IBM Lotus Symphony

The Gala featured music played by some pretty heavy hitters from the Big Band Era including band leader Johnny Vana as their conductor, and Vocalist Bill A. Jones. Bill sang some classic hits from the era and the band played a variety of music from the big band era for about three hours. The set list included: Chicago – Frank Sinatra (V) composed by Fred Fisher New York, New York – Frank Sinatra (V) composed by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb It’s Been a Long, Long Time – Bing Crosby…

31, 1732 and died on May 31, 1809 . He became the main composer of the classical style of music. Franz Joseph Haydn is also known as the “ Father of the Symphony.” Two of his most famous pieces are The ‘Surprise’ Symphony and “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” With his musical talent he became rich.He composed about 100 symphonies. Franz Joseph Haydn influenced music very much. During his early life in 1740 around the age of 7 or 8 his parents sent him with Johann Matthias Frankh,…

One of the greatest work in classical period, Mozart’s Symphony in G minor, K.550 (1788) is analysed in many different point of views. These musicological writings reflect the writer’s interpretations of the piece which enhance my appreciations from shallow to deep understanding. My personal understanding of Mozart’s Symphony in G minor has been greatly developed by two articles: “Mozart’s Symphony in G minor, K.550: An Aesthetic Analysis” by A. Cutler Silliman and “Mozart’s Musical…

Sixth symphonies sound very different, they both originated during the same time period and are closely related in many ways. In the first movement of the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, the relationships between the two can already be identified. While their similarities reveal the new ideas that Beethoven wanted to use in his symphonies at the time, their differences reveal the different paths that Beethoven chose for each symphony. Though the first movements of the Fifth and Sixth symphonies are…

“A symphony is like the world. It must contain everything.” (Gustav Mahler). This quote accurately describes Mahler’s outlook and perspective on not just his music, but the way he views life. Mahler’s artistic interpretation served as a stepping stone future musicians would be influenced by for generations to come. Because of this, Mahler has cemented himself in history by pushing the limits of the universal language that is music. Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860, in the German town of…

Franz Joseph Haydn is widely known as one of the creators of classical music, as well as being dubbed the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet. He is also one of the greatest and most celebrated composers of all time. Haydn once remarked, “Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.” And it was the truth. Haydn came from humbler beginnings than most. He was born in Rohrau, Austria on March…

himself even though his condition was getting worst with time, he knew that he still had much more to accomplish, explore, discover, and pass on. As a result, he composed into his greatest music, “Sonatas for Piano”, Second and third symphonies- The Eroica. The Eroica symphony was played for the first time on April 7th,…

I kept persistently begged my parents for lessons, but they wouldn’t agree with it, but finally they cracked on a fall evening when I was in the third grade. That day in school, a group of members from the Bismarck Mandan symphony came and talked to us about joining the school orchestra. I was intrigued. I felt my excitement grew as they played an excerpt of a piece for us. I couldn’t sit still cross-legged on the ground, but bounced on the ground uncontrollably as if I was…

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written for western style orchestra and features a solo violin played using some Chinese techniques. This piece retains the Chinese flavor but however to some extent. The reason why I have chosen this question and this piece is because as a violinist, I have the interest in how the violin in The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is a western instrument, but however it is still able to capture some of the Chinese style. In this essay, I will be comparing…

The madrigal that is being analyzed is Claudio Monteverdi’s “Oime, il bel viso”(madrigal, a 5+bc; from Il sesto libro de’ madrigali [The Sixth Book of Madrigals], 1614; text by Francesco Petrarch, Canzoniere, sonnet no. 267). This madrigal can be seen as a piece that works as a coherent piece of music. This is madrigal works as a coherent piece of music with the help of repetition of motives in the madrigal, the divisions of the madrigal add to the whole piece to unify it, and relationship…