Clarinet

Finally, spring has arrived! The days are getting longer, which means there is more sunlight streaming through your windows, illuminating all of the dust and grime that has infiltrated your house over the past four months. Of course your first instinct may be to roll up your sleeves, grab 18 rolls of paper towels, some Windex, and have at it. Here’s the thing, chances are your house isn’t the only thing that could use a little spring cleaning. We often focus on making sure our cabinets and…

Concert Report: Pomona College Orchestra In Pomona College in October 4th, the orchestra played three pieces; Tangents for George Walker, Trittico Botticelliano for Ottorian Respighi, and Symphony No. 104 for Franz Joseph Haydn. The first one for Walker music like Jazz style, but I did not know what type is it. The second music for Respighi were three movements: La Primavera (Spring), L’Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi), and La Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus). The first La…

At first I wanted to play the clarinet, but Mr. Bloom my teacher convinced me to you play the baritone. Which is like a tuba, but the difference is the baritone. And play it for only two years( hardly ever practiced I might add) before I was asked to play tuba by his wife at the end…

Because I was unable to attend the Mozart After Dark concert that I was looking forward to seeing live, I was fortunate enough to find a concert through YouTube, 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,…

Music is an important cultural aspect of everyday life of people living in northern Mexico and Mexican-Americans within the southern United States. One such type of music that is very popular among these people is cumbia, which is a dance-oriented music style originating from afro-Cuban roots that has spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans settle. Cumbia has grown from its origins across northern Mexico and the southern United States and plays in important role in the…

As soon as the music behind my float started playing, people began cheering. The music was loud composed of tubas, clarinets, trombones, trumpets, and a large bass drum with a cymbal on top. Next to the band, there was the image of virgin mary that is in the town’s largest church. It was being carried by four men and they where each holding a piece of the wood stand on…

On Friday, November 25, 2016, at 8pm, I attended the Mozart and Brahms’ concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. This was a very nice venue with a mixed crowd. They offered a student rush discount ticket which was amazing because they were pretty good seats for $10. The concert was held on “casual Friday.” People were still a little over dressed for being a casual night. As soon as I walked into the concert hall, I noticed an organ straight…

surroundings. He views life from a different perspective and does not pay attention to his parents’ pleas for a transformed attitude. All he does nowadays is read books on war, walk in the evenings, watch girls from his front porch and practice on his clarinet (Hemmingway…

(White. S, 2000). On the other hand it could also be a woodwind because when you blow into the bottles they make a sound as well (White. S, 2000). Woodwind instruments are things that air may be blown across or on the surface, for example a flute or clarinet (White. S,…

master the concepts of chords and melodies. As he became older, Maria Anna and Wolfgang were tutored by their father and soon conquered many instruments. At the age of 5, Wolfgang wrote his first composition with the musical instruments violin and clarinet. Leopold starting touring with his children and other family members starting in Bavaria in Munich. While touring Wolfgang was able to meet many composers and noblemen. His meeting with Johann Christian Bach; Bach’s youngest son, was the most…