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Songs From A Secret Garden
''Songs from a Secret Garden'' is the first international album by Secret Garden. Released in 1996, it includes the Norwegian winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, "Nocturne". Reception The Allmusic reviewer Carol Wright awarded the album 4 stars, and it achieved platinum awards in Norway and South Korea. It stayed on the Billboard New Age chart for 101 weeks. The track "Song from a Secret Garden" became famous in Korea by being featured in the drama 젊은이의 양지 (which means "Sunny Spots (or Places) of the Young") in 1995 and was also used in the 2018 Italian drama film ''Vittima della mia libertà'' ("Victim of my freedom") by Davide Guida. Another track from the album, "Adagio", was featured in the 2004 Wong Kar-wai film ''2046''. Another 1997 Hong Kong ATV drama 天長地久("Fated Love") also featured several tracks from this album, including "Song from a Secret Garden", "Adagio", "Serenade to Spring" and "Papillon". The title track was covered by Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Garden (duo)
Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian band specialised in new instrumental music, led by the duo consisting of Irish violinist and singer Fionnuala Sherry and Norwegian composer, arranger and pianist Rolf Løvland. The group came to fame when they won the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, representing Norway with the composition "Nocturne". In the course of a partnership lasting over 25 years, they have sold millions of albums worldwide, many of which went platinum in numerous countries. History Eurovision Song Contest The group won the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway's second time in 1995 with the composition "Nocturne". It was the only time that a predominantly instrumental piece has won the Eurovision Song Contest, although a few Norwegian lyrics, written by screenwriter Petter Skavlan, were included to ensure that the entry adhered to the contest's rules. Norwegian singer Gunnhild Tvinnereim sang the song in the Eurovision Song Contest, with Hans Fredrik Jacobsen on penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodic Death Metal
Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heaviness of death metal but with highly melodic or harmonized guitar riffs and solos, and often features high-pitched shrieked vocals (differing from traditional death metal) alongside the low-pitched growls commonly featured in traditional death metal. Pioneered by the English heavy metal band Carcass with their 1993 album ''Heartwork'', melodic death metal developed further in Sweden (developed by bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames) in the mid-1990s. The Swedish death metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in the "Gothenburg metal" scene. At the Gates' ''Slaughter of the Soul'', Dark Tranquility's '' The Gallery'', and In Flames' ''The Jester Race'', all released in the mid-1990s, were highly influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnhild Tvinnereim
Gunhild (with variants Gundhild, Gunhilda, Gunhilde, Gunhjild, Gunilda, Gunnhild, Gunnhildr, Gunnhildur) is a Germanic feminine given name composed of two words meaning "war" (gunn and hild/hildr). It may refer to: *, allegedly a Danish queen consort, wife of Harald Bluetooth *Gunhild of Wenden, wife of Sweyn I of Denmark * Gunhilde (died 1002), said to have been the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard *Gunhild of Wessex, (1055–1097), eldest daughter of Harold Godwinson and Edith the Fair *Gunhild Carling, Swedish jazz musician *Gunhild Kyle (1921–2016), Swedish historian *Gunhild Rosén (1855–1928), Swedish ballerina *891 Gunhild, an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt * Gunhilda of Denmark, daughter of Canute the Great and wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor * Gunhilde, sister of Sweyn I of Denmark, wife of Pallig Tokesen * Domina Gunilda, a weapon of remarkable size at Windsor Castle in the 1300s; considered the origin of the word "gun" * Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, wife of Erik Bloodaxe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Agnew
"David Agnew" is a pen name that was employed on BBC television drama programmes of the 1970s as a scriptwriting credit. Conditions of use The pseudonym "David Agnew" was most often used when the original freelance scriptwriter was unable to accommodate fundamental changes requested by the production staff, who therefore had to perform a significant rewrite themselves. BBC rules prevented the production staff from taking screen credit without a time-consuming, bureaucratic appeals process, meaning that the quickest way for the project to continue under the BBC system was to use the name of a non-existent writer. Sometimes production staff were directly ordered by BBC management to use the credit. Examples The name was first used in 1971, when Anthony Read's script for the ''Play for Today'' episode "Hell's Angel" was broadcast under the pseudonym. Read's work on the 1975 ''BBC2 Playhouse'' episode "Diane" was likewise credited to "David Agnew". The pseudonym entered into use on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Jinder
ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may refer to: Biology and medicine * Accessible surface area of a biomolecule, accessible to a solvent * Acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin * Advanced surface ablation, refractive eye surgery * Anterior spinal artery, the blood vessel which supplies the anterior portion of the spinal cord * Antisperm antibodies, antibodies against sperm antigens * Argininosuccinic aciduria, a disorder of the urea cycle * ASA physical status classification system, rating of patients undergoing anesthesia Education and research * African Studies Association of the United Kingdom * African Studies Association *Alandica Shipping Academy, Åland Islands, Finland * Albany Students' Association, at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand * Alexander-Smith Academy, in Houston, Texas * Alpha Sigma Alpha, U.S. national sorority * American Society for Aesthetics, philosophical organization * American Student Assistance, national non-profit organization * American S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Fredrik Jacobsen
Hans Fredrik Jacobsen (born 8 September 1954) is a Norwegian musician and composer, best known for his work with his wife, the traditional folk singer Tone Hulbækmo, and with the medieval music group Kalenda Maya, as well as his concert and studio music on a range of instruments: flute, diatonic button accordion, saxophone and guitar. Career Jacobsen was born, in Risør, but is based in Tolga. He and his wife Tone Hulbækmo are the parents of jazz drummer and vibraphonist Hans Hulbækmo and pianist Alf Hulbækmo. Jacobsen has played with Secret Garden, Halldis Moren Vesaas, Ragnar Bjerkreim, Sondre Bratland, Annbjørg Lien and Henning Sommerro, among others. Discography *''Langt nord i skogen''. 1988 (with Tone Hulbækmo) *''Seljefløyta''. 1997 (with Steinar Ofsdal and Hallgrim Berg) *''Jól''. 1998 *''Vind''. 2003 *''Himalaya blues''. 2004 (with Knut Reiersrud and Varja) Honors *Spellemannprisen 1988 with Tone Hulbækmo best children's album for ''Langt nord i skoge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davy Spillane
Davy Spillane (born 1959 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician, songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle. Biography Irish music At the age of 12, Spillane started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres. For the next three years he played at sessions and met many prominent Irish musicians. At the age of 16, he played in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe. In 1978, he began to write his own music. He starred as a gypsy in Joe Comerford's 1981 film '' Traveller''. Moving Hearts and solo albums He was a founder member of Moving Hearts, along with Christy Moore and Donal Lunny in 1981. Although each member had a strong pedigree of Irish folk music, the band played mostly original compositions, sometimes with a political edge and a folk-rock sound. Their final album '' The Storm'' (1985) was purely instrumental and had several slower pieces written by Spillane. He then made the surprise mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Kjell Seljeseth
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned". Behind the Name. Retrieved on 2013-09-06. The name is spelled Jón in and on the . In the , it is derived from |
Bjørn Ole Rasch
Bjørn Ole Rasch (born 28 July 1959) is a Norwegian artist (keyboards performer), composer, arranger and producer. He is a professor of popular music at the Agder University College. With his wife, Annbjørg Lien, he runs the Kongshavn Studios in Kristiansand. Career Rasch was born in Elverum and raised in Kristiansand. He began playing the piano at seven and learned much piano technique from his mother. He was taught classical music for eight years before he bought his first synthesizer and became more interested in composing and arranging. 19 years old, he composed music for a theater performance of the folktale "Manndottera og kjerringdottera", and he continued to compose music for the theater some years after this, among others 3 ballets and two more theater plays among them the first performance of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in Norway. In 1981 he joined the prog rock band "Boys Voice", which comprised fellow students from Agder University College, Agder Musikkonservatoriu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Moore
Des Moore (13 December 1931 – 1 November 2020) was an Australian economist and political commentator. Career After graduating in law from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in economics from the London School of Economics, he worked for 28 years in the Commonwealth Treasury. He was deputy secretary of the Federal Treasury until 1987. From 1987 to 1996 he worked for the Institute of Public Affairs. He was also a Councillor at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. During his time in the Treasury, Moore headed most of the main policy areas before he left in 1987. Additionally, he served as a Senior Fellow of Economic Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs. Moore was a director of the Institute for Private Enterprise in Melbourne and also a council member of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Additionally, he served as a director and a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee on the boards of the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme (PSS) and Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fionnuala Sherry
Fionnuala Sherry (born 20 September 1962) is an Irish violinist and vocalist. Together with Norwegian musician Rolf Løvland, she makes up the Celtic-Nordic group Secret Garden, which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the predominantly instrumental piece "Nocturne". As part of Secret Garden she has released several successful albums that have made the top 10 of Billboard's new-age charts. In 2010 she released her solo album '' Songs from Before''. Background Sherry's violin playing started at the age of eight. She graduated with honours from the College of Music of Trinity College, Dublin having moved to Dublin at the age of fifteen in order to continue her musical education. Her professional career started with a ten-year stint as a member of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sherry has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including The Chieftains, Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison, Chris de Burgh, Bono, Wet Wet Wet, and Westlife. She has also recorded several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenade To Spring
In music, a serenade (; also sometimes called a serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honor of someone or something. Serenades are typically calm, light pieces of music. The term comes from the Italian word , which itself derives from the Latin . Sense influenced by Italian ''sera'' "evening," from Latin ''sera'', fem. of ''serus'' "late." Early serenade music In the oldest usage, which survives in informal form to the present day, a serenade is a musical greeting performed for a lover, friend, person of rank or other person to be honored. The classic usage would be from a lover to his lady love through a window. It was considered an evening piece, one to be performed on a quiet and pleasant evening, as opposed to an aubade, which would be performed in the morning. The custom of serenading in this manner began in the Medieval era, and the word "serenade" as commonly used in current English is related to this custom. Music performed fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
