Essays on Tchaikovsky

Modern music and classical music: two different directions, two different fates, different range of listeners, different influences. These two genres of music are completely unlike each other. Nowadays people have their right to choose what they believe is best for them. Mostly, they are not influenced by the crowd when it comes to their personal preferences. Each person has his own tastes and it is normal. Someone is ready to listen to Mozart, Schubert and Bach for weeks, and someone finds himself in all day long listening to "Queen", "Nirvana" or Depeche Mode. But why do people refer to ...

Today in the world of choreography there are not that many names, at the mention of that, people would say "yes, I know him, I saw his production of "Swan Lake", it was unbelievable". But such choreographers exist and it is a fact. This choreographer nowadays is Matthew Bourne. The name of these individual more than once adorned the headlines, the front pages and covers of glossy magazines. Tickets for his performances are sold of shelves in the blink of an eye, and the number of awards, nominations and prizes are hard to count on both fingers on your ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is common knowledge that every well-educated person should know, understand and appreciate music. However, no matter how well aware of various composers and genres people might be, many of us find it difficult to feel it. There are numerous examples of musicians who can technically perform a piece, but when you listen to them playing, you realize that you might as well listen to a robot. Only the emotion behind the melody gives music a truly human feel and makes it a universal human language that will be understood all over the world. Thus, it is extremely important ...

Pyotr IIvich Tchaikovsky did the masterpiece named, ‘the year 1812 overture’. He did it in flat major in order to commemorate the success of the Russian army in defending Moscow against Napoleon troops. The battle was fought at Borodino (Zamoyski, Adam 2004). In Overture, Tchaikovsky narrates about the retreat of Napoleon and his troop from Russia. This is implicated from the referencing of La Marsillaise which is the French’s national anthem and the Russian song namely God save the Czar. Tchaikovsky overture begins by the plain Slavic Orthodox Troparion played by cellos and violas then advances to a ...