Medieval music

The first real jazz concert that I saw was a Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola. Now this may not be one of the most ideal spots to listen to jazz but it’s still an experience I will never forget. I attended one of the late night sessions which began around 11pm. The featured musician that was going to play was Josh Bruneau. After some research I found that Josh Bruneau is a fairly new jazz musician. Although he has been playing jazz for a long time he wasn’t recognized until the release of his…

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 when he first started playing…

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 George's exceptional talent with the piano so he denied charging the Gershwin family because he knew he had the privilege of teaching a future phenomenon. He was only eleven at the time of his humble beginnings with music, by 15…

overjoyed in anticipation of experiencing the nation’s capital for the first time in my life. As my choir started learning the festival music, I was awestruck by the dark lyrics of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ cantata “Dona Nobis Pacem” and inspired by others such as Mark Wilberg’s “Let Peace Then Still the Strife”. The lyrics were remarkable, but only seeing them as sheet music at the time, I did not entirely appreciate them or the veterans whom the songs revered. After twenty-four continuous hours…

Marching band showed me one of the most important parts of my life. Marching band teaches people. With Mr. Beach as a director, one learns more than just how to march and play an instrument. It all started three years ago with five people in a loose section. To preface this story, I need to explain instruments. I found myself playing mellophone in marching band. The mellophone resembled a bigger trumpet and used by French horn players. Flugelhorns also look like trumpets, but they share the…

audiences humored laughter. In fact, I was the only person to step on stage for the entire performance who was of the male gender. What does this mean, why is it special or uncanny for an entire ensemble to be made up of exclusively women? What does music do to change implications and assumptions on this matter? What are we expecting? This entire situation I found myself in seemed to be nothing more than a happy accident. KaeRenae Mitchell emailed me mid-semester to…

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 musicians are…

‘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…

also another one behind the grand piano. The piano is a black piano and it usually has music papers all over. I sometimes stand there behind Bryce and mess with him hoping to mess him up. I sometimes also like to try and play chords or something someone shows me. To the left is a rack full of movies that Dr. Ryan shows the choir sometimes. The movies all have to deal with music, for example, The Sound of Music. The piano faces the different choir sections that are grouped together. There are 4…

an artist, musician and body painter from Italy. Johannes sings and also plays the violin in a band. Johannes studies education and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Johannes attends many social projects where he combines his music with his art work. Johannes also develops his work without reference to other body painting artists or their work. in 2009 Johannes also secured a place for himself at the international bodypainting Festival in Austria and he took part for his…