High School Concert Band Performance

On November 5,2016 Olney Central College’s music department held its fall concert in the Dr. John D. Stull Performing Arts Center. This concert featured many vocalists and musicians between the concert band, the concert choir, and the jazz band. The performances feature many different composers. Overall, the concert band sounded really good. For this concert, the director chose songs that would reflect different stages of life. I liked this theme and the song choices just for how the rhythms, tempos, ad dynamics were for each song. I also like how some of the musicians described why the song relates to them before the band performed them. While there were several noticeable wrong notes played throughout the concert band performance, the overall quality was good. After …show more content…
All of their songs were played from memory which can be a tough thing to do. The first song was “Blues by Five.” This song was mainly compromised of solos. While there were several noticeable mistakes in a few of the solos, the overall performance of this song sounded good. I also enjoyed the third song, “Jo Jo Calypso.” This song had a cool island music vibe and I also liked how the other musicians stood to the side so everyone could see the guitarist play his solo. I also found it cool how they played this song without the director being up front conducting because this shows pure talent in the musicians since they had to rely on each other to keep the same tempo. The last song played by the jazz band that was also the last song of the concert was “Listen Here.” Like in the first song, there were a few noticeable mistakes during the solos but the musicians could have been tired because it was the end of the concert or nerves could have got to them. Overall though, this song came together well and was enjoyable to listen to. The musicians in the jazz band seem really talented and I am glad they stuck with staying in band in