Berlin Philharmonic

Entrepreneurs create opportunities for themselves, are risk takers, innovative, creative, always favor challenges, and are highly optimistic. These people have the skills and are courageous and daring enough to take good new ideas to market and make the right decisions to make the idea profitable. So for us, musicians, being an entrepreneur thinker is very important for us in order to make a living. There are so many careers in music out there for us, for example, writing and production…

The first French horn was invented in July of 1814 by Heinrich Stoelzel. The original design was based on early fox hunting horns, and were first used as instruments during 16th century operas. During the 17th century, the bell was expanded and flared, thus creating the French Horn. As hunting grew more popular among the wealthy, the French Horn was experimented on with shape and size to try to accomplish a larger range of notes. In 1636, Marin Mersenne wrote of four different types of French…

Weimer. After the death of his friend van Bülow, Strauss took over the concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1897, his son was born and not long after that he strayed away from his main success pieces of tone poems. He became internationally renowned. Even though Strauss was a very successful composer, he did not get the position of Munich General Music Director. Out of spite of this rejection, he moved to Berlin and composed a piece based on his life called “Sinfonica Domestica”. In 1904, he…

which was titled “The Berlin Celebration Concert – Beethoven, Symphony No 9, Bernstein 1989.” This concert, which recreated Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, was performed on December 25th, 1989 by an international cast of musicians and vocalist coming from groups around the world, such as: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Members of the Kirov Orchestra, Leningrad, London Symphony Orchestra, Members of the New York Philharmonic and Members of the…

Today, we consider the violin to be an elegant, sophisticated instrument. However, in 1878, George Dubourg published an account entitled, “The Violin”, in which he makes the bold statement, “instead of a bow-arm, must ladies be allowed only the arm of a beau? Why should not a lady play on the violin?” . Even once playing the instrument was considered acceptable, being a professional musician as a woman was rare until the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries . Even in today’s modern society,…

started his musical studies with his sister Katharine, who gave him his first piano lessons when he started out. In 1899, he completed his piano education at Elmira college under Mary Selena Broughton. In 1903, Mary financed his musical education in Berlin, he studied with Ernst Jedliczka and Gottfried Gaston, composition and counterpoint with other important people as well. In 1905, Griffes left the Stern Conservatory to study privately with Humperdinck. When he returned to the United States in…

In the book Peak by Anders Ericsson, he introduces different kinds of practice, including, purposeful practice, deliberate practice, and what we call naive practice. Deliberate practice is one of the most important practices that we can use to improve anything we want to do, whether it be improving in a sport, learning an instrument, or even adding it to our leisure. For example, if you play on the basketball team, you can always practice over and over again, to try to better yourself. This is…

Chapter 2 A Brief Background of Dvo??k Anton?n Dvo??k (1841?1904) was one of the most versatile and prolific composers of the nineteenth century, reaching into almost all genres of music from piano miniatures to comprehensively conceived vocal-orchestra compositions. His output encompasses nine symphonies and fifty-five other orchestral pieces, eleven opera, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, nine small choral works, thirty-five sets of songs and duets, fifty-five chamber works for various…