Musical instrument

allowed me to witness the various forms of art, performing and visual, that the school hosts. All around the school, there are art galleries that showcase students’ paintings, drawings, photographs, wooden crafts, ceramic sculptures, and, of course, musical performances. Participating in the festival has permitted me to be a part of a larger artistic community in the school. Furthermore, as an orchestra student, I was recommended to join the American Music Abroad - Red Tour and have the chance to travel

Despite growing up in a family of musicians and having played music my entire life, I didn’t learn about my exceptional ear until quite recently. During a guitar lesson sophomore year, my instructor and I were watching a music video on YouTube. I’d never seen it before, so he was quite shocked when I told him the exact tuning the guitarist was in – all by ear. “You have perfect-pitch!” he exclaimed. Not knowing what that was, I was staggered and confused. However, what I found even more astonishing

Tori has had great success as a music performer, including successfully graduating with a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Music from Juilliard and performing at distinguished venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and performing with the Boston Symphony for eight years. While an activity may not currently be profitable, it does not negate a taxpayer’s previous successful activities. As stated in Crile v. C.I.R., T. C. Memo. 2014-202 (2014), “a track record of success in other business

Music is everywhere in life, and we use it in our everyday lives. Music is even found in stories too, to help understand more about the characters. For instance, in the book, The Hobbit, the dwarves, elves, and goblins even sing, and they use their very own kind of tone, content, and structure to describe more about them. For instance, the dwarves have an adventurous side when they are singing because that’s how their personalities are, the elves have their own kind of tone, structure, and content

he guitar goes way back to like the Medieval and the Renaissance time periods. Throughout the years it has impacted music in a huge way. You rarely listen to music that does not have the guitar either being the main instrument or working as a backup. Most music genres will be impossible without the guitar. Genres such as Rock, Spanish music, Country, American Blues etc. will not even exist if it wasn’t for the guitar. (Phoebe) “ Country and western music will not be the same without the guitar. The

to Bela Fleck and The Flecktones live at the Quick. The style of music that they play is called jazz fusion and I have even heard of this type of music, so I was interested to see how I would like it. The Flecktones have a variety of different instruments so I thought that would be a cool twist. Some guys that make up the band are of course Bela Fleck, Jeff Coffin, Future Man, Victor Wooten, and many more. The way they set up the stage was unique. They had different colored carpets on the ground

On April 11th, I went to the Faculty Artist Series at Wiedemann Hall here on campus. This concert was composed by Walter Mays, Dean Roush, and Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn. Prior to the concert, I was expecting to hear something like the psychedelic and futuristic music we were shown with the Martin Luther “Dream” piece, but man was I very wrong in what I was expecting. The concert hall we were in had the feel of a church and was a place where I felt like I had to be quiet and on my best behavior which

Adrienne Rich’s quote about claiming our education clearly reminds me of a specific time when I was able to claim my education. As kids, there are things that we clearly enjoy and things that we don’t. I have always enjoyed learning music, and I still do. One of these things is music and it was a large part of my life. I was born into a family where music was a natural thing. I started playing the cello and the piano at the age of 4. At that age, music was something I was told to love and eventually

play a concert and those orchestras are paying a certain amount of money for every musician in the group. Yeo says that The nice sides of being a payed orchestra member is that you get to do something you really like to do as a job. You play your instrument on a daily basis and nearly everyday, in the evening, of the week you play a concert, and have an audience aplaud for you. Yeo also says that If you get a job in a one of the best orchestras you can get nearly 2000$ a week. with this you get 10

Starting in fifth grade when I first picked up a viola, orchestra has been a fundamental part of my identity in school. My first year in high school I was in the entry level orchestra, which I greatly enjoyed despite the easier music because of the community of people in the class. At the end of my freshman year, orchestra got the news that the number of orchestra classes would be cut down to two, making an entry level class, symphonic, and an audition only higher level class, chamber. Wanting a