Musicassignment6

For my assignment 6 in the online Music Appreciation class I have visited a Trumpet Studio of Dr. Kathryn Adduci, accompanied by Sharon Brook from 12:30pm on Thursday, December 4, 2014. This listening hour was taken place in the Concert Hall of the Music Department. As I saw, the audience was mostly students in casual clothes, and a few people in formal clothes. The program was in the following order: An “Overture and Finale” originally by Ronald Lo Presti; Concerto for Trumpet, 1. allegro (sonata) and Concerto for Trumpet, 3. allegro (rondo) by Joseph Haydn; Concert Etude by Alexander Goedicke and finally, “The Debutante” by Herbert L. Clarke. Unfortunately, the third composition had been cancelled on that day, so we could only hear 4 pieces out of the 5 songs. The structure of the instrument was different. In the first piece there were just trumpets next to each other and a conductor in the front facing them. In the rest of the piece there was a pianist on the left side and a trumpet in the middle of the stage.
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.
The second piece was the Concerto for Trumpet, 1. allegro (sonata) originally by Joseph Haydn. The performer’s name was Jose Sanchez. This piece was performed with a piano accompaniment. The piano started with a nice tempo and then the trumpet followed the exact same rhythm as a response to the piano. It was like talking back to each other, like a conversation which was very enjoyable in my