Renzo Piano

If you’d asked audiences in 1825 to name the most popular composer of the day, it would not have been Beethoven, it would have been Gioachino Rossini. From the time Tancredi premiered in 1813, Rossini’s operas were the most popular and influential all over Europe, in part because he blended the elements of opera buffa and opera seria into works that appealed to audiences from a wide range of nationalities and class. Rossini was born on Leap Year Day in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy on the Adriatic…

the music of the “blue piano”? The opening stage direction and setting description create a calm and soothing mood of the town. I felt a mood of soothing when the text stated, “You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of banana and coffee. This illustrates how the atmosphere of Elysian fields is pleasant and peaceful due to the river and the scents around town. The effect that is created with the “blue piano” is that it is a…

Ludwig van Beethoven Every era in History has its challenges for society. It is easy to observe what people of their time throughout centuries went through. Whatever an individual faces in life usually gets depicted in a composers work. Whether it is a personal life, tragedy, war, or diseases, each of these factors play a major role in how and using what genre music was composed. Other than such facts, a persons’ surrounding, companions, to be exact, have an immense impact on an individual. One…

Armando Anthony Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941. Mr. Corea began learning piano at the age of four. Two of his biggest influences were Horace Silver and Bud…

left his mark, not only on music but on history. In his lifetime, Mozart composed over 600 works, which included string quartets, concert arias, piano sonatas and operas. Mozart also composed many piano concertos, and many of them were, and still is extremely popular today. One such piece that is still so popular today is his Rondo Alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331, which is one of Mozart’s most famous pieces ever. In this essay, I will be discussing 3 musical features of the…

Gravity”. In the song called “No Day but Today”, written by Jonathon Larson and from the Broadway musical “Rent”, you can hear the piano more during this song because it is a piece where it has that sensitive and calm tone to it. The pianist was called Rob Mounsey; he is a famous music director as well as a piano player. When hearing the sounds of Mounsey playing the piano it was very enlightening as well as smooth when following the singer’s voice. Menzel sang the song in a pop way but the…

Alto Saxophone The Alto Saxophone is a, even though it is made of mostly metal, woodwind instrument concocted by Belgian inventor, Antoine Joseph (Adolphe) Sax. This musical instrument was developed in the 1840’s and was patented in June 1846. It is mostly used for classical and jazz music and is the one of the newer instruments used than any other. The Alto Saxophone works when air is pushed through a mouthpiece creating vibrations that run throughout the body of the instrument creating the…

The Romantic Era started and ended from 1820-1900. An overview would be the transition from classical to Romantic, of Beethoven, who broke the boundary rules and attached everything together between the two. Because it was Beethoven, he made it okay and possible to have changes and still acceptable. This talented and strong/brave individual changed music for the better and did what he felt and wanted, with his unique personality came his unique composed music. After Beethoven music changed to…

He moved many times in his lifetime, but ended up gaining citizenship in the United States. Stravinsky’s musical influence came from how successful his father was with the bass. His household was full of musical and theatrical influences. He took piano lessons and studies music history as a young boy, but later decided to study law and philosophy It was not until later on that he realized the significance of his burning passion for musical composition. He did share some of his earlier pieces…

This was my first time attending a chamber concert and I found it to be quite amusing, this concert was primarily instrumental and the type of ensemble this concert feature was chamber music. For the genre I would consider these piece as a string quartet. And for the historical era I would have to put it with romantic and twenty and twenty first century era. This was my first live concert that I’ve ever attended so is was my first time hearing a violin and a cello live. The way I would describe…