Electric Light Orchestra

Learning how to read and write was one of the first major lessons each of us have learned. Each of us sitting in room 319 from 10:20 to 11:15 have a unique story about learning how to manipulate letters into words and words into sentences. All of us have a different event that stuck with us no matter what age we experienced it. There is no set way we as individuals learn information. Just like our finger print, our learning methods and tactics are unique to each of us. My individual experience…

spirit of the city. He became involved inthe political changes that was occurring in the United States and Europe and in nodoubt was responding to the world of music lovers (Sayre, 406).The Symphonic Orchestra on the other hand was much larger than the ensemble usedby Baroque composers. The Classical orchestra was divided into sections such asstrings, which includes the violins, cellos violas and double bases. The woodwinds onthe other hand comprises of the flutes, oboes, clarinets, and…

beginning of the performance. So, the violin is obviously the first instrument that stands out in the play. The musical instruments that are played throughout the performance by the orchestra are the violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpets, French horn, trombone, piano, and drums. The orchestra was located on the left side of the stage from the audiences’ perspective. I watched this performance at the outdoor theater so I was seated on a chair outside that was provided…

Weill Hall I watched the show called “A Concerted Effort.” The show was a collaborative effort between Jerome Fleg’s Santa Rosa Junior College Orchestra and Alexander Kahn’s Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra. The Sonoma State Music Director Alexander Kahn gave the introduction. Kahn in his intro explained how he collaborated with Jerome Fleg’s Orchestra for years. Khan also named each of soloist’s performing in the show. He mentioned how each of the two soloists’ earned their solo, by winning…

Jack and Clara, two high school students, have spent years excelling their skills in their school band. After six short years, they are the leaders of the clarinet section, showing the Freshman what music can feel like when they just take a minute to feel it. Although they share the same type of instrument and passion, their style and posture set these two apart, but these differences show just how unique the band is. The personality and the style of a musician is greatly portrayed through the…

On the first day and class of my college career, I was asked to define music in my own words. I continued to write in my notebook on the fresh, clean page what I had thought was a creative way of explaining the topic. I had written, “Music is defined as a combination of sounds, voices and beats to make a new stream of varying qualities that are pleasing to the ear based on opinion.” After sitting through several classes I began to realize I had in fact over-complicated the word “music”.…

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…

Reflection On march 10 in the PAC, at 7:00, I had the opportunity to be able to go and see The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a wonderful paly production, with some raunchy scenes, but, it was a very well orchestrated play, with well casted people and had very smooth transitions even though there wasn’t a curtain. The cast was huge, so great was need for voices that they had to hire a local choir to sing with them. The first scene is when you see the choir coming to and sing and take their…

THE MORNING RAGA (VARIOUS THEMES) - BY DHANANJAY ARORA “The Morning Raga” is a film based on the play written by Mahesh Datani. This story basically revolves around music. In this story there are two best friends Swarnlata who is a Carnatic singer and Vaishnavi is shown as a violinist. On getting an opportunity of singing in the concert Swarnlata dominates Vaishnavi on accompanying her with their children. On the way their bus met with an accident with the car on the bridge of their village and…

the same result, failure.” I ran into my room and shut everyone out around me, I was bitter and depressed. (*) That night I did not eat. I laid down on my bed in the dark, desolate and silent. My mom opened my door blinding my eyes with the bright lights from the hallway and sat down next to my bed. She rubbed my back as she began to confide in me. “Brendan, I understand why you feel sad and depressed. But, one chair test has no meaning in the scheme of a lifetime. The amount of time spent…