Electric Light Orchestra

church, he exposed Europeans to the idea that Turkish people were horrible people. Emperor Joseph II dismissed the opera buffa and ballad troupes… all that remained were a troupe for the performances of spoken dramas in German and the Burgtheater orchestra, to play overtures and incidental music (Rice 202). This was just one example of how much power joseph II had and how he had control over which troupes would perform. The idea of musical exoticism developed during the Enlightenment period.…

The music concert 9066 Music Behind Barbed Wire was the ending cumulation of the events done throughout the semester to honor the 75th anniversary of Manzanar. Inside the university theatre the crowd was coming in, soon the theater was packed with a variety of people from the community and students. The evening event started fifteen minutes late, and then we were welcomed by the Dean of the college of arts and humanities Mitch Avila. He discussed how throughout the semester they had several…

It was Friday afternoon. This meant that I had a violin lesson all the way on the Upper West side at Christine Kwak’s (my teacher’s) apartment. I hate making the trip there all the way from the south of Brooklyn but Ms. Kwak had already recorded the complete 24 Paganini Caprices and made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the tender age of 11 so I guess it’s worth it. After standing in the middle of her living room, playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for an hour, I leave her apartment and put on Isaac…

my Neurologists were able to correctly diagnose my headache, I was able to play the trombone again. At once, the world shifted from black and white to color again, and this experience allowed me to appreciate music to another degree. This year in orchestra, instead of solely playing my piece, I often sit back and enjoy the beautiful harmonies created and take the time to admire how well written the songs are. Playing any instrument has a divine simplicity to it, and this is when I truly saw it…

breath, glance at my conductor and the orchestra, and begin. I’d like to say I was infatuated with cello from the moment my future conductor first played it (rather badly, as I’d later learn) at the fourth-grade introduction to the music program, but that’s not what happened. The classic demonstration of the Jaws theme was lost on me, a ten-year-old who’d never seen Jaws and was (is) terrified of sharks. Truthfully, the only reason I decided to do orchestra (in spite of rumored early morning…

Style, perhaps, fluctuates the most of all aspects of a performance with the size of the group. Large orchestral groups or symphony orchestras may have dozens, if not hundreds in some cases, of performers on stage. This allows for numerous parts of a tune to be played simultaneously. The appeal to this is that there can be so much going on at once (a melody,…

On Tuesday November 15 2016, we had our very first concert of the year, our jazz concert which was called Jazz It Up. Many people were impressed not just by the 7th graders, but also varsity voices and us 8th graders. We were all great on our songs, and I especially liked the 7th graders songs. Mrs. Hjelm was amazing as she always is when she directs us and when she is our teacher. As always though a few things needed to change. Our first song was The Star Spangled Banner and we were very…

Hello Mr. Gershenson, I am the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and I will be telling you about my early life and education, early success and failures, and most famous pieces and achievements before my life ended in 1983 at age 53. Cholera is said to be the reason I passed away as well as the reason that my mom sadly passed away when I was 14 while attending boarding school in St. Petersburg. Throughout my life I have always regret the past, hoped in the future, and have been unsatisfied with…

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was a Latin American composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born on April 11, 1916 in Buenos Aires and died June 25, 1983 at the age of 67 in Geneva Switzerland. He was half Catalan and half Italian. Ginastera started his composing career when he was only 18 years old and won first place in a contest for the piano. He studied music at the Conservatorio Williams and the National Conservatory, both in Buenos Aires. Ginastera later co-founded the League of…

The concert that I attended was Sac State Jazz Combo with the guest artist “The Kandinsky Effect”, on Tuesday October 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm. in the Capistrano Concert Hall. At the beginning of the concert the Sacramento State Jazz combo played a couple songs. In this group there were many performers with different instruments: Domenic Dalpez (baritone saxophone) , Jesse Crosson (trombone) , Aaron Smith (trumpet) , Randy Sandoli (piano) , Molly Redfield (bass) , Devan Kortan (guitar) , and Cameron…