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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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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to me because it offers a tailored music major, the Bachelor of Music with an Elective Studies in Business Jazz Voice Minor. Howard University’s unique degree program will allow me to focus on being a singer or performer, while including the business aspects of those roles. Howard University has a long and proud legacy of successful professionals in the fine arts. I have grown up within a relatively musical family and I have been influenced and impacted by music greatly. I have been singing since
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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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evolution from soundless films to "talkies, (Donen, S., G. Kelly page 7).Checking on the whole movie, it is clearly seen that there are different elements that truly makes this film musical as the title suggest. As a result of sounds particularly the music as well as setting, make up, costumes and also photographs, (Brown, Nacio
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” was the new American music genre influenced by the blues. Ragtime music was extremely different than anything else that was being played at the time and it was not viewed as proper music, so it was played in saloons and bars. To play rags, a pianist had to be remarkably skilled because they have to be able to keep up with their own rhythm and play every piece of the song until the 1920s, when big bands came in. Scott Joplin, “the King of Ragtime,” created this new music form, which had blues in
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