Friday, January 11, 2013

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013

QUOTE:
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
AUTHOR: Robert Rauschenberg
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artists creates art as a response to what he/she experiences during 
  the course of a lifetime.”















COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY




Eugene Onegin Waltz

"Eugene Onegin" by illustrator Elena Samokish-Sudkovskaya

Eugene Onegin 
Lyric Scenes in 3 Acts After Alexander Pushkin
Conductor: Solti

The Duel between Onegin and Lensky (1901) by Ilya Repin

A movie was made of the original story 
(written by the author Russian author Alexander Pushkin):
The story Eugene Onegin tells of  Larina, a widow, who lives in the country with her two daughters Olga and Tatiana. Olga is more cheerful and outgoing than her younger sister, who spends her time reading romantic novels.  Olga is engaged to a young landowner named Lensky. One day Lensky brings a friend from the city to visit Larina and her daughters. His name is Eugene Onegin, a man who is cynical, unemotional and bored by life. Tatiana doesn't realize this and falls passionately in love with him almost the moment she sees him. She writes a letter to tell him but Eugene does not reciprocate and tells her not to be so ridiculous. Tatiana is heartbroken. (http://busraakgonul.blogspot.com/2010/03/story-of-eugene-onegin.html)

Study for "Eugene Onegin"  by Sergey Sudeikin
http://allpainters.ru/sudejkin-sergej/20779-study-for-eugene-onegin-sergej-sudejkin.html

GENERAL MUSIC
01. MUSICAL: MY FAIR LADY
.......a.  INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSICAL
............1)  LERNER and LOEWE (SONG WRITING TEAM)
............2)  BASED ON A FAMOUS PLAY "PYGMALION" BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
............3)  SHAW BASED THIS PLAY ON AN OLD GREEK MYTH (SEE:  
                  http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2010/01/story-of-pygmalion-and-galatea-from.html)
............4)  DISCUSSED THE GREEK MYTH and ASSOCIATED IT WITH THE STORY OF THE                                MUSICAL
............5)  WENT OVER THE TIME FRAME and SETTING OF THE STORY
02.  STARTED THE BEGINNING OF THE MUSICAL

ADV. STRINGS
01.  MY HEART WILL GO ON
02.  STARTED: A RIVER FLOWS IN YOU

BEG. STRINGS 
01.  WARM-UP 
........a.  OPEN STRING MAJOR SCALES 1 OCTAVE UH and LH OF BOW
..............1)  DISCUSSED FINGER PATTERNS and THEIR CONNECTION WITH SCALES
....................a)  4 BASIC FINGER PATTERNS BASED ON SOLFEGE OF A MAJOR SCALE: FINGERS                              TOUCH 
                         WHERE EVER THE SOLFEGE IS ON MI-FA or TI-DO
                          (http://missjacobsonsmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/violin-finger-patterns.html)
02.  SONG:  TWINKLE (BY ROTE)
........a.   PLAYED ON STRINGS D and A (BOW UH) and G and D (BOW LH)
03.  SONG: SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW (MELODY)
........a.  SIGHT READ ALL THE THE WAY THROUGH WITH TEACHER TRACKING HELP
.............1) DISCUSSED WAYS OF LEARNING A PIECE OF MUSIC
..................a)  PRACTICING FOR AUTOMATIC REFLEX MUSCLE MOVEMENTS
..................b)  PRACTICING FOR CONTINUITY
........a.   DISCUSSED COUNTING EIGHTH NOTES
..............1) SHOWED EIGHTH NOTE FLAGS and WHEN CONNECTING THE FLAGS THEY BECOME                     BEAMS
..............2) FELT THE EIGHTH NOTE RHYTHMS BY USING BODY PERCUSSION