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Music Concert Review Adam Kapasi
Last month, on Friday, January, 30, 2015, at 7:30 in the evening my friends and I attended a concert, Wind Symphony, in downtown Toronto. It was at the Edward Johnson Building McMilan Theatre, 80 Queens Park. The concert was conducted by the University of Toronto band and the conductor was Tony Gomes. The two musicians that played my instrument were Brian Burell, and Caleb Michalski. The layout is that there were clarinets in the front to the left and the flutes were at the front to the right. There were a lot of clarinets and flutes! Whereas, in our Beginner band class, the location is opposite. Also, behind the clarinets were the trumpets. In comparison, the trumpets weren't as many as clarinets because the tone and volume are much stronger and effective with less people. Beside the trumpet players were the trombone players. To the far right in the back were the euphoniums/baritones and tuba. There were 2 euphonium players and 1 tuba player. Lastly, all along the back of the stage were the percussionists. There were many different kinds of percussion such as tenor drums, sticks, harp, piano, and many more. The compositions of many instruments made the concert very harmonic.
In the concert, there were tons of observations I made. The regular things that occurred would be that they slurred and articulated the B flat scale before every piece they played. Then, they had trumpet solos and a baritone solo in between a song. The baritone solo was magnificent, as the intonation and tone was spot on! I noticed how every player was wearing the exact same clothing starting from socks to shoes. This way none of the audience were distracted. Also, there was good body movement with the instrument, so it looked appealing as they were playing the instrument at the same time. While on the other hand, some unusual awkward things I observed that there were instrument players in the four corners of the audience. Surprisingly, a lot of
Last month, on Friday, January, 30, 2015, at 7:30 in the evening my friends and I attended a concert, Wind Symphony, in downtown Toronto. It was at the Edward Johnson Building McMilan Theatre, 80 Queens Park. The concert was conducted by the University of Toronto band and the conductor was Tony Gomes. The two musicians that played my instrument were Brian Burell, and Caleb Michalski. The layout is that there were clarinets in the front to the left and the flutes were at the front to the right. There were a lot of clarinets and flutes! Whereas, in our Beginner band class, the location is opposite. Also, behind the clarinets were the trumpets. In comparison, the trumpets weren't as many as clarinets because the tone and volume are much stronger and effective with less people. Beside the trumpet players were the trombone players. To the far right in the back were the euphoniums/baritones and tuba. There were 2 euphonium players and 1 tuba player. Lastly, all along the back of the stage were the percussionists. There were many different kinds of percussion such as tenor drums, sticks, harp, piano, and many more. The compositions of many instruments made the concert very harmonic.
In the concert, there were tons of observations I made. The regular things that occurred would be that they slurred and articulated the B flat scale before every piece they played. Then, they had trumpet solos and a baritone solo in between a song. The baritone solo was magnificent, as the intonation and tone was spot on! I noticed how every player was wearing the exact same clothing starting from socks to shoes. This way none of the audience were distracted. Also, there was good body movement with the instrument, so it looked appealing as they were playing the instrument at the same time. While on the other hand, some unusual awkward things I observed that there were instrument players in the four corners of the audience. Surprisingly, a lot of