Orchestra Concert Report Sample

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For my concert i had to attend I decided to go to the Wind Symphony conducted by Dr. Karen LaVoie which was help May 1, at Dever stage. When arriving I was kind of surprised by the large attendance and surprisingly Dever was having one of it’s cooler nights. At first I was surprised to see older people joining the students in the ensemble on stage but after looking through the program learnt these musicians were former Alumni. I love that idea of inviting alumni to still be apart of the symphony it allows students to learn from these people but also invites people from our community to come back to WSU.
First off being a former brass player I was drawn to watching this section during the performance. I use to play trombone and baritone, I couldn’t see much of the baritone so I mainly watched the 1st trombone. Growing up I learned that the brass is the beat and bass of the band and I was them doing a strategy I learned: …show more content…

Far more than any other section all trombone players had one foot tapping to the beat almost thought the concert. I was surprised to see the diversity of the ensemble, I thought a wind symphony would only have woodwind instruments and some string instruments but boy was I wrong. The most surprising section of the ensemble was all of the percussion players, I think i counted 6 plus the pianist. All of the percussion instruments were on display during the second piece Liturgical Dance by Hosinger, at one pint I heard a chimmy noise that I really liked and could not tell you how it was produced. My favorite piece was The Gladiator because I felt like I wanted to march and play along with that song, like most marching songs are suppose to inspire their crowd to do. I loved being able to hear

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