Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Hot 100 in the United States as well as other countries. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number-one in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. The group backed up friend and classmate Janis Ian in a concert at Alice Tully Hall in late 1967.Īfter graduating from high school, Kamen attended The Juilliard School, in Manhattan, New York City. In the middle of the concert, Fulterman and Kamen would play an oboe duet. The group performed in white tie (not tuxedos), as typically worn by classical musicians.
The group released five albums from 1968 to 1972 (Self-Titled, Reflections, Faithful Friends, Roll Over & Freedomburger). While studying the oboe, he formed a rock-classical fusion band called New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, together with classmates Fulterman and Dorian Rudnytsky along with Clifton Nivison and Brian Corrigan of Toms River, New Jersey. While attending The High School of Music & Art in New York City, Michael Kamen became friends with Martin Fulterman (later known as Mark Snow, who composed the theme music for The X-Files among other projects). His father, Saul Kamen, was a dentist, and his mother, Helen, was a teacher. Michael Arnold Kamen was born in New York City, United States, the second of four sons. Bach transcribed a number of Vivaldi's concerti for solo keyboard, along with a number for orchestra, including the famous Concerto for Four Violins and Violoncello, Strings and Continuo (RV 580). Johann Sebastian Bach was deeply influenced by Vivaldi's concertos and arias (recalled in his Johannes Passion, Matthäuspassion, and cantatas). Vivaldi is considered one of the composers who brought Baroque music (with its typical contrast among heavy sonorities) to evolve into a classical style. This popularity soon made him famous in other countries such as France which was, at the time, very independent concerning its musical taste. The joyful appearance of his music reveals in this regard a transmissible joy of composing these are among the causes of the vast popularity of his music. Moreover, Vivaldi was able to compose nonacademic music, particularly meant to be appreciated by the wide public and not only by an intellectual minority. Vivaldi's music is innovative, breaking a consolidated tradition in schemes he gave brightness to the formal and the rhythmic structure of the concerto, repeatedly looking for harmonic contrasts and innovative melodies and themes. Most of Vivaldi's repertoire was rediscovered only in the first half of the 20th century in Turin and Genoa and was published in the second half. Many of Vivaldi's compositions reflect a flamboyant, almost playful, exuberance.
The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work and a highly popular Baroque piece. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Maâ July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice.