Sarah hicks conductor biography of michael jackson
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Growing up, Halloween was my least favorite holiday. As a kid (and to be honest, still as an adult) I was easily scared by almost anything. Having an entire day dedicated to the things that go bump in the night was like the embodiment of all my youthful nightmares— and one part of Halloween that always sent chills down my spine was its music. Years later, hearing the menacing laugh at the end of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," or the piercing strings in Psycho is enough to raise the hairs on the back of my neck. But what exactly is it about Halloween music that makes it so scary?
Last December, Vox published a video on Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," analyzing just what makes the song sound so Christmassy. The video points to a specific chord used in "All I Want For Christmas Is You," the half-diminished (also known as minor 7 flat 5) built on the song's second scale degree. Vox explains that the same chord is used in various classic Christmas songs such as "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and argues that it is the "secret sauce" that can make a Christmas song sound like Christmas.
While I found the video a tad click bait-y, and am not sure that you can boil down an entire genre to one chor
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List of feminine classical conductors
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The new Michael Jackson song: 'This Is It'
From Dan DeLuca's "In the Mix"
Unfortunately, this is by no means it.
In fact, it's only the beginning. Michael Jackson's life as an after-death recording artist is under way with "This Is It," the "new" song - which actually came into existence under a different name 26 years ago - that was released in a streaming version on on Monday.
Will the posthumous profiteering over Jackson's corpse be entirely coarse and crass? Almost certainly. It's not really fair to come to that conclusion solely on the basis of this thin though perfectly pleasant song, which was probably recorded for (and left off of) 's Dangerous. But the song was originally written by Jackson and Paul Anka, of all people, all the way back in , when it went by the title "I Never Heard."
The provenance is complicated. Anka's been well-paid as a songwriter through a career that's included compositions such as Frank Sinatra's "My Way" and the theme to Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, not to mention "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and "Having My Baby." After squawking to that he'd been ripped off, Anka seems happy now that the Jackson estate has given him a 50 percent stake in the song. "It was an honest mistake," he says.
But the marketing is straightforward.