I attended the University Symphony Orchestra’s "An Evening of Handel‚ Schubert‚ and Haydn" on Thursday‚ September 30‚ 2003 in the Daniel Recital Hall. The hall was much more crowded than I expected. At the beginning of the concert‚ the orchestra was seated on the stage; the men wore tuxedos‚ and the women wore black dresses or pants. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra‚ and then the conductor made his entrance and gave a brief description of the piece that was about to be played. George
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Fanfare for the Common Man The piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same ear where vice president Henry A. I couldn’t relate to this piece‚ it didn’t resonate with me. Berlioz “ Symphonie fantastique IV ( March to the scaffold) This piece reminds me of marching band at high school pep rally. The sound of the timpani also remindsof heavy footsteps of an army. The song starts
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is unequalled. a genius he was.He was the first musician to link the classical period of 18th-century and the novel birth of Romanticism. Beethoven’s absolute step forward in the world of music came in his instrumental work‚ not forgetting his symphonies. In contrast to his forerunner Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ for whom composing music seemed natural‚ Beethoven strived to make his work flawless. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany on December 16‚ 1770. His mother died while he was
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lyricism was included in instrumental writing. STYLE OF BEETHOVEN Beethoven was the first person to cherish cyclical structure. His compelling themes are still memorable today‚ such as the short-short-short-long theme from Symphony N.5‚ and Ode to Joy‚ in Symphony N.9. It took him lots of time to compose his music as he was constantly revising his music. His dynamics were very wide ranged. He influenced many people by starting new trends. He added new instruments to the orchestra‚ like the
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Ludwig van Beethoven 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827 [pic] [pic] Ludwig van Beethoven is perhaps the most famous and influential of all the pianist composers of his time. He was considered instrumental in the transition of between the classical and romantic eras in Western Art Music. Beethoven was born on December 16th‚ 1770 in Bonn (now called Cologne‚ Germany) to parents of Belgian descent. His father‚ Johann‚ was a musician at the court of Bonn‚ and his mother‚
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Have you ever heard a really exciting piece played by an orchestra‚ symphony‚ or even a band(meaning one made up of brass‚ woodwinds‚ and percussion)? I think of my cultural identity like a beautiful masterpiece made up of many different components and layers of voices. I hope after reading my essay you will be able to think of your own cultural identity in an exciting manner such as I veiw my own. One of the ways culture can be viewed as a musical piece of music is the many different
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Essay Plan Option 2: Tradition and Dissent in Music: Dmitri Shostakovich. Introduce topic • Music of Shostakovich. • What is a string quartet? http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/classicalmusic101/p/stringquartet.htm • Where are string quartet’s usually played? • http://www.eas-musikmanagement.de/index.php/en/biolawrence • Shostakovich and Russia http://web.mit.edu/jikatz/www/Shostakovich.pdf Shostakovich’s progress • Start about his progression in
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his natural talent and musical intellectually was noticed by his father‚ he was given a baby grand piano on his 16th birthday. He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University‚ where he majored in business. In 1937‚ while attending a Boston Symphony concert‚ Bernstein was immensely touched by the passionate performance of conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos that Bernstein decided to devote his life to music. Around the age of 22‚ Bernstein started to expand his musical training by attending the Curtis
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After he completed his first symphony‚ he had a nervous breakdown. Later‚ in the 1880s‚ he became depressed due to the failure of his marriage‚ which is said to be because of his homosexuality‚ which resulted in an attempt to take his life. Due to these events‚ Tchaikovsky composed
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April 29‚ 2013 Igudesman & Joo: “Big Nightmare Music” Wright Auditorium “Big Nightmare Music” Concert Report The Igudesman & Joo: “Big Nightmare Music” concert premiered in Wright Auditorium on April 13th‚ 2012; accompanied by the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Imagine Mozart taken over by Monty Python and you have some idea of the humor/seriousness created at the highest level of musicianship on stages around the world. Violinist Aleksey Igudesman‚ and pianist Hyung-ki Joo are both classically-trained
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