Steinway & Sons: Combining Craftwork and Teamwork Steinway and Sons remains one of the best-known producers of concert pianos in the world. Throughout its great history the company has shown a distinctive talent at innovation and quality workmanship‚ as evidenced by its 114 patents. In an age of mass production‚ Steinway continues to manufacture a limited number of handmade pianos in a unique testament to individual craftsmanship. However‚ Stein¬way’s dominance in the concert piano market is being
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Jazz in American Culture: Bop and Cool Jazz Jazz music has developed into a complex and extraordinary phenomenon since its advent in the early twentieth century. This unique and sociocultural music movement developed many variations‚ each bringing to light talented musicians characterized by a particular technique or style of play. The audiences for each individual style of music were constantly evolving with their respective cultures‚ finding themselves gradually integrating this more foreign
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Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28‚ 1890 – December 29‚ 1967) was an American bandleader and orchestral director. Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s‚ Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful‚ and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz". Using a large ensemble and exploring many styles of music‚ Whiteman is perhaps best known for his blending of symphonic music and jazz‚ as typified by his 1924 commissioning and debut of George
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The poet that I have chosen to do is Rita Dove. In her newest collection of poems‚ Sonata Mulattica‚ there were many to choose from. However the two that I wanted to look deeper into were Exit and Golden Oldie. In both poems she is able to convey strong emotions in the characters she described. Rita Dove was born in Akron‚ Ohio. Her father‚ Ray A. Dove‚ was a chemist‚ and a pioneer of integration in American industry. Both of her parents encouraged persistent study and wide reading. From an early
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during this music era came in many varieties‚ just like the many variations of jazz music itself. One reason for the diversity of musicians during this time was because Jazz incorporated such a vast array of instruments. Danilo Perez was a famous pianist (Aaberg). He used his piano playing skills mixed with “ethnic grooves and wordless vocals” to be an influential jazz musician (Aaberg). Dave Douglas was a strong contributor to jazz. He not only made known his trumpet playing skills‚ but also switched
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Blues‚ work songs‚ ragtime‚ spirituals‚ and minstrel songs were‚ in their own ways‚ all part of the great "Africanization of American music" that was originated by enslaved Africans in the southern United States. But the greatest of the musical forms developed in this process was jazz--one of the major American contributions to world culture. Each of these forms of music made essential contributions to the development of jazz itself but each‚ more or less‚ retained its own integrity and none could
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say‚ when we are born we all have the same basic hands‚ but our minds are what determine what we do with them. The work of our hands reflects our skills or intelligence‚ as the paintings of an artist reflect his creative skill‚ or the music of a pianist reflects his musically developed mind. Also our hands’ experience helps us to learn and develop our minds. Sensorial materials focus very much on using the hand to build the child’s intelligence. While building the Pink Tower or Broad Stair he is
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proficient on the banjo‚ and was beginning to play the piano. By age eleven and under the tutelage of Julius Weiss‚ he was learning the finer points of harmony and style. As a teenager‚ he worked as a dance musician. After several years as an itinerant pianist playing in saloons and brothels throughout the Midwest‚ he settled in St. Louis about 1890. There he studied and led in the development of a music genre now known as ragtime--a unique blend of European classical styles combined with African American
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in America‚ her daughter can be a child star. So she tests her‚ and finds out what other extraordinary kids her age can do‚ and tries to see if her daughter can also do these things. Then one day she decides that her daughter could be an excellent pianist. So she finds a teacher and sets her daughter up for piano lessons. Her daughter does not like the lessons or the tests so she decides to rebel against her mother and start failing the tests on purpose. She proceeds to fail on purpose for the rest
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Changed the Way We Look at Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a famous composer and pianist‚ Mozart lived from 1756-1791. Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria and died in Vienna‚ Austria. Mozart was a very skilled composer‚he composed masterpieces like‚ The Magic Flute‚ Clarinet Concerto‚ and Don Giovanni. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart changed the way we look at music through his multi instrumentality‚ his years of experience‚ and his legacy he left behind. Mozart was only six when
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