Rock opera

For my first concert I saw a recital performed by Hilary Hahn a violinist. She was accompanied by Robert Levin, a pianist. The two musicians played five compositions by famous composers such as; Bach, Antón Garcia Abril, Mozart, Hans Peter Türk, and Schubert. For this being my first concert review, I was astounded by the recital’s perfection and beauty. I knew going into this concert that it would be amazing, but it was much more than I could of hoped for. I will be reviewing my favorite pieces;…

The Romantic Era was an artistic time for musicians, but finding a female amongst them was rare. However, from this time Clara Schumann was born to be a renowned pianist and composer in Germany and across Europe. Clara was self conscious about her gender is the music business, but she didn’t let that stop her. As a child prodigy, Clara’s career took off at a young age and flourished for sixty years. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 to her mother, Marianne…

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…

Music has contributed remarkably to the film industry since the latter’s existence, and films have simultaneously immortalized musical pieces and kept them profitable beyond their time. During the silent films era, music was essential to fill the silence and keep the audience entertained, as well as engaged with the motion-picture. Even films that were meant to celebrate the intensity of a silent background have had music added, such as “All is Quiet on the Western Front.” Even though films have…

A setting where music is performed in Houston is downtown at the Discovery Green. Here live music performances are done outside in the open for people to see. Some of the music that is performed is by urban music. This type of music has different instruments like the bass, piano, trumpet, drums, among other instruments and the vocal singer. With the singer there also might be backup singers. The stage at which they perform, is outside where the people can sit anywhere they want. The people can…

of surrealism, bizarre means strange and unusual (Oxford). In 1945, Lee Miller took a picture of Irmgard Seefried who was an opera singer at the time. In the picture you can see Irmgard singing in an opera house which has been completely destroyed by the war. The picture of the opera singer creates a surrealist element of bizarreness because Irmgard is singing in the opera house as though…

Choral Performance Make-Up Project Composer-Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous composer and organist. He was born on March-21-1685. He was born in Eisenach Germany and died at age 65 on July-28-1750 in Leipzig Germany. Johann was a father of over twenty children. He had seven with his first wife but four out of the seven died. Johann also had 13 more children with his second wife Anna Magdalena unfortunately only six made it to adulthood the others died at…

The musical piece Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, by Claude Debussy was one of the composer's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music. The piece was made in the start of the twentieth century when compositional style of impressionism was first being introduced. The piece was first composed in 1894, and first performed in Paris on December 22, leaving his audience amazed and impressed by the revolution of this new music. The type of music reminded me of…

I force my small, trembling legs to step onto my giant makeshift stage, which is really just a gazebo, but feels like Madison Square Garden to my four year old brain. I watch the piercing eyes of my preschool classmates as my chest rises and I take a huge inhalation; and I begin my shaky, a cappella rendition of “Sk8r Boi” by Avril Lavigne. As I finish the song, my peers applaud and I am greeted with a feeling of pride and accomplishment that I had yet to know in my previous four years of life.…