1969 in music

Performing theatre live, is the most exhilarating experience that I have ever had. When I am waiting to walk on stage for the first time, there are countless emotions running through me, but as soon as I take that first step into the light I am hit with a sense of overwhelming joy. During the past year of my life I have accomplished more than I ever expected. While studying at Gateshead College I have managed to improve my ability in all three disciplines. This has helped me both inside and…

Once, I had an interesting opportunity to participate in listening and enjoying a wonderful performance at Moorpark College, one month ago. This performance is named “Night Before Nationals,” which was presented by Moorpark College Forensics on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at 7:30 P.M. At first time I heard this public event, I honestly thought it was a performance about the United States and other countries. But after I had already bought the ticket, I just knew that “Night Before Nationals” was…

Harmonia Mundi is a chapter that speaks to how music has changed throughout history, how it continues to change through new ideas, and views on what defines music. It shows that as our understanding of music changes, the way we listen to and view music changes as well. The chapter is broken down into 5 main sections each highlighting a certain point or view one music. The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a…

James Tenney 's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion" felt calm and collected within the first few minutes. It reminded me of an electronic piece I composed for another class. However, about five minutes in, I became suddenly aware of the volume and sense of restlessness the composition was bestowing within me. There wasn 't much movement, pitch wise, and it felt like a wave of sound was crashing into me. The contrast between the barely audible beginning to the loud crescendo was so…

“My Experiences With Art” I believe art is all around us, whether it is something we see, or something we hear. Art has always been something very important to me. I’m not sure where my love of art began but it has always been something that is fun to me. I love art a lot and I believe I have a very artistic philosophy towards life. When it comes to my life, I live very carefree and “in the moment”. I live very passionately. I believe art is this way too. Many times when creating art things…

self-aware group of beings. Everything that we can see, touch, hear, smell, and taste is a form of art. It is not restricted to one sense of our bodies, but can be all at once. I have an incredible amount of trouble getting used to new practices in music, but I realize that just because I do not understand it does not negate the fact that it is a form of expression that the world uses to evoke its true potential. I cannot think of a single object around me that does not serve this function. Even…

In Gayl Jones’ Corregidora one of the main texts focus and themes is centered and founded upon the blues. Through Ursa; the main characters singing of this specific genre of music, the reader is forced to recognize that Ursa’s singing ties in completely to her defined belief that her sole purpose is to “make generations” and her singing in a way fulfills that purpose as she in body can’t. The reader is given evidence to this by past recollections in the text, current statements that repeatedly…

cultivating an ongoing dialectical debate about composing techniques, expanded by my experience in electronic music with Riccardo Sinigaglia. In those years, inevitably, I felt like to explore an original path. This led me to seek which poetics moves the need for a language, that today I describe, thanks also to the discussions with Filippo Maria Caramazza, in Pericronismo – Perichronism Music…

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.” His conducting teacher Nikolat Tcherepnin, was a modernist. He tried to foster Prokofiev’s interests in modernism and at the same time rouse Prokofiev’s enthusiasm of the Classical music. Therefore, Prokofiev had a unique way of associating Russian modernism…

Zukofsky’s great love for music as an art form to experiment with shows up as interweaving themes in his work. Consider this passage from the first chapter of his great poem “A”: “Music leaving no traces, Not dying, and leaving no traces.” (“A” 6) Zukofsky aims to explain the process of a scientific recording, through the processes of objective statements made in his work. On the other side of the coin lies creation, the ability to produce something tangible from the mere idea of it. On the…