When I was an extremely young fellow, simply starting to advance, I was welcome to feast at the home of a recognized New York giver. After supper our master drove us to a huge drawing room. Different visitors were pouring in, and my eyes observed two alarming sights: workers were orchestrating little overlaid seats in long, flawless columns; and in advance, inclining toward the divider, were musical instruments. Clearly I was in for a night of Chamber music.
I utilize the expression "in for" on the grounds that music implied nothing to me. I am just about tone hard of hearing. Just with incredible exertion would I be able to keep the least complex melody, and genuine music was to me close to a course of action of commotions. So I did what
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"You can give me a sample, maybe?"
"Well," I wandered, "practically bing so as to anyth Crosby."
He gestured once more, energetically. "Great!"
He went to a room's edge, opened a phonograph and began hauling out records. I watched him uneasily. Finally he channeled. "Ok!" he said.
He put the record on and in a minute the study was loaded with the casual, lilting strains of Bing Crosby's "The point at which the Night's Blue Meets the Day's Gold." Einstein transmitted at me and kept time with the stem of his funnel. After three or four expressions he halted the phonograph.
"Presently," he said. "Will you let me know, it would be ideal if you what you have quite recently listened?"
The most straightforward answer appeared to be to sing the lines. I did only that, attempting urgently to remain focused and keep my voice from splitting. The look all over was similar to the dawn.
"You see!" he cried with joy when I wrapped up. "You do have an ear!"
I murmured something about this being one of my main tunes, something I had heard many times, with the goal that it didn't generally demonstrate
I have been to many different concerts throughout my life but this year I experienced two exceptionally unique ___ that I had never seen before. The first one was a spectacular chamber recital that took place at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed by pianist Yefim Bronfman and violist-violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The program included Schubert's Violin Sonatina No. 2 in A Minor, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, and Brahms’ Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor. The second was a performance by the notable quartet “Anonymous 4” presented by the Universality of Chicago at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The program included a series of medieval French motets from the 13th Century French polyphony, taken from the Montpellier Codex. The two performances were extremely different in nature and but at the same time very similar in what they were trying to achieve. For instance, while the first concert consisted entirely of an instrumental performance, the other was exclusively vocal. However, both were able to bring to life great examples of iconic artists from our past. I left both c...
Taruskin, R., & Taruskin, R. (2010). Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
On Friday, November 15, 2013, I attended a concert that I found very interesting. It took place at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. The group performing was the Erie Chamber Orchestra, but as a special the Slippery Rock University Concert Choir was also there. During the performance I attended, two pieces were performed. The first was a Mozart piece by the name of Symphony No. 41.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, I attended a musical concert. This was the first time I had ever been to a concert and did not play. The concert was not what I expected. I assumed I was going to a symphony that featured a soloist clarinet; however, upon arrival I quickly realized that my previous assumptions were false. My experience was sort of a rollercoaster. One minute I was down and almost asleep; next I was laughing; then I was up and intrigued.
In the Elizabethan Era (1558-1603) and the Jacobean Era (1603-1625), there was a fondness for spectacle and pageantry. At court, trumpets and drums resounded to announce mealtimes; in town, these instruments were used by theatre troupes to herald upcoming performances (Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 2003, and Folkerth, 2002). Music, then, is applied boldly and lavishly in everyday life and in drama, an imitation of life.
...ress ourselves, how we dress and what others will get from use. Music is the key to some people’s success and I believe that I am destined for greatness where music is concerned. I have chosen know to make my opinion what makes me who I am, what I will be and how I will do as a future influence for others.
Music is the most diverse form of art in existence. In modern days, some may view music as merely a bass heavy atmospheric tool for a night of clubbing and mischief, but despite this minority perspective, music is by no means purely background noise. Music is not only a beat, a rhythm, melody, lyrics, and a voice; it can change lives.
On February 17th, I attended the “UIC Jazz Ensemble” at 7 in the evening. The concert was located at the Illinois room in Student Center East. The concert director was Mr. Andy Baker, and he is one of the music professors at UIC. Besides, he is a lead trombonist of the Chicago Jaz Ensemble, co-leader of the sextet BakerzMillion. He is also a first-call theatre and studio musician. The lights in the room were pretty dim, and the room was filled with audiences. I noticed that there were a total of nineteen musicians performing that evening, and a lady jazz singer accompanied the musicians throughout the concert. There were sixteen members playing the wind instruments, including the trumpet, trombone, saxophone, flute, and French horn. Some of them were standing, and some were sitting. Besides wind instrument, the concert also included a guitar, drum and piano into the performance. They were played by Edwin Garcia, Aaron Gorden, James Wenzel and Will Gingrich respectively.
The hurdy gurdy, or street organ, is an instrument with not only a funny name, but a fascinating sound. The humorous name was actually a derogatory term in the 18th century, meaning the hurdy gurdy was not held to such a high regard. In the 12th and 13th century, the hurdy gurdy was either described in its primitive form as the symphonia or a organistrum. The symphonia was a peasant’s instrument, only street folk played it. Through this proposal, I will describe how society’s view of the hurdy gurdy shifted through centuries of music. In the medieval ages, the hurdy gurdy may have been held to the same regard and as popular as the piano of modern day. The street orga that we know today is in no way, shape, or form a representation of what
When you first enter the theater, you are immediately in awe of the strongest aspect of this production: the set. The stage features a life-sized enchanted forest with “tress” as tall as the ceiling and a lit-up backdrop of a twilight sky. The tress would move around throughout the performance to make way for different scenes. In front of your very eyes, an enchanted forest would turn into the outside of a charming house with a lit porch and a well. The twilight sky would turn to a starlit sky and a soft spotlight simulating moonlight would compliment the faint sound of crickets. Suddenly the house and tress move around and you’re in a town with a little cart selling baguettes, or a lush dining room with Victorian wallpaper, a chandelier, and china displayed on the walls. The world shakes once again and now you’re in, inevitably, a ballroom. A white Victorian gate opens up to become the walls of the ballroom, and a white marble bridge and staircase appear for the outside of the castle. Adults and children alike were in awe of the craftsmanship and technology.
Music is a tool that has been used by many throughout history to compose beautiful works of art that evoke strong emotions, to enhance religious ceremonies, to entertain entire crowds, to earn money, to spread a political agenda, and even to communicate messages in military contexts, such as through the use of bugle calls. There are many different bugle calls for various contexts and purposes within the military, but they have also been appropriated for many other uses. This essay seeks to analyze the characteristics of bugle calls, and explore how they are used in various contexts.
As the piano started to sound in the Four Season Theater, the crowd would turn silence in just a second. That was the impression that piano gave me when I attended to Richard Clayderman’s concert last month. The power of the piano is not just shown by the sound itself but also the unshakable social standing as the “King of the instruments”.
Smith, Jane Stuart and Betty Carlson. “The Gift of Music: Great Composures and Their Influence.” Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books Publishing. 1987. Print. April 2014.
Piekut, Benjamin. Chapter one “When Orchestra Attacks!” of Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits. University of California Press.
We sat in the dark watching The Wizard of Oz. We had the sound muted and the Pink Floyd CD Dark Side of the Moon turned up on the stereo. We had heard that the album had been written in such a way that if you timed it right, certain passages of songs made perfect sense with the movie. Cindy sat in the darkness also, although not as interested in the movie as the rest of us.