The moment was all too perfect. Avery Fisher Hall was filled with men in their tuxedos and women in their ornate evening dresses. As the lights dimmed over the audience, The New York Philharmonic began their 2010 New York City New Years Eve Concert. The conductor raised his baton in the air and swiftly waived it cutting all the anticipation that had accumulated seconds before. The New York Philharmonic had started playing their wonderful orchestrated rendition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1. As soon as the music began playing, all the whispers went silent, and I felt as though in that moment, in that moment of time all the problems I had, all the thoughts that were stirring in my head seconds before the conductor waved his baton had deviated away from me and I was in a state of euphoria.
I am a classical music appreciator. Although my love for this genre of music developed very late in my life, by my senior year of high school my room was always filled with the enticing sound of Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi. Classical music is my passage to the ethereal world. A world of peace and joy. My love for the genre not only propelled me head first into a this world but exposed me to new artists, culture and compositions.
I enjoyed learning everything about classical music from the history to the composition. I would attend exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn about the development of the genre from the early Medieval era to the Romantic era. I learned about how the music had changed from one period to another but how in modern classical music all the influence from each era is vividly heard and retained. I remember going to lectures sponsored by my music conservatories trying to understand how Vivaldi was able to compose music out of pure inspiration and feeling. I frequently attended summer concerts in Central Park prior to my senior just to listen to compositions of unheard composers.
In my junior year of high school I brought children in a Bronx community outreach program the small collection of Beethoven's work that I had hoping that I would inspire these children to look at classical music the way I do and bring forth the same passion I have for the music into them.
My love of classical music influenced me by teaching me that if you are passionate about something to such great extent you should go out of your way to encompass your life in it. Teach yourself everything there is to learn about your passion and spread your passion on to a new generation of people who will value and love of it they way you do.
I am a classical music appreciator. Although my love for this genre of music developed very late in my life, by my senior year of high school my room was always filled with the enticing sound of Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi. Classical music is my passage to the ethereal world. A world of peace and joy. My love for the genre not only propelled me head first into a this world but exposed me to new artists, culture and compositions.
I enjoyed learning everything about classical music from the history to the composition. I would attend exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn about the development of the genre from the early Medieval era to the Romantic era. I learned about how the music had changed from one period to another but how in modern classical music all the influence from each era is vividly heard and retained. I remember going to lectures sponsored by my music conservatories trying to understand how Vivaldi was able to compose music out of pure inspiration and feeling. I frequently attended summer concerts in Central Park prior to my senior just to listen to compositions of unheard composers.
In my junior year of high school I brought children in a Bronx community outreach program the small collection of Beethoven's work that I had hoping that I would inspire these children to look at classical music the way I do and bring forth the same passion I have for the music into them.
My love of classical music influenced me by teaching me that if you are passionate about something to such great extent you should go out of your way to encompass your life in it. Teach yourself everything there is to learn about your passion and spread your passion on to a new generation of people who will value and love of it they way you do.