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Kongar-ol Ondar
Kongar-ool Borisovich Ondar ( tyv, Ондар Коңгар-оол Борис оглу, ''Ondar Konggar-ool Boris oglu'', , russian: Конгар-оол Борисович Ондар; 29 March 1962 – 25 July 2013) was a master Soviet and Russian Tuvan throat singer and a member of the Great Khural of Tuva. Ondar was born near the Khemchik River in western Tuva, in the village of Iyme. In the Central Asian tradition of self-fulfilling child naming, ''Kongar-ool'' literally translates to "loud boy." In 1983 Ondar was drafted into the army, but was discharged due to a neck injury. After, he served several years in prison in Siberia. In 1992, after his release, Ondar won an international throat-singing contest, which brought invitations to perform in Europe and the United States and began his singing career. Considered a living treasure by the Republic of Tuva, Ondar was granted a stipend and an apartment for the musical skills he possessed. Jovial and personable, Ondar is probabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khemchik River
The Khemchik (russian: Хемчик; tyv, Хемчик, ''Xemçik'') is a river in Tuva in Russia, a left tributary of the Yenisey. The length of the river is 320 km, the area of its drainage basin is 27,000 km². The Khemchik freezes up in November and remains icebound until late April - early May. Its main tributaries are the Alash and Ak-Sug from the left, and the Barlyk and Chadan from the right.Хемчик Great Soviet Encyclopedia The town Ak-Dovurak is located in the valley of the Khemchik. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chevy Chase Show
''The Chevy Chase Show'' was an American late night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Chevy Chase that aired in 1993 on Fox. The series was canceled after five weeks on the air. History Creation and pre-production Fox originally asked country musician Dolly Parton to host a new late night program—the network's first since ''The Late Show'', originally hosted by Joan Rivers, and later hosted by both Arsenio Hall and Ross Shafer, was cancelled in October 1988. Parton turned the network down, and suggested Chase for the job.''Entertainment Weekly'' article:Err Time: Denise Richards is in good company -- look back at 10 major movie stars who flopped on TV. Chase reportedly signed a $3 million deal with Fox. To clear room for Chase, Fox cancelled the program that had been in Fox's late-night slot at the time, the game show '' Studs''. Days before the show's premiere, the name of the venue where the show was recorded was changed from the Aquarius Theater to the Chevy Chase Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuva Or Bust!
''Tuva or Bust!'' (1991) is a book by Ralph Leighton about the author and his friend Richard Feynman's attempt to travel to Tuva. The introduction explains how Feynman challenged Leighton, at the time a high school math teacher, "Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva?" Since Feynman had a reputation as a prankster, Leighton assumed it was made up. But the country existed, and the pair became fascinated with this hard-to-reach destination in the middle of Asia, which had become a republic in the Soviet Union. They made it a goal to travel there, which, for Americans in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was extremely difficult. In many ways, the attempt to travel to Tuva is an allegory for Feynman's perpetual curiosity to discover new things, and how he inspired his friends, admirers and protégés to do the same. During their decade-long quest to travel to Tuva, Feynman was suffering from cancer, and died shortly before the visas finally arrived; this book describes "Richard Feynman's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echoes Of Tuva
Echoes may refer to: * Echo (phenomenon) Film and television * ''Echoes'' (2014 film), an American supernatural horror film * ''Echoes'' (miniseries), a 2022 Netflix original drama series * "Echoes" (''Fear Itself''), an episode of ''Fear Itself'' * "Echoes" (''Stargate Atlantis''), a 2006 episode of ''Stargate Atlantis'' * "Echoes" (''Dollhouse''), an episode of ''Dollhouse'' * Echoes (''Boogiepop''), a character in ''Boogiepop'' * "Echoes", an episode of the television series '' Hawkeye'' * ''Echoes'', a TV series based on the novel by Maeve Binchy * Echoes, the 2007 series finale episode of ''Code Lyoko'' * ''Echoes'', a film starring Mercedes McCambridge Literature * ''Echoes'' (Binchy novel), a 1985 novel by Maeve Binchy * ''Echoes'' (Steel novel), a 2005 novel by Danielle Steel * ''Echoes'' (Time Hunter), a Time Hunter novella * ''Echoes'' (comics), a comic book limited series by Top Cow Productions * Les Echos (other), French-language newspapers Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Tuva Future
The human back, also called the dorsum, is the large posterior area of the human body, rising from the top of the buttocks to the back of the neck. It is the surface of the body opposite from the chest and the abdomen. The vertebral column runs the length of the back and creates a central area of recession. The breadth of the back is created by the shoulders at the top and the pelvis at the bottom. Back pain is a common medical condition, generally benign in origin. Structure The central feature of the human back is the vertebral column, specifically the length from the top of the thoracic vertebrae to the bottom of the lumbar vertebrae, which houses the spinal cord in its spinal canal, and which generally has some curvature that gives shape to the back. The ribcage extends from the spine at the top of the back (with the top of the ribcage corresponding to the T1 vertebra), more than halfway down the length of the back, leaving an area with less protection between the bottom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingle All The Way (Béla Fleck And The Flecktones Album)
''Jingle All the Way'' is a Christmas album and the thirteenth album overall by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Released in 2008 under Rounder, it marks the band's first record since their departure from Columbia. ''Jingle All the Way'' reached #1 on the Top Contemporary Jazz chart, the group's first album to do so since 1991. It also won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. The band's rendition of "Sleigh Ride" was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Performance. It was performed on the December 22, 2008 edition of ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. Overview In an interview with ''Billboard'', Béla Fleck described the band's desire to record Christmas songs: :"We've always wanted to do an album like this. . . This year we started to do less touring, and we didn't want to tour without some new music. It was a slow, steady project. A lot of the arrangements were worked out on tour." One of the album's most ambitious tracks, "The Twelve Days of Christmas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Quick
''Live at the Quick'' is the ninth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and their second live album. It was recorded live at the Quick Center For The Arts in Fairfield, Connecticut in 2000. Reception In his Allmusic review, music critic Jim Smith called the album "the band's most diverse record yet, and fans of Fleck's post-Acoustic Planet work will be amply rewarded." Track listing All tracks composed by Béla Fleck; except where noted. #"That Old Thing" (Intro)/"Earth Jam" (Fleck, Future Man, Victor Wooten) – 7:55 #"Zona Mona" (Jeff Coffin, Fleck) – 6:34 #"Ovombo Summit" (Future Man) – 2:48 #"Hall of Mirrors" – 5:42 #"Scratch & Sniff" (Fleck, Victor Wooten) – 6:43 #Improv/"Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 5:18 #"Big Country" – 8:21 #"Interlude" (Andy Narell) – 1:26 #"Lover's Leap" – 6:13 #"Alash Khem (Alash River Song)" (Traditional) – 2:26 #"A Moment So Close" – 6:55 #Improv/"Prelude from Bach Violin Partita #3" (J.S. Bach) – 5:59 #"Intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outbound (Béla Fleck And The Flecktones Album)
''Outbound'' is the eighth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2000. It is the band's first album on the Sony/Columbia label. The album won Best Contemporary Jazz Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards. Special guests include Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Sandip Burman, Shawn Colvin and Edgar Meyer. Reception In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote "Fleck and his bandmates seem to view all styles of music as readily and randomly interchangeable, but sometimes, as with a colorblind person picking out clothes, the results clash or otherwise disturb, and the rest of the time they come off as flashy and insubstantial. Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers. A fan of any particular style is liable to feel that it has been trivialized, but Fleck doesn't mean any harm. His music represents the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Fleck And The Flecktones
Béla may refer to: * Béla (crater), an elongated lunar crater * Béla (given name), a common Hungarian male given name See also * Bela (other) * Belá (other) * Bělá (other) Bělá, derived from ''bílá'' (''white''), is the name of several places in the Czech Republic: *Bělá (Havlíčkův Brod District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region *Bělá (Mírová pod Kozákovem), a village, a part of the m ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Bela de:Béla pl:Béla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
