I Attended The Concert Called Artpower ! Presents : St. Lawrence String Quartet

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,

On March 30th, 2017 I attended a wonderful jazz concert at Prince George’s Community College. The concert was performed by a group titled The Reginald Cyntje Group. The Reginald Cyntje Group was comprised of five talented musicians: Herman Burney, Reginald Cyntje, Lenny Robinson, Brian Settles, and Hope Udobi. The group performed a song cycle of seven songs: “The Rise of the Protester,” “Ballad for the Masses,” “Chant of the Revolt,” “Descension and Ascension,” “No Justice No Peace,” “The Piece of Resistance,” and “Blues People vs the Deplorables.” The piece titled “The Piece of Resistance,” my favorite song from the recital, and will be the focus of my concert report.

“A Music Faculty Recital” at Prince George 's Community College was actually the very first concert I’ve been to that included Baroque style. The environment created a nostalgic yet modern and elegant mood; something that made you feel like you were in the late 1700’s yet still in modern times. The songs were mostly enjoyable and we 're all well played. This concert included an ensemble: the flute, the cello, the piano, and the harpsichord. Peggy Bair, who played the flute, was very enthusiastic. Irma Cripe, who played the cello, was quiet for the first part of the concert but gradually became more important throughout the concert. And lastly, the virtuous Gary Kirkeby, who played the piano and harpsichord, served as the backbone of all parts of the concert and made this concert very enjoyable.

These types of reactions by inexperienced audiences make listening to or concentrating on great performances of beautiful music very difficult. Not only do these translate to distractions for the performers, but applause betwixt the movements can interrupt the flow of the work and thwart the intended effect that the composer and conductor wish to have on the audience. This audience reaction can also take away and distract from the atmosphere of the performance, which, in this case was a relatively small and intimate concert hall.

They performed Concerto, Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor, also known as “The Christmas Concerto.” I really enjoyed this piece very much. It was also enjoyable for me to watch this piece, because my rowing teammate, Siena Vietti, was a principal player for the violins and they all wore Santa hats which was cute. The performance media for this piece was violins, violas, cellos, and bass, and it looked like a keyboard. I believe this to be a harpsichord, but was not entirely sure. Once listening to this piece a couple times, and doing some research on it, I learned it was interpreted from the Baroque period. However, I feel that this piece is not as bizarre or strange sounding as other Baroque music we have listened to in class. I noticed 4 distinct movements when I first heard it at the concert, but after listening a couple more times and doing some more research on it, I learned there about 6 movements within the song. It begins very slowly, then grows to a faster speed, and then becomes more moderate, then very lively, a bit faster, and then slow again at the end. My favorite movements were the 4th and 5th. These movements were very lively and fast, and really enjoyable and interesting to listen to. I really enjoyed listening to the violins throughout this part. Overall, this piece was very interesting to listen to and the MU Orchestra did a fantastic job at

On November 12, 2016 I attended a concert brought to you by the Chamber Musical Festival. The performers for this concert were; Vaneza Tallman, Peter Jalbert, Andrew Boyle, Christine Wang, Daniel Aizenshtadt, Kyunggok Kim, Nathalie Gaynor, Francesca Fetten, Rachel Halverson, Danbe Lee, Yu Ching Shelley Ng, Michael Brown, Abigail Tucker, Sebastian Stefanovic, Benjamin Lanners and last but not least Artem Kuznetsov. The instruments played tonight were the; Violin, Piano, Viola, Cello and clarinet. This concert review will be the last one I will be doing this semester and quite frankly I was very sad. That being said my mind was set to enjoy it more than ever.

On Saturday December 5, 2015 I went to the New York Public Library Center for the Preforming Arts at Lincoln Center to view the performance called “Beethoven Encounters”. The show was free and it was in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. The pieces being performed were “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 5” all four movements. This was followed by “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 1” all four movements of this. Which was then finished with “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 4” with all four movements again. The show began at 2:30 in the afternoon and went on for about an hour or so.

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,

Last year I was so excited when my sister told me that we would attend a free live performance. I was happy because it was my first time to attend a live performance in Boston. My sister told me that the performance would be for “Max Ridley’s Senior Recital,” and would be located on Boylston St. Also, she added that the performance would be by bassist Max who would perform original and standard jazz with his band. I did not know who was Max, so I predicted that he might be someone famous that I did not hear about him before.

In this virtuoso series concert, the style of music displayed was different pieces from 1756-1983. There are six groups who performed and the instruments range from horn, violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and a beautiful voice. This concert was full of new sounds, and I wasn’t very familiar with these different sounds and instruments that were being played.

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.

On the second of March, I attended a Classical music concert at the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles Pierce College. The Pierce College afternoon concerts are sponsored by the Associated Students Organization. The event I attended featured the Belrose Duo. The duo consists of David Garrett and his wife Junko Ueno Garrett. David Garrett played the cello and the viola da gamba and Junko Ueno Garrett played the piano. They performed three compositions from two different periods, the Baroque and the Romantic. Garrett performed Sonata V from “L’echo du Danube,” Op.9 by Johannes Schenk on the viola da gamba. The composition consisted of six movements. Junko Ueno Garrett performed Nocturne Op. 27 No.2 in D flat Major and Nocturne Op.9 No. 3

Music has always been apart of my life ,from the tender age of six years old we have ever been apart. The art form of musical arts will forever intrigue me and compel me to push myself to my musical limit. The history of the evolution of music through the centuries is quite alluring. The formulation of musical intellectually concepts and leaps of faith that composers at the time

They positioned themselves to being playing Johannes Brahms composition “Quintet for Clarinet and Strings”. The next group of performers came on stage and started playing “String Quartet in G Minor, opus 10” by Claude Debussy. Claude Debussy is an amazing composer; my favorite composition by him is “Claire de Lune”. Gyorgy Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

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.