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I am American drummer and composer Gene Jackson. This letter is on behalf of my colleague multi-talented pianist and composer Gabriel Guerrero in support of his visa application. I had been a world renowned successful professional musician for the last 37 years. My career has allowed me to share stage and recordings with the most prominent musicians of the recent era. My broad touring and recording credentials include Oscar Academy Award Winner and 14-time Grammy Award Winner pianist Herbie…

My paper’s approach to Louis Armstrong’s small band performance in Australia is organized by song. In each of these song sections, I describe what is generally going on. Intermixed amongst my musical review, I also interject my personal feelings and perceptions to what is occurring. I have organized my structure this way in order to provide a methodical structure to my analysis. Louis Armstrong starts playing the trumpet in the first song, “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South,” almost immediately…

Queer and the Spiritual Experience Regarding religiosity and spiritual experience, these two elements can indeed bring a person inside the LGBTQIA community into a better understanding of themselves and take the individual into a greater state of awareness and being “one” with society and the world; so stating that a spiritual experience can give any person greater awareness, or truth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. In Satyal’s Blue Boy, we see how the protagonist Kiran…

After the flags passed, two baton twirlers preceded the rest of the SIU cheerleaders. The baton twirlers performed a coordinated routine which started with the music played by the Salukis Marching band. These two twirlers rotated their batons very fast, then they tossed them into the air and jumped to catch it before it dropped to the floor. Then three rows of cheerleaders who were wearing a very sophisticated uniform made with the SIU colors, maroon, black and white, passed. Their uniforms are…

Brothers, was Hands Across the Sea by John Phillip Sousa. This song starts out with a cheerful lighthearted sound. The piccolo gave the song a very animated sound. At the end of the song the main theme tune is played with a loud brass and crushing cymbals. The song was very colorful and vivid. The next selection was The Paris Incident by Andrew Edwards. The song started off with strong sounding woodwinds. The song’s mood overall was somber but had bursts of excitement throughout. The finale of…

was the soloist in the April 15, 1865, premiere with the Diligentia Musical Society of The Hague, conducted by Johannes Verhulst. Along with solo piano, the work has pairs of woodwinds, horns and trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, gong and strings. The genesis of the piece comes from various sources, firstly the European folk…

Symphonie Fantastique (1830) – Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique is said to be the most significant work of French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz, written in 1830. Berlioz, born December 1803, was no child prodigy, not studying music until age 12, however in 1924 he abandoned his Parisian medical studies to peruse his compositional career. Symphonie Fantastique differs from the previous symphonies of Berlioz, as this follows a narrative through the music, therefore making it an early…

Paper Assignment #1 Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off is a song that is stuck in the minds of the majority of Americans, and many can recognize the songs just seconds from the beginning. It’s catchy tune and light-hearted and spirited lyrics leave the listener with a joyful feeling after hearing the song. However, looking more in depth and analyzing the parts of the song, one can find that it is more complex that you would think from just listening to it once. Looking at the overall structure of the…

stethoscope and a patient laptop that lights up and plays lullaby music. When all the boo-boos are treated, give the baby a bandage from the sticker dispenser. • VTECH KIDS DRUM SET Your toddler can be creative and freestyle on the four different drums and cymbal with the included drumsticks, or he can rock and dance along with nine pre-set melodies.…

In my high school career, I have been terrible with grades in my freshman year. I slowly but surely started to pick them up, but I was not the smartest in school. I was a slow learner, didn’t really catch the material as fast as everybody else. That was a disadvantage for me because I was making up some classes while I had to handle my regular A-G classes. I can honestly say it was probably one of the most difficult times in high school. That was around the time where I wasn’t really interested…