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1. An Accidental BiographyÍõÁ¦ºê˽ÃÜ™n°¸•ø (2•ø+1VCD)Publisher/ISBN: YUAN SHEN / 957607889XReleased on: March 20, 2003 Leehom,a native of Rochester, New York, is an artist/producer/writer with SonyBMG Taiwan. He is also a film actor, his recent projects include Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution", in the supporting role of Kuang Yu Min.After studying music at the Eastman School of Music, Williams College, and the Berklee Collegeof Music,Leehom burst into the Chinese pop music scene in 1998 with his album Revolution, which he both composed and produced, garnering awards for both "Best Male Artist of theYear" and "Best Producer of the Year" in Taiwan's 1999 Golden Melody Awards, the "Grammies" of Chinese pop music. He was 22 years old, making him the youngest person ever to win the award in either of the two categories.Since his debut, Leehom has consistently been nominated for the "Best Male Artist of the Year" award eight years in a row, solidifying his role as one of the most important, influential and prolific artists in Chinese music. In total, Leehom has recorded 11 solo albums, with career sales topping ten million units.Leehom plays over 10 musical instruments. In his albums, Leehom can be heard playing some or all of the instruments including: piano, drums, guitar, bass, violin, vibraphone, erhu, and xun. In his live concerts, he typically performs five or six. His concert toursare massive productions, 3 hour long shows in Asia¡¯s largest arenas. In 2006, his solo concert toured in Taiwan, China, Japan, HK, Singapore and Malaysia, and included a sold-out performance at the 80,000 seat Shanghai arena.A solid musical background enables Leehom to pull from a variety of musical styles and invent (and continuously reinvent) his sound, that is distinctly Chinese and international at the same time. For example, his 2005 release, Shangri-la drew Mongolia, and Yunan. In 2006, "Heroes of Earth" centered around Beijing opera and its predecessor, Kun Qu.One of the greatest aspects of being a public figure is the ability toaccess international media, and to communicate with and help other young people of the world. Socially active, Leehom's charity work goes hand-in-hand with his career. Some of the highlights include:Nature, the album dedicated to Jane Goodall in conjunction withLeehom's work as the National Geographic Channel spokesperson in HongKong; Ashes to Ashes, the anti-smoking short film sponsored by theHong Kong government; "Love Will Never Disappear", the song performed by A-Mei Chang for disaster relief after Taiwan's 1999 earthquake;"Frozen Dreams", a song collectively composed on the internet by Leehom's and his fans with all proceeds going to charity; and"Happiness x3, Loneliness x3", the collaborative song with TetsuoKamuro made for the Japanese government's anti-drug campaign. In 2002,Leehom was appointed by UNICEF as the Youth Ambassador to Nepal, andhosted the a MTV "Speak Your Mind" documentary on education, childlabor, and the sex trade. In May of 2003, with SARS crippling manyparts of Asia, Leehom wrote and produced the charity song "Hand InHand". This song was performed by 85 of the big-name artists in Chinese pop music history. An instant classic, "Hand In Hand" hasbecome the "We Are the World" of this generation of Chinese. Tsunami relief, charity concerts, the list goes on. Leehom intends to putcharity work first in the future, and has plans to open a music school in Taiwan so that its children can have the opportunity to receive a music education.He is also the ambassador for Celcom and Sony-Erricson in Malaysia and he had stared in the advertisements..Finally, Leehom also is known for his genuine, warm personality. He is gentle and appreciative towards those around him, and his boyish demeanor is disarming, especially when juxtaposed with hisprofessionalism and meticulous work ethic. He is passionate about his art and cherishes every opportunity for creative exchange with others,in music, movies, or any other forum.
2. Opr¨®cz profesjonalnego wykszta?cenia wokalnego (tak?e u boku trenera Celin Dion) Lee Hom nauczy? si? azjatyckiego ?piewu alikwotowego (Tybet, Mongolia)
3. Wa?niejsza dyskografia (bodaj?e 26 album¨®w) Jap: The One and Only, Hear My Voice (2004)Tury koncertowe
4. Najcz??ciej mieszanie wszystkiego nawet w jednym utworzeBelaBart¨®k (1881-1945) ¨C w?gierski kompozytor i pianistaB¨¦laBart¨®k, Hungarian composer, was born in 1881 in the small provincial town of Nagyszentmikl¨®s (which, after World War I, became S?nnicolau Mare in Romania). Both his parents were musically educated and he received his first piano lessons from his mother. Being a child prodigy, he played the piano at age four, and produced his first composition at age nine. From 1894 he studied in Bratislava with the conductor Laszlo Erkel, and in 1899 he entered the Budapest Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano under Istv¨¢nThoman (himself a pupil of Liszt) and composition under J¨¢nosKoessler. In 1902, a meeting with Richard Strauss at at the Budapest premiere of Also sprach Zarathustra, sparked off his composing career, and his grandiose and nationalistic tone poem Kossuth was premiered a year later. By this time, Bart¨®k was also a renowned piano virtuoso, traveling abroad performing music of Liszt and other romantic composers. Another landmark in his career was his befriending of fellow composer ZoltanKod¨¢ly, with whom he traveled the outskirts of pre-war Hungary in 1906, systematically collecting and recording folk music. Bart¨®k's fascination with native Hungarian folk music, as opposed to the gypsy-derived music which until then passed for it, was to permeate much of his music from now on, and is always evident in many of his best works. Bart¨®k became professor of piano at the the Budapest Royal Academy of Music in 1907, which post enabled him to abandon the life of an itinerant virtuoso for composing and more collecting of folk songs (this time as far as Turkey and North Africa). In 1919 he married his pupil M¨¢rta Ziegler, whom he divorced again in 1923 and soon after he married his piano student DittaP¨¢sztory with whom he later on toured and gave concerts on two pianos. He was frustrated by the fact that his music, which had by now taken new and radical turns, was not at all being appreciated in Hungary. However, he gained considerable appreciation abroad, and thanks to ground-breaking works like the Miraculous Mandarin was considered as one of the foremost contemporary composers. The outbreak of World War II and the rise of Nazi power in Hungary forced Bart¨®k to flee his beloved home country and emigrate to the United States. His frail health and financial troubles, being an unknown composer in a strange country, made this an unhappy time. In 1945, just when he was getting recognition as one of the major European composers, he died of leukemia and was buried in New York. After the fall of Hungarian communism in 1988, his remains were transferred to Budapest to be given a full state funeral. Major influences on Bart¨®k's style were Liszt, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Stravinsky, and of course folk music, and all these were blended into a unique and highly personal style full of melodic fertility and rhythmical vitality. Bart¨®k can be counted as one of the most versatile and original composers of all times, and the list of masterpieces is long. The opera Bluebeard's Castle (1911), the ballet The Wooden Prince (1914-16), the controversial pantomime 'The Miraculous Mandarin' (1919, not performed until 1926), three piano concertos, two violin concertos, a concerto for viola and orchestra (left only in sketches, later completed and orchestrated by his pupil TiborSerly), the Dance Suite (1922), the Cantata Profana (1930), the Music for Strings, Precussion and Celesta (1936), and his undisputed masterpiece, the Concerto for Orchestra (1943). Special mention deserve his six String Quartets which are regarded as the best works in this genre since those of Beethoven. Lastly, there is Bart¨®k's extended and unique volume of piano works, ranging from simple educational works (For Children, Mikrokosmos, Ten Easy Pieces) via idiomatic folk song settings (the best of which are the Improvisations over Hungarian Folk Tunes, op. 20), to highly individual and abstract works like the Allegro Barbaro, Out Doors suite, the Sonata (1926) and the Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1937).RecordingsAllegro Barbaro? Folk Songs from Csik? For Children? Hungarian Peasant Songs? Mikrokosmos? Out Doors Suite? Petite Suite? Romanian Christmas Carols? Romanian Folk Dances? Seven Sketches Op.9b? Sonata? Suite Op. 14? Ten Easy Pieces?
5. The Chineseness Constructed in Leehom Wang¡¯s ¡°Chinked-out¡± Music Hybridized Texts and Meanings of Being Chinese in Chinese Hip-Hop [Abstract] This study attempts to examine the popular music as hybridity in the process of transnational cultural flow in globalization. By textual analysis of the American-born Taiwanese singer Leehom Wang¡¯s latest two albums, ¡°Shangri-La¡± and ¡°Heroes of Earth¡±, which he labels as ¡°chinked-out¡± music, and the related media reports, this study aims at uncovering the meanings underlying the music, focusing on the construction of the ¡°Chineseness¡± in Wang¡¯s Chinese hip-hop. It examines how the hip-hop music style has been transformed into a new one with strong Chinese roots. Through the analysis of the lyrics, particularly the rap part, the music video of two theme songs, and the media coverage about Wang and his two albums, it has been found that through incorporating the traditional and ethnic Chinese cultural elements, this music style has eliminated the original negative meaning attached to ¡°chink¡±, and constructed a more positive image of China and Chinese culture as well as the Chinese identity of the singer himself. [Key words] chinked-out hybridityLeehom Wang Chinese hip-hop Chineseness popular music Introduction In recent years, the Chinese pop music circle has witnessed the phenomenon of a number of singers and musicians who fuse Western pop music genres with Chinese elements, especially those related to the traditional culture and the classics. The American-born singer Leehom Wang is a prime example of this new breed of musicians who has, from the influence of Western popular music, particularly hip-hop, developed his own music style. Wang¡¯s two latest albums, ¡°Shangri-La¡± (2004) and ¡°Heroes of Earth¡± (2005) constitute the scope of this study, in which the meanings and imageries constructed in and conveyed by Wang¡¯s music will be examined. 1
6. 17 GMA20 GMAHITO2008Nagrody warunkuj? popularno?? w Chinach, HK, Tw, Malezji, calej Azji, i talent¡­.. Oraz sprzedawalnno?? p?yt¡­ po otrzymaniu pewnych nagrod, przestaja one by? warunkiem sprzedawalnosci.
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