I really enjoyed the trumpet and trombone solos the two performers played. I liked how they mixed in the dance with the jazz playing. The dancing was very original and the choreography was smooth. I…
I went to see Overture to King Stephen, Op. 117 and Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, both composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall on December 31 2012. The music group consisted of about sixty-three bowed string instrumentalists, ten woodwind instrumentalists, nine brass instrumentalists and four percussion instruments and the conductor is Esa-Pekka Salonen.…
The first composition was the “An Overture and Finale” performed by Keith Arbogast, Amanda Cienfuegos, Kelly Fabian, Paul Herrera, Matthew Michielin, Cortez Montalbo, Angel Ortega, Jose Sanchez, and Natasha Singha. The piece started with an uptempo tune and by just a few trumpets, and the others have joined later. When every trumpet joined the tempo became slower. There were multiple tunes and changing rhythm during this piece but the main theme always came back. The melody was disjunct. At the end of this piece they played in a lower pitch and everybody joined again.…
Plan Summary Using a Variety of Strategies to Define Key Concepts Implementation Date: 6/12/2014 Author: Genevie De Zayas Common Core Standard(s): CCSS.ELA-Literacy. CCRA.R.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. Overall 30 Day Learning Goals: Use a variety of strategies to define a new concept identified in a reading that is provided. 30 Day Summative Assessment Tools: Performance assessment using a concept map created by students and evaluated based on a rubric (1 to 5).…
Each member of the Ensemble had a part in at least two pieces of music. The Ensemble had two songs as a large group, and then the rest of the…
First piece was Pohjola’s Daughter Op.49 which was composed by Jean Sibelius. It has very colorful scores and it was played by a large orchestra which has 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2…
Is free speech and the dangers of limiting vocabulary only society’s choice of acceptable words? Is profanity even called for? Is it good or bad parenting to teach your children to use profanity at such a young age? Does censoring words hinder a person’s ability to express their opinion regarding something? Amendment One states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” (Constitution).…
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Polka and Fugue from the Opera “Schwanda, The Bag Piper” was another piece I found fascinating. It was a Chek Folk tale which told the story about the lonely bag piper and his adventures. It started out with the woodwinds playing the theme of a cheery thrill note and triplet. The feel of the music was cheery and you were almost able to hear the story being told. I also enjoyed hearing the Fugue part of the song because that was also something we discussed in class. The fugue was characterized by imitation and variation on the imitation by different sections throughout the band.…
The musicians and the conductor did a great job; they were amazing and they all sounded professionals to me. I was able to know all the instruments they were playing because we have learned them in class; they were playing piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, timpani, percussion, string bass, and piano.…
On Friday November 18, I attended a classical concerted performed by the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Joshua and Matthew. The venue was very pretty as I expected from Carnegie Hall and the orchestra was bigger than I thought. I was surprised to see a harp amongst the orchestra, so I was ecstatic to listen for it. The orchestra did a quick tuning session that sounded very in sync.…
After attending the concert, the piece of work I would like to talk in most detail about was "Overture to the Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Mozart was a child prodigy, was able to play the piano at 4 and composing his own music at 5. As Professor Chapman stated, "When he was older, he could just write music while talking to friends without testing it. He was able to hear the piece entirely in his head." The piece being focused on was an opera he composed, and not just any, one of his more famous. What will be discussed is the feel of the piece's form composed and some details pertaining to its creation such as instruments, meter, tempo and measures that were noticeable. Also, the general feel I received from the…
When I began this project I thought that we would be able to choose our concert. Obviously I found otherwise. However, I have always been in love with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. I once heard a piano concerto in B flat minor by him that I fell in love with. That being said, when I saw him on the list of people I could choose from I once again became excited. I listened to symphony number four, analyzed by Gerard Schwarz.…
I attended the Chamber Orchestra Concert on November 6, 2012. This was there first concert. They played three pieces during this concert. The first piece that they played was Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Op.75 written by Carl Maria von Weber. The second piece that they played was The Lark Ascending written by Ralph Williams. The last piece that they played was Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 written by Felix Mendelssohn.…
The chamber music concert was held in Manhattan School of Music at 5:00 pm Friday, April 15. The concert was conducted by many instruments with various types of music. The atmosphere was fairly intense as the concert hall was approximately the size of an average home living room with about 35 people in the audience. The camber concert was divided into two major parts with an intermission of 15 minutes in between the parts. As for this concert report I would like to focus on primarily the music pieces I’ve liked and the experience I have had.…