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He played the piano parts in a Mozart Quartet and in Beethoven?s Quintet for wind instruments and piano, with such success that a speculative impresario wished to engage him for a concert tour that was to take him as far as America.

He was born on 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts, the 2nd oldest of six siblings, and was a skilled violinist since he was a kid (The Black Past). When he got a promotion at his magazine job when he was 14, he got his first camera. He was one of the first people in his town to own a personal camera so it was up to him to photograph lower class African American life at the time. At least until he, his brother Walter, and his dad would move to the Big Apple where he would work as an elevator operator and a waiter. While there,

Ludwig van Beethoven’s father, Johann van Beethoven was a musician, teacher, and a singer. His father started giving him piano lesson’s at the age of 4 or 5. Beethoven’s father was all about exploiting his young son’s talents; he even lied about

He composed his first music at the age of ten, and heard the music lyrics played in the younger days of his life when he was a teenager.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Vyatka, a town in Russia’s Ural mountains, on May 7th, 1840. He started taking piano lessons at age 5, although he had no history of composers in his family, he had a very early start with music. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Even though he was considered a good musician as a kid, it wasn't considered an acceptable occupation. His parents ended up making him study law. While he was in law school, he studied music in his free time. After deciding that law wasn’t for him, he became one of the Russian Musical Society’s first students, when he was 21 years old. Soon after, he enrolled in St. Petersburg conservatory and gave private lessons to students. He really wanted to learn how to compose music for

Leonard Norman Cohen was born on September 21st, 1934, in Westmount, Quebec. He discovered guitar as a youngster and formed a folk group named the Buckskin Boys. Early exposure to Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca converted him toward poetry-- while a flamenco guitar instructor convinced him to swap steel strings for nylon

Leonard Bernstein was born in Massachusetts to Ukrainian Jewish parents in 1918 and was commissioned to write a Catholic mass. Political and religious unrest was rife in the life of Leonard Bernstein during the 1960s and 1970s while he worked on his composition entitled Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers (later shortened to Mass).

World War Two left people calloused and experience when it came to see through the eyes of death. This event changed culture, storytelling, as well as literature. Trough these shifts in culture, imagination grew with the thought of what humanity is capable of. Humans learned that they are capable of destroying the Earth. This was a radical shift of thinking for humanity. The short non-fiction piece, “ Three Fragments,” helps capture curiosity through this short essay. The essay is structured to tease the imagination to fill in the gaps of the essay. The language is simple, clear, soft, dry and quick. The simplicity of the language helps the reader creature clear mental pictures as they read the essay. The image of death is behind all of the imagery in this essay.

Joshua Bell, a renowned violinist and conductor made his first debut at the age of fourteen making him the youngest soloist in the Philadelphia Orchestra. Following this moment Bell was extremely interested in orchestra, this led to him creating his first recording at eighteen. Later receiving the Avery Fisher Prize and a Grammy for his skills.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born December 17, 1770. He had seven siblings but only three survived and Ludwig was the oldest of them. His two brothers were, Caspar born in 1774 and Johann born in 1776. Beethoven’s mother, Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, was a slender, gentile, and deeply moralistic woman. His father, Johann van Beethoven, was a mediocre court singer better known for his alcoholism than any musical ability. Beethoven began playing music at a young age sometime between the birth of his two brothers. Ludwig was taught piano by his father in an abusive manner. His father would beat him every time he played a wrong not or even locked him in the cellar not letting him sleep. His father was an abusive alcoholic that in sited that Beethoven would be the next Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, which he would achieve in his later years of life. In my opinion his father was the one who created him and made him a famous as he is today. After

I wish I could tell you that Vitya Anderson and I fell in love and never looked back. I wish I could tell you that I wake up to her every morning with my face buried in her strawberry hair. I wish I could tell you I spent the rest of my life staring at the New Jersey girl who looked as beautiful as California. I wish I could tell you we had children together, running around our backyard with their scabby knees and lemonade hands. I wish I could tell you we took a yearly vacation to the Dominican and that she got drunk every year and made a beautiful fool of herself.

Dmitri Shostakovich is a renowned Russian composer who was born on September 25, 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He father Dmitri Boleslavovich, was a chemical engineer and his mother Sofia Kokaoulin was a pianist. They had two daughters and Dmitri was the middle child. Dmitri was exposed to music at an early age. Dmitri Shostakovich’s his talent as a pianist and a composer were seen at an early age, it was predicted that he would be a great composer. He started composing short pieces in 1917. Dmitri’s mother studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Influenced by his mother, Dmitri studied piano under his mother’s tutelage. However, he was discouraged in school by his teachers because they did not provide the support that he wished they had given. His mother sent him to different schools, one that is Aleksandr Glazuno.

This book is divided into 3 different parts, Before, Between, Beyond. In before Claire which is the main character, She starts to give birth. The birth doesn’t go as planned and she gets resigned from her birthmother job because she got hurt during her birth. So she got reassigned to a Fish Hatchery.

Laird wrote about any resource or article mention about Leonard Bernstein’s career or his work, and summary of those materials. There are some materials help for my study, and I used few some resources to look the whole article. Bernstein premiered his Sonata for Violin and Piano to adapt for Variation no.3 of “The Seven Ages” in Symphony No.2: The Age of Anxiety. The premiere of this piece, Bernstein played the soloist piano part, under Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1949. The Age of Anxiety was inspired the poem “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue” by W. H. Auden, and Bernstein felt this piece was closely the poem.

Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany. His birthdate is May7, 1833. He died on April 3, 1897. He died in Vienna, Austria. He studied piano at the age of seven under F.W. Cossel. He then became a student to Eduard Marxsen. At his teenage years he helped his family earn money by playing in inns. Every once in awhile he would give recitals.