Plot
An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America's mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands - Bill Talen (aka Rev. Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement.
Keywords: activism, advertising, arrest, bankruptcy, big-box-stores, brand, buying, child-labor, christmas, civil-disobedience
The movie Santa doesn't want you to see!
Plot
An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America's mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands - Bill Talen (aka Rev. Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement.
Keywords: activism, advertising, arrest, bankruptcy, big-box-stores, brand, buying, child-labor, christmas, civil-disobedience
The movie Santa doesn't want you to see!
Plot
Young 'Jane Froman' (qv) lands a job at a Cincinnati radio station thanks to less-successful singer Don Ross. Managed by Ross, her career soars, but their personal relationship doesn't. World War II arrives and the USO calls Jane to Europe, where a plane crash puts her in the hospital with mangled legs. Will she walk again? Her travails are complicated by a romantic triangle with Ross and airline pilot John Burn...
Keywords: accidental-nudity, entertainer, female-protagonist, nipple-slip, singer, world-war-two
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C (A4) in choral music, and up to tenor C (C5) in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B♭2 (two B♭s below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to two Fs above middle C (F5).
The term tenor is also applied to instruments, such as the tenor saxophone, to indicate their range in relation to other instruments of the same group.
Within opera, the lowest note in the standard tenor repertoire is A2 (Mime, Herod), but few roles fall below C3. The high extreme: a few tenor roles in the standard repertoire call for a "tenor C" (C5, one octave above middle C). Some (if not all) of the few top Cs in the standard operatic repertoire are either optional (such as in "Che gelida manina" in Puccini's La bohème) or interpolated (added) by tradition (such as in "Di quella pira" from Verdi's Il trovatore). Some operatic roles for tenor require a darker timbre and fewer high notes. In the leggero repertoire the highest note is an F5 (Arturo in "Credeasi, misera" from Bellini's I puritani), therefore, very few tenors can have this role in their repertoire. A shift in pitch since the mid 19th century means that the few written top Cs (such as in "Salut demeure" from Gounod's Faust) would have in fact demanded a note at least a semitone lower than today's standard pitch.
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin or Juan Diego (1474–May 30, 1548) was, according to Mexican Catholic tradition, an indigenous Mexican who reported a Marian apparition, Our Lady of Guadalupe, in 1531. The apparition has had a significant impact on the spread of the Catholic faith within Mexico. The Roman Catholic Church canonized him in 2002, as its first indigenous American saint.
The reality of Juan Diego's existence has been questioned by a number of experts on the early religious history of New Spain including Bernardino de Sahagun, Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, Stafford Poole, Louise Burkhart and David Brading, who argue that there is a complete lack of sources about Juan Diego's existence prior to the publication of the Nican Mopohua a century later, in 1649 (they do not accept the validity of the Codex Escalada as historical evidence). Notwithstanding these doubts, the findings of an interdisciplinary study, by nearly two dozen experts involving a prominent Mexican university and a noted American scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican linguistics and anthropology, all indicated authenticity of the document and 16th century origin.
Joseph Calleja, (born 22 January 1978), is a Maltese tenor. He began singing at the age of 16 and, having been discovered by Paul Asciak, continued his studies with him. At 19, he made his operatic debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at Astra Theatre in Gozo and went on to become a prize winner at the Belvedere Hans Gabor competition the same year. In 1998 he won the Caruso Competition in Milan and was a prize winner in Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Opera Competition in 1999. He has since been considered one of the most promising young tenors of the 21st century.
In Europe Calleja has performed in many Opera Houses including Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London, the Vienna Staatsoper, Frankfurt Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Teatre Principal in Majorca, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona and many more.
In the USA Calleja has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Calleja has recorded two CDs of opera arias: Tenor Arias and The Golden Voice.
Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She made her performance debut on Broadway at age 15. Recently, she has gained attention for her role as Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious.
Grande was born and raised in Boca Raton, Florida. She is of Italian descent, half Sicilian, half Abruzzese.
In 2008, Grande played the role of Charlotte in the musical 13 on Broadway, for which she won a National Youth Theatre Association Award. When she joined the musical, Grande left her high school, North Broward Preparatory School, but continued to be enrolled. The school sent materials to her for study with tutors. She played the role of Miriam in the first reading of the forthcoming musical Cuba Libre composed by Desmond Child. Grande teaches music and dance to children in South Africa each year as a member of Broadway in South Africa.
Grande plays the character Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon television show Victorious, which premiered in March 2010.
Alvin Glenn Davis (born September 9, 1960 in Riverside, California), nicknamed "Mr. Mariner", is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and designated hitter. Davis played his career primarily for the Seattle Mariners. He won the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1984.
During a 9-year baseball career, he batted .280 with 160 home runs and 683 Runs batted in. He hit 20-plus homers in three seasons, and drove in over 100 runs twice.
Davis holds the MLB record for the most consecutive games reaching base to start a career, with 47.
Davis, who batted left-handed and threw right-handed, played college baseball at Arizona State. He broke into the majors with the Mariners in 1984 and remained there until 1992. Well liked by Mariners fans, Davis held most of the franchise's offensive team records until the advent of Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez and Alex Rodriguez. He burst onto the major league scene in 1984, homering in his first two big-league games and collecting three doubles in his third. Davis reached base in each of the first 47 games of his career, and was chosen for his only All-Star Game as a rookie. Named the Mariners MVP, he was also voted the American League's Rookie of the Year Award after batting .284 with 27 home runs and 116 RBIs.
Tenor:
Jesus is the Light
Alto:
Light of the world
All:
Light of the world, light of the world
Soprano:
He's the road out of darkness
All:
The brightest way out
Jesus is the light of the world
(Repeat Intro)
2nd verse
All:
Jesus is the light (Repeat 3x)
Alto:
He's the light of the world
All:
Light of the world
(Repeat 2nd verse)
(Repeat Intro)
Soprano repeat:
He's the road out of darkness, All: The brightest way out (Repeat)
While Soprano cont., Alto repeat:
He's the road of the brightest way out (Repeat)
While Soprano and Alto cont., Tenor: He's the road, the brightest way out
Soprano, Alto, and Tenor repeat their parts 5x
All:
TENOR:
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM
SHALL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE
ALTO/SOPRANO:
OUR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIVES IN HIM
SHALL HAVR EVERLASTING LIFE
TENOR:
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM
SHALL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE
ALTO:
LORD WE PRAISE YOU, WE LIFT YOU UP
ABOVE EVERYONE, FOR YOU GAVE TO US YOUR LOVE
AND YOU GAVE YOUR�E ONLY SON
SOPRANO:
AND THE SON WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE
BY DYING ON THE CROSS
ALL:
TO REDEEM OUR LIVES AND PAVE THE WAY
FOR THOSE THAT MIGHT BE LOST
Tenor:
For better or for worse, "Oh Promise Me,"
Why does ev'ry bride glow ravishingly?
Within the secret heart of ev'ry bride
These are the words repeating, repeating,
Repeating inside: (Bing, bong, bing, bong)
You are the beautiful reflection
Of his love's affection,
A walking illustration
Of his adoration
His love makes you beautiful,
So beautiful,
So beautiful,
You ask your looking glass,
What is it?
Makes you so exquisite?
The answer to your query
Comes back, dearie--
His love makes you beautiful,
So beautiful,
So beautiful,
And woman loved is woman glorified!
You'll make a beautiful,
Beautiful,
Beautiful,
Beautiful bride!
Chorus:
Here comes the bride,
Another beautiful bride.
Ziegfeld presents her
With justifiable pride.
Fanny enters with a pillow stuffed under her bridal gown so that she appears pregnant.
Fanny:
I am the beautiful reflection
Of my love's affection,
A walking illustration
Of his adoration.
His love makes me beautiful,
So beautiful,
So beautiful,
Tenor:
And woman loved is woman glorified--
Fanny:
I'll make a beautiful,
Beautiful,
Beautiful,
Beautiful--
I'm beautiful? Oy!
Chorus:
You are so beautiful,
You are so beautiful,
You are so beautiful,
Tenor: