The lights dim, the audience settles into their seats, and you prepare for your performance of your newest composition. There isn’t much in this world that can top the thrill of realizing your original compositions in a performance venue. But, to get there, you need to prepare to ensure that your music doesn’t play to an empty concert hall. Composers that put on their own recitals can increase exposure for their music, but they must also learn to wear several hats during the process. Invitations must be sent, posters must be hung, and refreshments must be provided. If you can survive the ordeal of putting on your own concert, a captive, intent, and engaged audience can listen to and become familiar with your music compositions.
Choosing a Theme
If you select compositions that are related thematically, but that are different enough to keep the audience entertained, you can market your concert more easily. Select or compose music that invokes several contrasting moods. If you normally write morose music, include a few pieces that are more upbeat and carefully arrange the program so that the audience gets a feel for the range of your compositional style. At the same time, avoid the rookie mistake of trying to show the audience everything you have. If you only write atonal music, don’t attempt to write a tonal piece just to give your music more
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Create a website to list your performance dates and promote upcoming concerts using online advertising campaigns. By now, you should also have a social media page where you can keep in contact with fans and update them about your latest works. Post information about your latest works, and interact with your listeners to put a face to your music. Then, when it comes time to put on a concert, you will have a host of potential concertgoers to help make your concerts more profitable and
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The Laidlaw Preforming Arts Center held a Wind Ensemble for the students of South Alabama. In this program there were a various Romantic style pieces which are listed on the program stapled to the back of this paper. Each piece of music shows a series of different styles, and the student band does so well with each. As the concert is coming to the end student conductors begin to conduct the pieces, and they all do a wonderful job.
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As the piano started to sound in the Four Season Theater, the crowd would turn silence in just a second. That was the impression that piano gave me when I attended to Richard Clayderman’s concert last month. The power of the piano is not just shown by the sound itself but also the unshakable social standing as the “King of the instruments”.
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Music: the art of organized noise. The blend of pitch and rhythm combined in different mediums and enjoyed by our ears. A very interpretive art, music isn’t very clearly constricted or defined by one definition. With so many varieties of music, it’s difficult to say what aspect is really the most important. Some people think music’s history and the appreciation of music are the most important aspects to take into consideration. Some think complex in rhythms and melodies make the best music. Some people devote their whole lives to studying one genre of music in order to fully understand how that genre works. While all of these aspects of music are important, none of them can truly be compared with each other on a fair playing field. Music of different genres, eras, and geographic backgrounds were written for different purposes, different people, and different settings. Still, there is still one overarching theme that applies to all forms of music new or old: the way the composer presents his or her creation. The performance and presentation of a work of music is like the icing on the top of a cake. The cake may be the best you’ve ever tasted, but if the icing on the outside doesn’t look appealing or doesn’t taste good, chances are you’ll take a different piece of cake with better looking frosting next time. The performance of music is what appeals most to people. With live performance, an artist must “sell” his or her creation. They must put smile on their face and convey to the audience that this is their music and through the music explain why it’s awesome. They must persevere through whatever the stage, the audience, and their surroundings give them and put on a good show. In today’s popular music though, this aspect of showma...
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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.