Setsun The Kyodo Taiko Spring Concert

SGT Raskopf displayed outstanding showmanship in his role as a costumed actor for the 2016 Holiday Memories concert series by committing the script of the show to memory, and portraying his character authentically. SGT Raskopf ensured a quality presentation throughout the concert series for both live and broadcast audience members. The concert series is one of the unit's highest profile missions of the year, and SGT Raskopf contributed greatly to its success by taking on an especially critical role.

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.

On August 15, 2015, Farrington Key Club volunteered to create some shirts for the volunteers for the Okinawa Festival. It was a very fun and tough experience. From our key clubber, Gigi Supapo, she said, “ I had to be very careful printing and placing the shirts to make it was centered. I felt scared at first but as I kept doing it, I got the hang of it.”. The volunteers tried their best to make sure the outcome was nice. As, the key clubbers were making the shirts, it was nice to see a lot of people wanting to help out with the festival. It was a nice fun team building activity and it build up our relationship with one another as an organization. Overall, the turnout was excellent!

On Tuesday, Feb 28, the NMSU The Statesmen, Women’s Chorale, Chamber Choir, and University Singers presented a show called The Best of All Possible World, conducted by Christa Fredrickson. They performed various works: MADRIGALS, pieces from musicals, an ORGANUM piece, arranged by Fredrickson herself, as well as sacred text compositions and folk songs.

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

The concert that I attended was on November 14th, 2017, on a Tuesday night. Those that were performing were the Chamber Ensemble of Kutztown University. The Concert began at 7:30 p.m., and concluded at 8:30 p.m. When the concert was just beginning I was unsure of what to expect, besides the obviousness of a piano portion to the whole event, because there was one sitting in the center of the stage.

On April 21, 2014 I watched the online performance of Sleeping Beauty performed by the Jacobs School of Music at the Musical Arts Center in Indianapolis. I have never personally been to the Musical Arts Center, but from the online streamed video, the place looks magnificently huge and phenomenal. The stage was absolutely stunning. It was big, vibrant, and breathtaking. It made it look as if you actually went back in time and were a part of the performance. The stage was enhanced with beautiful cool, calming purples, pinks, and blues that matched the performers’ outfits to a tee. It reminded me of royalty. Each performer had gorgeous outfits for every act, and I must say, the designer did a fabulous job.

The shogun government created laws to control the art form, which became popular among the social class of the townspeople, to control the people through the art. A lord, Iemitsu, banned Onna-Kabuki as being immoral because women at the time, in the eyes of the government, should not be participating in the art form. Later, when young boys took the place of women in female roles it occurred that “certain samurai warriors became attracted to the young boys” (Nadel/Strauss 147). In an attempt to make the warriors be more honorable and not demoralize themselves the government made laws against young boys performing in Kabuki in the year

On Sunday, December 4th, I attended the Marquette University Holiday Concert. The concert consisted of the MU Jazz Bands, Chorus, Orchestra, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble. It was really enjoyable to attend and listen to all different types of mediums of holiday Christmas music. It was really well organized and efficiently structured between all the different groups.

An additional tradition of the Kanina, that is familiar to us, is the round dance. Or, as we call it, the rain dance. It’s identified as the rain dance to us, because it’s said to summon the rain. To the Kanina, however, it was used to gain prosperity, rain, obviously, as well as function as a social gathering. The festival lasted for up to three days and in between the great deal of feasting, the chief would bring up important topics. The

American violinist, violist, and composer from Chinese descent, Jason Kao Hwang, has followed his own path in the avant-jazz scene with a few interesting albums of his own authorship and many memorable collaborations along the way with Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Dominic Duval, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, and more recently with trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum.

For six years I've been in my school's choir at Buchtel Community Learning Center. That choir has taught me a lot of things; how to blend voices together, how to read music, even how to correctly warm up your voice and the posture when singing. I take these lessons everywhere I go, especially to the music program I was in, STARS. STARS was a music program that was spread all over the country that helped young people showcase their talents and gave them opportunities to learn more about their craft. We had visitors come to show us how to write lyrics, harmonize, and shared their stories on how they came from nothing and did what they truly wanted to do, perform. There were about seven people that were in STARS stationed in Akron and we were

The Raging Asian Women (RAW) is a Taiko group consists of only Asian women. They will hold a concert “Crooked Lines” in March 13th. This is the event that I will attend. Taiko is a type of tradition Japanese drum, existed since the ancient Japan. Taiko was originally a tool for communication among the ancient Japanese villages. It used to signal danger and encourage warriors in battles. Later with the influence of Chinese and Korean culture, Taiko became more musical and utilized more in ritual and performance contexts.

“There are approximately one hundred and six different percussion instruments in the world (Hamby).” The bands of the late 1900s were starting to explore with more diverse genres, more percussive instruments, and getting more creative. School marching bands became popular in the 1900s by playing during halftime of football games, playing multiple of the same percussion instruments all in time, and getting various types of people to work together towards one similar goal. Modern era bands, two thousands-present, have gone and created some of their genres with their percussion instruments, switched to electronic drums only or with acoustic drums too, and have tried to throw-back to later times and styles of music. The use of percussion in school marching bands, bands of the 1900s, and bands of the modern era very wonderfully in instruments and styles.

A timeless musical about love, courage, and hope. Les Misérables is one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, it is currently in twenty-two different languages. It has been played in forty-four different countries and over 342 cities. Les Misérables is the world's longest-running musical with over 53,000 professional performances reaching worldwide audiences of over 70 million. On November 3, 2017, at the Peace Center in Greenville, Les Misérables added another member to its audience. That member was me. 70 million people and I have gotten the opportunity to experience the musical production that is Les Misérables. Les Misérables is a timeless musical production that tells a story full of love, loss, hope, and courage through beautiful music and lyrics.