The concert I went to see was the Dana Guitar Studio Recital. It took place at noon at the
Butler Institute of American Art. The purpose of the concert was a studio recital, well simply because it says so in the name of the concert. It played music ranging from the 1600s all the way up to the year 2005. Some of the artists featured whose songs were being played were
Thelonious Monk, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, and the Los
Angeles Guitar Quartet. I think the theme of this concert was I am not really too sure what theme the concert was because of the different types and time periods of music played at the recital.
The first piece of music played was called “Round Midnight” originally by Thelonious
Monk. This piece was played at the concert by a young man named Anthony Kunovic. This piece to me didn’t sound much like a song that was very well put together. To me, it just sounded like he was playing around on the guitar messing around with random notes and chords.
The next piece I observed was called “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” originally played by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. In the concert it was played by a guitar quartet consisting of
Benjamin Dague, Christopher Mrofchak, Phillip Monrean, and Michael Reardon. This piece was interesting to me because of four of the men playing sounded perfect together. It brought a sense of a jazzy feeling to the room where people started tapping their feet.
The third piece played was called “The Thumb” and it is originally played by Wes
Montgomery but in the concert was played by Paul Chambers and Jesse Martin.
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This song was very boring to me. It was probably my least favorite so...
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...lly made me happy. It made me think of happiness. It reminded me of past weddings I attended simply because of the nature of the song.
The performers at the concert did a very good job with the song. From the other versions that I listened to online, they played it almost perfectly. The concert was in a very nice museum, so it made the music seem a lot more, I don’t know, proper I guess would be the word to describe it. I think my experience compared to the original audience might have been slightly similar depending on what the original purpose of the song was. If it was used at a wedding then it would be pretty much the same because I agreed that it sounds like a wedding song.
Works Cited
Groves Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 4 ed., s.v. "Johann Pachelbel." : Oxford
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Kerman, Joseph, and Gary Tomilinson. Listen. Boston; 2012.
Following the first intermission the musicians performed Magnificant by Mohaycn, Ave Maria op 12 by Brahms, Magnificant by Vaughan Williams, and Canticle of Mary by Larson. Nancy Menk was the conductor, Judith Von Houser's voice was the soprano and Mary Nessinger the Mezzo-soprano. The first three sections were settings of the magnificant text all for women's of tremble voices and orchestra. This recital was more dramatic due to the addition of the precussion that added a yelling sound in the end of the last section Canticle of Mary which portrayed Mary's free spirit. Also they played a solovin oboe Manificant by Williams.
During the performance I attended, two pieces were performed. The first was a Mozart piece by the name of Symphony No. 41 or Jupiter. The second and final was the Lord Nelson Mass composed by Joseph Haydn. In this concert, the two performances differed greatly unlike the last performance that I went to. The previous one that I attended had music that all sounded very similar to me. That could just be my lack of experience with American music, especially music that was composed hundreds of years ago. This time, there was vocal accompaniment with the second piece which clearly made it much different than the other works that I listened to. The Lord Nelson Mass was one that I enjoyed more and I feel that is because of the choir that performed. Although it is not the type of music that I usually listen to, it is still has some more similarities than the symphony by Mozart.
The concert I attended was a Junior piano recital held at The Florida State University College of Music in the Dohnanyi Recital Hall. The pianist was Kaisar Anvar. The pieces performed were:
The concert that I attended was of the cellist “Pablo Mahave Veglia” and he performed at the recital hall at Saint Cloud State University on September 9th. His concert was specifically instrumental and it was a solo recital. This concert’s genre was mainly a concerto and the concert represented the Baroque period. The main instrument that was used in this concert was the cello and there was also some electronic music incorporated throughout his performance.
in Mingus’ music. Today the music of Mingus is still being played by the Mingus Big
The concert I attended was the Liszt, Prokofiev, and Dvořák concert at the Chicago Symphony Center. Emmanuel Krivine is a French conductor who conducted the orchestra to play Liszt’s compositions Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3. Next was Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 in the Andantino, Scherzo: Vivace, Moderato, Allegro tempestoso, the piano soloist was Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin who was accompanied by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lastly was Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 was performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the four movements played was, Allegro con Brio, Adagio, Allegretto grazioso, and Allegro MA non troppo.
In conclusion, it was a very unique experience for me to attend this concert. It was my first time listening to music in a church. The music was wonderful and played brilliantly. I now realize how talented some of the women composers were throughout the history of music. The experience of listening to such wonderful music firsthand was an honor. I hope to attend one in the near future.
...ked throughout the concert. The pacing of the selections seemed appropriate. No piece sounded like the one before it. There was a great variety of songs played. There were songs played that were written by famous jazz composers and songs played that were written by some of the performers themselves. This added to the excitement of the show.
The first aspect of the music I recognized was the volume, or the dynamics. It ranged from forte during the climactic moments to mezzo piano during the calmer parts, but mostly remained in this range throughout the concert. There were also several instances of crescendo and decrescendo, which served to build up tension or slow the piece down, respectively.
One performance that stood out to me during the concert was a song called Sinfonia #3 by J. C. Bach (Wind Ensemble Concert program). The reason I enjoyed this song was because it was performed by nine saxophone players. I would say
The first piece that was played was the piano quartet by Mozart called allegro in G-minor. During the music I notice a lot of mimicking going on between the strings. It was rather enjoyable. The tempo of the piece was allegro because it was fast, quick. The meter of this piece was fast 4 beats per meter like you said .The beginning of the piece had some dark moment. But ...
...rall the performance was entertaining and delightful and most of the audience obviously thought so too. Musically the sound was definitely there. There was not a lot of crowd involvement in this type of performance, but the music was very easy to interpret, and plenty enjoyable anyway.
The LaSells Stewart Center is in Oregon State University serving the Corvallis area as its performing arts meeting. This auditorium is 1,200 and is world know for its acoustic excellence. The performance was very elegant and well organized, however as I looked around I saw several people fall asleep and on top of that I had a really tall person in front of me so it was a little hard to see the performers. Not only that this old lady next to me started to snoring. I also did not enjoy how the performers all stopped together to flip the page and it was like three minutes of silence. Even though my seat was bad the music was very relaxing and enjoyable.
The Jazz Ensembles II started the show and played 7 pieces in total in which I’ll only thoroughly discuss one: Sepia Panorama. The
In conclusion, the concert was really interesting and I enjoyed myself. In my opinion the two pieces that I really like in this concert, are Sounden Horn and Polonaise from Engine Onegin, the shift between the melodic lines and the element of beauty is what made me like it. In the future I would recommend it to my friends and I will not mind to go with them at all. This kind of music is the best to me by far.