The making of a Carnival Cruise Line TV commercial
Get a behind the scenes view of the making of our latest TV Commercial- “Different”.
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Carnival Fun Ship DVD (3 of 13)
This section is all about the accommodations available on board the ships of Carnival.
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The Carnival of the Animals: The Aquarium
Le Carnaval des Animaux’ (The Carnival of the Animals) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Le Carnaval was composed in February 1886 while Saint-Saëns was vacationing in a small Austrian village. It was originally scored for a chamber group of flute, clarinet, two pianos, glass harmonica, xylophone, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, but is usually performed today with a full orchestra of strings, and with a glockenspiel substituting for the rare glass harmonica.
Saint-Saëns, apparently concerned that the piece was too frivolous and likely to harm his reputation as a serious composer, suppressed performances of it and only allowed one movement, Le Cygne, to be published in his lifetime. Only small private performances were given for close friends like Franz Liszt.
Saint-Saëns did, however, include a provision which allowed the suite to be published after his death, and it has since become one of his most popular works. It is a favorite of music teachers and young children, along with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Strings without double-bass, two pianos, flute, and harmonica: This is one of the more musically rich movements. The melody is played by the flute, backed by the strings, on top of tumultuous, glissando like runs in the piano. The first piano plays a descending ten-on-one ostinato, while the second plays a six-on-one. These figures, plus the occasional glissando from the harmonica, are very evocative of a peaceful, dimly-lit aquarium. This intermittent section where the pianos play high sixteenths is reminiscent of parts of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker.
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Trinidad & Tobago Antilia Pre-2010 Carnival Fete1 – Hot Costume Preview
The glamour and excitement for Antilia Pre-Carnival event.
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Benton County Fair 2008 – Carnival Ride Siren
A quick spur-of-the-moment video, didn’t even bother with fancifying this with titles.
This is one of the carnival rides they have every year at the Benton County (Iowa) fair. I decided to record video of it running because it has an old fire engine/police car siren on it the operator likes to randomly sound. The siren is heard at 0:58 and again at 2:34.
As far as what kind/model of siren it is, I do not know. My knowledge of small fire/police sirens is rather nonexistent (My interest primarily lies with their larger civil defense/tornado brothers).
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Carnival Cruise Water
May 2009 Carnival Cruise water in my cabin on the doomed Carnival Legend ship. And yes, it smelled like sewage. This was shot the same day we skipped Cozumel due to swine flu. What a hygenic alternative!
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Carnival Elation Cruise Ship Horn in San Diego – January 19, 2009
The cruise ship Carnival Elation has the loudest and best cruise ship horn, at least amongst the ones I’ve heard in San Diego. The Elation usually sounds off around 3:30pm about 1/2 hour before it departs. Today I visited the docks to capture the sounds. Turn your volume up1
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Our family vacation 2007Carnival Brazil 2010, View From Camarote Azul…Amazing View!!!
Carnival Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s lavish carnival is one of the world’s most famous. Scores of spectacular floats surrounded by thousands and thousands of dancers, singers, and drummers parade through the enormous Sambódromo Stadium dressed in elaborate costumes (or, quite often, with absolutely no costume.) It is an epic event televised around the world. The origin of Brazil’s carnival goes back to a Portuguese pre-lent festivity called “entrudo”, a chaotic event where participants threw mud, water, and food at each other in a street event that often led to riots (an event quite similar to today’s Andean carnival – see Venezuelan section of this booklet). Rio’s first masquerade carnival ball (set to polkas and waltzes) was in 1840. Carnival street parades followed a decade later with horse drawn floats and military bands. The sound closely associated with the Brazilian carnival, the samba, wasn’t part of carnival until 1917. The samba is a mix of Angolan semba, European polka, African batuques, with touches of Cuban habanera and other styles. What we now know as samba is a result of the arrival of black Brazilians (primarily from Bahia) to the impoverished slums or favelas surrounding Rio following the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. Today the carnival is organized by the escolas de samba (samba schools). They first appeared in 1928. Much more than musical groups, they are in fact, neighborhood associations that provide a variety of community needs (such as educational and health care resources) in a country with grinding poverty and no social safety net.
Carnival Salvador da Bahia. Salvador da Bahia was Brazil’s first center of government (from 1549 to 1763), and remains its musical capital. For centuries, Bahia was home of the Portuguese sugar industry and slave trade. As a result, today Salvador is the largest center of African culture in the Americas. Amidst the colonial architecture and cobblestone streets, there is an unmistakeable beat of Bahian drumming. You can hear it in the stereo speakers and boomboxes blasting the latest Axê pop music. It becomes overwhelming when the large percussion ensembles (with literally hundreds of drummers) called “blocos Afros” take to the streets for carnival. It was a movement launched a half century ago by the group, Filhos de Gandhi (Sons of Gandhi). Today, there are countless blocos Afros that have taken on a new mission as part of the “negritude” movement to re-establish Black Pride. Olodum, Ara Ketu, Ilê Aiyé, Timbalada and the all women’s drumming mega-group Dida all electrify Salvador every February during carnival. Olodum’s Billy Arquimimo explains, “We started Olodum 20 years ago because at that time, black people used to be ashamed of their skin. We thought it was necessary to do something to re-establish Black Pride, and to redevelop African culture here in Bahia.” Like Rio, the city of Salvador is famous for its carnival. For both cities, it is an enormous festival leading up to Lent. That is where the similarities end. Rio is famous for its Samba schools, elaborate costumes (or at times no costumes), and a huge parade held at the Sambódromo Stadium. Salvador is Brazil’s street carnival. It lasts for weeks. The music begins daily as early as noon and runs until 7 or 8 the next morning…carnival brazil 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Carnival Salvador Bahia, Mocidade Independente, timbalada, thatiana pagung, Ivete Sangalo, Mocidade Independente, WorldTraveler, Rio Carnival 2010 Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, carnival rio de janeiro brazil carnaval samba mangueira brasil parade desfile tourism travel
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Purim Carnival
In March 2010, Gateways created a fully accessible Purim Carnival for its students, families and community preschoolers and their families. Children with special needs and challenges do not often participate in settings such as fairs and carnivals because of the difficulty some have traversing situations with intense levels of noise, stimulation and other people. Gateways’ staff envisioned an alternative: lots of visual supports, such as colored coded rooms and activities; tactile games and foods that would appeal to all age children; a quiet room to help calm and orient participants; and lots of familiar faces for children, such as their teachers and teen volunteers who, along with other staff and adult volunteers, helped to facilitate this special event.
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