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    Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide where she studied under Keith Crellin OAM, graduating with honours in 2008. In the same year, she won first place in the prestigious ABC Young Performers Award. Kate Young rapidly established herself as a virtuosic soloist, and has since performed with the London, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras; Warsaw, Royal and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras,…

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    French Horn and Martha Locker played the piano. David Jolley played a horn solo which included three poems of Thomas Tranströmer: Tracks, Allegro, and Morning birds. After each versus of the song he would play the horn. Mr. Jolley has been called “a soloist second to none”. He has traveled and played all over the world to North and South America, East Asia, Europe and Japan. He has also collaborated with many talented groups. Martha Locker played the piano this afternoon in a duet…

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    dead doing a task long forgotten. Once the drums come in and the first tenor soloist comes in, the tone changes drastically, lining up with how things change visually. The notes are also conjunctive with a rolling, or wave like motion--building to the top, holding for a moment as if at the top of the wave before falling more quickly down the other side. There is also a cool visual moment when the second tenor soloist is holding the word star with a slight crescendo as a shooting star glide…

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    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 the 2016 Concerto Competition at Sonoma State University. The two soloists who won the 2016 Concerto Competition was Megan Rice who plays the Saxophone and Zachary Hall who plays the Trumpet. The other soloist who played that night was Aaron Westman who played the violin. Then, Kahn welcomed the Santa Rosa Junior College…

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    that had this back and forth between a soloist and a group, it was also common for the group to alternate between singing together in social unison with high vocal blend and to interlock their voices, singing different parts of the tune. Having the singers split between these two styles so frequently makes me think that this is a song style that is more common in the African folk tradition. Among the songs on the CD that did not have this tradeoff between soloist and group there were some…

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    smooth demeanor. The trumpet solo in this song was also impressive. The soloist had nice tone and his note accuracy was fairly good, but one of the only problem I had with the solo was that it was a little hard to hear at times. This could either be do to the soloist playing too soft or from the ensemble playing over him. This problem could be easily fixed by watching the conductor for cues to play softer so that the soloist does not get dropped out by the…

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    understanding aspects of it gave me a greater appreciation for the music and the musicians. Things such as a recognizable basso ostinato set by the base player were a familiar starting point. When the soloists needed an accompaniment the bassist varied the continuous rhythm to compliment what the soloist was playing, otherwise, the beat was…

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    Corsaire" and others. This meant they were pulled out of dancing things like the Odalisque trio and someone had to replace them. Luciana Paris was injured and not dancing until the end of the season. So ABT had to dig into the corps de ballet for soloist women. The long neglected and pushed aside Zhong-Jing Fang was dancing the second odalisque variation and Zulma in "Giselle", Mme. Chartreuse in "Whipped Cream" among others. She was consistently excellent. Other corps ballerinas who were…

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    of the other concerts. The dark character displayed through the small key signature is sustained through the changes in structure, allowing room for more themes and conflicting ideas than most concertos. The fusion of ideas between the group and soloist also contribute towards the dark and wild atmosphere displayed in this piece (Keefe, 2005).The classical arrangement used for this piece of music surpasses the size of the groups and instruments in late piano concertos. The emotional uproar…

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    This was the world 's first collaborative online orchestra. This extraordinary event took place at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. The orchestra is made of 96 musicians and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six continents. There was also 26 different instruments included in the orchestra. The music that was played came from mozart, Debussy, and many others. The atmosphere of this concert was very formal. The musicians were wearing dresses and suits. The music that was…

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