A new operatic musical about the events in Boston leading up to the American Revolution. www.BostonT
New love blooms and old loyalty dies, as Sam Adams leads a rebellion against an Empire's high taxes, heavy-handedness and invasions of privacy. A mythic, modern version of the moment Americans discovered their identity as a people.
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Do you know who Paul Revere is? He is one of America's key historical figures. Want to know what he did? Eric Metaxas, New York Times #1 bestselling author, shares the remarkable story.
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Just found out about this write-up of the premiere of The Boston Tea Party Opera at FringeNYC - The New York International Fringe Festival last year! "And now for something … completely different!... There’s much to enjoy in its rhythmic riffs, vocal pyrotechnics, and harmonic sonorities. And the music is extremely well served by a young, enthusiastic cast of a dozen or so prodigious vocal talents. In short, it was certainly worth my time and may well be worth yours."
Today is the one-year anniversary of the world premiere of the Boston Tea Party Opera at the NY International Fringe Festival! Great memories. Stay tuned for more info about the future of the show...
"Opera with a conscience" - CurtainUp.com
"The famous cry at the Boston Tea Party of “no taxation without representation” in 1773 reflected one of the major grievances of American colonists and provided a direct link back to Sir Edward Coke’s interpretation of Clause 12 in Magna Carta from the original 1215 manuscript." http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/holkham-s-role-in-the-revival-of-magna-carta-1-6793360
This summer marks a series of events celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta – and it will also feature in a new display at Holkham Hall.
Somebody wrote a children's musical on the subject of... guess what?
“It’s a great way to instill the feeling of history,” Gries said. “The kids have to really get in the mind-set of how the colonists were feeling when the British were imposing acts to take away their rights. It makes them have to feel history rather than just recite it.”
NORTHFIELD — Students in Ellenjo Gries’ fifth-grade class will perform “The Destruction of the Tea,” a musical based on the
"n 1860 the Boston historian and activist William Cooper Nell received new information about Crispus Attucks and his family. It doesn't appear to have been analyzed by more recent historians."
Labels: animals, blacks, Crispus Attucks, Framingham, Natick, Native Americans, Prince Yongey/Prince Jonar, remembering the Revolution, Sutton, Thomas Buckminster, William Brown
"If the Boston Tea Party taught us anything, it’s that people love tea. That cold, December morning, however, almost ruined its reputation forever. " http://www.bustle.com/articles/75321-is-tea-better-for-you-than-coffee-tea-is-definitely-having-a-moment-and-here-are
If the Boston Tea Party taught us anything, it’s that people love tea. That cold, December morning, however, almost ruined its reputation forever. By the time the sun rose, coffee — which was seen as an obvious break from stuffy British rule — had become the drink of choice for patriotic
"“The spontaneously joyful smile is the facial expression most easily recognized from a distance—as far as a hundred metres, researchers say.” Since the late 1800s, scientists have claimed and amassed evidence that the smile is a universal human expression.""
"The new History Channel mini-series “Sons of Liberty” gives the Hollywood treatment to the revolutionary secret society. So were these freedom fighters brawling hunks, or just concerned patriots?"
The new History Channel mini-series “Sons of Liberty” gives the Hollywood treatment to the revolutionary secret society. So were these freedom fighters brawling hunks, or just concerned patriots?...
Right up our alley!
Jan 23 2015 Content Review: 'Sons Of Liberty' History, Starting Sunday, Jan. 25 at 9 p.m. (ET) 1/23/2015 2:00 PM Eastern By: Mike Demenchuk Follow History once again takes its “historical fiction” approach — the tack it took with its enjoyable series Vikings — and applies it to the minise…
!["The General rode on a noble white charger with characteristic erectness and dignity. Colonel [Tobias] Lear and Major [W...](https://img4.medioq.com/281/503/439989602815037.jpg)
"The General rode on a noble white charger with characteristic erectness and dignity. Colonel [Tobias] Lear and Major [William] Jackson accompanied him as his aids. Washington was in uniform, and as he rode, his head uncovered, he inclined his body first on one side and then on the other, without distinctly bowing, but so as to observe the multitude in the streets, and the ladies in the windows and on the tops of the houses, who saluted him as he passed."
Labels: architecture, Charles Bulfinch, children, Daniel Rea, George Washington, holidays, Isaac Harris, manners, music, Oliver Willington Lane, school, Tobias Lear, William H. Sumner, William Jackson
New musical by the composer of the Boston Tea Party Opera, at the "Frigid New York" Festival. Performances begin 2/19.
Goofy New Horror Musical Haunts the "Frigid New York" Festival. Dr. Seuss meets zombies in this "Deliciously scary" musical which premiered to SOLD OUT crowds at the Players Theater Boo Festival--and now continues at the mid-winter "Frigid New York" Festival in the East Village. - PR12408724
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The perfect resource to start building your students’ foundation of the importance of the American experiment, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Students will also read biographies of heroic Americans who embodied fundamental civic values.
1795 time capsule opened, centuries after Revere and Adams buried it - CNN.com
Paul Revere and Samuel Adams buried a time capsule in Boston, Massachusetts more than 200 years ago. On Tuesday, museum experts opened it.
"Which American Revolution book do you refer to most often?...I realized that these days I usually don’t refer to any reference volume at all—I use Wikipedia to get the basics and then do my first follow up through Google....But I keep reading books as well" http://ow.ly/GAEab
I thought your answer was quite truthful. The problem is the hypocrisy that exists in academia regarding the use of Wikipedia, and from that point...
Here's something you don't see every day!
Gingerbread for Liberty! by Mara Rockliff: Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of and#8220;Revolution!and#8221; began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or canno…
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"Perhaps the most fascinating item of all was a 1652 Pine Tree Shilling, which was struck by the colony during Cromwell’s Protectorate in England."
Public got its first glimpse inside a time capsule dating to 1795 and believed placed by Samuel Adams and other Revolutionary War figures.
1795 Time Capsule Buried By Sam Adams, Paul Revere To Be Opened
A time capsule from 1795 that's believed to have been placed by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere will be seen by the public for the first time tonight at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The capsule was embedded in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts state Capitol when Adams was governor. If you were i…
A book on the basics of music by the composer of the Boston Tea Party Opera. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1619330628/?tag=mattjohnsonmu-20
An expansion of teaching materials created for students at the Mannes College in New York, this book draws on the author's years of experience as...
Some recommended books on the history of revolutionary Boston, used by the composer of the Boston Tea Party Opera. http://www.bostonteapartyopera.com/recommendations.html
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"Revere became a Freemason in 1760, and soon joined two more overtly political groups–the Sons of Liberty and the North End Caucus. Through them, he participated in Samuel Adams’s gradually accelerating movement toward independence, serving primarily as a courier and an engraver of propaganda pictures, the two best-known examples of which are a “view” of British ships landing troops in 1768 and a wildly inaccurate cartoon depicting the Boston Massacre of 1770."
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/paul-revere
Find out more about the history of Paul Revere, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
"The Boston Tea Party would set the mood for more confrontations and be remembered long after those tea leaves sunk to the bottom of Boston harbor. I wonder if a fortune teller in scuba gear could have read those tea leaves and foretold what was coming?" http://ow.ly/GvoZG
It is odd how historical happenings tend to bunch up on the calendar. Take Dec. 16, for example.
Just 3 days left to sign up for the course introducing a new theory of Emotion in Life and Music, by the composer of the Boston Tea Party Opera. Check out the video in the project gallery, in which Jocelyn explains to our cat Clarence why he should sign up. :) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emotion-in-life-music-new-book-course#gallery
What does it mean for music to be emotional? A new theory answers the age-old question.
"The events at Lexington and Concord began the American Revolution. The revolution ushered in the modern era. The age of monarchies entered into decline. Enlightenment ideals would come to dominate the western world. However, no one knew at the time. The Americans needed to win the war and were vast underdogs in the conflict." http://ow.ly/Gi8Jo
The Boston Tea Party led the British to clamp down on Massachusetts.
"The colonies loved their tea, too. But when England increased their taxes on the tea, a band of some 60 frustrated colonists took action on Dec. 16, 1773, by boarding British ships and dumping hundreds of pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. This act, which was called the Boston Tea Party, was one of the catalysts for the colonists’ fight for independence."
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
New discounted family package now available. Sign up a whole household for 32% off. Limited number available. By the composer of the Boston Tea Party Opera.
What does it mean for music to be emotional? A new theory answers the age-old question.
Fact of the day for the day before the big day....
Dec 15, 1773: Jonathan Clarke feared the tea cargo from the William would fall into the hands of patriots. He left the safety of Castle William and went ashore to Boston, then rode more than 100 miles down the Cape Cod coast toward Provincetown. He stopped at Wellfleet and gathered justice of the peace, John Greenough. At Provincetown, Clarke secured the tea. He sold Greenough two chests of tea and then he hired a fishing schooner to sail the rest to Castle William.
So what's inside the time capsule found under the Massachusetts State House? A Freemasons' magazine from 1855 offers some answers: http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2014/12/whats-inside-state-house-time-capsule.html
http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2014/12/whats-inside-state-house-time-capsule.html
“The quality of the tea sent to the Colonies was awful,” said Evan O’Brien, creative director of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, which hosts its annual re-enactment Tuesday. “High-quality tea went to the citizens of England. Americans got second-rate tea.”
The Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, was more than just a protest against British taxes. It was a protest against terrible tea, too.
"James Otis, Jr., suffered a severe mental breakdown in the months after he suffered a head injury in a coffee-house brawl in October 1769. " http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-non-compos-distracted-or-lunatick.html
Labels: James Otis, John Adams, John Gray, John Hancock, law, Lendell Pitts, Massachusetts General Court, psychiatry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Hutchinson, town government
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