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Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) was a Russian composer who strongly defended and practiced the objectives of the group of The Five ( César Cui, Milij Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexandre Borodin ). His mother, Yulia Ivanovna, a professional pianist, introduced him to the study of the piano at the age of six; At the age of 13 he entered the Military Academy of Officers of the Imperial Guard , while the following year he published his first composition, a polka ; Around this time he met Balakirev from whom he received composition classes and information about what would become the group of The Five ; At the age of 19 he abandoned his military career to be able to dedicate himself entirely to composition. He died at the age of 42 after a series of epileptic seizures.

Scherzo means "joke" in Italian and is the name given to certain works of music or to some movements of a larger composition such as a sonata or symphony . The word scherzando is sometimes placed in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be played in a playful or humorous manner. The scherzo developed from the minuet and gradually replaced it in the third (or sometimes second) movement of the sonata, string quartet, symphony and similar works. It traditionally retains the 3/4 time signature and ternary form of the minuet, but is considerably faster and more upbeat in nature. Composers also began to compose scherzi as independent pieces, as in the present case.

Scherzo in B Flat Major . It seems that this Mussorgsky Scherzo was originally written as an independent piano piece, and later orchestrated, by Mili Balakirev. On this occasion, however, we present a version for accordion quintet offered by Piotr Zarzyka, Szymon Lipiński, Jan Bielak, Piotr Ostrowski and Jakub Stefaniak .

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian composer; He wrote 28 operas considered a bridge from bel canto to verismo. He was born in Le Roncole near Busetto; As a child he belonged to the Church choir where he received organ lessons and at the age of ten his parents enrolled him in the Busetto Music School , where he received the unconditional support of the patron Antonio Berezzi . Supported by Berezzi , at the age of 19 he moved to Milan where he continued his studies, after which he returned to Busetto as a music teacher and where he married Berezzi 's daughter. In his youth he sympathized with the popular movements that demanded the unity of an Italy divided by different European dynasties. To the point that they chanted “Viva Verdi” with the double meaning of Viva V ittorio E manuele R e D ' I talia.

The Va Pensiero chorus that we can see today belongs to the third act of the opera Nabucco , for many critics his masterpiece; It was precisely this chorus that was sung by the Italian patriots eager for the unity and sovereignty of Italy dominated by the Austrian Empire , identifying with the exile of the Hebrews in the opera Nabucco .

Riccardo Muti (1941), is an Italian conductor who for 19 years has been musical director of the La Scala opera house in Milan ; good connoisseur, therefore, of the lyrical and operatic repertoire. Together with Claudio Abbado, he is the benchmark for Italian conductors of his generation and has worked with the best orchestras in the world. In September 2010, Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and in the same year was named Musician of the Year by Musical America .

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of musical romanticism. His mother, Gesine , was his first piano teacher; Later, she met the legendary Norwegian violinist Ole Bull , a family friend and her mother's brother-in-law. Grieg adapted many themes and songs from his country's folklore, thus contributing to creating a Norwegian national identity, just as Jean Sibelius did in Finland or Antonín Dvořák in Bohemia . His most important works are: the Piano Concerto in A minor , the intimate Lyrical Pieces (for piano), the Holberg Suite (for string orchestra) and, especially, Peer Gynt, incidental music that he wrote at the request of the writer Henrik Ibsen for his eponymous drama

In Autumn ( In autumn), op. 11, is a concert overture written by Edvard Grieg in 1865. The opening Andante begins with chords played by the orchestra contrasting with a sunny woodwind theme. The tension slowly builds to an Allegro section in D minor in sonata form (exposition-development-reexposition) . The orchestra takes up the main theme taken from a song titled " Autumn Storm ". After the main theme, we hear a secondary theme. The development brings the return of previous themes through a series of restless modulations. After a slower section for horn and strings, the recapitulation brings the return of the main themes. The overture concludes with a triumphant reprise of the opening woodwind theme.

Anthony Barfield is an American trombonist and composer, whose works have been performed in the USA, Europe and Asia , with commissions from organizations such as the New York Philharmonic and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ; Furthermore, his works have deserved to be performed by orchestras such as the Toronto Symphony , the Seattle Symphony and the Kansas City Symphony . As a former trombonist, he has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Dizzy's Coca Cola Club, Alice Tully Hall, and the Kennedy Center . Anthony has degrees in trombone performance from the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music and is a professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee .

The Euphonium is a brass instrument that plays the role of baritone-tenor in Wind Orchestras or Music Bands ; It is also known as Euphonio (“sweet sound”), which highlights the character of its own sound to take charge of the singing parts that correspond to the indicated tessitura. The role that the cello plays in an orchestra is played by the euphonium in the Music Band .

Today we present the Concerto for Euphonium and Brass Band, Heritage , by Anthony Barfield structured in three Movements: I (0´35¨¨) BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS .-. II (9´46´´) THE NILE .-. III (17'12'') PHARAOH THUTMOSIS III. The concert is performed by soloist Li Jiaye accompanied by the Chenggong High School Alumni Music Band conducted by teacher Chen Gengyu .

Lana Del Rey (1985) is an American singer, songwriter, model and producer. His music stands out for its stylized quality, its retro style, its themes of tragic romance, glamor and melancholy and its references to the US pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s. His career began performing in clubs in New York at the age of 18, although success would take six more years; It happened to him when he was 26 years old and it came with Video Games . From then on she began to be appreciated and thus her Summertime Sadness was among the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 . Del Rey has received many awards, including 2 Brit Awards , 2 MTV Europe Music Awards , a Satellite Award and 9 GAFFA Awards. She has also been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards and 1 Golden Globe .

Carla Bruni (1967) is a former Italian model, singer-songwriter and French nationalized actress; She is the third wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy . His father, Alberto Bruni Tedeschi (1915-1996), was a businessman and opera composer, and his mother, Marisa Borini (1930), an actress and pianist. In 1975, his family settled in France for fear of kidnappings by the Italian Red Brigades . At a very young age Carla learned to play the piano and later the guitar. During her years as "First Lady", Carla engaged charitably in the humanitarian field, especially in the fight against AIDS . On December 1, 2008, she became the global ambassador of mothers and children against the epidemic at the global fund against AIDS and tuberculosis.

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) was an Armenian composer under the Soviet regime. At the age of 22 he began to write his first works for piano and chamber music; later orchestral music, theater and film music (more than 40 works between both genres), as well as ballet music in which the Spartacus ballet and the Gayane ballet are notable, to which the well-known saber dance belongs. He had important disagreements with the Party , being denounced for his “ anti-people music ”, although after Stalin 's death in 1953, he was widely recognized. His music is clear, agile and vibrant, and Armenian popular music, to which he always felt attracted, can be felt in his works; In Armenia he is considered its main composer.

Spartacus ("Спартак", Spartak, in Russian) is a ballet in three acts and ten scenes based on Raffaello Giovagnoli 's novel about the life of Spartacus , composed by Aram Jachaturian ; narrates the exploits of Spartacus , the leader of a slave revolt against the Roman Republic , known as the Third Servile War , taking liberties typical of the aforementioned novel, far from documented historical facts. It premiered on December 27, 19562 with modest success because the choreography abandoned the traditional and academic use of pointe in classical ballet. Spartacus , however, won the Lenin Prize for the Arts in 1959. Today, it remains one of Khachaturian 's best-known compositions and is a regular in the repertoire of Russian companies.

Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992) was born in Mar de Plata , Argentina; At three years old he moved with his family to New York where his father bought him a bandoneon. At the age of thirteen he contacted Carlos Gardel and the secrets of tango. Upon his return to Argentina , he received Ginastera classes for six years and was part of different groups, from where his innovations were considered the murder of tango. In Paris , however, he contacted Nadia Boulanger who made him believe in the possible conjunction of tango with classical music. He returned to Buenos Aires with such activity that in 1973 he suffered a heart attack; Despite what he continued with his activity until 1990, in Paris , he suffered a thrombosis that he would not be able to overcome.

The Bandoneón is a bellows wind musical instrument, widely used in Argentina and Uruguay , due to the connection of this instrument with the tango , but also with other genres such as the chamamé, the chacarera, the zamba, the chimarrita, or chamarrita and even with Creole waltzes and, of course, with milongas . It was initially designed in Germany as an evolution of earlier loose reed instruments. It is said that its use was initially as a portable organ to play religious music; When it arrived in the Río de la Plata with the help of sailors and immigrants, it was adopted by musicians of the time and that is how it collaborated in the formation of the particular sound of the River Plate tango , becoming a true symbol of it.