| My Favorite Mr. B in Music | Pamila Besaw | | Music Appreciation 1101 | Monday/Wednesday 9:30 | Dr. Clayton Turner, Instructor | My Favorite Mr. B in Music A musician that joined the ages, Leonard Bernstein’s talent spanned centuries, from the Classical Period, to Romantic Period, to Twentieth Century and Beyond. He started his musical journey with very little encouragement from his family. Through his intense drive for learning music, he became one of the most talented musicians of the 20th Century. Bernstein loved classical music and wrote many classical pieces, but he truly thrived and excelled in his romantic feel of music. “He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive
However, the one who builds Stephen’s musical love and career is Father. In one of Aunt Emily’s letters to Mother, Aunt Emily says “…Mark… All he thinks about are Stephens’s music lessons. He sent two pages of exercises and a melody he thought up himself…Dad said Stephens’s health is more important than music right now” (113). Throughout the novel, several instruments have been used, by Stephen, to portray the theme of music; some examples are piano, flutes, and violin. Stephen works hard when it comes to music and it would not have happened without his mother or father’s support.
He was the second son of Russian immigrants. He discovered his natural talent for music when he was young. George dropped out of school at the age of 15, where he began he career playing in New York nightclubs. After three years of pounding out tunes on the piano for demanding customers, he was transformed into a highly skilled composer. To earn extra cash, he also worked as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway singers.
In 1782, before he was even twelve years old Beethoven published his first musical composition. It was a set of piano variations on a theme that was by classical composer Dressler. In the year of 1784, Beethoven’s father’s alcoholism got worse which led to his father not being able to support for his family anymore. This led to Beethoven getting a job as an assistant court organist. He was still very young, but was given the job.
The most influential music of the early Romantic period His sonatas do not adhere to a strict formal scheme and they create a mood without text or programme Influential were Field's early piano concertos, which occupy a central place in the development of the genre in the 19th century Pioneered the Romantic large scale episodic structure. Partly as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, Field's health began deteriorating by mid-1820s By the late 1820's he was suffering from rectal cancer He gave his last concert in March 1836 and died in Moscow from pneumonia He was buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery Influenced many major composers, including Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt Is best known today for originating the piano nocturne, a form later made famous by Chopin, as well as the development of the Russian piano school. The first historically important work was Piano Concerto No. 1 H 27 First official opus was a set of three piano sonatas published by (and dedicated to) Clementi in
Meaghan Savage Block -4 (a,c,e) She was born as Norma Jeane on June 1st 1926.She was bounced around from foster home to foster home when she was little and spent little time with her mother because her mother was institutionalized for mental illness. She had a difficult child hood with many emotional problems. She was beaten as a child by older boys in her family, and was raped when she was eight. She always tried to replace her broken up family by attaching herself to others. She married at the young age of 16 to James Dougherty.
While training there, she went away for further dance lessons at Lake Constance. During this time, the inflation crisis hit Germany, making all of Leni’s payments worthless. However, the dance professor and his wife allowed her to continue training without payments. It was in October 1923 that Leni performed her first solo dance recital, but it was her second performance in Berlin that brought her to the attention of Max Reinhardt, a great theatrical director. Soon after signing a contract with Reinhardt and performing in his theatres, Leni began touring Europe as a solo dance act.
Balanchine was in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on January 22, 1904. At an early age he was not very in to ballet, but soon adapted from his mother trying to teach his sister. His most likely destination, if he was to not succeed in dancing, would have been to enter the army. When he was about nine, he was accepted into imperial ballet school, where he got two instructor, Pavel Gerdt and Samuil Andrianov. For a while he had to stop dancing due to some unfortunate events
He trains to extreme measures with Keller and does not want to give up even when his parents have proudly submitted that their son will be a great musician. Paul gives up his study of law to concentrate on improving his piano skills, and becomes overconfident in his talents. With 2 years of travelling, Paul aims to be a concert pianist. However, Paul ultimately fails in his pursuit for perfection. He achieves unsatisfactory results in many competitions, and instead of becoming a renowned and famous concert pianist, he becomes a piano teacher at a school.
Beethoven : Ludwig Von Beethoven is one of the most influential classical composers, an important figure in both classical and romantic music. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was brought up in a harsh environment, coping with his alcoholic father and supporting his mother and two younger brothers. At 17 he went to Vienna to play for Mozart, he was impressed to say “Keep an eye on him, he will make a noise in the world someday.” Later he went back to study with Haydn but things did not work out between those two because of his independent spirit. Beethoven didn’t have a real patron, but his music was paid for by the nobility of Vienna.