On Monday, the 29th of February, I went to my 6th grade daughter’s orchestra concert. It was the Region 3 Orchestra Festival and included 5th grade, 6th grade, junior high, and high school orchestras. It was held in the Puyallup High school gymnasium, beginning at 7pm. My daughter and I arrived at the gym at 6:15. She went to her seat on the floor and I searched for a seat in the bleachers. At 6:19, I began my participant observation, I wrote my thoughts and observations for 35 minutes. There were many people looking for a place to sit and a place to reserve seats for family members that were not there yet. In one case a young man, dressed in a white shirt and bow tie, was practicing his violin and watching the door anxiously. Many of the performers, …show more content…
Their voices started out quiet and in mumbled terse statements, then grew louder. Their mother finally intervened, chastising the two for being too loud and making a scene. She then removed the tablet from them and didn’t allow either of them to play it. The two accepted their fate and gave each other angry looks. I interpreted this as kids that need distraction from waiting and not letting the other have what they want. The mother obviously felt embarrassed and angry at their behavior. Before the concert officially started, the orchestras practiced “Ode to Joy” together. As the music started the crowd noise of voices and shuffling and stomping died down. The cacophony of a crowd arranging themselves into high school bleachers subsided to a low buzz, as if the social contract of respect for performers as they perform was being enacted. The music was loud and scratchy at some points in the piece, the children performing were focused and anxious, hoping not to mess up in front of so many …show more content…
In experiencing grief, he was able to better understand the actions of others in response to grief. In my observation, I feel this too came in to play. I have been the nervous and anxious young performer. The girls I observed that laughed a bit louder than usual and made sure their conversations were front and center to the crowd, those were my classmates at one time. The girls and boys that were trying so hard to simply blend in to the surroundings and not be noticed, were me. Rosaldo argues that my idea that these kids are feeling the same as I did is how objectivity and the idea of the neutral and impartial observer is not reality (Rosaldo, p.21). Cultural studies are changing how people view truth and gather information. Though the influence and the experience of the observer is embedded into the observations they take note doesn’t make the arguments they make any less valid. Geertz, I believe, makes us understand that when we observe without delving deeper into the mores and traditions of a people, we miss things and interpret incorrectly. Being able to interact and experience the customs and traditions of a culture will heighten the understanding and interpretation of the people. He states, “culture is not a power, something to which social
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.
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 sole concert performer was Anton Nel. The date of the performance was October 8th, 2017 at 4:00 PM. The concert lasted about an hour thirty minutes. The concert was located at Rainey Hall in Jessen Auditorium. The performer Anton Nel was a middle aged man. The audience was generally middle-aged to elderly. Nel is a very well known pianist who has taken his talents to several areas across the globe including Europe and Africa. He has received several awards including the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall. As a UT student, my ticket was free.
Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performed, Morning,Noon, and Night in Boone. The Orchestra was arranged on stage in a normal set up, the concertmaster was on the left hand side of the Conductor, the strings in the front, woodwinds in the middle, and brass and percussions in the back. The instruments in the back were on an elevated platform, so there sound could project and be heard. Before the conductor came out, the concertmaster signaled each section to play a note. Once, the conductor came out the crowd went crazy, they clapped loudly and shouted. And Mrs. Orth was so happy and kind and thanked everyone.
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.
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.
Music is virtually everywhere we go, no matter if it is background noise in a coffee shop or singing along while shopping for groceries, we can find music somewhere. The event I attended was the Flint Symphony Orchestra on October 8, 2016. I have never attended a symphony before so I was excited to go, especially since I had invited my friend to attend with me. For this event, I was already informed by my teacher that the symphony will be formal so we needed to look the part since others will be dressed fancy. This made me curious how this event will turn out. Walking past the ticket area and through the doors to the lobby made me feel instantly memorized at how grand it was on the inside. I went downstairs and there were a vast
I attended the Milton Hershey School in the middle point of my eighth grade year from Wilson Southern Middle School. For the third and fourth marking period, I earned distinguished honor roll and effort and conduct achievements. The only student home I lived in was student Naples with the Kieffer's. In my time at Catherine Hall, I participated in Senior Hall combined orchestra, orchestra, Catherine Hall band, the Reading Symphony Junior Strings Orchestra, and PMEA District Orchestra. I developed strong relationships with my previous school’s band and orchestra directors Mr. Edward Luckey and Mr. Jerry Laboranti, and I remained extremely close with my RSJSO conductor who endorsed me to the Hershey Festival of Strings program in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
During the concert the pianist, drummer and saxophonist did a great job, making the rhythm unforgettable. One of the songs that was performed was "Wrapped around your fingers" it contained a romantic melody. While the piano and saxophone then alternated the rhythm, as the passion of the song was motivating everyone to fall into the rhythm of it. The melody which was steady seemed to get faster like a heartbeat by the climax of the song. The sounds were increasingly getting louder until all instruments met at the top with a ban...
For this assignment, I decided to observe a fitness center (gym) setting and break the “workout equipment is not a toy” norm. I conducted my observations at my local Anytime Fitness center that I actually frequent. Ironically, I missed my normal workout time that morning and decided to go later in the day. This worked out perfect for the observation because I arrived at around 5:00 pm, the busiest time for the establishment.
The classroom embodied the stereotypical music classroom with its various instruments scattered around the room. Every inch of the wall and door was covered with music notes while chairs encircled the room. Besides the teacher’s desk, there were no other desks in sight. The students had to sit on the ground in the center of the room away from the instruments. Even when playing instruments, the students sat on the ground. Although the setup was very different from a general classroom, it was appropriate for the kinds of lessons that the teacher taught the students. The teacher did not hand out any worksheets or assigned homework so the students did not need any desks for writing. Since the classroom was already small and cramped, having desks in the class would have impeded on the activities that the students performed.
On April 30, 2014, I attended a symphony orchestra at CSU. This is my first time attending a symphony concert; going into the concert I did not think that I would like the concert and the environment also I did not think that there was going to be a lot of people coming. At the beginning of the concert the conductor introduced himself and the symphony and talked about the history of it and played a little bit of each of the four movements and explained everything about them. The Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major by Anton Bruckner was about 2 hours long it consisted of four movements. The setting of the room was very professional the orchestra was on the stage divided into groups according to their interments and the conductor facing them all and behind the conductor there was the audience sitting behind him. The was a wide variety of instruments being used such as first violin, second violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, and percussion.
Have you ever attended a classical music concert? I had lucky enough to attend a wonderful concert for the first time on Sunday, October 23, 2016. This concert is called “Sundays Live”, and it also starts every Sunday at 6pm. “Sundays Live” is a free Chamber Music Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and it presents weekly by premiere professional artists from Southern California and around the world. Last Sunday, violinist Yueun Kim and pianist Sung Chan performed the concert. At the beginning, after I got line to the theater, I found a chair at the middle of house. I also could saw a beautiful stage from where I sat. When a narrator was standing on the stage to introduce the artists and the program music, the lights from the audience’s chair began to turn off. In this concert, there are four pieces of the music are performed. The first two pieces of the music is Sonata No.5 in F major, Opus 24, “Spring” of Ludwig van Beethoven, and Sonata for Violin and Piano of John Corigliano. Then, we had a little break after the performer had finished the first two pieces of music. The other two pieces of music were Slavonic Dance
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.
At 7:30 pm on February 28, 2018, the Loyola Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble all performed a diverse set of pieces for the Spring Instrumental Showcase. Each musical group performed a wide range of pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries with pieces written by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benny Carter, and Léo Delibes. The concert was held at the Mundelein Auditorium which is a spacious concert hall with ornate stained-glass windows. In other words, the environment where the concert was held was impressive and designed to allow the music to reach the audience with a full, rich, natural sound.