February 3, 2009

The New Year with New Life: A New Blogger for Supporting Classical Music

To many people Classical Music is not an unfamiliar name, but if there is a question come up to us that how often does anyone go to listen to a concert of classical music? Everyone’s answer should be different, but those answers can be majorly divided into two types, one of them is go to the concert often, the other one obviously is not. In general, many people treat classical music as a type of serious music, because people usually dress up for the concert and during the performance people should keep silent until the music completely finished. In my opinion, these phenomena for a classical music concert are very normal. Does anyone not like to dress nicely in a public concert hall? Or how could we enjoy in those various beauties through music without focusing on? In fact, classical music is not only can present a serious character, but many others. I would like to borrow a sentence from Gustavo Dudamel (see left), the new Music Director of Los Angeles Philharmonic, he says: “classical music has many faces.”(click and see the video) I remember that my decision of choosing classical music as major study was strongly encouraged when I was six-year old after listening to the “peter and the wolf” by S. Prokofiev and watching the “Fantasia” by Walt Disney, because those classical music, which I familiar with, were pictured and characteristic by story reciter and animations. I am a music performance major student from Thornton School of Music at University of Southern California, and I am a new blogger user. Through establishing this blogger I am planning to create a positive atmosphere for supporting classical music. By using Internet I will often search and analyze latest news about classical music from such websites, NPR classical, Musical Criticism, Classical Net, BBC/Music/Classical and About.com: Classical Music, Arts Journal music, Music and Vision, Toppest/Classical Music. I will keep tracking freshest news from current music concert Hall in order to introduce new musicians or new idea of classical music performances, such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall. I will also find and analyze those current events from those academic music schools, such as Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Thornton School of Music, in order to know what new orientation of classical music is in those place. Lastly, I will frequently search those new messages of the Influences of the western classical music in Asian Countries. For Example, from the New York Time/Music, we have messages about China, “Carnegie Hall Announces New Season;” from The DC Classical Music Meetup Group, there is a message of “Image China: Chinese New Year Concert 2009 – FREE!” There are also some particular websites which provide some upcoming news, for example, from GyeongGi-Do, there is the information about the “The 6th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians” in South Korea; from GCIVC, there is the information about the International Violoncello Competition in Japan. In a word, to encourage our classical musicians to keep researching new orientation of classical music and to welcome our new fan of classical music is my goal of building this blogger. Welcome everyone!

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