The Sopranos

I don’t fail often. I tend to be good at the things I attempt, usually with little or no effort on my part. I don’t say this to brag about how lucky I am, but to give context. Since I don’t fail often and am generally used to success, the times I have failed make a prodigious impression on me. I am a choir kid. I love singing and choreography and making music. So it made sense that I wanted to try out for show choir in sixth grade, along with about eighty percent of my choir class. For this…

Sanctus. It talks about how Christ is the highest, otherwise know as Hosanna in the song. This is my favorite section, the lyrics are good, and the music is very up beat. The fifth movement is the shortest of all. It is called Agnus Dei. It begins with soprano and Mezzo and they sing accapella until eventually the orchaestra joins in. The lyrics are repeated twice about the lamb of…

on the syllable “Un” for two bars before he writes in a gradual add in of the voices of the next syllable and the word “to sleep” in the third and fourth bar starting with the baritone and Tenor voice on counts two and three then the Alto and Soprano voices on count 4 of the third bar and then finally on count one of the fourth bar he allows the choir to sing the word “Sleep” all together for two full bars with a homophonic figure going down to finish the phrase on a Bb Major Chord with an…

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 31st, 1685. He was raised in a family of musicians. Johann Sebastian Bach learned to play the harpsichord, organ, and violin. Bach came from generations of musicians. Johann's father taught him to play the violin and harpsichord when he was young and his father was also a musician in Eisenach. Johann Sebastian Bach was also influenced by his famous uncle Johann Christoph, a organist at the Georgenkirche in…

Carnegie Hall Concert Finally, the wait was over on Friday May 6 I was excited to finally visit a place I never experienced before, Carnegie Hall. I ordered two tickets online one for my girlfriend and one for myself to watch The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra preform Beethoven Missa solemnis, Op. 123. It took a lot of convincing but with some bribery I was able to drag my girlfriend along with me. We left about two hours early from Queens expecting to reach one hour early to…

I picked the show the sopranos for my example of gang culture making its way into America mainstream culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1myharpKIE. The reason I picked this is because not only was it a show that lasted many years but it made the mafia in New York seem as if they were the powerhouses of the city. That they were in control of everything that was going on and even glorified the life of a mobster. They portrayed the mafia life as one full of luxury and fun times. They even…

“You’re going to rot your brain out from watching that T.V.!” is a phrase that I heard all too much growing up, as I’m sure many other people did too. However, in today’s age I cannot help but wonder how much validity that phrase now holds. In 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an excerpt of one of Steven Johnson’s books, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter which address this exact question. Johnson’s debut in the New York Times…

You might remember her as pretty party-girl Meadow Soprano, from the hit HBO series, the Sopranos. The character was played by the beautiful and successful actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler. However, in real-life, she suffers from a devastating condition. At the age of 20, the young actress was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Sigler was terrified by her shocking diagnosis. At the time, Jamie-Lynn faced her terrifying diagnosis alone, hiding it from co-stars and friends for a long time. When she…

bad. The colors are all dark and dull. There is nothing that stands out, no bright colors. My taste in good music is music that have a singer that are sopranos. I can’t sing so I would always try to sing in a soprano voice. Since I can’t sing in that way I find other artist that can. Operas, loud metal, and other types of music that have a soprano singers I love to listen to. Of course horrible music is anything that bad mouth people, have no rhythm, or no beat. Great theatre production must…

college at all and other important decisions for the future. Maybe the answer comes in the form of an event or an experience. For some other people you do what you were taught, like for example the daughter of a choral conductor might end up being a soprano. Surprisingly, none of these were the deciding point for Sarah Weibel. For this young Music Therapy student her deciding point was hearing her grandmother’s advice. Grandma simply told her about how music therapy would fit her skills and…