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…
The painting “The Organ Rehearsal” by Henry Lerolle portraits a group of people that could be the author’s family, loved ones or a scene that the author could have seen while alive.Furthermore, The people in the painting seem to be on an upper balcony of an opera salon or a church while an organ player is performing. The painting is very poetic. It shows a young woman who stands out among these people, apparently singing and feeling the melodies of the song that is being performed, behind her a group of listeners is gathered. Also, The simplicity of recreating that exact moment featuring the woman’s voice as if it were suspended in the air while she was singing makes such composition unique and unconventional. The author had an amazing way…
Born in 1863 in Moscow, Russia, Constantin Stanislavski started working in theatre as a teen. He co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1897 and developed a performance process known as method acting, allowing actors to use their personal histories to express authentic emotion and create rich characters. He died in Moscow in 1938.…
During the whole of the opening section, Andy Pink's score fills the stage with waves of clashing, grinding noise. The sound is a deliberate assault on the dancers, who appear to be flung around by its force - catapulted into flailing, staggered lines, or dashed, twisting, to the floor. For the audience, seated on all four sides of the stage, the combination of driven energy and savage pattern making is overwhelming; it comes as a relief when Pink's music and David Ward's lighting begin to calm the frenzy. The dancers start to become aware of wider horizons, and of each other: arms that were raised as barriers make tentative contact, and snatches of piano music mould their bodies into a graceful, more coordinated…
Outline Stanislavski’s ideas on ‘imagination’ and ‘relaxation’ and assess the usefulness of these aspects of the system to the actor within the rehearsal process.…
Compared to the movie, I think the book tells the story in a much more powerful way. The movie seems constrained by its shorter length, and its inability to delve into how the characters are feeling except through what the characters say. The book, The Soloist, portrays the different characters in a vivid and complete way. The book, by including more events, tells the story in a way that allows readers to see how the relationship between Lopez and Nathanial develops. The more detailed string of events provides more context and a better understanding of how Lopez responds emotionally to Nathaniel. The book also provides more information about Lopez’s efforts in a more detailed and descriptive way, and it gives readers a more explicit vision of Steve Lopez and Nathaniel as characters. The book, by showing the process of the development of the relationship between Nathaniel and Steve Lopez, helps form a strong emotional agreement between readers and the author. In contrast, the movie presents the story in a very brief way that does not allow the audience to be affected by the story fully. From my perspective, I prefer the book over the movie.…
Energy in movement and quiet placidity seen from the eyes of a fly on the wall. Edgar Degas' Ballet Rehearsal, 1874 oil on canvas is twenty three inches by thirty three inches (Honour et al. 2005). The painting utilizes a sophisticated pallet and whimsical impressionist painting style to enchant its viewer. One of a series examining dancers, the painting of ballet students in rehearsal conveys Degas' knowledge and fascination with the human form as well as his mastery of formal elements of art. The configuration of the art work ponders a contrast between background and foreground utilizing dualities such as light and dark, energy and serenity, and clarity to obscurity. Line and space pulls the audience's attention across the entirety of the composition. The impressionistic style successfully captures a moment in time, saturated with chaotic elements caught un-posed and half seen, as they are in real life. Ballet Rehearsal's composition successfully blends line, color, light, shadow, and space in order to build an impressive example of visual art.…
1) Some students read through their revision notes lots of times before an examination, but still find it difficult to remember the information. However, the same students can remember the information in a celebrity magazine, even though they read it only once.…
Show Choir is an elective class that integrates choreography into the choral experience. A varied repertoire of 2 and 3 part music is memorized, choreographed and then performed in a concert setting. Vocal technique, developing the ensemble and dance are the main emphasis of this class. Various public performances are presented by this group.…
The lighting is also important as it effects the mood of the play so when it is described to be pink rosy and intimate (before inspector arrives) to more bolder brighter (after he arrives). It affects the atmosphere making the audience get a sense that everything’s much clearer and brighter and more in the open. These parts to the play have been successful because it gave the audience an impression of the characters straight away and made them more interested in the play when the mood changes by the lighting.…
We approach the woman and she politely greets us revealing to us her true identity, the boss, who is the person in charge of relaying the rules to us. She informs us of the disqualifications, and the time limit of thirty five minutes our performance, Surviving Lunch, must be performed in. A total of ten minutes to set up and prepare for our first scene is the last bit of info she provides us with. In her hand she holds a timer, and as soon as the lady presses the button, Cimenski goes berserk. Like a military officer she spits out orders at us to prepare the first scene. Rushing, we haul the tables and lockers into their correct positions, and complete the task with plenty of time to spare. The lady wishes us luck and exits the stage. My mind goes blank, while we flush to the sides of the staging area hiding from the impatient audience. The lights shut off and blackness abruptly surrounds me. In an effort to adjust, my eyes blink rapidly. The black stage with black curtains. Black rubber flooring. Black backdrops. Dizziness floods my brain, and I struggle to not black out. Gradually light comes up, and the first line bellows throughout the large auditorium. Peeking out from my hiding spot, I see silhouettes of statues. In the far back, the light crew stands ready, their fingers on the controls. Glancing back at Mrs. Cimenski for reassurance, I notice a sickly green tint take over her face. I quickly look away fearing that the effects might be…
References: Abrams, Josh & Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer. (2005). London Calling. PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art., [Online]. Vol. 27 Issue 81, p38-44. Available at: http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=22&sid=e2e566d9-08b9-4edd-874f-85538cd0df06%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ibh&AN=18258388 [Accessed 07 October 2014].…
I went to the MDC Jazz Band & Jubilation Dance Ensemble. The conductor was Matt Bonelli and the dance coordinator was Michelle Grant Murray. The concert was held in the McCarthy Auditorium Room 6120 on Tuesday, October 28 2008. The concert started at 7:30 pm and ended at 8:40 pm. There were five jazz performances, and four dance performances happening mostly simultaneously.…
In the play of Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare shows us many themes. One of them is about the nature of love. He displays this with three types of love: love of self, using the character Malvolio, unselfish love, using the character Antonio, and unrequited love, using the character Orsino. Each of which is expressed by different characters in different ways.…
I attended the University Symphony Orchestra's "An Evening of Handel, Schubert, and Haydn" on Thursday, September 30, 2003 in the Daniel Recital Hall. The hall was much more crowded than I expected. At the beginning of the concert, the orchestra was seated on the stage; the men wore tuxedos, and the women wore black dresses or pants. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the conductor made his entrance and gave a brief description of the piece that was about to be played.…