Philip Glass

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a classical American composer. He is considered one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. His music is also often controversially described as minimal music, along with the work of the other "major minimalists" La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.

Glass has distanced himself from the "minimalist" label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures". Though his early mature music shares much with what is normally called "minimalist", he has since evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "classicist", pointing out that he is trained in harmony and counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger.

Glass has founded his namesake musical group, the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards, and has written operas, musical theatre works, ten symphonies, eleven concertos, solo works, chamber music including seven string quartets and instrumental sonatas, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.

Passion

Passion or the Passion or Passion or The Passions may refer to:

Emotion

Crucifixion of Jesus

People

Books

The Passion television franchise

The Passion is a huge passion play, held around Easter on the streets of a certain city. The event started in the Netherlands as a collaboration between the broadcasters EO and RKK (nowadays between EO and KRO-NCRV) and the local community. In 2016 an American version will be staged in New Orleans. The event is considered a missionary chance to pay attention to Easter.

Creation

The event and television is partly inspired by the local event, the Manchester Passion, held and broadcast by BBC Three on Good Friday. The production company Eye2Eye Media brought the event to the Netherlands. The first Dutch version was on Maundy Thursday in 2011 held at the market square in Gouda with a live-broadcast on TV. It proved successful and new editions followed in the next years.

Later on, other countries like Belgium (2014) and the United States (2016) followed with local versions of the event.

Feature

Structure

The event is staged in a main square in a city around Easter.

The Passion (U.S.)

The Passion is an upcoming American musical television special, to be broadcast live by Fox from New Orleans, Louisiana on March 20, 2016. Based on the Dutch franchise and narrated by Tyler Perry, it is a contemporary retelling of the Passion of Jesus Christ set to popular music, and starring Jencarlos Canela, Prince Royce, Trisha Yearwood, and Chris Daughtry.

Production

In December 2015, Fox announced that Tyler Perry would host and narrate a television special based on the final hours of Jesus Christ's life, broadcast live from New Orleans on March 20, 2016 (Palm Sunday), and produced by Eye2Eye Media and Dick Clark Productions. The special is formatted as a musical containing contemporary songs, and will culminate with the procession of an illuminated cross from Champions Square (outside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome) to a stage at Woldenberg Park. Adam Anders, who is executive producing and arranging songs for the production, explained that the special would incorporate "big, hit songs that everybody knows" but "in a completely new context", such as Imagine Dragons' "Demons" during Judas's betrayal of Jesus. Anders felt that the project fit well with Fox due to the network's history with music-based series, such as Glee and Empire. As a live musical, it serves as a follow-up to Grease: Live, a live production of the 1971 musical Grease that Fox had broadcast two months prior, as well as similar live productions of musicals by NBC.

Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস) ( Ramkṛiṣṇo Pôromôhongśo ) (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Gôdadhor Chôṭṭopaddhae), was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century.

Ramakrishna was given to spiritual ecstacies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the goddess Kali, Tantra and Vaishnava bhakti, and Advaita Vedanta.

The perception amongst Bengali elites of what they considered his exemplary life, led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda, which acquired worldwide influence in the spread of modern Hinduism.

Biography

Birth and childhood

Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836, in the village of Kamarpukur, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, into a very poor, pious, and orthodox brahmin family. Kamarpukur was untouched by the glamour of the city and contained rice fields, tall palms, royal banyans, a few lakes, and two cremation grounds. His parents were Khudiram Chattopadhyay and Chandramani Devi. According to his followers, Ramakrishna's parents experienced supernatural incidents and visions before his birth. In Gaya his father Khudiram had a dream in which Lord Gadadhara (a form of Vishnu), said that he would be born as his son. Chandramani Devi is said to have had a vision of light entering her womb from Shiva's temple.

Ramakrishna (disambiguation)

Ramakrishna might refer to one of several people, the most famous of whom, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, has had many places and institutions named after him. The name is derived from the combination of Hindu Gods Rama and Krishna.

Sri Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna (film)

Ramakrishna is a family drama in Tamil directed by Agathyan produced by Sivasakthi Pandian. The film stars Jai Akash, Sridevika, along with Vijay Kumar, Vani and others. Deva scored the soundtrack and background music. The cinematography is by Rajesh Yadav.

Plot

Jai Akash is Indian born London resident, and a millionaire in the city. After a long tour around the world, he comes back to his homeland, India.

On his return he finds his mother Charanya feeling sad upon something, and finds out she miss her relationship with her long lost family members, although they have lots and lots of money. At that point Jai akash does not feel anything for relationship, as he is wealthy and he has his mother by his side for uninterrupted love.

Suddenly, Charanya gets ill and dies. Jai Akash who has seen nothing except for his mother’s love and money, feels for some one to care about him for the first time. He goes in search of his long lost relatives in a village, mentioned by his mother earlier.