The Soloist

(L11, 21:19). “When it comes to expressive flexibility and nuance, there are things that a solo singer can do, that a group of singers, a chorus small or large, simply, cannot do” (L11, 26:41). A single performer has more expressive flexibility as a soloist that is personally identifiable with an audience. Drama and Emotions can be communicated clearly through one voice than that of a…

The Roaring 20s definitely roared back in the day. Filled with fun nights and music, the 1920s decade revolutionized jazz. Jazz not only changed the music industry, but also the way the world celebrated life. Jazz started out as a combination of ragtime and blues. People also state that it sounded like a bit of brass band and syncopated music. No one really knows where the word ‘jazz’ originated, but there are many theories. One theory states that jazz’s name stemmed from a musician named Jazbo…

presence began to flourish throughout America’s universities and secondary schools. When Frederick Fennell founded the Eastman Wind Ensemble in 1952, it introduced the whole country to a new gamut of music for wind ensemble. The concept of having one soloist on each instrumental part became an integral idea that spread to…

Louis Armstrong was a lot of things while he was alive. He was a singer, a soloist, a film star, a comedian and also a fellow trumpeter (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). He wrote many hits during his time such as Starburst, La Vie En Rose and What A Wonderful World (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). Throughout not only his career, but also his life, he faced many struggles. Living in the early Nineteenth Century was already hard enough for a young black man but even harder for a young black…

Historical Characteristics To start off China and Russia are two of the most biggest land masses in the world. China’s land mass is approximately 3,706,386 square miles, with Russia being the winner with 6,593,000 square miles with both being in the Asia. China for centuries as a top leading civilization, outpacing all of the rest of the world in sciences, and art, but during the 19th century the country was best by civil unrest, with major famines and military defeats. After World war 2, Mao…

Handel’s “Messiah” is a beautiful piece of music set to biblical literature. Today most people recognize the “Messiah” due to its presence during the holiday season. It is currently used to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. However, in the 18th century, it was not performed during the holiday season like it is today in the twenty-first century. The “Messiah,” written in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, is full of scriptural text. Specifically, “Pifa(13), Recitative(14a), Accompagnato(14b),…

The Beatles were a famous British rock band whose members included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey better known as Ringo Starr. The Beatles are arguably the greatest and the most influential rock band in the world. This view is based on the fact that they changed the course of music in the 60s and still have an influence on the contemporary music scene. One can see how their music changed the lifestyle of that generation by comparing the existent trends before…

She became an American Ballet Theater(ABT) soloist and a prima ballerina. On top of that, Misty Copeland became the first African-American Principal Dancer at ABT. To prove Misty’s inspiration, she even won “Times Magazine Most Influential People”(Editors of bio.com). She also won the Glamour Award…

Seiji Ozawa conducting and Egveny Kissin as the piano soloist. The instruments called for in this piece of music are two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two bassoons, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, three trombones (two tenor, one bass), timpani, solo piano, and strings. MOVEMENT 1 EXPOSITION 1:04—2:00 French horns are forte for three notes, then what sounds like trombones join in along with the rest of the orchestra and the soloist Kissin on the piano. For the first measure…

In my research I was interested in the creative collaborations of Merce Cunningham. One could expect for a collaboration to be an intimate process between composers, designers, and choreographers and you could expect for Merce experience to be the same do to his exposure in Martha Graham’s company. In Martha Graham’s company, Cunningham was exposed to dance, sets, narrative and lighting being interdependent, but Cunningham decided to take the opposite approach in his work. He abandoned the…