Essays on The Pianist

Jon Kimura Parker and Piano

Jon Kimura Parker was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada. He came from a musical family with his brother, James Parker and cousin Ian Parker successful pianists. At the tender age of five years, Parker had made an appearance at Vancouver Youth Orchestra. It was there that he started his musical education journey before graduating to other schools. Parker’s musical journey and prowess can be traced back to his scholarship at Vancouver Academy of Music and University of British Columbia. At Banff Center, he studied with Marek Jablonski and schooled with Robin Wood at Victoria Conservatory. The expertise ...

Introduction

Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a hierarchal model used for categorizing learning objectives according to complexity and knowledge and application of content(Clark, 2014). The hierarchy describes different kinds of learning and different levels of mastery (Simpson, 1972). . Blooms looks at it from 3 domains: affective, cognitive and psychomotor(Bloom, Engelhart, Furst, Hill, & Krathwohl, 1956).). Each of these domain levels detail skills and other performance indicators starting with the most basic to complex application of knowledge. Simpson offers a revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy that has 3 domains grouped into seven categories according to the simplest to the most ...

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It includes a detailed study of three literary works and their importance and execution in daily life. The discussion discusses in detail with reference to the mood, style, theme and tone of the three compositions. The three compositions as chosen are

- The movie by Roman Polinski Starring—Adrian Brody, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman is the first non-literary work that I have chosen.

- The second non-literary work would be that of a photograph by Charie Cole taken at the Tianenmen Square in 1989 named the Tank Man.

- The third composition is a literary source by ...

1. Holocaust is the story of Nazi atrocities going way beyond mere extermination of Jews. Doris L. Bergen, historian and an author gives new insights and nerve-chilling details using several survivor and eyewitness testimonies. Bergen has uncovered hitherto unknown photographs. The systematic extermination of Afro-Germans, non-Jewish Poles, the Soviets, and homo-sexual men, among others is far gruesome than what was thought earlier. Hitler’s men, police, and even his doctors were trained to be killers. Hitler’s regime created a sense of legitimacy to these vicious acts of genocide. Timothy Snyder describes in gross detail of how Jews on their ...

In this essay, I will compare and critique three different renditions of the same piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C major from the Well- Tempered Clavier BWV 864. For making the interpretation, I have pick three different pianists; Glenn Gould is the first one, Samuel Feinberg is the second one and Daniel Ben Pienaar is the third and also the last one. After I will listen to all three interpretations, I will discuss the different performing style of this three pianist approaching music components such as dynamics, tempo, colour and articulation. Furthermore, I will comment ...

The prospect of attending a Japanese concert gives me goose bumps. It is an experience worth relishing every minute, and Sunday the 17th of November, was not an exception. I arrived early in the concert hall. Soon the audience started tripping in followed by the VIP who took their seats at a separate front section with an incredible view to the stage. The stage had already been set and a clamor of gripping sounds filled the stage as the audience settled. I was overwhelmed by an ethereal of placidity. The ambience was tranquil. I was ready to experience the Japanese culture through ...

Introduction

This kind of music began in the 20th Century in areas such as the New Orleans, Kansas City and Chicago. It was first sung by the African American who combined the European harmony with African beats. Through the years, the jazz music has also included the American popular music. The jazz music has been one of America’s greatest successes because it is there that it was started and it began to spread throughout the world. The music is able to unite people from various backgrounds such as race, countries, age, and religion. Through the music, people are able ...

For the live jazz performance assignment, I went to see the Bobby Torres Ensemble at the Jones Theatre at Doggy Hall in Pullman. It was a gripping performance overall. The Pianist, Brian Ward, was in an excellent mood, and really seemed to put everything he had into the performance that night, along with Israel Annoh on drums. The bass, played by Victor Little, was very relaxed, and really calmed the mood on a number of occasions. John Nastos, on Saxophone, was also very calm, and contributed a great deal to the atmosphere. Julana Torres was on vocals, and was very enthusiastic and ...

(The Beautiful Maid of the Mill) A song cycle is a several group of songs performed in sequence as a single entity after a romantic period and is usually written by one composer (Knopoff & Hutchinson 75). The songs normally have a unifying subject or ideas which are normally set to the words of the same poet. The unity of the cycle is achieved by a narrative that is common to the different songs and underlined using a musical instrument (Neumeyer 93). An example of this is in the case of Franz Schubert and his song-cycle Die Schoene Muellerin songs (The Beautiful Maid of the ...

When Dreams Do Not Come True

In the world of creative writing and literature, there are various ways in which authors can express their thoughts and send message to the audience. Some might explain their message in a comprehensible prose and immediately express the main aim of the whole literary work; others might create a piece full of strong visual images which bring the audience to the theme and author’s message (Kennedy and Dana 250). In the last case, the language of the poem tends to be full of creative language devices and symbolism. The meaning of symbolism and literary devices are particularly important for the comprehension ...