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Senri-Chūō Station
is a railway station on the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway (which links directly into the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line) and Osaka Monorail located in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. It is the main railway station in , and also called "". Lines * Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway Namboku Line (Station Number: M08) *Osaka Monorail Main Line (Station Number: 15) Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway Namboku Line Layout *There is an island platform on the second basement serving two tracks. Music ;arrival announcement *" Funiculì Funiculà" a Napolitan song relating with rail transit *"Home! Sweet Home!" composed by Henry Bishop, lyrics by John Howard Payne ;departure announcement *Spring: "Spring Song" from "Song Without Words" Book 5, Op.62 by Felix Mendelssohn *Summer: Minuet from " L'Arlésienne" Suite No. 2 by Georges Bizet *Autumn (Fall): " Autumn Leaves" by Joseph Kosma *Winter: "Takibi" composed by Shigeru Watanabe, lyrics by Seika Tatsumi *Last train for Esaka: "Auld Lang Syne" a Scots poem Osaka Monor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyonaka, Osaka
is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on October 15, 1936. Geography Climate Toyonaka has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Toyonaka is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . Neighboring municipalities *Osaka Prefecture ** Yodogawa-ku, Osaka ** Suita ** Minoh ** Ikeda *Hyōgo Prefecture **Amagasaki **Itami Demographics , the city has an estimated population of 396,014 and a population density of 11,000 persons per km². The total area is 36.38 km². Its peak population was over 420,000. Toyonaka is a residential area of Osaka Prefecture, and includes Senri New Town. The city is easy to reach through various modes of transportation, and many of its residents commute daily into Osaka City to work. Osaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howard Payne
John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had nearly two decades of a theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States and the English-speaking world. Its popularity was revived during the American Civil War, as troops on both sides embraced it. After his return to the United States in 1832, Payne spent time with the Cherokee Indians in the Southeast and interviewed many elders. Intending to write about them, he amassed material about their culture, language and society, which have been useful to scholars. But his published theory that suggested their origin as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel has been thoroughly disproved. At that time, European Americans were still strongly influenced by a Biblical basis of history in trying to understand origins of the peoples in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamada Denki
is one of the largest consumer electronics retailer chains in Japan. Some of its stores also sell other products, such as books. Overview The company was founded in 1973 as a privately owned store. Yamada Denki Co., Ltd. was established in 1983. The current corporation was created on May 21, 1987, by a merger with the dormant company "Japan Electrical Wiring Industries", founded in 1978, via a change in the face value of the stock, and a change in the company name (to Kabushiki-gaisha Yamada Denki). Yamada Denki is listed in the first division of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the location of its head office is 4-40-11, Hiyoshi-chō, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The head office is scheduled to move to Takasaki, Gunma in 2007. In February 2005, the company achieved sales figures of 1 trillion yen, making it the first specialist retailer in Japan to do so. At the end of 2004, the company had 223 directly run stores across Japan, and 33 stores owned by subsidiaries, a tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hankyu Department Store
is a Japanese department store chain owned by , a subsidiary of H2O Retailing Corporation. Stores *Umeda, Osaka - Main Store (''Honten'') **Hankyu Men's *Kobe **formerly Sogo Department Stores * Takarazuka * Kawanishi * Senri *Takatsuki, Takatsuki **formerly Seibu Department Stores * Sanda *Nishinomiya *Hankyu Men's Tokyo (Yūrakuchō, Tokyo) - The store was reopened on October 15, 2011 (http://www.h2o-retailing.co.jp/news/pdf/2010/110121_renewal.pdf). * Ooi Shokuhinkan, Tokyo * Tsuzuki, Yokohama *Hakata, Fukuoka - opened in March 2011, as a main tenant of the renovated Hakata Station. Former stores * Shijō Kawaramachi, Kyoto - closed August 2010 Overseas franchises Uni-President Department Store Corp., a Uni-President group company, operated two stores in Taiwan under the name Uni-President Hankyu. The franchise agreement between Uni-President and H2O Retailing was terminated in 2016, renaming all stores Uni-Ustyle. * Kaohsiung, Taiwan *Taipei, Taiwan See also *Hanshin De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka International Airport
, often referred to as is the primary regional airport for the Kansai region of Japan, including the major cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. Classified as a first class airport, it is the airport closest to Kyoto, southwest of Kyoto Station. Despite its "international" designation, the airport caters exclusively to domestic flights. Kansai International Airport ( away) took over the region's international traffic in 1994 and competes with Itami for domestic traffic. Itami also faces competition from Kobe Airport ( away), a smaller domestic airport opened in 2006. The airport was named after the city of Itami, Hyōgo, Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture because most of its land is located there. A portion of the airport property is also located in Toyonaka, Osaka, Toyonaka and Ikeda, Osaka, Ikeda cities of Osaka Prefecture. The terminal complex is located in all three of these cities, and the only access from the Itami side is via a long tunnel that passes below the runway and apron. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" (: note "s" rather than "z") is a popular song, particularly in the English-speaking world. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. By extension, it is also often heard at funerals, graduations, and as a farewell or ending to other occasions; for instance, many branches of the Scouting movement use it to close jamborees and other functions. The text is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 but based on an older Scottish folk song. In 1799, it was set to a traditional tune, which has since become standard. "Auld Lang Syne" is listed as numbers 6294 and 13892 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The poem's Scots title may be translated into standard English as "old long since" or, less literally, "long long ago", This book was purchased at Burns Cottage, and was reprinted in 1967, and 1973. "days gone by", "times long past" or "old times". Consequently, "For auld lang syne", as it appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kosma
Joseph Kosma (22 October 19057 August 1969) was a Hungarian-French composer. Biography Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Ákos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another was the conductor Georg Solti. He started to play the piano at age five, and later took piano lessons. At the age of 11, he wrote his first opera, ''Christmas in the Trenches''. After completing his education at the Secondary Grammar School Franz-Josef, he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Leo Weiner. He also studied with Béla Bartók at the Liszt Academy, receiving diplomas in composition and conducting. He won a grant to study in Berlin in 1928, where he met Lilli Apel, another musician, whom he later married. Kosma also met and studied with Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He became acquainted with Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. Kosma and his wife emigrated to Paris in 1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Leaves (1945 Song)
"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945 with original lyrics by Jacques Prévert in French (original French title: "Les Feuilles mortes"), and later by Johnny Mercer in English. An instrumental version by pianist Roger Williams was a number one best-seller in the US ''Billboard'' charts of 1955. Background Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song ' ("The Dead Leaves") for the 1946 film '' Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night)'' where it was sung by Irène Joachim and Yves Montand. The poem was published, after the death of Jacques Prévert, in the book "Soleil de Nuit" in 1980. Kosma was influenced by a piece of ballet music, "Rendez-vous" written for Roland Petit, performed in Paris at the end of the Second World War, large parts of the melodies are exactly the same, which was itself borrowed partially from "Poème d'octobre" by Jules Massenet. The first commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, '' Carmen'', which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. Restless for success, he began many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Arlésienne (Bizet)
''L'Arlésienne'' is incidental music composed by Georges Bizet for Alphonse Daudet's drama of the same name, usually translated as ''The Girl from Arles''. It was first performed on 30 September 1872 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris.Macdonald, Hugh, The Bizet Catalog' Bizet's music consists of 27 numbers for chorus and small orchestra, ranging from pieces of background music (mélodrames) only a few measures long, to entr'actes.Macdonald, Hugh, The Bizet Catalog' The score achieves powerful dramatic ends with the most economic of means. Still, the work received poor reviews in the wake of the unsuccessful premiere and is not often performed now in its original form, although recordings are available. However, key pieces of the incidental music, most often heard in the form of two suites for orchestra, have become some of Bizet's most popular compositions. History Composition history In July 1872, Léon Carvalho, director of the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (which includes his " Wedding March"), the '' Italian Symphony'', the ''Scottish Symphony'', the oratorio '' St. Paul'', the oratorio '' Elijah'', the overture '' The Hebrides'', the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol " Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is also his. Mendelssohn's '' Songs Without Words'' are his most famous solo piano compositions. Mendelssohn's grandfather was the renowned Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, but Felix was initially raised without religion. He was baptised at the age of seven, becoming a Reformed Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Without Words
''Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood'' is a wordless novel of 1936 by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985). Executed in twenty-one wood engravings, it was the fifth and shortest of the six wordless novels Ward completed, produced while working on the last and longest, '' Vertigo'' (1937). The story concerns the anxiety an expectant mother feels over bringing a child into a world under the threat of fascism—anxieties Ward and writer May McNeer were then feeling over McNeer's pregnancy with the couple's second child. Content and style A woman conceives a child and suffers anguish over whether to give birth to it. She imagines one nightmare image of fascism and death after another, filled with such imagery as skulls, concentration camps, and an infant impaled on a bayonet. She ends standing defiant against the forces that threaten her, and her male partner joins her and the baby in an image of hope for the future. Ward employs symbols much as he had in pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
