The Pianist

The piano is one of the most beautiful and most influential instruments invented. It also happens to be my personal favorite instrument. Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I…

Relating to Satie’s Vexations, there was only a one-page score with one simple instruction attached at the bottom -- the pianist needs to play 840 times. This score seems monotonous and vapid when listeners sit in the concert hall. Due to different circumstances like the pianist’s mood, the pianist cannot strike keys like the first time; moreover, there are ten pianists to complete the full duration. In Entr’Acte, Satie kept bringing back one melody again and again, and when it incorporates with…

style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist plays a note on the first and fourth beats of every measure, but is constantly adding colorations…

The pianist came onto the stage. This phase was interesting because it was like a back and forth, kind of like a duet, between the piano and the rest of the orchestra. The pianist and the conductor used their entire body in their performance. You could feel their passion. When the music was to be hard, the pianist played the piano mezzo piano and mezzo forte. It was moderately changing in range from soft to loud. This phase was about 40 minutes long, which was mainly the pianist. The third…

operas. During his later years, (1917) there was an outbreak of the Russian Revolution, so Prokofiev had taken a tour to England where he became a famous pianist and decided to live in London for a while. He then traveled to America and Japan, and then in 1920, moved to Paris. In 1929, Sergei had a hand accident, ending his career as a pianist. Instead of letting his injury get the worst of him, he decided to sit back and give feedback to other…

Brahms Johannes Brahms was born May 7th 1883 and he dies April 3 1997.He was a German composer and a pianist of the romantic period. He was born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family. He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. Johannes composed symphony orchestra,chamber ensembles, piano, organ,and voice chorus. He worked with a pianist named Clara schumann and a violinist named Joseph Joachim and they were very close friends. His father’s name was Johann Jakob Brahms and he lives from 1806-1872…

Operatic Symphony ‘Yamada Nangamaza’ by Klaus Pringsheim (1883-1972). A German composer, conducter, and pianist who was the most influential idol who played a very successful role as an outstanding pupil of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Mahler was the great composer of Romantic era who has been recognized as the most superior romantic composers. Pringsheim was a German Composer and Conductor, born in 1883 at Starnberg, the outskirts of Munich, where there was a villa owned by his family, he died in…

On December 11th, a Sunday night, I went to Les Joulins Jazz Bistro to listen to Bill “Doc” Webster and his band Jazz Nostalgia. Me and my friend were seated at a table for two, fairly close to the stage. The stage was not elevated and the musicians stood close to the tables and interacted with the audience in between songs. It made the overall feeling of the concert very laid back and non formal. The restaurant was not very crowded, but of the people that were there there was a wide mix of…

To begin with, before Mario was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 he lived an easy life as a pianist in Italy but then moved to Paris,France to become a pianist there instead of Italy. In fact, on 1 August 1939 Mario had to go back to Italy to renew his visa. Mario Stayed in Italy for a while but then was detained in Italy and could not go back to Paris,France. Additionally,Mario was was detained in Italy for 5 years later the Gestapo came to Italy and Mario finally got deported to a concentration…

History is just a compilation of several compelling stories of the past put together. I love that I am able to learn intriguing and true stories about places, people, and events that I have never seen physically or experienced personally. History is very interactive and requires creative and attentive thinking to connect why and how occurrences took place the way they did. For instance, I did not fully understand why the Americans revolutionized against the British until I viewed their struggle…