IMAGINE. JOHN LENNON. 30th JANUARY .- International School Day of Non Violence and Peace

 

On January 30, the International School Day of Non-Violence and Peace is celebrated, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi (India, 1869-1948), a pacifist leader who defended and promoted non-violence and peaceful resistance against injustice and that he was assassinated for defending these ideas. 

An education inspired by a culture of non-violence and peace allows schoolchildren to acquire (/əˈkwaɪər/ ) knowledge, attitudes and skills that reinforce their development as critical global citizens committed to their rights and those of others.

"Imagine" is a song by British rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, without materialism, without borders separating nations and without religion.

You can work and learn some vocabulary and lyrics.

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In 2014, to celebrate 25 years of UNICEF's Convention on the Rights of the Child, the organisation launched an initiative using the song. Performers including Ono, Hugh Jackman and ABBA announced the initiative at an event at the UN General Assembly in New York, with the intention of spreading the message that every voice matters. To do this, various celebrities and singers recorded cover versions of the song, which can be played on a downloadable app for people around the world to virtually sing with the celebrities and then share the videos on social media with related hashtags.

Pau Gasol tes una de las celebrities mencionadas arriba. Puedes verlo en el video.

(Información de la página: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_song))

Numerous artists have recorded cover versions of "Imagine".^[81] Joan Baez included it on 1972's Come from the Shadows and Diana Ross recorded a version for her 1973 album, Touch Me in the Morning.^[82] In 1995, Blues Traveler recorded the song for the Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon album^[83] and Dave Matthews has performed the song live with them.^[82] American singer and guitarist Eva Cassidy recorded a version for her 2002 album of the same name;^[84] this version failed to reach the top 100 in the United Kingdom but peaked at number 35 on the UK Indie Chart.^[85] Dolly Parton recorded the song for her 2005 covers album Those Were the Days.^[86] David Archuleta reached number 36 in US and number 31 in Canada with his rendition.^[87] A cover version of the song, performed by Italian singer Marco Carta, entered the top 20 in Italy in 2009, peaking at number 13.^[88]

Esta versión a cappella y reivindicativa es interesante.

Como indica el título de la entrada, el 30 de enero es el Día Escolar de la no violencia y la paz.

Como verás a continuación, se eligió el día de la muerte de Gandhi para esta celebración.

A continuación tienes un texto sobre la biografía de este líder y el acceso a la página web donde encontrarás (al final del texto con el título Activities: Listen to a recorded reading of this page)  el audio para ejercitar la habilidad de listening (escucha) - Fíjate en los 3 puntos que hay a la derecha y haz click sobre ellos).

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/mohandas_gandhi.php

Mohandas Gandhi

Biography for Kids

Acceso a la página web y audio

Mohandas Gandhi

• Occupation: Civil Rights Leader
• Born: October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India
• Died: January 30, 1948 in New Delhi, India
• Best known for: Organizing non-violent civil rights protests

Biography:

Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most famous leaders and champions for justice in the world. His principles and firm belief in non-violence have been followed by many other important civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. His renown is such that he is mostly just referred to by the single name "Gandhi".

Where did Mohandas Gandhi grow up?

Mohandas was born in Porbandar, India on October 2, 1869. He came from an upper class family and his father was a leader in the local community. As was tradition where he grew up, Mohandas' parents arranged a marriage for him at the age of 13. Both the arranged marriage and the young age may seem strange to some of us, but it was the normal way of doing things where he grew up.

Mohandas' parents wanted him to become a barrister, which is a type of lawyer. As a result, when he was 19 years old Mohandas traveled to England where he studied law at the University College London. Three years later he returned to India and started his own law practice. Unfortunately, Mohandas' law practice wasn't successful, so he took a job with an Indian Law firm and moved to South Africa to work out of the South African law office. It was in South Africa where Gandhi would experience racial prejudice against Indians and would begin his work in civil rights.

What did Gandhi do?

Once back in India, Gandhi led the fight for Indian independence from the British Empire. He organized several non-violent civil disobedience campaigns. During these campaigns, large groups of the Indian population would do things like refusing to work, sitting in the streets, boycotting the courts, and more. Each of these protests may seem small by themselves, but when most of the population does them at once, they can have an enormous impact.

Gandhi was put in prison several times for organizing these protests. He would often fast (not eat) while he was in prison. The British government would eventually have to release him because the Indian people had grown to love Gandhi. The British were scared what would happen if they let him die.

One of Gandhi's most successful protests was called the Salt March. When Britain put a tax on salt, Gandhi decided to walk 241 miles to the sea in Dandi to make his own salt. Thousands of Indians joined him in his march.

Gandhi also fought for civil rights and liberties among Indian people.

Did he have other names?

Mohandas Gandhi is often called Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma is a term that means Great Soul. It's a religious title sort of like "Saint" in Christianity. In India he is called the Father of the Nation and also Bapu, which means father.

How did Mohandas die?

Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. He was shot by a terrorist while attending a prayer meeting.

Fun Facts about Mohandas Gandhi

• The 1982 movie Gandhi won the Academy Award for best motion picture.
• His birthday is a national holiday in India. It is also the International Day of Non-Violence.
• He was the 1930 Time Magazine Man of the Year.
• Gandhi wrote a lot. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi have 50,000 pages!
• He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times.

 

Imagine.

Artistas de todo el mundo participaron en esta grabación.

In 2015, American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga performed the song at the 2015 European Games opening ceremony. The song was played for 70,000 people in Baku, Azerbaijan, that served as host of the event.^[95] In 2018, the song was performed at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang (South Korea).^[96] 

Y si quieres cantar, aquí tienes con la letra (lyrics)

MOON RIVER. AUDREY HEPBURN TRIBUTE (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British^[a] actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, Brussels, to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945, and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine.

She went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.

Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only seventeen people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia. In December 1992, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 63.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(film)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer. It was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on October 5, 1961, to critical and commercial success.

Nominated for five Academy Awards (winning two), with the music (including "Moon River") nominated for six Grammy Awards (winning five), the film was selected in 2012 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

LYRICS

"Moon River"  (1961 oscar mejor canción)

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend
My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after that same rainbow's end, waiting, round the bend
My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

 

VOCABULARY

drifter  /ˈdrɪftə/  vagabundo/a

bend  /bɛnd/ curva

Wherever  /wɛərˈɛvə/  en cualquier sitio

COVERS

FLY ME TO THE MOON

 

"FLY ME TO THE MOON", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Kaye Ballard made the song's first commercial recording, released by Decca in April 1954

Over the next few years, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums, including Chris Connor, Johnny Mathis, Portia Nelson, and Nancy Wilson. Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love.

In 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album Pretty Eyes, then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show. As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon", and in 1963 Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name change official. Connie Francis released two non-English versions of the song in 1963: in Italian as "Portami Con Te" and in Spanish as "Llévame a la Luna".

In 1962, Joe Harnell arranged and recorded an instrumental version in a bossa nova style. It was released as a single in late 1962. Harnell's version spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 14 on February 23, 1963

Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie.

By 1995, the song had been recorded more than 300 times. The Japanese animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion uses several versions of the song sung by Claire Littley, Yoko Takahashi, and various female cast members of the series for the closing music of each episode

Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on a Sony TC-50 portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon

Puedes completar la letra de la canción.

"________   _____   _____   ________   _________________"                         

________ me to the _____________
Let me _________ among the ___________
Let me __________ what _____________ is like
On (a), Jupiter and Mars
In other ___________, hold my ____________
In other ___________, baby, __________ me

_________ my ___________ with ____________
And let me ____________ for ever more
You _________ all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other ____________, ___________ be true
In other ____________, I _________   ________

Fill ________ heart _________ song
Let me _________ for _________ more
You _________ all I long for
_______ I worship and ____________
In _________   ____________, please be _________
In _________   ____________, in other words
I __________   ___________

Aquí tienes la letra

"FLY ME TO THE MOON"  Frank Sinatra

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On (a), Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love you

Ahora tú puedes cantar con el siguiente video

Como siempre, a continuación tenéis las direcciones de algunos vídeos.

In OtherWords (original) - Kaye Ballard 1954.wmv

https://youtu.be/mcwlGjDNkkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcwlGjDNkkw

Fly Me ToThe Moon. Bertin Osborne

https://youtu.be/cWX8vMR8hyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWX8vMR8hyM&list=RDcWX8vMR8hyM&start_radio=1

 

Fly me tothe Moon. Rafael Cortés

https://youtu.be/oMrfH8sFu_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMrfH8sFu_0

 

Julie London - Fly Me ToThe Moon - BestofSmooth Jazz

https://youtu.be/MeLVCeErypY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLVCeErypY

 

Fly Me tothe Moon (In OtherWords). Doris Day

https://youtu.be/ktZaDdQ85q8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZaDdQ85q8

Say A Little Prayer. Aretha Franklin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Say_a_Little_Prayer

"I Say a Little Prayer" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick.

Dionne Warwick original

Dionne Warwick, 1966

Intended by lyricist Hal David to convey a woman's concern for her man who's serving in the Vietnam War,  "I Say a Little Prayer" was recorded by Dionne Warwick in a 9 April 1966 session. Although Bacharach's recordings with Warwick typically took no more than three takes (often only taking one), Bacharach did ten takes on "I Say a Little Prayer" and still disliked the completed track, feeling it was rushed.

Aretha Franklin version

"I Say a Little Prayer" also returned to the Pop & R&B Top Ten in the fall of 1968 via a recording by Aretha Franklin taken from her 1968 album Aretha Now. Franklin and background vocalists The Sweet Inspirations were singing the song for fun while rehearsing the songs intended for the album when the viability of their recording "I Say a Little Prayer" became apparent,^[3] significantly reinvented from the format of the Dionne Warwick original via the prominence of Clayton Ivey's piano work. Similar to the history of Warwick's double-sided hit, the Aretha Franklin version was intended for the B-side of the July 1968 single release "The House That Jack Built" but began to accrue its own airplay that August.

Versión lyrics

La siguiente información se ha obtenido de la página:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Friend%27s_Wedding

My Best Friend's Wedding is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by P. J. Hogan. The film stars Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, and Rupert Everett.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The soundtrack song "I Say a Little Prayer" was covered by singer Diana King and featured heavily in the film, making it a U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit. It has since been cited as one of the best romantic comedy films of the 1990s and of all time.

Plot

Three weeks before her 28th birthday, New York City food critic Julianne "Jules" Potter receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal, a Chicago sportswriter. Years earlier, the two agreed that if they were both unmarried by age 28, they would marry each other. Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry the beautiful Kimmy Wallace, a college student eight years his junior whose father owns the Chicago White Sox. Realizing that she was in love with him, Jules resolves to sabotage his wedding. Arriving in Chicago, she reunites with Michael and meets Kimmy, who asks her to be the maid of honor. Jules schemes to break up the couple, but her attempt to humiliate Kimmy at a karaoke bar backfires. She manipulates Kimmy into asking her father to offer Michael a job, which Jules knows will anger Michael, but this fails as well.

Frustrated, Jules begs her friend George Downes for help, and he flies to Chicago. On George's advice, Jules prepares to tell Michael how much she loves him, but instead tells him that she is engaged to George, hoping to make Michael jealous. George, who is gay, plays along but embarrasses Jules at lunch with the wedding party, singing "I Say a Little Prayer" as the whole restaurant joins in. George flies home, and Jules tells Michael that her "relationship" with George is over. Michael admits to feeling jealous and gives her the chance to confess her own feelings, but she lets the moment pass. They share a dance as Michael sings their song, "The Way You Look Tonight".

(...)

COVERS

Diana King - Say A Little Prayer

The Overtones - Say a Little Prayer

Now, sing and dance!!!!!