The Pianist

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel is French and lived from the 7th of March 1875 to the 28th of December 1937. He was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with and along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was known as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire. He was not well regarded by its…

Rose tries to make Hannah become what she had failed to become herself. Hannah is an eleven year old girl and a aspiring pianist. She loves piano and dreams of being a famous concert pianist like her aunt and piano teacher, Tante Rose. Tante Rose believes Hannah had a special gift, and made a promise that she would someday send Hannah to New York to become a concert pianist if she dilenglty studied her piano lessons. When Hannah was fourteen she moved into Tante Rose’s apartment, so she…

Priscilla Luu-Villa Professor Lance MU100 October 19, 2015 Spiced Up For this project, I chose to attend a piano concert because piano was an instrument that I have been playing since a young age. I enjoyed playing it but became bored of playing the piano so I quit. Later however, I did pick it up again and started to self teach myself a few songs and then started to play it again. I remembered a few things here and there that I had learned when I was younger and started to play decently well.…

Introduction I will argue that Keith Johnson’s defense against a periochoretic reflection of the Holy Trinity reflects an incomplete ecclesiology because it presupposes an individualized perspective on faith, based on the communal nature of the Church, in light of Miraslov Volf’s interpretation of the periochoresis of the Trinity being reflected in the Church. Periochoresis Individualistic Faith The biblical understanding of “unity in faith” within the church is fighting a battle with an…

Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in France. Debussy and his parents lived in a very poverty stricken suburb in Paris. By the age of nine, Claude’s gift of being a pianist began to show; and a female Russian millionaire, Nadezha Filaretovna von Meck, persuaded Debussy to play duets with her and her children. After accepting her offer, Claude Debussy began to travel with the woman all throughout Europe during the summer; time that he was not in school at the Conservatory. While in Paris…

Edward Alexander MacDowell (1861-1908) was a pianist and composer. He was among the first American composers to receive an international reputation, and by the late 19th century he was considered the greatest composer of the United States. On December 18, 1861, MacDowell was born into an upper-middle-class family in New York City. During his childhood he showed great potential as a musician and began piano lessons at eight years old. When he was fifteen he was taken by his mother to go…

Gabriel Faure was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers and he was best known for his Requiem. Life and Music It would appear that Fauré’s exceptional gift for music was obvious to everyone except his father, Toussaint-Honore. Being musically inclined since early childhood, he turned his talent into profession and is remembered for his-well known piece…

simplistic. It was just a plain white background with large white squares and a dark grand piano. The performers were Jamie Flora, Olga Perez Flora, Chris Langton, Albert R. Lee, Helen Lee, and Suzette Thoeni as the singers/performers. The two pianists were Isadora Pastragus and James Winn. They were performing a number of pieces from numerous opera composers who lived through out various eras ranging from the 1790s to the 1990s. The style of music was musical theatre and most the pieces…

However, I soon realized that I have a strong passion towards playing. I am always looking for new music to play and I binge on YouTube pianist channels in my free time. I continued to teach myself new techniques through watching these personalities and I thought to myself, “Why not share the love?” What better way to share my love of piano than to teach other eager students who want to…

John Legend, singer, songwriter, pianist, is a 36 year old extremely talented man who has succeeded in far more than just reaching fame in music. He comes from an interesting historical background; his 4th and 5th grandfathers were born slaves and died freed men. Being that John Legend was always into Classical soul, hip-hop and gospel music since early childhood, he carried that interest into the music he composes today, which makes him one of the few artists in the r&b/hip-hop music industry…