The Concert Series Fall 2015

On April 11th, 2017 in the Louis Armstrong Theatre, I attended the GVSU “University Band”. This up-beat ensemble lasted about 90 minutes; the talented students of GVSU’s university band joined together to perform multiple different songs ranging from a Waltz to a Dixieland Jamboree. All of the songs that the band played for the audience were all well-known, popular songs that they all enjoyed. Having the opportunity to attend this concert has opened new musical paths for myself and has allowed me to enjoy and kindly critique something that I perhaps would have never had the chance to otherwise.

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.

On February 25, 2016, I was able to see the Mid-Year Band Concert in the PAC. The pieces I have chosen to review were performed by the Varsity, Symphonic II and Symphonic I Bands and conducted by Mr. Bailey and Mr. Hillhouse. “King Cotton,” “Amparito Roca,” and “Valdres” were among my favorites in the program and are all coincidentally, marches.

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

On October 13, I attended a concert by the UT Jazz orchestra at the Bates Recital Hall. This performance consisted of seven pieces and all were stylistically different, which allowed the audience to enjoy the various sounds of jazz music. Among the instrument groups, there are saxophones, trumpets, trombones, piano and drums. Professor Jeff Hellmer served as director andJohn Mills appeared as guest conductor. The whole concert made a lasting impression on me.

Next, they performed O virtus Sapientiae, which was a lovely NEUMATIC piece, with a solo by Emma Rosenthal. The last song performed by the Women’s Chorale was Five Hebrew Love Songs, dedicated to the late pianist Shane Summers, was one of my favorite performances of the night. The song was accompanied by Ray Arreola on the Viola and had a couple solos performed by Rosenthal. This was, in my opinion, one of the best performances of the night, the HARMONY of the voices and viola, and the alternating TEMPOS, creating deep emotion. After these performances it was apparent that Ms. Rosenthal is extremely talented and a seasoned performer. Rosenthal executed her solos with grace and

The Sartell High School’s bands, choirs, and orchestra had their first concert of the year on October 16, 2017. I will be evaluating the wind ensemble’s performance of their two pieces.

It was performed by the big group percussion ensemble and incorporated the use of bass guitar, violin, and one drum set. The violin was playing a different melody as the rest of the group was playing in unison. At the end of the performance Tony Savage, drum set player, took a solo with light harmonic accompaniment.

The fourth and fifth performances were both from the Secret Garden (1991), Act 2 by Lucy Simon. The first part was a duet that consisted of one soprano and one baritone while the second part was a quartet that contained two baritones and 2 sopranos. However, this piece seemed very similar to the second performance because they were both composed with the last one hundred years. With that being said, it somewhat surprised me that the melodies used in this performance were similar to English folk melodies even though this piece is fairly

In between major pieces, they had a trio of musicians that play pop culture tunes. The Violin, guitar, and sax were the prominent instruments for the interlude. They use instruments like the tuba to play the lower tones in the songs. Some were syncopated, especially the song The Entertainer which falls under the Ragtime genre.

On Sunday, May10 2015, a concert was held in The Broad Stage. The concert was played by Santa Monica College Symphony Orchestra, whose conductor is Dr. James Martin. For this concert, I would identify myself as a referential listener at this concert. I say this because I am not an expert in music, therefore it would be hard for me to be a critical listener. I wouldn’t be able to tell what went wrong with a performance even if some incorrect notes were played. I was more of a referential listener because the music was soothing and brought my mind to peaceful thoughts. This essay will tells my experience of the concert in order to persuade my friend to  attend a classical music concert with you in the future.

During this concert, a total of nine compositions were played. Duo for 2 Flutes Op, 102 n. 2 was played by Yeami Kim and Megan Lyons. Notturno for Flute, Clarinet and Guitar Op. 21 was played by Joy Setton, Jorge Sanchez, and Lance Piebenga. Rondo for Three Guitars was played by Lance Piebenga, Phoebe Balazon and Henrri Guillen. Serenade for Guitar and Piano Op. 50 was played by Henrri Guillen and Carmond Chang. Aria for Clarinet and Piano was played by Jorge Sanchez and Christoper Calabrisotto. Followed by the intermission, Suite Buenos Aires was played by

The name of concert was Spring Choral Concert which was prepared by the Department of Music School of Fine and Performing Arts State University of New York at New Paltz. The concert was on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 8 p.m. ın Julien J. Studley Theatre. The concert was directed by Edward Lundergan and Gary Palmieri accompanied him. The four groups took to the stages. The groups were called Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Concert Choir and College-Community Chorale, and College Community Chorale. The total 13 songs were sung during the concert. Chamber Singers sang 6 songs, Concert Choir sang 3 songs, Concert Choir and College-Community Chorale sang just 1 song, and College-Community Chorale sang 3 songs. It was very interesting concert I have ever seen before because this concert was like a church concert. I have not listened that kind of songs before.

On Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 I had a performance. The performance was worth 1,000 points. The performance was called the Winter Concert. This concert was held at Smoky Hill High School’s auditorium. The concert began around 7:15 pm.

When breaking the performance down to a more basic level the music and lyrics were done by Neil Bartram, the book was done by Brian Hill, and the film was directed by Robert Mish. The date of the show was on October 23 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and the show was produced by the Department of Theater, Dance, Film Studies and the