...Sheng Lu Assignment: Concert review from Faculty Artist Series Presents (on date 9/8/15) Instructor: Professor Mark Gibson September 22, 2015 That night, I went to Robert J. Werner Recital Hall listened the concert performed by Musician Steve Allee and professor of percussion Rusty Burge. The music they played is relate to Jazz, although I don’t know much about the music, I can feel the player they love music and devote their lives in it. For what I can do I think just enjoy and appreciate them bring their music to us. Also, I was impressed by these two instruments piano and vibraphone they are wonderfully connected to each other, and there is one moment I think piano and vibraphone they are designed for each other. It reminds me my teenage year in middle school, I play trumpet in school orchestra so I can understood them how much they like what they performed it becomes their friend already. But one thing I am curious about is that I was first time saw the vibraphone and I don’t know it can make the sound so special, it feels like I am in another world with that sound only. Such powerful and pure. At the same time, I realized that if I want to learn well on these two instrument how difficult it is, I have to memorize every beat and practice as many times as I can in order to prevent making mistakes. Especially, vibraphone every sing mistake will ruin the whole song due to its specialty. I like the part they played “Waltz for Tomorrow”, the tune of the song is my...
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...If I were going to attend a concert, I would typically buy a ticket for a big-name artist at a stadium-like venue such as Madison Square Garden. In this regard, the Rasputina concert was against my status quo. The first thing that I noticed was that I was by far the youngest person there. The main area of the Haunt had a quaint yet unfamiliar vibe. I think that the building itself, which displayed records and music-related relics on the walls, produced the quaint feeling while the attendees produced the unfamiliar feeling. Specifically, many of the attendees embodied a gothic aesthetic. Eliza Rickman, the opening artist, went onto the stage with no grand entrance or special introduction. She spoke to the audience in a more personal matter...
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...Feelings about the concert We have just finished attending our third concert in Fenway Center last Thursday. It’s an amazing concert, and all of us should give a performance in this concert. Since I came to America, I have attended three concerts, and I feel that this is the best concert I have attended. Comparing with those two concerts I have attended before, I have more feelings about this concert; and I want to share my feelings with you. In this concert, each of us gave our performances as a unit of class, and our class was the first performer in this concert. We gave four shows: two chorus and two team-sings. The names of our songs were: “We Are the World”, “We are Young”, “Mama Tried”, and “21 Guns”. “We are the World” and “21 Guns” were song by our whole class, “We are Young” and “Mama Tried” were song by Nigerians. In this concert, we used many things that we learned in the class, such as for the song, “We are the World”, we used “call and response” at the end of the song. Actually, when we were practicing these songs, the effect wasn’t very good; we even couldn’t decide what songs to perform. However, when we sang in the concert, the effect was excellent, everyone sang well, and the react of the audiences was good, too. Before I sang, I felt nervous and I was afraid of forgetting the lyrics, however, when I saw the react of the audience, I felt very happy and relaxed. The first performance went on well; other performances were also very amazing. There were many great...
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...attended the Season Finale of the Faculty Artist Concert Series, held in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center here at the University of Indianapolis. Lasting a little less than two hours, this particular concert took the audience on a tour through the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries of music, featuring artists all the way from the classical era to the modern jazz era. Because of the variety that was showcased in the music, this performance was definitely my favorite of the events I have watched thus far. A very unique part of this concert in particular was its performers. Unlike the other shows I have gone to on campus, this performance consisted of faculty players rather than students, most of which I recognized from simply walking through the halls of Christel DeHaan during my school weeks. Most of the thirteen staff players were older, which added a sense of finesse to their performances; the years of experience that they had under their belts was very evident since the performers were highly skilled and exhibited such emotion in playing their ornate pieces....
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...In August of 2011, the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis had a concert that unfortunately five people were killed and fifty-eight were injured due to the stage collapsing (Durso Jr., 2012). The state fair was hosting a concert and the special guest was Sugarland. The concert was due to start around 8 p.m. (Durso Jr., 2012). The concert was held on about 250 acres of land, the temporary stage area was about 107 feet long, 57 feet wide and 56 feet high. Over the stage, there were suspended spotlights as well as other sound and lighting equipment (Durso Jr., 2012). A half a block from where the concert was going to be held, was the fairground’s Joint Operations center, where one of the workers was responsible for contacting the National Weather...
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...On Wednesday, April 4, I drove to Austin to go see University of Austin’s Butler School of Music Symphonic Band. This is my first time hearing a University symphony band live, and I enjoyed my experience listening to the students' performance. The performances comprised the Overture to ‘Candide’ by Leonard Bernstein, Shadows Ablaze by Kathryn Salfelder, Sound Asleep by Andrew Boss, Wanderlust by Brandon Scott Rumsey, and Aurora Awakes by John Mackey. I had heard none of these songs before attending the concert so my reaction is solely based on my first-time experience of the pieces. The Surroundings The room this concert was held in was Bates Recital Hall. My instant reaction towards this room was over how beautiful it looks. From my...
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...On Thursday November 30, I attended a jazz concert at Ball and Chain located in the famous 8 street in Miami. This was the first time I ever attended a Jazz concert in my life. I arrived at 6:30 p.m. and the band had already started playing, I was informed that whenever they play they start at 6:00 p.m. The atmosphere here was really pleasant, the place had a touch of dim lights which made you feel comfortable. The room wasn’t too crowded, this was another really good detail, because it gave me the opportunity to better appreciate the concert. There was not too much echo in the place because the front door was open. Although, the door remained opened during the concert the sound of the music could really be appreciated it. There were parts that were pretty loud and other soft, soothing parts....
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...Last Tuesday I attended the Big Band Concert in the Marshall Arts Center. Both the Weber Music Hall and the Marshal Arts Center have very different atmospheres. Unlike the small band, the big band songs seemed to be a lot shorter and were instructed by a conductor. For the first couple songs, there were big basses, drums, a piano, a marimba, saxophones, an electric guitar, trumpets and trombones. The first song was upbeat and had very loud, accented parts. All the instruments played while the symbols stood out the most. One of the trumpet players had a really good solo. One of the next songs was very country club like. It was a lot slower and had a romantic vibe that would be good for dancing. The marimba was not used for this song and the...
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...The Band I chose to do my concert report on is none other than John Mayer. Ironically a few hours before attending this concert I had no idea who this performer was, I blindly trusted a good friend of mine, and bought tickets for both us. Having no idea what i was getting into, not to mention this would be the first concert i would ever attend, it ended up being one of the best decisions i have ever made. The concert was divided into 5 portions mainly focused on John Mayer's legendary guitar skills. It started with the full band, went soft as he played an acoustic portion, than livened up the audience with the John Mayer Trio, took it up some more with the Full Band, and closed the concert with a spectacular encore. The first portion of the...
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...On Wednesday, December 2nd I attended to a very impressive concert presents by my great music professor Sergio Gonzalez and Hialeah Performing Arts Club. Dr. Sergio Gonzalez invited magnificent singers from his MUL 1010 class to make this concert unforgettable with his accompaniment in the piano. The first thing that I liked about this concert was the atmosphere because I saw how the audience enjoyed the music played by my talent professor and the amazing voices of the vocalists. Every artist was welcomed with a warm applause from every single person. Professor Sergio Gonzalez, and also a phenomenal pianist introduced every singer who accompanied him on the stage with words of admiration. This concert was about “Holiday Selections”...
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...Concert Report Qiujie (Blair) Pan I went to see a wind band concert that was played by UTSA University band on Oct 1, 2017. The concert was extremely impressive. Even though it was my first time listening to the live wind band playing, I enjoyed it very much. The band played six songs in total. All the songs were composed in the 20th centuries. Among these songs, I really like the song named Ride by Samuel Hazo (1966). It is a fast song and I did have a feeling that the tempo of this song is taking me for a ride on an endless countryside road. So, I did some research on this song after the concert and tried to analyze this song. In the overture, the trumpets play important roles in introducing the tension. Then the music transferred to a faster...
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...I went to the SJSU Music Concert Hall on November 11,2015, and it costs 5 dollars for the ticket. When I arrived there, I saw that most of the audiences are SJSU students, and a few of them are professors. The audiences dressed casually, and I dressed casually as well because I think that I was a casual listener at the concert. When I was listening to different pieces, I felt amazing because I never heard this kind of music before. I enjoyed the slow tempo because it gives me the feeling of relax. The pieces that were performed are “ If You Walked A Mile”, “The Five”, “Variations for Abbey”, “Ion Trails”, “ A Different Drummer”, and “All Our Broken Instruments”. The musical style for “If you Walked A Mile” is classical and electric, for “The Five” is orchestra, and the rest of the pieces are classic and electric. There were drums, computer, marimba, gong, triangle, and timpani as instrumentation of the ensemble. There was no seating arrangement and there is only one performer....
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...I attended the Rome River Jam with my family while we had some time in the fall. I really enjoyed the whole experience. I was going to see an assortment of people like Tracey Lawrence. My mother thought the whole show was extremely enjoyable, I only thought a couple of bands were great. The way that this concert works is they have one or two big band names to bring people to the show and use those bands as the reason to come and see all the other little bands. It promotes all the lesser known country artists. Some of the lesser know artists were pretty entertaining, but lacked in comparison to the real stars of the concert. Most of the music was very down to earth and very enjoyable. When a song is made for the enjoyment of other people I...
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...Home Free Concert On Sunday, May 6th, I went to Madison’s Orpheum Theater with my friend Kaelyn, her mom Julie, and their family friend Malia to see a Home Free concert. Home Free is an all-male, acapella country band, consisting of five members: Austin Brown (lead tenor), Adam Rupp (vocal percussionist/beatboxer), Rob Lundquist (tenor harmony), Adam Chance (baritone harmony), and Tim Foust (bass). What made it extremely exciting for me was the fact that this was my first non-local group concert and Home Free is my favorite acapella band (sorry Pentatonix). Before this, I’d really only ever been to MacDowell Male Chorus and Appleton Boy Choir concerts. The only reason I ever go to those concerts are because my dad sings in the former and...
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...The Beatles are not typically associated with orchestra music, but due to George Martin and the North Carolina Symphony’s performance, I was able to experience the classical side of The Beatles live. In Raleigh’s Memorial Hall, Saturday, April 23rd, I attended the Classical Mystery Tour, which was accompanied by the North Carolina Symphony. The performance featured the Classical Mystery Tour, which is a cover band for The Beatles, that played over thirty revolutionary songs. The North Carolina Symphony performed the symphonic background that was implemented by George Martin, the Beatles producer, who is considered by many to be “The Fifth Beatle”. Although the concert was not solely an orchestra, I believe that the North Carolina Symphony...
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