The Soloist By Steve Lopez: An Analysis

This speech is Karl Paulnack’s welcoming address for incoming freshman students. He addresses that music isn’t apart of arts and entertainment rather music is an invisible force that helps us piece ourselves together. Paulnack believes that music is an essential part of life and goes to prove it by telling his experiences with it. He describes the first moment he truly understood music and the impact it has on people. Paulnack portrays the day after 9/11 after he struggles to find any meaning in being a pianist. After a long time of questioning himself he observes the city and notices something. He sees that in this time of grief and sadness people are singing. From this he learned that music is a form of expression, it allows people to express their feelings when they have no other words to describe them. Paulnack goes on to describe what he says was the most important concert of his life. He and a friend were playing a concert at a nursing home. During their performance, one man began to cry, it was at that time Paulnack knew the man was a veteran. After Paulnack and his friend finished the piece, they announced that the piece they were playing was Aaron Copland's Sonata, which was a work

As I was about to walk in the barber shop, I suddenly remembered what my Lieutenant had to say to me, “don’t go in the shop, he’ll kill you, he’s a rebel”. While these interpretations have a chance of being valid, I continue to believe that killing isn’t an easy task due to the repercussions that come along with it. When I entered the barber shop, I could see an individual who was tall and was carrying a muscular build. At this point of time, the barber had not yet noticed me, so I took a few steps and made sure I was visible in his peripheral vision. Eventually, I was noticed and a few seconds later, conversation was initiated on how my beard is four days late a shave. After several minutes of discussion, I was indeed ready for my face to become hairless. He sat me down in his

The narrator, a teacher in Harlem, has escaped the ghetto, creating a stable and secure life for himself despite the destructive pressures that he sees destroying so many young blacks. He sees African American adolescents discovering the limits placed on them by a racist society at the very moment when they are discovering their abilities. He tells the story of his relationship with his younger brother, Sonny. That relationship has moved through phases of separation and return. After their parents’ deaths, he tried and failed to be a father to Sonny. For a while, he believed that Sonny had succumbed to the destructive influences of Harlem life. Finally, however, they achieved a reconciliation in which the narrator came to understand the value and the importance of Sonny’s need to be a jazz pianist.

Beginning his day at the crack of dawn, or more like when the sun is halfway past the horizon. The daily process happens again for my uncle. This entails attempting to get out of bed, which I also have trouble with too. Then onto the kitchen for a quick meal of whatever is available; from orange juice and some bland cereal, or some scrambled eggs and burnt, crisp toast. Using his already overworked hands, he reaches for the newspaper to find out who won last night's baseball game. A disappointing frown falls over his aged face as he realizes that his team lost... again. He finishes his half eaten breakfast, and disappointing newspaper. Slowly, he moves on to get ready. Grabbing one of the remaining outfits that are clean; we get

The movie The Soloist was released in 2009 and is based on a true story. This movie is about two entirely different people who crosses pathways and ends up helping each other. Steve Lopez is a journalist with the L.A Times. Lopez is not truly happy with his life at this moment. He is at a crossroad in his career and has recently went through a divorce to his wife who is now his boss.

Malcolm George Kimberly, a successful CEO of the international enterprise, a young, charming millionaire who was a frequent member on the list of the New York City’s rich, stylish bachelors, also a former chief violinist of the symphony of the Brooklyn a few years ago before the “Mozart Project” has launched, was lying on his leather lounge and peeping out of the new French casement in his one hundred and fifty square meters private office on the 86th floor of a symbolic skyscraper rooted in the heart of Manhattan. He was sweating, heavily breathing, and rubbing his stylish mustache like fondling a soft cat. He was seeing a world that he has never acknowledge before. He dreamed about the time he had spent as a rookie violinist in an aged, crude musical theater. He was familiar with the color of the walls in the rehearse room, half brown and half olive.

Classical music has many purposes: it can move the listener with different emotions, it can relate to an occasion, or tell a story. For Beethoven, having a storyline in musical pieces was significant, through the chords and notes he conveyed struggles that related to him and could be linked to the general public. Whether it was a physical struggle or a social struggle, most of Beethoven’s earlier pieces evoke a protagonist that had to overcome an obstacle, which through persistence and determination became victorious, but we see that changing as Beethoven moves to his later period. Instead of having a protagonist struggling to achieve heroism, the struggle becomes more about whether fate was

In my first week of Beethoven and Revolutions, I have learned more about Beethoven than ever before. Before this class, I knew Beethoven was important, but I never really appreciated it. On the first day of class we watched a clip from the King’s Speech, and I believe it changed how I felt about Beethoven. I had not realized how powerful his music could be in the right sequence. Being in band for seven years, they never showed us anything that would excite us about Beethoven, it was the usual background information.

As a young child growing up in the Holy Roman Empire city of Bonn, Beethoven’s father would order him to play musical instruments for consecutive hours every day and night. If the young child was to make an error or pause, his father would beat him, until he corrected his error or stopped hesitating. The musical skills that

As a catholic priest, Robert Sirico’s duty is to protect and fight for the right of Mary to live. As for the judges, their decision was based from the specialists’ prognosis of the twins’ probability of surviving being conjoined or separated. This scenario is really hard for any party involved; especially a life is at stake. I can fathom the message that the author is trying to infer. I am a Roman Catholic myself and I comprehend deeply the moral dimensions of taking a life. On the other hand, as unbiased observer, I can understand the decision of the court to let one of the twins survive thru sacrificing the other one. My emotions were all torn reading this essay, although nothing compared to what Jodie and Mary’s parents were going through.

Fernando’s anecdote story begins with his gamer life. I was pretty much bias to playing video games because I found them fun and entertaining. When I played video games on my own, I was mediocre so I really wasn’t too good or bad on my own. My parent’s ethics on video games was that I can kill things in the game but in the real world I could not or there would be consequences. I would always infer on the lore or story of the game called Destiny to come to a conclusion of what I think the story was going to be about. It’s also where I had the audacity to explore the game’s world fully with no one to tell me what was in the game at all. When I play any type of game, I usually try not to be salient because I tend to lose focus on the game when

Mr. Bissett was the reason I fell in love with music. He taught me to appreciate and understand the beauty behind it. I wouldn’t be the person I am today because of him. Mr. Cuellar introduced me to a humble lifestyle. He taught me to surpass expectations and to work hard to be where I want to be. Band was the best beacause of the directors and what each of them taught me. I will forever be grateful to

The sound of a loon, native to New Hampshire, is coming from what appear to be rocks in front of Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, sitting in the middle of the rolling Colorado plains. It's perhaps incongruous, but the sound makes visitors feel as if they're inside a peaceful forest. Don Campbell, whom we are already known about as the author of the best-selling book “The Mozart Effect¨, has put together a library of world music to play at select

When I was 7 years old, my parents signed me up for music school. I did not want to go to music school, but they wanted me just to try. In first class we were just listening classical music and it really sounded boring. But when Beethoven’s fifth symphony came on, I fell in love with classical music and I wanted to study it even more. My sister was also in musical school and she played piano and when I came back from school, I was begging her to play me some of Beethoven’s pieces. I wanted to study everything about him and also learn how to play some of his pieces. So writing this paper is going to be fun, and I am going to write it with pleasure.

that the emergent lyricism of Beethoven’s music was a “hidden song” that would have different