...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period of the 19th century (New World Encyclopedia). Being the most popular Russian composer of all time, Tchaikovsky’s music appealed to the public and evoked an emotional response due to its tuneful, open-hearted melodies, impressive harmonies, and picturesque orchestration (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Additionally, he is recognized as one of the world’s most renowned classical composers in regards to his distinct Russian character (New World Encyclopedia). Tchaikovsky’s lifestyle was a major influence on his works, thus leading him to provide his audience with a glimpse of going beyond their nationalistic tendencies to grasp the world (New World Encyclopedia). He had an interest...
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...Tchaikovsky Nearly all famous composers up to the time of Tchaikovsky had at least one tragic event or circumstance in their life. Unfortunately for him, Peter Tchaikovsky had several and these misfortunes plagued Peter all his life. Many of Tchaikovsky's works reflect the tragedy of his life. Suffering and depression became almost commonplace for him. Despite the obstacles he faced, however, Peter Tchaikovsky became a world renowned composer in his own time and still holds great fame today. Born in Russia in 1840, Tchaikovsky did not receive early instruction in music nor did his parents attempt to enhance his natural ability, unlike some of his predecessors. Instead, Peter's father desired that his son become a successful lawyer and so Tchaikovsky attended law school at his father's behest. However, Tchaikovsky soon dropped out and began striving for a career in music. His first job came as a teacher at a new Moscow conservatory. While he may have had a job, Tchaikovsky was still stone broke and desperately needed funds. Coming to his aid was a wealthy widow, Madame Nadezhda von Meck. Upon hearing Peter's music, the Madame instantly fell in love with it and began to send Tchaikovsky an annual allowance which greatly eased the young musician's life. Oddly, though, the two mutually agreed only to correspond via letter and to never meet in person....
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...CONCERT REPORT I. General information 1. The composer Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 - November 6, 1893) was born in Votkinsk, Russia. He was a Russia composer of the Romantic Era. He composed in most genres of Romantic Era including songs, ballets, overtures, string quartets, chamber music, instrumental, operas, and symphonies. The ballet Swan Lake, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin are his most well-known works. 2. Title of the piece Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 includes 4 movements: 1. Andante sostenuto 2. Andantino in modo di canzona 3. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato 4. Finale. Allegro con fuoco 3. The conductor The conductor was Sey Ahn. She was born in 1986 in Seoul, Korea. She finished her master’s degree in conducting in 2012 at the Thornton School of Music of The University of Southern California. 4. The orchestra Diamond Bar High School Symphony Orchestra includes 1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 4 clarinets, 5 bassoons, 4 French horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 1 tuba, 2 harp, 4 percussion, and strings. II. The way the orchestra played All of the players sat on a chair when they performed. The string players produced the sound through their string instruments by dragging a bow against the strings. Sometimes, they made playful, as well as unique, sounds by plucking the strings. Accompanying with bowing or plucking the strings...
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...Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, a small industrial town in the Republic of Udmurtia, Russia, on May 7, 1840, the second eldest of six children. He was the son of Ilya Petrovitch Tchaikovsky, a manager of ironworks in the Ural Mountains, and Aleksandra Andreevna d'Assier, a Russian woman of French ancestry. Developing a clear interest in music at a young age, Tchaikovsky began taking piano lessons where he became familiar with the works of Frédéric Chopin and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. Unfortunately, music had not yet been incorporated into Russian education so his parents never considered the possibility of music as a career for their son. Encouraged to study law instead, at the age of 19, Tchaikovsky completed his legal studies and began work as a petty clerk in the Ministry of Justice where he remained for four years. In 1862, Peter left his job to focus on his true passion, music, at the newly founded Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied under Anton Rubenstein and Nikolai Zaremba. Shortly thereafter, in September 1866, Tchaikovsky accepted a teaching job at the new Moscow Conservatory as a teacher of theory. During his 11 years there, and until his retirement at the age of 37, he composed his Concerto no.1, the ballet Swan Lake, four operas, three symphonies, and a collection of some of his smaller works. Although excluded from the “Russian five” because they believed him to be too cosmopolitan, and Howland 2 too influenced by other...
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...Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Smith has appeared as a guest conductor in orchestras not only across the United States, but all over the world as well. Mr. Smith is also a composer and has won an ASCAP award. In 2008 he was named Ohio Composer of the Year (Music & Musicians, 2012). The orchestra for The Nutcracker consisted of two piccolos, three flutes, two oboes, an English horn, two clarinets, a bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, a timpani, a triangle, castanets, a tambourine, drums, cuckoo, quail, cymbals, bass drum tam-tam, glockenspiel, celesta, two harps, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos and double basses. Petr ll’ich Tchaikovsky The Richmond Symphony, along with the Richmond Ballet, paid tribute to Petr ll’ich Tchaikovsky by performing The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky lived from 1840 in Votkinsk, in Viatka Province, to 1893, where he died in St. Petersburg, Russia. He began composing in 1844 with his sister, Aleksandra. In 1845 he began to take...
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...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia to a Ukrainian mining engineer and his second wife, a woman of French ancestry. He was the second eldest of six children, four brothers and a sister. Fanny Dürbach, a 22-year old French governess took care of him and his siblings. Tchaikovsky started to take piano lessons at the age of 5. He also could read and write in German and French by the age of 6. (Tchaikovsky: A Life, 2015) Although his parents supported his musical interests, they sent him to a boarding school in St. Petersburg called the Imperial School of Jurisprudence at the age of 10, to become a civil servant. During his school years Tchaikovsky continued to enjoy music by going to performances of famous musicians...
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...Ashley Stoica Music Appreication Mrs. Gaskill Tuesday November 30,2010 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a Russia composerof the Romantic Era.He was born on May 7,1840 in Kamsku-Votkinsk, Russia, in the western Ura; Vyatka province of Russia, 630 miles from Moscow. He shares his birthday with another famous Romantic composer, Johanes Brahm, born seven years ahead of him. Tchaikovsky as the son of a enginer/ Mine Inspector, which allowed them to live comfortably. His mother greatly influecned his educational and cultrual upbringings because of her French and Russian hertiage. He was the oldest of four children. Tchaikovsky and his brothersand siste had a sound eduacation from thier French goveness. His parents sometimes took him to concert. One time after a conert, he would complained that he could not fall asleep because of the music stuck in his head. At age 4, he and sister composed a song for thier mother. At age 6, he was able to read in French and German. He reguraly received piano lessons from his nanny, Fanny Durbach. He was devoted to his mother, when she died when his was 14, it devasted him greatly. That same year he turned to serious compostion. He attented law school in St. Peterburg, Russia, and while studying law and Governement, he took music lesson, including some composing from Gabreial Lomerkin. He graduated at the age of nineteen and took a job as a burea clerk. He worked hard, but he hated his jobl by the time he was totally absorbed...
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...I attended a concert at the Jemison Concert Hall. The performance consisted of two pieces that were both met with enthusiastic applause and praise. The first piece that was performed was the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece was written Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. The piece was divided into three movements with Allegro moderato being first. The concert opened with the orchestra playing crescendo until the soloist presented the themes. At that point, the texture heard from the full orchestra varied between the monophony of the solo violin and the homophony. The melody introduced by the violin was repeated in various instruments with large contrasts in dynamics and tempo, with allegro being the dominating tempo. The highest point of the first movement occurred when the soloist produced an extremely high pitch in pianissimo and slowed down to a static pace. The movement ended with a strong beat played in fortissimo by the entire orchestra. The next movement began in the woodwinds with a legato melody punctuated by one note played by the horns. This movement remained somber with periods of excitement, indicated by the orchestra playing at an active pace. The violins contributed by adding descending scales of pizzicato notes. The melody then became a legato solo, which commenced in the oboe and...
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...Black Swan Black Swan is a movie about a girl who is playing the part of the swan queen in the interpretation of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She needs the man to fall in love with her in order to break the spell, but he falls in love with the wrong girl, and so she killed herself. In this movie every piece of music intensifies each of the 27 scenes, without the music the movie is not perceived the same way. Such as every time the daughter, Nina is in interaction with her mother there is the use of leitmotif, where the same music is played although it faster and slower at different times. And since she is in some sort of conflict with her mother throughout each of the scenes they are both present in the music is more of an intense beat that reflects the conflict(s) between the two. There are many people who took part in making this movie a success and a big part of that was the workers behind the music, such as: Clint Mansell – film score composer Brian Emrich and Craig Henighan – sound designers Nancy Allen – music editor Jim Black and Gabe Hilfer – music supervisors All of the music of Black Swan was scored by Clint Mansell in which they all ended up containing “Swan Lake” written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Apothesis: Danka Jane: Written and performed written by: Tom Rowlands By Pete Min performed by: The Chemical Brothers Outside the Lines: The White Easton: Written by: Praveen written by: Alec Storey Sharma & Travis Stewart...
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...Movie Critique The focus of this critique is on the film Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel. A movie about a young woman’s consuming desire for perfection as a ballerina in the role of a lifetime. Throughout this film the mise-en-scene was raw and grainy with diverse camera angles that gave an out of control feel that added to the instability within the scenes. As the film progresses the viewer becomes increasingly unsure of the reality that the Nina character is experiencing. The tight quarters of the sets, apart from the practice room, emphasized and helped to showcase the pressure at the studio and the controlling atmosphere at home. The editing in this film was linear and showed the gradual and increasing mental instability of Nina. At times it was difficult to know where in her mental decline she was at and what she was experiencing versus what was only in her mind. Had the film been edited in a nonlinear fashion it would have added a tremendous amount of confusion for the viewer and destroyed the continuity of her experiences and gradual mental deterioration. Sound is effectively used in scenes depicting the reality of particular events. The harsh sounds of the cutting and clipping of Nina’s fingernails sounded like the snapping of small bones. The sound of grinding the bottoms of the ballet slippers in the resin box, the scraping, scratching sound of the knife slicing the bottoms of the...
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...Concert Review Introduction to Music 2/1/2014 Park University Erin Rosario Name: Erin Rosario Course: Introduction to Music Date: February 1, 2014 Concert: Oakland East Bay Symphony Type of concert: Symphony orchestra General reaction: This was my first attendance at a symphony concert so I wasn’t certain what to expect. The Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA held the three hour concert and set the mood for this event. The following pieces were played for the performance: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1869), Dmitry Kabelevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 2 (1964) with David Requiro, cello, Conrad Susa’s The Blue Hour, and Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations (1898-1899). The music conductor for this event was Michael Morgan, who began conducting at the age of twelve! The walls and ceiling were beautifully crafted with intricate details entwined with blue and gold colors. The theatre was also well constructed to amplify the sounds of the acoustics from the musical instruments. All of the musicians seemed very well prepared as they warmed up prior to the performance. Throughout the concert it was apparent from the attentiveness of the audience, whom you never heard a sound from, the importance and talent of this show. Throughout the performance the musicians put their emotions into each piece and displayed how much technicality is needed for every piece. I enjoyed when cellist, David Requiro was featured in the song by Dmitro Kabalevsky, Cello Concerto...
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... I watched a concert named ‘Swire Symphony Under the Stars’ which is performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. I have never watched a concert not holding in concert hall before, this concert was held at outdoor in the Happy Valley Racecourse Recreation Ground. People just sat wherever they wanted, enjoying the performance while eating sandwiches happily. There were large screens projecting the stage for the audience at the back, everyone were excited and looking forward to the concert. The atmosphere of the venue was good. The orchestra played 5 songs totally, which were Dvorak carnival overture, Chopin Piano Concerto No.2, Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude to Act One, Prokofiev Five selections from Romeo and Juliet, and Tchaikovsky 1812 overture. Among these five pieces I like the 1812 overture most, its historical background is Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Beginning with the hymn "God Preserve Thy People" played by cellos and violas, the strings played softly and sadly, created a mysterious environment. The piece moves through a mixture of pastoral and militant themes showed that the increasing distress of the Russian people at the hands of the invading French. The atmosphere started to be tense when woodwind and brass instruments joined the strings, it seemed that the war was declared, the Battle of Borodino. The oboe, clarinets and flutes had alternate interactions with double basses, with a lot of brass instruments and percussions as the support of the...
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...Concert Report For the Concert report I had the opportunity to attend and listen to the Houston Symphony Orchestra, on November 29th, at 8:00 PM. I arrived around 7:40 to Jones Hall in slacks and untucked shirt. As I began to sit down I looked around and saw people well dressed and I felt embarrassed. I went rushed to restroom and tucked my shirt in and made sure my hair looked perfect. One lesson I learned is attending an Orchestra recital is not like going to a concert for an artist. After coming back I sat down in my seat and began to read the program guide, and found out the conductor was Hans Graf and the pianist Ingrid Fliter. A few minutes before the start of the program a few artist came out and began to tune their instruments. I saw piccolo, a pair of flutes and bassoons that I recognized because of how we went over how they looked during class. A few minutes after 8 PM the conductor walked out, and then he talked about the program that was going to be played. He then got into his position and picked up his stick and began to conduct Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. The music starts off slow and smooth as it felt like doves flying the sky in a Disney movie. About two minutes into the piece Ingrid Fliter begins to play her piano solo. While she was playing she looked so calm and poised. I tried to picture myself in the position and couldn’t stop laughing how horrible I would sound. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 had three movements Allegro, Adagio...
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...Reaction Paper: Raul Sunico Premiere Concert On 22 February, 2015, Dr. Raul Sunico performed a premier concert at the Old Senate Hall at the National Museum of the Philippines. He opened the show with a Polonaise form the opera, “Eugene Onegin” followed by the first-time performance of three concertos by Tchaikovsky. It was a sure privilege of mine to have attended a concert that showcased an actual breakthrough in music history done by our very own dean Dr. Raul Sunico. It did not occur to me that it was the first time all three Tchaikovsky concertos were performed in one concert until I read the program. However, prior to reading the program, I noticed a number of photographers that were present to cover the event and I immediately thought to myself that something special is happening. Knowing that the dean of the Conservatory himself was having a concert was my initial motivation to attend the concert because I was curious as to how good and credible he really was to be our dean. Not that I ever doubted him, but I thought it would be a great opportunity to watch a good example of musicality set by the dean of the conservatory himself. Another incentive of mine in deciding to attend the concert was the fact that it would be my first time going to the National Museum and my first time to hear the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. It was fitting to have a concert in the museum because art and music always complemented each other, especially when they can be appreciated...
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...walked in and took my sit immediately as if I was a regular at this point. The daunting and new hall that I entered for the first concert has now become more of a comforting place filled with amazing musicians. Like the last concert at this hall, this concert was compromised of a trio. It was nice to see Charae Krueger (cello) and Robert Henry (piano) appear once more on stage, but there was a new face to be seen. Rather than John Warren walking out, Helen Kim (violin) had taken the stage to finish the trio off. While I waited for the concert to begin, I began to sift through the program and see the pieces that were to be played that evening. Instantly recognizing Beethoven, I looked down to see an obscure Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although I had heard of this composer sparingly, I was longing to hear these long movements being played. Right as I began to dive into Kim’s biography, the lights dimmed and the trio took the stage. After tuning and preparing themselves, the trio began the first piece, Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”. The piece begins in Allegro Moderato with the piano leading an already powerful ranged melody on top of a powerful low range rhythm. The strings seem to slowly creep in for the few seconds, but soon the intensity builds. The piano strikes twice and then rests while the strings play a beautifully haunting melody on top. This persists three times with the piano seeming to descend chord wise. The same...
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