Joan Tower Critique

For this concert report I chose to go to a performance of student composers held at the Kimball Recital Hall. I chose this one because I wanted to see some of the talent that my peers have in the music realm, and also it was one of the only concerts I have been able to attend because I usually work at night. It was impressive to hear pieces composed by students. I cannot imagine creating something as complex as a musical composition, much less actually performing it, so this aspect of the concert was particularly awe-inspiring. There was a large attendance, and I think that much of the audience consisted of friends of the composers and/or performers. I went with three friends, who I convinced by telling it would be interesting to see

The concert was very good overall. I am not interested in the classical music concert, but this concert made me thing different towards the classical concerts. Also I learned about the instrument called organ, very interesting instrument. I strongly recommend going to the organ concert. Especially if Dr. Carol Williams and Martha Jane Weaver are starring, you should definitely attend. No regret

On July 31st, 2015, at Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Mozart and Brahms took place. The performers for that evening were Jeremy Denk, the pianist and Louis Langrée as the conductor. The performances that were played that night were Chaconne in D minor for piano left hand by composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Symphony No. 4 in E minor by composer Johannes Brahms. The symphony was excellent in my opinion. The first performance, Chaconne in D minor for piano left hand wasn’t my favorite one but the last two were spectacular. It was the first time I’ve been to a classical music concert and it was a different

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.

The concert that I attended was a charity concert, which was organized in Boston at a local university there. The South Asian Student Union of Harvard University organized the concert. I happened to be in Boston and this particular concert was organized for benefit causes such as using the proceeds of the concert to fund a number of poverty alleviation projects in South Asia. The concert was organized in a rather big room, which had a very big podium, as well as at least 500 seats that had been placed in it. Therefore, the overall hall where this concert took place was a typical auditorium setting with seating and a stage at the front. The concert promoters talked about different cause benefits related to alleviation of poverty in South Asia and that’s why the concert was organized. The organizers also informed the audience that the musicians wore traditional clothing so that the audience members could also have a good insight and understanding of the South Asian culture. All of ticket revenues for this concert were then given to a number of charities which then would use those funds to assist the different poverty alleviation programs in the larger South Asian region.

The concert I attended was called the Faculty and Student Recital, which took place in the Cisco Auditorium on April 11, 2017. The music that was on the program was mostly what is called “classical” music, as well as a Chinese Folk Song, an electronic composition, and variations on an Indian Tala. In the classical pieces, the instruments that were used were the violin, the piano, the cello, and the oboe. In the electronic composition, the computer was used to make music. In the Chinese Folk Song, the piccolo was used to imitate the unique timbre of a Chinese flute. In the Indian tala, drums from Ghana were used to imitate the rhythm and sound of Indian drums. The piano, the violin, the cello, and the piccolo all originate

The space was a well-constructed thrust stage however, the stage was not raised off the ground and the seats appeared to be mobile which lead to the belief that this is an Environmental Theater. As for the layout of the stage, there was a couch and a table in center stage for the first two acts, a door to the unseen outside front of the house upstage right, there were two large double doors upstage center leading to the backyard garden, and a raised floor upstage left containing a piano, a bookcase and a door

On 29 January 2016. My friends and I went to a concert performed by Tiffany Austin. The concert was entitled Tiffany Austin’s Blues de Voyage hosted by Presidio Officer’s Club at San Francisco in partnership with the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. As I attend the concert, I categorize myself as a casual listener to a well performed music. I didn’t have enough knowledge yet back then to analyze critically on the performance as it is my first time attending a house concert. It was an exciting experience and I enjoyed it a lot. The atmosphere was good as everybody in the room also enjoyed the singing and music played by the performers.

The auditorium plays a dual function, connecting the first floor to the second floor galleries, and it also works as an event area. The seats are connected to the stairs creating bleachers in between, with an open staircase pushed to the left of the wall. In this way visitors are able to engage in the space by not only going up the staircase. This exposed area provides different types of events, from a presentation or performance, to screenings projecting into the front of the auditorium, to more intimate gatherings like groups and clubs. These more intimate spaces are due to the mechanized walls that act a as a curtain to section off the auditorium. In this manner the spaces of the auditorium adapt to the circumstances and the purpose of each different event, making the visitor feel like it’s in control of the

He then took a paid leave from music and read about the achievements and life of Victor Hugo. He wrote symphonic poems. Franz Liszt died of pneumonia in 1886. The last composer is Vladimir Horowitz, he was a American pianist. He was recognized as the greatest piano virtuoso of the 20th Century. His mother gave him piano lessons at a young age. His father changed his birth year to 1904 so he could avoid military service so he could protect his hands. Vladimir was known for his technique and ability to create excitement in his music. Horowitz performed different types of music like concertos. He died of a heart attack in 1989. All of those pieces from the different composers I mentioned were really good and i enjoyed the concert a lot, because Stephen Bues is a great pianist and he did a awesome job. My favorite piece would have to be Fur Alina because of how he made something so short sound so beautiful. My least favorite piece will have to be Chaconne in D Minor because of the notes, they were low and depressing. The information that I learned in class has helped me be able to actually put vocabulary words with the pieces that he played, it helped me understand what was going on. If I had to attend another concert I would definitely go just

My first concert experience turned out to be very different from what I expected. Even though I would not choose to listen to classical music normally, the concert has made me enjoy this type of music more and made me think about how much more there is to music than just lyrics and a

On May 4th, I attended a jazz band concert at Consumes River College in the recital hall. The performances consisted of ten jazz songs and one funky song.

The name of concert was Jazz Ensemble II. It was on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8 p.m. in the Julien J. Studley Theatre. The director of this concert was John Menegon. There were five instruments available those are bass, trumpet, drums, alto sax, and guitar. In addition to the instruments there were two vocals. Six pieces were played those were How Deep is the Ocean (Irving Berlin), S.T. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) , Donna Lee/ Back Home in Indiana (Charlie Parker/ Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) , Motion Detector (John Menegon) , A night in Tunisia (music by Dizzy Gillespie, lyric by Ella Fitzgerald) , and the last one was I don’t need No Doctor (music by John Mayer), respectively.

The second concert I attended was the Shepherd school of music collegium concert at Rice University. The program featured music from the renaissance and was a little bit different then the orchestra concert I attended. For one there were fewer musicians. It had a more intimate setting, not a big theater but rather a small rehearsal hall. The musicians exchanged in and out after there part of the performance was over and there was some singing as well.

The concert was performed on the Southam Hall stage at the NAC; this is a large hall with extremely good acoustics. It is a nationally known stage, so the quality of the hall is very good. Generally, the audience was very receptive as it was composed of adults, who were all silent. The acoustics were very good as the hall spread the sound throughout the hall without making it echo. This had a positive effect on the performance, because it was possible for the orchestra to be clearly heard from any point in the entire hall. I was impressed by the large number of students that I saw that night because the show deserved to have been heard by many young people.