Renzo Piano

The trombones open up with vigor and power, the piano and bass discreetly accompanies them while the beat of the drums, conga and Guiro in the background makes everything flow to give rhythm and soul to this piece of Latin music I know as Salsa. As the intro makes its conclusion the trombones and drums act simultaneously as a heartbeat skipping a beat, giving the effect of a slight pause right before Hector Laveo “El Cantante” sings his first words. Hector with his high, pure and distinguished…

Claude Debussy, born August 22 1862and died at the age of 56 on the 25th of March 1918. He was born in France and is known as a very influential composer of the 19th century going into the 20th century. Debussy started piano lessons when he was 7 and at age 10 he left to go study many musically related things such as: music history, harmony, and composition. Debussy was considered to change music in such a way that no one had ever heard of. He did this through the development of dissonances…

interest of Aarons when he was seven, when he would spend hours listening to records on his cousin’s brand new phonograph. Eventually, Aaron’s sister Laurine started giving Aaron some lessons on piano, which he excelled at. When Aaron became a teenager, his parents agreed to pay for a real piano teacher to learn piano from. In his twenties, Aaron got the chance to study abroad in Paris, France, which was the modern-music center of the world. In Paris, Aaron studied…

French Horn and Martha Locker played the piano. David Jolley played a horn solo which included three poems of Thomas Tranströmer: Tracks, Allegro, and Morning birds. After each versus of the song he would play the horn. Mr. Jolley has been called “a soloist second to none”. He has traveled and played all over the world to North and South America, East Asia, Europe and Japan. He has also collaborated with many talented groups. Martha Locker played the piano this afternoon in a duet…

unknown females. Dr. Coulter and Mr. Daroca played the piano. The space was large. 45 people were seated in the chapel. The piano was placed at the front of the room to the left of the persons seated. People were also seated to the side of the room. There was a podium at the front of the room but it was behind the piano and where the performers performed. Each would stood to the front of the room while the pianist take his or her seat behind the piano. Leonell Figerdedo was the first performer…

The organ has often been called “the king of instruments” because it is by far the largest; as it also produces the loudest sound of any and all instruments. The organs range in size from tiny, portable models to the enormous instruments found in large halls or churches. However, even small organs can occupy a floor area of 60+ square feet and have a height of 12 feet or more; and larger organs are much bigger, and can often occupying chambers as large as several large rooms. Small organs can…

The timbres of the two instrumental families worked together to create a unique piece. The piano and woodwinds occasionally went silent and let the other one take the stage, only to rejoin soon and offer a peaceful harmony. The piano used its full range, alternating between the low and high registers. The woodwinds gave it a triumphant feel. Somewhere along the piece the temp dropped (retardando). This allowed…

Music teachers all over the world today argue and discuss what genre is best to teach students to. A large portion of teachers usually narrows it down between two decisions in genre choice and those are Jazz and Classical. While both genres give exceptional lessons they both have differences at what’s important for a student to learn. Mastery of both of these genres would prepare someone for almost any musical situation a musician could come across but people still assume one is better than the…

The Viola HISTORY: The viola came into existence in the early to the middle ages of the 16th century. They are the most expensive instruments made in the 16th – 17th century costing at about 27million. Being a member of the string family it is very similar to the violin, they seem to share much of their history. Built to be a larger version of the violin, it was once called the ‘alto-tenor’ violin. To find the correct relationship between the size and volume of sound of the instrument,…

composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family: his grandfather had been a pupil of John Field and his father, too, played the piano. When Sergei was nine, financial difficulties forced the sale of the family estate and they moved to St Petersburg, where he took piano lessons at the Conservatoire. Rachmaninoff’s cousin, the pianist and conductor Alexander Siloti, had studied in Moscow with the strict Nikolai Zverev, and suggested that…