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Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work, Wilson has won two Grammy Awards.
Cassandra Wilson is the third and youngest child of Herman Fowlkes, Jr., a guitarist, bassist, and music teacher; and Mary McDaniel, an elementary school teacher who earned her PhD in education. Her ancestry includes Fon, Yoruba, Irish and Welsh. Between her mother’s love for Motown and her father’s dedication to jazz, Wilson’s parents sparked her early interest in music.
Wilson’s earliest formal musical education consisted of classical lessons; she studied piano from the age of six to thirteen and played clarinet in the middle school concert and marching bands. When she was tired of this training, she asked her father to teach her the guitar. Instead, he gave her a lesson in self-reliance, suggesting she study Mel Bay method books. Wilson explored guitar on her own, developing what she has described as an “intuitive” approach. During this time she began writing her own songs, adopting a folk style. She also appeared in the musical theater productions, including The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy, crossing racial lines in a recently desegregated school system.
The Royal New Zealand Ballet is based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was originally known as The New Zealand Ballet Company.
New Zealand Ballet was established in 1953 as an independent charitable trust by Royal Danish Ballet Principal Poul Gnatt, Beryl Nettleton, Bettina Edwards, another female dancer, and pianist Dorothea Franchi.
In the late 1950s notable New Zealand dancers, Rowena Jackson and Philip Chatfield, her English dancer husband, returned from overseas to join the company. A third returning dancer, Russell Kerr, who had been since 1950 dancing in Europe with the Jose Greco Company, Sadlers Wells Ballet and Ballet Rambert, and from 1952–57 with London Festival Ballet as their principal character dancer. In 1959 Kerr joined forces with NZ Ballet director Poul Gnatt, bringing with him a number of dancers from his own company, Auckland Ballet Theatre for the 1959–60 season. As United Ballet, the augmented company presented a ground-breaking season which is prefigured the things to come – included amongst the classical works was a major contemporary work, "Prismatic Variations, a collaborative piece between Gnatt and Kerr, with guest artists the celebrated New Zealand dancers Rowena Jackson and Sara Neil.
...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, by JIVE Records. In June 1997, while Spears negotiated with manager Lou Pearlman to join female pop group Innosense, her mother asked family friend and entertainment lawyer Larry Rudolph for his opinion and submitted a tape of Spears singing over a Whitney Houston karaoke song. Rudolph decided to pitch her to record labels, sending them a demo tape with an unused song from Toni Braxton. JIVE was interested and appointed the singer to work with producer Eric Foster White. After hearing the recorded material, JIVE signed Spears to a multi-album deal.
Spears traveled to Sweden to work with producers Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, among others. Martin showed Spears and her management a track titled "Hit Me Baby One More Time", which was originally written for American R&B group TLC; however, they rejected the track. Spears later claimed that she felt excited when she heard it and knew it was going to be a hit record. By June 1998, the album had been finished.
"I Will Be There" is a song written by Tom Snow and Jennifer Kimball, and recorded by American country music singer Dan Seals. It was released in January 1987 as the second single from his album On the Front Line. It peaked at #1 which was his fifth straight number-one single.
"I Will Be There" is a song featured on Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison's sixth album Saint Dominic's Preview (1972). The song is also the B-side to Morrison's single "Warm Love", released in 1973. It is one of few overtly jazz songs written by Morrison, and the first since the release of "Moondance" in 1970.
The song is led in by Tom Salisbury's piano, who also arranged the song. Van wrote the song at a piano. It was triadic. Doug Messenger jazzed up the chord progression and Tom Salisbury wrote the brilliant horn parts. Featured in the song is a saxophone solo from long serving Jack Schroer. John Collis says, "A hero (of Van), is evoked by the piano-led blues "I Will Be There" -the spirit of Ray Charles looms large in the song." The Rolling Stone review of Saint Dominic's Preview remarks: "'I Will Be There' goes the furthest of any (of the songs in Saint Dominic's Preview) into R&B-jazz roots, as Van pays expert musical tribute to Count Basie and Joe Williams."
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra 'syndrome', 'complex', 'phenomenon', 'predicament', 'dilemma', or 'curse') occurs when valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.
The term originates in Greek mythology. Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, the King of Troy. Struck by her beauty, Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.
The metaphor has been applied in a variety of contexts such as psychology, environmentalism, politics, science, cinema, the corporate world, and in philosophy, and has been in circulation since at least 1949 when French philosopher Gaston Bachelard coined the term 'Cassandra Complex' to refer to a belief that things could be known in advance.
This is a list of characters from the Highlander franchise.
Major characters appear in more than one movie or series. Works are presented in chronological order.
The characters listed are those played by the regular and the recurring cast, as well as the guest cast credited in the opening credits. Characters played by guest cast listed in the closing credits are not listed. Characters are listed chronologically by order of appearance.
The song "Don't Explain" from the album Coming Forth By Day by Cassandra Wilson. Buy Coming Forth By Day: Amazon - http://smarturl.it/4kgr8l?IQid=yt.cw.DEP iTunes - http://smarturl.it/vxnj5c?IQid=yt.cw.DEP Google Play - http://smarturl.it/CassandraGooglePlay?IQid=yt.cw.DEP About the album: An otherworldly musical homage to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915) on the 100th anniversary of the singer's birth, Coming Forth By Day is Cassandra Wilson's moody, soulful new album showcase for contemporary yet timeless interpretations of standards associated with Lady Day. Coming Forth By Day was produced by Nick Launay, known as Nick Cave's producer for the last decade among many other adventurous credits. Follow Cassandra Wilson on Spotify: http://smar...
Cassandra Wilson, en estado de gracia, versionando el clásico de Neil Young ...
The song "Strange Fruit" from the album Coming Forth By Day by Cassandra Wilson. Buy Coming Forth By Day: Amazon - http://smarturl.it/4kgr8l?IQid=Strange iTunes - http://smarturl.it/vxnj5c?IQid=Strange Google Play - http://smarturl.it/CassandraGooglePlay?IQid=Strange About the album: An otherworldly musical homage to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915) on the 100th anniversary of the singer's birth, Coming Forth By Day is Cassandra Wilson's moody, soulful new album showcase for contemporary yet timeless interpretations of standards associated with Lady Day. Coming Forth By Day was produced by Nick Launay, known as Nick Cave's producer for the last decade among many other adventurous credits. Follow Cassandra Wilson on Spotify: http://smarturl....
The song "You Go To My Head" from the album Coming Forth By Day by Cassandra Wilson. Buy Coming Forth By Day: Amazon - http://smarturl.it/4kgr8l?IQid=ygtmh iTunes - http://smarturl.it/vxnj5c?IQid=ygtmh Google Play - http://smarturl.it/CassandraGooglePlay?IQid=ygtmh About the album: An otherworldly musical homage to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915) on the 100th anniversary of the singer's birth, Coming Forth By Day is Cassandra Wilson's moody, soulful new album showcase for contemporary yet timeless interpretations of standards associated with Lady Day. Coming Forth By Day was produced by Nick Launay, known as Nick Cave's producer for the last decade among many other adventurous credits. Follow Cassandra Wilson on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/...
http://wfuv.org. Cassandra Wilson performs "Red Guitar" live in Studio A. Recorded 6/28/12. Host: Rita Houston Engineer: Daniel Hodd Cameras: Erica Talbott, Fenizia Maffucci Editor: Erica Talbott
Music Video directed and shot by Frank Suffert. www.tivolientertainment.com
Hear what some of our dancers are most looking forward to for our 2024 season, and see behind the scenes of our season photoshoot here at the St James Theatre 🩰 With our presale packages available now, this is your best chance to get an excellent deal for a wonderful year of dance! Save 20% on tickets, receive complimentary programmes, get the best available seats in the house, and even more subscriber perks 🤩 See what we have on offer in 2024 and book your subscription to the RNZB today! rnzb.org.nz/subscribe https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/O82aFXbxtRA3P Video by Dan Harris, RNZB.
Fri 6 - Sat 7 November This beautiful new staging of a much-loved ballet is produced by two superstar performers, Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg (former principal dancers of American Ballet Theater and the Royal Ballet respectively). Disguise and revelation, love and jealousy combine in this tragic tale. A love story unfolds against the ghostly backdrop of a Rhineland forest haunted by the fearful presence of the “Wilis” - vengeful spirits of abandoned brides. The beautiful peasant girl, Giselle, falls for Albrecht who conceals his identity to win her. The discovery of her lover’s deception shatters Giselle’s innocence and causes her to die of a broken heart. Albrecht is thrown into the hands of the merciless Wilis, but Giselle cannot bear to watch him die and returns as a ghost to sav...
Welcome and welcome back to full-time classical students at the New Zealand School of Dance! Yesterday Ballet Master Clytie Campbell headed up to our Official School to teach a weekly class with the second and third year classical students 🩰 In addition to everything they do with teaching daily class, staging works, taking rehearsals and managing schedules at the RNZB, our Ballet Masters love teaching weekly classes at NZSD - and are excited to support these young dancers in their journey towards full-time dance careers. 🎥 Video: Jeremy Brick. Music: Nigel Gaynor.
This weekend, our dancers are moving out of the studio and on to the St James Theatre stage to begin our technical rehearsals for the Ryman Healthcare Season of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Catch a glimpse of our last in-studio costume run this week; all the finishing touches are in place, ready to welcome you into the magical world that we’ve created. 🎟️ rnzb.org.nz/midsummer 🎥 Video by Dan Harris.
It’s time to bring the magic with the Ryman Healthcare Season of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM! This fantastical festive performance is perfect for the whole family, sparkling its way across Aotearoa in October to December 2024 ✨🌙 Find out more: http://rnzb.org.nz/MSND
Enjoy this glimpse into SWAN LAKE, in association with Avis. 🦢 Join us across Aotearoa for this beautiful performance steeped in history, with grand designs, iconic music, luscious costumes and the best ballet talent in New Zealand. BOOK NOW | rnzb.org.nz/swan-lake 🎥 RNZB dancers performing excerpts from Swan Lake in Tutus on Tour 2024. Video by Dan Harris, RNZB.
Check out our stunning TV ad featuring dancer Mayu Tanigaito for SPEED OF LIGHT - three incredible danceworks by some of the world's most important choreographers - William Forsythe (In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated), Alexander Ekman (Cacti), Andonis Foniadakis (Selon desir). Tickets are going fast. Book now. 2016: WGTN Fri 26 - Sun 28 Feb, AUCK Wed 2 - Sun 6 Mar, CHCH Thur 10 - Sat 12 Mar, DUN Wed 16 Mar. http://rnzb.org.nz/shows/speed-of-light/
Meaghan Grace Hinkis, Isabella Gasparini, Romany Pajdak and Elizabeth Harrod dance as cygnets in Liam Scarlett's production of Swan Lake which will be broadcast on Christmas Day 2018 on BBC Four. Find out more at https://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-royal-ballets-swan-lake-to-be-broadcast-on-bbc-four-on-christmas-day-2018 Swan Lake was Tchaikovsky’s first score for ballet. Given its status today as arguably the best loved and most admired of all classical ballets, it is perhaps surprising that at its premiere in 1877 Swan Lake was poorly received. It is thanks to the 1895 production by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov that Swan Lake has become part of not only ballet consciousness but also wider popular culture. That success is secured not only by the sublime, symphonic sweep of Tchaikovsky’s scor...
“To Hold is a work that explores ways of holding and being held. It is a movement poem to the conscious and subconscious mind, built in the wake of a personal family experience. It is a love letter from a parent to a child.” Choreographer in Residence Sarah Foster-Sproull shares her experience of creating her fifth work for the RNZB, TO HOLD, as part of our Solace programme. Book for SOLACE, in association with Ryman Healthcare. http://rnzb.org.nz/show/solace 🎥 Video by Dan Harris.
Check out our hauntingly beautiful Giselle TV advert with dancers Lucy Green and Mayu Tanigaito. Don't miss this internationally acclaimed classical ballet: created for the RNZB by Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg 11 August - 9 September 2016, Wellington, Napier, Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North. http://rnzb.org.nz/shows/giselle #RNZBGiselle
Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work, Wilson has won two Grammy Awards.
Cassandra Wilson is the third and youngest child of Herman Fowlkes, Jr., a guitarist, bassist, and music teacher; and Mary McDaniel, an elementary school teacher who earned her PhD in education. Her ancestry includes Fon, Yoruba, Irish and Welsh. Between her mother’s love for Motown and her father’s dedication to jazz, Wilson’s parents sparked her early interest in music.
Wilson’s earliest formal musical education consisted of classical lessons; she studied piano from the age of six to thirteen and played clarinet in the middle school concert and marching bands. When she was tired of this training, she asked her father to teach her the guitar. Instead, he gave her a lesson in self-reliance, suggesting she study Mel Bay method books. Wilson explored guitar on her own, developing what she has described as an “intuitive” approach. During this time she began writing her own songs, adopting a folk style. She also appeared in the musical theater productions, including The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy, crossing racial lines in a recently desegregated school system.
The man I love, took from my best friend
That girl got lucky, stole 'em back again
You betta come on in my kitchen 'cause its gonna be
raining outdoors.
He's gone
I know he won't come back
I took his last nickle from his nation sack
You betta come on in my kitchen 'cause its going to be
raining outdoors.
Can't you hear that wind howl
Can't you hear that wind howling
You betta come on in my kitchen 'cause its going to be
raining outdoors.
When a man gets in trouble
Everybody throws him down
Lookin' for his good friend
None can be found
You betta come on in my kitchen 'cause its going to be
raining outdoors.
The winter time is coming
And its going to be slow
You can't make the weather baby
it's dry long so
You betta come on in my kitchen because its going to be
raining outdoors.
Gonna be raining outdoors.
Gonna be raining outdoors.