Jane Froman News
American actress (1907–1980)
- contralto
- United States of America
- actor, singer, television actor, film actor
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2019-02-10 19:08:00
Music to smoke Opium by - Luís de Freitas-Branco Paraísos Artificiais
Luís de Freitas-Branco (1890-1955) Paraísos Artificiais 1910, a symphonic poem inspired by Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Swirling lines flow, lit by harps. shapes shifting in and out of focus as if shrouded by smoke. A woodwind theme arises, seductive and sweet like narcotic perfume. The strings surge, breathing expansively. The central section sparkles with single note flurries (harps, pizzicato strings) with just a hint of exotic temple bells. But danger intrudes. Darker themes swell up, angular chords, haunted by brooding, somnolent figures. Nonethelss the flute melody meanders on, poised and unpertured by the horn calls if alarm, and the piece dissolves in relative calm. It's a sophisticated work, as witty as it is subtle, an imaginative work for a composer aged just 19, especially when you consider that Debussy La Mer had premiered barely five years before, and the innovations of the early 20th century […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-02-15 16:03:02
Meet The Man Who Teaches Movie Stars Playing Ballerinas How To Dance
"How does someone go from a New York City Ballet corps member to training Hollywood A-listers like Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara and Jennifer Lawrence? By getting injured, says Kurt Froman."
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-01-23 12:30:52
The Guy Who Helps Hollywood Celebrities Resemble Professional Ballet Dancers
Kurt Froman trained Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman for Black Swan, and more recently he's been training Jennifer Lawrence for the upcoming Red Sparrow. "One of the biggest things, I think, for a non-dancer is just understanding dancers hold their arms from their backs. ... When I was working with Jen, as well as with […]
2016-11-10 19:11:58
Après moi le déluge
On this day in 1970 the Richard Rodgers–Martin Charnin musical Two by Two opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 351 performances. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTu9su4iLHk Born on this day in 1668 composer Francois Couperin. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lvBZhXEJXY Born on this day in 1759 dramatist and poet Friedrich von Schiller. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZm5YiFY8ow Born on this day in 1873 composer Henri Rabaud. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWmHM2y4Yk Born on this day in 1907 singer Jane Froman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zS1HH0Pvtw Happy 88th birthday composer Ennio Morricone. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL7CDcVQjbM Happy 87th birthday composer and lyricist Marilyn Bergman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7mO5Iw76o Happy 75th birthday tenor Graham Clark. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSaX4ujPnUE
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