Columbia University, New York City
Columbia University in the City of New York is an American private Ivy League research university located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the State of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Today the university operates Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. That same year, the university's campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights, where it occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres (13 ha).
The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with numerous institutions, including Teachers College (which is Columbia University's Graduate School of Education), Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as the Juilliard School.
Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize. 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff, the second most of any institution in the world. Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree. Notable alumni and former students of the university and its predecessor, King's College, include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court; 43 Nobel Prize laureates; 20 living billionaires; 28 Academy Award winners; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.
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NEW YORK CITY: Walking around the LINCOLN CENTER ????️ for the Performing Arts (USA)
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New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
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Columbia University, Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City
Columbia University, Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City
Columbia University in the City of New York is an American private Ivy League research university located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the State of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Today the university operates Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. That same year, the university's campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights, where it occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres (13 ha).
The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with numerous institutions, including Teachers College (which is Columbia University's Graduate School of Education), Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as the Juilliard School.
Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize. 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff, the second most of any institution in the world. Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree. Notable alumni and former students of the university and its predecessor, King's College, include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court; 43 Nobel Prize laureates; 20 living billionaires; 28 Academy Award winners; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.
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Chinese First Lady Visits Cultural Institutions in New York
Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan on Monday called for greater efforts to promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States when visiting two leading art and cultural institutions in New York.
Touring the renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Peng noted that in recent years, the center has played an active role in promoting China-U.S. cultural exchanges and enhancing friendship between the two peoples.
Peng was here accompanying her husband, Chinese President Xi Jinping, for a series of activities at the United Nations headquarters following a state visit to the United States.
As a famous soprano with a successful career in China herself, Peng has been invited to perform on the stage of the Lincoln Center in 2005.
Peng said Xi's successful state visit to the United States injects new vitality into people-to-people exchanges between the two nations, and she hoped the cultural exchanges between China and the United States would be more splendid, making greater contribution to the deepening of the relationship between the two peoples.
In the Juilliard School, a leading performing arts conservatory located in the Lincoln Center, Peng attended a performance class and the inauguration of the Juilliard's branch in the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, which offers master degree in music.
Encouraging students from both countries to do more communication and learning from each other, Peng hoped that more concrete action would be taken by both sides in a more colorful manner to facilitate and enrich cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
Together with Peng, Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi announced plans for the Tianjin Juilliard School, a key milestone in Juilliard's multifaceted expansions in China. Anticipated to open in 2018, the new school will offer U.S.-accredited master's degree in China as well as a wide range of instrumental lessons for people of all ages and abilities.
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Columbia University New York
Columbia University.
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land.[7][8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.[7][9]
The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University College London,[11] Sciences Po,[12] City University of Hong Kong,[13] and the Juilliard School.[14]
Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize.[15] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;[16] 20 living billionaires;[17] 29 Academy Award winners;[18] and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.[19] Additionally, 104 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is also second only to Harvard University in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, with over 100 recipients as of 2015.
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Chinese New Year concert in New York City
New York celebrated Spring Festival with a special concert featuring some of China's premier musicians.
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born Oct.18 1919 Camilla Williams Ritorna Vincitor (Aida - Verdi)
Camilla Ella Williams (October 18, 1919 – January 29, 2012) was an American operatic soprano who performed nationally and internationally. After studying with renowned teachers in New York City, she was the first African American to receive a regular contract with a major American opera company, the New York City Opera. She had earlier won honors in vocal competitions and the Marian Anderson Fellowship in 1943-44.
In 1954 she became the first African American to sing a major role with the Vienna State Opera. She later also performed as a soloist with numerous European orchestras. As a concert artist, she toured throughout the United States as well as Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In 1977, she was the first African American appointed as Professor of Voice at Indiana University, where she taught until 1997.
My grandparents and parents were self-taught musicians; all of them sang, and there was always music in our home. Camilla's grandfather, Alexander Carey, was a choir leader and singer. All my people sing. We were poor, but God blessed us with music. By the age of eight, Camilla was dancing, playing the piano, and singing at school and Danville's Calvary Baptist Church.
Williams trained at Virginia State College (now Virginia State University). After earning a B.S. there, she studied privately in New York, eventually with the great teacher Marion Szekely Freschl (who taught at Juilliard). She earned a Marian Anderson Fellowship in 1943 and again in 1944. She continued to receive honors in vocal competitions.
Career
Beginning in 1944, Williams performed on the coast-to-coast RCA radio network. In 1946 she was the first African American to receive a regular contract with a major American opera company, making her debut with the New York City Opera in the title role in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Her performance was hailed by the New York Times critic as an instant and pronounced success. During the next six years, she performed Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mimi in Puccini's La bohème, and the title role in Verdi's Aida.
Williams sang throughout the United States and Europe with various other opera companies. In 1951 she sang Bess in the landmark, first complete recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Under the baton of Lehman Engel, this recording is considered by some to be the most authentic recorded performance of the opera and brought Williams international recognition.
In 1954 she became the first African American to sing a major role with the Vienna State Opera, and performed her signature role in Madama Butterfly. In 1963, as part of the civil rights March on Washington, she sang The Star-Spangled Banner at the White House and before 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial, preceding Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech.
A noted concert artist, Williams toured throughout the United States, in fourteen African countries, as well as numerous countries in Asia: Formosa, South Korea, China, Japan, Laos, South Vietnam, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. In addition, she was a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. In 1950 she recorded Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with Stokowski and the New York Philharmonic.
Williams was the first African-American Professor of Voice appointed to the voice faculty of what is now known as the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1977. In 1984 she became the first African-American instructor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. In 1997 Camilla Williams became a Professor Emerita of Voice at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, but continued to teach privately.
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Brieuc Vourch
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Born in 1995 in Paris, Brieuc Vourch started studying the violin at the age of three with Florin Szigeti.
He studied in the Pre-College division of The Juilliard School with Itzhak Perlman, and with Aaron Rosand.
At the age of 18, he is admitted in the college division of The Juilliard School, but prefers to pursue his studies in Vienna with Prof. Boris Kuschnir, his current teacher. Brieuc also worked with Ivry Gitlis, Frank-Peter Zimmermann, Pierre Amoyal, Glenn Dicterow and Rainer Küchl.
He made his first concert with orchestra as a soloist at the age of nine, and three years later, made his debuts at Le Palais des Congrès de Paris, for a 4000 people audience. He met and played for Mr. Shimon Peres, President of Israel, during his 2008 State Visit in France.
Since then, Brieuc performed in the United-States, in France, in Germany, in Italy, in Luxembourg, in Switzerland, in Poland and in Greece. He made his debuts at the Lincoln Center in New-York at the age of fifteen and has performed a number of times in the Alice Tully Hall and Peter Jay Sharp, as well as in the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall. He is also regularly invited for charity concerts and played for the ill children of the Morgan Stanley Emergency Center (New-York).
Selected to be one of the young soloist of the Verbier Festival Academy, Brieuc Vourch will perform there during the summer 2016 as a soloist and chamber musician. He will also take part in the Lenk Summer Academy, where he will study with Ana Chumachenco.
Christopher Reeve | Transformation From 11 To 52 Years Old
Birthday: September 25, 1952
Nationality: American
Famous: Actors Directors
Died At Age: 52
Sun Sign: Libra
Born In: Mount Kisco, New York, United States
Famous As: Actor
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Dana Reeve (M. 1992–2004)
Children: Alexandra Reeve, Matthew Reeve, William Reeve
Died On: October 10, 2004
Cause Of Death: Heart Attack
U.S. State: New Yorkers
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Christopher Reeve was a legendary American actor, director, writer, producer and activist who rose to prominence for his perfect portrayal of the DC Comic book superhero, ‘Superman’. With deep blue eyes, towering height and athletic built, Reeve played the role of a superhero with utmost ease and élan. Born in an upper-class household, Reeve was bit by the acting bug early in his life. It was while studying at Cornell University that Reeve took up acting professionally. He made his Broadway debut and soon was asked to play the lead character of Clark Kent/Superman. Over the years, apart from the Superman series, Reeve showed his brilliance as an actor in various films including ‘The Remains of the Dark’, ‘Rear Window’ and so on. Acting apart, Reeve was a licensed pilot and flew solo across the Atlantic twice. He was also an active campaigner of various issues related to health and society. It was a tragic accident during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia that left him as a quadriplegic. However, ‘superman’ that he was, he did not let his physical impairment come in between his acting and activism. He founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation and lobbied for issues related to spinal cord injuries and human embryonic stem cell research.
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Childhood & Early Life
Christopher Reeve was born on September 25, 1952 in New York City to Barbara Pitney and Franklin D’Olier Reeve. While his mother was a journalist, his father served as a teacher, novelist, poet and scholar. He had a younger brother, Benjamin. His parents divorced when he was young. Reeve and his brother moved with their mother who remarried Tristam B Johnson in 1959.
Reeve attended Princeton Day School. Academically brilliant, he excellent in athletics and theatre as well. Such as his brilliance in sports that he was on the honor roll and played soccer, baseball, tennis, and hockey.
At the age of nine, Reeve found his passion for acting after he was cast in an amateur version of the play, ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’. By 1967, he was working as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The following year, he received an offer to work professionally at Harvard Summer Repertory Theatre Company. He graduated from Princeton Day School in 1970.
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Career
Post graduation, Reeve acted in plays in Boothbay, Maine and planned to go to New York City to find a career in theatre. However, upon his mother’s insistence, he applied for college and accepted an offer from Cornell University.
At Cornell, Reeve continued to fuel his passion for dramatics and theatre. He acted in several plays including ‘Waiting for Godot’, ‘Segismundo in Life Is a Dream’, ‘Hamlet in Rosencrantz’, ‘Guildenstern Are Dead’ and The Winter's Tale.
Impressed by his acting talent, Stark Hesseltine, a high-powered agent, proposed to establish Reeve’s acting career and represent him. Monthly visits to New York City and meetings with casting agents and producers helped Reeve find his first work in a production of ‘Forty Carats’ with Eleanor Parker.
Artistically endowed, Reeve soon received a full-season contract with the San Diego Shakespeare Festival. Reeve played prominent roles in several plays including ‘Richard III’, ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, and ‘Love's Labour's Lost’.
In his final year at college, Reeve took a three-month leave of absence. He travelled to Glasgow wherein he immersed himself in the country’s theatre culture. He then moved to Paris and absorbed European theatre culture, keenly observing the performances by established stage actors and imbibing in the goodness. Having engrossed everything, he returned to US.
Having found his real calling in acting, Reeve convinced theatre director Jim Clause and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences that he couldn’t comply by the educational requirements at Cornell University and instead would achieve more as a student in Juilliard than at Cornell. Following this, an arrangement was made according to which his first year at Juilliard was counted as his senior year at Cornell.
At Juilliard, Reeve befriended Robin Williams for life. The two were the only students selected for Juilliard's Advanced Program. As per the arrangement, Reeve completion of the first year at Juilliard meant the completion of his graduation from Cornell University.
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Reflections on 40 Years: Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Sino-American Diplomatic Relations
Following decades of enmity, on December 15, 1978, the United States and China announced the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as of January 1, 1979. Diplomatic rapprochement offered hope that the countries would be able to look beyond their differences to cooperate on the global stage.
On December 18, the National Committee convened a panel representing the diverse fields of business, diplomacy, arts and culture, and academic exchange to reflect on where the bilateral relationship was 40 years ago, is today, and may be headed in the future.
Speaker Bios:
Cathy Barbash is a specialist in cultural diplomacy and creative industry development and an independent producer, working primarily with the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Cuba. Barbash has spent over 35 years managing and consulting to organizations including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the United States Department of State, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, Arts Midwest, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Juilliard School, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, and the China National Centre for the Performing Arts. She was the lead architect of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s current China tour/residency project. Since normalization of United States-Cuba relations, she has worked with La Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, Casa de las Américas, and the Festival Jazz Plaza Havana.
Chas W. Freeman, Jr. is a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He is the former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs (1993–1994), ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989–1992), principal deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs (1986–1989), and chargé d'affaires in Bangkok (1984–1986) and Beijing (1981–1984). He served as vice chair of the Atlantic Council (1996-2008), co-chair of the United States China Policy Foundation (1996–2009), and president of the Middle East Policy Council (1997–2009).
Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starr Insurance Companies. Mr. Greenberg retired as Chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG) in March 2005. He formed the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) as a Starr subsidiary, and served as that company’s chairman and CEO until March 2005. Under his nearly 40 years of leadership, AIG grew from an initial market value of $300 million to $180 billion, becoming the largest insurance company in the world.
David M. Lampton is Hyman Professor and director of China Studies Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he currently is senior fellow at SAIS’ Foreign Policy Institute. He will be an Oksenberg-Rohlen fellow and research scholar at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center beginning in January 2019. Having started his academic career at the Ohio State University, Dr. Lampton is chairman of the Asia Foundation, former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and former Dean of Faculty at SAIS. He now serves as a director of the National Committee. He is the author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001); The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008); and, The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy (editor, Stanford University Press, 2001).
Interview with ThatViolaKid
On this episode of American gypC Interview series, Klaccik Carpenta sits down with ThatViolaKid. Drew ThatViolaKid Forde is an alumni of The Juilliard School and regularly performs throughout the United States. His new rap single Duality is a unique fusion of classical music and rap. If you haven't already check out his song on all music sources and music video available on his YouTube. He's also a social media content creator who has amassed quite the following on instagram and YouTube.
Background
He grew up in Peachtree city about 30mi outside of Atlanta, GA. His musical background started in elementary school with chorus and band by middle school it progressed to playing viola in an orchestra. He attended Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University for his undergrad and got accepted to Juilliard soon after. Drew moved to Los Angeles recently from New York City and is diving head first into the unknown.
Future Plans
Drew is hoping to get back to creating more consistent content for his social media audience. He's also working on honing his craft as a rapper and learning how to produce his own music. He's hoping to perform in local venues while networking with other musicians.
My goal right now is to become financially solvent as a performer in LA... The process is what I'm more interested in, which is creating more consistent content, becoming a better rapper, producing more of my own music, collaborating with really incredible artist, [and] taking time to build deeper friendship. - Drew ThatViolaKid Forde
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Billy Joel - Q&A: Can I Play On New York State Of Mind? (Vanderbilt 2013)
Throughout the years, Billy Joel has become known for his willingness to hold Q&A sessions with fans in settings across the globe. Here Billy is accompanied onstage for a live performance of 'New York State Of Mind' off the 1976 album Turnstiles at Vanderbilt University in 2013.
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Billy Joel's official YouTube channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.
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William Martin Billy Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, Piano Man, in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote singlehandedly. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide.[3] He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006) and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). Joel retired from recording pop music in 1993 but continues to tour (often with Elton John).
Joel was born in The Bronx, New York and raised in Hicksville, New York. His father, Howard (born Helmuth), was born in Germany as the son of German-Jewish merchant and manufacturer Karl Amson Joel who, after the advent of the Nazi regime, emigrated to Switzerland and later to the United States. Billy Joel's mother, Rosalind Nyman, was born in England to a Jewish family (Philip and Rebecca Nyman). His parents divorced in 1960, and his father moved to Vienna, Austria. Billy has a sister, Judith Joel, and a half-brother, Alexander Joel, who is an acclaimed classical conductor in Europe, currently chief musical director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Joel's father was an accomplished classical pianist. Billy reluctantly began piano lessons at an early age, at his mother's insistence; his teachers included the noted American pianist Morton Estrin and musician/songwriter Timothy Ford. His interest in music, rather than sports, was a source of teasing and bullying in his early years. (He has said in interviews that his piano instructor also taught ballet. Her name was Frances Neiman, and she was a Juilliard trained musician. She gave both classic piano and ballet lessons in the studio attached to the rear of her house, leading neighborhood bullies to mistakenly think he was learning to dance.) As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so that he would be able to defend himself. He boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning twenty-two bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after having his nose broken in his twenty-fourth boxing match.
Joel attended Hicksville High School, class of 1967. Joel however did not graduate from Hicksville. Due to playing at a piano bar, he was one English credit short of the graduation requirement; he overslept on the day of an important exam, owing to his late-night musician's lifestyle. He left high school without a diploma to begin a career in music. I told them, 'the hell with it. If I'm not going to Columbia University, I'm going to Columbia Records and you don't need a high school diploma over there'. Columbia did, in fact, become the label that eventually signed him. In 1992, he submitted essays to the school board and was awarded his diploma at Hicksville High's annual graduation ceremony, 25 years after he had left.
Upon seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Joel decided to pursue a full-time musical career, and set about finding a local Long Island band to join. Eventually he found the Echoes, a group that specialized in British Invasion covers. The Echoes became a popular New York attraction, convincing him to leave high school to become a professional musician. He began playing for the Echoes when he was 14 years old. ~ SOURCE: Wikipedia
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4 Piano Pieces by David Livianu, Pianist Jeannie Yo Performs Live at The Juilliard School April 7, 1987, New York City
4 Piano Pieces by David Livianu, Pianist Jeannie Yo Performs Live at The Juilliard School April 7, 1987, New York City
David B. Livianu was born in Bucharest, Romania, on July 14, 1955. He has studied piano since the age of 5 under the guidance of his father, Dorel Livianu, a renowned singer of Romanian and Jewish music. In 1967 he moved with his parents to America, settling down in Brooklyn, New York. David studied at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music „Ciprian Porumbescu between 1976 and 1980. In 1981 he entered the presitgious Masters program the at the Juilliard School in New York City with a full scholarship, studying composition with avangarde composer Milton Babbitt. His works were performed at the Juilliard School and he accompanied his father in numerous concerts in Israel, Romania and the United States. With the demise of communism in Eastern Europe in 1990, David Livianu became a strong advocate for the rights of orphaned children in Romania and other countries. He wrote and published numerous works on the subject of international adoptions, working closely with government agencies and non profit organizations to help the cause of orphaned children. David Livianu specializes in perfect pitch ear training, having developed a very successful course. He also teaches courses in Harmony & Counterpoint, Music Theory, and Composition/Form Analysis.
Here you will find a variety of music written and performed by David Livianu and colleagues, dating back to the 1970s. His specialty is lyrical and melodious music, though he has also written avantgarde works. He is married, has 2 children and resides in Brooklyn, New York. If you are interested in his music or ear training courses, you can write to David Livianu at the following address david@livianu.com
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Columbia University
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land.[7][8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.[7][9]
The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University College London,[11] Sciences Po,[12] City University of Hong Kong,[13] and the Juilliard School.[14]
Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize.[15] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;[16] 20 living billionaires;[17] 29 Academy Award winners;[18] and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.[19] Additionally, 104 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is also second only to Harvard University in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, with over 100 recipients as of 2015.[20]
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King's College (1754–1784)..
Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, at which time Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college;[21] however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college.[21] In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college.[22]
Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson.[23] Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the college's first class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in Manhattan.[24] The college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.[7]
In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief opponent in discussions at the college was an undergraduate of the class of 1777, Alexander Hamilton.[25] The American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in 1776 with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces.[26][27] Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia College. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded King's Collegiate School.[28]
Les Deux Perform the National Anthem at CitiField
Juilliard violinists Clare Elena Semes (MM '16) and Chelsea Starbuck Smith (MM '16), collectively known as Les Deux, performed the national anthem at the New York Mets game at CitiField on September 2, 2015.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land.[7][8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.[7][9]
The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University College London,[11] Sciences Po,[12] City University of Hong Kong,[13] and the Juilliard School.[14]
Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize.[15] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;[16] 20 living billionaires;[17] 29 Academy Award winners;[18] and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.[19] Additionally, 104 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is also second only to Harvard University in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, with over 100 recipients as of 2015.[20]
COLumbia university
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country, making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence.[6] After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying 32 acres (13 ha) of land.[7][8] Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree.[7][9]
The university is organized into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The university also has global research outposts in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University College London,[11] Sciences Po,[12] City University of Hong Kong,[13] and the Juilliard School.[14]
Columbia administers annually the Pulitzer Prize.[15] Notable alumni and former students (counting those from King's College) include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court;[16] 20 living billionaires;[17] 29 Academy Award winners;[18] and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.[19] Additionally, 104 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, researchers, faculty, or staff. Columbia is also second only to Harvard University in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, with over 100 recipients as of 2015.[20]