The Piano Lesson

“The individual” informs the way one views others and the world. In the personal essay “us and Them” by David Sedaris “Here is the boy sitting on a bed, his mouth smeared with chocolate”(87). He doesn't want Tomkey kids to have any candy because they went to the boat house for halloween instead of Trick or Treating. Plus his mother was going to give them his candy that he worked so hard for it, in the end he stuffed his mouth with the candy and he ended up being allergic to it.…

I was inspired to play piano and follow in her footsteps. I watched as my mom's hands flew across the piano in a series of graceful movements. It amazed me! I knew of few people that played piano! Statistics show that if you play Mozart's pieces in your right ear, you will do better at math and in your right ear, you will excel at language and English. Who would have ever thought that music could increase my learning skills in English and math? My favorite parts about piano are learning the…

John was thee third of ten children and his parents’ names were Antonio Sousa and Maria Elizabeth. He began his musical journey on the orchestral violin and his dad also taught him a few other wind instruments. By the time he was six he was studying piano , voice, flute, cornet, trombone, baritone, alto horn, and violin Being that his father was in the marines, he secured John an apprenticeship in the Marine Corps band after adventurous young John tried to run away with the circus. John stayed…

My experience, while I was at the concert, was very interesting since this was the very first 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…

Nicolo Paganini was born in Genoa Italy on october 27, 1782. He died in 1840. His parents names were Teresa and Antonio Paganini. Nicolo started learning music when he was only five years old. When he was seven his father taught him how to play the violin. He attended violin classes with famous violinists. He composed his first sonata in 1790. In 1795 he went to parma but was told that they could not teach him anything. He often played 15 hours a day. in 1797 he started his concert tours. From…

“His tempo is off,” Sara mutters quietly to herself. It is minutes away until Sara herself will be in the same position as the boy with the off tempo. Sara is worried. She is afraid that with all her nerves of performing in front of the massive crowd, her shakes and trembles will hinder her performance, or even worse, destroy her performance. “I will be alright,” Sara says softly, “I am simply here once more to share the world my music.” Sara pauses for a moment. “My emotions.” As Sara looks…

piece whose dramatic orchestration feels propitious for serious puppet shows or operas, while “World of Ati Batik” is an interesting, quasi-robotic litany, beautifully put up by voice, piano, and flute. The vocalist also shows a remarkable ability for delineating stunning harmonies and incorruptible ostinatos on the piano. The doors close with “Contemplation”, a solo poetic English-language narrative (words are by Taiwanese poet Edward Cheng), where Shyu accompanies herself with the Korean…

I attended the Symphony Orchestra Concert on March 10, 2017 at 7:30 PM in the SJSU Music Concert Hall. It was conducted by Yair Samet, and featured a solo performance by Dr. Sarah Jones. The SJSU Symphony Orchestra performed Mozart’s Impresario Overture, his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major. The piece that I will be focusing on is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, particularly the fourth movement. During the actual concert, it was very interesting hearing…

Most significantly in terms of influencing the Romantic Era, An die ferne Geliebte was the very first example of a form known as Liederkreis ("song cycle"), a form that reached its height later in the century in the vocal works of such Romantic composers as Franz Schubert and, in particular, Robert Schumann and Carl Loewe. Is the cycle the first of the Liederkreis genre? One could argue that the piece serves as more of a proto-Liederkreis, or an earlier form of the song cycle. It is certain…

In live production, there are many aspect that contributes to the outcome of the shows. The play Amadeus is a script written by Peter Shaffer. This story is about the history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musician with a god gifted talent who struggled to make a living, narrated by his rival Antonio Salieri. Salieri is a well-known court musician who became obsessed with Mozart which led to his jealousy and causes the downfall of Mozart. On the 18th of February, Seattle Public Theatre ran the…