On April 29, I went and critiqued the spring 2016 Honors Recital. This recital consisted of nineteen performances and took place in the Tyler Recital hall located on the Northwest Florida State College campus. This performance started at 3:00 and ended at 4:30. During this time, there were two piano pieces and sixteen vocal pieces and one drumming piece. Hunter Brake started the recital off by playing Bolt composed by Kirk Gay on the drums. I had never heard a drumming piece before, so this was a nice little surprise to me! Although I have no expertise in drumming, I noticed he had fluent motions and a quick exchange of sticks towards the middle of his piece. The second performer, Alexis Guessford, sang Caro mio ben composed by Guiseppi Giordani. …show more content…
2 composed by Claude Debussy. Parry played her piece without music and had a very consistent flow throughout the entire piece. She was very lively while playing and entertaining to the crowd. Finishing the piano portion of the concert was John Hencinski. Hencinski played Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor composed by Edward MacDowell. John, much like Brittany, played without music. However, Hencinski played with Professor Henry for the entire time. His playing was smooth and very long for without piano music to look at! The next performer, James Meadows, sang Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific. This was composed by Richard Rogers. He was very loud, which showed his string resonant voice. During the middle of the piece, there was an amazing decrescendo that stunned the audience. Eliette Rogers performed a piece composed by Richard Rogers called A Wonderful Guy from South Pacific. Eliette was very entertaining, for she talked to the crowd. She had amazing breath support and a great tone to go with her voice. Home from Beauty and the Beast was performed by Abigayle Ferguson and composed by Alan Menken. While singing, Ferguson put raw …show more content…
She also had fantastic crescendos and decrescendos. Ashlyn Stevens sang Just You Wait from My Fair Lady composed by Frederick Loewe. She was very amusing and entertaining to the crowd. She also had a wonderful resonant tone. Climb Ev’ry Mountain from The Sound of Music was performed by Emily Cristopherson and composed by Richard Rogers. She had a great tone and a delicate voice; however, at times it seemed as if she was using a little bit too much vibrato. It’s Hard to Speak from Parade was performed by Derek Raynaud and composed by Jason Robert Brown. He put a very heartfelt and sad emotion into his piece. He was loud enough for everybody to hear and hit a wonderful resonant high note towards the end of the piece. Arin Walker performed Tell Me On a Sunday from Song and Dance composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Arin was very quiet; however, had a great tone and loud crescendos. Kelley Dunn performed a fantastic fun piece named 100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man from Wonderful Town composed by Leonard Bernstein. She was very entertaining and had a great resonant tone. Tristan Allen sang Shiksa Goddess from The Last Five
There was a vocal recital on October 19th, 2017 at 7:30PM, held at the performance hall in Mountain view college. Alex Longnecker, a tenor vocalist and Imre Patkai, (pianist) played a series of homophonic textured songs, some being sung in German and others in English. The Three selected songs I will be writing about are, The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Plough Boy, and Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai. This performance played a total of 24 Pieces, composed by 4 composers, being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ernest Chausson, Benjamin Britten, and Robert Schumann.
The concert is performed by the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The video of this concert is 90 minutes in length. The concert was an ensemble of various Dave Brubeck arrangements utilizing various jazz techniques and styles with mainly the following instruments: bass, piano, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, flute, piccolo, baritone sax, drum, and tambourine. The performance included these 15 pieces: “Unsquare Dance”, “Three to Get Ready”, “The Duke”, “Cassandra”, “Strange Meadowlark”, “Who Will Take Care of Me?”, “It’s a Raggy Waltz”, “Tokyo Traffic”, “Take Five”, “Lost Waltz”, “Upstage Rhumba”, “In Your Own Sweet Way”, “Fast Life”, “Bluette”, and “Blue Rondo a la Turk”. The performance highlights the versatile, influential and extraordinary life’s work of Dave Brubeck.
The concert I attended was a Junior piano recital held at The Florida State University College of Music in the Dohnanyi Recital Hall. The pianist was Kaisar Anvar. The pieces performed were:
For my first concert report, I have decided to attend the Applied Music Student Recital. The musical performance was at Palomar College on February 27, 2015 from 1:00P.M.--2:00P.M. at the performance lab room D-10. The type of music that was presented at the concert was a brass ensemble, chamber music, classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, percussion, and many vocal arrangements. There was a total of eight musical Palomar College student performers who are majoring in music theory. I am only going to focus on a few of the musical pieces that I enjoyed most. The majority of the performers were dressed in formal attire. As the men were dressed in a dress shirt, a tie or bow tie of their choice, black slacks, and dress shoes. As for the women, they wore dresses, skirts and dress shoes. Also there was a pianist, accompanist who is a Palomar College music teacher named Ruth Weber. The performance was in a music concert hall with roughly fifty audience members.
I have listened to the cast albums for both the movie and the Broadway production, and many songs from the Broadway production were taken out of the movie. Some lines were not even taken out, but were spoken instead of sung. Personally, I think that when these line are sung rather than spoken, they evoke more emotional reactions in the audience. In the movie version, there are also some characters that do not appear in the original Broadway version. An example of this is seen through Roger’s backstory with April, his dead girlfriend - the movie shows Roger and April together, whereas in the Broadway version, she is only
The concert I attended was the Liszt, Prokofiev, and Dvořák concert at the Chicago Symphony Center. Emmanuel Krivine is a French conductor who conducted the orchestra to play Liszt’s compositions Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3. Next was Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 in the Andantino, Scherzo: Vivace, Moderato, Allegro tempestoso, the piano soloist was Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin who was accompanied by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lastly was Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 was performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the four movements played was, Allegro con Brio, Adagio, Allegretto grazioso, and Allegro MA non troppo.
Many songs were incorporated into the story line, such as “The Sound of Music,” “My Favorite Things,” and “So Long, Farewell.”
The first piece that was performed by the ensemble was Lincolnshire Posy composed by Percy Grainger. I found this piece to be quite enjoyable as a whole, however one of the movements towards the end of the piece that was quite repetitive and
The performance consisted of six different pieces, however the first two songs caught my attention, which included a composition by David Maslanka, “Mother Earth Fanfare.” A very aggressive and progressive selection made especially for wind ensembles. With striking fortissimo and crescendos, this made for an impressionable opening. The next selection was two pieces combined into one performance. The first being a very emotional, “Irish Tune from County Derry”, while ending spiritly with “Shepherd’s Hey.” Both pieces were composed by Percy Aldridge Grainger.
Eastern Washington University Department of Music presented a program of Opera works by Giacomo Puccini, Aron Copland, W.A. Mozart, John Dowland, Franz Shubert, Maurice Ravel, and Robert Schumann on Friday, March 7, 6:30 p.m., in the Music Building, Recital Hall. These Opera works were sung by Senior Recitalist, Alexandra Rannow.
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.
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
The Symphony Orchestra concert was preformed by The OU School of Music with Jonathan Shames as a conductor and they presented Sutton Concert Series. In addition, the Orchestra concert performed at Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall in October 12, 2015.There were like forty-one performers on the stage including the conductor using different types of instruments and and all of them were wearing a nice black clothes. The stage was a quite large with wooden floor and there were two floors for the audience with a comfortable seating. However, all the performers were on round shape and against the conductor.
The musical selections and songs that were sung told a story and narrated the almost the entire film, as is expected in...
On Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 I attended the Opera Recital from 5pm until 6pm as extra credit. During this recital, there were sixteen out of twenty-two individuals performing. The opera was led by Dr. Debra Lynn. During this recital, barely instruments were used, except for the piano played by Dr. Pamela Haynes. However, all four voices were present such as sopranos, altos, base, and tenors.