The Celebration Of The Concert

Fall Out Boy is playing and my mom and I are screaming along with hundreds of other people. But wait, let me tell you how we got there. My mom and I went to dinner one night and she was telling me about how my stepdad’s mom, Cathy, won tickets for a Fall Out Boy concert on the radio. Automatically my mind went to “I get to see them twice!”. Then came the bad news, the concert was in Memphis. I spent the whole night trying to convince my mom to go. My stepdad said that if we could find a way to go we should. However, my mom didn’t want to go because it was far and we hadn’t planned for it. As we kept talking about it all night I finally convinced her to go. She called her boss and asked for the next day off and the next morning we left for Memphis

Every year that One Direction toured in Chicago, my parents gifted me what I considered the equivalent of life, One Direction concert tickets. Always relatively close to the stage, never close enough. Christmas of 2014 rolled around, when tickets would be inevitably gifted to me. However, when they weren't, my world came crumbling down around me. Luckily for me, my parents bought them in January when the only seats left were floor seats. Winter ended... Zayn left the

I woke up early that day to get ready for school, I knew that my day was gonna go super slow because I was too excited that I always kept looking at the clock tick away time. My normal Monday school day went good till my last period of the day which was Algebra II. My head was so overwhelmed that I forgot that I had a test that day, my heart broke when I walked in the room and not remembering about it. I took the test and passed and I was so happy and knew that my day was gonna get better. School ended and I got home and started getting ready for the big show. I had four tickets and they were already assigned for my mother, my aunt, and my godmother and of course one for myself. We scheduled an early dinner before we got to the venue since the doors opened at six p.m. and the opening act, the Swon Brothers, opened at seven p.m. After eating our heavy mexican dinner, we arrived at the Toyota Center and the first thing I saw was the lighted billboard showing “Carrie Underwood; Tonight”, my heart dropped because the queen of country was literally a few feet away from me. We got inside the enourmous venue and got to our seats, which by the way were club seats, sat down and waited for the big show. Easton Corbin, who is coming to the country charts, was the performer before her. His setlist was decent; I really wasn’t interested in his vocals or his hit songs. Around 8:45 p.m., the whole venue went black and I knew the time has finally

I am fixing my hair, and humming along to a song I heard on the radio, when I hear the concert start. I heard the announcements begin and the lights go dim. There was people all around me. People tripped over cords or called out demands. Some had microscopic mics on their faces, some had been putting on makeup on.

I rush into my home and run up the stairs to my room. I jump on my bed and roll over to my laptop and open it quickly. I log onto the One Direction site and see that I made it in time to see the bid. I scroll and try and find my name and I see I'm in third place for the tickets and the time is running out. I've already bid $7000 for three tickets and backstage passes. The reason it's so expensive is because these passes are the last set of passes for their concert. 5sos is also playing so we would be meeting two bands and hearing both of them play.

"I’m so nervous,” I complained to my mom as we walked into the Waukesha Civic Theatre. “What if I’m not good enough. I haven’t even prepared that much!” It was a crisp September day and some leaves had already started changing color. On the way home from school my mom told me about a play that the theater puts on near us every year and thought I would be good for it. Since I had only heard about the audition that day, it gave me a few hours to pick my song and be prepared for whatever part they wanted me to read. The next song that came on the radio was the song “Edge of Glory” by Lady GaGa and because it was in my vocal range I thought it would be good for me. Little did I know that this audition would change my view of theater.

Back in November of 2016 is when I bought the tickets to the concert. You must be wondering, oh your parents just bought you the tickets like that! Well no, I had been begging them since August, I told

Let’s back up, I walked into the BCPA studios with my binder full of the music I was going to sing, and excitement racing through me. BCPA is known for great shows and great performers, and I couldn’t wait to be a part of it. We would be performing a Broadway Revue-two acts with musical sets from different big hit musicals, some from Broadway themselves. Musicals such as Chorus Line, Dear Edwina, Footloose, Heathers/Carrie, Book of Mormon, and more. One of the fun parts about this show is we were to have a live band, and my dad would be the drummer! This would be our first show onstage together, and I couldn’t wait.

“I was incredulous,” exclaimed Kylie. “I remember thinking they messed up the roster for seating, and I ran around screaming for a solid ten minutes. Then I realized that I had a whole concert’s worth of music to learn in one night.”

The concert ended with “Best Song Ever” and I disappeared in the crowd. I drove home by myself singing along to Taylor Swift. I tried to rush home because Summer hasn’t texted or call ever since I left, I

Going to a concert is an experience incomparable to any other. Here it is, the moment, every concert goer has been waiting for, the artist coming onto the stage. Hearts begin to race as the music builds each fleeting second before the artist comes out. Smoke fills the dark stage illuminated by the band's tour video playing. Then, in the center of the stage, doors begin to open revealing four singing boys. Crying and screaming

As the day went on and I kept bugging her about the tickets she finally went to her room and surprised me with the tickets. I was so happy when this happened, I started screaming and crying, because I had been a fan of this band for so long.

As we all waited in line to go into the concert there was a thrill of

     For my second concert report I thought that I would write about my only experience hearing songs of the Beatles live. The Rib America Festival was hosted by The Beatles Live Repertoire. The group dressed exactly like the Beatles, even had the same names, John, Paul, George, and Ringo. I had never heard any Beatles songs live before, so that was enough to get me off my butt. Not to mention, it was free entertainment, not a bad time at all.

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.