Sound stage

this classic film took place in the Center for the Performing Arts. The actors took the stage as members of a 1940s radio show, playing a multitude of characters depicted in the original film. Although vastly different from the cinema version, this adaptation was very successful due to the congruous 1940s costumes, the use of varied voices to portray numerous characters, and the simulation of environmental sounds to create an accurate setting. To begin, the radio show version of the play…

Alten’s defined a synthesizer as, “an audio instrument that uses sound generators to create waveforms.” (Alten 339). The process includes the use of MIDI, Musical Instrument Digital Interface, that has the compositional elements, such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, vibrato, and timbre, defined to produce music without any…

Introduction: On Music and Sound in The Tempest: We all know that music and sound are important to many forms of theater. It can help to build the environment in which the story we are experiencing can play out, enforce a theme, or make the audience feel an emotion before they know why. Film as well as opera are a few examples, but it is not nearly as widely seen, or rather heard, in plays. The Tempest does a great job of incorporating sounds and music to construct the eerie, magical feeling of…

ready next week to start practicing for the play. We would receive the script in an email later on that week. I went home super excited I was going to be in a play. Waiting anxiously for that email, I thought to myself, “Is this play going to be on stage with a lot of people? Am I going to get the role? What are the roles? What is the play about?” The week seemed to go by extra slow. When I finally received the email, I was just a ball of nerves. The play was going to be about different things.…

sing it just to see how many people actually listen to the music that they have been putting out. You could anticipate similarities and differences when comparing an album and a concert, but would you really know how much would change or what would sound different in an arena compared to your headphones, I don’t think many could. Going in to a concert your heart is racing from anticipation and your nerves are very high because you’re not quite sure what to expect. Listening to an album for the…

Though simple in plot, the themes in this drama are profound and share the stage limelight just as much as the main characters. In the story there is the mama and her two kids Walter Lee and Bennie, and Walter’s wife Ruth, and their kid Travis. Each have their own dream and goal that they want achieved but struggle due to the circumstances…

When the curtains opened there were dancers lined across the back of the stage with tambourines in their hands. As the music started the dancers that were at the back, stayed there and everyone else started walking on stage and mingling together. It was as if they were at a gathering and just talking to each other. After a couple of minutes into this first scene, there happened to be a lot of duets…

word itself, rooted in the Latin word for “pain”, has been manifested in society in numerous way. An example of this occurred in 1964. Songwriting duo Simon and Garfunkel desperately compressed the elements of this strange phenomenon in the song “The Sound of Silence,” which enviably hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Time and time again, poets, musicians, scientists, and dreamers have tried to understand the complexity of what seems to be nothing. Yet despite their efforts, so many…

Introduction I saw Radford University’s production of Junie B. in Jingle bells, Batman smells on Saturday, December 3rd. Junie B. was a popular children’s book by Barbara Parks. Her books have sold over 60 million copies in North America alone and the series was on the New York Times bestseller list for 180 weeks. Parks passed away on Friday, November 15th, 2013. This play was adapted from Park’s 25th book by Allison Gregory and was debuted on November 15th, 2009 and ran until December 27, 2009…

Acapella singing is always better live. At least, that's what my sister told me after she went to a Pentatonix concert. Of course, I had no trouble believing her, but my sister only truely learned this when she went to the concert. How was my sister able to go to this super expensive concert for a super famous band that was all the way in Saint Louis, you ask? It all started when my sister’s best friend Rayna called her up and asked, “Wanna go to a Pentatonix concert? It’s free.” Of…