A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants (grassland). It may be naturally occurring or artificially cleared. It may be cut for hay or grazed by livestock such as cattle, sheep or goats.
In North America prior to European colonization, Algonquian, Iroquois and other Native American people regularly cleared areas of forest to create transitional meadows where deer could find nutrition and be hunted. Many places named "Deerfield" are located at sites where Native Americans once practised this form of land management.
A perpetual meadow is one in which environmental factors restrict the growth of woody plants indefinitely. For example:
Category:Grasslands Category:Agricultural land
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Coordinates | 44°25′57″N26°6′14″N |
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name | Alexandre Desplat |
birth name | Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat |
birth date | August 23, 1961 |
birth place | Paris, France |
occupation | Composer, orchestrator, conductor |
website | alexandredesplat.net |
background | non_performing_personnel }} |
Desplat has composed individual songs that have been sung in films by such artists as Akhenaton, Kate Beckinsale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Valérie Lemercier, Miosotis, and Catherine Ringer. He has also written music for the theatre, including pieces performed at the Comédie Française. Desplat has conducted performances of his music played by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Desplat has also given Master Classes at La Sorbonne in Paris and the Royal College of Music in London.
In 2007, he composed the scores for Philip Pullman's ''The Golden Compass''; Zach Helm's directorial debut ''Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium'' with American composer Aaron Zigman; and the Ang Lee movie ''Lust, Caution''. Prior to these break-out works, he contributed scores for ''The Luzhin Defence'', ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', ''Syriana'', ''Birth'', ''Hostage'', ''Casanova'', ''The Nest'' and ''The Painted Veil'', for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award. He won the 2007 BMI Film Music Award, 2007 World Soundtrack Award, 2007 European Film Award, and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for ''The Queen''. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Film Music in ''The Beat that My Heart Skipped''. In 2008, Desplat received his second Oscar nomination for David Fincher's ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. Desplat received his third Oscar nomination and a BAFTA nomination for ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'' in 2010, both of which were won by Michael Giacchino for Up.
Recently, Desplat has composed music for ''Largo Winch'', based on the Belgian comic; ''Afterwards'' a French-Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos in English; Anne Fontaine's ''Coco avant Chanel'' based on the life of designer Coco Chanel; Robert Guédiguian's ''L'Armée du Crime''; ''Cheri'', reuniting him with director Stephen Frears, whom he collaborated with on ''The Queen''; ''Un Prophète'' reuniting with director Jacques Audiard; ''Julie & Julia'' directed by Nora Ephron; ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'', directed by Wes Anderson and based on the novel by Roald Dahl; ''New Moon'', directed by Chris Weitz; Roman Polanski's ''The Ghost Writer (film)''; ''Tamara Drewe''; ''The Special Relationship''; and ''The King's Speech'' which earned Desplat his fourth Oscar nomination.
In early 2011, Desplat began to write the music to ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''. He reunited with director David Yates, who offered Desplat the opportunity to score the second part after his work on the Part 1 soundtrack "enchanted everyone in the control room". Desplat's soundtrack sequel to the 2008 film ''Largo Winch'' was released in 2011 and was well received.
Desplat's upcoming projects include ''The Tree of Life'', directed by Terrence Malick (which he actually recorded in early 2010), ''A Better Life'', ''La Fille du Puisatier'', George Clooney's ''The Ides of March'', and ''The Spider's House''.
Category:1961 births Category:Academics of the Royal College of Music Category:European Film Awards winners (people) Category:Musicians from Paris Category:French film score composers Category:Living people Category:French people of Greek descent Category:Harry Potter music
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Coordinates | 44°25′57″N26°6′14″N |
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name | George Winston |
background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
origin | Michigan, U.S. |
genre | Contemporary Instrumental |
Instrument | Piano Solo acoustic guitar Solo harmonica |
occupation | Musician |
years active | 1972–present |
label | Takoma Records Windham Hill Records Dancing Cat Records |
website | GeorgeWinston.com |
notable instruments | }} |
George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Miles City, Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Winston's 2002 album ''Night Divides the Day – The Music of the Doors'' took the music of the 1960s band The Doors and transformed it into solo pianos. The title of Winston's album is a lyric from "Break on Through (To the Other Side)", the first track of the Doors' self-titled first album.
On April 19, 2010 he appeared as the sole guest on show 575 of the multimedia WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Twenty minutes into the program he describes an unusual method of playing the piano he developed that was inspired by watching blues guitar players. He can be seen reaching into the piano with his left hand muting the strings while he is playing with his right hand "Breaths, An African in New York".
Winston also is known for his two tribute albums to jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, composer for the first sixteen ''Peanuts'' animated films, who died suddenly in 1976.
Outside of his own piano compositions, adaptations of other people’s songs, and performances, he plays blues harmonica (mainly Appalachian fiddle tunes) and solo acoustic guitar (mainly Appalachian fiddle tunes, and Hawaiian slack-key guitar). While he mainly plays these instruments in concert and not on recordings, both his harmonica and guitar playing can be heard on his benefit album ''Remembrance - A Memorial Benefit'', which was released shortly after 9/11. In 2006, he recorded another benefit album ''Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions: A Hurricane Relief Benefit'', and a second hurricane relief benefit album is planned.
Winston also produces recordings of Hawaiian slack-key guitarists for his own record label, Dancing Cat Records, including artists Keola Beamer, Sonny Chillingworth, Leonard Kwan, Ray Kane, Cyril Pahinui, Led Kaapana, Dennis Kamakahi, Bla Pahinui, Martin Pahinui, George Kahumoku, Moses Kahumoku, George Kuo, Ozzie Kotani, and others. He is also working on recording several old-time musicians, including the venerable harmonica player/folksinger Sam Hinton, harmonica player Rick Epping, and multi-instrumentalist Curt Bouterse.
Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:American pianists Category:Musicians from Montana Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Stetson University alumni Category:Musicians from Michigan Category:Windham Hill Records artists
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