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Maksim Mrvica
Maksim Mrvica (; born 3 May 1975) is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience. This can be seen, for example, (especially in the United States) when a song appears on two or more of the record charts which track differ ... music. Biography Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine.Mrvica to dazzle on the ivories ''Taipei Times'', April 16, 2004. Retrieved 2011-04-11. Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Joseph Haydn, Haydn's Piano Concerto in C major. When Serbian aggression started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies. In spite of the war and surrounding turbulen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šibenik
Šibenik () is a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Šibenik-Knin County, and is also the third-largest city in the Dalmatian region. As of 2011, the city has 34,302 inhabitants, while the municipality has 46,332 inhabitants. History Etymology There are multiple interpretations of how Šibenik was named. In his fifteenth century book ''De situ Illiriae et civitate Sibenici,'' Juraj Šižgorić describes the name and location of Šibenik. He attributes the name of the city to it being surrounded by a palisade made of ''šibe'' (sticks, singular being ''šiba''). Another interpretation is associated with the forest through the Latin toponym "Sibinicum", which covered a narrower microregion within Šibenik on and around the area of St. Michael's Fortress. Early history Unlike other cities along the Adriatic coast, which we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Lazko
Igor Lazko (russian: Игорь Лазько, ), (b. St Petersburg, 1949), is a Russian classical pianist who has made a distinguished international career as performer, recording artist and teacher of other pianists. Early career in Russia Igor Lazko is descended from a family renowned for its musicians through several generations. When he was six years old, he was admitted to the special school for young musicians in the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, where his professors were Pavel Serebryakov and Sophia Lekhovitskaya. He was profoundly affected by the example of Glenn Gould's playing during his tour in the Soviet Union in 1957, and from this and from Gould's recordings he drew a wealth of inspiration: the pianist describes this in a published article. At a very young age, he displayed exceptional gifts and when only 14 he became the youngest laureate in the history of the Johann Sebastian Bach International Music Competition at Leipzig, receiving from them the bronze medal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variations Part I & II
''Variations Part I&II'' is Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica's third album, including his first (non-international) album, "Gestures". Track listing #Kolibre (Tonči Huljić) - 3:45 # Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) - 4:05 #Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto) - 3:50 #Totentanz (Franz Liszt) - 4:41 #Olympic Dream (David Essex) - 3:48 #Amazonic (Tonči Huljić) - 3:20 #LeeLoo's Tune (Tonči Huljić) - 3:52 #Procession of The Sardar (from Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1) (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov) - 4:10 #Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury) - 6:41 #Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky) - 12:28 #Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12 (Alexander Scriabin) - 4:12 #Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 in E-flat Major (Frédéric Chopin) - 5:00 #Aria From Goldberg Variations (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 3:58 #Pagrag (Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gestures (album)
{{Infobox album , name = Gestures , type = Album , artist = Maksim Mrvica , cover =Gestures (album).jpg , alt = , released = 1999 , recorded = 1999 , venue = , studio = , genre = Crossover, classical , length = , label = EMI , producer = , prev_title = , prev_year = , next_title = The Piano Player , next_year = 2003 ''Gestures'' is the first CD by the young pianist Maksim Mrvica. It features works by contemporary Croatian composers. The CD was recorded in Lisinski Studio, sound engineer - Hrvoje Hegedušić, music producer - Dubravko Detoni, executive producer - Xenia Detoni, cover photograph - Damil Kalogjera and design - Ana Nikolić. It was released in 1999. Track listing # Variations on a Theme of Međimurje / Varijacije Na Medimursku Tema (Mladen Tarbuk) # A Play of Glass Beads / Igra Staklenih Perli (Ivo Josipović) # Moderato misterioso # Allergro giusto # Grave # Allegro molto, ben ritmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Leung
Edmond Leung Hon-man (; born 5 November 1971) is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and television host. Background Born in British Hong Kong on 5 November 1971, he was a youth development footballer and coach until 17. At age 17, Leung became a finalist in the eighth annual New Talent Singing Awards (新秀歌唱大賽) in 1989, which won him a contract with Capital Artists. He made his recording debut in 1990 with the release of ''Listen to the Edge'' (細聽鋒芒). He propelled to teen idol stardom in the mid-1990s and was famous for his rather feminine look, in which many of his songs portray the life of timid men dumped by their lovers. He was suspended and barred from performing or appearing on variety shows by TVB for three months after he uttered profanity during a live broadcast of the Tung Wah Charity Show in 1995. In 2001, Capital Artists failed in the market, and Leung was left contract-less for over a year. During this time, Leung began composing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Beijing Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union (with venues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia). Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games over four competitors on 13 July 2001, having won a majority of votes from members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after two rounds of vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Pavlova (gymnast)
Anna Anatolyevna Pavlova (russian: А́нна Анато́льевна Па́влова; born 6 September 1987) is a Russian-born artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and represented Russia in other international competitions. In 2002 she won the Russian National Championships. Pavlova competed for Azerbaijan from 2013, winning silver at the 2014 European Championships on vault. She was well known for her balletic style and clean technique. Pavlova retired in 2015 at the age of 28. Career 2000–2002 Pavlova first emerged on the international gymnastics scene in 2000, winning a gold medal on the uneven bars at the Junior European Championships. Although she was too young to compete as a senior at the World Championships in 2001, she was allowed to participate in the Goodwill Games, where she earned a silver medal on the balance beam. In 2001 Pavlova won the junior women's nationals. In 2002, still too young to compete internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language daily; both are owned by Dongwha Enterprise, a wood-based manufacturer. Since the late 1950s, it had been published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, but following an embezzlement scandal in 2013–2014 it was sold to Dongwha Group, which also acquired ''Hankook Ilbo''. The president-publisher of ''The Korea Times'' is Oh Young-jin. Former Korean President Kim Dae-jung famously taught himself English by reading ''The Korea Times''. Newspaper headquarters The newspaper's headquarters is located in the same building with ''Hankook Ilbo'' on Sejong-daero between Sungnyemun and Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea. The publication also hosts major operations in New York City and Los Angeles. History ''The Korea Times'' was founded by Helen Kim five months into the 1950-53 Korean War. The first issue on November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafterin the last 18 years of his lifehe gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle (Saale), Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727, became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphony, polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age. Handel started three c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Piano Player (Maksim Mrvica Album)
''The Piano Player'' is a 2003 music album created by Maksim Mrvica. The album was released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. Track listing # Flight of the Bumble-Bee – 4:25 (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/Jeff Wayne) #Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor – 4:04 (Edvard Grieg) #Exodus – 3:09 ( Ernest Gold) #Claudine – 4:29 (Tonči Huljić) #Wonderland – 3:38 (Tonči Huljić) #Handel's Sarabande – 3:37 (George Frideric Handel) #Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – 10:08 (Sergei Rachmaninov/Jeff Wayne) #Hana's Eyes – 4:31 (Tonči Huljić) #Chopin's Revolutionary Etude in C Minor – 3:52 (Frédéric Chopin) #Cubana – 3:08 (Tonči Huljić) #Croatian Rhapsody – 3:32 (Tonči Huljić) #Dance of the Baroness – 2:51 (Frano Parač) #Cubana Cubana – 3:28 (Bonus Track) (Tonči Huljić) Special Bonus AVCD edition # "Format Data, Not Playable" # "The Piano Player Interview" (Video) # "Maksim's World Premiere Performance at The Roundhouse, London (Excerpt)" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impresario
An impresario (from the Italian ''impresa'', "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer. History The term originated in the social and economic world of Italian opera, in which from the mid-18th century to the 1830s, the impresario was the key figure in the organization of a lyric season. The owners of the theatre, usually amateurs from the nobility, charged the impresario with hiring a composer (until the 1850s operas were expected to be new) and the orchestra, singers, costumes and sets, all while assuming considerable financial risk. In 1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart satirized the stress and emotional mayhem in a single-act farce ''Der Schauspieldirektor'' (''The Impresario''). Antonio Vivaldi was unusual in acting as both impresario and composer; in 1714 he managed seasons at Teatro San Angelo in Venice, where his opera ''Orla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
