Program music

took longer than I thought it was going to. I ended up getting pretty bad grades overall, and the only thing I ended up succeeding in was orchestra, and after about 8 months of playing bass I decided to audition for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program, and I ended up getting into the intermediate level of middle school orchestra (AJO) and I became section leader in both school orchestra and AJO the following year. In seventh grade I was slightly more organized, but primarily disorganized,…

Going to my arts classes on school always was my favorite part of the day. I got a break from the day while still practicing a skill. Take band for example, you get an entire period of playing music, that 's insanely awesome. Band is not the only class like this, there are many others of the same nature. Some examples are art, dance, and drama and all of their respective specifics. Some people think that these "extra" classes are not beneficial in any way to the wellbeing of a student. That…

My first concert I attended was at Linnaea 's cafe in downtown San Luis Obispo, it was my first time going to Linnaea’s and watching the jazz performance. The band that was playing were young adults from the cuesta music program. The band’s name was the sharks there was three men and one woman in the group, the woman was the lead singer, and the three men’s instruments were a bass guitar,xylophone, and a guitar. Linnaea’s is a very small cafe, and the jazz room was full, so i was sitting in the…

surrounded by music growing up because of his father and because of him I also did. My dad is constantly playing shows at markets or restaurants with his accordion. My grandmother has a beautiful voice and growing up I was always surrounded by it. My grandfather whom I mention a lot about later on was the most musical man in my life. He started a family…

born on September 13th, 1874, would become one of the most important influences on classical contemporary music. Born to a non musical family, Schoenberg was a primarily self-taught cellist and joined an amateur orchestra under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky. He would later be instructed in composition by Zemlinsky, and in counterpoint by Oskar Adler. Schoenberg became prolific in music theory and composition while working his job as a bank clerk, and later quit this job to become a full…

Scott Adams once said, “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Throughout the life of mankind, there’s always been a form of some type of art. In the beginning, cave men and ancient Egyptians drew hieroglyphics to tell stories and important events. In ancient Greece, when the Western Expansion started, they would use dram to spread the beliefs of Christianity, which is one of the largest populated religion today. Many Native American tribes would do…

Communication through radio has stemmed from musicians, comedians, talk shows and news. Modern day radio has advanced through technology allowing music to be pre-recorded. Artist can add fluctuations in their voice, autotune their vocals, and have their bands pre-record their music for them…

on Friday. There were many engaging moments in the Cincinnati Symphony's unique program hailing the French organ tradition in Music Hall. But Louis Langrée’s direction of the famous “Poco adagio” in Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3, “Organ,” was truly magical. At the Allen organ, Thierry Escaich’s tones provided a soft, rich carpet under the lustrous sounds of the Cincinnati strings. It was serene and moving, and Music Hall’s spacious, almost cathedral-like acoustics couldn’t have been more ideal.…

from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Profound and rapid changes in technology and lifestyle provoked a range of responses from embracing the avant-garde to resisting it. In Chapter 1 I argued Daniels?s importance to the history of American music. While many of her works are powerful and merit performance, they are missing from today?s concert repertory. Most are out of print. A strategic question dominated Daniels?s life and compositional practice: how could she as a woman of her era…

including supporting the Executive Council Sustainability Chair, who developed a variety of interactive and informative campus-wide efforts, and developing my own green initiatives that were more customized for the individual residence halls. One such program that I both developed and oversaw was the 'Lights Out Competition,’ in which the freshman halls competed to see who could use the least amount of electricity in a given…