On December 7, I had the honor of attending a very popular Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concert. It was the first formal concert I have been to since I was in middle school (excluding the school concerts). Despite playing a woodwind instrument myself, I decided to see the DSO’s Organ and Brass Concert, curious to hear how instruments traditionally assigned bass or harmony parts would step up to play treble and melody parts. When I sat down close to the front stage, where all the brass players and percussionists sat (or stood), I expected mostly trumpet sounds and lots of sound from melody percussion instruments. But as the concert progressed, I observed that the melody was shared jointly by the trumpets, French horns, and tenor trombones. Overall, …show more content…
The drummer had many soloistic features. But when he played his solos, he did not bother to make any eye contact with the audience. I speculate that he was too focused on his part to notice anyone hearing him. The twelfth piece of the concert featured “T’was the Night Before Christmas,” with a special guest, Ms. Clarice Tinsley, narrating. It was played in the exact same format as the Wind Ensemble piece from my school during the Toys for Tots concert. This song was the funniest of them all; the audience and I had some major laughing moments, especially the moment after Santa hopped down the chimney. The second to last piece of the concert, “In the Bleak Winter,” by Holst, was a variation of the same piece played by the Concert Band at the Toys for Tots concert. Generally, this slow piece is supposed to feature heavy vibrato. Unfortunately, the brass did not use such type of vibrato. This was a little offending to me, but I am a biased flute and do not know if the director had the time to ask them to use vibrato. The concert ended with the most familiar piece, “Joy to the World.” This piece was the most memorable because the volume was very well-managed, with trumpets, French horns, and trombones constantly adjusting. The melody was also well-shared in the piece. It was heard
On February 23, I attended the 17th Annual Sphinx Competition held at the Detroit Orchestra Hall. The concert was phenomenal, and surprisingly enough to me I actually relished the performance. The reason the concert satisfied me was due to the fact of the meaning that was upheld throughout the concert. The Sphinx Orchestra is an amazing foundation in which supports Black and Latino string classical musicians and gives them a chance to better their life through the prodigious gift of scholarships. At this specific concert three finalist strived to see who truly has the utmost talent amongst the three. The three musicians included nineteen year old bassist, Xavier Foley; twenty-one year old cellist, Nicholas Mariscal; and twenty year old violinist, Clayton Penrose-Whitmore. Each musician did an extraordinary and gave the impression that they played their pieces flawlessly. Although all the young musicians achieved mere perfection; there had to be a winner and that was Xavier Foley. He received fifty thousand dollars in scholarships and by all means deserved it. The conductor of the concert was Maestro Brandon Keith Brown, who also did astonishing. In addition to all of those great musicians I also had the honor of hearing Simon Shaheen playing the oud. All together the performance was just incredible in my eyes.
The event I attended was “An Evening of Jazz” concert held at the Fine Arts Hall on November 17 at 7:30 p.m. The performing groups were The Santa Fe Rhythm and Blues Review, The Santa Fe Jazz Combo, and Santa Fe Big Band. The event was to for me to understand, experience Jazz music and know the instruments used.
Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performed, Morning,Noon, and Night in Boone. The Orchestra was arranged on stage in a normal set up, the concertmaster was on the left hand side of the Conductor, the strings in the front, woodwinds in the middle, and brass and percussions in the back. The instruments in the back were on an elevated platform, so there sound could project and be heard. Before the conductor came out, the concertmaster signaled each section to play a note. Once, the conductor came out the crowd went crazy, they clapped loudly and shouted. And Mrs. Orth was so happy and kind and thanked everyone.
I have been to many different concerts throughout my life but this year I experienced two exceptionally unique ___ that I had never seen before. The first one was a spectacular chamber recital that took place at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed by pianist Yefim Bronfman and violist-violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The program included Schubert's Violin Sonatina No. 2 in A Minor, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, and Brahms’ Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor. The second was a performance by the notable quartet “Anonymous 4” presented by the Universality of Chicago at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The program included a series of medieval French motets from the 13th Century French polyphony, taken from the Montpellier Codex. The two performances were extremely different in nature and but at the same time very similar in what they were trying to achieve. For instance, while the first concert consisted entirely of an instrumental performance, the other was exclusively vocal. However, both were able to bring to life great examples of iconic artists from our past. I left both c...
November 9th and 10th, Chino Hills High School’s choir put on successful concerts in honor of the US Veterans and active military members. The concert was very good, and there were performances by the different CHHS choirs. There was the Women’s Choir, Mixed Choir, Concert Choir, Treble Choir, and Chamber Singers. They performed some well-known songs such as “ Amazing Grace”” and “ O Captain! My Captain!” Treble Choir performed a very upbeat song called “ Roll, Jordan, Roll”” which got the audience excited and clapping along. Around the middle of the concert, Men’s Ensemble performed “ Armed Forces – The Pride Of America.” During the concert, they announced a US Military Branch and people in the audience that were Veterans of a particular branch or actively serving, stood up and the audience clapped for them. The Men’s Ensemble sang a song for each branch that was announced. There was also a very cool performance by the Hand Bell Choir where they performed two songs with bells. There were about 20 people in the Hand Bell Choir and each person had 2 or 3 bells to play, and all of them sounded slightly different. The Bell Choir was able to make splendid sounds as a unit. There were also some bell solos by students who performed songs that went
...xcited to have this experience. Part of the drama of the concert at first is felt when the musicians come in and sit down and begin tuning up their instruments. I would not be able to comment on the performance of the orchestra. During the performance, I seen the audience were moving with the music, but I felt like that everyone seems knows more music than what I learned throughout this semester. After I went home and did some of the research on these music I finally understand why these people like to attend the orchestra concerto, it was because that every piece of music has a history behind it. The Los Angeles audience seemed to me to be people who know music and who will listen to something new in a respectful way. All the same, when the more familiar sounds of the last piece were heard, I could feel a little sense of relaxation and fun coming into the room.
The performance I attended was on campus at Estrella Mountain Community College. The Phoenix Symphony's performance was held February 18th in the Estrella Conference Center. Performers were dressed in essentially matching, clean-cut, black outfits. Chairs for the listeners were placed in neat rows leaving an isle down the center of the room in which the conductor, Marc Dix, walked occasionally. The orchestra was arranged in a "U" shape so the instruments all turned in towards each other. From the audiences' point of view, violins were on the far left, violas, to their right, cellos to their right, and on the far right side stood the double basses. The 1st violinist sat in the second to last chair to the left, and among all this, the concert master stood in the center.
The speaker would play the background harmony and rhythm for a song and the violin soloist would play the melody of the piece. Although only one instrument was performing live, the piece as a whole was polyphonic due to the speaker providing the additional parts of the piece. The piece that was being played when I was listening was at an allegro tempo and consonant in tone and was also an instrumental cover of a pop song. The soloist himself was also a Cal Poly student which added an element of familiarity to the piece and also made the music and performer more relatable to me as a listener. It also helped that the song he was playing was a familiar and popular song which added to the relatability and overall enjoyment of the
This time around I noticed something that I had never really noticed before, which is how much music can mean to someone. I understand that music can mean a lot to some individuals, however seeing that spark in someone eyes or in their facial expression is a whole other story. It is a story that is truly incredible to witness. It is difficult to describe what exactly this facial expression looks like because it is different for every person. You know it when you see it, it is almost as if they are in a whole other world. I did not notice this spark in any of the members of the Wilmington Orchestra, rather I
During my spring break vacation in Germany, I went to a clarinet concert on March 8th. Since I play clarinet, I thought it was quite interesting to listen to what can be done with my own instrument. The concert was composed of classical pieces, small ensemble pieces, and even certain things that showed off what the instrument can do. The concert consisted of two sections with an intermission in between, and the musicians would often switch off with each other.
In conclusion, the concert was really interesting and I enjoyed myself. In my opinion the two pieces that I really like in this concert, are Sounden Horn and Polonaise from Engine Onegin, the shift between the melodic lines and the element of beauty is what made me like it. In the future I would recommend it to my friends and I will not mind to go with them at all. This kind of music is the best to me by far.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Classical Music Concert Report. I attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic classical music concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday 29 November 2013. The classical concert started at 8:00pm to the enjoyment of the huge audience that had been waiting for this amazing music extravaganza. Classical music concerts always offer magnificent entertainment and the audience in this concert was expectant to derive such entertainment or more. In attendance were Christian Zacharias, who was the conductor, and Martin Chalifour, who was the LA Phil commanding Principal Concertmaster and Bach violin player.
The first piece of music was ‘Round Midnight composed by Thelonious Monk and played by guitarist Anthony Kunovic. What I liked about this piece played by the performer was his smooth appeal as he played. The music really crafted into the title and made me think of a warm summer’s midnight. The second piece of music was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach titled Toccata and Fugue in D minor. This piece of music was played as a quartet and with great skill from the performers, they gave great talent to the fugue composition. Both The Thumb composed by Wes Montgomery and Giant Steps by John Coltrane were played as a guitar duo in the recital. The different chords and the dissonancein the chords of these pieces really created an interesting and jazzy feel to the music. The last piece that was played in the recital was Pachelbel’s ‘Loose’ Canon composed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. From listening to this piece of music made me really think of a loose cannon going every which way from all the theme changes in the song.
The final and twelfth piece was made up of excerpts from a longer work called Five Short Pieces for Clarinet and Bassoon. To me, maybe because the concert was beginning to get long or maybe because I did not have many notes over it, the last piece seems fairly similar throughout its movements, or “Short Pieces.” The first was an up-beat piece with a distinct melody. The clarinet and bassoon alternated, with the clarinet playing the higher notes. The second movement had a have complete feel to it. The two instruments played at the same time, close to it. The third movement was an impressive sounding mix of ups and downs. It seemed that the performers were working very hard and it sounded very complex.
On Saturday November 5th I had the pleasure of attending an Adele concert at the Frank Erwin Center on campus. There was no opening act and the concert lasted two and a half hours. She sang 19 songs, which included 7 of her most famous: “Hello” (her opener), “Someone Like You”, “Set Fire to the Rain”, “Rolling in the Deep”, “Chasing Pavements”, “Rumor Has It”, and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”. I have been a fan of Adele since I heard her song “Rumor Has It” on the radio in middle school, so when I saw that she had a concert in Austin, TX on my campus, I decided to jump at the opportunity. In this paper I will focus on the details and events that took place at the concert as well as diving into Adele as an artist.