Maria Anna Mozart

Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917 at Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Thelonious Monk was a famous jazz musician and composer that fell in love with music at a very young age. Before Thelonious Monk was known as a genius, he was judged by many observers for a decade, yet while receiving all the judgment he never changed his music once. Monk never gave up on himself and he loved his music so much, that's why he saw no need to modify his style. Thelonious Monk was around five…

George Gershwin was one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898 , George's legacy had started. George's brother, Ira Gershwin, was also involved in music at a young age. At one of Ira's piano lessons George began to play, with no prior lessons, and his parents discovered his love and natural talent for music they put him in lessons. His first mentor and teacher, Charles Hambitzer, early on had realized…

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisensch (Turingia, Germany) on March 21, 1685 as an eight child to Johann Ambrosius Bach, and Maria Elizabeth Lammerhirt, and Eisensch is also the same place where Luther translated the New Testament into German 190 years before. Johann Ambrosius Bach, His father (1645¬¬-1695) was a church organist, his twin brother Johann Ambrosius was a string player, and a court trumpeter. Sebastian Bach was baptized in Saint George church three days after being born in…

The event that I decided to go was BYU Baroque Ensemble, a production made by BYU students, taking place at Madsen Recital Hall Harris Fine Arts Center on November 3. The idea of making a baroque orchestra is where musician get together to make a perfect composition of music, the baroque orchestra is made up mostly of stringed instruments, when you listen you feel something different that makes you see it from another perspective, you just can’t stop listening and focus on every note that the…

INTRODUCTION Johann Sebastian was a German composer who became a great violinist, violist, pianist and harpsichordist of the Baroque period. Bach wrote over eleven hundred music compositions in all different genres. His music became the essential part of the education today for every musician. Bach was an influenced composer and was an inspiration to many leaving a great legacy behind after his death. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Childhood & Place of Birth Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21,…

‘Casablanca’ was released during the golden age of Hollywood film; “a visual and narrative style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1917 and 1960”. It is a style in which falls between formalism and realism. Casablanca makes the shots realistic at the beginning by making the voice over resemble a radio reporter - drawing the audience in and making them feel apart of the story. But the the film is then also filmed in controlled studio…

The Band and Orchestra room is to the left in the hallway and is filled with lockers, instructional pieces, and instruments. The first instrument I see when I enter the room is a wooden piano. The conductors chair is an old office chair that worn down so we can see the padding inside of it. Looking around the room I see many lockers ranging from small to large depending what is inside them. Each locker is completed with a metal door that resembles a jail door. The room has three short floor…

The Melting Pot I choose the “Arabian Waltz” by the Silk Road Ensemble as my song. This group is composed of “distinguished musicians, composers and performing artists from more than 20 countries around the world to celebrate, explore and experiment with a wide variety of cultural approaches to musical performances” (The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: Live from Tanglewood). At the beginning of the piece I felt very serene with just a couple of instruments playing. However, when all the…

Arcangelo Corelli is an impressionable Italian composer and violinist who exercised a wide influence on his musical peers and on the succeeding generation of composers. Arcangelo Corelli is the 5th child of very prosperous landowners. He was born on February 17 1653 in Fusignano near Bologna, Italy to Santa Raffini who was recent left a widow after his father died just five weeks before his birth. His mother named him after his deceased father Arcangelo. His first teacher is thought to be the…

top musician is named Ian Anderson. He was born on the 10th of August, 1947 at Dunfermline, United Kingdom and has one child named Gael Anderson. His musical group is called Jethro Tull which is a rock band. Andante in C major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778 is a famous orchestral music piece. The flute plays beautifully besides the piano and is the main instrument of the song. The flute sounds smooth, dramatic and some parts cheeky. Cheeky means the flute is playing…