The Concert (A Musical Party) is an oil on canvas, Baroque period painting completed by the Flemish painter Theodoor Rombouts circa 1620. The work portrays a group of five costumed musicians around a table covered with a Persian tapestry rug. Of the five performers, there are four men and one woman. The four men are playing various instruments, the woman appearing to be the vocalist. The play of deep shadows and bright highlights present in this painting make the overall use of chiaroscuro more pronounced, reflecting the strong influence of Caravaggio, a revolutionary Italian painter who Rombouts studied under. Caravaggio’s works, which combine the realistic rendering of the human state with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative effect…
Nutcracker! (2002) by Matthew Bourne is performed to the tradition Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky. It is a narrative ballet and throughout the dance the score is used to enhance the storytelling and the characterisation. At the start of Act One the Matron claps her hands and the orphans get to work scrubbing and cleaning the orphanage. The musical accompaniment is bright and busy with the opening phrase building to a climax, as this happens two orphans wheel on a sad looking Christmas Tree (a twig in a pot). The orphans gather around in excitement and amazement, enhanced by the climax in the score, and this shows how deprived the orphans are that they get excited about the arrival of this very sad tree.…
To sum up, I really enjoyed “A Christmas Story: The Musical”, as it is a very joyful show which fits in the holiday atmosphere. It also allows me to see lots of design…
First performed in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the classic Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker has been shown for over 100 years. The composer, Peter Tchaikovsky, and choreographer Marius Petipa teamed up to create a timeless production as an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." This pair had previously worked together on another classical ballet, Sleeping Beauty.…
The Paper Fan is a piece of art that in its time has been in the presence of princesses, ninjas, and college students. Taking on several roles both in an imaginary and reality. Each experience aging the paper that stretched across bamboo frame. Opening it reveals a water color and ink print covering the face of the fan. Painted is a family of birds before a background of greenery. Fully expanded the width reached to fourteen inches and standing in length at nine inches. Width shrinks drastically down to one and quarter inch when closed. Unlike the length with is virtually untouched, remaining at nine inches. Surrounding the edges of the fan are tears in paper and chipped shafts. Falsifying the actual age of the fan. Attributed the constant use throughout its time. Overall, the fan gives a sense of calm and delicacy. The origin of provenance reaches across the Pacific Ocean, my father would travel to Japan returning with various Japanese art pieces. Bequeathing me the Paper Fan at the age of eight. Notably, the significance of this piece stems from the calm and still that surrounds the simplistic form. In that calm the…
The Nutcracker is a wonderful story, and there are many versions of the story, including movies, plays, and ballets. The original story was published in 1816 by E.T.A Hoffman, and the original ballet was in 1892, but some people have change the story over the years, but they kept the plot very similar of the story.…
In order to embrace a classic holiday tradition, dancers from Denise Gucwa’s School of Dance performed “The Nutcracker” on Sunday December 6.…
As a member of the freshman womens choir at Concordia, I often find myself serving the community. Our choir is frequently asked to attend local churches where we sing both hymns and pieces prepared in advance by our choir. Out of our more commercial performances, the Concordia Christmas Concert is the most renowned. Each year we get the opportunity to perform at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, one year of which Concordia won an Emmy for the show…
As I watched The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker, the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet.…
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.…
The concert was called “A Concert In Dance”. The Stockton Dance Company set up the whole demonstration. The show was performed from February 28 to March 2. The show was preformed at Stockton College in the Performing Arts Center. The performance that will be talked about is My Shadow’s Ghost. Lauren Putty White created the choreography. The music that was selected was Efterlang: Himmelbjerget. Mark Mallett did lighting. While Henry van Kuiken was in charge of the costume design. The dancers that were in the performance were: Lauren Kropa, Jennifer Tatman, Kahra Woolverton, Kelsay Mauro, Aleesa Tucker, Danielle Rieger, Samiah Wade. This dance showed a type of struggle.…
In general I liked the performance particularly the trombones and trumpet. The synchronization of dance and jazz made the whole performance much more interesting. The Jazz performance often absorbed the audience into different mood. The natural dance supported the mood created by the Jazz performance thus making it much more…
My high school’s logo is a crest with four quadrants, each with a unique symbol, including a Trojan helmet, a book and quill, a harp, and a maple leaf.…
Music is one of the fascinating aspects of the play. Those professional singers who performed various music impressed me. There were many in audience who liked the music but I don't know if the music is appropriate to their abilities. The singers sang classical songs as well as contemporary ones that made the old and young people appreciate the…
One of the most important days of my life was seeing Avenged Sevenfold headline the Buried Alive Tour in San Jose. I was very excited from the start knowing that I was going to see my favorite band live. The lineup featured some of my other favorite bands such as Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, and Hollywood Undead; therefore, the show was going to be ten times better. As I entered the arena I noticed that the place was packed with hardcore Avenged Sevenfold fans. For the first time ever I felt like I fit in with the people around me; it almost felt like family. Before I headed downstairs to my seat, I made my way to the merchandise stand and bought two black wristbands, which had the Avenged Sevenfold deathbat logo, and ever since that day, I've been wearing them.…