Calypso music

in March of 1939. Though Jordan didn’t receive many achievements in his lift time, he still had a major impact on the culture of African-Americans and the nation as a whole. His technique of rhythm and blues started a new generation of music and livened the music back in the day. Louis Jordan created many of the songs we enjoy today. For example, “Is You Is or Is You Aint My Baby,” which was released in 1944. It reached number 1 on the U.S folks and country charts. This is one of my favorite old…

“Music can block out silence, on dark scary roads and in moments of loneliness.” Sometimes when that one perfect song comes on I can just feel all my problems disappear and in that moment I feel free of the world, I feel happy. “We’re told these days that the hottest and fastest wire into memory is our sense of smell, but music must run a close second. Some songs carry us into a certain mood, some to a general region of our past lives” One particular song comes to mind carried along with a…

A matinee performance on Saturday, May 20 (officially titled Here/Now No. 9) was perhaps the single most dispiriting afternoon I've ever spent at NYCB. The program presented six different works. By the end of the fourth week of the Here/Now festival the number of injuries was staggering -- every week had a multitude of casting changes. The dancers, usually so chipper on social media, had resorted to venting and more venting. Georgina Pazcoguin's wry line "To those who fell, to those who made it…

Shostakovich Successful Soviet Composer and Pianist was known to be a bit controversy portraying music in expressing, Anger and Tragedy. His performances and being a first-time criminal that isn’t until Stain got in the way in taking over hated Shostakovich’s opera many believe he wrote and composed, Population in fear of Stalin’s terror. In his own way, he could relate. Shostakovich was exposed to so much in Soviet Union where He grew up. Under orders people were imprisoned others were arrested…

The artist Kawase Hasui, was a printmaker who used color and repetition to uniquely style his works. He was one of the most famous artists of the “Shin Hanga” movement during early 20th century Japan. Influenced by Impressionism, “Shin Hanga” meant “new prints” that focused on landscapes and portraits using various amount of colors. As a leader in this movement, Kawase Hasui created many landscapes, often using the same woodblock only with different colors. However, he presented more of the…

Historical Background John Williams was born in New York City on February 8, 1932. His Father was a percussionist for the CBS Radio Orchestra .Music then was not a foreign concept to him growing up. He was around it often, and even began to compose his own pieces…

Rag”. At the age of 17 Duke was awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in New York but he denied it in order to pursue his passion for ragtime and then began to play professionally at age 17. How did Duke’s Music Fit Into The 20s: Duke Ellington’s music fit into the 20s because it was upbeat and fun. The 20s was a time of prosperity so Duke’s…

On Friday, February 6th, 2015, I was sitting in class listening to a Music History lecture, when my teacher, Dr. Jamie Weaver, played a recording of “La Quarte Estampie Royal”, from Le Manuscrit Du Roi, an instrumental piece from the 14th century France. I was intrigued. As a fiddler throughout my high school year, studying a variety of genres, I recognized much of the ornamentation as similar to Celtic tradition, namely Cape Breton tradition. The first things I noticed about the recording…

was a seventh-grader playing in a high school level orchestra. She was a senior stuck with the baby. Making music in an orchestral setting is, at its core, collaborative. For the team to work, there must be trust. Of course, the orchestra must trust the conductor, but there are many other essential levels of collaboration. The principal players must constantly communicate to keep the music together. At the same time, principals, particularly in the string section, convey…

Piano Trio in D Major, Joseph Haydn The concert started with a piece by Haydn that began with the piano playing the melody and then developed into a conversation between the piano and violin. The piece was in a four movement form, like the pieces by Haydn that we listened to during class. The second movement changes from D major into D minor and with the cello and violin playing the melody together and the piano in the background. In the middle of Andantino piu tosto allegretto, the second…