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It’s amazing to listen to musicians who do not normally play with each other come together and leave the audience in complete awe. That is exactly what happened on the day of Thursday November 26th 2014. The Bill Crothers Varsity Winds comprised of grade eleven and twelve students along with a few, talented grade tens went to listen to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra play. We travelled via a typical yellow school bus that took us to Roy Thomson Hall where we went right to the top level and took our seats. The seating seemed rather helpful because from a distance you could hear every instrument when you focused on it. It was beautiful. The band presented well with their “Penguin” like attire that was kind to the eyes. They appeared very organized,

Carnegie Hall invites some of the best young musicians to join Christopher O’ Riley on stage to perform. Twelve year old Conrad Tao was the first guest welcomed to the stage in the season 1 episode that I watched. Tao lives in New York very close to Carnegie Hall. His performance automatically jumped him into his piece. His choice of music was Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois. The young player has a lot of style with a straight face while doing so. Christopher O’ Riley surprised me when he was using a iPad to automatically flip the pages of his sheet music. Technology being used in this performance just surprised me. After Tao’s performance O’ Riley ask him if he has any other interests besides music. Conrad has a love for rollercoasters. Between riding and researching them, he basically knows all about them.

The concert that I attended was a charity concert, which was organized in Boston at a local university there. The South Asian Student Union of Harvard University organized the concert. I happened to be in Boston and this particular concert was organized for benefit causes such as using the proceeds of the concert to fund a number of poverty alleviation projects in South Asia. The concert was organized in a rather big room, which had a very big podium, as well as at least 500 seats that had been placed in it. Therefore, the overall hall where this concert took place was a typical auditorium setting with seating and a stage at the front. The concert promoters talked about different cause benefits related to alleviation of poverty in South Asia and that’s why the concert was organized. The organizers also informed the audience that the musicians wore traditional clothing so that the audience members could also have a good insight and understanding of the South Asian culture. All of ticket revenues for this concert were then given to a number of charities which then would use those funds to assist the different poverty alleviation programs in the larger South Asian region.

Then we walked into the New Jersey Preforming Arts Center, which is a very nice building. The acoustics of the hall were very nice which made for easy listening. The seats themselves were not the greatest because once again we like saving money.

The concert I attended was called the Faculty and Student Recital, which took place in the Cisco Auditorium on April 11, 2017. The music that was on the program was mostly what is called “classical” music, as well as a Chinese Folk Song, an electronic composition, and variations on an Indian Tala. In the classical pieces, the instruments that were used were the violin, the piano, the cello, and the oboe. In the electronic composition, the computer was used to make music. In the Chinese Folk Song, the piccolo was used to imitate the unique timbre of a Chinese flute. In the Indian tala, drums from Ghana were used to imitate the rhythm and sound of Indian drums. The piano, the violin, the cello, and the piccolo all originate

On April 10th I attended the Crimson Slides concert featuring salsa music and a guest artist from Costa Rica named Leo Rodriguez and it was an amazing experience. I have been wanting to see the Crimson Slides for a while because I am a big fan of ska music and I figured the slides would produce a similar sound. The general texture of the concert was polyphonic and I would describe the ensemble as a brass salsa band. There were eight trombonists performing and they were accompanied by percussionists in the background. The percussionists were playing various drums, maracas, symbols, a cowbell, and a woodblock.

a perceptible time between the end of your shouting and the onset of the returning wave (not sure how long, but lets say tc=0.1 s as a guess (a lot of human perception works on time scales not to far from that))

On Sunday February 5, I went to Southwest International Honor band and Orchestra festival in Atkinson recital hall in the Music center of New Mexico State University. The first band I was the Southwest orchestra with students from all over New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez. Their conductor for the band was GRAMMY research award winner Erik Johnson. The band is did go in order of the program and started off with different piece not listed on the program. But the way they start was amazing for just younger students. This piece was a calm piece and slowly started to forte later on in the piece. The rhythm the bass players keeping amazing rhythm throughout. Because they did this piece on their own with the conductor coming out yet. I wish I remember the name of the piece. After this piece the conductor finally came out they started off with “Themes from Moldau composed by Bedrich Smetana (1824-1930)”. The piece was calmer as well. You could

In the article "Sound is All Around Us," the author, Jason Torres explains that, " If you scream at the top of your lungs in an empty room and then repeat the screaming in the same room that is filled with furniture, you will notice that the sounds are different." This again shows another way how sound works. The statement is explaining that when you scream in a room with no furniture, the scream basically travels in a straight path, sounding the same. Although, if you repeat the screaming in a room filled with furniture, the sound waves will bounce off of the furniture, thus rendering in a jumbled sound the brain is translating. The second scream will be translated different by the brain and the sound waves will not travel in a straight path. This was another way how sound

On April 21, 2014 I watched the online performance of Sleeping Beauty performed by the Jacobs School of Music at the Musical Arts Center in Indianapolis. I have never personally been to the Musical Arts Center, but from the online streamed video, the place looks magnificently huge and phenomenal. The stage was absolutely stunning. It was big, vibrant, and breathtaking. It made it look as if you actually went back in time and were a part of the performance. The stage was enhanced with beautiful cool, calming purples, pinks, and blues that matched the performers’ outfits to a tee. It reminded me of royalty. Each performer had gorgeous outfits for every act, and I must say, the designer did a fabulous job.

MUS 110CL Concert Critique Guidelines and Rubric After either attending a live concert or watching a full length concert online, write a critique of the performance following the format below. Here are a few examples of full length concerts you can find online (by conducting a web search using the criteria below) that could be used for this assignment:         Coldplay Live In Boston 2012 (Full Concert DVD) Sting: If on a winters night-Live from Durham Cathedral 2009 (watch all 14 songs on concert) Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Jan Hammer, Charlie Duke Ellington The Great Paris Concert Richard Galliano/Winton Marsalis - Billie Holiday meets Edith PIAF Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Jazz Center

On April 14, 2016 I attended the Dvorak Cello Concerto at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee. The instruments that were being played were made up of the whole symphony orchestra. In addition, the instrument that was featured was the cello. The reasoning for this is because there was a special guest musician, Susie Yang who was performing with the orchestra and she played the cello. The structure of the performance consisted of three different main pieces of music with different sections within them. In addition, this was the first time I had been to the Tennessee Theatre. The theatre was very intriguing because of the elegance that came with it. The décor was very nice and looked expensive. It is exactly what I imagined when I thought of the setting for a symphony. It was well lit with beautiful crown molding in the celling. In addition, there were lovely curtains blocking an area that looked to be a balcony beside the stage. In addition, there was back drop lights on the walls highlighting pieces that looked to be Grecian Urns.

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at eight o’clock in the evening in Longmire Recital Hall, The Florida State University presented the Faculty/Guest Artist Recital which included David Kalhous and Jihye Chang both pianists, the two collectively performed 20 pieces during the concert. I have never been to a recital of this sort, I assumed the venue would be large and there would be people singing and playing different instruments. The venue was actually small and there was only a piano. I was surprised that the crowd was so small being that the concert was at Florida State University, I assumed there would be a great number of people. The Longmire Recital Hall was small and the seating was arranged like movie theater seating. The lighting was very low; there was only enough lighting to see the pianist. Since this was my first time attending a recital of this sort I was confused as to why the pianist had to bow before each piece, or how long the audience applauded after each performance. Performers for this event were David Kalhous and Jihye Chang. David is a brilliant pianist, who is now gaining recognition in Europe and the United Stated for his elegant musicianship. Jihye Chang is also a pianist, who serves as an adjunct professor of music theory at Florida State University.

The concert I attended was performed by the Brooklyn College Wind Ensemble conducted by Jeff W. Ball on March 1, 2016. The Midwood High School Band, conducted by Melissa Williams, performed as special guests. Before going to the concert, I looked up Wind Ensemble so I’d know what to expect. A Wind Ensemble consists only of wind, brass, and percussion instruments. My concert experience was enjoyable as I went in knowing what the Wind Ensemble is, and went in with an open mind.

The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.