Jake Chambers

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…

private exchange among players.” Wheelock also suggests that “[Haydn tricks] the listener to offer progressively less stable conclusions—and in the end no conclusion at all”. His musical gestures and languages were well presented his idea of the chamber music in this piece and we can get the idea of employment situation for professional composer in middle of the 18th…

from the chamber. The body will sprayed to neutralized any remaining cyanide. Execution team with mask and gloves will check and remove the body. the similar to the lethal gas they are complication with this process as inmate do not follow order to deep breath they prolong their execution. unlike the lethal injection this the lethal gas will take ten to twenty minutes to complete the process. In the use of lethal gas they are health risk by any escaping gas and maintenance of the chamber. The…

Last week I had the privilege of witnessing an hour performance of “Cello Suites: Bach and Britten” at hosted by the Canadian Opera Company at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitehere at the Four Seasons Centre for Performing Arts. The performance consisted of Joesph Johnson, the principle cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The program that afternoon, Johnson produced intense sounds for an hour by performing two pieces cello solo works of inspired from the Baroque period and the 20th century.…

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…

If you’d asked audiences in 1825 to name the most popular composer of the day, it would not have been Beethoven, it would have been Gioachino Rossini. From the time Tancredi premiered in 1813, Rossini’s operas were the most popular and influential all over Europe, in part because he blended the elements of opera buffa and opera seria into works that appealed to audiences from a wide range of nationalities and class. Rossini was born on Leap Year Day in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy on the Adriatic…

Music There are many types of genres of music! A few are classical, pop, rock, country and reggae. Through out all types of music, there are over 97 million songs. From the 1500’s up to now there have been many artists and bands to be famous from singing. In the 1500’s, some popular composers were, Thomas Tallis, Josquin Des Prez, William Byrd, and many more! Thomas Tallis was most known for his piece called “ If Ye Love Me”. This song is about if you love God then you will keep his…

This was my first time attending a chamber concert and I found it to be quite amusing, this concert was primarily instrumental and the type of ensemble this concert feature was chamber music. For the genre I would consider these piece as a string quartet. And for the historical era I would have to put it with romantic and twenty and twenty first century era. This was my first live concert that I’ve ever attended so is was my first time hearing a violin and a cello live. The way I would describe…

Andrew Lloyd Webber got into the show business world by being raised a musical family. His father, William Lloyd Webber, was a composer and professor at Royal College of Music, while his mother, Jean Hermione Johnstone, was a piano teacher. Even as a small child he composed his own music. His younger brother, Julian, and him would put on “shows” when they were children. Their aunt Viola would often help and later introduced Webber to theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber met Tim Rice in 1965, and the…

The classical period in history falls between the baroque and romantic periods. It was a time of huge change for music because it brought out some of music’s most famous composers such as Beethoven and Mozart. Along with these legendary composers, is Johann Michael Haydn, the brother of another famous classical composer Joseph Haydn. Many historians focus on Joseph’s life, but fail to recognize his younger brother’s famous works and successes. Often, Michael Haydn is known as “the younger…