Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich‚ born on September 25‚ 1905‚ started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg‚ later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919‚ where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin International Competition for Pianists
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– Director of bands at Seckman High School REPERTOIRE LIST Notable Orchestral Repertoire Performed – - Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 - Britten - Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra - Buxtehude/Chavez - Chaconne - Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 - Bernstein - Suite from On the Waterfront - Mendelssohn - The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture - Brahms - Symphony No. 4 - Marshall - Kingdom Come - Bizet - L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 - Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 - Kabalevsky - Overture to Colas Breugnon
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Symphony No. 7 in A Major (Op. 92)‚ completed in 1812‚ might have been one of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s most popular pieces. The seventh of Beethoven’s nine symphonies‚ its premiere concert (December 1813 in Vienna) was performed at a charity concert in order to benefit the soldiers who had been wounded a few months prior in the battle of Hanau. It was performed three times in ten weeks following its premiere. During the time of the symphony’s premiere‚ Vienna was still distressed due to being taken
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Ella Fitzgerald Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born in Newport News‚ Virginia in 1917 and moved to Younkers‚ New York with her mother shortly after her birth. In 1932‚ Fitzgerald’s mother died and she moved in with her aunt. She was eventually sent to a reform school‚ but ran away at the age of fifteen and was homeless for a while. She found work wherever she could‚ but it was a struggle. Looking back on those days‚ she chose to use the memories as inspiration to bring emotion to her singing. Growing
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The reason I decided to prepared my paper on Maurice White‚ the founder of Earth Wind and Fire is because of the fond memories that I have listening to my parents music. Music from the parents era is very different from the music of today. Music from that era was more love oriented‚ rhythmic and rich in science of music and musical arrangements. Artists my parents are fond of consists of music from such groups as the Four Tops‚ the Dells‚ the Dramatics‚ Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes‚ the Chi-Lites
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Popular Music Popular music‚ or pop music’‚ means music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which‚ originally made by illiterate people‚ were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation‚ in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations‚ notably Britain and USA‚ that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves
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makes your day 100 times better. Their music helps people‚ including me‚ overcome hard times in our life. The band you’re used to seeing perform together now didn’t look like that in the beginning. The two best friend duo you see now used to be a trio. After Tyler had idea of starting a band‚ the original Twenty One Pilots were formed in 2009 in Columbus‚ Ohio. The three-manned-band included Tyler Joseph‚ and his two friends Nick Thomas and Chris Salih. When asked about the band’s name in an interview
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“Oklahoma! Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.” These iconic song lyrics are from the chart-topping musical Oklahoma!. This musical introduced‚ the now idolized‚ Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein (Brockett pg. 462). Rogers and Hammerstein wrote the musical‚ in hopes of making it on Broadway. Instead‚ they wrote a musical that started the next great era to sweep through Broadway. The Golden Age of Broadway was the beginning of a transformation that would later lead to one of the most
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Music Lit Essay Questions 8 December 2012 1. The multi-movement cycle is when one piece comprises three or four movements For example‚ the classical era symphony‚ sonata‚ string quartet‚ and concerto all follow this cycle. THe Sonata-allegro form is a structural pattern used by composers first in the 18th century as a means to organize their music. Some people like to compare it to a basic essay format which has in introduction with a thesis‚ supporting body paragraphs‚ and conclusion that
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Tin Pan Alley The 1920s was the beginning of a decade of change in the American arts. Jazz‚ along with such inventions as the phonograph‚ radio and sound movies‚ transformed the music industry. By the end of the decade‚ 40% of all Americans had radios in their homes. Not surprisingly‚ 58% of households in New York City owned a radio. New York became the center of the music world‚ and at the center of New York was a small area called Tin Pan Alley. Radios initially provided the young century’s second
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