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A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the late 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.
David Wyn Jones traces the origin of the string quartet to the Baroque trio sonata, in which two solo instruments performed with a continuo section consisting of a bass instrument (such as the cello) and keyboard. A very early example is a four-part sonata for string ensemble by Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652) that might be considered an important prototype string quartet.[citation needed] By the early 18th century, composers were often adding a third soloist; and moreover it was common to omit the keyboard part, letting the cello support the bass line alone. Thus when Alessandro Scarlatti wrote a set of six works entitled "Sonata à Quattro per due Violini, Violetta [viola], e Violoncello senza Cembalo" (Sonata for four instruments: two violins, viola, and cello without harpsichord), this was a natural evolution from existing tradition.
Edvard Hagerup Grieg /ˈɛdʋɑɖ ˈhɑːgəɾʉːp gɾiːg/ (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843. His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and vice consul in Bergen, and Gesine Judithe Hagerup (1814–1875), a music teacher and daughter of Edvard Hagerup. The family name, originally spelled Greig, has Scottish origins. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather traveled widely, settling in Norway about 1770, and establishing business interests in Bergen.
Edvard Grieg was raised in a musical area. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play at the age of 6. Grieg studied in several schools,[clarification needed] including Tank's School. He often brought in samples of his music to class.[citation needed]
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Actors: Selma Egrei (actress), Othon Bastos (actor), Philip Glass (composer), Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues (producer), Ana Rosa (actress), Werner Schünemann (actor), Chica Xavier (actress), Aramis Trindade (actor), Aracy Cardoso (actress), Clemente Viscaíno (actor), Fernando Alves Pinto (actor), Angela Maria (actress), Florence Larsonneur (miscellaneous crew), Marcelo Moraes (editor), Iafa Britz (producer),
Plot: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for the self evolution and awaiting for reincarnation. Sooner André Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self aware and altruist man.
Keywords: afterlife, brazil, futuristic-city, life-after-death, lost-soul, lusophone, medium, purgatory, spiritualistActors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Vera Farmiga (actress), Andrew Cesana (miscellaneous crew), David Magdael (miscellaneous crew), Anne Stulz (miscellaneous crew), Michael Nyman (composer), Danielle Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Fierberg (producer), Marceline Hugot (actress), Brian Bell (producer), Per Melita (producer), Canella Williams (miscellaneous crew), Tere Duncan (costume designer), Karen S. Neasi (miscellaneous crew), Luke Tomalin Sherman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Fucci (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Sophie Lee has been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. Her husband's family, devout Korean Catholics, prays for the couple. His failure to have a child is deeply shameful to him, so when he attempts suicide, Sophie tries something extreme: she follows an undocumented immigrant - a Korean who resembles her husband - from a fertility clinic to his apartment in New York City where she proposes to hire him to sire her child. She offers $300 per session and $30,000 if she gets pregnant. After several sessions, neither is able to keep emotion out of the arrangement. Where can this relationship go, and what about her husband? Will her actions save him and their marriage?
Keywords: abortion, adultery, arrest, asian-man-white-woman-relationship, attempted-suicide, baby-shower, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, beach, blondeActors: Joe Morton (actor), Callum Keith Rennie (actor), David Lewis (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Ben Affleck (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), John Cassini (actor), Craig Hosking (actor), Mark Brandon (actor), Aaron Eckhart (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Ryan Robbins (actor),
Plot: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19 seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly running out.
Keywords: 3d, airport, airshaft, amnesia, arrest, attorney-general, baseball, based-on-short-story, basketball, bathroom-mirrorActors: Joe Morton (actor), Callum Keith Rennie (actor), David Lewis (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Ben Affleck (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), John Cassini (actor), Craig Hosking (actor), Mark Brandon (actor), Aaron Eckhart (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Ryan Robbins (actor),
Plot: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19 seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly running out.
Keywords: 3d, airport, airshaft, amnesia, arrest, attorney-general, baseball, based-on-short-story, basketball, bathroom-mirrorActors: Kel Mitchell (actor), Phyllis Diller (actress), Linda Leifer (miscellaneous crew), Linda Leifer (miscellaneous crew), Ann Cusack (actress), Paul Adelstein (actor), David Drake (actor), M.J. Loheed (actor), The Lady Bunny (actress), Debbie DeLisi (actress), Ted Lyde (actor), Michael Caplan (producer), Charlotte Pai (miscellaneous crew), Bill McGough (actor), Bradley Parker Sparrow (composer),
Plot: Inspired by the passion of an iconoclastic young artist, gallery runners Jon and Candy hit upon a scheme to inject interest into their failing gallery - have the artist desecrate valuable works of art (only he'll be ruining fakes instead). Problems arise when two of the "fakes" turn out to be real. The artist is talented enough to replicate passable fakes to replace and "become" the originals, but these then mysteriously disappear, putting the forgers in trouble. Meanwhile, the gallery owners themselves have both fallen in love, one with the talented but edgy artist, the other with the son of a local gangster who's behind the local film festival of a drag queen running for congress.
Keywords: arrest, art-gallery, artist, auction, bare-chested-male, beatnik, bondage, breaking-and-entering, cigarette-smoking, cowboy-hatActors: George Miller (director), John Williams (composer), Peter Guber (producer), Rob Cohen (producer), Jon Peters (producer), Aggie Guerard Rodgers (costume designer), Susan Sarandon (actress), Harriet Medin (actress), Michelle Pfeiffer (actress), Jack Nicholson (actor), Veronica Cartwright (actress), Richard Jenkins (actor), Cher (actress), Barbara Gregson (miscellaneous crew), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: All three previously married but now single, best friends sculptress Alex Medford, cellist Jane Spofford and writer Sukie Ridgemont are feeling emotionally and sexually repressed, in large part due to the traditional mores overriding their small New England coastal town of Eastwick. After their latest conversation lamenting about the lack of suitable men in Eastwick and describing the qualities they are looking for in a man, mysterious Daryl Van Horne and his equally mysterious butler Fidel arrive in town. Despite being vulgar, crude, brazen and not particularly handsome, Daryl manages to be able to tap into the innermost emotions of the three friends, and as such manages to seduce each. In turn, the three women blossom emotionally and sexually. After an incident involving one of the town's leading citizens, the ultra conservative Felicia Alden, the three women begin to understand how and why Daryl is able to mesmerize them so fully. The three decide to experiment with some powers learned indirectly from Daryl so that they can hopefully regain control of their own lives.
Keywords: animal, attraction, baby, balloon, based-on-novel, battle-of-the-sexes, bed, bedroom, bicycle, bicyclingActors: Frank Marshall (producer), Cybill Shepherd (actress), John Bartha (actor), Eileen Brennan (actress), Peter Bogdanovich (producer), Peter Bogdanovich (director), Henry James (writer), Cloris Leachman (actress), Tom Felleghy (actor), Duilio Del Prete (actor), Nicholas Jones (actor), Mildred Natwick (actress), Mariolina Bono (costume designer), Frederic Raphael (writer), George Morfogen (actor),
Plot: In this version of Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller", a young, bright and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne. Winterbourne is shocked by Daisy's modern behavior toward life, and spends his time with her trying to figure out if she's having innocent fun or on the path to becoming a fallen woman. Along the way, Winterbourne's judgment is helped and hindered by the other people in Daisy's life. Is Daisy really naive or naughty?
Keywords: 19th-century, american-abroad, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, class-differences, culture-clash, director's-girlfriend, dying-young, expatriate, handlebar-mustache