Friends!!!
\nGrandpa Frog, who is a member of the GoMagic group on the OGS, is hosting the March (2024) \"Jazz Standard - Mack the Knife\" tournament with the help of GoMagic.
\n\nA jazz standard, also an Evergreen, is a musical composition as part of the well-known jazz repertoire. A jazz standard - most often a popular song, less often an instrumental piece - is used by a jazz musician as the basis for individual or ensemble arrangements, in spontaneous music-making or in a recording studio.
\n\nJazz standards, these are tunes that everyone knows and that have become classics of jazz music. Let's take a look at one of the jazz standards, Kurt Weill's composition Mack the Knife.
\n\nKurt Julian Wiell, 1900-1950 was a German and American composer, one of the few Europeans who managed to combine modern postmodern music with musical and jazz.
\n\n![](\"https://pavelgvozdev.ru/ogs_tournament/mac_the_knife/Kurt_Weill_and_Lotte_Lenya_at_home_1942.jpg\")
\n The song \"Mack the Knife\" is undoubtedly Kurt Weill's biggest hit. The composer composed it for The Threepenny Opera in 1928 (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht), Europeans remembered the song and in the early 30s it was sung by various artists and played by many dance orchestras.
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\n\nIn the United States, this little masterpiece was not noticed until after the composer's death; The Threepenny Opera was staged with great success in 1955, and in 1956 it was recorded by Louis Armstrong (translated into English by Mark Blitzstein). Bobby Darin's version appeared in 1958, and in 1960 it was performed by the duo Armstrong - Fitzgerald.
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\n\nThe deliberately simple melody is played 7 times, so to create development and climax, from the third verse the tonality is constantly shifted up by half a tone (six tonalities in total). As a jazz standard, the song was included only in the repertoire of several Dixielands.\n\n\n
\n\nThis composition is very popular and is performed by modern jazz orchestras as well.\n\n\n
\n\nAnd now about pleasant things, about prizes! First of all, each participant of this unofficial tournament will receive an unofficial prize - a Chinese Go book in electronic form. The link to the book will be posted in the tournament chat for a few days after the tournament starts. Since the chat room is periodically cleared of messages, the link will be removed after some time. If you haven't had a chance to download the book, post in the tournament chat and I'll post the link again.
\n\nSecond, GoMagic.org has generously sponsored prizes for participants of the unofficial tournaments that I host.These prizes come in the form of coupons, which can be used towards the purchase of GoMagic courses and memberships. In each group of our the third round, participants ranking 1st and 2nd will be awarded these valuable prizes.As the host, I will personally deliver the coupons to the winners via private message on OGS
\n\nSomething about the regulations. Please note that each move adds 1 day to the time, but no more than 3 days. Time is suspended for the weekend. This means that you have to make one move per day.
\n\n\n Regards,
\n Grandpa Frog.\n
P.S. James Bond will return in the movie \"From Russia with love\"~~
Tournaments Go Magic will continue in April with the \"Russian cats\" tournament.
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