I attended the last performance of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra on April 27, 2017 at 7:30pm. The concert was held in Baylor University’s Jones Concert Hall. The environment of the concert was pleasant. The concert hall was cavernous but lacked any balcony seating. Nevertheless, there was plenty of room for attendees to sit. The clothing of people attending the concert varied greatly. Younger people, presumably students of the university, wore causal clothing while older people wore formal to semi-formal attire. I myself came in casual clothing. Of course, proper etiquette for a symphony concert was expected. After reviewing the concert program, the list of compositions played by the orchestra is as follows: Suite to Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose): …show more content…
A guest featured in the program notes was Ms. Isabelle Demers. She is a seasoned organ player who has played around the world and is currently an assistant professor at Baylor University. Further remarks about the concert simply stated that this particular concert was the last one of the fall semester. A few items about the concert mildly surprised me. First, the fact that the concert hall had no balcony was a little strange to me, I have never been to a concert where there was no upstairs seating. Second, there were a few different conductors. Two official conductors who each conducted the orchestra on separate compositions, but also a third conductor who assisted one of the official conductors while a piece was being played. I had never seen this before so it was very intriguing to see. All the conductors’ styles varied slightly in the forcefulness of their beats and ques for the orchestra to come in. Overall, they had they simply moved only their hands to direct the orchestra. Finally, the last item that surprised me happened during the performance of the last …show more content…
2 “Island of Innocence” by Kevin Puts. The melody of this piece is lyrical and switches between having dissonance and consonance. The piece starts out with a duple meter but turns to a triple meter later on. The dynamics for the first half of the composition are at a mezzo piano but keep a forte for the first part of the second half of the piece. The tempo was at an adagio for the first half and goes up to an andante for the first part of the second half. The texture is homophonic. The timbre of the strings, drums, percussion, and horns all combine to give first, mood of innocence and second, a mood of disillusionment. The piece does end on a hopeful note though. The program notes on this piece stated the composer was inspired by the 2001 September 11 attacks. I was four years old when that happened. This composition showed me the raw emotion concerning that event in such a way that I can imagine the horror and fear felt by so many people during and after the incident. It was quite
One of the pieces the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra performed was Carnival Overture, op. 92, composed by Antonin Dvorak. The conductor at this concert was Christian Baldini and the main violinist was Shawyon Malek-Salehi. This piece was made in the Romantic era with an orchestra instrumentation. The genre for this piece is concert overture and has a sonata form in a similar formate to other sonata forms from the Romantic era, making it sound dramatic compared to the Classical era’s sonata era. The live performance was true to Dvorak’s original score, which took the traditional sonata form of the classical era and changed it to incorporate a common Romantic era sonata form. Although the live performance focused on the first violinist, it still maintained the dramatic atmosphere from the original piece by keeping the sonata form, rhythm, texture, and instrumentation.
...xcited to have this experience. Part of the drama of the concert at first is felt when the musicians come in and sit down and begin tuning up their instruments. I would not be able to comment on the performance of the orchestra. During the performance, I seen the audience were moving with the music, but I felt like that everyone seems knows more music than what I learned throughout this semester. After I went home and did some of the research on these music I finally understand why these people like to attend the orchestra concerto, it was because that every piece of music has a history behind it. The Los Angeles audience seemed to me to be people who know music and who will listen to something new in a respectful way. All the same, when the more familiar sounds of the last piece were heard, I could feel a little sense of relaxation and fun coming into the room.
Last Friday, November 10th, music enthusiasts packed Sage Chapel to attend the choral concert given by the 50 boys and young men from the St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, the last performance of the Cornell Concert Series in 2017. Despite the frigid gusts of wind, the line in front of the entrance nearly wrapped around Sage Chapel minutes before the concert started at 8 p.m. The much-anticipated concert attracted faculty and students across the campus, and even audience beyond the Cornell community. Among the audience there was even a German family with their daughter who were paying a visit to US.
A sufficient reason for attending many NYCB performances, even of the same program when possible, is that one can never tell beforehand when the constituent elements of the ballet-going experience will jell effectively for them. For a non-musician like myself, it is difficult to “see" the music, but on Sunday afternoon it felt as if I did. Mozart’s and Tschaikovsky’s composition never sounded so sublime. Alexander Glazounov’s music was imbued with an irresistible beauty of its own. And the company was firing on all cylinders for this matinee! Maria Kowroski and Tyler Angle were deeply moving in Mozartiana; Teresa Reichlen and Russell Janzen, spectacular in Cortège Hongrois. All the subordinate parts, by Daniel Ulbricht in one work and Lauren King, Emilie Gerrity, Savannah Lowery and Ask la Cour in the other, were performed admirably. The work of the corps members shone throughout. This was easily the most satisfying of the five
The first question I asked myself at the beginning of the quarter was how much do I actually know about jazz? I have always characterized jazz music as a rhythmic and instrumental form of music. My impression on the basis of the jazz has always been portrayed with the African-American race. I think this was build up from the rhythm ‘n’ blues era and meaning according to the dictionary (“style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century and has very strong rhythms and often involves improvisation”). But Louis Armstrong’s famous reply was “if you had to ask, you’ll never know”. Whatever else he meant, he was at least saying that jazz is noticeable, but not necessarily understandable by words. (do not really know exact cite where I have got this quote)
The Symphony Orchestra concert was preformed by The OU School of Music with Jonathan Shames as a conductor and they presented Sutton Concert Series. In addition, the Orchestra concert performed at Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall in October 12, 2015.There were like forty-one performers on the stage including the conductor using different types of instruments and and all of them were wearing a nice black clothes. The stage was a quite large with wooden floor and there were two floors for the audience with a comfortable seating. However, all the performers were on round shape and against the conductor.
I am doing my concert review on Cirque de la Symphonie. The concert was conducted by Michael Palmer and accompined by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, December 5, 2015. Michael Palmer Known as the one of the country's finest conductors who begin his career with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1967 where he was with them for ten years. The performance took place at the Atlanta Symphony hall at 3:00 p.m. There were many pieces performed and some of which I heard before and also by names that I learned in class. For example "Ave Maria" (Schubert), "Trepak"(Tchaikovsky), and "Dance of the Reed and Flutes"(Tchaikovsky). Being that it was my first time seeing a Orchestra I really enjoyed the concert . Not only was it just the Orchestra perfroming the Crique de la Symphonie cast was the main attraction bringing excitement to the audience.
In readiness for the concert, I enjoyed a special dinner prepared for the audience. More specifically, LA Phil staffers introduced us to the evening classical concert amidst cheers from the audience. It was such a refreshing and joyous feeling to be part of this audience. The pianist and concert conductor, Christian Zacharias opened the Los Angeles Philharmonic Classical Music concert with a fascinating performance that left the audience in party mood and in happy feelings.
A beautiful and unique texture of the clarinet sound is charming. The closed, wooden, cylinder-conic tube of the clarinet creates specific acoustic. When one plays clarinet music it seems like it is coming from the faraway. A brief summarization of clarinet history and manufacturers, classical and classical jazz clarinet performers, classical clarinet and jazz composers (song writers), classical repertoires, well known old days jazz music, and famous orchestras, the Colorado and Philadelphia ones.
For my concert i had to attend I decided to go to the Wind Symphony conducted by Dr. Karen LaVoie which was help May 1, at Dever stage. When arriving I was kind of surprised by the large attendance and surprisingly Dever was having one of it’s cooler nights. At first I was surprised to see older people joining the students in the ensemble on stage but after looking through the program learnt these musicians were former Alumni. I love that idea of inviting alumni to still be apart of the symphony it allows students to learn from these people but also invites people from our community to come back to WSU.
The conductor raises his arms, the ensemble takes a collective breath and… The life of a Music Conductor will be long and tedious with little to no recognition. The amount of time consuming adolescents that cannot focus longer than a minute will be insurmountable. It takes a decade to find that one ensemble that has the capacity to bring forth a conductor’s desirable vision. But when he finds them, wow! The possibilities are endless. True music will blossom into a life changing experience. The music will take on a metaphorical body, complete with a soul. So, there they are - the conductor and his ensemble, standing on stage. Preparing themselves for the magic that is about to bloom. A Music Conductor is the head of an ensemble/symphony and
A violin is an instrument you can find in any orchestra. An orchestra is comprised of many different instruments creating different sounds to ultimately create one harmonious sound. At the Masonic Homes of Kentucky, simply having a conversation or giving the residents their mail, allowed me to hear the different voices, but in the end all of the positivity and smiles allowed me to witness the harmonious sound in the people. The harmonious sound for them was living life itself.
With only a few weeks remaining in this course and with all the different quizzes and discussion posts we have done, I can say since my last concert I attended I have grown more comfortable with the styles of music we have went through. For my second Concert Report I really wanted to go to another performance that had an added feature to make the performance that much more enjoyable. Right after submitting my first concert report I started looking through the concert calendar to see which ones intrigued me the most. My attention was instantly caught by one performance happening right before Thanksgiving break began. This performance happened to be the film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with the orchestra performing all of the
The present concert was related to classical music. In this particular, concert, there was use of various musical instruments. The musical instruments used in this particular concert included soprano, conductor, flute, piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. In this way, it can be said that, in the concert, there was a combination of various musical instruments for the listeners. The musical concert was one of those concerts which were quite good to listen.
Never before the night of February 26th, 2014 had I been to a symphony orchestra. It was a first time experience for me and one I will truly not be able to forget easily. The Grand Valley State University Symphony Orchestra as well as the Chamber Orchestra performed that night and it was quite a show. The concert was set to begin at 8 pm and knowing that, I arrived at 7:30 pm to make sure I could fully take in the experiences that occur before the show truly begins. As I walked into the Louis Armstrong Theatre, I saw many, many instruments sitting on the stage as well as more open seats that the orchestra sat at once the show began. As the performers were gathering to their seats and the conductor, Henry Duitman, went in front of them, we all knew the show was about to begin.