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Around the world there are some festivals that for some of us may sound bizarre.
In England they celebrate the rolling cheese race, which occurs every year during the last Monday in May. This festival¡¯s characteristic is a contest where an official rolls cheese down a steep hill and festival- goers go chasing after it. The winner is the first one to reach and catch the cheese.
Another festival celebrated in England is the world championship of grimaces (¹íÁ³). It is a celebration that dates back to 1297 and is celebrated during the month of September. The task is to perform the best grimace using anything you can to win.
The worldwide championship of wife lifting is celebrated in Finland. The game is based on Viking traditions where a man should carry away his neighbor¡¯s wife. According to the rules, any woman above 17 is considered as a wife, so if you are within this age, take care while visiting this country during the month of July.
Many of you have watched Pirates of the Caribbean and have known something about pirates. The 19th of September has been declared worldwide as the day to talk like a pirate. Plenty of people have celebrated it thanks to the publicity (Ðû´«) on the Internet.
First staged in 1998, the Boryeong Mud Festival is an attraction that pulls more than a million visitors to the South Korean City. As you all know, the town is said to be rich in minerals, so there is no shortage of mud. Mud is trucked onto Daecheon Beach for tourists and locals to enjoy the festival to their best.
The Monkey Buffet Festival is held in Thailand to develop tourism. It¡¯s an unusual feast held for about 600 monkeys. The Monkey Buffet Festival is held in honor of the Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman and involves 3,000 kilograms of vegetables and fruits being laid out for monkeys to stuff themselves.
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A£®Do established musicians have a responsibility to guide and assist young up-and-coming musicians? B£®Did anyone promote your musical education when you were growing up? C£®What kind of ¡°world music¡± do you enjoy? D£®What¡¯s your comment on pop music? E£®Does the contemporary music press give jazz the coverage it deserves? F£®What¡¯s wrong with the music on the radio? |
An interview with Wynton Marsalis, a noted jazz musician
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There were the older jazz musicians who hung around our house when I was young. I saw how much they practiced, how serious they were about their art. I knew then I had to work just as hard if I wanted to succeed. Of course, my father inspired me a lot, and many teachers took the time to nurture my latent and the talents of other students in our school.
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Yes. We¡¯ve done such a poor job with music education because, as a society, we haven¡¯t maintained the kind of education that a true artist and musician needs. Young people haven¡¯t been able to equate romance and talent with music. For instance, most of the people who make it in the music industry today have to look good. How they sound is secondary. Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald ¨D those big, romantic queens of jazz music wouldn¡¯t make it in today¡¯s music industry, and that¡¯s a shame. We need to teach young people about the alternatives.
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Around the would people make music that, if you listen carefully to it, sounds a little like the cadence of their language. I¡¯d call it folk music. When I¡¯m away from home, I make a point of listening to regional folk music, not what¡¯s on the radio.
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The same music is on the radio all over the world, and the American sound is overwhelming. Even the pop music that¡¯s produced and created in foreign countries has that American beat, that underscore of funk. As a musician, I¡¯m not interested in hearing recycled versions of the same genre over and over. Any music that doesn¡¯t have a development section just isn¡¯t interesting to me.
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The music press has so much to introduce these days, and jazz is just a small fraction of it. Because some people are intimidated by jazz, they don¡¯t cover it unless it¡¯s a big name. New jazz musicians don¡¯t get much of break. A lot of editors don¡¯t say anything about jazz these days unless it¡¯s Marsalis. That¡¯s a shame. What VH1 is doing with their Save the Music campaign is phenomenal. They¡¯re getting all these instruments out to needy kids. It¡¯s the kind of thing all networks should be doing.