On Friday January 6th 2017, guests Grant Elbert and Pamela Haynes performed for Grant’s trumpet recital. There were two instruments included in this performance including the Trumpet which was played by Grant and the piano which was played by Pamela. During the preview of Grant’s trumpet recital, he performed “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” by Kent Kennon, which was three movements. This piece was designed for difficult and advanced music for trumpet players. This specific piece of music is known as a modern. During this piece Grant uses three sound changes for the trumpet including the cupmute, cupsorche and harmonmute. All three movements had different meters, harmony, tempo, rhythm, and form. However, all three movements included the same
texture which was polyphonic and the same contour which was wavelike. The range was varied from medium to wide during all three movements. The movement of melody was disjunct during all three movements. All throughout the three movements the tempo was andante or allegro while the dynamics were very loud. The meter on the other hand, changes so often it is hard to keep track of it or even count. During the three movements, the harmony varied from major and minor. For example, during the first and third were major while the second movement was minor and slow. Overall, I never really had the option to listen live to someone play the trumpet or the piano so I found this performance extremely interesting and made me want to learn more about both instruments. I found the music long due to the fact there were three movements but overall it kept my attention. During most of the performance the music made me feel welcomed and happy, and kept me interested. I believe this was a great performance and practice for Pamela and Grant before the actual recital. Even with a few mistakes, it was hard to tell the difference due to the change of meter which I enjoyed the most. This performance made me appreciate
“On the other side of our barbed wire fence were twenty or thirty Aussie men – as skinny as us – and wearing slouch hats. Unlike the Japs, they had hairy legs. And they were standing in rows – serenading us.”
The next work of the program, Courtly Airs and Dances, is a multi-movement work composed by Ron Nelson. The piece is split into six movements: Intrada, Basse Danse, Pavane, Saltarello, Sarabande, and Allemande. Each of these present distinct characteristics that separate it from each other movement, yet all are united by being a style of dance. The first movement, Intrada, presents a fanfare-like opening to the multi-movement work. The trumpets and brass section as a whole lead this, as they create a sense of nobility. The key is major and the tempo is one that could be described as allegretto—it is not a fast tempo, yet more brisk than an andante pace. The texture is homophonic, as there are different parts being performed by different
This movement was also in complete sonata form, like the first, but started out with a fugue, containing timpani solos and then later concluded with an abrupt
On Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. the Charlotte Symphony performed seven compositions by various “maverick” composers. Halton Theatre at Central Piedmont Community College’s central campus was pack to near full capacity. The program included the Molto Allegro from Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G-Minor, Warehouse Medicine by Mason Bates, Apotheosis by Austin Wintory, Cielito Lindo a traditional Spanish copla, Oaken Sky by Chris Rogerson, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel, and the 4th movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Charlotte Symphony’s Assistant Conductor, Roger Kalia, conducted and Juan Cajero appeared as a soloist. Although there were several pieces that had a more lasting impression on me, each composition performed
In the first part of this recital the vivaldi, contained a string Quartet. After the first intermission, I looked down at the podium and noticed that the precussions were added which included the timpani, bass drum, tylophone, and cymbals. In this recital Nancy Menk was the conductor, Judith Von Houser was the soprano which played a high note, and Mary Nessinger was the Mezzo-soprano which played a slight softer note. This part of the concert was divided into four pieces. First there was the Magnificant by M. Haydn (the orchestra accompaniment was edited from the composer's manuscript by Mark Nabholz). This piece consisted of strings without violas, two french horns, and an organ.
I listened to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Suites are different from Symphonies and Concerts because they functions as several short movements that all go together, sort of like a concept album or individual rooms in a hotel suite. This particular suite has 6 different movements: March, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Russian Dance, Arabian Dance, Chinese Dance, and Reed-Flutes.
“West End Blues” begins with a 12-second trumpet solo that displayed Armstrong’s wonderful range and demonstrated the syncopated styling unique
The concert is performed by the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The video of this concert is 90 minutes in length. The concert was an ensemble of various Dave Brubeck arrangements utilizing various jazz techniques and styles with mainly the following instruments: bass, piano, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, flute, piccolo, baritone sax, drum, and tambourine. The performance included these 15 pieces: “Unsquare Dance”, “Three to Get Ready”, “The Duke”, “Cassandra”, “Strange Meadowlark”, “Who Will Take Care of Me?”, “It’s a Raggy Waltz”, “Tokyo Traffic”, “Take Five”, “Lost Waltz”, “Upstage Rhumba”, “In Your Own Sweet Way”, “Fast Life”, “Bluette”, and “Blue Rondo a la Turk”. The performance highlights the versatile, influential and extraordinary life’s work of Dave Brubeck.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the most historical groups that was created in Boston Massachusetts. The Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons’ Inaugural Concert took place in September of 2014. The concert was aired on television in May of 2015. The concert was dedicated to welcoming the new director of the Boston Symphony. The concert took place in one of the most proclaimed orchestra halls simply named Boston Hall. The complete orchestra was directed by Andris Nelsons himself. Along the side of the orchestra, his wife Kristine Opolais a soprano, joined him on the stage. A young man named Jonas Kaufmann, a tenor also joined them as well.
Throughout Let the Trumpet Sound: Part one, Odyssey, we learn about the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (or M.L according to the book). The writer, Stephen B. Oates, tells different stories of MLK’s childhood: from him going to Jesus to his Grandmother dying. Though the telling tales, the reader understands what made MLK develop into great man; which changes how the readers view MLK. Before this book, we saw MLK as a man gifted by God, which is he is, that accomplished great wonders. However, the success that he had was not this own. This family members, as well as influential thinkers, laid down the foundation, which MLK use to propel himself to help others.
“We must understand the real meaning of the words of the Gospel,--Matthew, V. 28,--that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery '; and these words relate to the wife, to the sister, and not only to the wife of another, but especially to one 's own wife.” (Tolstoy 195). These were the final lines of text Tolstoy wrote as a part of the resolution to his short story, The Kreutzer Sonata. According to this verse, and the themes in several others of his other works, Liev Tolstoy provides us a display of his moral view of right and wrong in relation to desire. He uses marital affairs & human desires as a tool to explore morality and the right and wrong ways of how his characters observe and react to their experiences
Racism, persecution, and finally extermination; these were the terrible things that Gypsies, Russians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Homosexuals and Jews had to face during World War II. Hitler took power in January 30, 1933 becoming the prime minister of Germany (Judy L. Hasday p. 12). By 1945, Germans, or the Nazis, had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe (U.S. Memorial Museum). More than six million Jewish men, women, and children had been annihilated (Judy L. Hasday p. 12). German authorities were exterminating Jews and many others that were considered inferior to the Aryans. Hitler believed any one that was not an Aryan was inferior to their pure race. He believed in a race that included fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes a pure German blood. The ones who did not meet these standards were considered a menace to the world. The Holocaust was their “Final Solution” (Gerald Reitlinger 1953). In the movie The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman and all Jews were segregated from everything they had to share with Germans, this included restaurants, bars, and simple things like sidewalks. When Hitler had gotten to power he ordered to boycott all Jewish stores. This made it harder for Jews to survive. Then the authorities took everything the Jews had away, even their coins were worth less than a regular piece of metal. But why would anyone stay in the place where they are not wanted? The Pianist is a film that is historically correct because it portrays the cruelty that took place during the holocaust; it showed how much families struggled together to survive in the concentration camps.
The final and twelfth piece was made up of excerpts from a longer work called Five Short Pieces for Clarinet and Bassoon. To me, maybe because the concert was beginning to get long or maybe because I did not have many notes over it, the last piece seems fairly similar throughout its movements, or “Short Pieces.” The first was an up-beat piece with a distinct melody. The clarinet and bassoon alternated, with the clarinet playing the higher notes. The second movement had a have complete feel to it. The two instruments played at the same time, close to it. The third movement was an impressive sounding mix of ups and downs. It seemed that the performers were working very hard and it sounded very complex.
Ludwig van Beethoven was an exceptional composer and musician in his time period for numerous reasons. He produced countless symphonies, sonatas, masses, and even an opera. He was a very talented man in the Classical and Romantic era, and he will be remembered for many centuries to come. One of his works that intrigues me the most is his Piano Sonata No. 14, otherwise known as the Moonlight Sonata. Not only is it a hauntingly beautiful piece, but it is also very historically significant. Completed in 1801, the Moonlight Sonata stretched the boundaries of music in Beethoven’s time period. To understand why the Moonlight Sonata is such a unique piece, I will delve into the background of the piece, the form of Moonlight Sonata, and finally Beethoven’s
The performance of András Schiff at La Maison Symphonique in Montreal centered around the sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert, for which the pianist is most celebrated. With András Schiff’s endlessly versatile interpretation and masterful artistry, the four sonatas formed a delightfully cohesive and compelling program. The audience gave a sincere standing ovation at the end, and the very generous pianist played another movement of Beethoven’s sonata to let the applause ebb down. The concert started with Mozart’s B flat Major sonata.