Cirque De La Symphonie

The kind of music that we have been going over these past five weeks or so in this class is not new to me, but at the same time I am not totally comfortable with the different styles and how each are unique. When deciding what concert to go to o I could write this report I was unsure which one to pick. I was unsure of what each concert had to offer me with what pieces of music that would be played. After much debate and deliberation I came to the determination that the best concert for me to attend would be Cirque De La Symphonie Goes Broadway! Presented by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. This performance was conducted by Maestro Jack Everly and would include many famous Broadway pieces with vocals by Ben Crawford, Charlie Metzger, and Christina Decicco with the Cirque dancers bringing the music to life. The performance …show more content…
This is one of the best songs The Who have ever written and the way the orchestra performed it was excellent. The Orchestra was also spot on with the rhythm of the piece as well. I thought Ben Crawford did a fantastic job with the vocals as well. However the one thing I liked the most about this particular piece was that the cirque dancer performing had a giant cube with lights on it and he was waving it around and the way it was flying through the air around him just looked so spectacular. Another piece that I really enjoyed was Who I’d Be from Shrek the Musical written by David Lindsay-Abaire. The thing I really liked about this was the fact that Ben Crawford actually played Shrek in the Musical on Broadway and he was there to perform the piece for us. I thought the orchestra did a great job on matching the rhythm and volume of Ben throughout the piece. Both Ben and the orchestra’s harmony was also very on point and they matched each other’s harmony throughout the duration of the