On December 7, the Monticello High School mixed and concert choirs presented a choral program called “An Olde Tyme Radio Choral Concert” in the high school auditorium. It was directed by Mr. Brett Kniess, and Janice Vetter was the pianist. The songs were chosen to put the audience in the holiday spirit, and in my opinion, it accomplished this goal. The first five songs were sung by a mixed choir of freshman and sophomores.
August Wilson’s play, The Piano Lesson, expresses the idea that African-Americans must embrace where they've come from before they will truly be able to move forward with their life. In relation to this the piano in the play represents the Charles families years of slavery to the Sutter family, as well as a symbolic representation of the strength and resiliency of the family. Music serves the function of representing the past, present, and the future, through the family piano. The music in “The Piano Lesson” serves as a solution to the characters’ problems and an escape from their hardships. The characters were able to reconcile their pasts through the illustration of music.
Anita Collins, educator for primary and secondary school in both Australia and England and a musician. Right now she is an Assistant Professor of Music and Arts Education at the University of Canberra. Collin got involved with TED.com in 2014 and has made a couple different films with them. She has her PhD and her focus is on neuroscience and music education.
On July 25, 2015, The Alternatives, Michigan based rock & roll music group, performed at the Uptown Grille in Commerce, Michigan. The Alternatives consist of 5 individuals: Sheldon Kay, attorney, and Oakland Community College professor, who plays the lead and rhythm guitar, Marcus Allen, the lead singer, also playing rhythm and lead guitar, Pete Zee, singer and a drummer, Chuck, bass guitarist and Derrick, singer and acoustic guitar player. The band performs alternative rock and roll music from 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As for the biggest influence on their music, Sheldon Kay names The Beatles, The Who, The Blue Moon Boys, and Elvis Presley himself.
This coming summer I will have the incredible and exciting opportunity to go and see Chicago in concert. Throughout my high school career, I was in a chamber choir. My director, born in the 50’s has an affinity for everything Chicago. This affinity led my choir to sing countless Chicago songs, like “25 or 6 to 4”, “Saturday in the Park”, and “Will You Still Love Me?”. Each of these songs now brings me back to a memorable point in my life, which is relived every time I listen to those compositions.
The music that flows from this esteemed chapel is incomparable. As equally important, the music from Sisters Chapel expresses the nature and culture of Spelman College. This proposal will explore countless aspects of Sisters Chapel. First and foremost,
My Father’s father was a Drummer, and my Mother’s Father was a Mouth Organ player. My Paternal Grandfather would sit me down as a kid in his sitting room with his reel to reel tapes and make me listen to classics from the Duke, and Benny Goodman, we weren’t allowed to talk while the music was playing. But were asked to discuss it once it was finished. My Maternal Grandfather would play a different game called, Name that song,” where he would jump on his organ and play standards that we needed to be able to guess, not always successfully.
On October 5th, in Founders hall of SFC, David Jolley and Martha Locker performed a concert using the French Horn and piano. David Jolley grew up in California and been “performing all over the world”. He has been working together with different groups and some of his work are meaningful. Jolley instrument, the French horn, he explained to the crowd that 100 of years ago the horn was once called the hand horn because people would use their hands to make different sounds. The French horn is a ‘brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell”.
I have known Elizabeth Hartzler for roughly a year and a half. I am an engineer at Rockwell Automation and spend much of my free time instructing instrumental music. When I moved to Milwaukee, I began teaching at Waukesha North High School with the marching band and Elizabeth was a junior in the band. From the beginning I could see that she was a bright and engaging young trumpet player that genuinely cared for the people around her. However, I saw a couple obstacles holding her back.
As any siblings would, they played together in string quartets when they were young. Herbert Clarke’s drive to be a cornet player really came to life when he say Bowen Church play cornet at the Horticultural Pavilion in Toronto (source 4, pg 13). Clarke admired the ease and beauty of Church’s tone and finally realized that this was the instrument he really “cared and craved” (source 4, pg 14). Since his brother Edwin played the cornet, he decided to use his brother’s cornet to learn and practice. About the same time, Clarke joined the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra (source 1).
This supports the idea that Meredith Rhodes Lundgren has a big impact on her students because she has encouraged them to try new things. Identically, Zoe Troff, the only French horn player in the cadet band, explained, “I thought playing French horn was terrible, but then because of her teaching, it helped me enjoy playing the French horn.” Zoe Troff’s explanation demonstrates the idea that Meredith Rhodes Lundgren's teaching has
The Monterey Pop Music festival was a concert that held for three day from June 16 to June 18. Thousands of people attend the concert to watch the musical performance by bands or singer that they love. Many popular bands involve in performing their own songs or covers such as The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Simon and Garfunkel is my most favorite artist.
Since I come to the US and begin my study at Whitfield, I learn how to identify myself in a multicultural environment like the US. Coming to the US, I have interacted with many of the Asians, who are both partly and fully assimilated. As conversing with them, I have a better reflection upon myself. I want to be more mature to keep my traditions and culture with me, but also to be more open-minded and flexible to voice my opinions. Specifically, the ELL class offers a great environment for me to be more goal-oriented in terms of defining myself.
As in Harry Potter, where the wand chooses the wizard, the trumpet chose me—although, at the time, I thought I was choosing the trumpet. Four wind musicians stood before me in my elementary school’s auditorium. Each one played an excerpt showcasing the instrument’s ability, trying to entice us all to play that instrument. I was able to resist the lures of three, but the fourth instrument, the trumpet, captured my eye and resonated with my soul. Little did I know, that sound would come to mean so much more.
Jazz is as beautiful and is considered a grand style of music. Jazz does not have a standard pattern. It is, of course, necessary to say that in any Jazz Band there must be two sections provided instrumentally, the Rhythm Section – Piano, Bass and Drums (or other percussion instrument) – and the Horn Section – any woodwind or brass instrument – and depending on the number of instruments involved do we name the band’s form. Jazz is more flexible in terms of which instruments should be involved and what the music sounds like. Flexibility is a keyword in Jazz, because it relies on improvisation.
