Contemporary worship music

master of ceremonies to finish speaking, I surveyed the hall and found my grandparents greeting guests with infectious excitement. I thought how grateful I was to receive an opportunity to play Carnatic violin in a concert hall in India. Carnatic music is a devotional art form that originates from South India. I grew excited and impatient, not nervous, because I knew how hard I worked to get there: practicing for hours, convincing my brother to keep taalam (the beat), listening to recordings,…

Andreyevna née d'Assier, was 18 years younger than Ilya and the second of his three wives. Both Ilya and Alexandra were trained in the arts, including music, which was a necessity; living in a remote area of Russia posed a need for entertainment. Tchaikovsky began piano lessons at age five and within three years he had become as skilled at reading sheet music as his teacher. However, despite their initial support, in 1850 Pyotr’s parents decided to send him to the Imperial School of…

I can remember every single detail and every event that led me to meeting some of the most fantastic people I will ever know. I remember it was November 12th, and I saw a post on Tumblr from a blog I follow, run by a transgender boy named Mikey from Vina, talking about seeing a band, FrnkIero andthe Cellabration live. I also happened to like this band, so we started talking, and I asked my mom if I could go to the concert, even though it was 2 hours away in San Francisco, and to my surprise, she…

Throughout childhood, people try and find where they fit in, where they belong. I desperately tried to find my place by throwing myself into multiple activities, from sports to musical groups. I liked the majority of them, but nothing was as enjoyable as marching band. The image I have chosen is my marching band’s practice field. We like to call it our “dirt mound” due to the lack of flat ground, dying grass, and dirt ditches from the years of band camp. The field may not boast the greatest…

Demon to Angel, or at Least Trying to Be Dimas Salaberrios was not always a man of God, in fact, he was quite the opposite. His is a terrifying story about the evil that truly exists in and beyond our world. The co-pastor of Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx is also the president of Concert of Prayer Greater New York, but not long ago he was preying on the people of New York not praying for them. Like Nicky Cruz in the 1970s, Salaberrios found himself in the streets of New York fighting to…

brother’s perspective of him, and the music scene Sonny is associated with . Music has a major influence on both the brothers, and their attitude on how they perceive life. Sonny started showing an interest in music at a young age, which molded him into the man he has become, and affected his life choices he has made. Some of the choices made were very poor decisions, but copes with them with his music. Sonny’s older brother cannot understand his brother’s passion in music and is quick to pass…

Lasch’s Chapter, “Academic Pseudo-Radicalism” begins by offering the tone of higher education, hierarchical and specialized. Lasch argues that one of the most prominent historical aims of higher education was the “democratization of liberal culture.” However, liberal education is not realistic for many students as a result of the increasing tuition costs. Students who do in fact receive liberal education tend to be affluent. Instructors of the affluent, concentrate on a language that focus on…

This simple outcome instilled within me a drive to become my best. My percussion teacher suggested I audition for the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) All-State Band. This audition required a level of dedication and hard work I never knew I was capable of. I stayed after school almost every day of the week for three months to perfect four separate audition pieces. I completed…

Scott DeVeaux is a professor and an author who specialized in jazz and American music. He is currently teaching at the University of Virginia. His book The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History that was published in 1997 had won the American Book Award, an ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society, and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research. His other published books and articles include Jazz, which was co-author with…

Track1: The Firebird, finale 1. The first few minutes of this piece are pianissimo, and I must say I enjoyed the extreme softness in the beginning of the symphony. As I was listening I noticed the crescendo throughout the piece until about one minute and thirty four seconds. Then the orchestra was playing pianissimo again for just a few seconds. I then heard another crescendo. I think this lasted throughout the rest of the symphony. I did notice the end of the piece went decrescendo for just a…