Rehearsal

This I Believe What makes a person believe in something? A powerful moment, tragic loss, or sign from above are all things that can cause people to have a deeper understanding of their life. In particular, an influencing moment caused me to realize some things about an area of my life that were not clear before. Due to this moment, I now strongly believe in the power of spotlight. I am a member of the varsity show choir group called Express at my school. Being apart of this group has…

Piles of homework, memorized scripts, complicated blocking, sweaty costumes, quick meals, and exhaustion beyond comprehension are all part of my life. A typical day is 7 hours of school, 4 hours of rehearsal, and 3 hours of homework which all equates to long and exhausting 14 hour days. Time management is skill that was forced upon me to keep me swimming through high school. I have spent more hours inside my school’s auditorium than I have in some of the classroom. Thankfully, my classes have…

Long-Term Memory: Encoding and Retrieval After reading chapter seven about encoding techniques that improve retrieval, I decided to pay closer attention to how I study. I found that my studying habits were not all great. I did the majority of my studying on campus, either at the library or in a relaxed area. I would listen to music and read over the material, highlight the important terms, and finish with an overall feeling that I understood the content. When the time came to prove that I knew…

voice, helped me know God personally, and kept me on the right path to grow as a person. My family always knew that I had a great voice. My mom use to always tell me that my voice would lead me the top of the charts one day. I would go to choir rehearsal every Tuesday night and sing…

During my last three years in Albuquerque I have been very active in my music community. I've been a violist in the UNM Symphony for two years, have participated in UNM's concert choir for one semester and intend on continuing that participation next semester. In addition to UNM ensembles, I have served as the alto section leader in the Albuquerque Institute of Religion Choir for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as well as the Chairman of the music committee for the Mountain View…

My personal experience with achieving success was in high school. My senior year was the most difficult year of all because of all the college applications and taking many tests and not missing deadlines were stressing me out, dance rehearsals were getting much more difficult since I couldn’t focus anymore, I wasn’t able to pick up choreography as quick and that would cause me to get frustrated. I wasn’t getting any rest. I did not do homework for about two weeks straight and saw how…

Jerzy Grotowski was an innovative theatre director whose practice and theories has contributed significantly to contemporary theatre practice and actor training. In order to access a broad understanding of Grotowski, this essay will examine his life and the historical context in which he developed his practices. The lineages of actor training that influenced Grotowski will be briefly analysed, and then we will discuss Grotowski’s artistic journey over the course of his life, I will then discuss…

There are many factors that contribute to an ensembles’ sound. Most of which we spend our musical lives practicing; things like tone, vowels, diction, ect. As we begin to make the transition from ensemble member to leader we are thrown yet another contributing factor to sound: conducting. The art of conducting is a continuously growing set of skills for an individual. Many of the greatest conductors have spent decades perfecting their craft and creating their style, while building their…

Amnesia – the phenomenon of forgetting something previously known – has several different classifications. This forgetting may be due to a multitude of causes, and these different causes and the conditions in which they occur help define the classification of amnesias used today. 5 main classifications are anterograde, retrograde, infantile, transient global, and functional amnesia. Each will be defined and briefly discussed. Anterograde amnesia is “a severe loss of the ability to form new…

Music education. There are various definitions of the word, but what is my definition? Music education is a way of life. People go out into the world with a specific calling just waiting for them to guide towards a brighter future. It may come instantly for some, but others it will take awhile. Sometimes people are surrounded by music their entire life which can influence them to follow in their family members footsteps. However, others, including myself, have wanted to go out into the world…