Unh/1111 Concert Reports

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,

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

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.

Trio M, a pliable collective co-led by pianist Myra Melford, bassist Mark Dresser, and drummer Matt Wilson, made an appearance at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola in the heart of New York City on March 30th to perform a repertoire of old and new material. The group is active since 2006 and has plans to record their third album of originals very soon, which will follow up the ones already out there: Big Picture (2007) and Guest House (2013). Since all three bandleaders contribute with their own compositions in an equal share, the outcome is a compound of different ideas, tones, atmospheres, and rhythms served up with a forward-thinking attitude.

Having the Merasi, master musicians of Rajasthan, perform live at Colby College provided students and faculty with a cultural experience unlike any that I have attended. The Merasi, from the Thar Desert in Pakistan, have found great success through their music despite their status in the caste system. As a family group, they have been able to gain the international attention that they needed to establish both music and literacy education for their people back home. Although very few people in our audience could understand their lyrics, the emotion and physical movements of the musicians were effective in conveying the overall themes of their songs. From watching this live performance of Rajasthani music, I was able to observe how the music itself, the behaviour of the musicians and audience, and the function of the music interacted to transport a small part of Rajasthan to the Pugh Center giving the audience a glimpse into its culture.

The primary thing I would like to get out in the open is that I remember hearing Soren sing when we were both young out at camp and thinking that she had a voice that was to grating to listen to for very long at all. I could not put my finger on why back then, but now I can. At that point I would listen to her and everything was so bright that it was hard to listen to (and because she had an undeveloped voice at the time). I know that you might not like me starting like this, but! I wanted to get it out there so when I say that I was not exited to hear her sing you would know that I was basing that on anything that I had heard since seeing her at this college. Side note I LOVED her dress. I just had a picture in my head that was over powering anything I had seen her do at the college, until I was sitting in the chair watching her sing.

On Saturday, November 21st I attended Stage III’s production of the musical The Drowsy Chaperone at the Beaudoin Theater in Siena Campus’ Foy Hall. In order to keep productions interesting for all members of the audience, Stage III productions differ each year. So, Stage III production genres vary each year, as no genre of play or musical is repeated within the same year. The musical direction in Stage III’s The Drowsy Chaperone was by Dr. Timothy J. Reno, while the music and lyrics were by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison.

As I was sitting in the audience, the first thing that I noticed was that the audience consisted of all ages, ranging from eighteen years of age to perhaps eighty years of age. In preparation for the concert to begin, several performers entered the room and tuned their instruments to the keys on the piano. The performers’ attire was highly conservative, covering almost every inch of their entire body, and they wore all black from head to toe. When the concert began, the audience clapped as the performers were introduced and were walking out onto the playing area. As the performers took their seats in front of their stands, the audience became quiet and there was a short moment of silence before the performance commenced.

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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.

Austin Lyric Opera production of Aida, is what I chose my concert report to be about, in Aida there is 4 Acts. In this concert report, I will be choosing a section from Act 1 to write my report about; which is "Se quel guerrier io fossi; Celeste Aida" sung by Radames (tenor).

Music has been known to unify performers, as well as audience members. Different elements of a performance bring these groups together, although the groups are brought together in similar ways. The performers are brought together through the many hours put into each performance and song writing, but the audience members grow closer together through the different gatherings and social events and performances. Overall, these two groups of people are seen to grow closer and closer together as time has progressed.

In this concert, at Topanga Community Club, the second piece is Concertino for Clarinet in E-flat Major Op.26, by Carl Maria Von Weber. The musical elements in this piece which is the melody moves slowly from the introduction in C-minor to an E-flat major then goes fast at the end of the music that keep the tonality of the E-flat major. The clarinet enters the music by a sad melody that makes the music feels like in C-minor. In this music. It moves really fluently like a harmony of birds at the begging of it. At the middle of it, an emphatic C-minor chords accompanied by beating timpani loudly. It is tricky how how that happened, but at the same time the music is connected rhythmically. It just reminded me of birds that they are talking to

Whatever your age, there will be an old or new favorite for everyone this Labor Day weekend, when the Great Geauga County Fair Band returns for its 78th season to the Great Geauga County Fair. Performances will take place at the Burton, Ohio fairgrounds from September 1st through 5th. They will be playing at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Thursday, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and at 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Labor Day. The Junior Fair Band will be performing on September 3rd at 11:30 a.m. and on September 5th at noon.

On September 21st, 2017 I attended a classical concert at the Organ Recital Hall located in the UCA building on campus. The first piece of music was performed by Tony on the bassoon and Dan on the organ. This piece also had two movements, the first was Der Gartner composed by Hugo Wolf and the second movement was Ma Rendi Pur Contento composed by Yincenzo Bellini. Der Gartner started out with a four-measure intro and then the rest of this movement was in a 6/8 meter. The bassoon and the organ both have incredible range. I enjoyed the sound of the organ in this movement because the notes had a more pleasant melody than the bassoon. This performance was my least favorite out of the three performances because there wasn’t harmony between the bassoon and the organ a majority of the movement. Since they didn’t have harmony, this movement sounded like there was two different pieces of