Russians, Americans Build Musical Bridges MOSCOW In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Yale Russian Chorus came to Moscow to break the ice between the Soviet Union and the United States. Fast forward 50 years and Americans and Russia

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(四月)

Speaking Musical Memories Tony: Listen! Quick, turn up the radio! Isnt that Can You Feel the Love Tonight? Nancy: Yeah, it is, but whats the big deal? Tony: When I was a little boy, my grandmother took me to see the movie The Lion King. Thats the Elt

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Vice, the Movie, Leads Golden Globe Nominations The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the political comedy Vice for more Golden Globes on Thursday than any other film. It earned six nominations, including best comedy or musical, best acto

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New Documentary Revives American Pioneer Music The Little House on the Prairie television series is perhaps the best-known adaption of the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories. The show aired for eight seasons beginning in 1974 and has since been translated

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Whos Your Baghdaddy: New Musical Pokes Serious Fun at Iraq War In Shakespeares Hamlet, the Danish prince warns that actors should be well taken care of because, When you die you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Little pop quiz here. What movie comes to mind if I say, is butter a carb or she doesn't even go here? Or there's this classic. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MEAN GIRLS) LACEY CHABERT: (As Gretchen Wieners) That is so fetch. RACHEL MCADAMS:

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 is up for 12 Tony Awards. That's more than any other Broadway show. One of those nominations is for Josh Groban, who plays Pierre. This summer, he'll hand the part over to Okieriete Ona

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tomorrow is the 71st Tony Awards recognizing excellence in Broadway theater and the production with the most nominations for the season - that would be 12 - has already been lauded by critics for its diverse casting wildly innova

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A former sawdust factory in Brooklyn has been transformed into a nonprofit music venue with a $4 million annual budget. It spends nearly a quarter of that to commission new works, to record and release albums and support young arti

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Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from the nitty-gritty of business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and fragmented musical tastes have largely replaced

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Computers Predict Pop Chart Success Many parents are no doubt familiar with their teenagers' musical tastes. Very few are probably inspired enough to launch an experiment into them. I listened to some of the music my oldest teenage daughter is listen

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A versus B, both great.But your brain maybe processing the musical information differently for each. That's according to a research in the journal Neuron Image. For the study, volunteers had their brain scanned by functional MRI. And they listened 2

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This is Scientific American 60 seconds science, Im Andrea Alfano, got a minute? Just the sounds of the 1960 movie thriller Psycho may be enough to get your heart racing. Even when we may not be aware it, hearing music can affect our bodies as well as

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This years Eurovision Song Contest has been won by a singer from Serbia with a powerful ballad about an estranged lover. But it was a disappointing night for the UK, whose team tied with France in joint second-last place. The Eurovision Song Contest

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Did you like the film The Lord of the Rings? Are you a performer who can sing and dance? And most importantly, are you less than 1.7 metres tall with big, hairy feet? If the answer is yes to all of these questions then maybe you should audition for a

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -July 5, 2002: Folklife Festival -Silk Road 03 Jul 2002, 19:07 UTC (Smithsonian photo -Kimberly Freeman) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.

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Lyricist Johnny Mercer was one of the world's most prolific composers, turning out more than 1,500 songs, including a classic he co-wrote with Harold Arlen, That Old Black Magic. Over the years, it's been recorded by Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Ella

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Nearly 60 years ago, a group of Los Angeles doctors with a love of classical music created a symphony orchestra. Today, the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra is still enriching lives through the healing power of music. Surgeon Ivan Shulman joine

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(SOUNDBITE OF PLAY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) UNIDENTIFIED ENSEMBLE: (Singing) Tradition. Tradition. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you know any musicals at all, then you probably know the beloved Fiddler On The Roof, the story of Tevye, the dairyman, and his fa

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Topics: Movie - West Side Story; Uncle Sam; ship and other suffixes; grab a spoon/fork; to take the big game down Words: to thwart gang rival poignant musical catchy to depict goatee chin to recruit counterpart stout grab a spoon/fork to take the big

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