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

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

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(175) / 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

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--体育娱乐看台

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

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

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

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英语音频杂志

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

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--文化艺术

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States. Poetry Slams The United States is celebrating National

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(167) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(四)月

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Beyond History Books: New Museum Tells Lincoln's Story By Nancy Steinbach,Caty Weaver Broadcast: Friday, April 22, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special Engli

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 American Mosaic

今天我们要学的词是legend。 Legend, 是传奇人物的意思。凡是在哪个领域内取得了超常业绩的人,都可以被称为 legend. A tennis legend, 是网球界的传奇人物;a jazz legend 是爵士乐的传奇人物。 不

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

PEOPLE IN AMERICA - April 21, 2002: Charlie Parker By Vivian Bournazian VOICE 1: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE 2: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we t

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Jazz 爵士乐 Jazz is an American style of modern music. 爵士乐是具有美国风格的现代音乐。 A long time ago, many African American people wanted to play musical instruments. 很久以前,很多美国黑人想弹奏乐器。 However,

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第9册

I'm Doug Johnson. This week we play music by Americas Ambassador of jazz Billy Taylor who died last week in New York. We also answer a question about business leader and aid donor Bill Gates. But first a report on the Peoples Choice Awards held Wedne

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(一)月

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we look at musical diplomacy, past and present. And we talk to an actor whose most recent role came from

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(六)月

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Barbara Klein. Today, we play music from the new hit album by singer/actress Selena Gomez And answer a question about the beautiful Florida city of Key West But, first, we r

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