Some of the world's most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures.
Despite the celebrations, though, in the U. S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
It's Jason Moran's job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
"Jazz seems like it's not really a part of the American appetite, "Moran tells National Public Radio's reporter Neal Conan. "What I'm hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and white anymore. It's actually color, and it's actually digital. "
Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. "The music can't be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same, "says Moran.
Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller's music for a dance party, "just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music," says Moran. "For me, it's the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context," says Moran, "so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster. "
In the coming months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare's plays in their own language, in our Globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for. Please come and join us.
National Theatre of China Beijing|Chinese
This great occasion(盛会) will be the National Theatre of China's first visit to the UK. The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre. This production of Shakespeare's Richard Ⅲ will be directed by the National's Associate Director, Wang Xiaoying.
Date &Time: Saturday 28 April, 2. 30pm & Sunday 29 April, 1. 30pm & 6. 30pm
Marjanishvili Theatre Tbilisi|Georgian
One of the most famous theatres in Georgia, the Marjanishvili, founded in 1928, appears regularly at theatre festivals all over the world. This new production of As You Like It is helmed(指导)by the company's Artistic Director Levan Tsuladze.
Date &Time: Friday 18 May, 2. 30pm&Sunday 19 May, 7. 30pm
Deafinitely Theatre London|British Sign Language(BSL)
By translating the rich and humorous text of Love's Labour's Lost into the physical language of BSL, Deafinitely Theatre creates a new interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy and aims to build a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds by performing to both groups as one audience.
Date &Time: Tuesday 22 May, 2. 30pm&Wednesday 23 May, 7. 30pm
Habima National Theatre Tel Aviv|Hebrew
The Habima is the centre of Hebrew-language theatre worldwide. Founded in Moscow after the 1905 revolution, the company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s. Since 1958, they have been recognized as the national theatre of Israel. This production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice marks their first visit to the UK.
Date &Time: Monday 28 May, 7. 30pm &Tuesday 29 May, 7. 30pm
The Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville, Tennessee, has always been America's most important concert hall for country music. Every Saturday night the place is filled with country music 1 .
One 2 in January 1967, it was a very 3 night at the Opry. For the first time, a 4 man was an attraction. 5 music had always been thought of as “white music”. For many, it was a strange 6 to see Charley Pride step 7 the Opry stage. Some people felt 8 about whether a black man could sing country songs. 9 Charley's smooth voice quickly 10 over the Opry 11 . Charley was so good that before long, he was the country music's biggest 12 .
Like many country singers, Charley was 13 on a farm. He spent his youth milking cows and picking cotton. But he knew he wasn't going to make 14 his career. Later he became a baseball player.
Charley made it to a major league team. But he didn't stay on for more than one season.
In the winter, after the baseball season, Charley 15 at a local nightclub. One evening, Red Sovine, a great country music star, 16 Charley sing. Red told Charley to sing. He told Charley to forget about 17 and go for a singing career.
Charley took the 18 and became a true hit maker. His 19 were always near the top on the list. Some were number 1 all over the country.
Today Charley Pride is 20 one of the biggest stars in country music. But he says his real wish is to own a baseball team.
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My dream school starts at 8:30 am and ends at 3:30 pm. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn't need to do so many homework. Therefore, we have more time with after-school activities. For example, we can do reading for one and a half hour and take exercise for one hour every day.
My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest or sitting by the lake listening music. The teachers here are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.
