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Professor: Dr.Alison Bjorkedal
Class: Music 21
Concert Report
I went to a chamber music concert called Attravereso il Mare, on October 17 at 8 pm at Boston Court located in Pasadena. This project performs Italian-American songs which represent the Italian-American culture. My friend and I arrived 1 hour early, and people kept coming. Most of them are family and friends, and only few of them were coming alone, but they all had more concert experience than me because this was my first time attending any kind of concert. This concert was in a very small room with only 100 seats, but all seats were fulfilled. This concert experience impressed me a lot and changed my feeling about concert.
At the beginning of the concert, overture was a short guitar show played by Lo piccolo, called o sole mio. It had slow sound and soft feeling. It made me feel like I was relaxing in an afternoon. The song name is My Sunshine in English. The man left with his sound box and guitar after he finished, which made me feel this was not part of the concert because all the instruments were in the room. Later, “Black is the color Of My True Love 's Hair” played by the piano, harp and violin had slow speed. The violin and harp together were monophonic, and the singer, Justine Aronson, had very high voice. The conductor, Geoffrey Pope, was standing with his back facing us all the time. The conductor’s hands moved very slowly and soft that have similar speed with the music. Then, Frammenti
For this concert report I chose to go to a performance of student composers held at the Kimball Recital Hall. I chose this one because I wanted to see some of the talent that my peers have in the music realm, and also it was one of the only concerts I have been able to attend because I usually work at night. It was impressive to hear pieces composed by students. I cannot imagine creating something as complex as a musical composition, much less actually performing it, so this aspect of the concert was particularly awe-inspiring. There was a large attendance, and I think that much of the audience consisted of friends of the composers and/or performers. I went with three friends, who I convinced by telling it would be interesting to see
Dr. Carol Williams’s organ plays were just fantastic. Despite the fact that seeing the instrument called, “organ” was my first time, it was pretty impressive how that instrument worked. All the pedals and the three layers of keyboards were just as complicated as a calculus math problem. The concert was played at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion at Balboa Park. The surrounding was not too bad. Although the concert day was Sunday, it was quite crowded. Besides the crowdedness, the surroundings were not too rough. All ages were welcome to seat and enjoy the sounds of organ. I saw mostly old aged audiences and I saw a little amount of college aged audiences with the music report information on their hands.
I thought the First Amendment exhibit was very action packed with so many different types of artwork on display. I really liked how it was set up by the students at Iowa State too. I loved how the exhibit made you feel like you were right in the action. Some of the pieces that really caught my attention were Teen Vogue, Saint John the Baptist Preaching, and Women March Iowa.
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.
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
My first concert experience turned out to be very different from what I expected. Even though I would not choose to listen to classical music normally, the concert has made me enjoy this type of music more and made me think about how much more there is to music than just lyrics and a
On Sunday, May10 2015, a concert was held in The Broad Stage. The concert was played by Santa Monica College Symphony Orchestra, whose conductor is Dr. James Martin. For this concert, I would identify myself as a referential listener at this concert. I say this because I am not an expert in music, therefore it would be hard for me to be a critical listener. I wouldn’t be able to tell what went wrong with a performance even if some incorrect notes were played. I was more of a referential listener because the music was soothing and brought my mind to peaceful thoughts. This essay will tells my experience of the concert in order to persuade my friend to attend a classical music concert with you in the future.
The theme of this concert was very relevant to the season. All the songs sounded wintery, and perfect for Christmas. While all the songs played into the general theme of the concert, the mood and style of each of the songs was different. The first song, Andante Festivo, was played by the stings and was a little slow paced but at the same time uplifting. The nest song, Divertimento, was fast paced and sounded happy. This song was also played by the strings. Reverie was played by the strings, and it was slow, but dramatic. The next song was a solo for the violin players. It was 3 different Rumanian folk dances. The songs were fast and kind of pop-ish. The instrumentals last song was Merry Christmas, Darling, which was slow and reflective. The first song that the choir and piano perform is Daybreak, the piano sounded fun and the vocals very high. The next song was
It was my first time attending a classical musical concert. I was so excited when I attending this concert. In my mind, the concert is always boring and around solemn person. But when I came in there are not that exactly that I was thought. People in here with daily outfit and chat with people around them. The concert is begining at 7:00 p.m. When the music sounded, the audience quiet down. I thought I will be sitting there and falling alseep, but I’m not, I was immersed in this music.
I went to the concert with my friends. The concert is set up at whitemud crossing library. The performance was set up in the lecture hall of the library. It was a small lecture hall with small stage on it and it was set up with Soft lighting, neat wooden bench, and warm atmosphere. There were 4 Musicians on the stage sit in a semicircle facing the audience.,2musician is come from university of Alberta department of Music. Guillaume Tardif is Associate professor and the associate chair and Yue Deng is artists-in Residence in Violin. The rest 2 musicians were artist comes from Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Charles Pilon is Assistant principal Violist and Colin Ryan is Principal Cellist. Instrument contain are 2 violin, one viola and one cello.The repertory they performed is come from Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. All the information about today’s concert is include on a brochure which you can get when you walk in.
On Thursday April 25, 2013 , I attended a jazz vocal concert at the Music Concert Hall. The first vocal ensemble opened up the performance with a slow rhythmic song called Blue Skies. It began with vocals and I noticed a light auxiliary percussion and drum rhythm. Also, the bass guitarist used walking bass and the piano and electric guitar joined in as well. The first song also consisted of two soloist Regina and Chantel who took the front stage to show off their chops. After the solo performances they fell back into the vocal sections and finished off the song as a complete band. The second performance had a piano opening which led to vocals joining in at the same time as the rhythm section. This performance
As we all waited in line to go into the concert there was a thrill of
For my second concert report I thought that I would write about my only experience hearing songs of the Beatles live. The Rib America Festival was hosted by The Beatles Live Repertoire. The group dressed exactly like the Beatles, even had the same names, John, Paul, George, and Ringo. I had never heard any Beatles songs live before, so that was enough to get me off my butt. Not to mention, it was free entertainment, not a bad time at all.
I had attended in several symphony concerts at the big concert hall, so this time, I decided to go to a small concert at a church. The concert I went to is “The Cary Classical Concerts – The second concert: A Night of Dvorak”, which took place at Saint Francis United Methodist Church. The concert is a debut of trio Anthony Lee – piano, Cortney Baker – violin, and Nathan Leyland – cello. Also, there is a special guest come to the concert is tenor Kang Noh Park and organ Scott Baker. The whole program is about Dvorak and some great piece of music from his written. The concert was awesome even though it is not happened at a big concert hall and the program is a little different. I do enjoy the concert in one way or another way; however, it totally gave me a different experiment of listening to the music.
This afternoon, I went to the music concert hall where is located in the music building for the listening hour, a small noon-time concert which is performed by the staff and students from the music majors. Since it is a free noon-time concert, most of the audiences just wear the t-shirts and jeans to the concert. Dresses are not required for the concert. The performance today is given by the Ananda Jazz Ensemble. They have played “Running Away”, composed by Bob Marley; “Madalena”, composed by Ivan Linz; “Conejitos y Ananda”, composed by Abi Romero; “La Bikina”, composed by Ruben Fuentes; and “Chukaro”, also composed by Abi Romero. Because this is a Latin Americdan Journey, all of the music performed is jazz music. All pieces played in the concert are an ensemble of piano, bass, and drums. During the concert, I was trying to be a perceptive listener; I enjoyed the music with concentration and paid attention to the music’s unity and variety, such as the dynamics and tempos. I also tried to associate the music with a picture when I listened to it and understand the emotion in the music.