Assignment:

Essay on the Cellist of Sarajevo and Group VI Presentation

Members

Professor

Alexis Algarrobo

Section

01

Date

7/21/2015

Diosmaris Novas Novas---------------100004855

Sandry Y. Viloria V.------------------B2-2370

Inanyeli P. Beltre-----------------------CG-2217

Maria Abelina Ruiz N.----------------100165373

Rossanna Connor Minaya------------100159663

Alexander López-----------------------100101287

Essay on: The Cellist of Sarajevo and Group Presentation.

Music is one of the many form with which human express his emotion and getting

relaxation because the stress is taken out of his body and brain. One example of that was the

short story wrote by Steven Galloway called The Cellist of Sarajevo (1992). Other was the short

story wrote by Mark Salzman called The Soloist (1986) and the last was the musical

presentation of a lenguage student in language school of Universidad Autónoma de Santo

Domingo (UASD). In the short story The Cellist of Sarajevo, the short story The Soloist (1986),

the musical presentation of a lenguage student each of these stories has relationship with the

music.

In the short story by Steven Galloway called The Cellist of Sarajevo (1992) , it speak

about as a cellist played his cello paying honorary attributes to 22 people that died on May 27,

1992. Vedran Smailovis saw a line of 22 starving people at 16 hours. This line was suddenly

attacked by a shell that killed all them. Smailovic, that was a musician, tried to help that people,

and the best way to face the war was he making music in the middle of the battlefield in honor

of those innocent lives killed in the war. He played the cello for compassion in funerals,

graveyards, ruined buildings, streets, and so on. Vedran Smailovis realized that through his

classical music using a cello, he could caught the attention of people victims of the war and

could relax them and he be a symbol of peace.

The short story written by Mark Salzman called The Soloist (1986), that speaks about

Rene who lived all his life in the music but, Rene loves so much it, that led him to suffering.

Rene since child loved the music. He played a cello. He enjoyed the music despite that his

mother pressed him . he never had a social life because he only studied music. He was in a

music school called Concert Cellist when he started to have a hearing problem, but this made

him to love even more music.

Some students explained about the differences between Cello and violin. They are

something similar because are two instrument of string compose by 4 string but, have many

differences. For example they have different size, position for to play and different sounds.

Their differences make unit as musical instrument. The Cello and Violin have different size. A

Cello 4/4 has 25 inch or 75.5 cm, width and height 10.8. A Violin 4/4 has 14 inch or 35.5 cm

and width and height 4.5 cm. It is obviously that the Cello is bigger than violin. There not dude

that those different between them make in unique instrument in the symphonic band. There was

a musical performance by one of group´s member that produced an environment of relaxation

in the students and the professor. The last

student of the group made his performance

talking about the main differences between

Violin and Guitar and after finished his

presentation he played the guitar and

singing a song written by him. We saw

before presentation that the students were

tired and stressed and after the song their

faces changed to be more relaxed.

So we learnt that If you are stressed you can listen a good music to be more relaxed. It

is going to make you feel happy unstressed and you`re going to see the things clearer and on

positive way, while you are walking on the life road.