Performance

Upon first entering the Caine Performance Hall, my tickets were quickly taken and I was ushered into a moderately sized room and asked to find a seat. The walls within the room were covered with elaborate panelling - no doubt to improve the acoustics. There were 4 sections of seats and since I was a little late I took a seat in the back, however, because of the small scale of the performance room, I didn’t feel as if I was far from the stage. When the performers came out, the whole production…

On Wednesday, April 20th, I attended a small formal concert at Webster Hall. It was the annual Hunter College USG Spring Fling event; last year featured a performance by Fetty Wap, A very popular up and coming hip-hop artist. This year, Hunter students had the pleasure of seeing Oxymorons, the opening act and Waka Flaka Flame, the main performer. Waka Flaka Flame is a hip-hop artist who has been active in the scene since 2008. He is known for his popular hits “No hands”, “Round of Applause” and…

The performances feature many different composers. Overall, the concert band sounded really good. For this concert, the director chose songs that would reflect different stages of life. I liked this theme and the song choices just for how the rhythms, tempos, ad dynamics were for each song. I also like how some of the musicians described why the song relates to them before the band performed them. While there were several noticeable wrong notes played throughout the concert band performance,…

The performance I attended was at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University. This concert was a preview of BCE’s performance this upcoming Thursday at the American Choral Directors Association Central Division Conference. The works of Ratniece and Hearne will be performed at the conference. The program we started with was Horo Horo Hata Hata by Santa Ratniece, followed by a few other pieces. This was my first time at the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, it was a very interesting…

On August 21, I attended a District 9 Youth Rally. It was hosted by First Assembly of God in De Queen, AR. At this rally, the group that performed is called HSM Praise Team. (HSM stands for Hardcore Student Ministries) The members of the Praise Team are as follows: lead vocalist- Kellie Reynolds, backup vocalists- Dustin Reynolds, drummer- Johnathan Reynolds, electric guitarists- Kristen Wright, and the bass guitarist- Ryan Bowden. Also, a guest electric guitarist, Seth Cash, played with group…

has been the second dance performance I have experienced, after the 12x16 dance I had watched previously in Santa Ana. Comparing the two programs, I have come to realize I prefer watching performances that consist of fewer dancers on stage. Performances that consist of large numbers of dancers are harder for me to find meaning in, most likely because I may be distracted by the many occurring instances on…

Hernández-Rodriguez, F., Elmroth, E. (2015). Performance anomaly detection and bottleneck identification. ACM Comput. Surv. 48, 1, Article 4 (July 2015), 35 pages. Introduction The article chosen is “Performance Anomaly Detection and Bottleneck Identification” in which Ibidunmoye, Hernández-Rodriguez, and Elmroth discuss how varying attempts are being made to create methods that can prevent anomalies and identify bottlenecks that create performance issues within operating systems. The article…

Bethany Dressler, Rebecca Wunch, and Scott Meier. The hall was not fully filled with spectators, however, attendees were very supportive and enthusiastic about the artists. The performance consisted of the 20th and 21st century music pieces, which was something I did not expect. To surprise this performance did not take long time and was over in about hour and 15 minutes. Despite that, artists were able to nicely perform their music. The four of them set in a small semi circle which…

wrong and I had to practice it all over again. I tried to use all of the theories and lessons I’ve learned this far in the semester to be as effective as possible. Through this paper, I will be examining the negative and positive aspects of my performance and how I believed it worked. I chose an award that I had won for Storytelling a semester ago. I chose this object because I had been working in the field and competing for this particular competition for two years. The competition was filled…

Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing the performance The Future's So Bright performed beautifully by the Castilleja Dance Department and Production Workshop at Castilleja Private School. At first glance, this performance space looked like an average stage in a small auditorium, yet then the lights dimmed and it turned into a bright, musical, spectacular performance of dance. Prior to the actual dance, the school put together a well written slide show to help the audience visualize the issue…