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This simple outcome instilled within me a drive to become my best. My percussion teacher suggested I audition for the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) All-State Band. This audition required a level of dedication and hard work I never knew I was capable of. I stayed after school almost every day of the week for three months to perfect four separate audition pieces. I completed…

Scott DeVeaux is a professor and an author who specialized in jazz and American music. He is currently teaching at the University of Virginia. His book The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History that was published in 1997 had won the American Book Award, an ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society, and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research. His other published books and articles include Jazz, which was co-author with…

Track1: The Firebird, finale 1. The first few minutes of this piece are pianissimo, and I must say I enjoyed the extreme softness in the beginning of the symphony. As I was listening I noticed the crescendo throughout the piece until about one minute and thirty four seconds. Then the orchestra was playing pianissimo again for just a few seconds. I then heard another crescendo. I think this lasted throughout the rest of the symphony. I did notice the end of the piece went decrescendo for just a…

As a society, we are surrounded by music, no matter where we go it is hard to go through a day without listening to a song. Samantha Rooke heads inside a recording studio to explore the elements and emotions that go into producing music. The Mancunian band, Elevator Lady, were busy in the studio this week recording their new EP, which will be available to listen to in the new year. Their lead producer, James Melville, explained, “Normally a band will come into the studio and have a clear…

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great rumbling crescendo. The music then gallops off from there into a cheerful frenzy that rises and falls like dancers in a colorful dance. It is played predominantly by the strings along with woodwind. The feeling is light and happy. A slight rolling in the percussion builds excitement. The music goes back and forth. One end is a grand rolling of percussion, strings, trumpets and the other end is soft strings and graceful pieces of solo woodwind instruments. The music swings into one of its…

136/125a in Allegro, a few times, since it is my favorite of the Salzburg Symphonies. The recording of this movement on Naxos’ music library, www.naxosmusiclibrary.com, was played and recorded by the Eder Quartet; a group that was formed in 1973 by the students of the Budapest Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. The recording began with a much faster tempo, compared to the live performance. The recording sounded a bit rushed. The live performance, on the other hand, was…

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experience conducting in provincial theaters. He married the actress Minna Planer when he was twenty-three and produced his rst operas at this time. He wrote the librettos himself, as he did for all his later works. In this way, he was able to unify music and drama more than anyone had before. Wagner’s early opera, Rienzi, won a huge success in Dresden. With his next three works, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin, Wagner took an important step by shifting his focus from the drama…

Many of my fellow college bound high-schoolers seem lost in this day and age. They pursue a field, usually with the best of intentions. They pick a college with their intended major. Nonetheless, they usually end up switching majors, or even colleges. Why is this? In many ways, it is due to a lack of commitment – not necessarily on the part of the student, but on the part of the education industrry. A lack of commitment to truth, to the great facts about life and the great questions of life. The…