Look up pan, pan-, Pan, or PAN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.

Prefix[link]

• Pan- as a prefix (Greek πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:
  • Pan American
  • Pan-Americanism
  • Pan India, a unique alphanumeric combination to keep track of financial transactions and prevent tax evasion
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Pan-Arabism
  • Pan-Germanism
  • Pan-Iranism
  • Pan-Islamism
  • Pan-Scandinavianism
  • Pan-Slavism
  • Panegyric
  • Pangaea
  • Pantheon / Pantheon
  • Pansexuality, a sexual orientation characterized by potential attraction to people of all sexes/genders or to people regardless of their sex/gender

Religion and mythology[link]

• Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
  • Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing

• Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Pantheism
  • Theopanism

Science and technology[link]

Astronomy[link]

• 4450 Pan, an asteroid
• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975

Chemistry[link]

• Peroxyacyl nitrates or Acyl peroxy nitrates which are irritants found in smog, and are useful chemical markers for the source of VOCs (as anthropogenic or biogenic)
• Polyacrylonitrile, polymer

Computing[link]

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
• Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
  • Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile that implements Bluetooth network encapsulation protocol (BNEP) protocol
• P.A.N., a type of linguistic analyzer.
• Pan Configuration Language a declarative language for describing server configurations.

Geology[link]

• Dry lake, or Pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
• Gold panning, a simple placer mining technique
• Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature

Geography[link]

• Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China
• Pan County, in Guizhou, China
• Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia

Multimedia Technologies[link]

• Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens
• Panchromatic black-and-white film
• Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field
• Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)

Medical technology[link]

• In medical jargon, pan may refer to panoramic X-ray photography

Zoology[link]

• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo

Film[link]

• Pan (1922 film), a 1922 Norwegian film
• Pan (1995 film), a 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German film
• Pan (2012 film), an upcoming film featuring Sean Bean, Aaron Eckhart and AnnaSophia Robb
• Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro

Food and drink[link]

• Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
  • Frying pan
  • Springform pan
• Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener
• Pan (beer), a Croatian lager beer
• Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, a fictional cocktail
• Pan-bagnat
• Pancake
• Pan, a type of bread popular in Ireland, especially as "sliced pan"
• Sugar panning, the method for creating the confections called dragées

Fiction[link]

• Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
• Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
• Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie

Honorifics[link]

• Pan (title), Slavic honorifics in Poland, Ukraine

Music[link]

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
• Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
• Pan, a Danish prog/psych/blues rock band from the early 1970s
• Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• Pan pipes, a musical instrument
• Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field using pan control or pan pot
• Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops

Publishing[link]

• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review magazine
• Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers

International ISO Standards[link]

• The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
• Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation

Acronym[link]

The acronym PAN can refer to:

• Palladium At Night, an American satellite
• Permanent account number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
• Personal area network, a type of computer network
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Positional alcohol nystagmus
• PAN Parks (protected area network), a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
• Primary Account Number, credit or debit card number
• Proto-Austronesian language

Government, politics, and organizations[link]

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico
• Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
• Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
• The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
• Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)

Other[link]

• Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pan-pan, a radio distress call similar to and weaker than Mayday
• Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game

See also[link]

• Pain (disambiguation)
• Pane (disambiguation)
• Pin (disambiguation)

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Cleopatra Stratan (born October 6, 2002 in Chişinău, Moldova) is the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani ("At the age of 3"). She holds the record for being the youngest artist who performed live for two hours in front of a large audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a #1 hit in a country ("Ghiţă" in Romanian Singles Chart).^[1] As of late 2011, Cleopatra and her family have relocated and are living in Romania.

Early life[link]

Pavel Stratan, father of Cleopatra, was in a studio recording a song with 3-year-old Cleopatra hanging around. Impulsively, she grabbed a microphone and started singing along with Pavel. Everybody was stunned so they ended up recording the song with Cleopatra performing the lead vocals, and suggested that as she is younger than Shirley Temple, she should be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest talent ever to perform on stage and record her own album.^[2][3] Some of her songs have already been translated into English ^[4] and Spanish.^[5] La vârsta de 3 ani and a Ghiţă maxi-single were also released in Japan.^[6][7] La vârsta de trei ani ("At the age of 3") was a double platinum disk in the summer of 2006 for selling more than 150,000 albums in Romania. In December 2006, her father announced that until the next album (possibly in one or two years), she will no longer sing publicly.^[8]

As of 2006 December, Cleopatra's biggest hit is the song "Ghiţă".^[9]

In 2008, Cleopatra released her second album called La Varsta De 5 Ani with the hit song "Zunea-Zunea". On December 13, 2008, her brother, Cezar (named by Cleopatra) was born. She also had a concert on 20 December before leaving for Chişinău to see her younger brother.

Cleopatra Stratan concert poster in Bucharest, September 2008.

Albums[link]

• La vârsta de 3 ani (2006, Pop Album, Total length: 38:16)

1. "Ghiţă" - 3:17
2. "Cuţu" - 3:03
3. "Te-am întâlnit" - 2:38
4. "Şansa" - 2:22
5. "Noapte bună!" - 3:54
6. "Surprize" - 3:23
7. "Număr pân' la unu"
8. "Mama" - 3:58
9. "De ce?" - 4:15
10. "Zuzu-zuzu" - 2:08
11. "Oare cât?" - 2:01
12. "Pasărea pistruie" - 3:44

• La vârsta de 5 ani (2008, Pop Album, Total length: 32:25)

1. "Zunea-Zunea" - 2:59
2. "Elefantul şi furnica" - 3:04
3. "Lupul, iezii şi vizorul" - 4:17
4. "Vino, te aştept" - 3:00
5. "Căţeluş cu părul creţ" - 3:28
6. "Dăruieşte" - 3:45
7. "Gâşte-gâşte" - 2:43
8. "Melc-melc" - 2:42
9. "Refrenul dulcilor poveşti" - 3:00
10. "Va veni o zi într-o zi" - 3:27

• Crăciun Magic (Magic Christmas) (2009 Christmas Album, Total length: 43:48)

1. Domn, Domn, să-nălţăm (Lord, Lord Be Blessed) 3:10
2. Îngerii şoptesc (Angels Whisper) 3:38
3. Steaua sus răsare (The Star Rises Up) 2:44
4. Deschide uşa, Creştine (Open The Door, Christian) 5:33
5. A venit, a venit iarna (The Winter Has Come) 3:41
6. La Betleem colo-n jos (Down There In Bethlehem) 3:02
7. Într-un miez de noapte (In A Midnight) 3:50
8. Leru-i Doamne (Oh Lord) 4:19
9. Florile dalbe (White Flowers) 3:04
10. Seara de Crăciun frumos (Beautiful Christmas Night) 4:23
11. Astăzi s-a Născut Hristos (Christ Was Born Today) 2:42
12. Maria şi Iosif colindă (Mary And Joseph Wander) 3:04

• Melodii Pentru Copii (2012) Will be released 1 June 2012

1. "Când Voi Creşte Mare"
2. "Moş Martin"
3. "Mama Mea e Cea Mai"
4. "Vesel Iepuraş"
5. "Frăţiorul Meu"
6. "Trei Buburuze"
7. "Hopa-hop"
8. "Ursuleţul Bambulică"
9. "Pentru Noi Doi"
10. "Parcul Zoologic"

References[link]

External links[link]

• on Stratan's first concert
• Cleopatra Stratan on music.ro
• Cleopatra Stratan Lyrics on versuri.ro
• CleopatraStratan.com Ghita video and English Lyrics

Gheorghe Zamfir
Background information
Birth name	Gheorghe Zamfir (flute artist)
Also known as	Pan Flute Master
Born	(1941-04-06) April 6, 1941 (age 71) Găeşti, Romania
Genres	Romanian popular music Instrumental Pop Easy listening
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Music teacher
Instruments	Pan flute
Years active	1960 - present
Labels	SonArt Records
Website	http://www.gheorghe-zamfir.com

Gheorghe Zamfir (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe zamˈfir]; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian pan flute musician.

Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute (nai) of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additionally to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing the embouchure.

He is known as "The Master of the Pan Flute", though his standing as a leading figure within the history of Romanian folk music has not been without criticism.^[1][2]

Career[link]

Zamfir came to the public eye when he was "discovered" by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s. The composer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir with his pan flute to western European countries for the first time in 1972 as the soloist in Cosma's original music for the movie Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire. This was very successful, and since then, he has been used as soloist in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone and many others. Largely through television commercials where he was billed as "Zamfir, Master of the pan Flute", he introduced the folk instrument to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity. In the United States his commercials were widely seen on CNN in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

Zamfir's big break in the English-speaking world came when the BBC religious television programme "The Light of Experience" adopted his recording of "Doina De Jale", a traditional Romanian funeral song, as its theme. Popular demand forced Epic Records to release the tune as a single in 1976, and it climbed to number four on the UK charts. It would prove to be his only hit single, but it helped pave the way for a consistent stream of album sales in Britain.

After nearly a decade-long absence, Romanian pan flute virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir returned to Canada in January 2006 for a seven-city tour with TRAFFIC STRINGS quintet . The program included a world premiere: Vivaldi's Four Seasons for PanFlute and string quintet arranged by Lucian Moraru, jazz standards, and well-known favourites.

Gheorghe Zamfir & Traffic Strings

Most recently, Zamfir has been sampled by Animal Collective in the song "Graze" on their EP Fall Be Kind.

Soundtracks[link]

One of his most notable contributions was to the soundtrack for the classic Australian film Picnic at Hanging Rock. His first appearance in 1972 as soloist interpreter in a movie soundtrack was in Vladimir Cosma's "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire" with a very famous and successful melody known all over the world. His music has also been heard on the soundtracks of many Hollywood movies. He was asked by Ennio Morricone to perform the pieces "Childhood Memories" and "Cockeye's Song" for the soundtrack of Sergio Leone's 1984 gangster film Once Upon a Time in America. His music is heard throughout the 1984 film The Karate Kid, and his piece "The Lonely Shepherd", recorded with the James Last Orchestra, is featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill Vol. 1. The melody "The lonely shepherd" was written by James Last and first released on his album "Memories from Russia", released 1977 (Polydor Germany 2371 856). The panflute was played by Gheorghe Zamfir, who had a contract with the Philips record company. An agreement was made that Philips could release "The lonely shepherd" as a single (45 rpm) on the Philips label.

His song Frunzuliță Lemn Adus Cântec De Nuntă (Fluttering Green Leaves Wedding Song) appears in the Studio Gibli film Only Yesterday.

Criticism[link]

Although Zamfir is considered the most important person to popularize the pan flute worldwide, he has also received significant criticism, mostly for his propinquity with easy listening and kitsch.^[3][4] His personality often put him in disputes with other pan flute players such as Dalila Cernătescu, Simion Stanciu or Damian Draghici. Zamfir has been mocked by critics in comparison with Draghici on several occasions.^[5][6]

Another line of criticism came from his promotion of Romanian popular music as opposed to the genuine traditional music.^[7]

Comparing Zamfir with his master, Fănică Luca, jazz-man Johnny Răducanu said that a single fart of Luca would equal the entire music of Gheorghe Zamfir.^[8]

Personal life[link]

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Zamfir was born in Găeşti, Romania on April 6, 1941. Although initially interested in becoming an accordionist, at the age of 14 he began his pan flute studies with Fănică Luca at the Special Musical School no. 1 in Bucharest. Later he attended the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory. He currently^[when?] resides and teaches pan flute in Bucharest. His son, Emmanuel Teodor (who resides in Montreal, Canada), is also a drummer/musician.

Cultural references[link]

• Zamfir is mentioned in the television show King of the Hill in the episode "Propane Boom (Part 1)". Hank claims that Zamfir has sold more records worldwide than The Beatles.
• He is also mentioned in the show NCIS in the episode "Family Secret".
• He is also mentioned in the television show "Sports Night" during an episode.
• He is referenced by Bill Engvall in Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road
• 30 Seconds to Mars often references 'Zamfir pan flutist' as one of their favorite musicians in interviews.

Bibliography[link]

Zamfir has written an instructional book, Traitė Du Naï Roumain: méthode de flûte de pan, Paris: Chappell S.A., 1975, ISBN 88-8291-286-8, and an autobiography Binecuvântare şi blestem ("Blessing and Curse"), Arad: Mirador, 2000, ISBN 973-9284-56-6.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Zamfir at Allmusic
• Gheorghe Zamfir at the Internet Movie Database