The Concert at CSU Sacramento presented a great world musician. The musician who was presented at the concert was Patience Munjeri. Patience is a musician from Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a country that has an important culture for music. Zimbabwe is located in South Africa between the countries of Botswana. She toured many colleges all around the country including Stanford ad Syracuse. She is a musician that use or utilize the instrument the mbira. The Mbira is an instrument that is played by mostly Men, and in some cases women. For women playing this instrument it shows that any women in Africa have the chance to be great at playing the Mbira. There were two types of instruments that were used during the show. The first was the Mbira , and two shakers. The Mbira has great history because mostly men in the Shona culture play this instrument. The …show more content…
Her older brothers played the Mbira and were showing the younger brothers how to play. She wanted to learn and her brother taught her. They were really impressed with her ability to adapt to the instrument. She went on stage to play and people were wondering who was behind the mbira and she would pop her head to hide it so no one would see who is playing behind the Mbira, because they knew whoever was behind the Mbira was very great and fascinating. When they seen it was a young girl they were surprised because how great the performance was. The concert had many meanings. She talked to the crowd and told her the meaning of the instrument. She told the crowd to sing along with her and danced. The stories behind her success is great. The crowd was engaging in the concert. Compared to both World Music Concerts this semester they were both great. Everybody enjoyed it and had a great
Suddenly on stage, the girl froze. She didn’t want to dance. Growing restless, the crowd began to scorn. Nevertheless, she acted according to instinct and began to sing. The audience went silent. Then, they stood up and started to applaud. That same
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, I attended a musical concert. This was the first time I had ever been to a concert and did not play. The concert was not what I expected. I assumed I was going to a symphony that featured a soloist clarinet; however, upon arrival I quickly realized that my previous assumptions were false. My experience was sort of a rollercoaster. One minute I was down and almost asleep; next I was laughing; then I was up and intrigued.
The regions of Togo and Volta, in Ghana, Africa, are the common home of the Ewe people. With strong emphasis on communal ethos as well as lineal importance, the Ewe are a very intricate and fascinating ethnic group with both strong spiritual, religious views, as well as the inclusion of an incredibly dense and significant musical culture. In their society, members of each lineage share rights and obligations with one another, though, the elders of the communities carry both secular and sacred authority. Spiritually, the Ewe people believe in a supreme being, Mawu, the creator God, as well as Se, of whom is said to be the maker and keeper of human souls. Even the music culture has spiritual ties. Ewe musicians, particularly drummers, will say their source of talent is in direct correlation to their ancestors spirit that they have inherited and, as reincarnations of these talented ancestors, it is their destiny to pursue this musical role.
The concert was on March 13, 2014 at 12:30 pm the performers were Lisa Fujita, Brendan O’Donnell, Daniel Mitnitsky, Yannick Rafalimanana they performed five different Piano Quartet pieces. The first was a Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15 it was Allegro Molto Moderato, the next was III. Adagio and both of these pieces were written by Gabriel Faure. The next was a Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op.47, called Sostenuto assai- Allegro ma non troppo this was written by Robert Schumann. Lastly there is the Piano Quartet in G-minor, K.493, I. Allegro, III. Allegretto and these two pieces were by W. A. Mozart. This was not the exact order and they did change a few thing like the way things would be played and they change the Quartet from E-Flat major to G-Minor because they said that it was difficult to play. By playing different types of music they offered us diverse experience. I really enjoyed the entire performance. Each of the Performers played a different instrument. Lisa Fujita played the violin, Brendan played the viola, Daniel played the cello and Yannick played the piano. Each of them played a very important role. Each of the performers looked calm and as if they knew what they were doing, they were dressed very formally but the audience was not dressed as formally due to the fact that it was during the school day and the event wasn’t a black tie event.
The band played together in such harmony and joy, and they exchanged looks as if they're talking to each other and understood by looks. As it turns out the guest go the nigh George Gazone was the professor who taught the band members music. Garzone Played the Saxophone like no other, he’s solos were magical it was fascinating watching him and the admiration his student have for him. The music sounded beautiful, yet seems the band are not well prepared for the evening. There was a lot of improvisation and as if every band member wanted to show off his skills which was really good. Improvisation is an element of jazz I was looking for, also, there were a lot of call and response between the band members different ones at each piece they played.
Music is an interesting thing. When musicians perform there are plenty of elements to be observed that are not recognized easily to an untrained person. Musical performances contain interactions going on between the performers, audience, music, and space. These come together to create a great performance. The vast majority of people in the audience do not even realize how much there is to be observed during a musical performance. While attending a concert by the Wentzville Holt High School Symphonic Band I was able to evaluate the musical sound, contexts of the performance, and interpretation of the performance.
This concert was certainly a magnificent concert to see. Nature themes dominated the songs and performance, giving the listeners a pleasant and insightful consider something that they might not consider in everyday life. With individuals in the modern world being so busy nowadays, it is often hard to appreciate and think about the simplicities of life and what the earth has provided us, whether it be through the trill of a songbird or the rolling waves of an ocean. With this performance, the listener could do so, even if it was only for a little while. If the choir had not performed the pitch, melody, rhythm, and harmony to the extent that they did, it would have been much harder to convey such a magical tone to the entire concert. This concert shone in the simplicities it occupied, providing a wonderful and beautiful show for everyone in the audience.
“How Musical is Man?” was published in 1974. This book was written by John Blacking, a musician turned social anthropologist. His goal in writing this ethnography, and several other papers during this same time period, was to compare the experience of music-making that takes place within different cultures and societies throughout the world. In this book, he discusses and describes the musicology of the Venda people in South Africa. Though he does go to Africa to research and learn about the Venda people and their music, he specifically states that his book is “not a scholarly study of human musicality” (ix), but rather it is a summary (written from his point of view), which is both expressive and entertaining, of several different issues and ideas that he has seemingly been contemplating for some time.
The concert and the entire experience correlated to several themes in psychology. The concert related to sensation and the stimulation of a sense organ by an external physical stimulus, which in this case was sound. I was able to detect various octaves and intervals between two sound melodies. With the variety of instruments playing, the tone height and sound quality corresponded to diverse levels of pitch, which monotonically related to frequency. Tone chrome was vividly present in the percussion ensemble with the sound quality being shared by octave interval tones connecting to a musical helix, which helped me visualize a musical pitch during different pieces. Perception connected to the concert and the sensation. Perception works together to help people sort out the complex information available to them. The percussion instruments triggered a sensation and allowed me to appreciate the various instruments. When there is more than one instrument playing at once, it can som...
As I sat there, I watched the mariachis get ready to play. They stood at the stage tall and proud with their heads held high. The suits that they wore glistened, shinny and colorful, with the spotlights shinning straight at them. About a minute later they held up their instruments and began to play. As they played, I couldn't believe my ears.
During the concert the pianist, drummer and saxophonist did a great job, making the rhythm unforgettable. One of the songs that was performed was "Wrapped around your fingers" it contained a romantic melody. While the piano and saxophone then alternated the rhythm, as the passion of the song was motivating everyone to fall into the rhythm of it. The melody which was steady seemed to get faster like a heartbeat by the climax of the song. The sounds were increasingly getting louder until all instruments met at the top with a ban...
I stood up, as the loud vibrations of the church bells seem to touch my heart. I crossed the long, seemingly endless stream of soft healthy green grass to the black box, which lay just as I had left it in its own solitude. Inside of it lay the violin in which I had devoted a lot of my middle school life to. I had spent many hours practicing on this wooden contraption. Now all of my hard work, all of my hours practicing, would go into making this one piece sound amazing, spectacular, and memorable. This wasn’t something I was doing for myself. This was something I was doing for my family, friends, and most importantly the sweet, cherished soul of my dearly departed grandmother. I wanted there to be one last remarkable token of my love for someone who had made such a large impact on my life. I knew that my grandmother had absolutely loved the fact that I play a violin. She had always said that I held so much talent.
At 7:30 on October 9, I went to a Musical Arts Concert Series. It was a faculty recital at the University of South Alabama. Three people played the music for the concert. Peter Wood played the trumpet. Jasmin Arakawa played the piano.
Every West African village had its own professional musicians and singers who would perform for the community. Musicians were idolized in their villages. They normally sat with the king or chief because of their elevated status.
Maxim de Winter — british aristocrat, forty-two old. He had beautiful old house in the west of England - Manderley. His wife Rebekka died suddenly last year, who died swimming on a yacht.