Art personally to me has different meanings. When I think about Art, I mostly think about nature, graffiti, music, actors, etc. To me art is not only about drawing a picture, but it’s about expressing yourself through different colors, textures, patterns. For example dance could be art, or when the orange/yellow leaves fall from the tree in the month of October could also be art. Like I said before Art is not only about drawing or painting a picture, it is expressing your feelings, and being creative
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he was as a professor of music at the University of Michigan, he has published variety of music, and appears regularly as a concert pianist and collaboration with his wife. Most of his works span the years 1963 to 1994, and comprise a wide range of compositional practices including serial technique, tonality, proportional rhythmic notation, special effects, Latin-American dance styles, blues
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to that I was also nervous as a result of my recent aquisition of a new trombone that was a higher quality instrument than my previous trombone, and I hadn't fully adjusted to the new instrument. After all of the band students received the audition music for next year we all started practicing
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pieces (Britannica). His father was Hungarian and his mother was Austrian. In his early life, Liszt’s father, Adam Liszt, played the cello and other instruments. Adam also worked at the court of Count Esterhazy and amazed by his son’s talent for music he passionately taught Franz to play the piano. And by the age of 18, he was already composing elementary works and by the age of 9, he was performing in concerts. He would practice over ten hours a day. There was a time when Franz played for a group
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“Advanced Placement Revisited” done by Patricia Lund Casserly from The College Board, a nonprofit organization that works to make sure all students in the American educational system are college ready, found that, “students who take four years of arts and music classes while in high school score 91 points better on their SAT exams than students who took only a half year or less (scores averaged 1070 among students in arts educations compared to 979 for students without arts education.) While school districts
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As I stand on stage with nothing but a microphone in front of me, my nerves are on edge, my palms are sweating, and my heart is racing. I have been preparing for months and now the moment is finally here. I hear the pianist start to play so I take a deep breath, watch the audience fade and start to sing, as I tell my story. Although I had a childhood that was filled with love and laughter, I was not naïve to my circumstances. I was born on the indigent Caribbean Island of St. Vincent and the
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greatest number of interpretations is music. Music comes in a variety of forms, including: symphonic, rap, pop, country, metal, dub-step, and techno, just to name a few. Socrates stated, “...rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten...” (1) He is explaining that music is something very powerful and has the ability to affect us in many ways. I agree with what Socrates is saying; and will be arguing that music is an array of sounds combined in harmony
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Home Free Concert On Sunday, May 6th, I went to Madison’s Orpheum Theater with my friend Kaelyn, her mom Julie, and their family friend Malia to see a Home Free concert. Home Free is an all-male, acapella country band, consisting of five members: Austin Brown (lead tenor), Adam Rupp (vocal percussionist/beatboxer), Rob Lundquist (tenor harmony), Adam Chance (baritone harmony), and Tim Foust (bass). What made it extremely exciting for me was the fact that this was my first non-local group concert
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projects, evincing an inclination for powerful quartets and bold large ensembles. For this particular concert, Ehrlich has chosen to play some of his old and new compositions, proving why he’s one of the most multifaceted explorers of improvised music. Before anything else, the leader introduced us to his peers: James Weidman on piano, Jerome Harris on electric bass, and Ben Perowsky on drums. The quartet, entitled The Philosophy of a Groove, kicked in with “Line on Love”, an emotional tune whose
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current day, music has had an impact on my life that is simply difficult to match. A lot of my personality and resilience was created and encouraged by the songs and lyrics that I was exposed to from a very early age. Currently music is used as my escape; as a place that I can express myself and how I’m feeling through the artistry of others. To many people who create the music we listen to, their music and their expression through their lyrics is almost as important as breathing to them. Music feeds the
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