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    I attended Auburn University’s AU Chamber Ensembles at The Goodwin Recital Hall on Monday, November 14, 2016, that began at 7:30 p.m. The concert featured performances from Auburn Bassoon Ensemble, Auburn Guitar Ensemble, Auburn Wind Quintet, Auburn String Trio, Nova Saxophone Quartet, and Auburn Horn Ensemble. The ensemble lasted approximately 60 minutes and offered a very gratifying listening experience. The audience dressed very casual but the AU Chamber Ensemble performers wore all black. The

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    John Duke Biography

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    instrumental pieces, instrumental and vocal chamber music, choral and symphonic works, and music for the stage. He composed two operas ("Captain Lovelock," 1953; "The Sire de Maletroit," 1958), an operetta ("The Yankee Pedlar," 1962), a "musical fantasy for children" ("The Cat That Walked Himself": 1964), and music for numerous Smith College faculty shows and theatre department productions. He was born in Cumberland, Maryland, on July 30, 1899. He became interested in music through his mother, Matilda Hoffman

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    Franz Peter Schubert was born on January 31, 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria. The parents of F.P. Schubert were Franz Theodor Schubert, a school master, and Elizabeth Vietz, a domestic servant in Vienna and homemaker. Schubert’s father taught him how to play the violin while his older brother Ignaz Schubert taught him how to play the piano, even though Schubert’s family taught him how to play certain instruments his soprano voice did not go unnoticed. (Machlis, Joseph, and Kristine Forney) Schubert

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    Uniting Chamber Orchestra On Wednesday March 1st, the University of Utah performed a concert of chamber music orchestra. This was a concert full with interesting presentations and sound that that energies of nature and relationship with humanity. This concert event was performed at Libby Gardner Hall of University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The guest presenters are four educated musicians from Austria who are called the Minetti Quartet. These were four musicians who each played an instrument. Two

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    I attended the Faculty Chamber Players concert on Monday, February 13th, 2017. This four-part concert took place in Morgan Hall of the Bailey Performance Center. The Faculty chamber players who performed the first piece, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) Flute Quartet Number 1 in D major, included Helen Kim, a professor of the violin, Catherine Lynn, Artist-in-Residence in viola, Charae Krueger, Artist-in-Residence in Cello, and lastly, Christina Smith, Artist-in-Residence in Flute. Performers

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    is impressed. Especially, when they played Brahms viola quintet, op.111. The character they make in three contrasting piece impressed me. This is the first time I knew the power of music would be. I felt that I can understand the ideas they want to convey to the audience without words.  They are a group to play music in unison. Meanwhile, each of them has their own character.  After the concert, I started to think--playing in a string quartet in the US. I want to group a professional string quartet

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    Conservatory of Music in Madrid during his years in school he learns composition, orchestra conducting, and film music for 3 years. In 1964 he got a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation to go to Rome to expanded his knowledge at Santa Cecilia national Academy. In 1965 he won the Tormo de Plata Prize in the IV Cuenta Religious Music Week. He has member of the group “Nueva musica” and he represented Spain at the 39th International Festival in Madrid held by the International Contemporary Music Society

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    other purpose but to compose”. He came from a modest family, whom gave him his earlier instrumental lessons. Schubert musical talents were recognized by his father while he was a boy, he composed many songs, symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music including:

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    During the Mozart’s day is the rise of the middle class, people starting to shift away from aristocracy and the Catholic Church. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, he was from a musician family. While growing up his father taught him music along with his sister. At three he was picking out chords on the harpsichord, at four playing short pieces, at five composing. In Paris, Mozart composed Symphony No. 31 which dedicated to royal princess. He traveled to almost three and a half years to Munich

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    I decided to choose a theme for my final paper which will be related to my instrument-viola. I choose Rebecca Clarke , probably the most prominent women-composer who wrote for viola. Most of Clarke’s compositions were written in the first three decades of the twentieth century, her works was largely unknown until the 1970th. Such is the curiously small impact she made as a composer in England in her life time that the first edition of Lionel Turtis’s book “Cinderella no more” doesn’t mention her

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