On November 16th, 2013, I attended a concert choir, fall choral concert. This event took place on the Wheaton College Campus, in the Edman Chapel at 7:30 pm. The chapel was well-lit, with long pews for the audience to be seated. The concert began with the audience looking up into a balcony, where the ensemble stood in neat rows. They watched the conductor, who stood on a stage in front of the audience, waiting for their cue. The first composition, "Miserere Mei, Deus", was produced by Gregorio Allegri in 1638. I learned this, as I read along with the well-thought-out program that was given. As we, the audience, looked up to the vocalists, we were entranced by the consuming sound. The room filled with a vibrant melody, in which the harmonization and tone color was spectacular. The emotion conveyed throughout the room was one of absorption and delight. During this piece, the sopranos hit such high notes, that I was astounded. Being a person who participates in concert choir, I understand the level of commitment and talent it takes to reach those notes and stay in tune. This ...
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one the world’s well-known choir since its one of the prominent and oldest. The choir started out as an insignificant group, but rapidly began to be more popular as the years progressed. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a chorus of 360 men and women in total. They have entertained millions of spectators by performing in places such as at the “World’s Fairs and expositions at inaugurations of U.S. presidents, in acclaimed concert halls from Australia and Europe to Asia and the Middle East” (Mormon). “In 1929, the Choir began broadcasting Music & The Spoken Word on radio” (Mormon). Now they have various radio and television stations. The Mormon Tabernacle has been broadcasted live all over television and several social media sites. They are also known as “America’s Choir” because people all over the world enjoy their harmonious music. Each member has a distinctive voice and their belief in god, makes this effort to influence others through music. The choir is “an ambassador for ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” their music surpasses the traditional restrictions, which led to numerous people bonding universally through music. The Choir performs at least two sessions per year, and they also have a demanding calendar which they must follow. The Choir grew successful by the aptitude, commitment and dreams of its leaders. Every single person in the choir and others outside the Choir helped the Choir be cultivated and helped them develop into the enormous Choir that they are today. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir also has a school where students train known as The Temple Square Chorale. They aid students by assisting them with their vocal skills and music reading skills. When a...
I have been to many different concerts throughout my life but this year I experienced two exceptionally unique ___ that I had never seen before. The first one was a spectacular chamber recital that took place at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed by pianist Yefim Bronfman and violist-violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The program included Schubert's Violin Sonatina No. 2 in A Minor, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, and Brahms’ Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor. The second was a performance by the notable quartet “Anonymous 4” presented by the Universality of Chicago at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The program included a series of medieval French motets from the 13th Century French polyphony, taken from the Montpellier Codex. The two performances were extremely different in nature and but at the same time very similar in what they were trying to achieve. For instance, while the first concert consisted entirely of an instrumental performance, the other was exclusively vocal. However, both were able to bring to life great examples of iconic artists from our past. I left both c...
November 9th and 10th, Chino Hills High School’s choir put on successful concerts in honor of the US Veterans and active military members. The concert was very good, and there were performances by the different CHHS choirs. There was the Women’s Choir, Mixed Choir, Concert Choir, Treble Choir, and Chamber Singers. They performed some well-known songs such as “ Amazing Grace”” and “ O Captain! My Captain!” Treble Choir performed a very upbeat song called “ Roll, Jordan, Roll”” which got the audience excited and clapping along. Around the middle of the concert, Men’s Ensemble performed “ Armed Forces – The Pride Of America.” During the concert, they announced a US Military Branch and people in the audience that were Veterans of a particular branch or actively serving, stood up and the audience clapped for them. The Men’s Ensemble sang a song for each branch that was announced. There was also a very cool performance by the Hand Bell Choir where they performed two songs with bells. There were about 20 people in the Hand Bell Choir and each person had 2 or 3 bells to play, and all of them sounded slightly different. The Bell Choir was able to make splendid sounds as a unit. There were also some bell solos by students who performed songs that went
Upon receiving this project, my mind began racing as I looked through all the potential shows I could attend. After awhile I came to the conclusion that while I appreciate the talent and effort that goes into opera, I do not always enjoy it. That sentiment follows me when it comes to instrumental music, such as classical, as well. However, I have always enjoyed musicals because I can easily follow the story due to the often familiar movie style pacing. With this in mind, I knew I wanted to attend one. Luckily, a classmate discovered that the North Raleigh Christian Academy was going to show Irvin Berlin’s iconic musical; White Christmas. To my pleasant surprise, this show sold out every single day they put it on and the energy in the building
I recently attended Evergreen’s Christmas band concert. The concert included sixth through twelfth grade. Sixth graders played the songs: Tomahawk Dance and Christmas Sleigh Ride. The seventh graders played Soulmate, ‘Tis the Season, and The Red, The White and The Blues. Eighth grade preformed Bourbon Street Barbecue, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, and The Washington Post. Finally the show ended with the high school concert band. They played the songs Angels on Parade, Mele Kalikimaka and The 3-Minute Nutcracker. As well as The Hallelujah Chorus and ending with Santa Baby.
Early composers wrote for the theatre. Accompanied solo song, which we now call ‘art song’, was unable to compete with the splendor of opera, and so held little interest as a musical form. With few exceptions, art song lay dormant from 1725 to around 1850. Before this time, most of Italian song literature was excerpted from operas. Many of the songs that are performed as ‘art songs’ today are actually arias from early Italian operas. Composers, with the exception of Barbara Strozzi, were focused primarily on their operatic literature. Italian art songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were showcases for the voice, exploiting its musical and technical capabilities. For that reason, these songs focus very little on blend of poetic and musical elements, but are instead slanted toward featuring the voice as the primary performance medium. In the majority of early Italian music, the accompaniment provides support for the voice and little more, although it is difficult to make anything but generaliz...
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
A choir director must fix his own hearing, before they can get to ’first base’, with their choir members. They can do this by listening to some Bach chorales, then leave them for a week, come back and play them several times, then write them down on a manuscript. (p. 27)
Marian’s spectacular talents flourished with the support of her family and friends. At fourteen years old, Marian’s choir director, Alexander Robinson, moved her from the youth choir to the adult choir. Robinson was in shock of the young girl’s ability to sing any part of any hymn whenever she was requested to do so. Marian showed so much potential to the congregation of he...
I attended my first collegiate choral concert on Friday October 17, at Concordia University Irvine’s CU Center. The only other choral concerts I have attended in my lifetime were when I was a part of the choir at my elementary school. The performance began at 7:30 p.m. and lasted about an hour and a half with no intermission. The musical event was conducted by Dr. Marin Jacobson and accompanied by Dr. Rachel Schrag. It was the Fall Choral Concert and Concordia’s Donne di Canto and Men’s chorus performed a total of 14 pieces, including “Sing a New Song to the Lord,” “Heart, We Will Forget Him,” “Old Dan Tucker,” and “Benediction.” The 13 works were grouped into 5 categories: Psalms of Praise and Meditation; Songs of Faith and Praise; Two Emily Dickinson Settings; Folksongs for Men; and Spiritual Blessings.
I attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic classical music concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday 29 November 2013. The classical concert started at 8:00pm to the enjoyment of the huge audience that had been waiting for this amazing music extravaganza. Classical music concerts always offer magnificent entertainment and the audience in this concert was expectant to derive such entertainment or more. In attendance were Christian Zacharias who was the conductor and Martin Chalifour who was the LA Phil commanding Principal Concertmaster and Bach violin player. In readiness for the concert, I enjoyed a special dinner prepared for the audience. More specifically, LA Phil staffer 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.
When I was in the seventh grade I joined middle school show choir. I mostly joined because I loved to sing and my sister Hanah had just joined the show choir at the high school. I learned very early on how much I enjoyed show choir. I also learned that it was a lot of fun!
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
Attending Choir Concerts is important for numerous reasons, a few of these reasons consist of improving your public speaking and performing, developing new friendships, learning how to express yourself in new and different ways, learning to have better elegances and posture, learning to expand their preferred music, and last but not least being in choir and performing helps you decide rather or not you would like pursue a musical career.
For my report I went to Layton High to see their choir. I enjoyed all the choirs that performed that day, and they all did a very great job. Not all of the choirs did enjoy as much as some others, but it was very enjoyable. The list of choirs that were there is: Laytones, Laytonaires, Advanced Choir, Lace, Lyrics and Beginning Choir. There were few that stood to me, it was the Lyrics, Legionnaires, and Advanced Choir. Yet the Lace Choir stood out the most singing “Taylor The Latte Boy” I have never heard that song before, but personally it was magnificent! One more that I absolutely thought was also great was when Beginning Choir sang “Hist Wist.” They had a lot of movement and they did this thing with flashlights and turned them on and off to the music it was truly amazing!