Music Concert Report On Sunday November 10, 2002 at 4:00 PM I went to Queensborough Community College/CUNY located at 56th Avenue and Springfield Blvd., Bayside, NY and I saw Masterworks Series – Coffee Cantata presented by the Queens Symphony Orchestra featuring Maria Ferrante, So...

Baroque music was something to imitate the idea of Baroque art. Painters like Bernini, Rubens and Rembrandt sought to create totally structured worlds. The Baroque style was influenced by many different groups of people. The aristocracy, the church as well as the middle class. Baroque art is a mixtu...

Johann Christian Bach was the 18th born and the youngest surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Being the youngest, one would think that his writing was influenced by the music of his father and elder brothers, but it was, in fact, quite contrary to this. Bach branched off from the musical style ...

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields presented and preformed exquisitely three separate works: two concerti by Bach and Haydn and a string arrangement based on a Schubert quartet (arranged by Mahler). All three performances included the virtuosic Joshua...

Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel were two of the mostimportant composers of the Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives andsacred musical works studied in class.Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two of the mostimportant composers of the Baroque period. ...

The Quintessential Composers Try this. Play for someone a random selection of classical music and ask him or her to identify a given piece. Now do the same with Joy to the World by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frederic Handel, and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Ama...

I got early just as the teacher had told us to do I thought it was going to be a concert with pianos and great orchestras, but to my surprise when I saw the plan and took a look at it the first thing that I saw was the name of theChamber Ensembles? being a little bit early to the concert that gave...

The Doctoral Recital was the second concert I ever attended within the US. The instruments played were the clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion instruments. The performance started with Carl Nielsen\'s \"Clarinet Concerto,\" Op. 57(1928). It lasted for about twenty-seven minutes. The who...

This piece is taken from Book 2 of J.S. Bach's Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues (also known as The Well-Tempered Clavier). A prelude could take almost any form, the only conditions being that it should be in the same key as the fugue and form a suitable preparation of the listener's ear and...

Assignment: The baroque has been called a theatrical style, one that deals in spectacle, grandeur, and dramatic contrast. Test these concepts in an essay that discusses the baroque as an expression of the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Absol...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714 in Weimar. He was a German composer, one of the most influential and celebrated composers of his era. He was the third son of Johann Sebastian Bach and he trained under his father. He studied philosophy and law at the universities in Leipzig and ...