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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,

The music played throughout all of the concerts adhered to be diverse. The instruments, the individuals performing, and the conductor all proved to be outstanding. The concerts proved to be interesting as I witnessed them, first hand.

Young boys, seemingly in their nature, often play with their friends and pretend to be soldiers. I recall using nerf guns and walkie-talkies for top secret missions around the neighborhood. It wasn't until I grew older that I began to understand a soldier’s true significance. I soon became infatuated with American history. By the time the school curriculum covered an era

Symphonic Winds- Symphonic Winds is included in the curriculum as a second band to further develop student’s ensemble abilities and technique beyond that of the Freshman Band.

Tim O’Brien spoke to the Lovett Upper School in a very grim and upfront manner, careful to not “sugarcoat” any of the harsh realities from the War, which veterans have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. In a sense, O’Brien’s rash visualization of his brutal war stories was a necessary evil in explaining the war to a group of uninformed individuals. He spoke to show the confusion of the war, sharing many stories of despair and triumph in the jungles and fields of Vietnam. In many ways, the student body represents what was at the time of the war the American civilian population. While draftees were thrown into battle, the people in the United States were oblivious to the treacherous nature of combat. There seemingly was no preparation for a

East Carolina’s Concert band and Symphonic band performed on Tuesday, February 16, at seven thirty in the evening in Wright Auditorium. Being a duel performance it included over a hundred of my talented East Carolina peers led by outstanding band Directors Dr. Juchniewicz and Dr. Staub. Along with great students and Directors, the show incorporated a beautiful trombone solo performed by a fellow colleague. Although I have never attended a concert where such style of music was being performed, I did enjoy the music being played and most of them sounded as if I heard them before. The professionalism the students portrayed and maintain to the audience was breathtaking and made me honored to be their peers.

For this assignment, I went to the Basically Beethoven Festival at the Dallas City Performance Hall. The recital was opened with a few pieces played by the rising stars Madera Wind Quintet. The main performance included Rachel McDonald on the viola, Joseph Kuipers on the cello, Grace Wollett on the violin, Scott Wollett on the oboe, and the great pianist Alex McDonald. They performed a compilation of famous composers’ masterpieces.

The Sartell High School’s bands, choirs, and orchestra had their first concert of the year on October 16, 2017. I will be evaluating the wind ensemble’s performance of their two pieces.

Winter within the Missouri woodlands was a tough time. Cold, wet, tired all expressed what I felt in that camp deep in the forests. From the 16-mile march prior to setting up camp to the periodic raids I felt the great weight being thrust upon us. “Push on! This was going to be your future so you better learn quick. Don’t you quit on me!” I heard these words ringing in my ears whenever I tied my boots to start another day. This would be the start of my quest to understand what it meant to grow as both a person and a soldier.

Each semester, the bands host a concert or two to play for the public. I had the chance to attend the first one of the Spring semester and analyze it. Within this review I will cover one prominent piece per band that really stuck out in the whole event. The LSU Spring Jazz Showcase demonstrated the renowned musicianship and incredible performance of the different jazz groups that the university had to offer.

It took place at the Partridge Hall inside the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre at 7:30PM on January the 30th 2017. It was exquisite, and such an amazing performance. The performers were very talented and you could tell that they were professional players. They decided that they would take the audience around the World by playing different pieces from different countries at different time periods which gave us a wide variety of musical tastes and made the performance much more interesting. The first piece that they played was called Fanfare from La Peri by Paul Dukas. It was a strong way to start off the evening

As we enter the sites, the students were overwhelmed with emotions, upon hearing about the tragedies that transfixed within the place. The tragedies of Gallipoli often turns a soldier into a statistic of numbers, rather than a person. The positioning of the trenches allowed us to realise the close proximity of the two opposing sides. Nothing could have prepared us with the marvellous sites of the near vertical cliffs overlooking the pebble Anzac Cove. From the beach, we made our way up Shell Green and into Lone Pine via Artillery Road. It's such an overwhelming sentiment to come into terms with, knowing that only 100 years had passed since our soldiers made the very same hike, only that time, there were neither stairs, nor memorials to mark the horrors that's about to face them. The hike itself made us come into terms with the terrors that were brought upon them, such as the wavering weather, the steepness of the hike and the close proximity of the enemies within the vicinity of the base

On Wednesday February 22, 2017, I attended the Frost School of Music Symphonic Winds “Music and Media” concert at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall at the University of Miami. The conductors of this concert were Graig S. McKenzie, Christian M. Noor and Jay C. Rees. This concert included brass and wind instruments such as the flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone euphonium and tuba. There was also a percussion section that had instruments such as the timpani and a string section that included a harp, double bass, and piano. The entire concert consisted of six musical pieces of different genres: Symphonic Suite from Far Away and The Cowboy by John Williams, Vulcan by Michael Daugherty, Colorado by Benjamin Webster,

While adjudicating the ensemble festival, I would, first and foremost, look and listen for good tone, and the proper technique behind good tone. Individual musicians’ ability to produce good tone and play in tune relies heavily on their technique. It is important for young musicians to develop proper posture and left and right hand technique to be able to play the instrument properly and to prevent injury. Tone should be uniform, centered, consistent and well-controlled, and the ensemble should be in tune in all dynamic levels and ranges throughout the performance. Without the proper technique, tone quality and intonation, a string ensemble cannot be truly

In the month of March, I attended the musical performance “Harp Magic” by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra at the Michigan Theater and the performance of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at Hill Auditorium. Though the two orchestras, repertories, and venues were all different, experiencing the two performances in the same month allowed me to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the role that symphony orchestras play in today’s society. By attending live performances of symphony orchestras in Ann Arbor, one can learn become engaged with musical history and the symphonic tradition, recognize the transformation of the function of symphony orchestras, and take part in enjoying and continuing the art that has also been undergoing