Chamber Ensemble Critique

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When they were first introduced the leader of the UCCS vocals said this was their first Collab with the Chamber Ensemble. The band began with “Graduale in nativitatem domini od missom,” a combination of opera and classical music and this was from both VAPA Vocal and Chamber Ensemble. When they were playing and singing at the same time it made it hard to count the bars. At first, I thought the rhythm was changing into a mixture of classical music and cool jazz but after reading the book I realize it can’t be cool jazz it sounded more like classical alone. There were three musicians taking turns. The first group played a combination of the violent, the classical guitar, and the other musical instrument I don’t remember. The second group played

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