Almost all American composers of note belong to the 20th century, and include such names as Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and Virgil Thomson. Edgard Varese and John Cage have gained fame as experimental composers. It is through the development of popular music in the 20th century that the USA has dominated the western world. Jazz, a style of music created at the end of the 19th century by black Americans out of their gospel and blues songs, was being played all over the USA by both black and white musicians by the 1920s, and influenced the development of both dance music and popular songs in the 1930s and 1940s. After the Second World War jazz and popular music developed in separate directions. Black musicians created a more sophisticated style called bebop. The rhythm and blues music that derived from jazz, combined with aspects of country and western music, developed into rock-n-roll in the 1950s with the music of Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and others. In the 1960s some British groups, especially the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, became internationally famous and for a brief period popular music was dominated by developments in Britain. Since that time, rock has incorporated folk music, soul music has developed, and many social phenomena, such as drug culture, the civil rights movement and the peace movement, have found their expression in rock music. The musical has also made an important contribution to popular music. Developing from the British music hall and American vaudeville early in the 20th century, composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein on Broadway, and Ivor Novello, Noel Coward and more recently Andrew Lloyd Webber in Britain, have made the musical into one of the most important forms of popular music.
There are heavy storms in the UK. Winds of 60 kilometers per hour hit the west coast, with more storms later this weekend. Experts say that these storms are unusual. “Today, these storms are very strong. We usually get this kind of weather in the winter, not now”.
The heavy rain causes major transport problems – currently, the trains and ferries don't work. The emergency services are helping local residents. “Right now, we are moving people to safe areas and we are giving them hot food”. A group of fishermen are lost at sea and a rescue team looks for them. “We do not usually fly in this kind of weather, but today aren't a normal day”.
There is a small hotel named "Chance" in our city . It is situated near my house. Our post office is just on tne other side of the street. There are 40 rooms with a beautiful view in the hotel. There is a bathroom, a wardrobe and a TV set in each room. Also there is a nice restaurant in the hotel. Welcome to our hotel.
В нашем городе есть небольшой отель под названием «Шанс». Он расположен рядом с моим домом. Здание нашей почты как раз на другой стороне улицы. В отеле 40 комнат с красивым видом из окон. В каждой комнате есть ванная, платяной шкаф и телевизор. Так же в отеле есть приятный ресторан. Добро пожаловать в наш отель.