Electric Light Orchestra

Concerts have always been a way for the general public to experience their favorite artists and musicians perform right in front of them. I myself have been to several concerts, all of which have been rap and hip hop concerts. So going to an orchestral concert was going to be a very different experience to me. I know that there wasn’t going to be any mosh pits or excessive screaming of fans throwing themselves onto the performers. With all that in mind, I was mentally preparing myself for a very…

The Dow Piano recording began with a series of lower notes, and the tempo stayed the same throughout the entire thing. After the initial part of the recording, the notes then go up in a run like fashion before taking a sudden drop once they reach the top. This recording was not super complex since it only used the piano and percussion, so it was not hard to add your own notes and complexities to it. The waterphone is an instrument that gives great depth to the sounds that it emits even though…

E-Flat for Military Band The First Suite in E-Flat for Military Band Op.28, No.1 by Gustav Holst is particularly unpopular due to it’s somewhat esoteric instrumentation,as the song was composed for a military band which is considered to be a wind orchestra instead.Orchestras with string instruments are far more popular and is the reason for its unpopularity outside of wind bands. It being so praised, it’s known beloved and popular in concert band repertoire ,I’ve heard this piece…

Peter and the Wolf composed by Sergei Prokofiev is a children's story that is told through various instruments performing as a symphony orchestra. There were seven characters in Peter in the Wolf all represented by different Instruments. The flute represented the bird, the oboe represented the duck, the clarinet represented the cat, the bassoon represented the grandfather, three french horns represented the wolf, the string section represented Peter, and the tympany and big bass drum represented…

Jameson Marvin does an excellence job in explaining how the process conductors use to achieve the highest level of performance. He begins by saying, “Mastering choral ensemble – a unified sound image of the whole – is the foundation upon which enlightened, communicative, and inspiring performance takes place.” He explains that there is a process to achieving this mastery, and it is based off of mental-aural image, which is a vision of what the music should sound like. In this chapter, Marvin…

with a Jewish heritage. He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, studied at Harvard and later at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1943, he was employed as assistant conductor at the New York Philharmonic. He gained popularity after filling in for Bruno Walter, a German conductor, at Carnegie Hall. Two year later, he became the Music Director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra. Bernstein later taught music at Brandeis University. In 1958, he was elevated to the Music Director of the New York…

harmony. We were only warming up, yet somehow the crowd clapped as if they were impressed that the highest ranked band could play one, generic note for four counts. My eyes drifted into the crowd. I looked for a blue shirt and big hair. There! A red light flashed in my direction. A camera lens. She was recording me! My nervousness blew through the roof. My mom waved at me and grinned. A pathetic smile formed around my mouthpiece as I cringed in…

On April 19, 2016 I attend a Concert Band and Chorus presented by Palm Beach State college music department. The concert chorus was conducted by Michael MacMullen and the concert band was conducted by David Gibble. The chorus sung about 6 songs from different period of the music period, like “camp town races” and “Jubilate Deo”. Meanwhile, the band opens my ears to some great classical hits from different composers. For example, the Overture to the Barber of Seville and other pieces were played…

That was what I remembered from 4th grade. I got this it's like riding a bike. I expected to sit down and pick up where I left off. What a difference 4 years not playing had made. This was a high school orchestra. Not the elementary orchestra that I had left behind. I can't tune, can barely read the music and my fingering is off. I had thrown myself into wholly new situation. What did I expect? Thankfully, I was 3rd chair. 3rd chair because there were only 3 of us. Still…

about Mozart. I quickly became cognizant of the obvious fact that each of these artists held exceptional talents. The four performers in the quartet played extremely well and surprised me greatly by how four musicians could sound exactly like a full orchestra. I noticed each performer had their own small lamp to illuminate their music sheet, even though the sun still shone outside. The quartet team exuded a serene countenance and seemingly played their preferred instrument with such ease, poise,…