...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period of the 19th century (New World Encyclopedia). Being the most popular Russian composer of all time, Tchaikovsky’s music appealed to the public and evoked an emotional response due to its tuneful, open-hearted melodies, impressive harmonies, and picturesque orchestration (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Additionally, he is recognized as one of the world’s most renowned classical composers in regards to his distinct Russian character (New World Encyclopedia). Tchaikovsky’s lifestyle was a major influence on his works, thus leading him to provide his audience with a glimpse of going beyond their nationalistic tendencies to grasp the world (New World Encyclopedia). He had an interest...
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...Tchaikovsky Nearly all famous composers up to the time of Tchaikovsky had at least one tragic event or circumstance in their life. Unfortunately for him, Peter Tchaikovsky had several and these misfortunes plagued Peter all his life. Many of Tchaikovsky's works reflect the tragedy of his life. Suffering and depression became almost commonplace for him. Despite the obstacles he faced, however, Peter Tchaikovsky became a world renowned composer in his own time and still holds great fame today. Born in Russia in 1840, Tchaikovsky did not receive early instruction in music nor did his parents attempt to enhance his natural ability, unlike some of his predecessors. Instead, Peter's father desired that his son become a successful lawyer and so Tchaikovsky attended law school at his father's behest. However, Tchaikovsky soon dropped out and began striving for a career in music. His first job came as a teacher at a new Moscow conservatory. While he may have had a job, Tchaikovsky was still stone broke and desperately needed funds. Coming to his aid was a wealthy widow, Madame Nadezhda von Meck. Upon hearing Peter's music, the Madame instantly fell in love with it and began to send Tchaikovsky an annual allowance which greatly eased the young musician's life. Oddly, though, the two mutually agreed only to correspond via letter and to never meet in person....
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...CONCERT REPORT I. General information 1. The composer Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 - November 6, 1893) was born in Votkinsk, Russia. He was a Russia composer of the Romantic Era. He composed in most genres of Romantic Era including songs, ballets, overtures, string quartets, chamber music, instrumental, operas, and symphonies. The ballet Swan Lake, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin are his most well-known works. 2. Title of the piece Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 includes 4 movements: 1. Andante sostenuto 2. Andantino in modo di canzona 3. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato 4. Finale. Allegro con fuoco 3. The conductor The conductor was Sey Ahn. She was born in 1986 in Seoul, Korea. She finished her master’s degree in conducting in 2012 at the Thornton School of Music of The University of Southern California. 4. The orchestra Diamond Bar High School Symphony Orchestra includes 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 4 clarinets, 5 bassoons, 4 French horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 1 tuba, 2 harp, 4 percussion, and strings. II. The way the orchestra played All of the players sat on a chair when they performed. The string players produced the sound through their string instruments by dragging a bow against the strings. Sometimes, they made playful, as well as unique, sounds by plucking the strings. Accompanying with bowing or plucking the strings...
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...nspired by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff’s melodies were masterfully crafted, soulful, reflective and nostalgic. He believed music should remain “unendingly obedient in trying to create beauty”. Rachmaninoff composed the majority of his melodies in the major mode and largely diatonically constructed. This diatonicism is a mark of his reflective spirit and old fashion style that “erred somewhat on the cautious side of his limitations” ; a tendency that could have begun after his breakdown in 1897. His inability to write for such an extended period of time could have stunted his development as a progressive composer; the same progressive composer that once wished to open new paths in music when he created his first symphony. But, for all he claimed to be set in his musical ways, his compositions show a man who seemed to be constantly developing a more complex harmonic language. Works completed after 1910, such as his Prelude op. 32 No. 1 and Etudes Tableaux, began to display subtle, perhaps modernistic, changes in his technique. "The surprising broadening of his musical conscience… has allowed him to write down what, only a decade ago, would have made him...
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...Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, a small industrial town in the Republic of Udmurtia, Russia, on May 7, 1840, the second eldest of six children. He was the son of Ilya Petrovitch Tchaikovsky, a manager of ironworks in the Ural Mountains, and Aleksandra Andreevna d'Assier, a Russian woman of French ancestry. Developing a clear interest in music at a young age, Tchaikovsky began taking piano lessons where he became familiar with the works of Frédéric Chopin and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. Unfortunately, music had not yet been incorporated into Russian education so his parents never considered the possibility of music as a career for their son. Encouraged to study law instead, at the age of 19, Tchaikovsky completed his legal studies and began work as a petty clerk in the Ministry of Justice where he remained for four years. In 1862, Peter left his job to focus on his true passion, music, at the newly founded Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied under Anton Rubenstein and Nikolai Zaremba. Shortly thereafter, in September 1866, Tchaikovsky accepted a teaching job at the new Moscow Conservatory as a teacher of theory. During his 11 years there, and until his retirement at the age of 37, he composed his Concerto no.1, the ballet Swan Lake, four operas, three symphonies, and a collection of some of his smaller works. Although excluded from the “Russian five” because they believed him to be too cosmopolitan, and Howland 2 too influenced by other...
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...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia to a Ukrainian mining engineer and his second wife, a woman of French ancestry. He was the second eldest of six children, four brothers and a sister. Fanny Dürbach, a 22-year old French governess took care of him and his siblings. Tchaikovsky started to take piano lessons at the age of 5. He also could read and write in German and French by the age of 6. (Tchaikovsky: A Life, 2015) Although his parents supported his musical interests, they sent him to a boarding school in St. Petersburg called the Imperial School of Jurisprudence at the age of 10, to become a civil servant. During his school years Tchaikovsky continued to enjoy music by going to performances of famous musicians...
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...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840, in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka, Russia. He was the second eldest of his parents’ six children and of the six children Tchaikovsky found himself closest to his sister Alexandra and his twin brothers Anatoly and Modest. Tchaikovsky’s father, Ilya, worked as a mine inspector and a metal works manager. But with his mother, Alexandra, she was the second of Ilya’s three wives that he would have. At the age of five Tchaikovsky began taking piano lessons as he displayed an early passion for music. Although he loved music his parents wanted him to work in the civil service. Precocious, within three years he had become as adept to reading music as his teacher. His parents then became very supportive and...
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...Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Smith has appeared as a guest conductor in orchestras not only across the United States, but all over the world as well. Mr. Smith is also a composer and has won an ASCAP award. In 2008 he was named Ohio Composer of the Year (Music & Musicians, 2012). The orchestra for The Nutcracker consisted of two piccolos, three flutes, two oboes, an English horn, two clarinets, a bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, a timpani, a triangle, castanets, a tambourine, drums, cuckoo, quail, cymbals, bass drum tam-tam, glockenspiel, celesta, two harps, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos and double basses. Petr ll’ich Tchaikovsky The Richmond Symphony, along with the Richmond Ballet, paid tribute to Petr ll’ich Tchaikovsky by performing The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky lived from 1840 in Votkinsk, in Viatka Province, to 1893, where he died in St. Petersburg, Russia. He began composing in 1844 with his sister, Aleksandra. In 1845 he began to take...
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...5”, conducted by Michael Christie with the violinist Karen Gomyo. In my opinion this was the pièce de résistance of the concert in its entirety. The absurd amount of emotion that Tchaikovsky was capable of evoking from his listeners was enough to make me fall in love with this work despite Tchaikovsky’s hatred of this piece from the time that it was created. It is apparent that this was created during Tchaikovsky’s falling off point before of the 10 year period that took place between his 4th and his 5th symphony. Despite the creator’s resentment felt towards this piece, it still became one of his most popular works, and for good reason. This symphony has four movements, beginning with Adante. The orchestra consisted of three flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. The lights in the room eventually dim once again, showing an indication of what is...
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...For the second concert report I attended a rendition of the 1812 Overture, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performed by the Utah Symphony in Deer Valley on July 18th. There were several other pieces played during the concert, including Capriccio Italien (Op. 45), also by Tchaikovsy; Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy and Bess, written by George Gershwin; and selections from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. It was an outdoor concert and took place at the Deer Valley ski resort. There was a full symphony orchestra that included several cannons, operated by the Cannoneers of the Wasatch, for the finale of the 1812 Overture. There was a large turnout, and I sat fairly far from the orchestra towards the rear of the field, so I did not have a great view....
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...Ashley Stoica Music Appreication Mrs. Gaskill Tuesday November 30,2010 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a Russia composerof the Romantic Era.He was born on May 7,1840 in Kamsku-Votkinsk, Russia, in the western Ura; Vyatka province of Russia, 630 miles from Moscow. He shares his birthday with another famous Romantic composer, Johanes Brahm, born seven years ahead of him. Tchaikovsky as the son of a enginer/ Mine Inspector, which allowed them to live comfortably. His mother greatly influecned his educational and cultrual upbringings because of her French and Russian hertiage. He was the oldest of four children. Tchaikovsky and his brothersand siste had a sound eduacation from thier French goveness. His parents sometimes took him to concert. One time after a conert, he would complained that he could not fall asleep because of the music stuck in his head. At age 4, he and sister composed a song for thier mother. At age 6, he was able to read in French and German. He reguraly received piano lessons from his nanny, Fanny Durbach. He was devoted to his mother, when she died when his was 14, it devasted him greatly. That same year he turned to serious compostion. He attented law school in St. Peterburg, Russia, and while studying law and Governement, he took music lesson, including some composing from Gabreial Lomerkin. He graduated at the age of nineteen and took a job as a burea clerk. He worked hard, but he hated his jobl by the time he was totally absorbed...
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...Black Swan Black Swan is a movie about a girl who is playing the part of the swan queen in the interpretation of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She needs the man to fall in love with her in order to break the spell, but he falls in love with the wrong girl, and so she killed herself. In this movie every piece of music intensifies each of the 27 scenes, without the music the movie is not perceived the same way. Such as every time the daughter, Nina is in interaction with her mother there is the use of leitmotif, where the same music is played although it faster and slower at different times. And since she is in some sort of conflict with her mother throughout each of the scenes they are both present in the music is more of an intense beat that reflects the conflict(s) between the two. There are many people who took part in making this movie a success and a big part of that was the workers behind the music, such as: Clint Mansell – film score composer Brian Emrich and Craig Henighan – sound designers Nancy Allen – music editor Jim Black and Gabe Hilfer – music supervisors All of the music of Black Swan was scored by Clint Mansell in which they all ended up containing “Swan Lake” written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Apothesis: Danka Jane: Written and performed written by: Tom Rowlands By Pete Min performed by: The Chemical Brothers Outside the Lines: The White Easton: Written by: Praveen written by: Alec Storey Sharma & Travis Stewart...
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...I attended a concert at the Jemison Concert Hall. The performance consisted of two pieces that were both met with enthusiastic applause and praise. The first piece that was performed was the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece was written Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. The piece was divided into three movements with Allegro moderato being first. The concert opened with the orchestra playing crescendo until the soloist presented the themes. At that point, the texture heard from the full orchestra varied between the monophony of the solo violin and the homophony. The melody introduced by the violin was repeated in various instruments with large contrasts in dynamics and tempo, with allegro being the dominating tempo. The highest point of the first movement occurred when the soloist produced an extremely high pitch in pianissimo and slowed down to a static pace. The movement ended with a strong beat played in fortissimo by the entire orchestra. The next movement began in the woodwinds with a legato melody punctuated by one note played by the horns. This movement remained somber with periods of excitement, indicated by the orchestra playing at an active pace. The violins contributed by adding descending scales of pizzicato notes. The melody then became a legato solo, which commenced in the oboe and...
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...Concert Review Introduction to Music 2/1/2014 Park University Erin Rosario Name: Erin Rosario Course: Introduction to Music Date: February 1, 2014 Concert: Oakland East Bay Symphony Type of concert: Symphony orchestra General reaction: This was my first attendance at a symphony concert so I wasn’t certain what to expect. The Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA held the three hour concert and set the mood for this event. The following pieces were played for the performance: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1869), Dmitry Kabelevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 2 (1964) with David Requiro, cello, Conrad Susa’s The Blue Hour, and Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations (1898-1899). The music conductor for this event was Michael Morgan, who began conducting at the age of twelve! The walls and ceiling were beautifully crafted with intricate details entwined with blue and gold colors. The theatre was also well constructed to amplify the sounds of the acoustics from the musical instruments. All of the musicians seemed very well prepared as they warmed up prior to the performance. Throughout the concert it was apparent from the attentiveness of the audience, whom you never heard a sound from, the importance and talent of this show. Throughout the performance the musicians put their emotions into each piece and displayed how much technicality is needed for every piece. I enjoyed when cellist, David Requiro was featured in the song by Dmitro Kabalevsky, Cello Concerto...
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... I watched a concert named ‘Swire Symphony Under the Stars’ which is performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. I have never watched a concert not holding in concert hall before, this concert was held at outdoor in the Happy Valley Racecourse Recreation Ground. People just sat wherever they wanted, enjoying the performance while eating sandwiches happily. There were large screens projecting the stage for the audience at the back, everyone were excited and looking forward to the concert. The atmosphere of the venue was good. The orchestra played 5 songs totally, which were Dvorak carnival overture, Chopin Piano Concerto No.2, Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude to Act One, Prokofiev Five selections from Romeo and Juliet, and Tchaikovsky 1812 overture. Among these five pieces I like the 1812 overture most, its historical background is Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Beginning with the hymn "God Preserve Thy People" played by cellos and violas, the strings played softly and sadly, created a mysterious environment. The piece moves through a mixture of pastoral and militant themes showed that the increasing distress of the Russian people at the hands of the invading French. The atmosphere started to be tense when woodwind and brass instruments joined the strings, it seemed that the war was declared, the Battle of Borodino. The oboe, clarinets and flutes had alternate interactions with double basses, with a lot of brass instruments and percussions as the support of the...
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