Passage 1:Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-EinbeckAnna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck (1414 – 4 April 1474) was a daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and his wife, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen.Anna's first marriage was with Duke Albert III of Bavaria.  They had the following children:John IV (1437–1463), Duke of BavariaErnest (1438–1460)Sigismund of Bavaria (1439–1501)Albert (1440–1445)Margaretha (1442–1479), married in 1463 with Marquess Frederick I of Mantua (1441–1484)Elisabeth (1443–1484), married in 1460 with Elector Ernest of Saxony (1441–1486)Albert IV (1447–1508)Christopher (1449–1483)Wolfgang (1451–1514)Barbara, a nun in MunichAfter Albert's death, she married Duke Frederick III of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen.  This marriage remained childless.== Ancestors ==Passage 2:Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of BrunswickCharles William Ferdinand (German: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand; 9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806) was the Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a military leader. His titles are usually shortened to Duke of Brunswick in English-language sources.He succeeded his father as sovereign prince of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, one of the princely states of the Holy Roman Empire. The duke was a cultured and benevolent despot in the model of his uncle, Frederick the Great, and was married to Princess Augusta, the eldest sister of George III of Great Britain. He was also a recognized master of 18th century warfare, serving as a Field Marshal in the Prussian Army. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was mortally wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in 1806.Early lifeCharles William Ferdinand was born in the town of Wolfenbüttel on 9 October 1735, probably in Wolfenbüttel Castle. He was the first-born son of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Philippine Charlotte.His father Charles I was the ruling prince (German: Fürst) of the small state of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, one of the imperial states of the Holy Roman Empire. Philippine Charlotte was the favourite daughter of King Frederick William I of Prussia and sister of Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great). As the heir apparent of a sovereign prince, Charles William Ferdinand received the title of Hereditary Prince (German: Erbprinz).He received an unusually wide and thorough education, overseen by his mother. In his youth he travelled in the Netherlands, France and various parts of Germany. In 1753, his father moved the capital of the principality back to Brunswick (German: Braunschweig), the state's largest city. (Wolfenbüttel had been the capital since 1432.) The royal family moved into the newly built Brunswick Palace.Early military careerCharles William Ferdinand entered the military, serving during the Seven Years' War of 1756–63. He joined the allied north-German forces of the Hanoverian Army of Observation, whose task was to protect Hanover (in personal union with the Kingdom of Great Britain) and the surrounding states from invasion by the French. The force was initially commanded by the Anglo-Hanoverian Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. At the Battle of Hastenbeck (1757) Charles William Ferdinand led a charge at the head of an infantry brigade, an action which gained him some renown.The subsequent French Invasion of Hanover and Convention of Klosterzeven of 1757 temporarily knocked Hanover out of the war (they were to return the following year). Cumberland was recalled to Britain and the remaining allied north-German forces were placed under the command of Ferdinand of Brunswick, brother of Charles I, who easily persuaded his nephew Charles William Ferdinand to renew his military service as a general officer.Charles William Ferdinand was part of the allied Anglo-German force at the Battle of Minden (1759), and the Battle of Warburg (1760). Both were decisive victories over the French, during which he proved himself an excellent subordinate commander. He continued to serve in the army commanded by his uncle for the remainder of the war, which was generally successful for the north German forces. The hereditary prince's reputation improved throughout, and he became an acknowledged master of irregular warfare. Peace was restored in 1763.Marriage and travelsThe royal houses of the former Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg had traditionally married within the family, to avoid further division of their family lands under Salic law. By the time, Brunswick-Lüneburg had consolidated back into two states, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover). The electorate was ruled by the Hanoverian branch of the family in personal union with the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was therefore arranged for Charles William Ferdinand to marry a British-Hanoverian princess: Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and sister of the reigning King George III.In 1764, shortly after the Seven Years' War had ended, he travelled to London (landing at Harwich) to marry Princess Augusta. He received a rapturous welcome from the British people, thanks to his service with allied British troops during the war. The Parliament of Great Britain showed its gratitude by voting him a lump sum of £80,000 and an annual income of £3,000 as a wedding gift. However George III was less welcoming, and sought to express his displeasure through numerous small insults e.g. by lodging the prince at Somerset House, instead of one of the royal palaces; not providing him with a military guard; and instructing the servants at the wedding to wear old clothes. This merely served to exacerbate the enthusiasm of the public, particularly when the prince was suspected of turning his back on the unpopular monarch whilst attending an opera (a breach of social protocol). Charles William Ferdinand defied royal displeasure by meeting William Pitt the Elder (who had been prime minister during the war but resigned in 1761) and the other leaders of the parliamentary opposition. The wedding was completed, but as a result of these machinations the prince remained in Britain for only thirteen days.Over the next few years the couple embarked on a wide-ranging tour of Europe, visiting many of the major states. In 1766 they went to France, where they were received by both his allies and recent battlefield enemies with respect. In Paris he made the acquaintance of Marmontel. The couple next proceeded to Switzerland, where they met Voltaire. The longest stop on their travels was Rome, where they remained for a long time exploring the antiquities of the city under the guidance of Johann Winckelmann. During their travels the couple also met Pietro Nardini and in 1767 the prince had his portrait painted by Pompeo Batoni. After a visit to Naples they returned to Paris, and thence to Brunswick.Ruler of Brunswick-WolfenbüttelRestoration of state financesHis father, Charles I, had been an enthusiastic supporter of the war, but nearly bankrupted the state paying for it. As a result, in 1773 Charles William Ferdinand was given a major role in reforming the economy with the assistance of the Geheimrat, Féronce von Rotenkreuz. They were highly successful, restoring the state's finances and improving the economy. This made the prince hugely popular in the duchy.When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, Charles William Ferdinand saw an opportunity to replenish the state's treasury by renting its well-trained army to Great Britain. In 1776, Charles I signed a treaty supporting Britain in the war, the first prince to do so. Under the terms of this treaty, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel supplied 4,000 troops for service with the British armies in America, under the command of general Friedrich Adolf Riedesel. Riedesel was given command of all the German troops serving in the Saratoga campaign, under British general John Burgoyne. Burgoyne was defeated in the Battles of Saratoga (1777), and his troops were taken captive as the Convention Army. Although the terms of surrender allowed the Convention Army to give their parole and return to Europe, the American Continental Congress revoked the convention. The Convention Army was kept in captivity until the war ended in 1783.ReignCharles I died in 1780, at which point Charles William Ferdinand inherited the throne. He soon became known as a model sovereign, a typical enlightened despot of the period, characterized by economy and prudence.The duke's combination of interest in the well-being of his subjects and habitual caution led to a policy of gradual reforms, a successful middle way between the conservatism of some contemporary monarchs and the over-enthusiastic wholesale changes pursued by others. He sponsored enlightenment arts and sciences; most notably he was patron to the young mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, paying for him to attend university against the wishes of Gauss' father.He resembled his uncle Frederick the Great in many ways, but he lacked the resolution of the king, and in civil as in military affairs was prone to excessive caution. He brought Brunswick into close alliance with the king of Prussia, for whom he had fought in the Seven Years' War; he was a Prussian field marshal, and was at pains to make the regiment of which he was colonel a model one.The duke was frequently engaged in diplomatic and other state affairs. In August 1784 he hosted a secret diplomatic visit from Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (Goethe was a member of Karl August's entourage). The visit was disguised as a family visit, but was in fact to discuss the formation of a league of small- and mid-sized German states as a counterbalance within the Holy Roman Empire to Habsburg monarchy's ambitions to trade the Austrian Netherlands for the Electorate of Bavaria. This Fürstenbund (League of Princes) was formally announced in 1785, with the Duke of Brunswick as one of its members and commander of its military forces. The league was successful in forcing the Austrian Joseph II to back down, and thereafter became obsolete.The Swedish princess and diarist Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte visited Brunswick in 1799; she described the Duke as "witty, literal and a pleasant acquaintance but ceremonial beyond description. He is said to be quite strict, but a good father of the nation who attends to the needs of his people."In 1803 the process of German Mediatisation led to the acquisition of the neighbouring imperial abbeys of Gandersheim and Helmstedt, which were secularised.Military commanderHe was made a Prussian general in 1773.War of the Bavarian SuccessionFrom 1778 to 1779 he served in the War of the Bavarian Succession. Frederick II praised the prince personally for his conduct during the war.Invasion of the NetherlandsIn 1787 the Duke was made Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) in the Prussian army. Frederick William II of Prussia appointed him as commander of a 20,000-strong Prussian force which was to invade the United Provinces of the Netherlands (The Dutch Republic). The goal was to suppress the Patriots of the Batavian Revolution, restoring the authority of the stadtholder William V of the House of Orange. Much of the country was in open revolt against William, whose personal troops were unable to quell the Patriot militias and the various Dutch provinces refused to aid him.The Encyclopædia Britannica described


Passage 1:Peter LevinPeter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.CareerSince 1967, Levin has amassed a large number of credits directingepisodic television and television films. Some of his television series credits include Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, James at 15, The Paper Chase, Family,Starsky & Hutch, Lou Grant, Fame, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order and Judging Amy.Some of his television film credits include Rape and Marriage: The RideoutCase (1980), A Reason to Live (1985), Popeye Doyle (1986), A Killer Among Us (1990), Queen Sized (2008) and among other films. He directed "Heart inHiding", written by his wife Audrey Davis Levin, for which she received an Emmy for Best Day Time Special in the 1970s.Prior to becoming a director, Levinworked as an actor in several Broadway productions. He costarred with Susan Strasberg in "[The Diary of Ann Frank]" but had to leave the production when hewas drafted into the Army. He trained at the Carnegie Mellon University. Eventually becoming a theatre director, he directed productions at the Long WharfTheatre and the Pacific Resident Theatre Company. He also co-founded the off-off-Broadway Theatre [the Hardware Poets Playhouse] with his wife Audrey DavisLevin and was also an associate artist of The Interact Theatre Company.Passage 2:CRD (film)CRD is a 2016 drama-romance Indian film by National AwardWinning Director Kranti Kanade written with Yuva Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Dramatist Dharmakirti Sumant. Set in the world of College Theatre, it probesfascism and fierce competition in arts.PlotA Young Dramatist rebels against his fascist Tutor to form his troop of misfits – aiming to win a prestigious theatrecompetition and trying to find the hardest thing of all: his voice. Inspired by real life event 'Purushottam' Theatre Competition in Pune, India.CastMrinmayeeGodbole as PersisVinay Sharma as MayankSaurabh Saraswat as ChetanAbhay Mahajan as NetraIsha Keskar as DiptiGeetika Tyagi as VeenaMohit Takalkar asSeniorProductionThe preparation and improvisation of the actors went on for 4 months before the principal photography began in November 2014 and continuedover the next six months resulting in 63 days of shooting. The editing took eight months and the music and sound design took further six months. The film wasentirely shot on locations in Pune. It was executive and line produced by Ashwini Paranjape for Kanade Films and Chaitra Arts. Director of photography was DanielKatz whose short film Curfew had won Oscar.Critical responseCRD has received favourable critical reception around the world.Robert Abele in The Los AngelesTimes says,"Indian film 'CRD' enchanting, audacious, indefinable and infectious." Sheri Linden in The Hollywood Reporter says, "CRD is entrancing, vibrant,irreverent and category-defying! Kanadé an assured visual stylist!" LA Weekly says, "Allusive, elusive and by turns funny, romantic and tragic, CRD is a film tunedto the pitch of the artist's heart." ScreenAnarchy says, "CRD, An Ethereal Exercise In Art.” Film critic Namrata Joshi, in The Hindu says, “Subversive and fearless,Kanadé breaks all rules of filmmaking in creating CRD, which boldly goes where no Indian film has gone before.” Author and critic Naman Ramachandran says,"This astonishing film heralds the arrival of a bold new voice in world cinema where all limits are breached and boundaries crossed. Be prepared for a breathtakingjourney, the likes of which you've never been on before." Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV says “A path-breaking film. Refreshingly original and delightfully whimsical.CRD is classy, satisfying and magnificently inventive package.” Nandini Ramnath, Scroll says “Outstanding, a superbly performed drama about theatre art andlife." Trisha Gupta, Firstpost says “Masterful and sharp, CRD displays both political and aesthetic courage, constantly moving between lyrical intensity and playfulsubversion.” Rahul Desai, Film Companion says “CRD is hypnotic. The less sense it makes, the more we can’t stop watching it (Roger Ebert’s words apply here).May be this is what auteurs are about.” Reza Noorani in The Times of India says "CRD is brave with a twisted sense of humour." Business Standard says "CRDredefines cinema space." Hindustan Times says "CRD is vibrant and appealing." Shubhra Gupta in The Indian Express says "CRD is spectacular and refreshing inits willingness to go down paths less trodden." CRD is mentioned in Scroll's list of "The movies of the decade that dared to dream differently."Further readinghttps://deadline.com/2016/10/exclusive-trailer-for-acclaimed-indian-drama-crd-1201837045/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/entertainment/big-little-films-get-going-485010Passage 3:Dana BlanksteinDana Blankstein-Cohen (born March 3, 1981) is the executive director of the Sam Spiegel Film and TelevisionSchool. She was appointed by the board of directors  in November 2019.  Previously she was the CEO of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. She is a filmdirector, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.BiographyDana Blankstein was born in Switzerland in 1981 to theatre director Dedi Baron and Professor AlexanderBlankstein. She moved to Israel in 1983 and grew up in Tel Aviv.Blankstein graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem in 2008 withhigh honors. During her studies she worked as a personal assistant to directors Savi Gabizon on his film Nina's Tragedies and to Renen Schorr on his film TheLoners.  She also directed and shot 'the making of' film on Gavison's film Lost and Found. Her debut film Camping competed at the Berlin International FilmFestival, 2007.Film and academic careerAfter her studies, Dana founded and directed the film and television department at the Kfar Saba municipality. Thedepartment encouraged and promoted productions filmed in the city of Kfar Saba, as well as the established cultural projects, and educational communityactivities.Blankstein directed the mini-series "Tel Aviviot" (2012). From 2016-2019 was the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.In November2019 Dana Blankstein Cohen was appointed the new director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School where she also oversees the Sam SpiegelInternational Film Lab. In 2022, she spearheaded the launch of the new Series Lab and the film preparatory program for Arabic speakers in eastJerusalem.FilmographyTel Aviviot (mini-series; director, 2012)Growing Pains (graduation film, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2008)Camping (debutfilm, Sam Spiegel; director and screenwriter, 2006)Passage 4:Kranti KanadeKranti Kanade is a National Award winning Indian filmmaker. His films include PeepalTree, CRD (film), Gandhi of the Month, Mahek and Chaitra. He studied at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and FTII (Film and Television Institute ofIndia).FilmsPeepal TreeBased on true events, it deals with the issue of illegal tree killings in India. When a Police Academy cuts Sacred Trees, a concerned Familyconfronts them only to learn it is a non-cognizable offense without penal provision. They approach a Tree Activist who saves trees by all means. The communitygathers under the tree at night to protect it but it is not that simple."CRDSet in the world of College Theatre, CRD probes fascism and fierce competition in artswith a wildly innovative narrative style. It released theatrically in US and India to major critical acclaim and commercial success gaining 100% rating on RottenTomatoes. Los Angeles Times called it "Enchanting, audacious and infectious"  and acclaimed film critic Namrata Joshi of The Hindu called it "Brilliant, subversiveand fearless, it boldly goes where no Indian film has gone before." It was in the top Ten Best Hindi films of 2017 list by The Hindu, Top Ten list of Huffington Postcritic Murtaza Ali Khan,  and was included in the top ten films of the decade list of Scroll.in critic Nandini Ramnath calling it "The decade in Bollywood: The moviesthat dared to dream differently. Most enduring and endearing films made between 2010 and 2019."Gandhi of the MonthGandhi of the Month stars legendary actorHarvey Keitel, Neeraj Kabi and other major Indian actors. It is about an American schoolmaster in India struggling to protect his students from fundamentalists.The screenplay, earlier called 'Against Itself' won the Film Fund Grant by the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The jury included Gill Dennis (Walk The Line),Anurag Kashyap (Gangs Of Wasseypur) and Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay). The script was mentored by Oscar winner Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land),Bernd Lichtenberg (Good Bye Lenin!), Olivia Hetreed (Girl With A Pearl Earring) and Anjum Rajabali (Rajneeti).MahekMahek, a children's film, is about 11-yr oldgirl who dreams of becoming the very best at everything, but is unsure of how to achieve her goals. It premiered at the BFI London Film Festival to affectionatereviews. Film Scholar & Writer Rachel Dwyer called it "A Gem of a film", Critic & Writer Maithili Rao called it "A rare combination of sensitivity and gentle humour."Invited to festivals around the world, it received awards in Hollywood and Houston. It was Best Children's Film Nominee at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards inAustralia  and shown as part of syllabus at Otterbein University in US.ChaitraChaitra, is based on a story by legendary Marathi author G. A. Kulkarni. Set in thetraditional haldi-kunku festival, it intertwines themes of poetic justice and destiny. It won five National Film Awards including Best Short Film, Best Music for ShortFilm (Pt Bhaskar Chandavarkar) and Special Jury Award for Acting (Sonali Kulkarni). It won two National Awards at MIFF Film Festival.Passage 5:Jason Moore(director)Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.Life and careerJason Moore was born in Fayetteville,Arkansas, and studied at Northwestern University. Moore's Broadway career began as a resident director of Les Misérables at the Imperial Theatre in during itsoriginal run. He is the son of Fayetteville District Judge Rudy Moore.In March 2003, Moore directed the musical Avenue Q, which opened Off-Broadway at theVineyard Theatre and then moved to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in July 2003.  He was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award for his direction. Moore alsodirected productions of the musical in Las Vegas and London and the show's national tour. Moore directed the 2005 Broadway revival of Steel Magnolias andShrek the Musical, starring Brian d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster which opened on Broadway in 2008. He directed the concert of Jerry Springer — The Opera atCarnegie Hall in January 2008.Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jake Shears, and John "JJ" Garden worked together on a new musical based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of theCity. The musical premiered at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California in May 2011 and ran through July 2011.For television, Moore hasdirected episodes of Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Everwood, and Brothers & Sisters. As a writer, Moore adapted the play The Floatplane Notebooks with PaulFitzgerald from the novel by Clyde Edgerton. A staged reading of the play was presented at the New Play Festival at the Charlotte, North Carolina RepertoryTheatre in 1996, with a fully staged production in 1998.In 2012, Moore made his film directorial debut with Pitch Perfect, starring Anna Kendrick and Brittany


Passage 1:Michelangelo FaggioliMichelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitandialect. A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa La Cilla in 1706.Passage 2:Walter Robinson (composer)WalterRobinson is an American composer of the late 20th century. He is most notable for his 1977 song Harriet Tubman, which has been recorded by folk musicianssuch as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.  He is also the composer of several operas.Passage 3:Nocturne (Britten)Nocturne, Op. 60, is a song cycle byBenjamin Britten, written for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings. The seven instruments are flute, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, harp, French hornand timpani.Nocturne was Britten's fourth and final orchestral song cycle, after Our Hunting Fathers (Op. 8, 1936), Les Illuminations (Op. 18, 1939) andSerenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Op. 31, 1943). It was dedicated to Alma Mahler.Nocturne was premiered in the Leeds Town Hall at the centenary LeedsFestival on 16 October 1958 by Peter Pears and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz. Britten conducted a recording at WalthamstowAssembly Hall in 1960 with Pears, the London Symphony Orchestra and William Waterhouse (bassoon), Alexander Murray (flute), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet),Roger Lord (cor anglais), Osian Ellis (harp), Barry Tuckwell (horn), and Denis Blyth (timpani).The theme of the piece, as its name Nocturne suggests, is sleep anddarkness, both in the literal and figurative sense. In this respect, the work is reminiscent of Britten's earlier Serenade. Unlike Serenade, Nocturne is presented asa continuous piece rather than separate movements. This is emphasised by a number of figures which occur throughout, most notably the 'rocking' string motifwhich opens the work. The conflicting tonal relationship between C and D-flat is also evident throughout, reflecting the contrast between the untroubled and themore perturbed aspects of sleep which are also described by Britten's choice of poems.StructureThe piece sets eight sections of poetry to music, eachaccompanied by strings and (with the exception of the first) by an obbligato instrument:Shelley – "On a Poet’s Lips I Slept" from Prometheus UnboundTennyson –"The Kraken", with bassoonColeridge – "Encinctured with a twine of leaves" from The Wanderings of Cain, with harpMiddleton – "Midnight Bell" from Blurt, MasterConstable, with French hornWordsworth – "But that night when on my bed I lay" from The Prelude (1805), with timpaniOwen – "The Kind Ghosts", with coranglaisKeats – "Sleep and Poetry", with flute and clarinetShakespeare – Sonnet XLIII, with all the obbligato instrumentsNotesExternal linksWork details, Boosey &HawkesPassage 4:Tarcisio FuscoTarcisio Fusco was an Italian composer of film scores. He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle ofoperatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.Selected filmographyBoccaccio (1940)Free Escape (1951)Abracadabra (1952)The Eternal Chain (1952)Beauties in Capri(1952)Milanese in Naples (1954)Conspiracy of the Borgias (1959)Passage 5:Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten  (22 November 1913 – 4December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works includingopera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and theorchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age.He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the a cappella choralwork A Boy was Born in 1934. With the premiere of Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas,establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrotechamber operas for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is The Turn of the Screw (1954). Recurringthemes in his operas include the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society and the corruption of innocence.Britten's other works range from orchestral tochoral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including theopera Noye's Fludde, a Missa Brevis, and the song collection Friday Afternoons. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent andimportant muse was his personal and professional partner, the tenor Peter Pears; others included Kathleen Ferrier, Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Dennis Brain,Julian Bream, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Osian Ellis and Mstislav Rostropovich. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own worksin concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Mozart symphonies, and song cycles bySchubert and Schumann.Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he wasresponsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peerage.Early yearsBritten wasborn in the fishing port of Lowestoft in Suffolk, on the east coast of England on 22 November 1913, the feast day of Saint Cecilia. He was the youngest of fourchildren of Robert Victor Britten (1877–1934) and his wife Edith Rhoda, née Hockey (1874–1937). Robert Britten's youthful ambition to become a farmer hadbeen thwarted by lack of capital, and he had instead trained as a dentist, a profession he practised successfully but without pleasure. While studying at CharingCross Hospital in London he met Edith Hockey, the daughter of a civil service clerk in the British Government's Home Office. They were married in September1901 at St John's, Smith Square, London.The consensus among biographers of Britten is that his father was a loving but somewhat stern and remote parent.Britten, according to his sister Beth, "got on well with him and shared his wry sense of humour, dedication to work and capacity for taking pains." Edith Brittenwas a talented amateur musician and secretary of the Lowestoft Musical Society. In the English provinces of the early 20th century, distinctions of social classwere taken very seriously. Britten described his family as "very ordinary middle class", but there were aspects of the Brittens that were not ordinary: Edith'sfather was illegitimate, and her mother was an alcoholic; Robert Britten was an agnostic and refused to attend church on Sundays. Music was the principal meansby which Edith Britten strove to maintain the family's social standing, inviting the pillars of the local community to musical soirées at the house.When Britten wasthree months old he contracted pneumonia and nearly died. The illness left him with a damaged heart, and doctors warned his parents that he would probablynever be able to lead a normal life. He recovered more fully than expected, and as a boy was a keen tennis player and cricketer. To his mother's great delight hewas an outstandingly musical child, unlike his sisters, who inherited their father's indifference to music, while his brother, though musically talented, wasinterested only in ragtime. Edith gave the young Britten his first lessons in piano and notation. He made his first attempts at composition when he was five. Hestarted piano lessons when he was seven years old, and three years later began to play the viola. He was one of the last composers brought up on exclusively livemusic: his father refused to have a gramophone or, later, a radio in the house.EducationLowestoftWhen he was seven Britten was sent to a dame school, run bythe Misses Astle. The younger sister, Ethel, gave him piano lessons; in later life he said that he remained grateful for the excellence of her teaching. The followingyear he moved on to a prep school, South Lodge, Lowestoft, as a day boy. The headmaster, Thomas Sewell, was an old-fashioned disciplinarian; the youngBritten was outraged at the severe corporal punishments frequently handed out, and later he said that his lifelong pacifism probably had its roots in his reactionto the regime at the school. He himself rarely fell foul of Sewell, a mathematician, in which subject Britten was a star pupil. The school had no musical tradition,and Britten continued to study the piano with Ethel Astle. From the age of ten he took viola lessons from a friend of his mother, Audrey Alston, who had been aprofessional player before her marriage. In his spare time he composed prolifically. When his Simple Symphony, based on these juvenilia, was recorded in 1956,Britten wrote this pen-portrait of his young self for the sleeve note:Once upon a time there was a prep-school boy. ... He was quite an ordinary little boy ... heloved cricket, only quite liked football (although he kicked a pretty "corner"); he adored mathematics, got on all right with history, was scared by Latin Unseen;he behaved fairly well, only ragged the recognised amount, so that his contacts with the cane or the slipper were happily rare (although one nocturnal expeditionto stalk ghosts left its marks behind); he worked his way up the school slowly and steadily, until at the age of thirteen he reached that pinnacle of importance andgrandeur, never to be quite equalled in later days: the head of the Sixth, head-prefect, and Victor Ludorum. But – there was one curious thing about this boy: hewrote music. His friends bore with it, his enemies kicked a bit but not for long (he was quite tough), the staff couldn't object if his work and games didn't suffer.He wrote lots of it, reams and reams of it.Audrey Alston encouraged Britten to go to symphony concerts in Norwich. At one of these, during the triennial Norfolkand Norwich Festival in October 1924, he heard Frank Bridge's orchestral poem The Sea, conducted by the composer. It was the first substantial piece of modernmusic he had ever encountered, and he was, in his own phrase, "knocked sideways" by it. Audrey Alston was a friend of Bridge; when he returned to Norwich forthe next festival in 1927 she brought her not quite 14-year-old pupil to meet him. Bridge was impressed with the boy, and after they had gone through some ofBritten's compositions together he invited him to come to London to take lessons from him. Robert Britten, supported by Thomas Sewell, doubted the wisdom ofpursuing a composing career; a compromise was agreed by which Britten would, as planned, go on to his public school the following year but would make regularday-trips to London to study composition with Bridge and piano with his colleague Harold Samuel.Bridge impressed on Britten the importance of scrupulousattention to the technical craft of composing and the maxim that "you should find yourself and be true to what you found." The earliest substantial works Brittencomposed while studying with Bridge are the String Quartet in F, completed in April 1928, and the Quatre Chansons Françaises, a song-cycle for high voice and


Passage 1:Bernard HoursBernard Hours, born on 5 May 1956 in Strasbourg, is a French businessman. He was the managing director of Danone and a member ofthe board of directors of the company. He was also a member of the executive committee of Danone.EducationHours graduated from the École des Hautes ÉtudesCommerciales (HEC) in 1978.CareerHours began his career at Unilever in 1979 as Product Manager and Brand Manager. He progressively became an expert in thefood sector.In 1985, he joined the Danone marketing group at Kronenbourg. From 1989 and 2001, he  was the Director of Sales of Evian, and then Director ofMarketing for Danone France, later becoming the President of Danone Hungary (1994), Danone Germany (1996) and finally President of LU France in 1998.InNovember 2001, Hours was named the Vice-President of the Fresh Dairy Products division and became the President in March 2002. In November 2006 he alsotook charge of the Research and Development at Danone.Hours contributed significantly to sales growth between 2007 and 2013, which amounted to an increaseof 36.4% (from 14 to 22 billion euros) during this period. He exercised is responsible for all activities of Danone, encompassing around 100,000 people in and 100countries.In 2014, at the time of a change of governance,  Hours ended his position as managing director of Danone, by the decision of the AdministrativeCounsel.In 2015, Hours became president of Medvet  and  Chef Sam. He is also Board Member for Verlinvest  and Oatly.Other ActivitiesHours is a member of theAdministrative Counsel of Essilor as an independent director and a member of the Administrative Counsel of the investment holding Verlinvest and itsparticipation Vita Coco. He is also e member of the Supervisory Board of Somfy.Passage 2:Wee Wee Hours"Wee Wee Hours" is a song written and recorded byChuck Berry in 1955. Originally released as the B-side of his first single, "Maybellene", it went on to become a hit, reaching number 10 in the Billboard R&Bchart.The song is a twelve-bar blues, described as "a slow, sensuous blues featuring some exceptional piano from Johnnie Johnson"."Wee Wee Hours" was on theaudition tape submitted by Berry to Leonard Chess in hope of landing a recording contract with Chess Records.  Although it seemed like a good fit with the recordcompany's blues roster, Chess was more interested in the song that became "Maybellene", the song that launched Berry's career as a rock and roll star.Berryoften performed the song live. It is included on the 1969 album Chuck Berry Live in Concert, and in the 1987 film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll.Passage 3:BillyMilanoBilly Milano (born June 3, 1964) is an American heavy metal and hardcore punk musician. He is the singer and occasionally guitarist and bassist ofcrossover thrash band M.O.D., and was the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death. Prior to these bands, Milano played in early New York hardcoreband the Psychos, which also launched the career of future Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret. Milano was also the singer of United Forces, which included hisStormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker. Milano managed a number of bands, including Agnostic Front, for whom he also co-produced the 1997 EpitaphRecords release Something's Gotta Give and roadie for Anthrax.DiscographyStormtroopers of Death albumsStormtroopers of Death videosMethod of Destruction(M.O.D.)MasteryPassage 4:O Valencia!"O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studioalbum, The Crane Wife.The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy. It tells a story of two star-crossed lovers. The singer falls in lovewith a person who belongs to an opposing gang. At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother(the singer's "sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.Track listingThe 7" single sold in the UK was mispressed, with "Culling of the Fold"as the B-side despite the artwork and record label listing "After the Bombs" as the B-side.Music videosFor the "O Valencia!" music video, The Decemberists filmedthemselves in front of a green screen and asked fans to complete it by digitally adding in background images or footage. Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report,having recently asked fans to do the same with a video of him with a light saber in front of a green screen, brought up The Decemberists on his segment "LookWho's Riding on My Coattails Now" and accused the band of stealing the idea. The Decemberists' response was to challenge Stephen Colbert to a guitar soloshowdown on December 20, 2006, on The Colbert Report.On January 19, 2007, The Decemberists premiered an alternate music video of "O Valencia!", directedby Aaron Stewart-Ahn, on MTV2. The video follows a character named Patrick, played by Meloy, as he and his love Francesca (Lisa Molinaro), daughter of "theBoss", plan an escape to an unknown location. At a cafe, a man in a suit, portrayed by the band member Chris Funk, tells him to hide in the "Valencia" hotel (theSuper Value Inn on North Interstate Avenue in Portland, Oregon) while he gets them the necessary documentation to escape. Above the name of the hotel, thereis a neon sign that reads "Office". The letters have all burnt out except for the "O", creating the title of the song. The video then introduces other characters -various assassination teams - who sit in different rooms of the hotel waiting for the chance to catch the two lovers. Most are portrayed by other members of theband (along with Meloy's wife, Carson Ellis). They kill off any potential witnesses to their plan. Patrick manages to take down one member from each team, beforethey gang up on him. The Boss arrives, along with the man from the cafe, who reveals that he snitched on Patrick and Francesca. They execute Francesca, whileforcing Patrick to watch. After they leave, Patrick finds a note by Francesca, which reveals that she never fell in love with him, and only wanted protection. 2months later, Patrick and the man, who has lost an eye from a previous assassination attempt, have a sit-down at the same cafe. The man reveals that hesnitched on Patrick just to take over the town. Patrick reveals that he poisoned a drink the man was having, but before he could get away, the man stabs Patrickin the neck with a fork before dying, followed by Patrick.The video is somewhat influenced by the distinct style and themes of director Wes Anderson, with boldfonts being used to introduce characters and groups on the bottom of the screen (much like in the film The Royal Tenenbaums). The band had previously (andmore explicitly) drawn influence from Anderson's Rushmore in their video for "Sixteen Military Wives". The layout of the hotel is also similar to the one used inBottle Rocket.Kurt Nishimura was chosen as the winner by mtvU for his video that depicted a love affair between a woman and her television, with the TVcontaining the green-screened Decemberists video footage.Passage 5:Chuck BerryCharles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was anAmerican singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues intothe major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and"Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship,Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Berry had an interest in music from an early age andgave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory,where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced bythe guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came whenhe traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded"Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blueschart.By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had alsoestablished his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—hehad transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successfulsongs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950ssongs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972 hereached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameon its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several ofRolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hallof Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". "Johnny B. Goode" is theonly rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.Early lifeBorn in St. Louis, Berry was the youngest child. He grew up in the north St. Louisneighborhood known as the Ville, an area where many middle-class people lived. His father, Henry William Berry (1895–1987) was a contractor and deacon of anearby Baptist church; his mother, Martha Bell (Banks) (1894–1980) was a certified public school principal. Berry's upbringing allowed him to pursue his interestin music from an early age. He gave his first public performance in 1941 while still a student at Sumner High School; he was still a student there in 1944, when hewas arrested for armed robbery after robbing three shops in Kansas City, Missouri, and then stealing a car at gunpoint with some friends. Berry's account in hisautobiography is that his car broke down and he flagged down a passing car and stole it at gunpoint with a nonfunctional pistol. He was convicted and sent to theIntermediate Reformatory for Young Men at Algoa, near Jefferson City, Missouri, where he formed a singing quartet and did some boxing. The singing groupbecame competent enough that the authorities allowed it to perform outside the detention facility. Berry was released from the reformatory on his 21st birthday


Passage 1:Ben CuraBen Cura is an Argentine-born British actor, musician and director of film, television and theatre.Early lifeJosé Ben Cura was born in BuenosAires, the son of Argentine tenor/conductor José Cura. When he was a year old, he moved to Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy, where his father's grandfather was from.The family first lived in a convent while his father struggled to find work as an opera singer. He has two younger siblings, Yazmín and Nicolás.The family moved toFrance when he was six and then to Spain when he was 11. During this time, he frequently travelled with his parents around the world.Cura's first acting rolecame at age nine, as a supernumerary in a production of La Forza del Destino at the Opéra de Marseille, France. Whilst living in Paris, he received formal pianoand solfège training. He subsequently attended the New York Film Academy in Paris before eventually training and graduating from the London Academy of Musicand Dramatic Art in 2011 with a bachelor's degree with honours in professional acting.CareerCura made his film debut in a British independent film Comes aBright Day, appearing shortly after in Comedy Central's series Threesome and Bernard Rose's film The Devil's Violinist.He made his West End debut playing Angelin the original cast of Jennifer Saunders' musical Viva Forever at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, UK. He was later cast as Seve Ballesteros in British golf filmDream On.Aged 24, he made his directorial debut with a film adaptation of August Strindberg's play Creditors. for which he also wrote the screenplay and playedone of the lead characters, Freddie Lynch. Later that year, he starred in the UK premiere of the award-winning American play Next Fall at the SouthwarkPlayhouse in London, UK.In April 2013, he co-founded London-based production company Tough Dance Ltd. with actress and producer Andrea Deck. Thecompany's first production was award-winning feature film Creditors.In 2015, he was cast in the US series The Royals as recurring character Holden. He laterwent on to star in British film White Island set in Ibiza, and based on the novel A Bus Could Run You Over written by Colin Butts, alongside Billy Zane and BillyBoyd.Cura's directorial debut, Creditors, world-premiered at the Nordic International Film Festival in New York City on 31 October 2015. The festival awarded itwith an Honorable Mention in the Best Nordic Narrative Feature category. Latin Post film critic David Salazar called the film "A triumphant debut." Blazing Mindsfilm critic Susanne Hodder said the actors "all give compelling performances, bringing their characters to life and giving them depth". Screen Relish film criticStuie Greenfield said that "Creditors is a beautiful, sometimes angry and surprising film that brings with it strong performances from the entire cast as well as anunexpected yet welcome twist", while Movie Marker film critic Darryl Griffiths said that "Creditors is an incisive and accomplished piece of filmmaking [...],possessing a rich, powerful psychology that instills an unnerving modern-day relevance to age-old material." Creditors received over ten awards from various filmfestivals, including Best Feature, Leading Actor, and Script/Writer for Cura.Later that year, Cura was cast as a series regular in ITV/Netflix crime noir dramaMarcella penned by The Bridge writer Hans Rosenfeldt. The series premiered on UK television in April 2016, followed by a worldwide release on Netflix in July2016. and Simon West's action/comedy feature film Gun Shy opposite Antonio Banderas and Olga Kurylenko.In 2017, Cura was cast as CIA operative PhilipShafer in French historical war movie 15 minutes de guerre (renamed L'Intervention), directed by Fred Grivois. Later that year, he played the role of Steve in thescreen adaptation of British stage play Life is a Gatecrash, renamed Gatecrash and directed by Lawrence Gough, opposite Olivia Bonamy, Anton Lesser, and SamWest.In 2018, Cura guest-starred in Season 2 of CBS's Ransom and the first season of new TV series The Rook, opposite Olivia Munn.In 2019, he was cast inNicholas Wright's new stage play 8 Hotels directed by Richard Eyre, world-premiering at the Chichester Festival Theatre, playing the lead role of José Ferreropposite Tory Kittles, Emma Paetz, and Pandora Colin, opening August 7 of that year to excellent reviews: "Joe, played masterfully by Ben Cura, is wonderful asthe philanderer who can accept his wife's adultery but not her lover's flaunting of it"; "Jose Ferrer [...] Ben Cura, who captures him very well, has a wonderfulmutually mistrustful good-pals-act with the impressive Kittles"; "Ben Cura is excellent as Ferrer [...] with charisma to spare"; "Ben Cura plays José Ferrer as amuch disappointed jobbing actor [...] playing Iago for peanuts opposite the better paid Robeson [...] This Ferrer becomes increasingly jealous of Robeson and isconvinced that his wife, Uta Hagen [...] is having an affair with the charismatic Robeson (she is), which fills him with an angry cynicism that he can barely controlwith his erudite and scathing humour that cannot disguise his underlying lack of confidence. Cura's Ferrer is a brilliant creation: a brilliant Iago in fact."In 2021,Cura founded production company and music label W.I.P. Media. Later that year, Cura released his debut music single Water on streaming platforms,accompanied by an official music video on VEVO followed by second single Toutes Les Couleurs and its accompanying VEVO music video and a third singleArgento alongside a third VEVO music video. On July 30, he released his debut instrumental E.P. Extended Play No.1.In 2022, Cura made his animation debutvoicing Rayan in Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet while guest starring in HBO Max and Hulu Japan's Season 2 of The Head as Liam Ruddock, andstarring in BFI and BBC short film My Eyes Are Up Here co-produced by his company W.I.P. Media which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2022 andTribeca Film Festival in 2023. He also saw his debut as a film composer, with his original score for feature film Among The Beasts which released that year in theUS and other territories. Also that year, he appeared in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story produced by Shondaland and premiering on Netflix, in the recurringrole of Prince Augustus.Personal lifeCura was married to actress Andrea Deck from 2013 until their divorce in 2015. He dated actress Olga Kurylenko, but theybroke up just before the COVID-19 pandemic.FilmographyFilmTelevisionVideo gamesStage2012: Viva Forever by Jennifer Saunders at the Piccadilly TheatreLondon2014: Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts at the Southwark Playhouse London2019: 8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright at the Chichester Festival TheatreChichesterVoice work2012: Swimming with Piranhas Radio Documentary for BBC Radio 42015: Credit Card Baby Radio Drama written by Annie Caulfield for BBCRadio 4, directed by Mary Ward-Lowery2019: Alien III audiobook by  Audible2020: Trafalgar Audiobook for  Penguin and  Audible2020: Camino De SantiagoSleep story for Calm and Calm France2022: The Limits to Growth Radio drama written by Sarah Woods for BBC Radio 4, directed by Emma Harding2023:Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Audiobook for  Penguin and  Audible2023: Tomás Nevinson Audiobook for  Penguin and  AudibleDiscographyAwards andnominationsPassage 2:Jason Moore (director)Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.Life and careerJasonMoore was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and studied at Northwestern University. Moore's Broadway career began as a resident director of Les Misérables at theImperial Theatre in during its original run. He is the son of Fayetteville District Judge Rudy Moore.In March 2003, Moore directed the musical Avenue Q, whichopened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre and then moved to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in July 2003.  He was nominated for a 2004 Tony Awardfor his direction. Moore also directed productions of the musical in Las Vegas and London and the show's national tour. Moore directed the 2005 Broadway revivalof Steel Magnolias and Shrek the Musical, starring Brian d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster which opened on Broadway in 2008. He directed the concert of JerrySpringer — The Opera at Carnegie Hall in January 2008.Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jake Shears, and John "JJ" Garden worked together on a new musical based onArmistead Maupin's Tales of the City. The musical premiered at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California in May 2011 and ran through July2011.For television, Moore has directed episodes of Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Everwood, and Brothers & Sisters. As a writer, Moore adapted the play TheFloatplane Notebooks with Paul Fitzgerald from the novel by Clyde Edgerton. A staged reading of the play was presented at the New Play Festival at the Charlotte,North Carolina Repertory Theatre in 1996, with a fully staged production in 1998.In 2012, Moore made his film directorial debut with Pitch Perfect, starring AnnaKendrick and Brittany Snow. He also served as an executive producer on the sequel. He directed the film Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, which wasreleased on December 18, 2015. Moore's next project will be directing a live action Archie movie.FilmographyFilmsPitch Perfect (2012)Sisters (2015)ShotgunWedding (2022)TelevisionSoundtrack writerPitch Perfect 2 (2015) (Also executive producer)The Voice (2015) (1 episode)Passage 3:Hanro SmitsmanHanroSmitsman, born in 1967 in Breda (Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.Film and Television CreditsFilmsBrothers (2017)Schemer (2010)Skin(2008)Raak (aka Contact) (2006)Allerzielen (aka All Souls) (2005) (segment "Groeten uit Holland")Engel en Broer (2004)2000 Terrorists (2004)Dajo(2003)Gloria (2000)Depoep (2001)Television20 leugens, 4 ouders en een scharrelei (2013)De ontmaskering van de vastgoedfraude (TV mini-series,2013)Moordvrouw (2012-)Eileen (2 episodes, 2011)Getuige (2011)Vakantie in eigen land (2011)De Reis van meneer van Leeuwen(2010)De Punt (2009)Roes (2episodes, 2008)Fok jou! (2006)Van Speijk (2006)AwardsIn 2005, Engel en Broer won Cinema Prize for Short Film at the Avanca Film Festival.In 2007, Raak (akaContact) won the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Spirit Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, the first place jury prize for"Best Live Action under 15 minutes" at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, and the Prix UIP Ghent Award for European Short Films at the FlandersInternational Film Festival.In 2008, Skin won the Movie Squad Award at the Nederlands Film Festival, an actor in the film also won the Best Actor Award.  It alsowon the Reflet d’Or for Best Film at the Cinema tous ecrans Festival in Geneva in the same year.Passage 4:Tactical ForceTactical Force is a 2011Canadian-American action film written and directed by Adamo Paolo Cultraro, and starring Steve Austin, Michael Jai White, Michael Shanks, Keith Jardine, MichaelEklund, Darren Shahlavi and Lexa Doig.The film concerns a rogue SWAT team sent to an abandoned compound with blank weapons for retraining, only to findthemselves caught in the middle of a war between two gangs armed with fully functioning guns, who are both after a mysterious briefcase. It premiered in the


Passage 1:Where Are You? I'm HereWhere Are You? I'm Here (Italian: Dove siete? Io sono qui) is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani.The film entered the 50th Venice International Film Festival, where Anna Bonaiuto won the Volpi Cup for best supporting actress. For her role Chiara Caselli was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress and a Grolla d'oro in the same category.PlotFausto's mother refuses to accept the fact that her child is deaf and refuses to send him to a special school where he can learn sign language. His aunt, though, teaches him to communicate and helps him find a place among a group of deaf-mutes. He meets and falls in love with Elena. To their parents' concern, the two find love with each other until a set of difficulties leads them to see their lives in a different light.Main castChiara Caselli as Elena SettiGaetano Carotenuto as  FaustoAnna Bonaiuto as Fausto's MotherGiuseppe Perruccio as Fausto's FatherValeria D'Obici as Fausto's AuntInes Nobili as MariaKo Muroboshi as The MimeDoriana Chierici as Elena's MotherCarla Cassola as Miss MartiniPaola Mannoni as The PrincipalPino Micol as The Bank ManagerSebastiano Lo Monaco as Professor PiniPaco Reconti as UgoMarzio Honorato as The History TeacherSee alsoList of Italian films of 1993Passage 2:Alfonso XII and María CristinaAlfonso XII and María Cristina or Where Are You Going, Sad Man? (Spanish: ¿Dónde vas triste de ti?) is a 1960 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alfonso Balcázar and Guillermo Cases and starring Vicente Parra and Marga López as Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria.The film is the sequel to Where Are You Going, Alfonso XII? with Vicente Parra, José Marco Davó and Tomás Blanco reprising their roles from the previous film as Alfonso XII, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and the Duque de Sesto respectively. María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara replaced Mercedes Vecino as Isabella II.Similar in style to the German Sissi film series, it was very popular but led to Vicente Parra's typecasting.The film's sets were designed by the art director Enrique Alarcón.CastPassage 3:Mrs. Dery Where Are You?Mrs. Dery Where Are You? (Hungarian: Déryné hol van?) is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Gyula Maár. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, where Mari Törőcsik won the award for Best Actress, playing the protagonist Mrs. Déry.CastMari Törőcsik - DérynéFerenc Kállai - DéryMária Sulyok - Déry anyjaImre Ráday - IntendánsTamás Major - Jancsó, öreg színészCecília Esztergályos - SchodelnéKornél Gelley - Magyar úr, dilettáns színészAndrás Kozák - Ifjú grófAndrás Schiff - Zongorázó fiúZsuzsa Zolnay - CapuletnéFlóra Kádár - DajkaPassage 4:Where Are YouWhere Are You may refer to:AlbumsWhere Are You? (Frank Sinatra album), 1957Where Are You? (Mal Waldron album), 1989Songs"Where Are You?" (1937 song), written by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, covered by many performers"Where Are You" (Bee Gees song), 1966"Where Are You?" (Imaani song), 1998"Where Are You?", by 16 Bit, 1986"Where Are You?", by Cat Stevens from New Masters, 1967"Where Are You?", by Days of the New from Days of the New, 2001"Where Are You?", by Gotthard from Firebirth, 2012"Where Are You?", by Kavana from Kavana, 1997"Where Are You?", by Our Lady Peace from Healthy in Paranoid Times, 2005"Where Are You?", by Saves the Day from In Reverie, 2003"Where Are You (B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray)", by B.o.B from Strange Clouds, 2012FilmsWhere Are You (film), a 2021 American drama filmSee alsoWhere Are You Now (disambiguation)Passage 5:Where Are You My Love?Where Are You My Love? may refer to:"Where Are You My Love", a song by Eddie Low"Où es-tu mon amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)", a song written by Emile Stern and Henri Lemarchand in 1946¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar? (Where Are You My Love, That I Cannot Find You?), a 1992 Argentine drama filmSee alsoAre You My Love? (disambiguation)"Where Are You Now (My Love)", a 1965 song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent"Where Is My Love", a song from the 2006 Cat Power album, The GreatestPassage 6:Where Are You Going All Naked?Dove vai tutta nuda?, internationally released as Where Are You Going All Naked?, is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.CastMaria Grazia Buccella: ToninoTomas Milian: ManfredoGastone Moschin: PresidentVittorio Gassman: Rufus ConfortiAngela Luce: ProstituteGiancarlo Badessi: WaiterLea Lander: President's WifePassage 7:Pattanakke Banda PathniyaruPattanakke Banda Pathniyaru (transl. Wives arrived in the city) is a 1980 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by A. V. Sheshagiri Rao and produced by S. D. Ankalagi, B. H. Chandannanawar, M. G. Hublikar and Surendra Ingle. The film stars Srinath, Manjula, Lokesh and Padmapriya. The film has musical score by M. Ranga Rao. The movie was remade in 1982 in Telugu as Patnam Vachina Pativrathalu. The song Shankara Gangadhara was retained in the Telugu version. The film was also remade in Tamil as Pattanamthaan Pogalaamadi (1990).CastSoundtrackThe music was composed by M. Ranga Rao.Passage 8:Patnam Vachina PativrathaluPatnam Vachina Pativrathalu is a 1982 Telugu film produced by Atluri Radha Krishna Murthy and directed by Mouli in his Telugu debut. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Mohan Babu, Radhika, Geetha, Rao Gopal Rao and Nutan Prasad in important roles. The film is a remake of the 1980 Kannada movie Pattanakke Banda Pathniyaru. The song Shankara Gangadhara from the Kannada version was retained in this movie. The film ran for 280 days.PlotGopi (Chiranjeevi) and Mohan Babu are brothers living with their grandmother in a village. Gopi is youngest brother and has a B.Sc. in Agriculture and he is willing to live in the village after marriage, while Mohan Babu is an elder one who is uneducated. Gopi and Mohan Babu marry at the same time, Mohan Babu marries Devi, who is an educated person, while Gopi marries Lalithamba, an uneducated girl. Lalithamba prefers to live in the city after marriage. Lalithamba and Devi try their level best to shift their house to the city, but their husbands Gopi and Mohan Babu disagree. At last, Lalithamba and Devi escape from their house one night, without their husbands' knowledge. Lalithamba has one friend Shakuntala, in the city. Devi and Lalithamba are unable to locate Shakuntala's house in the city; roaming on the streets, they were caught by one woman who attempts to sell them to a brothel owner, Ganga Devi. But their contract does not materialize, and that woman doesn't sell Devi and Lalitamba. Angered, Ganga Devi sends her people to bring Lalithaba and Devi. Here, Ganga Devi's people kill that woman, but could not catch Lalithamba and Devi. But their bad luck chases them and Lalithamba and Devi enter Ganga Devi's house for protection, without knowing her character. But later they understand and plan to escape from there. Meanwhile, Lalithamba finds her friend Shakuntala, and with her help, Lalithamba and Devi try to escape from there, but Ganga Devi's people catch them and lock them in a room. Chiru and Mohan Babu, in search of their wives, land in the city to find Devi and Lalithaba and with much effort, they gather information on their wives' whereabouts. They enter into Ganga Devi's house and save Lalithamba and Devi from her clutches. As usual, police arrive after the climax fight and Ganga Devi is arrested, and these four return to their village.CastChiranjeevi - GopiRaadhika Sarathkumar - LalithambaMohan Babu -Geetha - DeviNirmalamma - Narayanamma, Grand mother of GopiRamaprabha - ArundhatammaNutan PrasadRao Gopal RaoSoundtrack"Neekunnadhe Kaastha" -"SeethaRaama Swamy" -"Shankaraa Gangaadharaa" -"Vinukondi" -Passage 9:Where Are We Going, Dad? (film)Where Are We Going, Dad? (Chinese: ) is a 2014 Chinese film based on a television reality show of the same name. A second film, Where Are We Going, Dad? 2, was released on February 19, 2015.ReceptionThe film grossed RMB88.2 million (US$14.6 million) in its opening day, a record for a non-3D Chinese film at the Chinese box office. Its record breaking even caught the attention of the BBC and the LA Times. It grossed RMB308.91 million (US$50.97 million) in the first four days.Passage 10:Where Are You NowWhere Are You Now may refer to:Where Are You Now? (novel), by Mary Higgins Clark, 2008Where Are You Now (Cerrone X), a 1983 album by CerroneSongs"Where Are You Now" (2 Unlimited song), 1993"Where Are You Now" (Clint Black song), 1991"Where Are You Now" (Jimmy Harnen song), 1989"Where Are You Now" (Lost Frequencies song), 2021, featuring Calum Scott"Where Are You Now?" (Roxus song), 1991"Where Are You Now" (Trisha Yearwood song), 2000"Where Are You Now (My Love)", by Jackie Trent, 1965"Where Are Ü Now", by Jack Ü and Justin Bieber, 2015"Where Are You Now?", by Brandy from the Batman Forever film soundtrack, 1995"Where Are You Now", by Britney Spears from Oops!... I Did It Again, 2000"Where Are You Now", by Donna De Lory from Sky Is Open, 2006"Where Are You Now", by Honor Society from Fashionably Late, 2009"Where Are You Now?", by ItaloBrothers, 2008"Where Are You Now", by J. Holiday from Guilty Conscience, 2014"Where Are You Now", by Janet Jackson from Janet, 1993"Where Are You Now?", by Justin Bieber from My World 2.0, 2010"Where Are You Now?", by Michelle Branch from Hotel Paper, 2003"Where Are You Now", by Mumford & Sons from Babel, 2012"Where Are You Now", by Nazareth from their album Sound Elixir, 1983"Where Are You Now?", by Royal Blood from How Did We Get So Dark?, 2016"Where Are You Now", by Union J from Union J, 2013See alsoWAYN (website) (an acronym for "Where Are You Now?"), a social networking websiteWhere Are You (disambiguation)


Passage 1:If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" is a popular song by Cat Stevens. It first appeared in the 1971 film Harold and Maude.Stevens wrote all the songs in Harold and Maude in 1970–1971, during the time he was writing and recording his Tea for the Tillerman album. However, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"  and two other songs from that period were not released as singles nor placed on any album at that time.  No official soundtrack was released from the film at that time. The song was finally released later on Stevens' 1984 album, Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 along with his other previously unreleased songs. In addition, it appeared on the UK edition of his 2003 album The Very Best of Cat Stevens.Official soundtrack (2007)The first official soundtrack album to the film was released in December 2007, by Vinyl Films Records, as a vinyl-only limited edition release of 2500 copies. It contained a 30-page oral history of the making of the film, the most extensive series of interviews yet conducted on Harold and Maude.Appearances in other mediaThe song features prominently in Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude.In 2007, a rendition of "Sing Out" appeared in the film Charlie Bartlett.The song is featured in the TV shows My Name Is Earl and Ray Donovan.It was featured as the 2nd song of Rodney Mullen's skateboarding part in the Plan B video, Questionable.The song is also the theme to the BBC Radio sitcom North by Northamptonshire.As of fall 2016, the song appears in a commercial for the 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee.Cover versionsThe song has been covered by Bloomington, Indiana's folk punk pioneers Ghost Mice under the shortened title "Sing Out".The song has been covered by Death By Chocolate in 2001, on their first, self-titled albumIn August 2009, Yusuf Islam approved his original recording of the song for use in a T Mobile television commercial. Wyclef Jean also made an upbeat remix of the song for a later T Mobile commercial that aired in December 2009.Folk music/bluegrass band Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem covered the song for their 2010 album Ranky Tanky.The song has also been covered by Amanda Palmer.The song has been covered by Jim Gill on his 1995 children's album Jim Gill Makes It Noisy In Boise, Idaho.German bitpop band Welle: Erdball covered the song on their album Der Kalte Krieg (2011).The song was covered by James Marsden, Ariana Greenblatt and Jacob Collier in the 2021 animated feature The Boss Baby: Family Business.Passage 2:Join the CavalryJoin the Cavalry was a military song popular during the American Civil War. The verses detail various feats performed by Jeb Stuart's troopers, the cavalry arm of the Army of Northern Virginia, while the chorus urges the listener to "join the cavalry". Occasionally, the title is recorded as "Jine the Cavalry". The song was most common in Virginia."Jine the Cavalry!" was among Stuart’s favorite songs, and became the unofficial theme song of his Confederate cavalry corps. It recounts many of Stuart’s early exploits, including the daring "Ride around the Army of the Potomac" in the early summer of 1862, and the Confederate Cavalry raid to Chambersburg, PA in October 1862. One of Stuart’s men, Sam Sweeney, was an accomplished banjo player and often serenaded Stuart and his officers during the Gettysburg Campaign.JINE THE CAVALRY!We're the boys that rode around McClellan(ian),Rode around McClellan(ian), Rode around McClellan(ian)!We're the boys that rode around McClellan(ian),Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?Come out of The Wilderness, come out of The Wilderness?Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!We're the boys who crossed the Potomac(ica), whoCrossed the Potomac(ica), who crossed the Potomac(ica)!We're the boys who crossed the Potomac(ica),Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!We're the boys that rode to Pennsylvania,Rode to Pennsylvania, rode to Pennsylvania!We're the boys rode to Pennsylvania,Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,Hand around the breadium, hand around the breadium!The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!Lyrics are in the public domain.Stuart's ride around McClellanPassage 3:If You Want My Love (Twenty 4 Seven song)"If You Want My Love" is a song recorded by the Dutch band Twenty 4 Seven. It was the tenth single and the sixth song to be taken from the fourth album, Twenty 4 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. The song remained a constant area of success only in the Netherlands, the single reached 77 on the (Single Top 100). It did not chart in the United Kingdom. "If You Want My Love" was postponed a couple of times, because "We Are the World" did successfully well in many other countries, like Spain where it went top 10.ChartsPassage 4:I Want You to Be My Baby"I Want You to Be My Baby" is a jump blues song written by Jon Hendricks for Louis Jordan whose recording, made on May 28, 1953, was released that autumn.In the summer of 1955 "I Want You to Be My Baby" was remade as the debut disc by comedy musical act Lillian Briggs, resulting in an expedient cover version by veteran vocalist Georgia Gibbs. Producers Hugo & Luigi had Gibbs fly in from her Massachusetts home to New York City on Wednesday 3 August 1955 to cut "I Want You to Be My Baby" that same afternoon. New York City disc jockeys were provided with acetates of the Gibbs' version by the following morning with regular jockey copies being shipped out Friday 5 August 1955.  Neither version of the song would reach the Top Ten. Gibbs' version had the higher chart peak at #14 but it was the rough voiced Briggs - whose version peaked at #18 - who had the million seller.Ellie Greenwich versionEllie Greenwich, who as a teenager saw Lillian Briggs sing her hit at Alan Freed's rock and roll shows, chose "I Want You to Be My Baby" as the song to launch her career as a solo recording artist. Produced by Bob Crewe, Greenwich's version reached #83 in the spring of 1967, marking her only US chart appearance as a recording artist apart from her singles with The Raindrops. She included the song on her 1968 debut solo album Ellie Greenwich Composes, Produces and Sings.Billie Davis versionThe song became a UK Top 40 hit in the autumn of 1968 via a recording by Billie Davis. Produced by Ready Steady Go! co-host Michael Aldred and arranged by Mike Vickers, Davis' version featured a chorale comprising Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Kay Garner, Doris Troy and the Moody Blues. The single's failure to rise no higher than #33 was attributed to a strike at the Decca processing plant, which stopped the pressing of discs.The Jyve Fyve versionIn November 1970 the Jyve Fyve reached #50 on the R&B chart with their remake of "I Want You to Be My Baby".Other versionsIn Britain, Annie Ross - John Hendricks' future co-partner in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - had an October 1955 single release of "I Want You to Be My Baby" recorded with Tony Crombie & His Orchestra. Neither this disc nor a 1956 UK single release of "I Want You to Be My Baby" by Don Lang charted. In February 1956, the British music magazine NME reported that Ross's version of the song was banned from airplay by the BBC due to the lyric "Come upstairs and have some loving".The song has also been recorded by Jimmy and the Mustangs, Colin James, Lindisfarne, Natasha England, Janis Siegel, and Leslie Uggams. A Finnish rendering - "Armaani Sä Silloin Oisit" - was recorded by Wiola Talvikki.  It was also a hit for Chinese singer Grace Chang who performed the song in both Mandarin Chinese ( "Wo Yao Ni de Ai" meaning "I Want Your Love") and English in the late 1950s. There was another rendition of the song in a classic 1958 Tamil movie Uthama puthiran, entitled "Yaaradi Ni Mohini".  The song was turned into the title song of the Italian TV show Canzonissima in 1960, with the title “Tu lei lui voi noi”, sang by Wilma De Angelis and Johnny Dorelli.Passage 5:If You Want to Be My Woman"If You Want to Be My Woman" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in December 1989 as the third single from his album 5:01 Blues. The song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and reached number 15 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.The song was Haggard's last top-40 country hit; like most classic country artists, Haggard's chart career was severely damaged by changes in the country industry that hit in the early 1990s. It was co-produced by Mark Yeary, keyboardist of The Strangers.PersonnelMerle Haggard– vocals, guitarThe Strangers:Norm Hamlet – pedal steel guitarClint Strong – guitarBobby Wayne – guitarMark Yeary – hammond organ, piano, electric pianoJimmy Belkin – fiddle, stringsBiff Adams – drumsDon Markham – saxophone, trumpetGary Church – cornet, tromboneChart performancePassage 6:If You Want My Lovin'"If You Want My Lovin'" is a song released by American singer Evelyn " Champagne" King. Released on April 3, 1981, The song appears on the album I'm in Love. The single version of "If You Want My Lovin'" was the follow-up to her charting single "I'm in Love," but less successful.Single version"If You Want My Lovin'" was also released as a single.  This version of "If You Want My Lovin'" is the less-successful follow-up to Evelyn's charting single "I'm In Love."Track listing12" version7" versionPersonnelPercussion – Bashiri JohnsonProducer, arranger, handclaps, lyrics by – Morrie BrownAssistant producer, arranger, keyboards, lyrics by, music by – Lawrence JonesAssistant engineer – Cheryl Smith, Dennis O'DonnellMixed by, recorded by – "Magic Hands", Steve GoldmanMastered by – George MarinoAssistant producer, backing vocals, handclaps, keyboards, Moog synthesizer – KashifGuitar – Ira SiegelAdditional engineer – Pete SobelString arrangement – Ralph SchuckettBacking vocals – B.J. Nelson, Evelyn King, Rochele CappelliDrums, handclaps – Leslie MingPassage 7:Merle HaggardMerle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and


Passage 1:Where Was I"Where Was I?" may refer to:Books"Where Was I?", essay by David Hawley Sanford from The Mind's IWhere Was I?, book by JohnHaycraft 2006Where was I?!, book by Terry Wogan 2009Film and TVWhere Was I? (film), 1925 film directed by William A. Seiter. With Reginald Denny, MarianNixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran.Where Was I? (2001 film), biography about songwriter Tim RoseWhere Was I? (TV series) 1952–1953 Quiz show with thepanelists attempting to guess a location by looking at photos"Where Was I?" episode of Shoestring (TV series) 1980Music"Where was I", song by W. FrankeHarling and Al Dubin performed by Ruby Newman and His Orchestra  with vocal chorus by  Larry Taylor and Peggy McCall  1939"Where Was I", single fromCharley Pride discography 1988"Where Was I" (song), a 1994 song by Ricky Van Shelton"Where Was I (Donde Estuve Yo)", song by Joe Pass from Simplicity (JoePass album)"Where Was I?", song by Guttermouth from The Album Formerly Known as a Full Length LP (Guttermouth album)"Where Was I", song by SawyerBrown (Billy Maddox, Paul Thorn, Anne Graham) from Can You Hear Me Now 2002"Where Was I?", song  by  Kenny Wayne Shepherd from Live On  1999"WhereWas I", song by Melanie Laine (Victoria Banks, Steve Fox) from Time Flies (Melanie Laine album)"Where Was I", song by Rosie Thomas from With Love (RosieThomas album)Passage 2:Alexander CourageAlexander Mair Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919 – May 15, 2008) familiarly known as "Sandy" Courage, was anAmerican orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the originalStar Trek series.Early lifeCourage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York,in 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces in the western United States during the Second World War. During that period, he also found the time tocompose music for the radio. His credits in this medium include the programs Adventures of Sam Spade Detective, Broadway Is My Beat, Hollywood Soundstage,and Romance.CareerCourage began as an orchestrator and arranger at MGM studios, which included work in such films as the 1951 Show Boat ("Life Upon theWicked Stage" number); Hot Rod Rumble (1957 film); The Band Wagon ("I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan"); Gigi (the can-can for the entrance of patrons atMaxim's); and the barn raising dance from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.He frequently served as an orchestrator on films scored by André Previn (My FairLady, "The Circus is a Wacky World", and "You're Gonna Hear from Me" production numbers for Inside Daisy Clover), Adolph Deutsch (Funny Face, Some Like ItHot), John Williams (The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, Jurassic Park, and the Academy Award-nominated musical films Fiddler on the Roof and Tom Sawyer),and Jerry Goldsmith (Rudy, Mulan, The Mummy, et al.).  He also arranged the Leslie Bricusse score (along with Lionel Newman) for Doctor Dolittle (1967).Apartfrom his work as a respected orchestrator, Courage also contributed original dramatic scores to films, including two westerns: Arthur Penn's The Left Handed Gun(1958) and André de Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), and the Connie Francis comedy Follow the Boys (1963). He continued writing music for movies throughoutthe 1980s and 1990s, including the score for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), which incorporated three new musical themes by John Williams inaddition to Courage's adapted and original cues for the film. Courage's score for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was released on CD in early 2008 by the FilmMusic Monthly company as part of its boxed set Superman - The Music, while La-La Land Records released a fully expanded restoration of the score on May 8,2018, as part of Superman's 80th anniversary.Courage also worked as a composer on such television shows as Daniel Boone, The Brothers Brannagan, Lost inSpace, Eight Is Enough, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Judd, for the Defense, Young Dr. Kildare and The Brothers Brannagan were the only televisionseries besides Star Trek for which he composed the main theme.The composer Jerry Goldsmith and Courage teamed on the long-running television show TheWaltons in which Goldsmith composed the theme and Courage the Aaron Copland-influenced incidental music. In 1988, Courage won an Emmy Award for hismusic direction on the special Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas.  In the 1990s, Courage succeeded Arthur Morton as Goldsmith's primaryorchestrator.Courage and Goldsmith collaborated again on orchestrations for Goldsmith's score for the 1997 film "The Edge."Courage frequently collaborated withJohn Williams during the latter's tenure with the Boston Pops Orchestra.FamilyAt the age of 35, Courage married Mareile Beate Odlum on October 6,1955.Mareile, born in Germany, was the daughter of Rudolf Wolff and Elisabeth Loechelt. After Wolff's suicide Elisabeth married Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck,renowned for his involvement in the Dada movement in Europe. Hülsenbeck brought his wife (Elisabeth), son (Tom) and step-daughter (Mareile) to the UnitedStates in 1938 to avoid the political situation rapidly developing in Europe. After arriving in the US he changed his last name to Hulbeck.Mareile's marriage toCourage was her third. Her second marriage was to Bruce Odlum (son of financier Floyd Odlum) in 1944. That union produced two sons, Christopher (1947) andBrian (1949). When Courage married Mareile he accepted the responsibility of acting stepfather to them. The family originally lived together on Erskine Dr. inPacific Palisades, but later moved to a mountainside home on Beverly Crest Drive in Beverly Hills.Aside from his musical abilities Courage was also an avid andaccomplished photographer. He took many dramatic photos of bullfights and auto racing. He was a racing enthusiast, and his interest in that sport andphotography brought him into contact with many racing personalities of the era, notably Phil Hill and Stirling Moss, both of whom he considered friends. Moss paidat least one social visit to the Erskine residence.Though a dedicated stepfather to Christopher and Brian, Courage's musical career took precedence over hisfamilial responsibilities. He sought to interest his step-children in music, and was responsible for arranging Brian's first musical lessons, on alto saxophone. Laterin life Brian became a composer of serious electronic music, though the vocation was not apparent during his childhood, as he was a poor saxophonestudent.Alexander and Mareile were divorced April 1, 1963. Courage subsequently married Kristin M. Zethren on July 14, 1967. That marriage also ended indivorce in 1972.Star Trek themeCourage is best known for writing the theme music for the original Star Trek series, and other music for that series. Courage washired by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to score the original series at Jerry Goldsmith's suggestion, after Goldsmith turned down the job.  Courage went onto score incidental music for episodes "The Man Trap" and "The Naked Time" and some cues for "Mudd's Women."Courage reportedly became alienated fromRoddenberry when Roddenberry claimed half of the theme music royalties. Roddenberry wrote words for Courage's theme, not because he expected the lyrics tobe sung on television, but so that he (Roddenberry) could receive half of the royalties from the song by claiming credit as the composition's co-writer. Couragewas replaced by composer Fred Steiner who was then hired to write the musical scores for the remainder of the first season. After sound editors had difficultyfinding the right effect, Courage himself made the iconic "whoosh" sound heard while the Enterprise flies across the screen.He returned to Star Trek to score twomore episodes for the show's third and final season, episodes "The Enterprise Incident" and "Plato's Stepchildren," allegedly as a courtesy to Producer RobertJustman.Notably, after later serving as Goldsmith's orchestrator, when Goldsmith composed the music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture,  Courage orchestratedGoldsmith's adaptation of his original Star Trek theme.Following Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Courage's iconic opening fanfare to the Star Trek theme becameone of the franchise's most famous and memorable musical cues. The fanfare has been used in multiple motion pictures and television series,  notably Star Trek:The Next Generation and the four feature films based upon that series, three of which were scored by Goldsmith.DeathCourage had been in declining health forseveral years before he died on May 15, 2008, at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, California. He had suffered a series of strokes prior to hisdeath. His mausoleum is in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.Passage 3:Walter Robinson (composer)Walter Robinson is an American composer of thelate 20th century. He is most notable for his 1977 song Harriet Tubman, which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, andothers.  He is also the composer of several operas.Passage 4:Hare-Way to the StarsHare-Way to the Stars is a 1958 American animated science fiction comedyshort film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 29, 1958 as part of the LooneyTunes series, and stars Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. The title is a play on the song "Stairway to the Stars."PlotThe cartoon starts when Bugs Bunny,feeling the effects of mixing radish juice with carrot juice the night before, unknowingly climbs out of his hole and into a rocket ship that is about to be launchedinto space. He realizes what has happened once he screws open the tip of the ship, and is immediately hit by the satellite Sputnik and lands on what appears tobe a space station. While there, Bugs meets Marvin the Martian who is trying to blow up the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (which isactually a stick of dynamite) because "Earth obstructs his view of Venus".Bugs quietly steals Marvin's explosive, and Marvin quickly discovers what happened. Hecreates a trio of "Instant Martians" (who somewhat resemble the Martians of A Martian Odyssey and Jumpin' Jupiter) by adding water to "Instant Martian" pills.The Martians all leave to capture Bugs. Bugs gets on a rocket scooter and is pursued by a Martian. After noticing it mimics his every move to catch up with him,Bugs mimes driving out of the space station, causing the Martian to actually do that. He is then pursued by the Martians and hides behind a door so that he canchase them. The Martians use the same trick to get behind Bugs and chase him, but he uses the same trick again to make the Martians run into a trapdoor andmake them fall out of the space station. Bugs then steals a UFO and when Marvin attempts to make more Martians, Bugs swaps the lit Space Modulator for theInstant Martian dispenser. The Modulator explodes in Marvin's hand just after he finishes saying its name, destroying his space station. Standing amid theshattered remains, Marvin concedes defeat and that it is "back to the old drawing board" for his plans to destroy the Earth. Bugs arrives on Earth in the UFO, but