Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano is a skill that took me years of practice in order to achieve a high level of proficiency. Though I often shirked my duty, only with hours of practice could I see the minute details that give a piece its character. Yet as high school started and my academic coursework became more challenging, my time was limited. I decided to stop playing the piano to focus on school work and extracurricular activities. However, sonatas and nocturnes kept getting stuck in my head. They taunted me,…

In the Slosberg Music Center the music was electrifying and it resurrected long gone composers such as Ludwig Van Beethoven and César Franck. While it also invoked Louis Gordon’s work, who it is the only out of the three composers whose work was presented that night and remains alive. On Oct. 3th, during Brandeis University’s concert series, named Primary Motivations, these three composers were very much alive and present thanks to the duo of Joshua Gordon, cello and Randall Hodgkinson, piano.…

Frederic Chopin was on March 1, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola. Both of his parents were musicians, and it was almost destined for Chopin to be a musical prodigy. In his short life of 39 years, Chopin traveled through Europe, meeting famous composers like Liszt and Cherubini. He composed over 230 works, which were mainly piano pieces. Ever since his childhood, he was destined for greatness. When Chopin was six months old, his family moved to Warsaw, where his father was employed teaching French at the…

The most challenging duty for a columnist, blogger, or anyone who writes about popular music is appealing to a demographic of musos and die-hard admirers. It’s one thing to venture off into the skeptical world of music aficionados alone, granted that you’ve taken a class or two on how to speak their technical language, but it's another thing to venture off without being able to communicate why an artist’s musical choices are, in fact, artistic. Take, for example, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A…

On April 10th, 2018, I attended a concert performed by three talented performers: John Carlo Pierce (Tenor), Michelle Stanley (Flute), Jeff LaQuatra (Guitar). The performances were at The Griffin Foundation Gallery in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. The performances were part of the Music in the Museum Concert Series, which is a performance based on the art that surrounds it. The art installment in the museum is called Pompeii Archive: Recent Photographs by William Wylie. Pompeii was once a…

Since this winter Conservatory of Music hosted many variety performances, including new works such as unusual electroacoustic compositions, classics in wide number instruments. Among musicals that were performed in the Music studio, performances by the piano stood out with its soothing and familiar sound. Unlike computer-generated electroacoustic music performance in which performer included sounds baby cries, the piano music, especially in classical or pop genre, is more pleasant to hear.…

The Concert I would like to talk about is what I heard in Singapore. It was a cello concerto performed by Wang Jian and accompanied by Singapore Symphony Orchestra on March 29, 2013. The reason why I choose this concert is because the cellist gave me a very impressive memorize so that I could still recall almost everything from the concert by his playing. Another reason is that there is barely to see some Chinese cellist to play with great orchestra, but Wang Jian has done it extremely well.…

Professional Musician the career field i’m researching is the professional musician. musicians have been around since the beginning of time and will be here when time is no more. the reason i am studying the career of professional musician is because I myself am already a musician by choice and by passion. By researching this career field I hope to gain valuable insight into what it takes to be a professional musician. there are approximately “167,400 people in this job as said in 2012, and is…

Both of these concerts are undeniably different in atmosphere, sound, and eloquence; however, they do have one common factor. This common factor is the musicality they bring to their audience as well as the joy that is exuberated throughout the performance. The first virtual concert I watched entitled “Slatkin Conducts Appalachian Spring” was not a traditional band much like the other virtual concert entitled “Dr. Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys”. Appalachian Spring started out soft…

Franz Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund near Vienna Austria. He was an Austrian composer. He himself wrote six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, operas, sacred music and a large body of chamber and piano music. His appreciation was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna. Schubert’s father, Franz Theodor Schubert, was a school teacher; his mother was what we call a modern day “stay at home mom.” Franz had three older brothers…