have always been interested in piano. However‚ it has never been terribly easy. I can play piano by memorizing the notes or playing by ear‚ but I always have had problems reading notes. A long time ago‚ when I was about 5 or 6 years old‚ we were in the car when my dad saw a piano on the side of the road with a “free” sign on it. Dad thought my sister and I should have one‚ so he brought a bunch of his friends together and they brought it home. I became excited. The piano sounded way out of tune and
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Misto‚ playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women’s story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this through a combination of dramatic techniques‚ themes‚ characterisation and settings making the past vivid and understandable. The characters presented in the Shoe-Horn Sonata are fictional‚ but the events are based
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capacity to destroy is represented through the distinctly visual. In the Shoehorn Sonata and Dulce Et Decorum Est the writers have invited the audience to examine societies role in acknowledging humane treatment and the importance of reflecting on suffering experienced. The horror of the war experience is represented visually through the anecdotes. In Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen) and in the Shoe-Horn Sonata (John Misto) the traumatic experience is recreated through the use of symbolism.
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position to experience the different impacts and emotions associated with the texts. These techniques allow the distinctively visual to have the power to manipulate the audience’s expectations and strong feelings towards the texts. The Shoe-horn Sonata written by John Misto and the short film‚ ’Lovefield’ directed by Mathieu Ratthe allows the responder to experience both positive and negative themes associated with the texts such as power‚ war‚ friendship and bravery which therefore enables them
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in Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata (#21‚ Op 53) As the length of sonatas grew under pens such as Beethoven‚ the free exercise of many layers of musical contrast kept the longer works fresh and palatable. This sonata doesn’t have as bold of contrasts as Beethoven’s later works‚ but they still exist. The first movement starts with a quiet intro that swells with excitement at measure 11‚ only to calm back to a quiet simmering two measures later. As a middle period sonata‚ the dynamics do not switch
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Baking bread lightly perfumed the air‚ soothing my olfactory instantaneously. Morning had most assuredly broken. I looked around and thought plaintively‚ What should I do on this lovely morning? As usual‚ my response led me to the Baldwin Acrosonic piano across the room. Due to my perceptible laziness‚ I avoided pulling out any new manuscripts from storage‚ leaving me no choice but to read through the music lying open upon the desk: the great Nocturnes of Master Frederic Chopin. I began randomly
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Maria Full of Grace and The Piano Teacher‚ by Elfriede Jelinek‚ both follow the story of females struggling to gain confidence about and control over their own bodies. In Maria Full of Grace‚ Maria Alvarez struggles with her problems of poverty‚ pregnancy‚ and desire for independence which ultimately leads her to be a drug mule. Her life is subsequently controlled‚ for the most part‚ by the drug dealer who is powerful and able to influence her life. In The Piano Teacher‚ Erika Kohut has little
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History Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) was established in 1956 by bringing together six small piano shops in Guangzhou. The group of 100 employees produced only 13 pianos that year. After many attempts‚ Guangzhou technicians were finally satisfied with the tone color and quality of its first manufactured piano‚ and in a short time it was sold in Hong Kong. It would be twenty years before the factory was able to prove its potential. As a State -owned enterprise PRPG is accountable to the Guangzhou
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French Horn v.s. Piano - Maxwell Miller The french horn and the piano were invented long ago and since then changes have been made to further improve the instruments and make them more suitable for playing music. These instruments are used very differently from each other in music while they both hold key roles. Both instruments are a challenge to learn and to master‚ and both have unique characteristics that make them difficult to play. The Horn was invented for the purpose of hunting
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Theater 107 03/25/2012 The Piano Lesson By August Wilson The Piano Lesson was inspired by a painting of the same name. It was first performed at the Yale Repertory Theater November 26‚ 1987. The Piano Lesson tells the story of an artistically carved piano‚ the interwoven stories of the Sutter and Charles families that owned the piano. Berniece and Boy Willie (the grand children of the slave who carved the piano) have different views on what to do with the family piano which has much of the family’s
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