Renzo Piano

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is scored for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello. It was premiered in a WWII POW camp where Messiaen was held. Messiaen had begun sketches of the piece before being captured, and he finished the piece in the POW camp for musicians that were present. The quartet was premiered in the camp for the prisoners. The piece is in eight movements, and Messiaen wrote an introduction describing the movements. His signature birdsong is featured prominently, as well as…

Richard Rodgers was very involved in music since an early age, he actually started playing piano at age six. He had already written two popular songs before going to University, but his success was heightened after then. He wrote music for two amateur shows before he started working with Lorenz Hart in 1919, but they also wrote many shows. Rodgers and Hart won acclaim for a review in 1925. They wrote nine stage shows between 1935 and 1942, the most famous of these being Jumbo (1935) and On Your…

I believe the style-period that most closely characterizes Yngwie Malsteen’s music is the classical period because it gives a single instrument a chance to shine, but at the same time has elements of the romantic and baroque periods. I consider Yngwie Malsteen’s piece to be concert music. Malsteen piece is very clever, he definitely thinks outside of the box, so when compared to other composer like Purcell, Bach, or Beethoven, he seems to have the same kind of creativity that make them all stand…

encompasses the determination for freedom and the grit of a champion that transcends all other works of art. I am a junior in high school and play the French Horn in my school’s Wind Ensemble. Music has always been a part of my life. At age six I began piano, since then I have strived to maintain the powerful influence of music in my life, and during times of hardship music becomes my escape. In fact, more often than not I find myself listening to your beautiful film scores and using them as an…

Graphic Organizer Hook Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. Meaning the beginning of my life course! Background Info/ Intro Hi! I'm Julie Andrews! I was born October, 1, 1935 in Walton-On-Thames, Surrey, England, UK, to Barbara and Ted Wells. When I was just a small girl, My parents got divorced. My mother wanted to pursue a life on the stage as a pianist. She remarried to Ted Andrews when I was around seven or eight. My new stepfather, Ted, was a professional…

4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia, to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his childhood reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his perception that "each color lives by…

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” That is a famous quote by Ansel Adams the grandfather of landscape photography. I chose to research him and his work because of his ability to inspire me and countless others. I was originally introduced to him by my father and have since yearned to learn more. He has inspired many of the photographers today and his black and white photos of the west are still a benchmark for landscape photography. My goal in this paper is to show how Ansel Adams not…

a prodigy and wants everything to be perfect. She wants to have everything right with no mistakes. Suyuan wants Jing-Mei in the talent show to play her piece for the talent show. Jing-Mei thinks she’s not a prodigy and doesn’t know how to play the piano. The meaning of the quote shows how Suyuan wants everyone to like her. And how she wants to brag to her friends that Jing-Mei is better than everyone else. How she’s going to do in the talent show and not make a mistake. This quote is confusing…

to Harmonica to Piano, Stevie showed how much he loved the vocal and instrumental arts. Stevie was blind his entire life. The young super star was born May 13,1950, in Saginaw, Michigan. By the age of 13 he began to sing to his hearts content. He attended Detroit, Public Schools. Growing up was hard for Stevie. His blindness made it extremely difficult to learn. He pushed through all of the darkness by playing the harmonica and singing. Stevie also plays the drums and the piano. By the age of…

In the poem, “Player Piano”, John Updike demonstrates a lot of feeling and emotion of an unhuman piano. By having detailed imagery of sounds, figures of speech, and rhyme, he portrays the reader into the picture of a machine-like device that has its own natural music language. This 12-line poem recalls the life and achievements of a player piano. In the first and second line, there is a lot of assonance (the repetition of sound in a vowel) and consonance (reassurance of similar sound) that are…