Claude Debussy

My experience, while I was at the concert, was very interesting since this was the very first PUC concert I have attended. This concert followed all the same principles as a normal concert, besides the fact that it was not formal. Talking about the pieces, Johnathan Cook’s first piece was Etude-tableaux OP 39, No. 5 in E flat minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff and encompassing the change in tone of the song very well. Since this song is in E flat minor, the tone, I took from the song, was lightly…

by Gabrielle Schrack, who performed Psalm 150 by Ned Rorem. Schrack, a Soprano, sang Psalm 150. Schrack had an easily understood voice while she performed her piece. The eighth performance was by Brittany Parry, who performed Arabesque No. 2 by Claude Debussy. Parry performed Arabesque No. 2 on the piano. Parry had memorized the entire piece with no piano music. The ninth performance was by John Hencinski, who performed Piano Concerto No.2 in d minor, Opus 23 by Edward MacDowell. Hencinski…

arranging a piece of music to be played by an orchestra, deciding which instruments should play which part (The Sorcerer's Apprentice Music Curriculum Guide, 2010). However, by 1912, he had stopped composing except for one piece for his friend Claude Debussy. Being his own worst critic, toward the end of his life, he destroyed several musical works because he was unsatisfied with them, one which was rumored he worked on for over seven years. (Who is Paul Dukas?, n.d.). Dukas died in 1935 in…

On Monday, October 19th at 7:30pm, I attended the USA Piano Ensembles “Fall Concert” at the Laidlaw Recital Hall. The concert contained five different pieces of music. The first piece of music performed was called “Die Fledermaus Overture.” This piece was composed by Johann Strauss (1825-1899) and it was arranged by Makoto Goto. The piece was played by Tracy Monk and Tobin Nelson on one piano. One person was seated next to them and they would turn the page while they played the piece. The piece…

two. Folk music emerged among cultures and popular music by the development of mass media consequently at a swift pace. Moreover, Impressionism considered the transition from romantic to modern music, described as series of harmonic textures. Claude Debussy and Maurice Revel were the foremost composers. Modern music is divided into three branches, Radical Modern, based on traditional Western music. Moderate Modern, which is less attached from tradition, and lastly major- minor tonal, more…

was performed by Elizabeth Bemis and Shawn Wright. The Busoni arrangement performance was electrifying and scintillating, such that, one felt like this was the first ever performance of the piece. The next piece was the Nauges from Nocturnes by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arranged by Maurice ravel (1875). The piece was an orchestral composition that involved three movements (the clouds, festivals and the sirens) the melody throughout the piece was beautiful up to the last…

saxophone is. She began learning the saxophone while she was recovering from typhoid fever. She commissioned many solo works from world renowned composer that had written for this new instrument. A few of these composers include Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Georges Bizet. Another huge successor to the popularity of the saxophone in America in none other than John Phillip Sousa. Sousa adopted the saxophone into his military bands and they had finally found a permanent home. The…

In the modern days, there are various levels of clarinet competitions. They have played significant roles in clarinet development. The top talented young clarinet performers are usually discovered from these competitions. From the participants’point of view, they tend to gain experience and learn from other participants. For those competitions which have crucial influence internationally, it is an unwritten rule that organizing committee always invite a prestige composer to compose a new piece…

the Music of Reason... The soul of each the same! Thus the musician feels Mathematic, the mathematician thinks Music,-Music the dream, Mathematics the working life, -each to receive its consummation from the other” (Fauvel). And famed composer Claude Debussy echoed “Music is the arithmeic of sounds as optics the geometry of light” (Fauvel). Both men, respected in their fields, had equal feelings about the relationship between mathematics and music. They not only live together, but feed each…

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer born March 12, 1889 in Kiev, Ukraine. In the world of ballet, Nijinsky was known as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He gained his popularity and recognition for his intense commitment to characterizations, artistry, and extreme focus on techniques. Those achievements were gained within the time span of nine years—compared to other artists of that time, it took decades or even after their career for their work to be…