Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman is a Swedish-born actress (1915-1982) who went to Hollywood to appear in David Selznick's Intermezzo in 1939 and later appeared in “Casablanca”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Gaslight” (Academy Award). She projected a combination of radiance, refined beauty, and fortitude. For her role in the film “Murder in the Oriental Express” she was given Academy Award.

Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn is the stage name of Peggy Margaret Hookham (1919— 1991), a famous English ballet dancer. She made her debut with the Vic-Wells Ballet in “Nutcracker” in 1934 and first appeared as Giselle in 1937, eventually becoming prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet, London. Renowned for her perfect physique, clear line, musicality, and interpretive powers, she created many roles in Frederick Ashton's ballets and formed a legendary partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.

Music in Britain

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries English musicians had a great reputation in Europe, both for their talent and for their originality. It was their experiments in keyboard music which helped to form the base from which grew most of the great harpsichord and piano music. William Byrd was the most distinguished English composer of this time, and his name is still widely known.

In the centuries which followed, England produced no composers of world rank except for Purcell in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Elgar in the twentieth century. Today, however, many people believe that there has been a reflowering of English music, and that the compositions of some contemporary composers will live on after their deaths. The music of Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and William Walton is performed all over the world.

Benjamin Britten was not modern in the musical sense of the word, but he was modem in his attitude towards his public. He has been called a ‘people's composer’ because he composed music, particularly operas and choral works, that can be sung by ordinary people and by children. Some of his operas, such as “Noyes Fludde” (Noah's Flood) are performed in churches every year, and people from the surrounding area sing and act in them. The festival which he started in his little home town, Alde-burg, on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, has become one of the most important musical festivals in Europe. Benjamin Britten's music, however, is traditionally compared with the works of many of the younger generation of composers. The music of composers like Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Rodney Benett, John Tavener, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are having considerable influence and popularity abroad.

It is significant that Richard Rodney Benett is a very fine trumpeter and once played the piano in a jazz band. The dividing lines between serious music on the one hand and jazz, pop and folk music on the other, are becoming less and less clear, and the influence that they are having on one another is increasing. Many twentieth-century British composers, including Vaughan Williams, Tipett and Britten, have been attracted and influenced by old A.L. Webber English folk songs.

Most musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, like “Jesus Christ Superstar”, ”Cats”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Evita”, “Sunset Boulevard” are still hits staged in the best theatres of England, the United States and others countries.

2. Выполнить контрольную работу № 2 в рабочей тетради. Изучить следующий грамматический материал:

1. Видовременные формы глагола (Present, Past, Future, Simple, Progressive, Perfect) в действительном и страдательном залоге.

2. Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты.

3. Неопределенные местоимения.

4. Вопросительные и отрицательные формы в действительном и страдательном залоге.

Контрольная работа №2

для студентов заочного отделения специализации РТП

(III семестр)