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I attended Western Kentucky University 's symphony concert. It was on Friday, October 30th at 7:30pm. It was held in Van Meter Hall. Their event was named “It 's time for a treat.” The symphony was conducted by Dr. Brain St. John. Before it began, I read over the program that was handed out to find out basic information. The history of the pieces helped in understanding them. The concert featured many well-known works by famous composers such as Camille Saint-Saens, Modest Mussorgsky, and Berlioz

Marliz Dume When comparing or analyzing styles of play by different ensembles of either different pieces of music or the same, one must keep a keen ear to the technicalities and expression attempted for the listener to clearly hear. In this report, first, two different ensembles playing George Frideric Handel’s’ Hornpipe from ‘Water Music Suite’ is compared and contrasted. Next, yet another comparison is made between two different ensembles playing the piece written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sym

On account of the rain delay, the program for the evening had to be shortened. The orchestra omitted the Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 and the intermission. The conductor maintained a positive attitude about the ordeal. In fact, in reference to omitting the Egmont Overture, the conductor told the audience that a little rain could not stop the North Carolina symphony. He continued to say that we would skip the stormy Egmont Overture and jump right into Beethoven’s cheery eighth symphony to bring musical

Symphony Fantastique could be considered one of the most important pieces of music ever written, using a strong, vivid narrative throughout and redefining programmatic music. Berlioz made sure that when the piece was performed, the audience were supplied with a copy of the program describing the series of visions that a young artist (Berlioz) experiences under the influence of opium. The use of the infamous ideé fixe dominates the piece, connecting each movement whilst also helping to shape programmatic

When people would say “My hobby is this,” or “My passion is that,” I would wonder how he or she found an activity that they could completely devote themselves to. I always thought that I would immediately know what my passion or hobby was when I encountered it. For me, it happened to be music. My passion for music, however, didn’t come immediately; music wasn’t something that I said to myself, “This is it. I’ve found my passion in life.” The piano wasn’t like that at all. When I started to play the

Harry Connick Jr was born on September 11, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Connick Jr plays the piano and sings. He was encouraged by his parents to learn the piano and ended up learning from a teacher. When he was young, Connick Jr gave first concert at his father’s, Harry Connick Senior’s, campaign headquarters. He also took classes at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts with pianist Ellis Marsalis. The style of jazz he currently plays is genuine, old-time saloon jazz. His style is very

Project II: Frederic Chopin Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period, Frederic Francois Chopin, was born March 1, 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw [now in Poland] and died October 17, 1849. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica On-line, Chopin ranks as one of music’s greatest tone poets by reason of his superfine imagination and fastidious craftsmanship. Frederic Chopin’s father became a French teacher at Warsaw lyceum, in which he attended from 1823 to 1826

From Hamburg, Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was best know as a composer. She was of Jewish descent and her father was a philosopher. Her mother however, was not born into Judaism. From her early years as a child and on, she has composed over four hundred and sixty pieces of music according to Wikipedia. The majority of her songs are considered a style called Lied ohne Worte, or Songs without Words. Hensel lived during the years 1805 - 1847. Most of her compositions are for piano, and some were

George Crumb, an American avant-garde style composer born in 1929, once declared, “It is easy to write unthinking music” (Bio.com, American Composers Orchestra). In his piece, “Dream Images”, Crumb intentionally uses both tonal and post-tonal techniques, such as set theory, melodic borrowing, and specific usage of dynamics, to create an unconscious feeling, as if in a dream. Although the theme of “Dream Images” is one of “unthinking” and fantasizing, because of its intricacies, it was definitely

Paganini “This man with the long black hair and the pale countenance, opens to us with his violin a world which we had never imagined, except perhaps in dreams. There is in his appearance something so supernatural that one looks for a glimpse of a cloven hoof or an angel’s wing” Paganini remains one of the most famous virtuosos in the history of music. His concerts were not only astonishing, but controversial. People could not believe what Paganini was able to do; consequently