Requiem

first performance of the opera. While working on his final piece, the requiem, his wife Constanze was in dismay at Wolfgang’s decline in health and demanded that he stop working on the piece. Mozart’s illness came on suddenly, the sickness started with rapid swelling and jolts of pain spreading throughout his body, eventually leading to high fever, sweating, rash, and vomiting. Despite his illness, Mozart sang part of the requiem…

Jakob Brahms and he lives from 1806-1872. Johann Johannes father lived in Heidi in Holstein. Like Johannes he became a musician and he did against his own family’s will. His songs are Hungarian Dances, Violin concerto, Brahms’ Lullaby, and a German Requiem. His brother was Friedrich Brahm,…

An anchorwoman is seen reading the days news, but instead she is reading the original prologue. By doing this, Luhrmann has already shown the viewer that the film is set in modern times. As soon as the newsreader finishes the prologue, a gothic requiem is heard loudly, and there is a fast zoom shot of a statue of Christ. This is followed by a sequence of fast shots and views of Verona, similar to the idea of Zefirellis panning shots of Verona. The religious statue appears frequently, as…

“No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place,” wrote Anna Akhmatova as she reflected during Stalin’s reign of terror. Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet known for her involvement in the Acmeism movement and her haunting depictions of life in Russia after the revolution. In the early 1930s, Stalin’s regime focused on drawing the country together through force and oppressive policies in order to…

Johannes Brahms is considered the greatest composer of the Romantic period. Being the son of a musician and forced to play music to earn money for the family bills, Johannes grew a very strong connection to music and eventually made music and composing for his entire career. Johannes Brahms was viewed as the leader of music and best at composing in the Romantic time period while on the same skilled level as Mozart, Beethoven, and Hyden. Johannes Brahms was born May 7th, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany…

In live production, there are many aspect that contributes to the outcome of the shows. The play Amadeus is a script written by Peter Shaffer. This story is about the history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musician with a god gifted talent who struggled to make a living, narrated by his rival Antonio Salieri. Salieri is a well-known court musician who became obsessed with Mozart which led to his jealousy and causes the downfall of Mozart. On the 18th of February, Seattle Public Theatre ran the…

As I sit next to the window in this empty, small Parisian flat, I ponder the meaning of freedom. What is freedom? Is it free to be chased and pursued for taking a stance against something one deemed to be wrong? To take away a man’s life and thus connected freedom is not something any man should have neither the power nor the right to do. Through the fight for equality among our society, society itself became the scale which one was to be measured by. Citizens had questions for a King who was…

Once in the ocean, young leatherbacks still face predation from cephalopods, requiem sharks, and various large fish. Despite their lack of a hard shell, the huge adults face fewer serious predators, though they are occasionally overwhelmed and preyed on by very large marine predators such as killer whales, great white sharks, and…

Singakademie, concentrating on modern and historical aceppella works. By the 1870’s, Brahms was principal director of the Society of Friends of Music. For three seasons he was director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1868, he wrote “A German Requiem”, which is considered one of the most important choral music pieces written during the 19th century. His works include waltzes and “Hungarian Dances” for piano duets, two volumes of it. Brahms remained in Vienna for the rest of his life.…

For over three months or so, we had been working on Faure’s Requiem with one of the most prominent composers and directors. So, the rehearsals were intense it took the extra time to concentrate on the details of my first soprano lines. Because at the time I did not own a vehicle, a friend in the choir who used to…