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Band Performance Review

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It was the night that I went to see and support my friend’s middle school band performance. I remember watching and hearing the sounds of certain instruments and being instantly drawn to them. At the very moment I knew that music was something I wanted to learn and study all through life. There was something beautiful about the way each individual instrument sounded, and the abilities that each musician had to make their instruments sound a certain way. The next year I signed up for my school’s band classes and began to learn and study about music and music theory. The one thing about music though that really captures my interest is the fact that it can provoke and produce so many emotions in someone. As someone who has a rather hard time expressing themselves, music was something I could turn to in order to understand and better …show more content…

When I began studying Jazz, one orchestra that I particular had a liking towards was Lincoln Center Orchestra. Listening to them play and knowing that I wanted to one day create music like they did. Since I was learning jazz for trumpet many times I would also listen for Wynton Marsalis, someone who I could only dream of playing like. My favorite and most inspiring performance had to be “Take Five”, each section sounded amazing and were able to tell a story. Or how in other performances sometimes two musicians would solo together, and it would appear as if they were having a conversation without any words. I would often watch how relaxed and poised they were and try to copy that demeanor when having to give solos in front of the class. Also by watching professionals perform, I could see the true difference between me and them, and how much work I needed to put into my playing to maybe one day move my fingers and rearrange my embouchure in order to play like them with such

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