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Review on Brahms's Third Symphony Symphony No.3, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Op.90, F Major Allegro con brio Andante Poco allegretto allegro Brahms was at the zenith of his powers when he wrote the third Symphony. He finished it during the summer of 1883, in Wiesbaden, whence in early May, soon after his fiftieth birthday. We can picture Brahms that summer, in the very prime of his life, his great intellectual and emotional powers fully developed

With a sense of mystery, highly acclaimed New York Philharmonic conductor Lorin Maazel opened Bruckner’s 8th symphony with a tremolo on the strings and then repeats this tremolando in forte while the brass gloriously brought in the first major theme. Amidst the bright colors and amazing acoustics at Disney Hall, the audience sat in eager anticipation; many of the present members were experienced with Bruckner’s pieces and Wagnerian style. Sitting next to me, David Barry of the LA Philharmonic Board

The Furman Symphony Orchestra, along with Thomas Joiner the conductor and David Gross, pianist showcased Bartok and Beethoven on October 29th, 2002. This was my first time going to an actual performance with a full symphonic orchestra that included the four music families. The four music families were the strings, Brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments.      The setting was in an auditorium and the conductor and all the performers were dressed in a formal manner, which

Fighting to the End There is not a single fascinating work of fiction to be found which has no hero to admire. The notion of a hero implies a charismatic, and often selfless person, whose indispensable qualities are determination and fortitude. Having a clear goal, they do everything possible to achieve it. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, possesses all the features inherent in a true hero. The narration takes place in a post-apocalyptic North America.

The Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor (Moonlight Sonata); Op.27, No.2, was composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven in 1801. The name Moonlight Sonata was not coined by Beethoven himself, but instead by the German music critic, Ludwig Rellstab in 1836. Rellstab wrote that the sonata had reminded him of the reflected moonlight off of Lake Lucerne, hence the Moonlight Sonata became the unofficial, moreover a permanent title of the piece (The History of the 'Moonlight' Sonata, 2012). Regarding the reasoning

When an undercover cop and an ex-thug strive to penetrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb, an unstoppable wave of electricity races through the crowd’s mentality. District 13b, directed by Pierre Morel is a surpassing action packed film jammed with intriguing fights, stunts and a climactic story that leads to a nourishing ending. District 13b not only excels in the action set pieces, especially during the fight or flight scenes, but the entire production is a thrilling and unique film. This

Binary opposition is not only a vital concept in linguistics, but it also plays a significant role in the fields of anthropology, sociology, literature and art as it is believed that things only mean something in relation to one another, like the ever-existing concept of good and evil. They serve as labels to identifying certain ideas but what makes them opposites is that fact that they cannot coexist and this creates boundaries between groups, leading to discrimination, inequality and injustice

“Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain” (Mikhail Bakunin). The Ninth Symphony, a musical composition for orchestra, was composed by German classical composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig, more widely known as Beethoven, was influenced by a similar German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach were both musically inclined at one point in time, even though living different family lives and suffering through diverse

Station Eleven is a science fiction novel written by Emily St. John Mandel. The book is about a society that crumbles to pieces after being struck with the Georgian Flu. The book has a non linear timeline as it jumps from the past, present, and future. The reader follows many individual characters in their walks of life. In Station Eleven the characters undergo traumatic events, some of the characters find themselves clinging on to the past and some characters try to forget the past. In the book

In “The Dangers of Biosecurity: The Host and the Geopolitics of Outbreak,” Hsuan T. Hsu claims Bong Joon-ho’s The Host utilizes Gang-du and the monster, the protagonist and antagonist respectively, in the film to allude to real-life issues specifically concerned with American intervention, monetary crisis, medical emergency, and social subsistence, and juxtapose them with the events within Bong’s film. To start off, Hsu asserts that the U.S. can maliciously influence other countries. He informs that