Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The inspiration for the clarinet dates back to the 1600s, where an instrument called the Chalumeau was used. It was used mostly in Europe, and its name was derived from Latin/Greek origins, meaning pipe. True to its name, it was a 20 cm long pipe, with 5 holes. It looked much like a recorder, and was not very important to musicians and composers back then. It was different from todays, clarinet, as there was no upper register, only a lower one. It has influenced today’s clarinet, as nowadays…

When I was preparing myself for my RCM Level 10 Violin Examination, I had agreed to do a solo performance of one of my pieces for an annual exhibition which my music academy organized. While it wasn't a competition, there would be an audience of hundreds of people - the students, the parents, teachers, and any friends they might invite. I had previously partaken in this yearly event but always as part of a group, never a performance of my own. This was foreign and completely daunting to me.…

I am American drummer and composer Gene Jackson. This letter is on behalf of my colleague multi-talented pianist and composer Gabriel Guerrero in support of his visa application. I had been a world renowned successful professional musician for the last 37 years. My career has allowed me to share stage and recordings with the most prominent musicians of the recent era. My broad touring and recording credentials include Oscar Academy Award Winner and 14-time Grammy Award Winner pianist Herbie…

Question 5: What is the genre of the composition you hear in you clip? Genre - Ballet Classical during the Romantic Period At the middle of the eighteenth century, harmony technique were established. While the innovation shifted, variations travelled to northern Germany which began to develop. Romanticism also known as the Romantic era, was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that blended into the classical movement throughout Europe, over the course of the eighteenth century,…

Sergei Prokofiev was a very well accomplished musician and composer from Russia. He was born in 1891 on April 23. As a young child, Prokofiev, was moved by his mother’s ability to play the piano. So moved that he learned to play and gained many accolades throughout his life with his skill on the instrument. He was schooled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at an early age and learned from many famous musicians and composers. During the time that Peter and the Wolf was written, 1936,…

Katherine Siochi, Harp and Piano On Sunday, January 22, 2017, at 3pm Katherine Siochi played several compositions by a variety of composers on her harp and the piano. The performance took place at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Watertown, New York. The artist, who wore a formal dress in turquoise, brought her own harp from New York City for this recital and the harp stood precisely in front of the altar of the church. Thirty minutes before the concert started, I arrived. Although, I have seen…

The Shoe Horn Sonata is the play by John Misto, he is the australian creator of this play. In this play , John Misto represented distinctly visual techniques to display the experiences during World War II and also to describe the characters and situation that were created within the play. Also that represents the experiences shared by two women, Sheila and Bridie.The use of distinctively visuals give to the play and the film “ The Book Thief “ , the meaning of what is happening in the texts and…

Chapter 2 A Brief Background of Dvo??k Anton?n Dvo??k (1841?1904) was one of the most versatile and prolific composers of the nineteenth century, reaching into almost all genres of music from piano miniatures to comprehensively conceived vocal-orchestra compositions. His output encompasses nine symphonies and fifty-five other orchestral pieces, eleven opera, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, nine small choral works, thirty-five sets of songs and duets, fifty-five chamber works for various…

1. Le nozze di Figaro K 492 a. The overture captures the spirit of the opera with themes specific to the overture that do not appear anywhere else in the opera. b. The overture was written just hours before the opera’s first performance and Mozart’s main concern was to catch the audience’s attention immediately and to show the opera’s pace. c. Overture begins with a piano whispering and buzzing that develops into a short-breathed theme. d. The tutti then comes in with the trumpets and drums,…

The concert I went to was the instrumental major recital. This was a concert where students who had a instrumental major performed. The students that performed where Alec Van Eaton, Raquel Medina, Seow Lim, Blake Adams, Kristina Serrano, Charlotte Mcintosh-Deciancio, Jacob Chavez, Logan McCullough, Mckensie Rudd, Jake Fultz, Mihira Karnik, Beth Beach, Jorge Juan, Marc Chacon, Chanty Graficas-Rabi, David Murray, Chastin Short and Izzy Hyman. These are some of the pieces these students played…