Trombone

Jerome Robbins' suggested the idea of developing a musical based off of the story of Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (originally proposed title: East Side Story, set in the less privileged areas of New York at the concurrence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a gathering with Arthur Laurents took place where another idea emerged -- two teen-age mobs as the conflicting groups, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an English Philosopher whose work was influential especially in the eighteenth century. Some of his main works include the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Both of these works were written in response to prompts from the Academy of Dijon. For the first discourse, the prompt was, “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts tended to purify morals?” and for the second discourse the prompt was, "What is the origin of…

Singing is anatomical: the brain thinks, and the body responds, any time and any place, that is, if lifestyle behaviors have not deformed the vocal instrument (i.e., excessive spicy foods, alcohol, smoking, screaming, et cetera). Singing begins with an exhalation of human vocal sounds (phonation) (NIDCD, 2015). At the point of phonation, two smooth adjacent muscle tissues in the thorax come into contact and vibrate to create resonating sound waves from the throat, mouth, and nose (NIDCD, 2015).…

Great Gatsby, you could imagine what type of music that was getting played at Gatsby’s parties. In the book it says: Moreover, Gatsby’s guests are, of course, entertained by cocktail music played by a typical jazz orchestra consisting of oboes, trombones, saxophones, violins, cornets and piccolos, low and high drums (p.35). They know how to play popular jazz songs, for example the “neat, sad little waltz of that year” (p.82). This shows that jazz music was being played at Gatsby’s parties. This…

Building Tension in The Shining by Tyler Johnson Chesapeake College The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. The hotel is home to evil spirits that manipulate the father, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), into a violent state. His psychic son (Danny Lloyd)…

Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Gillespie started to play the piano at the age of four. Gillespie's father died when he was only ten years old. Gillespie taught himself how to play the trombone as well as the trumpet by the age of twelve. From the night he heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, play on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician. He was a very virtuous improviser and he built on to the virtuous style of Roy Eldridge, but he…

Concert Report: Pomona College Orchestra In Pomona College in October 4th, the orchestra played three pieces; Tangents for George Walker, Trittico Botticelliano for Ottorian Respighi, and Symphony No. 104 for Franz Joseph Haydn. The first one for Walker music like Jazz style, but I did not know what type is it. The second music for Respighi were three movements: La Primavera (Spring), L’Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi), and La Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus). The first La…

Because I was unable to attend the Mozart After Dark concert that I was looking forward to seeing live, I was fortunate enough to find a concert through YouTube, which was titled “The Berlin Celebration Concert – Beethoven, Symphony No 9, Bernstein 1989.” This concert, which recreated Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, was performed on December 25th, 1989 by an international cast of musicians and vocalist coming from groups around the world, such as: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,…

and the Wolf possible. The strings used within the work are violins, violas, violoncellos, and double basses. The woodwinds used within the work are a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, and a basson. The brass instruments used within the work include a trombone, a trumpet, and three horns. The percussion instruments used within the work include a triangle, timpani, tambourine, cymbals, castanets, a snare drum, and a bass drum. Many of the instruments…

The clock ticks slowly as eight hour draws ever closer to the end. The room is filled only with the faint sounds of breathing as a cool breeze flows in from the door. Resting in my chair, I begin to think about the past semester of College Writing and my growth as a writer. Over the months of being in the class I have grown tremendously as I have accomplished all the Student Learning Outcomes set before me. Being in the class has taught me about how to keep my essay focused on one topic, making…