Ithaca College Percussion Concert Report

Unoccupied stage occupied with only percussion instruments inside of Ford Hall. A sea of people continues to fill the vacant chairs surrounding me inside of this vast auditorium to hear the Ithaca College percussion ensemble. The audience gives the impression that this hall is being filled by music major’s and families just eager to support their loved ones spilling out with joy. I was so surprised that there were so many young audience members that were not music majors that had just come to hear the percussion concert. Though out the performance you can witness that the audience is so intently listening almost as if nothing could ever break their focus but the conclusion of the music. Sitting there even just before the performance started I had my stereotypical expectations about what I …show more content…
I am so grateful to have been given this as an assignment and going to something that lit up not only my perception of percussion concerts but also my brain. I could tell that this concert was enormously significant to a great deal of people and the performers seemed to have truly worked hard and it was a beautiful experience to notice it all pay off. I have heard plenty of people tell me that I truly ought to go hear some of the music performances that Ithaca College has to offer and I thought they are saying that either because they are involved or they are staff and they are trying to get a more cumbersome audience. But, now I understand that they were genuine and I will now be telling other people exactly what they have been telling me, recommending this percussion ensemble that we have right here on campus. This was the complete opposite of all my expectations of this concert. They were clothed in entirely black which to me is a professional attire for a concert but this was exciting and not boring as I thought it would be. I know more just from just this one percussion ensemble