Zoe Payne MUSIC F200

"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" This is from the musical Hamilton  by Lin-Manuel Miranda in 2015. This is a musical about the Founding Fathers mostly about Alexander Hamilton. This musical is mostly song and does not have much dialogue compared to many other musicals. Alexander Hamilton is a man who went from an orphan in the Caribbean to being the first U.S Secretary of Treasury in the United States.  This play is amazing at using music and laughter in order to teach people about the American Revolution as well as the life of the amazing Alexander Hamilton.  This is the link to the song.  This song has an extremely strong purpose in the entirety of the musical. Alexander Hamilton gets killed in a face off against Aaron Burr. This was a huge point in history because Alexander Hamilton was a very large part of the creating of the United States government. They start this song off with some of the other founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson...

  Role of the Performer  Pentatonix  Pentatonix is a Grammy award winning group that started in 2011. This group is still actively performing, though sometimes solo and sometimes together.  While Pentatonix does have very few of their own songs, majority of the songs this group performs are all covers for other people's songs.  This provides a new voice as well as a new way of singing these songs. This group is completely acapella so they have no instruments playing for their music. It is extremely cool to hear a song that usually has instruments and then see these performers using just their voices to make these sounds.  I absolutely love Pentatonix, it is extremely creative. Seeing the amazing harmonies these individuals can make not only with each other's voices while singing but as well as using an instrument is phenomenal. I personally love this musical group and prefer them to any other groups when it comes to Christmas music. They are very talented i...