Concert

On the 28 of March, my friend/classmate Orela Anani and I went to go see UNIVERSES' The Party People Salon performance. I was excited to see this show since it would be the first time I saw a performance in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as a University of Maryland student. When I first walked into the venue, Kogod Theater, I was shocked it was not what I expected (which was a large auditorium performance hall) it was a small dark room. I thought there was no way a performance could…

How to describe energy in the world? Some may not have words, but experience. Experience through such things as dance that evoke and create energetic environments through movements, music, and others. Though this is not always the case, it was at the Dionysios Dancer’s charitable performance of the Pentozali at the Greek Orthodox Church located in Salt Lake City, Utah. In which I was surprisingly entertained and intrigued by the culture and experience within the dancing. During the dance…

You always remember the best moments of your life. They stick with you forever, and they remind you of how happy you were in that moment. The best memories I have are from my freshman year here at Combs High School. The whole year was amazing, but the thing that was most important was band. I was in the Marching Coyote Regiment, the pride of the school because the football team sucked. We took fourth place at the state championship at Glendale Community College, and we had the best music…

I was not looking forward to seeing URINETOWN THE MUSICAL because I was tired from working all day and I really thought it was going to be a boring musical to watch. I expected that the musical would be set in the past around 1950s and it would be confusing for the audience to relate to. When I walked into the Philip Lynch Theatre I was surprised that the theatre was a thrust stage with two floors of seating.The main floor seats were all filled but the balcony seating was empty. The first thing…

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written for western style orchestra and features a solo violin played using some Chinese techniques. This piece retains the Chinese flavor but however to some extent. The reason why I have chosen this question and this piece is because as a violinist, I have the interest in how the violin in The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is a western instrument, but however it is still able to capture some of the Chinese style. In this essay, I will be comparing…

On October 8th and 9th there will be the 6th Annual Riverside Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival on the Beacon Field in Greenfield,MA. Christy Moore, the director of the recreation department for 6 years said it was started by “a group who watch the Kansas City BBQ competition on a cooking channel and thought it would be cool to bring it to Greenfield.” “2,000 people had come through out the weekend and through the gates.” These people are coming from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire,…

This past weekend, at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre at the University of Arizona, I went to see the dance performance Here & Now. As I was buying my ticket, I did not really know what to expect from this concert. To be honest, I did not know really anything about this show that I had just paid to see. Originally, I thought that this show would just be a requirement for me to pass this class. However, after seeing this show, it became much more to me than just a grade. The dancers were…

ou might say they pulled out the stops at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concert on Friday. There were many engaging moments in the Cincinnati Symphony's unique program hailing the French organ tradition in Music Hall. But Louis Langrée’s direction of the famous “Poco adagio” in Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3, “Organ,” was truly magical. At the Allen organ, Thierry Escaich’s tones provided a soft, rich carpet under the lustrous sounds of the Cincinnati strings. It was serene and moving, and…

The Obladee wine bar is a small venue on Barrington street that can accommodate roughly 80 patrons before seating runs out, with very little standing room. It is a dimly lit bar with four staff working for the evening, two bartenders and two servers working opposite ends of the short narrow venue. There are a few decorative plants and candles scattered throughout. I Sat opposite of the musicians by the door, behind me there was a mural of a trumpeter sitting on the ground playing with his back…

On Sunday, May 21st, American soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom has stepped on the bandstand of Cornelia Street Café accompanied by a taut rhythm section consisting of longtime cohorts Mark Helias on double bass and Bobby Previte on drums and percussion. The show served to promote her latest album, Early Americans (Outline, 2016), a solid body of work inspired by the work of the British poet Emily Dickinson. The opening track of the album, “Song Patrol”, was also the opener of the performance…