Английский язык. 11 класс (О. В. Афанасьева и др.)
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- They Want to Make Really Good Music
- No. 2. Exercise 5.
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Приложение Аудиокурс к учебнику Unit One No. 1. Exercise 3. Listen to the text “They Want to Make Really Good Music” and say if the statements in the Student’s book are true, false or not mentioned in the text. They Want to Make Really Good Music Kareem and George from south London play in a band called United Vibrations. Kareem is seventeen and George is sixteen years old. George plays the trumpet and Kareem plays the bass. The boys met through the special music course at school. They both went to an ordinary secondary school which has a special music course for young people with musical talent. They were in different classes and no one really mixed. So it took a while for the boys to become friends. Now they practise with United Vibrations. There are eight of them in the band. Kareem’s elder brother, Ahmad started the band. George and Kareem have similar interests and goals and want to make really good music. George says he appreciates Kareem’s conversational skills. Kareem is easy to deal with and he’s al- ways up for doing stuff and going out. The boys hang out in each other’s houses and write songs and go out t ogether in the even ings. Kareem says he likes that George sometimes challenges what he says and doesn’t just agree with him all the time. The boys have been friends for some time already and think their friendship will get on well forever. They both live in the same area, know the same people. Their parents are friends as well, but they are not so sure they will be able to see as much of each other after they finish school. No. 2. Exercise 5. Listen to the text “The Greatest Cellist of All Times” and complete the statements in the Student’s book. The Greatest Cellist of All Times Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, a world-famous cellist and con- ductor, is widely considered to have been one of the greatest cellists of the twentieth century. He was born on March 27, 1927 in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. He grew up in the beautiful city of Baku, now the 88 capital of the Independent Republic of Azerbaijan, and spent his young ages there, until his move to Moscow in 1931. At the age of four he learned the piano with his mother who was a talented pianist, and started the cello at the age of 10 with his father, who was also a cellist. From 1943 to 1948, he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire, where he became professor of cello in 1956. He entered the Moscow Conserva- toire at the age of sixteen, and studied not only the piano and the cello, but also conducting and composition. Among his teachers were Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. In 1945 he came to prominence as cellist when he won the gold medal in the first ever Sovie t Union com- petition for young musicians. In 1951, at the age of twenty-four he was awarded w hat was then considered the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, the Stalin Prize. At that time, Rostropovich was already well known in his country and while actively pursuing his solo career, he taught at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Conservatoire and the Moscow Conservatoire. In 1955, he married Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano at the Bolshoi Theatre. His international career started in 1964. He went on several tours in Western Europe and met several composers, including Benjamin Britten. In 1967, he conducted Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Bol- shoi, thus letting forth his passion for both the role of conductor and the opera. Among the composers who wrote especially for Rostropovich were Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Britten, Bernstein, Schnittke and Piazzolla. Rostropovich fought for art without borders, freedom of speech, and democratic values. When in 1948 his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich was dismissed from his professorships in Leningrad and Moscow because he was thought to be one of the so-called “formalist” composers, the then 21-year-old Rostropovich quit the Conservatoire, dropping out in pro- test. In 1969 he sheltered Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his own home. His friendship with Solzhenitsyn and his support for dissidents led to official disgrace. As a result, Rostropovich was restricted from foreign touring, as was his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, and he was sent on a tour of small towns in Siberia. Rostropovich left the Soviet Union in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the United States. Rostropovich was a huge influence on the younger generation of cel- lists. 89 From 1977 until 1994, he was musical director and conductor of the United States National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, while still performing with some of the most famous musicians such as Svi- atoslav Richter and Vladimir Horowitz. He was also the director and founder of the Rostropovitch and Aldeburgh music festivals. His perfor- mance during the fall of the Berlin Wall as events unfolded earned him international fame and was shown on television throughout the world. His Russian citizenship was restored in 1990, although he and his family had already become American citizens. Rostropovich received many international awards. He supported ma- ny educational and cultural projects. Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya, started a foundation to stimulate social projects and ac- tivities. He died on April 27, 2007. жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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