To make a classcial music

　　
        Classical music is governed by some known conventions that have its roots in a variety of forms, genres, styles and historical periods. These features together go in defining the term 'classical music.' Music rated as classical has always made its thumping presence felt. With the evolution of the popular music forms, the dominance of the classical form has not diminished. In-fact, it further magnified with new forms and codes.
　　The form of music which is preserved as classical is primarily a written musical tradition. These written works are then given expression in the form of recordings, oral transformations and musical notes. Music plays an effective role in transmitting classical notations. The written instructions, however, do not have explicit instructions. But, music does help to build the mood of a classical masterpiece. It helps in better understanding of the masterpieces.
　　A great influence of the classical form of music lies in its cultural durability. It is interesting to note its evolution from past to the present form. The form has taken materials from popular music and folk music. Yet it retained its originality and showed up as updated versions of the classical masterpieces.
　　The commercialism of classical music has popularised it among the people. Now, DVDs of the latest versions of classical music are available in retail stores. The prices of the DVDs are kept low and so all income group people can buy the DVDs from the Classical Music Stores. People now need not go to a theatre to watch a performance. In-fact, theatre comes to home in the form of the DVDs.The classical music CDs have made it very simple for people to get acquainted to classical forms of music. Most of the current masterpieces are compiled in CDs and sold in the market. This has made it possible for people to have a library of the classical form of music at their homes.

Isles Ensemble Chamber Music Concert

Founded in 2004, the Isles Ensemble is a group of eight string players from the Twin Cities who present a series of Sunday evening concerts at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Chamber music is their passion, and their mission is to help build a vibrant chamber music community in the Twin Cities.

Listeners of all kinds are welcome, from chamber music connoisseurs to neophytes. Concerts are fun, inspiring and personal experiences for each audience member. Repertoire is chosen from a wide range of styles, from classical to avant-garde, and includes gems from the standard repertoire as well as little-known works that merit further consideration. The players introduce each piece with a short talk about the music, to provide some listening guidance as well as a performer's perspective. After each concert, audience members are invited to join the performers at an informal reception for a chance to mingle and discuss the music in more depth.
All concerts take place Sunday afternoons at 2:00 pm at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church 2020 W. Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis, 55405. This small church, built in 1925, has excellent acoustics and provides a beautiful and intimate atmosphere for enjoying music.
The Isles Ensemble members are Helen Chang, Shane Kim, Rudolph Kremer, and Leslie Shank, violins; David Auerbach and Johanna Torbenson, violas; and Thomas Rosenberg and Laura Sewell, celli.
Isles Ensemble members Leslie Shank, Laura Sewell, Tom Rosenberg, Johanna Torbenson and Rudy Kremer with guests Troy Gardner and Emily Hagen will perform works by W. A. Mozart, Zoltan Kodaly, and Rebecca Clarke. An informal reception will follow the program

How Classical Music Sounds On the Street

In orchestras around the country, the contingent of players aged 40 and younger is usually quite small. Not in San Diego, where young players like violinist Kate Hatmaker comprise a sizable chunk of the ensemble.

"There's no one who has an orchestra as young as ours," Hatmaker tells us. "At least a third of them are under 40, which is unheard of. In other orchestras, you might have five."
Hatmaker and several friends are parlaying that vigor into their alternative ensemble, Art of Élan, which mixes modern pieces with unusual configurations of musicians. With her co-director, former symphony principal flutist Demarre McGill, Hatmaker has been creating concerts for several years; this is the group's fifth season. The ensemble's work was featured in our Meeting of the Minds event, where a software developer with a self-proclaimed preference for football touted Art of Élan's strategies to make classical music hip.
Our photographer Sam Hodgson walked with Hatmaker through downtown while she played a Bach piece (happens to be one of my favorites, the Allemande from Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor). Watch the raw videos of her surprise performance for trolley riders that Sam captured while he shot her portrait.

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Extreme Art-Making, Home Edition
• Next Tuesday, crews plan to hoist a 70,000-pound house and perch it atop the seventh story of one of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering buildings as part of the UCSD's Stuart Collection of large-scale art pieces. The $1 million project is an art piece called "Fallen Star" by renowned Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
Catch up on this staggering project with our coverage:
The house is tilted at a dramatic angle to add degrees of disorientation and dislocation. The house's tilt is befuddling and sparking nausea in construction workers accustomed to operating with straight lines, Randy Dotinga learned. Crews last week attached siding and scouted the house's hoist strategy while Sam Hodgson photographed. In our TV interview, I asked construction supervisor Don Franken what kind of pep talk he gave his workers as they came onsite:

I just basically told everybody to throw their levels away. Don't bring 'em out here, unless you want to use them for a straightedge, because there's nothing level about this cottage. And there's nothing you can use a level to even extrapolate the dimensions you want. You have to use just math and squares. That does get kind of nutty.
• Artist Rich Walker painted a man that stands in his front yard a few years ago, and he regularly paints over the message the man holds with a new one, like "Live Now" and "Create." (See the Man in the Yard Facebook page.) Walker is moving, but not before the Man in the Yard rides in the OB Holiday Parade in a few weeks. (CityBeat)
• What is the history of Southern California art? Several UCSD professors and alumni are featured in Orange County and L.A. shows that are part of the Getty-instigated "Pacific Standard Time" effort — adding more local flavor beyond the two San Diego shows we've written about. (UCSD News)
• The board of directors for the bankrupt Lyric Opera San Diego is appointing a new executive director to run the theater venue, who says he'll "change the face of what the Birch North Park Theatre was" to make it more attractive to groups who would pay to rent the space and thereby help the venue operate in the black.
New Perspectives
• A group of 10 musicians last week tried a new kind of playing together. Four of the musicians were at UCSD, five were at New York University, and they were linked by audio and video transmissions so they could play "together." (SD Reader)
• In her second piece of our series exploring the wrinkles of setting ticket prices in the age of discount sites like Groupon, Roxana Popescu finds out about the supply and demand of price-figuring. One misconception in the economics of art is that the price patrons pay to see a work actually equals what it costs to make. What do you want to know?
• After running the company for 30 years, Kathy Brombacher will retire next year from Moonlight Stage Productions, the musical theater company operated by the city of Vista in North County. (Union-Tribune)
• Local art cheerleader April Game is up to something: She's trying to rally community conversations in Chula Vista, Escondido and Solana Beach about launching a "county art council." (CityBeat)
• San Diego Junior Theatre's new director is "a retired professional ballet dancer with an M.B.A." (Balboa Park blog)
Local Flavors
• Our friends at Sezio have a knack for creating memorable concerts and events. This week's Four Day Weekend features four nights of hot indie bands at North Park's Sunset Temple and spills over into after-parties at The Linkery and El Take It Easy. (Sezio)
• Who's taking the stage? The U-T's Jim Hebert rounds up some upcoming casts for local productions.
• Writer Cathy Robbins, who once wrote occasionally about arts for VOSD, has written a book about modern life for Native Americans, and will be in town in the next couple of weeks for readings. See details on her website.
• National Geographic whale photographer Flip Nicklin got his feet wet in the world of whales when he rode one off the La Jolla coast in 1963. (U-T)
We recently visited the exhibition of Nicklin's photographs at the San Diego Natural History Museum for Behind the Scene TV.
• Local sculptor Jeffery Laudenslager recently made a new piece for a college campus in Colorado. The military veteran told the Craig Daily Press his art can be aptly described as a hobby, but he's always been able to sell it to someone.
I interviewed Laudenslager for this story about the public art planned for the city's new central library; he said it can be really difficult for an artist to keep up the energy between an initial request from a government agency and the time you're eventually given the green light to make it.

Samar classical music fest opens to thunderous applause

　　
We got a fairly good idea of the audience for classical music in Calbayog City in Western Samar with the opening of the First Samar International Music Festival on Oct. 29 with violinist Gina Medina and pianist Mary Anne Espina.
A movement from a Mozart sonata set the tone for the evening, and here you saw the best of Espina and Medina as chamber musicians. With the excellent acoustics of Café Elsa of Ciriaco Hotel, the performance was one of the finest of Medina and Espina and the audience absorbed the intensity of the moment with relish.
From the romantic pieces of Dvorak to the Kreisler selections, notably the Praeludium and Allegro (in the style of Pugnani), the audience roared with approval.
You could hear a pin drop in the rendition of Constancio de Guzman’s “Bayan Ko” and its patriotic impact was not lost on the audience, some of whom were in tears.
But they quickly recovered in the first encore, “Sa Kabukiran,” and gave the artists a resounding standing ovation led by Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento and Mr. and Ms Nicanor Chan, parents of musician Violeta Chan, who used to work with “Tita King” Kasilang at the CCP in the late ’70s.
Also in the audience was Raymund Ronald Ricafort from the Calbayog Mayor’s Office; friends and relatives of filmmaker Chito Roño, who is from Calbayog City; the city’s cultural officer, Jonas Lim.

　　Another encore followed—Antonio Molina’s “Hatinggabi”—and you could see that the audience’s thirst for music was generously addressed.
In the audience were the 70 members of Christ the King Youth Symphony Orchestra, led by Fr. Marlowe Rosales, OFM.
I encouraged an open forum after the concert. Gina Medina—who is the concertmaster of the Manila Symphony Orchestra—said she could do a workshop for violinists of the orchestra. Rep. Sarmiento, bought tickets for young rondalla players, said there was an urgent need to expose the city’s young musicians to good music performances.
I fully agree with Rep. Sarmiento that factionalism has no place in the realm of music when the future of young musicians is at stake. He said Calbayog—where he was former city executive—was graced with the visits of ensembles such as the Madrigal Singers in the past.
Sarmiento’s love for music is understandable. His mother studied at the UP Conservatory of Music and he grew up with the sound of music in the Sarmiento household.
A day before the concert, we were not sure if it would push through. The only piano we could think of was the upright from the office of Fr. Marlowe of Christ the King College and the good father said its staccato was not working.
The only piano-tuner around, Vic Pantua, lives 63 km away, in Catarman town. We found him through the help of Carl Bordeos from the office of CKC president, Fr. Mar Tubac, OFM, who was one of the patrons of the festival.
Some five piano-movers supervised by Hazel Hugo moved the upright from the school to Ciriaco Hotel, and they were rewarded with a command performance of “Bayan Ko” from Medina.
As it turned out, we rediscovered there was an audience for classical music but concerts had to be subsidized because ticket sales couldn’t cover expenses. Ciriaco Hotel helped in the accommodation of the artists and staff and Sarmiento took care of the air tickets.
The next Samar festival concert in the same venue is on Dec. 5, featuring baritone Andrew Fernando, flutist Christopher Oracion, and pianist Mary Anne Espina.. The festival will move to Catarman, Catbalogan and Borongan, Samar. Call 09065104270 for tickets.
Balay Kalinaw recital
Balay Kalinaw in UP Diliman will be the venue of the recital of 11-year-old pianist Mishael Romano. His program include Haydn’s Sonata in C Major, Hob. 3; Chopin’s Waltz in B Flat Minor; Debussyâ’s Golliwog’s Cake Walk; Beethoven’s Sonatina in F Major; Clementi’s Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 3; and Haydn’s Concerto in D Major, with Miracle Roman on the second piano. Call 7484152 or 0906-5104270.
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Classical composers often aspire to imbue their music

　　Characteristics
Given the extremely broad variety of forms, styles, genres, and historical periods generally perceived as being described by the term "classical music," it is difficult to list characteristics that can be attributed to all works of that type. Vague descriptions are plentiful, such as describing classical music as anything that "lasts a long time," a statement made rather moot when one considers contemporary composers who are described as classical; or music that has certain instruments like violins, which are also found in other genres. However, there are characteristics that classical music contains that few or no other genres of music contain.
Literature
The most outstanding and particular characteristic of classical music is that the repertoire tends to be written down. Composers and performers alike are typically highly literate in understanding notation and the written quality of the music has, in addition to preserving the works, led to a high level of complexity within them.
Instrumentation

　　
The Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.
The instruments used in most classical music were largely invented before the mid-19th century (often much earlier), and codified in the 18th and 19th centuries. They consist of the instruments found in an orchestra, together with a few other solo instruments (such as the piano, harpsichord, and organ). The symphony orchestra is the most widely known medium for classical music.The orchestra includes members of the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion families.
Electric instruments such as the electric guitar appear occasionally in the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Both classical and popular musicians have experimented in recent decades with electronic instruments such as the synthesizer, electric and digital techniques such as the use of sampled or computer-generated sounds, and the sounds of instruments from other cultures such as the gamelan.
None of the bass instruments existed until the Renaissance. In Medieval music, instruments are divided in two categories: loud instruments for use outdoors or in church, and quieter instruments for indoor use. The Baroque orchestra consisted of flutes, oboes, horns and violins, occasionally with trumpets and timpani. Many instruments which are associated today with popular music used to have important roles in early classical music, such as bagpipes, vihuelas, hurdy-gurdies and some woodwind instruments. On the other hand, instruments such as the acoustic guitar, which used to be associated mainly with popular music, have gained prominence in classical music through the 19th and 20th centuries.
While equal temperament became gradually accepted as the dominant musical temperament during the 19th century, different historical temperaments are often used for music from earlier periods. For instance, music of the English Renaissance is often performed in mean tone temperament. Keyboards almost all share a common layout (often called the piano keyboard).
Form
Whereas the majority of popular styles lend themselves to the song form, classical music can also take on the form of the concerto, symphony, sonata, opera, dance music, suite, étude, symphonic poem, and others.
Classical composers often aspire to imbue their music with a very complex relationship between its affective (emotional) content and the intellectual means by which it is achieved. Many of the most esteemed works of classical music make use of musical development, the process by which a musical idea or motif is repeated in different contexts or in altered form. The sonata form and fugue employ rigorous forms of musical development.
Technical execution
Along with a desire for composers to attain high technical achievement in writing their music, performers of classical music are faced with similar goals of technical mastery, as demonstrated by the proportionately high amount of schooling and private study most successful classical musicians have had when compared to "popular" genre musicians, and the large number of secondary schools, including conservatories, dedicated to the study of classical music. The only other genre in the Western world with comparable secondary education opportunities is jazz.