Clarinet

As long as I can remember I have had a connection with people, mostly children, with special needs. In fifth grade I met a girl on the playground that suffered from severe autism, her name was Sydney. After I talked to her a few times I went home one day and asked my Dad if he could find a book for me about autism. I watched every movie and read every book about autism that I could get my hands, I wanted so badly to understand Sydney. Sydney trusted me, she knew I would not make fun of her, so I…

music so they started playing ragtime in bars and clubs 3. 1910-1917: Black musicians had limited access to instruments. Musicians in New Orleans developed a style where each instrument had a defined role for example a. Trumpet played the melody b. Clarinet embellished the tune into an higher register c. Trombone emphasized the bass and played a low counterpoint. d. Bass, Banjo, piano provided harmony and…

told me something that stuck with me and has been a factor in shaping me, I wanted to be better than my father, and he wanted me to be better than him. This always pushed me to try my hardest, take the honors and AP classes, striving to be first clarinet, and getting the highest…

is a classical composition that was one of the first original symphonies written in America. It is considered a major milestone in our musical development as a country. I actually recognized the piece from when I was first learning how to play the clarinet. A simplified version of the theme in the second movement was one of the first pieces I learned how to play. It made me really focus on this work because I had never heard the entire thing, which is unfortunate because the entire piece is…

Whitewater has always meant a lot to me. It is where I grew up and have created all the lasting memories with me today. Having this passion for the town helped with my decision to apply to Whitewater University and could not be a better fit for my future career. If admitted to your university, I am convinced that I will be able to bring excellent communication skills, background with volunteer service, a strong work ethic and leadership experience through the multiple clubs I engage in both in…

A time where I faced an obstacle was how I didn’t make OCDA. OCDA is a choir event where you audition and compete against other students around the state of Oklahoma. Taking private lessons helped to prepare for the audition. Compressing your time in practicing is a hard thing to accomplish. In the year past, since I made OCDA seemed like a possibility, however not being one of the finalist was a real setback. Ordinarily, trying to stay positive was a goal to achieve, but nevertheless this was a…

This concert was performed by Flutist Laurel Zucker and Pianist John Cozza. This concert included works by Paul Taffanel, Olivier Messiaen, Eric Ewazen, Germaine Tailleferre, and Charles Griffes. Laurel Zucker is a flutist who left home at the age of 14 to study at the North Carolina School for the arts. She grew up with her brother and sister in Washington Heights, in Manhattan. Zucker begged her parents for a flute after hearing recordings and graduated high school at the age of 16 and studied…

Encountering difficulties is part of our daily life. They test our capacity to resist adversity and make us stronger. Moreover, challenging moments that we face can be compared with a storm, which produces intensive winds and heavy rain causing flooding and disaster but, after it everything returns to normal and the calmness will come. This is because a bad season or a moment in our life cannot last forever. Based on that principle, I interpret the overture of Don Giovanni composed by Wolfgang…

Without caution, lights went dark, a spot light shone at the center of the huge red curtain that swayed above the stage. It was the moment I have been waiting for, listening live to one of the greatest musical piece ever composed in this fin de siècle period, Pierrot Lunaire. My adrenaline sparked through the roof. The time had finally come for me to encounter a creation by a legendary and revolutionary musical composer, Arnold Schoenberg. The seats were filled with audiences from different ages…

Although Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth symphonies sound very different, they both originated during the same time period and are closely related in many ways. In the first movement of the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, the relationships between the two can already be identified. While their similarities reveal the new ideas that Beethoven wanted to use in his symphonies at the time, their differences reveal the different paths that Beethoven chose for each symphony. Though the first movements of the…