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Prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer, Elliott Sharp, has been abundantly inventive throughout his three-decade career to deserve our particular attention. His boundless musical universe encompasses completely different styles that include avant-garde jazz, experimental ensembles, free improvisation, noise rock, electronic, contemporary classical, and music for film and opera/theater. The 66-year-old Cleveland native studied several theoretical correlations on music and scientific…

Trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith owns an inimitable avant-jazz voice and an out-of-the-box creativity that is patented throughout a prolific career. If last year he delighted me twice with A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (duo record with pianist Vijay Iyer) and America’s National Park, this year he strikes again with another couple of powerful albums, Solo Reflections and Meditations on Monk and Najwa, the object of this review and a bow to major American jazz artists. The album’s acute bite…

The hot sun beat down on the sand making our protagonists mood change with the sweltering heat and angst crashing against Meursault like waves on the beach. Three aspects affect his mood; temperature, weather, and light. These affect Meursault, but do not necessarily make him a more sympathetic character. His existential crisis makes him less open to the indifference of the world until the end of the novel when he is sentenced to death and finally opens himself up. Temperature…

sounding and calming effects of the harp compared to the bombing basses create a harmony that even the most diverse instruments can be played together. The percussion was harder for me to make out, but I believe there was the tambourine, triangle, and a cymbal. It was noticeable that he gave special treatment to the timpani and xylophone when he played the percussion instruments. It is rare for me to hear a xylophone in music, so it…

aerophones, membranophones, and idiophone. The major aerophones consisted of: clarinets, piccolos, trumpets, trombones, and tubas; the membranophones were the drums and snares, which demonstrated indeterminate pitch. Finally, the idiophone was the sole cymbals player in the front. The duration of each song played was relatively short lasting only 3-5minutes each,…

On December 11th, a Sunday night, I went to Les Joulins Jazz Bistro to listen to Bill “Doc” Webster and his band Jazz Nostalgia. Me and my friend were seated at a table for two, fairly close to the stage. The stage was not elevated and the musicians stood close to the tables and interacted with the audience in between songs. It made the overall feeling of the concert very laid back and non formal. The restaurant was not very crowded, but of the people that were there there was a wide mix of…

into without knowing what to do. My family will support me to find a life long interest. Also, the High School can help me open my eyes to a interest I would never thought of doing. During my Freshman year, I had entered the drumline as the cymbals. I feel like drumline would be my hobby. I want to try out all of the drums in drumline. For winter, I would try to audition to bass three, but I still don’t know how to much of the exercises. I still need to master the warm ups used to get…

All the screens are denying/ That the moments of truth have begun/ Can’t you see it on TV?/ Don’t believe them in the least bit/ Now the days of our ending have begun.” The song features a few breaks in which a guitar is accompanied by a pair of cymbals and the sound of wind. As the song progresses, the beat speeds up to dramatize the story being sung. I like to think the guitar that plays the melody represents the man in the story. Without words, the rhythm and beat of the song expresses drama…

An orchestra is an ensemble of string, brass, woodwind, percussion and keyboard instruments. The instruments found in each section have different tonal qualities, playing techniques and different ways of producing sound. The string section consists of the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass and even the harp. These instruments provide the greatest range of expression, intensity and modulation making the string section the foundation of the orchestra. String instruments provide lyrical…

This Operas orchestration is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one cimbasso, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, side drum, triangle, two harps, strings, and an onstage band. The First act was slow and lyrical almost as if they were sneaking upon the kingdom. It was mainly trumpets and violins at this point which gave it a very solemn tone but close to the…