Piano Man

In the opinion of one of the world’s most significant pianists of all time, Frédéric Chopin always had thought that the piano playing is a form of art, and teaching students how to play piano should not merely about how students can be capable of performing a musical piece with faster tempo and strong dynamic. A good piano teacher should explain to student the art of the music for them to able to comprehend the pieces, and the students should be able to express themselves throughout the learning…

When one thinks of the word Kaleidoscope, their mind usually shifts to the almost telescope-like device that contains a colorful pattern that changes as it is rotated. The image that manifests from the moving pieces within or the curvature of the lens give off a picture that is pleasant to the eye no matter how many times it is rotated. Although the never ending pattern will repeat itself over and over again, it always seems new each time it 's picked up and looked at. The band “Kaleidoscope”…

begins with the soft playing of piano that is quickly buried under rain -which is imagined by Amelie- but grows as her imagination of Nino purchasing yeast for her continues. The piano reaches its highest point just before her doorbell’s harsh ringing and is abruptly cut off. The softness of the music at the beginning signifies her mind moving away from the task she is performing -which is opening a packet of yeast to add to her flour mixtures. The sound of the piano is wistful and it is that…

For this assessment, I attended the prometheus symphony orchestra’s 51st seasonal concert. Which was directed and conducted by Eric Hansen. As Eric Hansen mentioned in his introduction speech, The Prometheus Symphony Orchestra is a community-based all volunteer orchestra which is devoted to bring beautiful symphonies to the community. This orchestra is currently associated with Merritt College in Oakland. This is their 51st season of offering concert to Oakland Community. The performance took…

Fact VS. Fiction Movies are created to be enjoyed. Some pay tribute to famous people throughout history, while others are merely used for our amusement. Some movies about a particular person contain nothing but the truth about that person’s life. Others contain some truths while the rest is left up to the writer to fill in, to keep the movie from being too boring. Because movies are for our entertainment and not necessarily to tell us the truth, (that’s what a documentary is for) I can see why…

be one that would produce music that is still played even today. Early life: Mussorgsky was born on March 21st, 1839 (New Style), in Kareva, Russia. His father was a wealthy landowner and his mother was an exceptional piano player. His mother began teaching him to play the piano at a young age and he was playing simpler pieces by Franz Liszt by age 7. While his music education was somewhat erratic, he still held a love of music. His father enrolled him in military school as his parents plan…

He started his musical studies with his sister Katharine, who gave him his first piano lessons when he started out. In 1899, he completed his piano education at Elmira college under Mary Selena Broughton. In 1903, Mary financed his musical education in Berlin, he studied with Ernst Jedliczka and Gottfried Gaston, composition and counterpoint with other important…

Chopin's first Piano Concerto in E minor was born in the early Baroque period of the seventeenth century (). The concerto is divided into two performance groups: a lead group with professional musicians, and a group with amateur musicians. Chopin is a great composer known as a piano poet. His genius created the beauty of music that only the piano had. Chopin's piano is one of the representatives of the European romanticism. The most prominent feature of romantic music is the emphasis on the…

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the…

Mendelssohn and his wife, Lea. Along with her younger brother, Felix, Fanny was considered to be musically gifted and received exceptional music education from renowned music experts, such as Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter (Fanny, 2010). As a piano composer, Fanny began orchestrating pieces and performing at a young age; however, her ability to continue her education and make her works public became restricted during her mid-teens. At this time, her father and brother pushed her to…