Piano Man

Mastery Have you ever heard someone comment that another person’s success was due to luck? Perhaps the classic statement that someone’s achievement is due to being born with a silver spoon in their mouth resonates with you. I have heard my father say many times that people like Bill Gates will go to hell, because he has more money than he needs. I have never agreed nor understood such limited thinking. Perhaps there is another way to view success in any area be it physical, mental,…

“Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered.” These words were written in the autobiography of a man who meant these words when he said them (Bio.com). Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, who is popularly known as Duke Ellington, is the man being talked about here (Encyclopedia). Duke had a warm childhood, a busy adulthood, and a legacy that will never be forgotten which included him composing the song “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” (Bio.com). Duke Ellington…

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson tells the story of two siblings and the piano that comes between them. The play explores the lives of an African American family years after slavery is outlawed. Its plot is driven by the two main characters arguing over how important it is to keep a piano that contains the legacy of a family. The play begins with Boy Willie visiting his sister, in the North, with the intention of selling the piano their father inherited them. His plan is to sell the piano…

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four show how people live their life happily. Though the novels are written at the time of depression, they give a clear perspective about how to boom out without hurdles to live a life of satisfaction and joy. In Player Piano there is a super computer named EPICAC XIV which excels the brain of human being. It’s an electronic computing machine-a brain, if you like. This chamber alone, the smallest of the thirty-nine used, contains enough wire to reach from here to the…

pianoforte, more commonly known as the piano, was invented around the year 1700 by a man named Bartolomeo Christofori. In this era, there was no keyboard that had a wide range of dynamics (the volume of an instrument). Consequently, Christofori saw a need and filled it with the piano. The piano has gone through only a few stages of design; it has been constructed essentially in the same way now as it was in the 1700s. However, the process of learning to play the piano skillfully has developed…

has been essential in the movie. It could be interpreted in different ways, and now I’ll explain you why. Water is something pure, as the music that’s coming from a piano; it’s a natural, powerful, and phenomenal element that gives constantly energy to every single thing, even if we don’t notice it. And I see like this music, the piano, the life: something very powerful and sacred, that we don’t have to waste or put it behind our lives if we have it. Another big meaning that could be more…

quartet composed of Orazio Maugeri on alto saxophone, Salvatore Bonafede on piano, and Gabrio Bevilacqua on acoustic bass, to homage his daughter Veronica, who passed away in 2014, at the age of 23. Each member contributes with original compositions to Aquarius Woman an emotional record that also includes a couple of covers and poems. A few guests join the quartet along the way, and the first doing it is the experienced tenor man George Garzone, who blew fiercely in “Chasin’ The Zone”, a…

finding the true and equal love in Baines, Ada does not need the piano; she yearns to enter into the real life, that is why she first breaks the coffin, and then sinks it into the sea. She has no contact with the real world and other people. She sacrifices her isolation for an attachment to other people and to life. However, as the piano drops into the sea she curiously and purposely places her foot in the rope to go overboard with the piano. We see her being pulled down under the cold dark sea…

born in Salzburg, Vienna on January 27, 1756. He was born to a mother, father, and sister. There were more children, but no one lived past childhood. Wolfgang was a determined and musically smart little boy. He knew what he was doing behind a set of piano keys. He was a prodigy to say the least. He accomplished more in a lifetime then most could in two lifetimes. Over the course of his thirty-five years on earth he composed around 600 compositions. Mozart’s family was supported of his talents.…

Concept of Ghosts as Portrayed in The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson, a play written by August Wilson, portrays a family that has been living within the presence of various ghosts and spirits. The play hones in on the Charles family living in Pittsburgh during the depression. Doaker, Berniece and Maretha are surprised with a visit from Bernice’s brother Boy Willie and his partner Lymon. In the house which Berniece, Doaker and Maretha live, there is a piano; a family heirloom that has carvings…