On June 25, 2015, I attended one of a series of weekly garden concerts part of the Twilight Garden Concert Series. The performance was held at the Pavilion of the Two Sisters in the Botanical Garden of City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. The gate opened at five p.m. and ticketholders entered through the main entry and into the indoor facility. The gardens surrounding the building were an elegant addition to set the mood. The atmosphere was pleasantly casual. The attendants of the concert were able to purchase Mint Juleps and local cuisine prior to the showing and during intermission. The symphony started promptly at six p.m. After the performers took their places on stage, the conductor, Mr. Steven Edwards began to direct the performance.
The concert opened with the music of Lee Hoiby. The first song was the” Hymn to New Age.” The choir was in perfect harmony with the instruments. The instruments added a vibrant touch to the choir’s voices. The composer controlled
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The set was called Princess and Frog that was based on a Disney film. The first two songs where Down in New Orleans and Almost There. These songs had a joyful rhythm that the musicians made you feel the emotion of the songs. In Almost There, the piano felt like a western type song. The piano made song have a lively tone when sung together. When solo came it got slow. The song Down in New Orleans was just a New Orleans type of elegant smoothing song. The third song was Ma Belle Evangeline describes a story of love of Evangeline. The ending of the song was very soothing. The fourth song When We’re Human was a very exciting song. The song gets louder every view words and then has a break. It repeats this until the end of the song. The last song in the set Dig A Little Deeper it has some New Orleans sass when was a perfect ending to this New Orleans themed
It’s amazing to listen to musicians who do not normally play with each other come together and leave the audience in complete awe. That is exactly what happened on the day of Thursday November 26th 2014. The Bill Crothers Varsity Winds comprised of grade eleven and twelve students along with a few, talented grade tens went to listen to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra play. We travelled via a typical yellow school bus that took us to Roy Thomson Hall where we went right to the top level and took our seats. The seating seemed rather helpful because from a distance you could hear every instrument when you focused on it. It was beautiful. The band presented well with their “Penguin” like attire that was kind to the eyes. They appeared very organized,
I have never attended an orchestral concert. Although my taste ranges between several different types of music, the only concerts I have attended are of the rock and country variety. I was not sure what to expect in attending The Houston Civic Symphony’s performance on Sunday, October 9, 2016. It was held at the Dunham Theater within the Morris Cultural Arts Center at Houston Baptist University. Once inside I saw the beautiful stage with all of the performers warming up and three stories of seating. Many of the patrons were in the age range of 30 and up. I did see some kids and young adults but not many. The HCS marked its 50th year since the very first performance this season. The first performance happened in 1996 when a group of music lovers in Houston came together to play a concert just because they wanted to play and share their love of music with others. From that day they became known as the Houston Civic Symphony. Some of the players I watched in this performance have been with the Symphony for 25 years or more while others are barely reaching their first year if not their first performance; only two of the players have been there since the very first season. Out of the three pieces performed the one that caught my attention the most was the last, it hold a powerful message of fear and desperation for
The University of Redlands Wind Ensemble, directed by Eddie R. Smith, put on a show at the Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, November 16th. Walking into the monumental Chapel I was unsure of what to expect. As I walked in I saw the amazing artwork around, the high ceilings, and a wide variety of instruments scattered on different levels of the stage. On the first level there were many small hand held instruments such as flutes and clarinets, on the second there were a wide variety of brass instruments, and finally in the last row were the percussion instruments. Knowing that it was a wind ensemble and not a traditional orchestra like the ones we have been made familiar with during this course, I was unsure of what to expect. I thought that
Next, the series of jazz combos began, and a younger group of UAB students started to play. Their first song was “The Preacher” by Horace Silver, and this song was the only song with lyrics. The singer was nearly impossible to hear because she was singing in piano while the other group members were playing in fortissimo. Also, I was startled by how loud the brass instruments sounded in the concert hall; however, this is due to the trumpet being a haut instrument. Then, another combo began playing, and this combo was under the guidance of Carlos Pino. The group brought more energy and more skill, and this is shown
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 29 January 2016. My friends and I went to a concert performed by Tiffany Austin. The concert was entitled Tiffany Austin’s Blues de Voyage hosted by Presidio Officer’s Club at San Francisco in partnership with the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. As I attend the concert, I categorize myself as a casual listener to a well performed music. I didn’t have enough knowledge yet back then to analyze critically on the performance as it is my first time attending a house concert. It was an exciting experience and I enjoyed it a lot. The atmosphere was good as everybody in the room also enjoyed the singing and music played by the performers.
The pieces performed by the Vocal Music Department were performed by the separate choirs: Lakeside Singers, Men’s Choir, Women’s Choir, and Combined Choirs. Lakeside sang four complex five part harmony songs. They also sang one song featuring just women and one song featuring just men. Men’s choir sang songs
My mom and I were seated on red felt wooden chairs in the opera box above downstage right; basking in the anticipation of the start of the musical. The smell of the theater was musty, almost like a library. It even had those rays of dust and light that you see in old libraries. Looking onward, I saw the monitor in which Alex Lacamoire, the conductor, directs the actors and musicians. Closer to the balcony, huge metal spotlights hung, all containing the magical power to change a minimalist wooden stage into a bar, then a field, then a closed room in a restaurant, and finally the Weehawken dueling grounds. The feeling of excitement and glee was palpable. I looked at my mother, whose eyes were glued to the stage. In that dim lit arena of instruments,
For this assignment, I decided to attend the NW Singers and Chamber Choir performance. The reason why I chose this option over the others is because I’ve always found organized vocal music to be very beautiful. Listening to music that uses only the human voice is striking and has a certain personal feel to it. I also feel that I can relate more to choir music, as I am in the choir at my church. This concert was directed by Ms. Susanne Spencer VanDyke, accompanied by Dr. Saundra Bishop on the piano.
On November 20, 2014, I had an opportunity to watch a concert entitled “Autumn Winds” at Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles. It was part of a monthly concert series “Rush Hour Concerts at Colburn” hosted by Gibson Dunn. Gibson Dunn is a prominent law firm whose active involvement in the community expands to all various arenas of the society through their leadership and services. Rush Hour Concert is held monthly at Thayer Hall in Colburn School located at 200 South Grand Avenue diagonally across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Rush Hour Concert encourages the commuters to avoid traffic with this program to unwind after a long days of work with a wine reception at 5:30 pm
As a first music, the band played a song which they created on the stage which was really interesting because the members of the band played the music very harmonized and symmetrical way. The most interesting part of this unfamiliar experiment was that each member of the band played extemporaneously notes based on their own preference. After that music, “How Deep is the Ocean” by Irving berlin was played. The following one was the “St. Louis Blues” by the W. C. Handy. The songs were slow and easy-going songs which I really liked to
On November 12, 2016 I attended a concert brought to you by the Chamber Musical Festival. The performers for this concert were; Vaneza Tallman, Peter Jalbert, Andrew Boyle, Christine Wang, Daniel Aizenshtadt, Kyunggok Kim, Nathalie Gaynor, Francesca Fetten, Rachel Halverson, Danbe Lee, Yu Ching Shelley Ng, Michael Brown, Abigail Tucker, Sebastian Stefanovic, Benjamin Lanners and last but not least Artem Kuznetsov. The instruments played tonight were the; Violin, Piano, Viola, Cello and clarinet. This concert review will be the last one I will be doing this semester and quite frankly I was very sad. That being said my mind was set to enjoy it more than ever.
The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.
On Thursday, December 11 at 12:30 pm, I attended the musical show in Studio 312 of the Roosevelt Hall. It 's not the typical performance expected when thinking about attending a concert. Most people of this generation would assume it 's some performance by a famous artist at Madison Square Garden or Barclays Center. As the title explains, it is chamber music and is a different experience. As for the attire, everyone who took part of the performance were dressed in all black. There were various instruments used such as the harp, piano, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, violin, and voices ranging from the soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, and baritone.
For my final paper, I decided to focus on a concert that I went to this summer. On June 20th, I went to the Kick Up The Dust concert at the TCF Bank stadium. This was an all day concert and included multiple performers, like Dustin Lynch, Randy Houser, Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line, and headliner Luke Bryan. Because of what I’ve learned in this class, I was able to recognize and analyze a lot of the different elements and characteristics of the music. And because there were so many performers, I was able to compare them to each other and see how they used these elements and characteristics differently.