Cello

“I realize now that dying is easy, living is hard” (Forman 175). This quote is so much more than just words; it represents a choice, Mia’s choice between life and death. Stuck outside her lifeless body, Mia is presented with the choice of staying and living with what she has left on this earth, or leaving and joining her deceased family. With her loved ones watching over her, Mia reminisces about her life and the possibilities of her future, as she is faced with this powerful decision. In the…

The tempo for the introduction of the first theme, Rachmaninoff indicates minim=66. However, in his two recordings in 1924 and 1929 he performed at minim=47-51 for the introduction and minim=80 (1924) and 81 (1929) for the first theme. The introduction is much slower and the first theme is much faster, and the latter definitely does not go back to the initial tempo. The tempo that Sviatoslav Richter chooses to perform in 1959 is much slower in general, which is at minim=48 for the introduction…

The lady that composed this piece is actually the mother of the woman that was playing violin. I thought this was very cool and you could tell that this piece meant a lot to her. This piece is from the modern era as it was wrote in 2012. The piece itself was written to represent the landscape of Wallah Wallah, Washington. This was the place of a musical festival that she and her husband had founded. The landscape was supposed to be beautiful fields filled with golden grasses. The piece used…

The Romantic period is in the 1820s to the 1900s, the music written in that period are artistic and literary. Some famous composers are Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Schumann. ‘Vltava’is a piece composed by Bedrich Smetana in the Romantic Period for symphony orchestra. This piece has 6 movements and it describes the flow of water that runs through Czechoslovakia and Prague from day to night. It contains a lot of emotions and it is one of the most famous nationalism work. Fig. 1: It shows all the…

brown, and black. The lines used in this painting seem to be thick curvy lines. Details prove the floor looks covered in what seems to be apples and cigarettes. The image looks to be massed with 7 bulky, yet giant musicians playing instruments such as cello, and guitar with no strings. One can notice that the musicians are predominately male with one female. The couple below looks to be petite but bulky as well. One could believe that the displayed juke box is used more often and that the…

She played the cello day in and day out and later it paid off tremendously but through it all she always felt like the black sheep of the family. Much like Hester she knew her parents were disappointed with her. Her mother didn’t truly love her while her father was just…

A lighthearted, enthusiastic, lively, and energetic mood filled the atmosphere at the Mozart Festival presentation in Houston, Texas. The moderate sized crowd consisted of mostly older persons with a few young adults and children sprinkled in here and there. From the very moment I walked in, warm and amiable people welcomed my father and I into the building and I saw the performers having upbeat conversations with members of the audience. I had the opportunity to interview one of these friendly…

of instruments played, performances, and the way the sounds are produced. Band and orchestra are similar yet different. Band and orchestra both contain many instruments. When people typically think of orchestra, they think of the violins, violas, cellos, and basses; however, in a full orchestra there are band instruments that are combined with the orchestra to produce the most qualitative sound. Instruments that are in both full orchestra and band include a tuba, trombones, trumpets, French…

emancipation of the movement; however, this is not the case. As the closing material quickly continues, E-flats are reintroduced signaling that the outcome of the struggle between major and minor has not yet been decided. Beginning in measure 202, the cello has a prominent chromatic line covering an octave between A-flats signifying the rise to victory. Unfortunately, at the end of the chromatic rise, C…

making sure everyone has a job to do). Aside from church related experiences, I have acted as a co-section leader in my orchestra. I invest an abundance of time into music, and into cello performance specifically, and it has paid off. I have advanced from being last chair in the lower orchestra when I started to learn the cello freshman year, to second chair of the top orchestra by the beginning of senior year. This is another exemplar of leading by implementation. With hard work and…