Java Love Play Analysis

On Tuesday April 4 in the Atkinson Recital hall located in the music center at New Mexico State University. I went to go see Java Love. It’s a kind of a play where they san poetry, the did act singing, opera. It was a musical that located in a coffee shop. And the actors on the stage each sang a song about love. The first song they sang called “love in the dictionary “which the name speaking for itself. The only instrument who played throughout was the piano. The piano started off in softly then began to crescendo as the girl singing beginning to sing in a more opera form. Very bold and loud. Super cool I’ve never heard opera live until this show.as for the sing they had art displayed every day that was major from art students which was cool.
As well as free coffee in the lounge for everyone who attended.
Throughout the play the all sang songs with the accompanied with the piano. Even though there was the one instrument through the play the way she played through each piece of poetry song was very different. As the singer sang “love isn’t chocolate and rose”. The way the piano player decreased her speed of playing with this song because the song tone and feeling was a slower pace. And she adjusted to the sense of emotion the singer was describing about love. I thought it was cool but the words and the music together I gives and audience more sense of emotion and imagery in their heads. Another part where the pianist start to increase her speed or playing and she makes more bold accents with in the piece “Love Song from song of perfect propriety”. The sing how love is sweet, then she starts to become more hateful about the idea of love. And the piano continued to play deep sharp bold notes and the singer was in still mezzo soprano voice still. Still neat as the instrument was still creating a tone with the singer throughout the
piece. After intermission. They did an opera called “grant & Grace” it was about a man trying to write a poem for his wife, but he couldn’t think of the words for it. The pianist was once introducing as well, she kind of play the background music, the white noise sort of. When he would flip the pages of the novel to find words for a poem. The music would depict the noise of page flipping. It was sort of cool. You mostly see that type of music in cartoons like when the animal trying to tie toe in silence but it rather loud. It reminds me of something like that. I thought it was really cool to hear the piano play that role in the opera of grant and grace. The female singer of the opera played the role of the poem coming together, like a figment of his imagination it was super coo to see that as well. At the end of the opera he found the perfect poem to read to his wife about how much he loved her. Overall I had fun time watching and listening to music of java love, It was a corny play of love, but it showed different types of love through the use of music and songs I was enjoy that very much. I would recommend someone to go see this if they could if ever did another showing of these piece, if not I totally look forward to the next time they do musical type thing at the Atkinson music hall.