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The Seasons (band)
The Seasons may refer to: Literature and mythology * Horae or the Seasons, in Greek mythology, the goddesses of the seasons * ''The Seasons'' (poem), an 18th-century Lithuanian poem by Kristijonas Donelaitis * ''The Seasons'' (Thomson), a 1726–1730 poetry cycle by James Thomson Music and dance * ''The Seasons'' (Haydn), an 1801 oratorio by Joseph Haydn * ''The Seasons'' (Tchaikovsky), an 1876 set of character pieces for piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * ''The Seasons'' (ballet), an 1899 ballet by Marius Petipa to the music of Alexander Glazunov * ''The Seasons'' (Cage), a 1947 ballet by Merce Cunningham to music of John Cage * ''Ballet des Saisons'' (''The Seasons''), a 1661 ballet by Jean-Baptiste Lully * "The Seasons", a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd from '' Skynyrd's First and... Last'', 1978 Film and television * ''The Seasons'' (film), a 1954 Canadian documentary short film * ''The Seasons'' (TV series), a Hong Kong television drama series * '' Seasons of the Year'', a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horae
In Greek mythology the Horae () or Horai () or Hours ( grc-gre, Ὧραι, Hōrai, , "Seasons") were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. Etymology The term ''horae'' comes from the Proto-Indo-European ("year"). Function Horae were originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times they were regarded as goddesses of order in general and natural justice. "They bring and bestow ripeness, they come and go in accordance with the firm law of the periodicities of nature and of life", Karl Kerenyi observed, adding "''Hora'' means 'the correct moment'." Traditionally, they guarded the gates of Olympus, promoted the fertility of the earth, and rallied the stars and constellations. The course of the seasons was also symbolically described as the dance of the Horae, and they were accordingly given the attributes of spring flowers, fragrance and graceful freshness; for example, in Hesiod's ''Works and Days'', t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (poem)
The Seasons ( lt, Metai) is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published as "''Das Jahr''" in Königsberg, 1818 by Ludwig Rhesa, who also named the poem and selected the arrangement of the parts. The German translation was included in the first edition of the poem. The book was dedicated to Wilhelm von Humboldt. The poem is considered a masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature. Synopsis The poem consists of 4 parts: "Spring Joys" (''Pavasario linksmybės''), "Summer Toils" (''Vasaros darbai''), "Autumn Boons" (''Rudenio gėrybės''), and "Winter Cares" ''(Žiemos rūpesčiai)''. In these 4 idylls, totaling 2997 hexameters, are depicted the natural setting of Lithuania Minor, its people, their work, and their customs. The poem depicts a realistic portrayal of Lietuvininkai (Prussian Lithuanians) peasants' life in the middle 18th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (Thomson)
''The Seasons'' is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, ''Winter'', was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730.Sambrook, 2004 The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner. Context Thomson was educated first at the Parish school of Southdean then at Jedburgh Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he was a member of "The Grotesques" literary club; some of his early poems were published in the Edinburgh Miscellany of 1720. Seeking a larger stage, he went to London in 1725, and became the tutor of Thomas Hamilton (who became the 7th Earl of Haddington) in Barnet. There he was able to begin ''Winter'', the first of his four ''Seasons''. Blank verse had been considered more of an interesting toy than anything useful to poetry, despite John Milton's epic-scale ''Paradise Lost'' and ''Paradise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (Haydn)
''The Seasons'' (German: ''Die Jahreszeiten'', Hob. XXI:3) is a secular oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801. History Haydn was led to write ''The Seasons'' by the great success of his previous oratorio '' The Creation'' (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. Libretto The libretto for ''The Seasons'' was prepared for Haydn, just as with ''The Creation'', by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart (among other things commissioning Mozart's reorchestration of Handel's ''Messiah''). Van Swieten's libretto was based on extracts from the long English poem " The Seasons" by James Thomson (1700–1748), which had been published in 1730. Whereas in ''The Creation'' Swieten was able to limit himself to rendering an existing (anonymous) libretto into German, for ''The Seasons'' he had a much more demanding task. Olleson writes, "Even when Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (Tchaikovsky)
''The Seasons'', Op. 37a (also seen as Op. 37b; russian: Времена года; published with the French title ''Les Saisons''), is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia. The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral and other arrangements by other hands. Individual excerpts have always been popular – ''Troika'' (November) was a favourite encore of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and ''Barcarolle'' (June) was enormously popular and appeared in numerous arrangements (including for orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet, harmonium, guitar and mandolin). Background ''The Seasons'' was commenced shortly after the premiere of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and continued while he was completing his first ballet, '' Swan Lake''. In 1875, Nikolay Matveyevich Bernard, the editor of the St. Petersburg music magazine ''Nouvellist'', commissioned Tch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (ballet)
''The Seasons'' (russian: Времена года, ''Vremena goda''; also french: Les Saisons) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. History Composition history The score for Marius Petipa's ''Les Saisons'' (''The Seasons'') was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and ''chef d’orchestre'' to the Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, while also serving as conductor for performances of the Italian operas in the repertory of the Imperial Opera. Petipa's ''Les Millions d’Arlequin'' (also known as ''Harlequinade'') was also in its preliminary stages at the same time as ''Les Saisons'', and was originally intended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (Cage)
''The Seasons'' is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestraPritchett, 40 and also the first to use what Cage later called the ''gamut'' technique, albeit in an early form.Nicholls, 189 Overview Cage composed the music in early 1947, in the midst of working on ''Sonatas and Interludes''. A piano version was first completed, and an orchestral arrangement followed. Cage dedicated ''The Seasons'' to Lincoln Kirstein. The ballet was premiered on May 17, 1947 by the Ballet Society (by which the work was commissionedWilliam Fetterman. ''John Cage's Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances'', p. 14. Routledge, 1996. ) at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, with original choreography by Merce Cunningham (now lost). Costumes and scenery were designed by Isamu Noguchi. The dancers at the first performance were Gisela Caccialanza, Fred Danieli, Dorothy Dushock, Gerard Leavitt, Tanaquil L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous ''comédie-ballets'', including ''L'Amour médecin'', ''George Dandin ou le Mari confondu'', ''Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'', ''Psyché'' and his best known work, ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. Biography Lully was born on November 28, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Lorenzo Lulli and Caterina Del Sera, a Tuscan family of millers. His general education and his musical training during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated a quill pen with ease. He used to say that a Franciscan friar ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (film)
''The Seasons'' is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Christopher Chapman and released in 1954. Set to Antonio Vivaldi's '' The Four Seasons'', the film depicts the cycle of the seasons throughout a year on the grounds of his parents' farm on the shore of Lake Simcoe. The film won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. Following Chapman's death in 2015, a public sculpture inspired by and named in honour of ''The Seasons'' was installed on the grounds of the ReachView Village seniors home in Uxbridge, Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ..., where Chapman had lived in his final years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seasons (TV Series)
''The Seasons'' (Chinese: 季節) was a 389 episode drama series that was shown during Enjoy Yourself Tonight on Hong Kong TV station TVB from 1987 to 1988. The show, being a section of the main program, Enjoy Yourself Tonight (EYT), meant that it was only 15 minutes long, a rarity in Hong Kong television drama programs. Another rarity is that each episode ends in the same shot: a flower being tossed into the water. Cast Tong family First Generation Second Generation Other cast Background In the 1980s. EYT was steadily losing viewers as other modes of entertainment becomes available. The program was conceived by EYT producers to counter the loss of viewership. The show, along with two other short-form programs (one was a mystery program, the other a comedy), did much to revive EYT, and allowed it to return to viewership supremacy. References in popular culture Due to the immense popularity of the show, the show was referenced in the movie "It's a Mad Mad Mad World 2", starri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seasons Of The Year
''Seasons of the Year'' ( hy, Տարվա եղանակները, Tarva yeghanaknery; ), also called ''The Seasons'' or ''Four Seasons'', is a 1975 Soviet–Armenian short documentary film, directed and written by Artavazd Peleshyan. It was his second and last collaboration with cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov, after '' Autumn Pastoral'' (1971). Production ''Seasons of the Year'' was filmed in black-and-white on 35 mm film in the Armenian SSR. It was Peleshyan's first film not using archive footage. Synopsis The film depicts the struggles of an isolated Armenian farming community against the elements. Armenian folk music is mixed with Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons''. We see the villagers raising sheep and cattle, rolling haystacks down a hillside, dealing with rain and storms, celebrating a wedding, and sliding down a snowy hill while carrying sheep. Release ''Seasons of the Year'' was released in 1975. Decades later it became critically admired in the West, showing at the 40th Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
