Whittaker Chambers

Peace. During this time, a man by the name of Whittaker Chambers made allegations that Alger Hiss was a Communist. During the Cold War, many Americans became increasingly wary of Communists in the U.S. Organizations such as the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated federal employees accused of being associated with the Communist party and being Soviet spies. This movement became known as The Red Scare. Chambers, himself an ex-Communist, testified on August 3, 1948 against Hiss. He said that he and his wife had met Hiss in the 1930s and that they stayed with Alger and Priscilla at their home. During the trial, Hiss denied even knowing a man named Whittaker Chambers. He later announced that he actually did know Chambers, but that Chambers had gone by the name of George Crosley. Hiss repudiated being associated with the Communist party and even dared Chambers to repeat his accusations in public where he would not be protected by the immunity granted by the testimony (Ehrman 2). When Chambers publicly repeated his claims, Hiss filed a slander suit against him. In November of 1948, Chambers provided physical evidence against Hiss and changed his accusation to say that Hiss was not only a Communist, but that he was also a Soviet spy. His evidence was hidden microfilms, notes in Alger Hiss’s handwriting that summarized State documents, and copies of State Department documents that had been typed that Chambers had hidden in an unused dumbwaiter in his…

but then, Sycorax in Caliban turned into … humans. Joey was so surprised, that he tripped. They had a long talk about what just happened. Suddenly Sycorax started feeling sick and started going crazy. She started feeling worse and worse, so Joey and Caliban needed to leave her behind. So on the went to reach their destination. After two days they have reached Diamond city. They first rested a while and then they went asking around, no success. Until there was a guy that said that they should ask…

The lady that composed this piece is actually the mother of the woman that was playing violin. I thought this was very cool and you could tell that this piece meant a lot to her. This piece is from the modern era as it was wrote in 2012. The piece itself was written to represent the landscape of Wallah Wallah, Washington. This was the place of a musical festival that she and her husband had founded. The landscape was supposed to be beautiful fields filled with golden grasses. The piece used…

Charles Ives is one of the famous American Modernist composers. He was born in 1874 and he composed many compositions until he died in 1954. He was born in Connecticut as a son of Army bandmaster. He began to compose at 12 and he became an Organist at 14. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, he is very well-known as his unique compositional styles. His compositional style combines American popular and church music tradition. The Church music traditions of his youth with European and…

In 1839, Breitkopf & Härtel published Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. Schumann conceived the piece in early 1836. The first iteration of Op. 17 was a one movement piece titled Ruines. Ruines was Schumann’s cathartic expression of the fatigue of separation from his love, Clara Wieck. After several alterations of the piece--in the effort to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven--Schumann expanded Ruines to three movements, mulled over a series of titles, and ultimately settled on…

3.3 Piano Figuration 3.3.1 Use of Percussive Figuration Prokofiev first used percussive figuration in Sarcasms Op. 17 and Toccata Op. 11 written in the same year. At the beginning of Sarcasms, the Tempestoso is depicted by the percussive introduction. The harsh percussive sound in the interval of the augmented fourth is not only reinforced by ff, but also projects an intense emotion. The dynamic contrast in the first four measures further heightens the intensity. Ex. 3.9 Sarcasms Op. 17 No. 1…

“I have never drawn a distinction between music for films and for operas or concerts” –– Erich Wolfgang Korngold Many conclude that Korngold was born in the wrong era. Instead of his romantic concepts excelling, his ideals and concepts were overshadowed not only by the vogue of the Second Viennese school composers: Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern, he was also amidst an era of chaos, including the happenings of the first World War. In addition, the rise of Nazism turned his move to…

Pianist and composer, Cecile Chaminade is the only female composer represented in the Flute Music by French Composers collection, and is one the early emerging female composers of this era, though not very well known. Born in Paris in 1857, “Chaminade received her earliest instruction from her mother, a pianist and singer” (Citron). With both parents amateur musicians, Chaminade was showed early talent, with her earliest compositions date to the mid-1860s. Her father did not want her to attend…

On Friday, November 25, 2016, at 8pm, I attended the Mozart and Brahms’ concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. This was a very nice venue with a mixed crowd. They offered a student rush discount ticket which was amazing because they were pretty good seats for $10. The concert was held on “casual Friday.” People were still a little over dressed for being a casual night. As soon as I walked into the concert hall, I noticed an organ straight…

suffered from arthritis in her hands which limited her work. She had contributed by bringing the “Sonate Champetre for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano. Her work, “Concerto de la fidelite pour coloratura soprano and orchestra” was premiered at a Paris Opera before she died. Paul Taffanel was born September 16, 1844 in Bordeaux, France and died in November 22, 1908 was a French flutist, conductor, and instructor. He took his lessons from his father at the age of nine and had his first concert…