By 1912, Milhaud hadn’t changed his mind about composing, so he decided to stop playing violin. After studying, he continued to compose and became a member of a group of French composers called Les Six during World War II. He then travelled around Europe with his friends and fellow composers. Unfortunately they faced danger where after trying to escape the Nazi menace, only two members were able to get away by emigrating. He then escaped with his family to America in 1939, and returned after the liberation.…
There has been a lot of discussion about some of the greatest players in baseball history. Most would say Babe Ruth or Ted Williams. A lot of people would say Hank Aaron or Willie Mays. However, most people don’t know about Stan Musial. He is maybe one of the greatest players of all-time.…
Requiem became increasingly popular throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. This was helped in part by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although Kubrick and MGM didn’t compensate Ligeti for his music, the film would bring significant public attention to Ligeti’s work. Eventually, Requiem would be played on British airwaves, including John Peel’s eclectic radio program, and future films.…
The reason for this essay is to shine light to one of the most famous Russian composers to ever exist. Many people know the works of Tchaikovsky, but have no idea who is responsible for them. Tchaikovsky was one of the most influential Russian composers because of the works he created, his construction of Russian classical music, and the challenges…
He is one of the most renounced composers from Russia. Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk a small town in Vyatka, now in the Russian Empire, in May of 1840. He was the second oldest of six children. His father…
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian neoclassical composer born on June 17th, 1882. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia. Stravinsky died of congestive heart failure on April 6th, 1971 in New York, New York. He moved many times in his lifetime, but ended up gaining citizenship in the United States. Stravinsky’s musical influence came from how successful his father was with the bass.…
Vik Muniz was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961, but lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. He is a Brazilian contemporary artist and photographer. Muniz was previously a sculptor who became fascinated with photographing his works of art, eventually concentrating on photography. He is extremely creative in the ways he portrays his art because he uses different types of mediums such as wire, thread, chocolate, junk, garbage, chocolate, jewelry, magazine strips, and photography, etc. Some artworks he has created and photographed are in series named Pictures of Wire, Pictures of Thread, The Sugar Children, Pictures of Chocolate, Pictures of Junk, Pictures of Earthworks, Pictures of Clouds, Pictures of Magazines, Verso, and Pictures…
Stravinsky’s pieces made a lasting impression on the world. One of his most famous piece is L’Oiseau de feu or The Firebird, originally written in 1910, and premiered June 25 as music for a ballet. He revised this piece for smaller orchestration in 1919, and again in 1945. Another lasting piece he wrote was Le Sacre du printemps or The Rite of Spring, also a ballet piece. He wrote this piece in of 1913 and was premiered on May 25.…
Even as a successful composer Shostakovich himself had struggles in creating his ideas of high artistic of integrity pleasing to in prevailing Soviet Union that would lead to pandering in Stalin’s Aesthetic even to a point he ends up being issued A Death Warrant while facing more problems coming he found himself being portrayed nearly from all colleagues from composers those that sided on Pravada’s Attacks. With so much Chaos and been backstabbed in taking action. Shostakovich took it upon in himself to seek his own image in creating new music in an atmosphere in isolation and the fear of it…
Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and one that was considered the model satellite state. Antonin Novotny, the first secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, was replaced by Alexander Dubcek in January of 1968. Dubcek represented the moderate reform element in the party and as a Slovak he also represented the Slovak interests that had been neglected. However, changes in Soviet rule over the Czechs allowed changes to be made in Czechoslovakia. For example, during this time no Soviet Troops were stationed in Czechoslovakia and when Dubcek was elected secretary he had no one to ask for advice so he turned to the liberals who already had formulated and were advocating popular reform programs.…
n the Russian classical music in the history, has the inestimable influence folk songs. The world famous Russian composer "powerful group" and Tchaikovsky had to folk music has a strong interest in. A major factor in these composers writing is the folk song. They learned from the folk song in his works, folk songs which music language acquired unique incomparable. People in the "powerful group" and a Tchaikovsky symphony and opera works according to their own fantasies created gained new vitality.…
the years 1904-1909, and the love of Scriabin’s piano works showed in Prokofiev’s early piano pieces. He imitated some of Scriabin’s pianistic techniques in his early piano works like the “repeated-note arpeggios” and “wide-ranging bass”. But he soon turned to seek more radical musical language that completely departs from the romanticism, and during the years 1909-1914 he finished his composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually became more and more “scornful of much of traditional music.”…
Voicing one’s opinion in society has become very difficult because of all the libel and defamation laws set in our society today. But Bansky utilizes his art to be able to speak what she wants to say it in a loud and clear way yet she still remains anonymous. Banksy’s art is very distinctive because of the vivid use of irony and remarkable creativity. I think his art is simple nevertheless it depicts a very strong message when one takes the time to study her artwork. One element of guerilla art that Bansky shares is that it is placed usually in unauthorized places which makes her artwork even more noticeable.…
Victor Moscoso (born 1936 in Oleiros, Galicia, Spain) is a Galician-American artist who applied an academic perspective to the psychedelic era. He was also best known for creating psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. Later, Moscoso attended Yale with Josef Albers, whose theories on the use of color became a strong affection in Moscoso’s later designs. The designer had migrated west to the San Francisco Art Institute where he would receive his MFA and ultimately be a lithography professor. By the fall of 1966, Moscoso was one of the first designers who was aware of the impressive impact and the enduring legacy that the art of that era would…
Karl Marx was a prophet, an economic and political theory, and history of theory. In Karl Marx reading, rich people have the freedom to do anything we want and choose to vote if we want to, have all the money in the world. Poor people on the other hand do not have freedom to do all the things that a wealthy person can do because they can afford it. Our religion teaches to be kind and love one another. Rich people would bride judges to get their children out of trouble while a poor person would go to jail and serve his time because they have no one to bail them out.…