Crimson Slides Concert Report

The next piece played was Incantation and Dance (1963) by James Barnes (J.B.) Chance. I was already familiar with this form of music since I played it at the Music for All National Concert Band festival with my high school's band. The song starts low, flutes come in in the low register of their instrument and set the audience up for a mysterious incantation-- or magic spell. While the opening starts slow and spookily, and percussion instruments are incorporated, you're driven by multiple rhythmic patterns which require much complexity.

When the concert first began, the three instrumentalists walked with energy despite their age. The first song, “Sonata I in G-Major Op. 2, Nr. 1” by Michel Blavet, was a Baroque Sonata. There were five movements and was played by the harpsichord, flute, and cello. All movements of the song were polyphonic because of the three instruments that had different parts and equal importance. In the first movement, I noticed that the flute tended to rise in pitch. In the second movement, I noticed that the melodies often repeated. Throughout the rest of the song the tempo changed from fast to slow and the flute would usually take the lead. On the last movement, the cello and the harpsichord

In Act Two, Scene One: Buenos Aires, the music has a fast tempo and the music is being played at a forte level, as the music continues it suddenly softens to piano and the tempo slows down. Later in the scene during one of the songs you could hear a washing board being played which added a new sound to the music the audience was hearing. When the audience is being introduced to the Commander, a song that has a Spanish sound is

On November 18, 2015, I attended a UAB concert involving jazz combos and a guitar ensemble. This concert was filled with amazing musicians, intricate solos, and thick harmonies. There were three jazz combos and one guitar ensemble; the first set was the guitar ensemble, which contained four guitarists and one bass player. The ensemble consisted of four songs: “Swing It,” a swing-style song; “Samba #1”; “A Child is Born,” a waltz; and “Bill’s Bay.” The main theme of “Bill’s Bay” was very catchy and memorable, and the ensemble’s most impressive player to me was Michael Galanti on the bass guitar. His solos involved precise pizzicato and quick movement that I have never witnessed in a bass player.

The first song that the band played was very soft and relaxing. The string bass was the lead of the first song and played a flat four rhythm, and the rest of the band

The title is written in Spanish, Concerto por Trombonito, and it basically means the concert for trombone. The whole song features the bass trombone, and the bass trombonist, Brennan Johns, led the whole piece, and he did an amazing job. The composer is Benjamin Dean Taylor, and he conducted this piece as well. It started with really low timbre and created a marching feeling. It captured the European marching’s style and had a dark and medieval feeling. The trumpeters all used mutes, and there were call-and-response between the trumpets and the bass trombone. After a while, it suddenly turned into Latin jazz’s feeling. The first soloist is the alto saxophonist, Inigo Galdeano Lasheras, and he climbed up a lot and had a very bright timbre. Followed by the electric bass, which is played by Jacob Jezioro. He played double bass for the rest of the program but only electric bass for this solo. There were also many call-and-response between the bass trombone and the rest of the ensemble throughout the whole piece. The bass trombonist had a very long improvisation, and he used tailgating to create all kinds of sounds and timbres. He played really low notes at the beginning and built up step by step. There was a particular part that he tried to humanize the sounds, and he did it without using the mutes! He is just fantastic. After his improvisation, the song turned back to the marching feeling that we heard at the very

The first song that was played was “Into the Clouds” which in an overture. Everyone played the same dynamic at the beginning which made it sound great. The baritones made a nice decrescendo into the quieter section, but the could have pulled back a little for the solo to stand out more. Measures 48-56 were only forte but the band played it at fortissimo. At measure sixty six the band played louder which was a nice different dynamic from the rest. Overall, the band could have played with some more different dynamics.

On November 3rd of 2016 I went to listen to Bela Fleck and The Flecktones live at the Quick. The style of music that they play is called jazz fusion and I have even heard of this type of music, so I was interested to see how I would like it. The Flecktones have a variety of different instruments so I thought that would be a cool twist. Some guys that make up the band are of course Bela Fleck, Jeff Coffin, Future Man, Victor Wooten, and many more. The way they set up the stage was unique. They had different colored carpets on the ground and the band was pretty much scattered all over the stage.

Truly impressive is “Students of the Macabre”, an inviting dance elaborated with groovy ostinatos and clever improvisations by the bandleader, who exhibits resolute spontaneity, and Pino, who delivers the best solo of the record.

The first song that they played was an instrumental titled “This Was Us.” The instrument that

There were a total of four music pieces performed. They were “Overture from the Singspiel”, “Concerto in e minor”, “Concerto on b minor,opus 104”, and “Symphony#2 in b minor, opus 5”. I think pieces were performed belong to classical style.

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.

The first song of the performance was “Boogie Stop Shuffle” written by Charles Mingus. As the music started to play, I could hear the different levels of intensity in the drums, which started out quiet then the intensity began to pick up gradually and your ears could hear the sound change. When other instruments like the trumpet joined in with the drums my ears could

I have decided to attend to a concert in Limestone that it took place exactly inside the building called Carrol Auditorium. The concert was based on graduate and undergraduate students in Limestone who decided to study and learn about singing and playing instruments with their music professors while being in college. It was not like a whole concert, it was more of students of Limestone singing individually and in-group, and also playing different types of instruments as their professors played the piano at the same time they were performing. Honestly, I could not tell what genre exactly was this concert in specific since each student did a completely thing from the other artists. One thing that I have noticed about the performers is that some

The second vocal ensemble of the night started out with a song which included a twelve bar blues, called “ I use to know you”. This performance consisted of the most combinations of solos of the night as well as using an improvising style. The entire band started all together which led to a Trumpet solo. Then Jose on the Sax did his solo followed by the pianist comping. Then the choir along with the band joined together to lead to a female solo which was particularly interesting since she was scatting. The second performance of this ensemble was “Spring can really hang you up the most” which consisted of 3/4 time and 4/4 time. This started with a female solo vocalist then a male one. The band as a whole played together and ended with a male solo scatting. The third and shortest performance of the night was a vocal acapella piece, “Love walked in” which was short and sweet. The fourth performance of the night was a Richmond Rogers piece. This had a rhythmic swing/salsa feel from the “Lady is a tramp”. This started with the rhythm section, with the male vocalist and horns. Then the female vocalist from the choir joined and concluded this piece. The fifth performance for the group was a sequel to voice stand an acapella piece by Greg Jaspers. This song started with the choir using their voices as the instruments altogether. The final performance of the night was one of