Trumpet

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Artist-Faculty Recital Series at the Fairchild Theatre on MSU 's Campus. The concert featured a multitude of pieces ranging from the Baroque and Classical music periods to modern day compositions. Several of the pieces were played in a piano-trombone basso continuo and the last piece was played by a trombone choir with two featured soloists. Going into the concert I did not know what to expect. I had listened to classical music in my MUS…

During my ongoing business conference to Colorado to learn about future career opportunities for my dual degrees in Communication design and Computer Science, I got to attend an orchestra concert presented by the Hapless Heroes who were conducted by Leslie Stewart. The show was musical theatre where they had a live orchestra playing in front of the stage while the actors explained the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. I attended this amazing show on the 4th of December. I love learning about…

The hall was designed specifically for the performance of classical music and very little to no distortion when the performer hit notes with very high resonance. Composition I liked Best: The composition that I enjoyed the most was Concerto for Trumpet by Johann Hummel. This piece has three movements, allegro con spirit, andante, and rondo. It was written in 1803 during the classical period. When I selected the concert to attend the details of what would be played weren’t readily available.…

would not let this be the end of his battle. He journeyed his way to the Supreme Court and stood up for what he felt was right. But Gideon’s Trumpet didn’t only give an insight to Gideon’s triumph. Anthony Lewis, the author, gave an insight to all the complexities of the Supreme Court from the justices’ law clerks to how the justices decide…

The trumpet can be traced back around 1500 B.C there were silver and bronze trumpets found in king tuts grave. There were different versions of it found in china that look like the trumpet. Instrument design, as well as metal making, improved tremendously over the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which made these "natural trumpets" more suitable for creating actual music However, these trumpets did not have valves and could only produce a small amount of notes. Also, changing the key meant that…

Gideon’s Trumpet In 1961, a case appeared to the United States Supreme Court that challenged a well-accepted precedent established by the court almost 20 years prior. The case being discussed in this book is Gideon vs Wainwright, in which the defendant is a fifty-one-year-old white man in Florida. Gideon was accused of petty larceny, and eventually found guilty in court. Gideon, though, was representing himself, as he could not afford an attorney and was never provided with one. Gideon feels as…

In our reading this week from “Certain Trumpets” I read about the first president of the United States of America. In the life of George Washington, we see a leader that for all intensive purposes was given the opportunity for greatness. Although those dreams were hampered by the death of his father at age eleven, Washington was obvious a man of character. The potential of Washington was realized as he observed a conservative position on many issues including financial. As Washington grew in his…

The Call of the Trumpet A majority of people in this world choose not to follow their dreams, which is a curious fact when pondered. The cause for this lack of action is simple; they are afraid. This spectrum of fear can range from timidity to terror, but it is always constant. It is the dread of shooting for the stars, missing, and hitting the ground with a thud. Their efforts will have been in vain, and they will be too beaten and worn to try again. When one looks at the life of Louis…

In the award-winning book Trumpet, a story about a jazz musician who lived his life as a man despite being born a girl, Jackie Kay drives both her characters and the reader into questioning some widely-accepted norms, including the correlation between biological sex and culturally-determined gender roles. The defiance of this conception is explicitly demonstrated via the novel’s elaboration on the process in which Joss Moody manages not only to deconstruct but also to reconstruct his gender…

family time. Now that I look back, I realize that my character has been developed from the things that I kept in the back of my mind. At every one of these concerts, a new group of musicians would be introduced. Out of every one of these groups, a trumpet player was the most prevalent instrument. Along with…