Shawn Thomas was born on January 14, 1971. He lived in Walla Walla, Washington until the age of six, then migrated to Kansas. Thomas attended high school at Jayhawk-Linn. A friend got him hooked on running his senior year. They did workouts together, he said, “I thought I would be pretty good at it, so I gave it a shot.” After senior year he attended college at Emporia State University.
Support for Thesis 2 Topic Sentence: He likes to watch movies on the computer. Detail A: The hero movies are his favorite Detail B: The cartoon shows are the oldest cartoons Detail C: When he is watching the movies, his attitude changes, he is quiet, laughing, and eating. Support for Thesis 3 Topic Sentence: He loves to listen to music. Detail A: The computer has a variety of all kinds of music. Detail B: My son can click on the music he likes to listen too.
He spent the rest of his childhood in Glendale, where Wayne worked paper routes and other jobs to help out his family. Wayne was also in clubs like YMCA and the Boy Scouts of America. He was a top student in his class at Glendale high school. (“John Wayne an American Icon” 83). John Wayne was offered a full two year scholarship at the University of Southern California (“John Wayne an American Icon” 84) , as the starting left
Through music I express my thoughts and emotions. I enjoyed playing and listening to all styles of music. In school I play drums in concert band, and also played drums and piano in a highly regarded Jazz program. Although I took piano lessons as a child, I never really enjoyed practicing and quit when I was in middle school. When I reached high school I found interest in the piano again.
Vivaldi was progressive musically. He established the concerto form as an instrumental standard, played with the idea that the soloist was at war with the larger orchestra and using the contrasts to dramatic effect, not only between players but in speed and volume levels as well, and he pushed the envelope on violin technique, something in which he probably remained untouched. His usual writing style was antiphony, a simple style, which allowed him to experiment with instrument solos and maintain a light and innocent texture to the music. Vivaldi was one of the rare Italian composers interested in woodwind instruments. He composed several concertos for the bassoon, oboe, recorder and flute, as well as the rarer clarinet.
I can relate to him because he is a white male and I am a white male. He is a high school football coach and that is what I want to do, coach high school football. In the movie he is a guy who lives with his daughter and it is just them two. For a lot of the movie, he thinks that is enough and all he needs. Then he realizes that times are changing and he needs to change with them and he does.
They may contrast moods within movements and also within themes (Pg. 302).” The piano took the place of the harpsichord during the classical era and was favored by the composers of the time. Mood plays a big part of Classical music with its fluctuation of movement within each piece of music. Classical music is said to have five basic characteristics according to Sporre (2013), “1. Variety and contrast in mood, 2.
This “Viennese” action became to be widely used in Vienna up to the mid 19th century but it required very elegant sensitivity of touch to play the Viennese fortepiano since the piano was very sensitive to the player’s touch. Stein’s fortepiano was said to
Franz vowed then, and there to be the pianist version of Paganini. Already an accomplished composer, Franz took time off from concerts to work tirelessly day in and day out until he emerged, a few years later, as the greatest pianist of his time. Liszt created sounds from the piano as if an orchestra were playing them, and he had remarkable finger dexterity; works such as Douze Grandes Etudes and Paganini Studies show off his amazing talent on the piano. He was an excellent showman. His work encompassed the use of bold leaps, and extreme dynamics.
Alex McKenzie Music History III Mid-Term Paper 10/8/09 The Rach Sergei Rachmaninoff is considered to many people as one of the last, if not the last, true link to 19th century Romanticism in music composition. He was known for his stern manner, huge hands that helped in his piano playing, and for his few, but exciting compositions. Many at the time he was alive did not like his music because they thought he was behind modern composition, but the remaining romantic composers and fans of romantic music praised his works. To this day the last great romantic’s pieces are played and loved by many. Born 1 April, 1873 in Semyonovo, Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was the son of Vasily and Lubov Rachmaninoff.