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In music, a quartet (French: quatuor, German: Quartett, Italian: quartetto, Spanish: cuarteto, Polish: kwartet) is a method of instrumentation (or a medium), used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.
In Western art music, which is often referred to as "Classical music," string quartets are considered to be an important type of chamber music. String quartets consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. In the string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the bass register. Occasionally, string quartets are written for violin, viola, cello and double bass, representing the SATB format. The types of pieces written for this quartet are sometimes in the format of 2 main voices, (violin and cello) backed up by the viola and double bass respectively.
One of the early composers of string quartets, Luigi Boccherini, wrote 100 string quartets. Other important composers of string quartets include Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The term "quartet" is also used to refer to a musical composition written for such a group. In string quartets, each player is typically given an allowing distinct part.
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his most notable films are Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and Meet the Fockers.
Hoffman has won two Academy Awards (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), five Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999.
Actors: Orly Ilacad (producer), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Eugene Domingo (actress), Cherry Pie Picache (actress), Marivic B. Ong (producer), Malou N. Santos (producer), Neil Ryan Sese (actor), Angelica Panganiban (actress), Ernie Forte (actor), Jaime Fabregas (actor), Madeleine Nicolas (actress), John Lapus (actor), Mhalouh Crisologo (actress), Von de Guzman (composer), Armando Lao (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy,Actors: Roger Birnbaum (producer), Gary Barber (producer), Fann Wong (actress), Owen Wilson (actor), Gemma Jones (actress), Donnie Yen (actor), Jackie Chan (actor), Mars (actor), Constantine Gregory (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Aidan Gillen (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Matt Hill (actor), Randy Edelman (composer), Jackie Chan (producer),
Plot: When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds. Chon's sister, Lin, has the same idea, and uncovers a worldwide conspiracy to murder the royal family but almost no one will believe her.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, acrobatics, action-hero, american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, arrows, artifacts, assassination-attempt, bathtubActors: Robert Harvey (actor), Drake Bell (actor), Patrick Duffy (actor), Daniel Veluzat (miscellaneous crew), André Devantier (miscellaneous crew), Edward Asner (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Sara Paxton (actress), Jim McCarthy (miscellaneous crew), Beans Morocco (actor), Tracy Nelson (actress), Sam Anderson (actor), Orlando Brown (actor), Bill Kirchenbauer (actor), Evan Arnold (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Family,Actors: Jessica Clothier (miscellaneous crew), Gerard Plunkett (actor), Ken Hovgaard (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Gale (actor), John R. Taylor (actor), David Neale (actor), Shirley Walker (composer), Don Munro (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Mueller (miscellaneous crew), Trish Keating (costume designer), Jason Beghe (actor), Danny Virtue (actor), Walter Klenhard (director), Walter Klenhard (writer), Barbara Tyson (actress),
Plot: The babysitter (Ann) phones the husband at the shop (store) that he and his wife jointly run (I think). The wife hears the receptionist put through the call from Ann to her husband and surreptitiously picks up an extension phone. Now, this may be a goof, since this is a fairly large workshop, making jewellery, and one might suppose that they have a small PABX exchange and each phone is on a separate line. Anyway, the wife overhears that the babysitter is having a bay with the husband and it all snowballs from there... I post this because I don't, having just watched this scene, understand why the film is titled Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear. The Baby Monitor does figure in a few scenes but was not how the wife discovered her husband's infidelity...
Keywords: alienation, babysitter, disease, employer, extramarital-affair, husband-wife-relationship, infidelity, killer, murder, murder-plotActors: Jessica Clothier (miscellaneous crew), Gerard Plunkett (actor), Ken Hovgaard (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Gale (actor), John R. Taylor (actor), David Neale (actor), Shirley Walker (composer), Don Munro (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Mueller (miscellaneous crew), Trish Keating (costume designer), Jason Beghe (actor), Danny Virtue (actor), Walter Klenhard (director), Walter Klenhard (writer), Barbara Tyson (actress),
Plot: The babysitter (Ann) phones the husband at the shop (store) that he and his wife jointly run (I think). The wife hears the receptionist put through the call from Ann to her husband and surreptitiously picks up an extension phone. Now, this may be a goof, since this is a fairly large workshop, making jewellery, and one might suppose that they have a small PABX exchange and each phone is on a separate line. Anyway, the wife overhears that the babysitter is having a bay with the husband and it all snowballs from there... I post this because I don't, having just watched this scene, understand why the film is titled Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear. The Baby Monitor does figure in a few scenes but was not how the wife discovered her husband's infidelity...
Keywords: alienation, babysitter, disease, employer, extramarital-affair, husband-wife-relationship, infidelity, killer, murder, murder-plotActors: Mark Lemmon (editor), Jon Raitt (actor), Gary Burns (director), Carrie Schiffler (actress), Gary Burns (writer), Carrie Schiffler (actress), Peter Strand Rumpel (actor), Stephen Spender (actor), Joel McNichol (actor), Lyle St. Goddard (actor), Andrew Bosch (actor), John Hazlett (producer), Andy Curtis (actor), Stephan Bosch (actor), Keith D. Humphrey (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Isaac Julien (director), Hanif Kureishi (actor), Thomas Baptiste (actor), Robert Hargreaves (editor), Cleo Sylvestre (actress), Jimmy Somerville (composer), Neal Weisman (actor), Annie Curtis-Jones (costume designer), Stuart Hall (actor), Mark Nash (producer), Norman Rosenthal (actor), Mike Phillips (actor), Johnny T. (actor), John Wilson (actor), Edward Lam (actor),
Plot: Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
Keywords: art-museum, bdsm, closeted-homosexual, erotic-fantasy, fetish, gay-interest, homoeroticism, independent-film, s&m;Actors: Will Cowan (writer), Henry Mancini (composer), Will Cowan (director), Frank Gross (editor), Will Cowan (producer), Chico Hamilton (actor), Anita O'Day (actress), The Hi-Los (actor), Buddy De Franco (actor), The Chico Hamilton Quintet (actor), The Tune Jesters (actor), Conley Graves Trio (actor), Conley Graves (actor), Buddy DeFranco Quartet (actor),
Plot: On many of the musical featurettes from the mid-50's on, until they closed the Shorts department for good, Universal resorted to just sticking an editor in a room, and having him scalp together a new-short from the footage in their old shorts. This compilation features Anita O'Day doing "Honeysuckle Rose" - The Conley Graves Trio does "Conley's Blues" - The Tune Jesters do "Dry Bones" - The Chico Hamilton Quintet performs "A Nice Day" and The Hi-Lo's rung through "Jeepers Creepers." The Buddy DeFranco Quartet revives what is the most-used film ever heard in films with a Universal logo..."I'll Remember April."
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, blues, compilation, compilation-film, hollywood, jazz, musician, pop-musicActors: Milton Schwarzwald (director), Milton Schwarzwald (writer), Milton Schwarzwald (producer), Gus Van (writer), Gus Van (actor), Gus Van (actor), Ruth Day (actress), Minor & Root (actor), Bernice Parks (actress), The Three Wiles (actor), The Five Ames Sisters (actress), Barton Harp Quartet (actor),
Plot: The premise is that if movie theatres, to attract customers, go in for prize-winning 'Bank-Nights," than banks should have entertainment days. Gus , acting as the emcee and singing a couple of songs, is the president of a bank that does just that, and exposes his depositors to pop singer Bernice Parks; dancer Ruth Daye; Minor & Root, skilled dancers and The Five Ames Sisters who are acrobatic dancers; the Barton Parks Quartete do some warbling, and the grand finale fins The Three Wiles doing a routine based on "The Dance of the Wooden Soldiers."
Keywords: 1930s, acrobatic-dancer, acrobatics, bank, bank-cashier, bank-president, banker, cigarette-smoking, customer, dancerActors: Bing Crosby (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), George Cooper (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George Beranger (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Richard Carle (actor), John Carradine (actor), Frank Baker (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Monte Collins (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Billy Dooley (actor),
Plot: A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Keywords: based-on-play, gangster, mistaken-identity, ship