Gyorgi Ligeti

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,

Last Thursday, I attended the Department of Music Concert Series at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. I was able to listen to both the Symphony Band, under the direction of Dr. Cara Morantz as well as the Wind Symphony Band directed by Dr. Sean Murray. They presented a tremendous performance comprised of pieces by J.B. Chance, Frank Ticheli, Samuel Hazo as well as a wide variety of other authors. The event was pleasurable to me, as well as many others in attendance to the concert. By the looks, colleagues families and teachers came to support the talented musicians on stage that night!

On Thursday, March the 16th at 7 pm, I attended a concert featuring Stephen Beus, at Southeastern Community Colleges’ Auditorium. People were dressed formally, you could tell many people there had attended events like this before. The lighting was focused on the piano and the performer in the middle of the stage, it was completely silent and people applauded only at the end of each music piece.

The music event took place at the Harvey Theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The venue looked like it has risen from the dead; the architecture shakes at its bare brick walls and ghosts of decades carved out of the walls, columns, and ceiling. To the right of the entrance, past the box office, is a spacious waiting area where

The concert that I attended was on November 14th, 2017, on a Tuesday night. Those that were performing were the Chamber Ensemble of Kutztown University. The Concert began at 7:30 p.m., and concluded at 8:30 p.m. When the concert was just beginning I was unsure of what to expect, besides the obviousness of a piano portion to the whole event, because there was one sitting in the center of the stage.

This weekend I attended a wonderful All Stars show at the Jazz Showcase held by Pianist Willie Pickens on Friday, July , 08, 2016, at 8:00 pm . As I mentioned in my first concert review the Jazz Showcase is located at the Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL . This time I went to this jazz performance with my two older sisters. Although I already got to walk around the place the first time I visited, it was my sisters first time there and they want to walk around and look at the memorabilia on the walls . The Jazz Showcase consist of two main levels known as the “Upstairs level” and “ Downstairs level” . The first time I came to the Jazz showcase I was seated in the “Downstairs

I went to this concert not really expecting much, however I was pleasantly surprised. Not only was the concert interesting, it was also fun and a good learning experience. I went in thinking that I wasn’t going to know anything, however, I knew some of the songs, and I was able to recognize many things that happened. I knew three of the songs that were played. These songs include “Take the “A” Train” which we learned in class, I also knew “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong and “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller.

Upon entering the building, there are the astounding sounds of music. Arias sung by students upstairs waft down into the lobby. Fellow students jokingly sing their favorite show tunes; even the receptionist will join in if the tune is catchy enough. A flat screen TV accents the room with HD sound and visual quality of last year’s performance of Porgy and Bess. In fact, the entirety of the SVAC’s lobby is decorated with tokens from past performances—whether it be photographs of performers, posters headlining previous shows, or even costumes standing tall in glass containers. To them, the performers are heroes, individuals to look up to, and the epitome of what a performer should strive to be.

Several sections get the chance to play soli including flutes, clarinets, trumpets, and trombones. The work is in ABA form, with contrast in styles between marcato and legato making this piece interesting.

The concert that I attended was ‘The Chamber Music of Joan Tower’ which occurred on November 10, 2016. It began at 12:30pm and occurred at the San Jose State University Music Concert Hall. The performers in question ranged from music students to professors.

On April 4, 2017, I attended the Student Jazz Ensemble at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The concert held in the Julien J. Studley Theatre at 8 pm. It was an impressive student spring concert series performed by the students from our college. Although the concert was not performed as the professional concerts held in famous places, it was great opportunity for the campus community to listen that kind of musical activity. I have attended the same Jazz Ensemble concert in the previous spring semester because one of my friends from Turkey was playing saxophone during the performance like he did in this performance.

My primary source is from a TED speech of George Takei, an 80-year-old Japanese-American actor and activist, a grandson of a first-generation Japanese immigrant. With his face smiling, George Takei started his 2014 presentation by introducing himself as “a veteran of the starship Enterprise soaring through the galaxy, with a crew of people from all over the world with different ethnicity, boldly exploring strange new world and seeking new civilizations”. “The crew of people” simply implicates the group of immigrants from all other countries and this grand adventure serves as a hyperbole that demonstrates his experience as being a descendant of Japanese immigrants. However, suddenly here comes a dramatic transition in the tone of this story,

Highlights of Bruch’s career include Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op. 26; Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 for solo cello and orchestra; and Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 44. Violin Concerto No. 1 is

I went to see STOMP at the Fox Theatre in downtown St. Louis. Sometimes called the “Fabulous Fox,” it was once a movie theatre, but it is now a performing arts center with a proscenium stage environment that boasts the most ornate and profoundly beautiful decorations that I’ve ever seen in a theatre. Sitting down in my seat in the center of the house, on the floor, I was unsure of what I was about to see. I was glad I didn’t really have any preconceived ideas about what was going to take place because STOMP was very different from what one usually expects when going to the theatre or a dance concert. A blend of mime, dance, theatricality, and music performance, this the show was definitely high energy and unique. During many of the pieces, the performers would use everyday objects, both as props and as a way to make music.

This Bargemusic Masterworks Series concert was held at the Bargemusic concert hall on November 10th, 2016 at 8pm at Brooklyn Bridge Blvd in Brooklyn, NY . The primary musician for this event was Andreas Foivos Apostolou in the role of piano player of these pieces of these select composers and musical pieces: (1)Rameau: Suite in G Major “Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin”, (2)Mendelssohn: Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28, “Scottish Sonata”, (3)Carl Vine: Piano Sonata (1990) and (4) Andreas Foivos: Apostolou Étude; Prélude (*Premieres); Fantasy.