SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME JANUARY 2013 Introduction to the Arts in France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage Architecture Literature Music Painting/Sculpture Cinema Architecture From vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourvière) Orange buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de
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increased their tempo. The orchestra performed many instances of crescendo and decrescendos; this kept the audience on the edge of their seats in anticipation. The second part consisted of an opera in one act entitled “L’Enfant Ee Les Sortileges by Murice Ravel‚ which was sung like an act‚ and played by the orchestra. Both parts of the performance were very unique in there own ways‚ however‚ what intrigued me the most‚ was the ability of the performers to create an emotional connection with the audience.
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Throughout history‚ art and music have developed in parallel with each other. The impressionist movement is no exception. Impressionism in art began in France near the end of the 19th century. Impressionist painters did not seek to show reality in the classical sense of a picture-perfect image; instead‚ they emphasized light and color to give an overall "impression" of their subjects. Much in the same way‚ impressionism in music aims to create descriptive impressions‚ not necessarily to draw clear
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By the turn of the century and for the next few decades‚ artists of all nationalities were searching for exciting and different modes of expression. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg explored unusual and unorthodox harmonies and tonal schemes. French composer Claude Debussy was fascinated by Eastern music and the whole-tone scale‚ and created a style of music named after the movement in French painting called Impressionism. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók continued in the traditions
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than four hundred works by Hartmann and emotions he experienced during his exploration of the exhibition that was arranged by many of Hartmann’s friends..Pictures of an Exhibition‚ which was originally a work for solo piano‚ was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel many years later. I felt that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra does something really unique that educates their audience to the background behind the music‚ which is something that the audience may never know under normal circumstances. As they describe
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She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff‚ for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Concerts with Commentary”. She was often referred to as “America’s First Lady of the Piano”. Since then she has played all over the USA with many
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Mozart‚ Haydn‚ Beethoven and Bach‚ developed some of the most popular tunes of their time. In the earlier stages of the 20th century composers began to compose music that attempted to fuze together both Jazz and classical music. Igor Stravinsky ‚ Maurice Ravel‚ and Darius Milhaud were just a sum of the most notable. America had a few of its own successful composers as well such as‚ Aaron Copland ‚George Gershwin ‚ Gunther Schuller‚ and Leonard Bernstein also arrived through the inspiration of Jazz music
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born on June 17th‚ 1882 in Oranienbaum‚ Russia. He was one of four to his polish parents‚ Anna née Kholodovsky and Fyodor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky’s first exposer to music was from his father‚ who was a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. His father helped him learn the love of music. His first musical education began at the age of nine with piano lessons‚ studying music theory‚ and attempting composition. By fifteen‚ he had mastered Mendelssohn’s
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French Music: The Past French Music‚ Musicians‚ and composers have both influenced and been influenced by the world with mass quantities of styles of genres. Among the earliest of these styles are those of the Church. The earliest French influence on western music is found in the plainsong of the Christian Church. It is believed that Gregorian chant as it is known today is an 8th- or 9th-century Gallican interpretation of Roman chant‚ but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican work from
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TEENAGERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW (AND WILL ENJOY!) Many parents‚ when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes‚ buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet‚ while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events‚ it is left to parents
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