是一位极富激情的爵士乐电颤琴演奏家、极具天赋的乐队领队,爵士乐史上著

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Topics: Famous Musicals-All That Jazz; Winter Carnivals; irony and metaphor; pronouncing routed and data; hopefully Words: choreographer production high-life hallucination fictional autobiography signature carnival season royal court habitation tobog

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GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight: remembering jazz giant Dave Brubeck. The pianist and composer died today after a seven-decade career that spanned much of the post-war jazz world. Born in California in 1920, he and his quartet would become known for rhyth

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John Coltrane, 1926-1967: The famous saxophone player helped make modern jazz popular around the world VOICE ONE: PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) John Coltrane He was one of the greatest saxophone play

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The Nigerian Sound of Afrobeat By John Kuti My surname Kuti is a normal Hungarian surname it means something like Wells as in the places where you get water out of the ground. By a strange coincidence Kuti is also a name in Nigerian. In the Yoruba la

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By Doug Levine All is well with veteran jazz crooner Tony Bennett. At 78, he looks great, and says, with no uncertainty, that he's feeling just fine. Well, why not? His career remains in full swing. T

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Racial discrimination was now banned in Brazil, but prejudice and the belief in white supremacy was still widespread. So there was outrage in the press that black musicians like Pixinguinha should be allowed to represent Brazil when he and his band O

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In Story ville, it didn't matter what you *, as long as you had cold hard cash. Luckily, there was a price point for everyone. -The business in New Orleans, we stratified and had a range of levels. There were low cripes where people might charge fift

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - George Gershwin: More of the Life and Music of One of America's Great Songwriters By Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, June 12, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TW

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By Doug Levine Washington 12 December 2006 Fifteen years after the release of their debut album, Fourplay has yet to relinquish its title of smooth jazz warriors. As we hear from VOA's Doug Levine, the all-star quartet is back with a new album that'

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Doug Levine | Washington 02 April 2010 Cuban-born singer and composer Jon Secada is known for his rhythmic fusion of pop, soul, ballads and Latin music. But, he reveals another side to his ever-growing repertoire with his latest release, Expressions.

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There are 1.6 million new dignosis of cancer per year in the United States alone. 仅美国一国,每年就有1600万人确诊患癌症。 We are on the cusp of so many great discoveries. 我们在这一领域已经取得重大突破,有很多伟大

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On July 23, Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment and soon her record label, Universal Republic, released a statement that read in partWe are deeply saddened at the sudden loss of such a gifted musician, artist and performer Many musical arti

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