Mountain Road Concert Report

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

Exposition IV: An Appalachian Spring, is a performance of various musicians within Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts. The event took place at Moss Arts Center in the Anne and Ellen Fife theater, with musicians stationed on stage and on the side balconies. A different instrument section played each segment of the performance, including: horn ensemble, string ensemble, bassoonists, percussion ensemble, jazz ensemble, the Linux Laptop Orchestra, Kinect sensor and computer, and male and female choirs. This exposition was held in order to benefit the performing arts scholarship program at Virginia Tech, but it seemed that the performance had the goal of showing off the individual ensemble’s talents, and, in the end, combining those talents.

The concert opened with A Moorside Suite from England; it began quietly accompanied by the clarinet and saxophone. The tempo started out slowly, then shifted to fast and back again to slow, throughout the entire piece. There was an appearance of a few soloists including the oboe, clarinet, and saxophone. This movement ended with the entire orchestra leading to a final chorale that builds to a fortissimo climax.

I attended a blues concert in Hayward and it was one of the most culturing experiences of my life. I learned a lot about the culture and context surrounding the blues music. I found the lyrics thought provoking especially, B.B. King’s “Why I Sing the Blues” sung by Billy Dunn. Prior to me attending this concert I hardly knew anything about the blues music or historical roots. I never listened to the blues before, so I am unaware of this type of music, but I learned a lot about this style of music and enjoyed it. I also learned about the impact Hayward had on the blues and blues musicians when African Americans migrated from the deep south to the then unincorporated area of Hayward, known as Russell city. Ethnically, the majority of the attendees were African American, the second highest ethnic group attendees were Caucasian. This makes sense, since the blues and jazz were developed in the south of the U.S. and is associated with Africans. For African Americans, the blues and jazz goes a long way back in history, more specifically their history. It is associated with African American history in America, as well as African oppression and liberation.

On Saturday April 29 in the downtown area of Las Cruces I went to the country music festival. The band I went to go see was the Eli young band. The band was American country band made of a lead singer who also played guitar, as well two more members playing bass guitar, and electric guitar, piano as well as a drummer. There was so many people to see Eli young band I was scared I was going to be crushed being so closed on the stage. I don’t remember the title of the first song they played but it was more of a rock country then regular country and I liked it. It was something different to hear. People assume all country sounds the same, but they really mixed it with more a modern day country. From the beginning the one the guitar had an amazing

This past Wednesday night, I watched a high energy performance by FAMU Connection. This performance took me on a flight that I hoped would never end. This journey demonstrated Goethe’s three elements portraying a storyline dealing with a group of college students. FAMU Connection was about a group of friends, from different places on a plane heading to Tallahassee, Florida, to attend college. However, one of their friends was not quite sure if FAMU was the right choice. During the flight, the flight attendants were stating the facts about Florida Agricultural

On Friday, February 12th, I visited the Wimberley Theatre located in Wimberley, TX to watch Lend me your tenor. This play is known to fill the theatre with laughter and that’s exactly what the actors did. You would have never known this small little playhouse in such a small town would give an amazing showing of such a magnificent play. The actors were perfect and had the audience on a rollercoaster of laughter. In this play the famous tenor Tito Merelli, has agreed to play Otello for one night only at the opera company. a hilarious series of mishaps, he passes out after an accidental overdose of tranquilizers. Believing the famous tenor star is dead, the opera manager has his assistant, Max, an aspiring singer, to replace Merelli. Things go

I went to Palmetto Middle Schools band concert. It was conducted and directed by Avery Davis. There were around 50 students that performed. It was held luxurious Palmetto Middle School auditorium. They played: Rough Riders by Karl L. King, Afton Variations by Carl Strommen, and Blue Ridge by Brian Balamages. Before I went to the concert I did not expect much, but then I completely was blown away. I enjoyed the whole concert but, I loved Afton Variations the most. I know this song pretty well, and I know that it requires a lot of “woodwind power”, which they had.

In mid-February I went to talk to the eighth grade band students about continuing their music careers in high school. I talked about the multiple ensembles you can be apart of, this includes jazz band, concert band (the ninth grade band that they will be apart of their first year in high school), marching band, and pep band. The reason I mentioned all the ensembles to them is to hopefully catch their interest in staying in band. Maybe it isn’t being apart of concert band, but playing in jazz band. No matter your level of involvement, being a part of music will enrich your experience in high school.

Peter Meechan wrote this song for his friend who is the principal trumpet for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and his charity. His charity, Cancer Blows, raises awareness and money for the research of cancer. The piece started out with a slow trumpet solo and the baseline was played by the trombones. There was then a clarinet solo that was very similar. Both solos were played at a medium loudness. After the refrain played by all the instruments there was another trumpet solo and then a oboe solo. Then the whole band played. The piece ended on one loud chord played by the whole band. I thought that the band as a whole had good dynamic contrast. It was easy to tell when they were supposed to play forte or piano. The trumpet soloist also was able to sustain the notes for a long time because of the good breaths she took. I struggle with taking big breaths a lot when I play

The Ventura College Opera and Musical theatre put on a highly entertaining spectacle with the final performance of “Into the Woods,” at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center. The musical featured 22 movements broken up into two acts of edge of your seat drama, humor, and the musical talent of all of the performers. The actors beautifully rendered the lyrics, while the Orchestra conducted by Brent Wilson brilliantly played the various musical accompaniments. Ultimately, the blend of drama and music made for a thrilling performance that captivated the entire audience.

Glassboro High School held a Board of Education and budget submission meeting on March 26, which lasted about 50 minutes.

Seeing the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in person was a unique opportunity for me. Their performance at the Granada Theater was my first time going to a formal concert of any type. Like most, a made presumptions about the band, venue, and experience I would receive.

This assignment was to perform a successful concert with the music that we were taught in class. Mr. Sabatini provided us with four pieces to perform. Each of them had their own unique style, rhythms, and mood. The assignment was both group work and individual. We each individually contributed to our chorus’s sound and then came together as a group during the final concert. To learn the music, Mr.Sabatini taught us the proper pitches and rhythms in order to successfully complete each piece. We were taught certain techniques to help improve our overall singing and sound as a group. It took us approximately two and a half months to learn the pieces. I met PGE’S PS and PR1 by successfully completing this assignment.

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