The Sopranos

On October 4th, 2016 I observed the Intermezzo Choir at the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Sarah Linfors is the conductor and music educator for that group. Sarah also has a rehearsal accompanist and two student interns, Sarah and Daniel Block. The choir is made up of students 9-13 years old. The room where rehearsals are held is a big open room that looks like an old church space. Chairs were set up for students in straight rows and a name tag was placed on each seat. The piano…

At the concert, I was a perspective listener. The perspective listener is a combination of all of the listener types. A perspective listener enjoys the sound of the music but is also critically aware of how it makes them feel and why and it also makes associations with the music whether it being from a feeling or a memory. Going to the concert I was listening with great concentration, trying to hear every aspect of the piece. I through the concert tried to find meaning and purpose in the music.…

to introduce such moral complexity is to rely on ‘anti-hero leads versus broadcast’s more likable protagonists’” (Vaage, xii). With the rise of cable and subscription television, more Quality TV shows with antiheroes begin to emerge, including The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Nurse Jackie. As the cable…

Have you ever wondered how similar two Baroque composers could be? Although there are numerous differences between the two composers, such as that Bach did not become famous until years after his death, while Handel was famous during his lifetime, they are very similar. They both were German composers who could play a myriad of instruments and started their musical journey as children. One way that Bach and Handel are similar is that they were both German. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany…

After lung cancer, breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths for women in America. Since 1990, the number of women who have died from this has steadily decreased, fortunately. Here is a look at six celebrities who have experienced this awful disease and are helping to spread awareness by sharing their stories. Number Six: Tig Notaro Two weeks after her mom’s death, this comedian was diagnosed with cancer in both of her breasts. She underwent a double mastectomy to take care of it…

have two teachers. We have one drummer who is a girl , two acoustic guitar players who are men, two piano players--one student and one teacher, one Electric guitarist who is a boy ,one bass player who is a boy , and lastly nine singers. We have two sopranos, two altos, three tenors, and two basses. The singers are made up of two boys…

Media has been continuously changing through the years. Media is defined on Dictionary.com (2016) as “the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, that reach or influence people widely”. The earlier forms of television were a black and white picture; the quality of the image was poor and the effects were often far from realistic. As technology advanced along with producers’ abilities to create more realistic effects restrictions and rules had to…

“Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli” Film influences our lives in multiple aspects. New films are released every day; however, only a great film can make a lasting impact on society. In 1972, America was faced with national cynicism and an ever-changing cultural view, due to the Watergate Scandal, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Equal Rights Movement for women. Francis Ford Coppola made a bold move by producing a film called The Godfather, which detailed the inter-workings of the Mafia in a…

In this study, we will be examining Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 bel canto opera Lucia Di Lammermoor and its treatment of the title character’s mental disorder, from a feminist perspective. Lucia’s madness is hinted at multiple times during the unfolding of the story and as the dramatic tension rises, but it has fully developed by the time when, in the midst of the wedding celebrations in Act III, Raimondo appears and tells the assembled guests that Lucia has murdered her bridegroom, Arturo. Lucia’s…

Gustav Mahler gained the majority of his success in the later years of his life. Some of the work that made him famous where works written and performed closest the time of his death. His funeral was attended by a smaller group of people than many of the composers before him. Even his wife Alma Mahler was unable to attend due to doctor orders. Johannes Brahms died many years before Gustav Mahler. Since he didn’t have a wife and his close friend had already passed, the funeral was much smaller…