musicals‚ you also enjoy the music that is a part of it. Dancing and music cannot be separated. When people dance‚ they usually need appropriate music to company. Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest composers in the world‚ and his famous work "Swan Lake" is created for the ballet. We almost can say that the ballet dancing gave Tchaikovsky inspirations to write the music. Of course‚ other activities are all important for a culture. My favorite style of music is pop music‚ because it is breathtaking
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Nutcracker online for my first choice in my performance paper. This magnificent piece was composed by Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky during the Romantic period in 1892. This performance is performed by about 12 Ballerinas with the music being played in the background. “The Waltz of the Flowers” is actually ACT II from The Nutcracker‚ which is a very well known and amazing song. Tchaikovsky wrote this piece about a young girl named Clara that cannot wait for Christmas morning to arrive. She spends the whole
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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
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There are two different musics between Peter and the Wolf and Montagues & Capulets from Sergei Prokofiev. Prokofiev is a prominent composer of Russia. Since he was young‚ he showed exceptional musical talent. He composed Peter and Wolf for children and Montagues & Capulets with Radlov. This is the first soviet ballet to find the classical literature. Montagues & Capulets is composed of narrator and orchestra. it is also called Romeo & Juliet. The Ballets of Sergei Prokofiev have deep emotional
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky a Russian born composer. Born in Russia May 7‚ 1840 passed away November 6 1893 in St Petersburg Russia. Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed 169 pieces (ballets‚ concertos‚ symphonies‚ operas and songs.) He composed many of the great ballets of all time Swan Lake‚ The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty along with other famous works such as Romeo and Juliet and 1812 Overture. Tchaikovsky during his early life began his love for music. In September of 1844‚ he along with his three-year-old
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“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the best known songs in The Nutcracker. Miles Hoffman‚ the music commentator for Morning Edition and a nationally renowned violinist‚ once stated‚ “And many of them [Tchaikovsky’s melodies] in this - just in this one ballet [The Nutcracker]- are immortal” (Hoffman). Tchaikovsky first began work on the music to the now internationally renowned ballet in February 1891 (Schwarm). While in Paris that year‚ he heard an instrument
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is from the the musical time period of the Romantic Era [1820-1910]. He was born in 1840 in present day Udmurtia‚ Russia. He died on November 6th‚ 1893 in St. Petersburg because of cholera. He received training from a teacher when he was younger and he also studied at the Russian Musical Society in 1861. He later studied at St.Petersburg Conservatory. In his childhood he has piano lessons at the age of 5. By the time he was 8 he knew all of the notes ‚just as well
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Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich shares the often scary and sudden subject of death and its relation to life. Tolstoy goes about this topic by sharing the life and death of Ivan Ilyich. Ivan finds himself in physical and psychological agony as his last days wane away. Throughout his sickness‚ he experiences realizations that make him question his entire life and previous goals. The story of the Ivan’s death are riddled with messages about life and happiness. The three major messages are the
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speakers at first‚ but as the concert went on‚ I gradually realized they explained how Tchaikovsky created his Symphony No.4. In order to correspond with the interesting speech‚ the Orchestra cut the whole piece of music into many small units. Each time when the speakers talked about a specific period of time Tchaikovsky had experienced‚ the Orchestra were playing some units that correspond to their speech. Tchaikovsky worked on his Fourth Symphony when he received a love letter from one of his former
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Christian Wilson-Zavaleta 10/7/12 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 Movement #2 This section in the piece is considered to be the waltz. After the epic and sad first part I did not know what to expect. What makes this section even more guess worthy and unexpected is that this waltz is different from most‚ which are done in threes. This one is a waltz in counts of four (or fives I can’t remember what was said in class and even when I listened I couldn’t tell which it was). So before I listened I pondered
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