Steve Lopez is a journalist. He works in Los Angeles Times. He divorced with her wife who is his superior. Lopez feels everything for him is bad. One day, he sees a violin man on Los Angeles's Skid Row. The violin man is very special, because his violin only has two strings. The violin…
He then lost his family and all hope to survive. He found work inside the ghetto and stayed for over a year, he reached out to old friends who were not Jews and they helped him escape. He then hid in various vacant apartments getting food and supplies every so often. There were times when there was a piano in the apartment, but he was forced to be silent. So he found solace in pretending to play. This life he led was very lonesome and depressing. Eventually he tried to open a can of pickles, and a German soldier wanted to know who he was. He told him he is a piano player, so the soldier asked Wladyslaw to play him a piece. Although close to death, and very cold, Wladyslaw played for the soldier. He hadn’t touched a piano in over three years; the music flowed out of his frozen fingertips with profound energy. He was relieved, at that moment he did not care if he died, at least it would be doing something he loved. He played his story of what he had been through in the past three years. It started with a slow soft melody, then became more dynamic and presto. He was letting out all of his sadness and empathy with this piece, he then ended it with a grave tone, not knowing what would happen to him when he was done. The officer let him live, and gave him food. Wladyslaw survived and lived until 2000, playing the piano his hole life.…
people anywhere in the world didn’t have. This homeless African American man was a violin…
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson. Jackie…
This movement sounds like he was painting a beautiful picture. It has some kinds of romantic emotion, but Beethoven described it by a sorrowful way. Beethoven composed this movement use lots of sixteenth notes, from one part to others. The theme sixteenth notes were formed by A.F.E.D. This movement was totally different with the second movement, and makes a confrontation with the first movement. This also can give expression to Beethoven have a firm belief in the struggle for victory. However, this movement comes to an abrupt end. This makes people to reverie. There are still having hardships in the endeavor. Like the end of the Shakespeare’s Tempest, the protagonist subdued his foes. However, he let the past be forgotten, and forgave all of his foes. This also gave expression to the helpless of can’t triumph over the societal forces and limitations. This explained the ending of Beethoven’s tempest sonata and Shakespeare’s Tempest has some relevance.…
Practicing by Glenn Kurtz is about the author's love for music and his journey of becoming a musician. The author talked about the advantages and disadvantages of how practicing can affect one's life of playing a instrument or becoming a musician. The author shows what it mean to be a musician with fear , doubts, discoveries and failure. Stated in the story it says “Practicing is striving,practicing is a romance , but practicing is also a risk , a test of character ,a threat of deeply personal failure”. The author show's the challenges taken to become something you want to be.…
Paul doesn’t have enough ability to be a concert pianist “you are my best student, yes, One in a thousand, But a concert pianist is one in a million.”(p.113)…
Thesis: Just as Ivan Ilyich experienced in his lifetime, many people today also live hollow, materialistic lives and fail to realize the true meaning of life until it is too late.…
It did not protect and comfort them like a real shelter, but housed their misery and kept them prisoner with their own hopelessness. The atmosphere emanated a miasma of anguish and fear as people clawed through corpses to escape suffocation. However, Juliek took out his violin, and cut through the darkness. "Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound"(95). Eliezer emphasizes the contrast between the miserable setting and Juliek's playing. To him, it might as well be an orchestra of angels, the only music in a silence brought on by suffering and sorrow. Juliek's performance was more than a mere fragment of music, it carried the symbolism of his fading life and aspirations that he could not express…
Rachmaninoff stated, “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” Essential to all nationalities, generations, and people, music can make your soul soar, put you to sleep, or bring you to your knees in tears. All din and clamor goes silent. Every eye is riveted on the conductor. The baton lifts. Suddenly, in a myriad of melodies, harmonies, timbre, and texture, a whole new realm is unraveled. The extraordinary feeling of unwinding and renewing your mind by listening to the flow of music is inexpressible. Nothing compares.…
Second, “It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was a s though Juliek’s soul were the bow. He was playing his life, the whole of his life ws gliding on the strings – his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again.” Imagery reveals that he was playing the best he could, his last act, final ending to his life and talent. Also imagery shows that Juliek is playing his soul as if his whole life depended on it, his soul and the violin synchronizing in tune.…
As Stephen Nachmanovitch said, “The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear….If I “try” to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability.”…
Nathanial has a high school education. He was also accepted and completed some classical music training from Juilliard, according to a teacher there, he just stopped showing up. What happened in his life from that point until the present is unknown. Although he is homeless, one of his possessions is a violin, which only has two strings. In doing this, Nathanial shows determination, because even though he doesn’t have a complete instrument he stills continues to play it.…
Maria Housden shares: “The truest measure of a life is not in length, but the fullness in which it is lived” (6). This quote goes along perfectly with the heartwarming and heartbreaking story of young Hannah Martell as she handles her illness with positivity while teaching those around her valuable life lessons along her journey. While reading Maria’s recount of her difficult journey, my emotions were greatly affected, my perspective on life transformed, and I was awed by the acts of by others after Hannah had passed.…
The late Roger Ebert, an internationally known movie critic, most aligns with how valuable life is. Even though he may have had innumerable problems with his health, he still tried to…