SICC Showcase Concert Reflection

In a small recreational center in Charlotte, North Carolina came together a group of individuals with immense talent. These accomplished individuals not only shared a love for the performing arts, but a profound love for their grieving community. The Listen Up! semi-annual showcase was put together in the wake of the Keith Lamont Scott incident which shook up the Charlotte community. Tyrone Jones and the Charlotte Symphony wanted to give the people an outlet for expressing their emotions about current events, and so, they put together the Listen Up! showcase. Expertly crafted, Tyrone Jones and the Charlotte Symphony were profoundly effective at blending various forms of performing arts into one cohesive show that addressed current events,

This piece written for the Columbine High School Band to perform, gives way to the traditional combined band performances which started in the mid 20th century and continue on in the 21st century to perform. With no foreseeable ending to this style of performances (so long as schools have them in the budget) I believe that those who hear this performance will be serviced by what it has to offer. Having performed this piece only a month after the Sandy Hook school shooting, and personal losses of family and 2 friends in close time to one another and this performance I can say that learning and performing this piece not only can relate to my life but has impacted it and helped

On November 18, 2015, I attended a UAB concert involving jazz combos and a guitar ensemble. This concert was filled with amazing musicians, intricate solos, and thick harmonies. There were three jazz combos and one guitar ensemble; the first set was the guitar ensemble, which contained four guitarists and one bass player. The ensemble consisted of four songs: “Swing It,” a swing-style song; “Samba #1”; “A Child is Born,” a waltz; and “Bill’s Bay.” The main theme of “Bill’s Bay” was very catchy and memorable, and the ensemble’s most impressive player to me was Michael Galanti on the bass guitar. His solos involved precise pizzicato and quick movement that I have never witnessed in a bass player.

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.

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.

A number of years ago, I had the opportunity to play a concert with Livingston Taylor (also known as “Budget James Taylor”), providing an opportunity for a folk-rock singer-songwriter to perform standards with a full jazz band – something not entirely different from the Stamey-orchestra relationship. Much like the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra, we only had one extended rehearsal with our guest after several months of rehearsing our charts; inevitably, there were some kinks to iron out in tempo, mood, and overall consistency. Unlike the GSO’s

Going to the jazz performance at the Bechtler showed me a different side of the community in Charlotte coming together. At the Bechtler Museum host, an annual night of jazz the theme for this performance was Jazz Night for Lovers. They had two shows, which both sold out. The line to get in was so long and full with young couples and older couples as well. Once were allow inside the venue everyone took there sits and watched as a beautiful 14-year-old girl sing her heart to the crowd. The crowd loved her and her performance. Things got even better when the jazz band got on stage and there special performer.

Around # of students came to play, one of them being Carter Kucier, the only mellophone in our Marching Band. He said that, “*Insert Quote*”, which shows just how amazing this opportunity was. Mr. Magaro, the band director in charge of the trip, was especially

The musical acts were a key part of the demonstration and brought a way of celebration to this event. The speakers and the singers preformed on the same podium with the same microphone (Tomasky). Songs that were sung at this event became very popular and got on the top billboard charts and are still recognized today. A huge performance was made by Bob Dylan, a man well known to this day, and also a woman named Joan Baez. The musical acts were

The video, “The Songs Are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon and African- American music was very interesting and brought up a lot of topic I had not thought about before. To begin, I never really thought about congregational music being the music of community. As a child, I can remember not being to worried about how I sounded when I sang in church because everyone else was also singing. It never really registered that we were doing that together. A group of people singing for the same purpose: to feel closer to God. Reagon talks about how the songs her ancestors sang brought them together. By the different meaning the words of the songs could, African Americans knew when it was safe to leave and where to go during the time of the Underground Railroad.

The tune was hot and enthusiastic and shown dialogue without using any words. The ensemble played this piece by Cassia Lee supplied the drawn-out conversation that sounded like twirling and dancing in the moonlight with the solo as well as steadiness. This tune reminded me of “My Heart Will Go On” in that a story is told of the instrumental nature of it, just as much as when the lyrics are being sung by Celine Dion. I found listening to this tune a rewarding experience, and it turned out to be a wonderful start to the jazz concert in that it was not unfamiliar to the crowd. “Waltz for Debby’ got me question why someone would write this kind of old and whom Debby was -sounding tune for someone he or she loved. It 's really difficult for me to advocate this song to anybody, for I lacked the depth of the other tunes through the entire evening and believed it was boring. “Ancient Memories” was a piece that is wonderful. The tune was enjoyment and I loved listening to the changes over and over again, although the tune had lots of repetition. The Jazz Ensemble concert at Tarleton was an enjoyable evening full of intellectually exciting encounters of music and excellent music that I wouldn 't have listened to if not for this duty. Diversification is an important lesson to learn when seeing music because all music has roots from a different music genre and understanding this makes you more diversified as somebody.

Churches were bombed and kids killed. John Coltrane with his healing tenor saxophone brought us together and reminded us of who we are at our best when he recorded ‘Alabama’” (Wynton 2009). The sorrowful melody reminded every one of the civil rights movement and proved again that Arts allowed people to know who they were and where they belonged to. In history, many great musicians put stories into their songs to fight for liberty, and we should always remember that.

I attended Kayla Schwartz jazz vocal performance in University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Of the bat, I thought this performance would be great because although it was in a small classroom a lot of audience attended, to the point where some audience members had to stand since all the seats were taken.

Stepping on stage with the York County Junior Honors Choir had become very familiar to me over the past two and a half years. I'd learned that you can never fall into a routine at a concert because each audience has a different personality. Sometimes you have to bring up the energy with choreography, sometimes you have stick to the slow songs with a religious meaning when performing for a church group on Sundays, and sometimes the order of the concert has to be completely changed. However, in my three seasons of performing, one thing that has always remained is singing the reprise of a song titled “Why We Sing”. The lyrics to this short piece are simple, but extremely powerful when sung by a group as passionate about music as the York County

On May 6, 2017, I attended a Guitar Recital at Lone Star North Harris. The group that performed ranged from little children to college students. Overall, everyone had their own different piece to play according to their level. For example, a little boy played Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star compared to a college student that played Asturias/Leyenda that is more on the complex side. There was not a specific type of style of music they played as the concert had Folk songs, pieces by M. Carcassi, pieces by C. Parkening, and more. What I was impressed by is a girl who I believe is around 12 years old play Siciliana by Matteo Carcassi with such smoothness and grace. It was like she was entranced and by the looks of it was passionate about what she