Concerts

On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, I attended a student ensemble orchestra concert at UTSA called "The Natural Realm". It was a free concert that took place in UTSA 's recital hall, which is located in their art building. The recital hall was a good sized room, not to big or small. It started at 7:30 p.m. and ended around 8:40. The orchestra concert was conducted by Eugene Dowdy, a music professor and director of orchestral studies and conducting at UTSA. It was a tremendous performance filled…

can be use as a type of communication tool. Jazz is origin from African American and its main characteristics are swing and syncopation, improvisation, distinctive voices bent notes and modes. I’ve watched an amazing concert for the Jazz term paper. The title of the Live Jazz Concert is “Brian Culbertson feat Michael Lington” As the Piano and the Trombone player, Brian Culbertson is one of the main performer that caught my attention as an audience. Not surprising at all, I’ve done some…

Introduction Madera South Wind Ensemble and the Fresno State's Wind Orchestra Concert performed on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 8pm. Continue reading to learn about the concert hall and the environment, the musicians, the music performed, and instruments used. Concert Environment and Audience Reaction The performance was in Fresno State's Concert Hall. It was a large room with about 300 seats that extended upward facing the stage floor. They had rows of chairs set up for the orchestra to…

The concert was presented by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Music’s UNC Jazz Band on Saturday, October 10th, 2015. The concert venue was located at UNC Kenan Music Building’s Rehearsal Hall. It started from 8pm to 9.40 pm. Compared to all the other concerts that I have gone to, the UNC Jazz Band concert was a definite change in atmosphere as it was a large band consisted of students. The stage was set up really well and has a nice lighting. Unc Jazz Band personnels…

Matthew Brandom –Warren Professor Mocny MUS 114 26 September 2014 String Power On the evening of September 25, 2014 at 8pm in Staples Family Concert Hall, my mind was mesmerized by the illustrious St. Lawrence String Quartet of Stanford University in California. To prepare myself for the concert, I selected two pieces from the program to analyze. The first being String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No.3 “Emperor” Poco adagio cantabile, by Joseph Hayden via YouTube. The performers of the…

On December 3, 2016 I attended a Holiday Concert at Temple College’s Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center. This concert was performed by the Temple Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Fairlie. The Temple Symphony Orchestra’s 23rd Holiday Concert featured Grammy award winning tenor, Dann Coakwell, and soprano, Teri Johnson. Temple College’s voice instructor, Teri Johnson, soprano, performs all over the south and east. “Ms. Johnson is a versatile lyric coloratura soprano achieving…

On January 31, 2016, I attended a classical musical concert performed by Chanticleer. The concert was held in the Halton Theater at Central Piedmont Community College. The audience was dressed very casually and most of the people were elderly. This was the first classical concert I have attended, I choose to write about this concert because it’s the one that I liked the most if I had to choose between all the concert that I attended. Chanticleer is a male classical vocal a cappella ensemble…

Recently, in the past week of January 15th every singer at Gospel Chorus was getting ready in any way possible for the Winter Concert. My maestro has been enforcing us as a Chorus to do our best during our performance for the concert.But, to be in the concert all the youth have to come to every rehearsal in Church. Under those circumstances, I did attend the rehearsals for two days. This was such a wonderful experience in a way that you be more like a judge overlooking the audience. It…

tune, so before every song they need to be tuned with the harpsicord. The concert was filled with songs mostly by Monteverdi, and a few songs that were common in the time period. 6 songs were performed in total which were all relatively short. All but one song had only instruments being performed. The song “Salve Regina” had a small amount of chanting towards the middle of the piece but the rest was just instrumental. The concert was performed in Armstrong Browning Library which is absolutely…

At this concert, the best music that I like is the Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz which is the Op. 14, Reveries, Passions: Largo; Allegro agitato e appassionato assai (lively, agitated, and impassioned) which is movement no. 1. And also on this concert they played movement no. 2, A Ball:Valse, Allegro non troppo. It is Program symphony with five movements. Each movement has a story of it, such as Beethoven with his symphonies and movements. This music tells a story of an artist’s…