The concert that I attended on November 4th was the Music of the Night‚ a musical theatre gala performance‚ which was performed by the faculty of the Department of Music from the University of Arkansas. They performed thirteen songs that were all performed by piano and their voices. Each song was unique from one another ranging from funny‚ happy‚ upbeat rhythms to songs that made you feel sad emotions. Of the thirteen songs that were performed the two that stood out to me were Whatever Happened to
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ also known as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ was a Russian Composer who lived during the late Romantic Period. He was mostly famous for composing pieces of music for operas and ballets. He was born on May 7‚ 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk‚ Vyatka‚ Russia. He took piano lessons at the age of five‚ and showed his passion for music when he was young. However‚ his parents wanted him to work in the civil service. Since he wanted to obey his parents and their wishes for him‚ he went to boarding
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Compare and Contrast melody and structure in the Brahms‚ Debussy and Poulenc. (36 marks) From 1820 onwards the Romantic era began. This is where composers began to experiment more with their structure‚ making it as complex as possible‚ but still making sure that the listener can here lots of different motifs. This idea is basically having a few themes and using these to create different sections through augmentation and fragmentation etc. Also melodies became more flamboyant with composers adding
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The environment in the Bing theater was very classical. There was people constantly coming in which surprised me because I thought that people stopped liking classical music. My first impression of the Bing Theater was that it was very organized because there were people to greet you and hand you a program at the door. The people attending was people of all ages‚ but I did notice that there was a fairly large group sitting together near the front of the stage. The people that attended were dressed
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George Gershwin was an American composer and song writer of the early 19th hundreds. He was born on sept 26 1898 in Brooklyn New York to parents of Russian descent and would eventually become a composer of jazz‚ opera‚ and popular songs for the stage and screen. Gershwin began playing piano professionally in several New York night clubs after he dropped out of school at the age of 15. He began his career as a “song plugger”. A “song plugger” was a vocalist or a piano player who was employed in the
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Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in history. “People felt his music and art helped protect people against the advance of doubt bred by the renaissance ideas of scientific‚ rational inquiry.”(The World Book Encyclopedia 2012. Chicago‚ IL: World Book‚ 2012. Print). He bought music techniques such as Counterpoint (playing of two or more melodies at one time) and Fugue(where different instruments repeat the same melody with slight variation) to their greatest heights. He wrote
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Music 110 Concert Report 18 Nov. 2010 Nov. 18: Strauss and Brahms Intro The concert that I attended at Yale University on November eighteenth was called Symphonie Fantastique. During the concert‚ the band played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4‚ William Tell Overture‚ and Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. The music was excellent and played with much expertise. Each piece was performed well. I enjoyed listening to the extravagant music with very few mistakes. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4
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CHAMBER RECITAL The first piece written by Lowell Liebermann‚ Sonata for Flute and Harp‚ Op. 56 was a vibrant piece music dealing mostly with chromaticism at its center. The harp slowly and gradually moves in a crescendo with an almost synonymous sound to a suspense movie. The flute on the other hand‚ acts as the amplifying instrument that amplifies the tension created by the harp. Similarly‚ David Kechley’s piece‚ Available Light: Midwinter Musings for Flute and Harp possesses almost the same
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The St. Catharines Chamber Music Society was held at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre of Brock University in Saint Catharines at 7:30 p.m.‚ on Friday‚ 18th January‚ 2013. The four performers mostly showing on the stage‚ Xiaoling Li‚ Andrée Simard‚ Gordon Cleland‚ Karin Di Bella are violinist‚ violist‚ violoncellist‚ pianist respectively. Then‚ the soprano Charlotte Knight joined the performance to present us a wonderful and colorful music. The stage in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre is surrounded by cambered
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On Tuesday‚ December 8th‚ the Allen High School Philharmonia and Sinfonietta orchestras performed a variety of fascinating pieces. The orchestras began the concert with “Holiday Dances by Mark Williams". The next piece that the orchestras performed was “Saint Nick’s Canon on the Housetop” arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle. The last piece that the AHS Philharmonia and Sinfonietta orchestras performed was “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” arranged by Lloyd Conley. In the first piece‚ Holiday Dances
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