I attended Vento Sur’s concert at Glendale College on Oct. 3rd. Following the artist biographies, Vento Sur is a Calarts –All-Alumni group composed of Joao Junqueira, Julissa Bozman, Alex Bozman, and Jay Gravatt. They perform music in Spanish and Portuguese languages both. I saw many interesting instruments, and after other songs end the guitarist Joao Junqueira explained about the traditional instruments to audiences.
First they performed Adentro Cojutepeque dance music from Mexico and violinist Julissa Bozman featured the song. Vento Sur arranged the song to play violin melody line, and I felt like I came to a carnival. The song was pretty fast tempo and harmonize was simple. Everyone there clapped and some are danced. I think this song was …show more content…
This song has same or similar beats like waltz. Also this was so interesting that melody was like a yodel song. In original song, there are some wind instruments such as flute, clarinet… however Jay Gravatt, who played drums previous songs, played grabbed marimba sticks on this song. I little surprised because guitar, violin, and marimba sound got along well.
They performed la cumparsita famous tango music for next. Especially two dancers danced tango, were cheesy and for me little awkward to see. Their dance was gorgeous I could guess they are real couple. Because the drums sound was little loud, I thought this song would be better with more violin player.
Paco Perez’s song Luna de Xelaju performed next; this is a waltz music format (count to 3/4). Originally this song has a vocalist, but they arranged this song to instrumental music. Violin player played the vocal line. Like previous song, Jay Gravatt played marimba. Also I watched original music video on YouTube, I didn’t know marimba used on original song too. This was interesting for me, because marimba originally came from Africa, but many other countries used marimba for their country
First they performed Adentro Cojutepeque dance music from Mexico and violinist Julissa Bozman featured the song. Vento Sur arranged the song to play violin melody line, and I felt like I came to a carnival. The song was pretty fast tempo and harmonize was simple. Everyone there clapped and some are danced. I think this song was …show more content…
This song has same or similar beats like waltz. Also this was so interesting that melody was like a yodel song. In original song, there are some wind instruments such as flute, clarinet… however Jay Gravatt, who played drums previous songs, played grabbed marimba sticks on this song. I little surprised because guitar, violin, and marimba sound got along well.
They performed la cumparsita famous tango music for next. Especially two dancers danced tango, were cheesy and for me little awkward to see. Their dance was gorgeous I could guess they are real couple. Because the drums sound was little loud, I thought this song would be better with more violin player.
Paco Perez’s song Luna de Xelaju performed next; this is a waltz music format (count to 3/4). Originally this song has a vocalist, but they arranged this song to instrumental music. Violin player played the vocal line. Like previous song, Jay Gravatt played marimba. Also I watched original music video on YouTube, I didn’t know marimba used on original song too. This was interesting for me, because marimba originally came from Africa, but many other countries used marimba for their country