Palomar College Music Concert Report

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For my fourth concert report of the semester, I have decided to attend the second Applied Music Student Recital of this semester. The concert was held at Palomar College performance room D-10 on March 27, 2015. The concert was only a half hour long. The concert consisted of a total of ten Palomar College students who are going to major in music. Also, Ruth Weber, a Palomar College music professor accompanied a majority of the performers. The types of musical styles and arrangements that were presented were brass ensemble, chamber music, classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, percussion, and a few vocal arrangements. There were roughly twenty to thirty audience members who attended the concert. In my concert report, I am going to share three …show more content…

I was given a real treat of hearing what an English horn sounded like for the first time. It looks like an oboe and sounds like one, but a little lower sounding. She played the song “The Shepherd”, composed by Alban Berg (1885-1935). According to Chelsea, Alban Berg was a born Austrian musician, who was known for his minor, sad, sentimental style of music. This particular piece of music starts out slow, soft, and played in a minor key throughout the whole song. Also, “The Shepherd” has that very Russian minor sound of it like the intro of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The dynamics and rhythm stayed the same throughout this very short song. Mostly the dynamics were played in mezzo piano style and the rhythm was in an adagio format. Overall, I was pleased with this musical arrangement that Chelsea …show more content…

The song featured musicians Zachary Elliott, who played the xylophone and Juan C. Rubio who was on the marimba. They did a musical arrangement called “The Galloping Comedians” composed by Dimitri Kabelevsky (1904-1987). Zachary mentioned to the audience this is a fun and really fast song. He was not kidding when he said that as they started the piece out. The song started extremely fast and very loud. There was no change in dynamics and rhythm whatsoever. The dynamics and rhythm was constant throughout the whole song. This piece was less than two minutes long, but it was enough to engage the audience into the music and wake them up. This was probably the most electrifying song of all the other performances and got the most applause from the

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