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Whether you admit it or not, music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. So if you're interested in music theory, music appreciation, Beethoven, Mozart, or other composers, artists and performers, we hope you'll spend some time with here and learn from these music articles of note for all ages and tastes.
When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit. In fact, I only took my history of classical music class because I needed the credits. I did not realize how completely fascinating music history is. You see, in our culture many of us do not really learn to understand music. For much of the world, music is a language, but for us it is something that we consumed passively. When I began to learn about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience playing musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really understand what music is all about. This class showed me.
When most of us think about the history of music, we think of the history of rock music. We assume that the history is simple because the music is simple. In fact, neither is the case. The history of music, whether you're talking about classical music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complicated. New chord structures are introduced bringing with them new ways of understanding the world. New rhythmic patterns are introduced, bringing with them new ways of understanding time. And music reflects all of it.
Even when the class was over, I could not stop learning about the history of music. It had whetted my appetite, and I wanted more. I got all the music history books that I could find. I even began to research forms of music that had not interested me before in the hopes of enhancing my musical knowledge further. Although I was in school studying toward something very different – a degree in engineering – I had thought about giving it up and going back to get a degree in musicology. That is how much I am fascinated by the subject.
If you have never taken a course in the history of music, you don't know what you are missing out on. The radio will never sound the same to you again. Everything will seem much more rich, much more luminous, and much more important. A new song can reflect a new way of being, and a new way of imagining life in the world. This is what learning about the history of music means to many of us.
Whether you admit it or not, music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. So if you're interested in music theory, music appreciation, Beethoven, Mozart, or other composers, artists and performers, we hope you'll spend some time with here and learn from these music articles of note for all ages and tastes.
When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit. In fact, I only took my history of classical music class because I needed the credits. I did not realize how completely fascinating music history is. You see, in our culture many of us do not really learn to understand music. For much of the world, music is a language, but for us it is something that we consumed passively. When I began to learn about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience playing musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really understand what music is all about. This class showed me.
When most of us think about the history of music, we think of the history of rock music. We assume that the history is simple because the music is simple. In fact, neither is the case. The history of music, whether you're talking about classical music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complicated. New chord structures are introduced bringing with them new ways of understanding the world. New rhythmic patterns are introduced, bringing with them new ways of understanding time. And music reflects all of it.
Even when the class was over, I could not stop learning about the history of music. It had whetted my appetite, and I wanted more. I got all the music history books that I could find. I even began to research forms of music that had not interested me before in the hopes of enhancing my musical knowledge further. Although I was in school studying toward something very different – a degree in engineering – I had thought about giving it up and going back to get a degree in musicology. That is how much I am fascinated by the subject.
If you have never taken a course in the history of music, you don't know what you are missing out on. The radio will never sound the same to you again. Everything will seem much more rich, much more luminous, and much more important. A new song can reflect a new way of being, and a new way of imagining life in the world. This is what learning about the history of music means to many of us.
Opera night for Jakarta music enthusiasts
Opera night for Jakarta music enthusiasts
Rilwan Hamzah , Contributor , Jakarta | Thu, 03/27/2008 1:02 AM | Headlines
There's good news for Jakartan fans of opera and musicals this week, with young Indonesian singers and a visiting Austrian flutist set to perform in a mixed-genre concert on Thursday night.
The first part of the concert, presented by the Resonanz Music Studio, will consist of opera compositions taken from famous operas by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi, with solos, duets and a quartet accompanied by pianist Avip Priatna.
The second part of the concert will showcase musical pieces taken from various composers, with most of the compositions newer and lighter in mood.
Four of the singers are leading members of the Batavia Madrigal Singers (BMS): soprano Fitri Muliati, alto Yosefin Emilia, tenor Farman Purnama and bass Rainer Revireino.
The quartet has won several international choral competitions and performed locally and abroad.
Another soprano, Silvya Wiryadi, born in 1982, will sing solo compositions by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi, as well as duets with the others.
Silvya studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Zhao Deng Yin as a 17-year-old and later at Tubingen Music Academy and the University of Music in Karlsruhe, where she graduated in 2005. She is currently studying opera at the University of Music in Saarland.
Austrian flutist Gerhard Maier studied flute at the Upper Province Music School and the University of Anton Bruckner Linz in Austria.
Later he graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He further studied the piccolo in Frankfurt, Germany, with Thaddeus Watson and performed as a soloist with the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester.
He joined orchestras such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
On Thursday, Maier will perform "Carmen Fantasy", originally composed for violin and orchestra by George Bizet and later adapted for a variety of chamber arrangements. Maier will be accompanied by Adelaide Simbolon Simanjuntak on the piano.
The grand finale will feature all five singers in a quintet accompanied by Avip on the piano, singing "Make our Garden Grow" from the musical Candide by American conductor, composer and pianist Leonard Berstein.
Opera and Musical Night
Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Center, Jl. HOS Cokroaminoto 119, Central Jakarta. For further information contact Hermien at 021-70121312 or Rani at 021-7201918
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