An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer is an album recorded by Tom Lehrer, the well-known satirist and Harvard professor. The recording was made in March 20-21 of 1959 in Sanders Theater at Harvard. An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer - Track listing. ""Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" - 2:38 "Bright College Days" - 3:03 "A Christmas Carol" - 2:54 "The Elements" (Music by Sullivan) - 2:16 "Oedipus Rex" - 3:41 "In Old Mexico" - 6:26 "Clementine" - 4:4 ...

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Candide first opened on Broadway as a musical on December 1, 1956. It featured Robert Rounseville as Candide, a young Barbara Cook as Cunegonde, Max Adrian as Dr. Pangloss, and Irra Petina as the Old Lady. It was not a huge success by any stretch of the word; some music historians tend to put that down to the fact that New York at the time didn't want very much to do with an operetta pretending to be a musical. Others blame Hellman's overtly political and topical book, which drew parallels between the Inquisition and McCarthyism. In any case, the music became a ...

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A number of elements were first identified by their spectroscopic emission lines: caesium and rubidium were discovered by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff analysing the spectrum of alkali salts. The unknown element with blue emission lines was named caesium; in purifying the salts of this new element, another element was discovered with a red emission line; this was called rubidium. They were shortly afterwards prepared as the pure salts by Bunsen. The bright green line of thallium caused it to be named from the Greek thallos, meaning a green shoot, and the indigo-blue line from certa ...

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In 1871, Mendeleev predicted, from the gaps in his newly-devised periodic table, that there should be three as yet undiscovered elements, which he named eka-boron, eka-aluminium, and eka-silicon. With Mendeleev's prediction of their existence and approximate chemical properties, the missing elements were found by French, Scandinavian, and German chemists, and named for their countries of discovery, as gallium, scandium, and germanium: The 'didy ...

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In the summer of 1934, George Gershwin worked on the opera in Charleston, South Carolina. He drew inspiration from the James Island Gullah community, who he felt had traditions that were reminiscent of Africa. This research added to the authenticity of his work. The music itself reflects his New York jazz roots, but also portrays southern black traditions. Gershwin modeled the pieces after each type of folk song that the composer knew about; jubilees, blues, praying songs, street cries, work songs, and spirituals ...

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Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. Some of the more popular songs include: "Summertime", Act I Scene 1 "A Woman is a Sometime Thing", Act I Scene 1 "My Man's Gone Now", Act I Scene 2 "It Take a Long Pull to Get There", Act II Scene 1 "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'", Act II Scene 1 "Buzzard Keep on Flyin'", Act II Scene 1 "Bess, You Is My Wo ...

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A chemical element, often called simply element, is a chemical substance that cannot be divided or changed into other chemical substances by any ordinary chemical technique. The smallest unit of this kind of chemical substances is an atom. An element is a class of substances that contain the same number of protons in all its atoms. Chemical element - Chemistry terminology. Earlier an element or pure element was defined as a substance which "cannot be further broken down ...

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The alphabet song is a popular tool used to help teach children the Latin alphabet, commonly known by children as "the A-B-C's." It is used in kindergartens, pre-schools and homes around the world. The song was first copyrighted by C. Bradlee of Boston, USA on February 4 1834 and titled "The Schoolmaster". It is sung to the widely-known French melody "Ah! Vous Dirais-je, Maman", more commonly k ...

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A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece. For example, in DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time. (Not be be confused with a breakdown.) In hip-hop and electronica, a short break is also known as "the drop", and is sometimes accented by cutting off even the percussion. It may be described as wh ...

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Separation may refer to a several different subjects: In chemistry, separation refers to the separation process. In interpersonal relationships, separation usually refers a married couple ceasing to live together, but without getting a divorce. Legal separation is a legal status where married couples may disentangle their finances without divorce. In audio mastering, a separation is a single track containing one or more major song elements. When all separations are r

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Calx is a residual substance, sometimes in the form of a fine powder, that is left when a metal or mineral combusts or is calcinated due to heat. Calx, especially of a metal, is now known as an oxide. According to the Phlogiston theory, the calx is the true elemental substance, having lost its phlogiston in the process of combustion. Calx - Miscellaneous Information. UK Electronic Music artist, Aphex Twin (Richard David James) named some of his songs after different ...

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Chemical element - Specific chemical elements. Before chemistry became a science, alchemists had designed arcane symbols for both metals and common compounds. These were however used as abbreviations in diagrams or procedures; there was no concept of one atoms combining to form molecules. With his advances in the atomic theory of matter, John Dalton devised his own simpler symbols, based on circles, which were to be used to depict molecules. These were superceded by the current typographical system in which chemi ...

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Voice tracking, also called cyber jocking, is a technique employed by some radio stations. This produces the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the studios of the station. This is not the case in a growing number of instances. Voice-tracking - Background. In order to describe voice tracking, an explanation of computer automation is in order, as it applies to radio. Songs, commercials, "voice tracks", and other elements of the program (the final product that comes out of yo ...

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Crust punk is the extreme evolution of Hardcore punk. The genre might be considered hard to listen to and very abrasive, using elements of anarcho-punk and grindcore to create a unique sound that can either be fast and leaning to grindcore, or slow and mopey and/or melodic. It was originally called stenchcore. Although not the same genre, crust is closely related to d-beat, anarcho-punk, thrashcore, black metal, and grindcore. Lyrics to crust songs tend to be dark, and based around politics and current events and even so ...

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A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that has been inserted into another human expression. It is most often a written or oral fragment and in such cases it is also called a quote. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources. Besides this, a quotation can also refer to the use of a piece of other artistic works —elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition— in ...

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Swirl were a Sydney, Australia-based indie rock band. They formed around 1990, released three albums: their debut Aurora (around 1991), which was mostly rock with some shoegazer elements (such as extensive use of guitar fuzz and reverb on vocals). Their next album, 1994's The Last Unicorn went further into shoegazing territory, with layered, feedback-washed guitar solos and ambient instrumental tracks between songs; it also featured a guest performance by Lara Goodridge, later of the FourPlay String Quartet, on violin. In subsequent years, Swirl released a few EPs and played live in Sy ...

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Xingyiquan is one of the three major internal Chinese martial arts—the other two being Taijiquan and Baguazhang—and is characterised by aggressive, linear movements and explosive power. Xingyiquan - History. Like many Chinese martial arts, the exact origin of Xingyiquan is uncertain. The genealogy of Xingyiquan can only reliably be traced to the 18th century to Ma Xueli of Henan Province and Dai Longbang of Shanxi Province. Legend, however, credits the invention of Xingyiquan to the renowned Song ...

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Cruachan is the name of an Irish Celtic metal band founded in 1992 by Keith Fay after the end of Minas Tirith which existed since 1989. Cruachan mixes Celtic music, history and mythology with black metal. Cruachan's black metal influence, however, has become diluted in recent releases, and most fans only consider their first album Tuath Na Gael to be black metal. Recent work has become more melodic, with softer vocals, courtesy of Karen Gilligan, who joined after the release of Tuath Na Gael. Black metal elements remain on some songs, suc ...

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Earlier an element or pure element was defined as a substance which "cannot be further broken down into another compound with different chemical properties" -- which should be taken to mean it consists of atoms of one element. However, due to allotropy, the isotope effect, and the confusion with the more useful term referring to the general class of atoms (irrespective of what compound it may be in), this usage is in disfavor amongst contemporary chemists, and sees restricted, mostly historical, use. This definition was motivat ...

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