Concert Report Essay

This concert overall was interesting and entertaining. The way that the ensemble is split into trios and groups and the short and plentiful songs provide a refreshing change continuously giving the audience a chance to hear different play styles. The only critique I have of the pieces is that at times they had a disorganized sound that I did not recognize as pleasant to listen to. The emotion I was able to leave with was a lightened mood, but I did not have any deep emotional connection to the music. My favorite piece of the night was “The Obstinate” because of the amazing french horn solo that is played halfway through and leads into the conclusion of the song. The style of this concert was new to me and I enjoyed becoming a part of a musical era and style that is not something that I would typically indulge in. The art behind these pieces was shown through the passion of the performers

A few pieces gave me emotional responses .The theme from “Jaws” made me tense up a little, the music reminded me of the movie and made very conscious of my surroundings. I didn’t want anything to happen to me. As I mentioned earlier I enjoy Star Wars and Harry Potter, so when they played the music I was a little excited about these music pieces being played. The highlight musical piece would have to be the Suite from “Star Wars”. All of the pieces were great but,

The first piece was called Ballad unto. The concert had 3 acts and this piece was the first act. I really love how they started off the concert very classical. Dwight used Bach music which already put me in the mind set of classical ballet. Even though the music had my mind, the movement otherwise was something different. The women were on point but keep to that contemporary taste that Dwight Rhoden likes.

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.

This fall concert was a good learning experience for the Women's Choir and myself. I think that each piece had both positive and negative aspects of them and I also think seeing other better choirs perform helped us to know what we want to become and give us the motivation we need to improve.

Before the show officially started the performers went on stage to their designated spots and were practicing and tuning their instruments I am assuming. It was cool hearing all the different instruments at once hearing the different sounds it actually didn’t sound that bad.

The performance I decided to watch was the “Gulf Coast Symphony: Star Wars Family Fun Concert”. It was a fun event that allowed many Star Wars fans gathered in to watch, that is the reason I decided to go to this concert, I am a big Star Wars fan and have seen all the movies. This performance was performed at the Barbara B. Mann performing arts hall. It is a very good venue for concerts or and shows. The sound was great the theatre really projected the sounds of the whole concert. The seating was also pretty decent. There were no bad seats, anywhere you sit you get a great view of the show. The only complaint about the seats was that they were kind of small. There was little elbow room and I was rubbing against the people next to me. Overall

I wasn't entertained by any of the pieces they played or by anything specific related to the actual orchestra. One thing I did find to be entertaining was people watching. A gentleman sitting three seats over from me looked like he was asleep, although his wife looked like she very much enjoying the concert. During one of the compositions, she looked over at him and hit him on the shoulder as to wake him up. If I had to guess I would say that she made him go. Observing the audience and their actions and reactions was enjoyable. I could tell each person had a different view on a song, or a different opinion about an instrument. Noticing things like that is what got me through the symphony.

I really enjoyed the venue for this performance as well as the highly professional execution of sound operators, to allow the audience to enjoy these historic and wonderful musical creations to their fullest. My personal expectations were greatly exceeded by attending this recital. One of the reasons being that I was able to learn about a world class pianist who is highly skilled and is involved with Mercyhurst's music program. The passion, involvement, and energy of the pianist struck me the most, because I had never seen one being so intertwined with music before. Personally for me, the whole recital lasted a bit too long and at the end some people started to get anxious and

The Bargemusic concert hall is not a large venue, but it certain provided an adequate environment for a single piano player performance. The acoustics were exceptional for such a small concert

Music is defined as the vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of music. What truly exemplifies this definition is the performance entitled This Little Light of Mine in which performers, Donald Craig Manuel and Charles Lloyd Jr, took the stage to deliver a beautiful duo that’s consisted of Mr. Manuel’s Baritone voice and Mr. Lloyd’s performance on the piano. Mr. Donald Manuel performed twelve compositions in which ten of them were sacred pieces that expressed how much he loved the Lord and the other four were taken from major events he performed for such as: Festival of the Lion King at Hong Kong Disneyland, major productions abroad the Disney Dream, and musical numbers from popular Disney films. Even though each of these pieces were different in context they had numerous similarities such as: all of them being polyphonic, crescendo and decrescendo were used extensively, dynamics were used frequently, each piece was set to a walking tempo (Andante), each piece had the qualities of an opera, and he used vibrato in all his compositions. Even though all his performed pieces were brilliantly performed, the three compositions that stood out to me were: Ride on King Jesus by Hall Johnson, This Little Light O’Mine by John Work, and Be prepared by E. John and T. Rice.

listening, I thought that it was a very gentle piece that somewhat reminded me of the beginning

The first organist who presented their talents was Raina Wood, and her song choices were very much of

For this concert the only instrument played were pianos. As stated before they were played by Josiah Stocker and Hyeeum Hahm. Because of the lack of vocals, I

Then a woman came in, wearing a colorful dress, a light green with colorful flowers on it. she was holding a violin, Daniel, the composer introduced her, her name was Jennifer Frautschi. She started playing the first piece by Sibelius with her Violin, it was amazing. The sound of her violin was relaxing and thrilling at the same time. They kept the audience engaged by changing the rhythm up and down, like waves. You feel relaxed than out of the sudden you feel excited. I listened to a full 12 minutes of this without moving a muscle. Entrancing and spectacular. What a talent! I could not predict what is coming next, every movement has its own flavor, and its own taste, but in some way, it was related to the previous one. After Jennifer finisher her play, everyone stood and applaud for over four minutes, but she deserves that. They are all were enjoying the moment and no one looked at anything except the stage. I really enjoyed this work of Sibelius, I enjoyed the sound of the violin the most, there something in it that makes me excited in somehow. I loved every second she was