Sergei Rachmaninoff

throughout the film, but it is most conspicuous in the famed Odessa Steps Sequence. All 2 minutes of footage is packed with symbolism and visual metaphor, revealing the incessant brutality of the Cossacks against Odessa’s suppressed workers. Director Sergei Eisenstein starts it with a bang: when a mother is begging for her child’s life, multiple Cossacks shoot the pair from point blank range. The Cossacks’ backs are in the shot when their guns go off, but Eisenstein changes…

Dziga Vertov has been credited as the father of documentary film capturing reality and a world that otherwise escapes our preoccupied eyes. Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera reflects his championed concepts of “life caught unawares” and “film truth” but were these captured in actuality? His ‘fly on the wall’ approach inspired many documentary filmmakers throughout the 20th century resulting in the birth of direct cinema throughout the western world. D.A Pennebaker approaches his…

Raven Ellis 2/23/18 Who was stravinsky? Igor Stravinsky was a talented Russian composer. He was born in Lomonosov, Russia on June 17th, 1882 and died in New York city, New York, on April 6th, 1971. Some of his most known pieces are Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky is most known for playing piano, but he also played other instruments. Stravinsky was raised in a household of musicians and had a very good influence to be one. My third favorite piece My third favorite…

that day on I was a music freak. From my iPod, to my clarinet, I have been playing music or singing it. Music has changed my life completely. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” These were the words of Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Russian composer and pianist who was very influential in the twentieth century. In life people grieve, people feel all kinds of emotions but music sometimes is a complete emotion in its own. In my eyes music can be an escape for a minute…

Alexander Scriabin was a Russian post-romantic composer known for his ever-evolving compositional style. He composed mostly piano works, 177 piano pieces in all (including 10 piano sonatas, as well as many mazurkas, études, nocturnes, préludes, poèmes and more), however he did not shy away from orchestral works, composing 5 symphonies, a piano concerto, a symphonic poem in D minor, and the prefatory act to a work called “Mysterium”. Although his works were considered controversial for the time,…

PUC concert I have attended. This concert followed all the same principles as a normal concert, besides the fact that it was not formal. Talking about the pieces, Johnathan Cook’s first piece was Etude-tableaux OP 39, No. 5 in E flat minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff and encompassing the change in tone of the song very well. Since this song is in E flat minor, the tone, I took from the song, was lightly somber, while in some instances, were cheerful. There were parts of the song that made me feel as…

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are scored for string (violin, viola, cello and double bass), brass, woodwind, and…

34, No. 14 by Sergei Rachmaninoff from the modern period (1873-1943). The style is modern. This song starts very soft, and almost in the end is fortissimo, and ends in piano. This song sounds sad and tragic. Joe Crabb plays the trumpet and Peter the piano in the next songs…

Sergei Rachmaninoff once said, “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” Most people underestimate the value and power of music. People grieve at some point in their life, but music is an emotion and that emotion feels their grief. Musicians have an advantage by connecting to the audience through their music. Music affects our everyday lives, because it affects our emotions, promotes health, and impacts our everyday lives. Music may very well be one of those…

The year of the 1721 dates the submission of Christoph Gottlieb Schroter hammer-keyboard designs to the Saxon Court in Dresden. He was born on August 10, 1699, in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany, and died on May 20, 1782, Nordhausen, Germany. The year of 1725 dates the translation of Maffei's article into German stimulates widespread interest, and the pianos advertised in Vienna. The time of 1730 dates the Gottfried Silbermann explores in Dresden, Germany with pianos gotten from Cristofori, and…