On October 15 7:30pm , I attended the UIC theatre to listen to the Wind Ensemble, UIC orchestra and the Mariachi Fuego. The concert consisted of performers who were students from UIC. The first part of the concert, consisted of the performers playing without a conductor. They relied on each other and performed music that was based off the hispanic culture. The first part of the program consisted of a heritage type of music. The second part of the concert consisted of the Orchestra with the Javier Mendoza as the conductor. The audience for the concert consisted of people of all age culture and background. Many students from UIC had heavily attended the concert, which had the hall packed with people standing to watch the performance. I saw a
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Sound is the result of vibrations in the air set by the motion of an instrument or a body movement. In this case of the concert, the sound in the Mariachi Fuego piece had its distinctive sounds with the high pitch of the performer in the background of one piece and lowness of the singer in the first piece. Specifically, the singer sung in a medium to low pitch and was accompanied by different instruments who also sung to accompany him in harmony at specific times. The second piece, Cordoba, had a romantic mood to it and had a change in dynamic levels throughout the piece. In the beginning of the piece, it was calm and the tempo was slow. From the slow tempo, the dynamics of the gradually went to a crescendo in which they sounded more exuberant. The piece went from a slow tempo to a gradual fast tempo in which it seemed like the performers were expressing themselves along the piece. It was as if they expressing themselves with the dynamic of the piece. The second part was the orchestra in which the conductor guided the performers in how they played. For instance, in one of the pieces, Javier Mendoza had the performers go from a crescendo to a decrescendo. This is when they players went from a louder tone to a softer …show more content…
It was created by Ernesto Lecuona who was born into a musical family in Cuba. The suite was mainly popular for its composition of Andalucia and Malaguena. He wrote the Andalucia composition in Spain. As an artist, he traveled worldwide and recorded for many years with his orchestra. Sinfonia 2, The tenth Muse is an opera by Elbio Barilari. The main character, who was a poet, writer, nun and feminist was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, At that time, she was one the most prominent intellectuals of that time. This is the second sinfonia, and it functions as an introduction for the last act of the opera. Currently, Elbio Barilari is a resident of Chicago for sixteen years. He currently teaches Latin American Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Danza Española, Manuel de Falla was the artist who wrote the opera, The Brief Life between 1904 and 1905. The opera itself is brief as implied by the title. The work is organized into two acts lasting about an hour. The “Danza Española” opens the second act. Mosaic Mexicano was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He states about his work for his symphony that, “Mosaico pays homage to the music of the great Mexican concert hall composers of the 40’s and 50’s as well as the composers of the golden era of Mexican cinema.” His versatility allowed him to be a conductor, orchestrator, and an arranger. The Mariachi Fuego consisted of seven
Sound is the result of vibrations in the air set by the motion of an instrument or a body movement. In this case of the concert, the sound in the Mariachi Fuego piece had its distinctive sounds with the high pitch of the performer in the background of one piece and lowness of the singer in the first piece. Specifically, the singer sung in a medium to low pitch and was accompanied by different instruments who also sung to accompany him in harmony at specific times. The second piece, Cordoba, had a romantic mood to it and had a change in dynamic levels throughout the piece. In the beginning of the piece, it was calm and the tempo was slow. From the slow tempo, the dynamics of the gradually went to a crescendo in which they sounded more exuberant. The piece went from a slow tempo to a gradual fast tempo in which it seemed like the performers were expressing themselves along the piece. It was as if they expressing themselves with the dynamic of the piece. The second part was the orchestra in which the conductor guided the performers in how they played. For instance, in one of the pieces, Javier Mendoza had the performers go from a crescendo to a decrescendo. This is when they players went from a louder tone to a softer …show more content…
It was created by Ernesto Lecuona who was born into a musical family in Cuba. The suite was mainly popular for its composition of Andalucia and Malaguena. He wrote the Andalucia composition in Spain. As an artist, he traveled worldwide and recorded for many years with his orchestra. Sinfonia 2, The tenth Muse is an opera by Elbio Barilari. The main character, who was a poet, writer, nun and feminist was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, At that time, she was one the most prominent intellectuals of that time. This is the second sinfonia, and it functions as an introduction for the last act of the opera. Currently, Elbio Barilari is a resident of Chicago for sixteen years. He currently teaches Latin American Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Danza Española, Manuel de Falla was the artist who wrote the opera, The Brief Life between 1904 and 1905. The opera itself is brief as implied by the title. The work is organized into two acts lasting about an hour. The “Danza Española” opens the second act. Mosaic Mexicano was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He states about his work for his symphony that, “Mosaico pays homage to the music of the great Mexican concert hall composers of the 40’s and 50’s as well as the composers of the golden era of Mexican cinema.” His versatility allowed him to be a conductor, orchestrator, and an arranger. The Mariachi Fuego consisted of seven