Imagine this: it’s the night of your cousin’s big wedding. After walking down the aisle and saying their “I do’s,” it’s time for the reception. After everyone get’s their glass of champagne or other various mixed drink, the DJ comes on stage.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” he announces, “it’s time to announce the wedding party.”
He goes through the whole list of people, stopping just after the bride and groom are announced.
“And now the new bride and groom would like to do a special dance!”
It’s time for the first dance; something they have been waiting for their whole lives. As the song starts to play, you start to recognize the bass and piano, and then suddenly as the singer starts, you instantly realize what it is. It is “Come Away With Me” by Norah Jones, one of the most popular first dance songs of all time. It’s these feelings and images of life and love that continue throughout Norah Jones’ debut album.
Whether in front of a fire in the winter or at a Sunday brunch with the family, Come Away With Me is an album that would be perfect for many occasions. With its somewhat melancholic tone to its romantic and nostalgic lyrics, you get a sense of elegance without any of the schmaltz
Norah Jones’ album Come Away With Me is a breakthrough album for not only her, but for jazz music alike. Evoking a combination of folk, blues, pop, and of course jazz, this album is an amazing feat of vocals and instrumentation. Norah Jones assured phrasing and timing are things often found in singers of the past, combining the likes of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, while still sounding uniquely her own. With her soft and serene sound, you still get the sense that she is not messing around. She has that bite that lets us know she is a singer to be re...
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...s the best, hence the name Gershwin Plays Gershwin.
One track on the album stands out in a way different from the others. It is the unusual 1933 piece, for it is a two-piano rendition of “An American in Paris” that lasts over 16 minutes that was not arranged by Gershwin, but rather by Frank Milne. Gershwin’s original composition was an orchestral arrangement that used the typical orchestral instruments as well as a saxophone, a celesta, and automobile horns. However, the version on this album is one of the only versions for piano, and what a good version it is.
Overall, Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Scrolls is a wonderful album full of unique and obscure recordings of George Gershwin. These songs are brilliant works of jazz piano that evoke the spirit of the time and showcase exactly what George Gershwin does best. This is definitely an album worth exploring.
Clara Schumann was a concert pianist born to Frederick Wieck and Marianne Tromlitz in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 (Comminfo). Clara was the second of five children and the daughter of a prominent music teacher and piano proprietor (Friedrich Wieck) and an opera soprano singer (Marianne Tromlitz). She died in 1896, renowned as a classical pianist and composer in the nineteenth-century Romantic style. During her height of popularity, the press deemed Clara as the “Queen of the Piano” (Schumann, Clara [Josehpine], The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music).
Andris Nelsons continues with a couple more pieces from him and the symphony. The piece titled “The Pines of the Villa Borghese” was performed. The melody brought images of the wizard like sounds from the magical Harry Potter. The piano and clarinet players had a lot of attention on them from the cameras. The two instruments put together a very sophisticated texture and form.
Butterworth, Oliver, Michael Evans, and Frank Wibut, perfs. Piano Trio Op. 17. Dartington Piano Trio. Brown, Mark, 1988. Florida College's Classical Music Library. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.
...iteman and his jazz band. This piece of music had a classical form in which Gershwin applied the jazz idiom.
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26 1898. He began playing piano when he was 11 after his parents bought a piano for their other son Ira. Gershwin, realizing his own talent, took it upon himself to find a mentor so he could hone his own skills. He found a mentor in Charles Hambitzer, who was a popular piano instructor in his time. Hambitzer was extremely impressed with his pupil and in a letter to his sister Hambitzer wrote “I have a new pupil who will make his mark if anybody will. The boy is a genius.” Throughout his life Gershwin would study under other noted teachers such as Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, Edward Kilenyi, and Joseph Schillinger.
this paper I will discuss Gershwin’s life as a child and his upbringing and how his music
“Young and Menace” by Fall Out Boy is the everyman who is reminiscing about their past.
- Norris, Jeremy Paul. The development of the Russian piano concerto in the nineteenth century. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1988. Print.
Many jazz artists as we know it are quite talented. Their talents are unique in that they can translate human emotion through singing or playing their instruments. Many have the ability to reach and touch people’s souls through their amazing gifts. Although this art of turning notes and lyrics into emotional imagery may somewhat come natural, the audience must wonder where their influence comes from. For Billie Holiday, her career was highly influenced by personal experience, the effects of the Great Depression, and the racial challenges of African Americans during her time.
As a child Dylan was comfortable being the center of attention, often writing creative poetry for his mother and on occasion singing. Dylan had no formal music lessons, but none the less he began to compose. Later at age 14, he took up the guitar and shortly after formed a band, one of many he played the guitar in. Always plunging ahead, performing to his up most potentional, Dylan absorbed his surroundings as a source of inspiration. Even during his early efforts Dylan responded very positivly to mainstream musicians, such as country star Hank Williams. Yet, he responded especially well to early rock stars such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. In the summer of 1959, after graduation Dylan began to work at a cafe, where he began to pay increasing attention to folksingers such as Judy Collins and Jesse Fuller. Finding an instant connection with their songs, songs relevant to social issues. Dylan was drawn into both the musical style and the social message of these indivisuals.
The two songs which shall be scrutinized shall be Roxanne. Originally released in 1978, it was performed by ‘The Police’. The cover version El Tango de Roxanne was rearranged by Mariano Mores in Moulin Rouge, 2001.
George Gershwin is one of the most celebrated composers of modern times. He is Famous for bridging the gap between Jazz and Classical music, and developing a new kind of popular music that held a genuine, American voice. With such pieces as his Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F he has become the most widely played American composer of all time. Although he boats having one of the most recognizable names in modern music, many people do not truly know the story behind it all.
Reich, Steve. Writings about Music. Halifax: Nova Scotia Coll.of Art & Design P., 1974. Print.
The choral writing and texture as well as the lack of counterpoint or difficulty to distinguish it resemble hymn passages which were incorporated into the concerto – particularly in the opening fifteen measures of the second movement, played by the string
Rhythm and blues, also known as R&B, is something that I really enjoy. I am a singer and along with country music, R&B is my favorite thing to sing. With rhythm and blues, there is a song for every emotion, so most of the time the songs can be very relatable. The songs have a variety of subjects like sex, work, and even drinking. In this paper I will briefly discuss how rhythm and blues started, how it evolved into today’s music and why I like it so much.