George Walker Biography Essay

By the age of fourteen he had performed with many of the professional’s symphonies and Quintets in New Orleans. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High school with a 3.98 GPA. He also was accepted in Tangle wood’s Berkshire Music Center. There he won Harvey Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. He then moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979; however, after a short period of time Wynton dropped out.

The young pianist and leader of his own jazz band moved to Los Angeles in 1948, and started experimenting with arranging tunes, showing his beginnings in composing music. At age 15, Williams determined he was going to become a concert pianist and at age 19, he premiered his first original composition. John’s high school education took place in North Hollywood High School, where he graduated in 1950, and later he attended both UCLA and the Los Angeles City College to study orchestration under MGM musical associate Robert Van Eps. To keep his musical spirit alive, Williams began getting privately tutored by composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, until conducting for the first time during three years with the U.S. Air Force. After John Williams’s service, he attended Julliard in New York, where renowned piano pedagogue Madame Rosina Lhevinne helped Williams hone his performance skills.

Noah has many concert experiences. In fact, this is not his first time playing a concerto. Last year, Noah played “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” by Camille Saint-Saëns on marimba with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. He also received a gold medal for scoring the highest in the Royal Conservatory of Music Examination in BC. He has played in various concerts including those hosted by his family in Tapestry, a retirement home.

Bach worked as a composer for royalty in Germany during the Weimar and Baroque period and contributed over 200 original cantatas. Bach was most well known for playing the organ, and his most important work contributed to music was The Well-tempered Keyboard that involved 48 preludes and fugues, a pair for each major and minor key. The significance of his work was the full range of keys used and the distinct difference from each key. Towards the end of Bach’s life he performed for the court of King Fredrick II and was beloved in Prussia. At the end of his life Bach had composed over 1,000 works and was a major influence on Haydn and Mozart.

Schaphorst’s genius compositions come from the heart and the thankfulness toward the talents who have been sharing music with him is translated into honest tributes and magical reciprocation. Unabated, How To Say Goodbye was beautifully conceived, standing as one of the big band favorite albums of

Strayhorn, the genius composer and arranger, to Ellington the charismatic performer and band leader the world knew and loved. Duke Ellington said, "....Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine." The importance of their relationship is symbolized

Explore PBS Programming This past weekend, I watched Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Philharmonic. The program was available on the PBS website, as a part of their Great Performances section. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Natalie Portman hosted the event, which premiered on July 24, 2016. Before watching this program, I had no idea who John Williams was, but I quickly realized that although I didn’t know who he was, I knew many of his works. As a film scorer he has written modern classical music for many popular films, including Star Wars, Catch Me if You Can, and Fiddler on the Roof.

Then he met Barbara Edwards his first wife who also graduated with a degree in music from Unc. They moved to New York traveling around for work. Andy struck gold and set up his whole career with a comedic monologue in 1953 called “What it Was, Was Football.” Then offers came in from everywhere, he guest starred on the Ed Sullivan Show then started doing plays, and musicals on Broadway. No Time For Sergeants was a big hit in 1955 that got him a Tony nomination. In 1960 he earned yet another Tony nomination in Destry Rides Again.

Moses Hogan is an American composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his African-American spirituals. Hogan was a pianist, conductor and arranger of international renown. His choral works are performed by high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs today. His most famous work is The Oxford Book of Spirituals.

“Man 's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man 's back.” From Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1740, these are several out of thousands of wise words spoken by America’s greatest Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin. He was among the most famous people of his time period and was one of the greatest celebrated figures in the history of the United States. There are numerous ways in which he achieved these titles but they all amount to the one feature that was constant throughout his entire life, success. Through inventing, writing, conducting science experiments such as detecting the presence of electricity in lightning, and being one of the biggest renowned diplomats during the 18th century, his life would leave a

He played the trumpet in many dance bands. Barry played with local jazz bands in his teens and got his assigned to the musical unit in the British Army when he joined service at the age of 18. While a member of the British Army, Barry preformed with the army band until 1955. While in the army band, they preformed in Egypt and Cypress. During his years of Army service, he tried arranging music and later his skills got better by taking a correspondence course

Where we went to study with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart another popular classical and romantic period composer. Ludwig Beethoven is famous for his music which is played in orchestra, symphony, or Piano. He was the composer who made Für Elise, Ode to Joy, and Moonlight Sonata. Ludwig Van Beethoven impacted the world with his music. Beethoven 's music is being played by kids and adults on Piano, Violin, and a lot of other instruments.

Not many get the opportunity to survive four years of training at one of the most prestigious and demanding performance schools in the country, one that has been around for over a century. According to the article “A Brief History,” “Juilliard was founded in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art by Dr. Frank Damrosch; in 1926 the Juilliard Graduate School and the Institute of Musical Art merged to become the Juilliard School of Music” (par. 1-2). Dr. Frank Damrosch, who was the godson of pianist and composer Franz Liszt, created the Institute to allow American musicians to study music without having to go abroad. Augustus Juilliard, a wealthy textile merchant, left behind a settlement for the development of music and the two schools soon merged

His father was a professional trumpet player, so he grew up with music his whole life. The bebop stars that influenced Corea to play jazz are Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Lester Young. He was accepted into the liberal arts program at Columbia University in the late 1950s and later went to The Juilliard School to give full time to music studies. In the 1970’s Corea decided to lead his own groups called Circle and Return to Forever. He also

He began writing songs for popular artists and became well-known himself for his writing skills. Along with being a singer/songwriter, Cohen continued to write poetry and fiction novels during this time. He then worked on co-writing the soundtrack to the musical film, Night Magic. This film encompasses one of his most popular hits of all times, Hallelujah. Many people have covered this ever so popular song and some have even received wide acclaim for it.