Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation.
Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music".
According to SACEM, Ravel's estate earns more royalties than that of any other French composer. According to the law of most countries (including all members of the World Trade Organization), Ravel's works have been in the public domain since January 1, 2008, in most countries.
Seongha Jeong (정성하) (colloquially: Sungha Jung) (born 2 September 1996) is a South Korean professional acoustic finger-style guitarist who has risen to fame on YouTube and other sites. As of 2012, his channel had over 17 million views, with his videos getting a total of over 454 million views, and also over 726,000 subscribers.
Seongha typically takes three days to learn and practice a new piece, and video-record it for upload onto YouTube. His genre selection is rather broad, as he learns and plays many pieces that are playable on guitar, therefore consequently spread across numerous genres.
Seongha has won 13 awards on YouTube, including 6 "#1" awards. Also on YouTube, Seongha has 523 videos with over one million views. Seongha's video with the most views is the one which shows him playing the theme from "Pirates Of The Caribbean".
In 2010, he was featured on Narsha's solo album "Narsha" for the song "I'm in Love" Seongha has composed 18 pieces as of February 2011, two of which are featured in his debut album, "Perfect Blue". He released his second album, "Irony", on 21 September 2011.
Plot
Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof socialite Christine Gilbert.
Keywords: 1920s, art-gallery, ballet, bird's-eye-shot, black-maid, blackface, brain-tumor, burlesque, composer, concert
The jubilant story of George Gershwin.
George Gershwin: It's only with my music that I can prove my right to live. I must write!
Oscar Levant: I've got a date with my insomnia.
George Gershwin: I don't want to be just a concert pianist. I want to use the piano as a stepping stone!
Oscar Levant: If I had your talent, I'd be a pretty obnoxious fella. What do you call yourself?::George Gershwin: George Gershwin, it's my real name.::Oscar Levant: Mine's Oscar Levant. I'm thinking of changing it.
Max Dreyfus: [referring to "Porgy and Bess", which has just opened] You've made opera entertaining.
Julie Adams: What if this show is a flop?::George Gershwin: We'll do others. I haven't got time for flops.
Oscar Levant: Tell me, if you had it to do all over again, would you still fall in love with yourself?
Christine Gilbert: You can make up songs, George, but you can't make up lif.
Max Dreyfus: George, you can give America a voice.
Dreyfus receptionist: You're fresh!::Oscar Levant: Unfortunately you're not.