Concert review #1 On Friday, July 10th, 2015, I drove to the 6th Street to the Metronome Coffee in Tacoma to see a performance of young musician. Performer’s name was Tyler Shockey, and he played and sang by himself. After listening to his few songs, I learned that his songs do not have many lyrics, and he mainly played on electric piano and drums. The electric piano had many different sounds, and Tyler amazingly played many instruments and even sang at the same time. His music was pleasant and easy to listen, and some of songs were in slow tempo with few words of lyrics. However, the place was a little bit small for the music so it might have sounded loud for some people. On the other hand, I felt like the singer was expressing his feelings
In this concert, featuring Lola Astanova and Gerard Schwarz, complex understanding of the music was shown. The first piece, ‘the Tsar’s Bride’ by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was a historically influenced opera talking about the tsar’s third wife dying almost immediately after her wedding in fifteen-seventy one. The opera was more dramatic than others Rimsky-Korsakov wrote because the main character, the tsar, never sang. He is only known through the orchestra’s music. The opera first premiered in Moscow on November 3, 1899.
For my first concert report, I have decided to attend the Applied Music Student Recital. The musical performance was at Palomar College on February 27, 2015 from 1:00P.M.--2:00P.M. at the performance lab room D-10. The type of music that was presented at the concert was a brass ensemble, chamber music, classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, percussion, and many vocal arrangements. There was a total of eight musical Palomar College student performers who are majoring in music theory. I am only going to focus on a few of the musical pieces that I enjoyed most. The majority of the performers were dressed in formal attire. As the men were dressed in a dress shirt, a tie or bow tie of their choice, black slacks, and dress shoes. As for the women, they wore dresses, skirts and dress shoes. Also there was a pianist, accompanist who is a Palomar College music teacher named Ruth Weber. The performance was in a music concert hall with roughly fifty audience members.
For my concert write up, I attended the UCR Chamber Singers Valentine's concert on February 9th at the Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside. It was a mix of ensemble pieces, solos, duos, and trios. The setting for the performance was a beautifully lit spot in the center surrounded by art. The audience seats were set up close to the performance area, in about 5 or so rows surrounding the front half of the 'stage'. By the time the performance started, it was nearly full, seemingly diverse, and made up of all ages. Certain members of the audience were very responsive to each performance and it was very easy to tell who was engaged and enjoying the show. They showed this by smiling, laughing, making eye contact, and recording, or taking
On Friday November 15, 2013, I attended a concert that I found very interesting. It took place at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. The group performing was the Erie Chamber Orchestra but as a special the Slippery Rock University Concert Choir was also there.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, I attended a musical concert. This was the first time I had ever been to a concert and did not play. The concert was not what I expected. I assumed I was going to a symphony that featured a soloist clarinet; however, upon arrival I quickly realized that my previous assumptions were false. My experience was sort of a rollercoaster. One minute I was down and almost asleep; next I was laughing; then I was up and intrigued.
Out of the designated list of online concerts, I decided to watch the Kronos Quartet on November 24th. I chose this concert mostly because I enjoy string instruments. However, I was also intrigued by the name of the group and wondered why they chose the God Kronos to represent their musical ensemble. Like most string quartets, there were two violins, a viola, and a cello. The violins were played by David Harringtong and John Sherba. The viola was played by Hank Dutt and the newest member of the group, Sunny Yang, played the cello.
On October 19th at around 7 pm, I waited outside a relatively small, worn down building known as Walter’s Downtown, which is located in Down Town Houston. As I walked through the entrance, I was astonished how the front of the building seemed like a regular old music shop with records and guitars on the wall, and a glass showcase. While the back of the building was appropriately bigger in size and contained black and white murals on the wall, red couches, a bar, and a stage for musicians to perform. When I saw the musicians, they were dressed in a business casual apparel, with plaid button ups and blue jeans. The musical compositions that struck me the most include: “To be Dead and in Love” by Vinnie Caruana and “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” by Aaron
An orchestra concert is a show where people perform their music pieces to people like their parent, friends, or others. I had the same thing on May fifth. During that night, groups of students from sixth, seventh, and eighth played pieces the director, Mr. Dean chose. My classmates and I had many improvements from the year before but some mistakes were included. Instead of first telling what the groups or the group I was in I want to start out with saying what I did.
On March 30, 2014 I made the trek in to Denver, for a Masterworks performance of Litton Conducts Vaughan Williams. The performance was at the Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver performing Arts Complex right in the heart of downtown. I can truly say that this was going to be an experience for me, since I do not ever take the opportunity to drive clear in to downtown Denver very often if ever at all. However, today was the day. I found my way around easily, finding the parking garage and eventually easing my truck in to a parking spot clear at the top away from other vehicles, hoping I’d have a better chance of pulling out with the big beast of a truck that I drive. Believe me this is not something that can be easily accomplished, considering I am a farm girl and rarely have to go into anything that resembles a larger city.
I have been told that music is an escape from everyday pains and suffering: it’s an outlet for extra pent up emotion. People tend to feel strong connections with musicians because they sing and perform the very thing that sums up their innermost feelings. For me, music was exactly that, and so much more. In a previous paper, I wrote about my last day living in Appleton, Wisconsin. This story picks up just a few days prior to that day, in a little recording studio in the heart of downtown Appleton.
On June 24, at 7:30 p.m. I attended a classical concert at Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara, under the name of “A Prodigy Reborn” the impressionistic style 2016 Silicon Music organized an events for The CMSV young Artist Program, which was designed to provide opportunities in professional development for young CMSV Artists. This was the second classical concert I attended, I was impressed by how amazing the artists was playing the instruments.
It was a cold windy day in late November. The sky was blue, but the air had a
Then audience members who were perfect strangers who were screaming loudest would turn to each other with knowing glances and smile because they were sharing the same excitement and connecting with one another over their love of this man’s music. There was no pushing or shoving to get closer to the stage – it wasn’t that kind of crowd. Instead, there was mutual respect for one another’s space within the confines of the too-small venue. Nobody wanted to be the person who ruined it for someone else. It was this respect that made the audience members’ connections with one another that much stronger – we were all here to listen to this wonderful man’s music and see his performance – and, of course, we were here to enjoy it.
The first time I saw David Johnson preform in a coffee shop I was with my brother at the coffee shop when he came to visit me, changed the way I look at open mic night. I did not want to be there I wanted to be anywhere else but there. I never see my brother since he lives in another state, I never go to Philadelphia because New York is my thing, but my brother wanted to go so I said why not, while he was up in Glenside visiting me. There were so many people preforming and they were all just blurring together in the background of my mind. I didn’t understand what their message was or if they were singing just to sing to a crowd of people. Tell this one man took the stage and started talking and I didn’t re...
The Concert of Europe The Congress System, which took the form of a series of congresses and diplomatic meetings held between 1818 and 1822, can be regarded as a practical expression of the rather general concept of the Concert of Europe. The Concert of Europe was an attempt to regularize the conflicting ambitions of the Great Powers in the interests of Europe as a whole. As such, its effectiveness was dependant on the willingness of all five Great Powers to show moderation in the pursuit of their individual interests. Without this, it would be impossible to reach a consensus on important issues. Although The Concert’s main aim was to maintain peace, revolts in different areas of Europe such as Spain, Portugal, Belgium and France, made its peace making facilities harder to obtain due to the delicate circumstances.