Jazz Concert Reflection Jazz is a musical style that began in African American communities in the southern United States around the beginning of the twentieth century. It was a new style of music that brought together music traditions from West Africa and Europe. Some of its West African musical influences give jazz its unique sound. Jazz has many different elements‚ which are improvisations‚ swinging‚ using blue notes‚ and combining different
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Concert Report On Friday‚ December 24‚ 2004 at 20:00 the Presidential Symphony Orchestra performed very impressive "New Year Concert" with fourteen pieces from a range of composers as Johann Strauss‚ Giacomo Puccini‚ Leonard Bernstein‚ Johann Sebastian Bach‚ Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ P. Necherporenko‚ Niccolo Paganini and George Gershwin. The program included different kinds of tastes from classic music. Shardad Rohani conducted‚ Murat Tamer as concertmaster‚ Khori Dastoor‚ Janna Kozvik and Andrei
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MUSI200 Concerts Across Time Professor Gant Baroque vs. Popular Music Music is the heart of culture and has affected people in more ways than the average person can have on someone. It can take you on a journey or help bring closure to a(n) ending journey. Music has always done this through the changes in time and the persona behind the music. Music will always grasp the changing culture ’s heart based on the time period. Baroque music is different from what today ’s culture would call popular
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The JMU Senior Dance Concert was produced and choreographed by the graduating seniors who majored in dance as part of their final thesis. The dance concert was held on February 11-13th at the Forbes Theater. The dance performances had mixtures of ballet‚ contemporary‚ modern‚ and hip-hop dance combined to create exciting and alluring dance pieces. The theme that the seniors chose for their final performances was “home”. The first dance began with the lights off and the stage dark. Then
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Marching and Concert Band Marching band and concert band have two completely different concepts. However‚ many high school students consider the word band as being able to play some kind of musical instrument. Being a five year marching band member and playing in concert band for seven years‚ I feel as if I know the difference between these two activities. One of the main differences between marching and concert band is the mental process one must go through to memorize the music and the steps on
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songs and many more. The chamber music concert was held in Armenian School at 5:00 pm Friday‚ May 1. Many instruments with various types of music conducted the concert. 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
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The concert that I chose to attend was the Gramophone award winners‚ Pavel Haas Quartet. Veronika Jaruskova‚ Marek Zxiebel‚ Pavel Nikl‚ and Peter Jarusek were the musicians. They were all very talented. Their movements were amazing and no matter the difficulty‚ they stayed in time with one another. The songs they chose to perform were Quartet No. 1 in B minor‚ Op. 50 by the composer Prokofiev‚ Quartet No. 11 in F minor‚ Op. 95 “Serioso” by Beethoven‚ and Quartet No. 5‚ Sz. 102 by Bartok. All these
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for at least an hour. Joseph’s rapid progress and enthusiastic dedication impressed his band teacher‚ Ms. Watson. One day in early October‚ Ms. Watson stopped Joseph after class had ended. "I think you’re ready for a solo when we have our winter concert in six weeks. How would you feel about that?" Joseph beamed and started to nod his head yes. But he hesitated and looked at her with a doubtful expression.
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The music played throughout all of the concerts adhered to be diverse. The instruments‚ the individuals performing‚ and the conductor all proved to be outstanding. The concerts proved to be interesting as I witnessed them‚ first hand. The first concert I attended was performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra had performed Shostakovich’s “Symphony NO. 7‚ Leningrad” from the Romantic era. The orchestra was a large ensemble (1) containing various instruments that contributed to the
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Jazz has been in the white house almost as long as it has existed‚ but on national jazz day‚ which is April 30th‚ President Obama hosted a jazz concert. This concert featured a wide variety of artists including Chick Corea‚ Robert Glasper‚ Esperanza Spalding‚ Aretha Franklin‚ Wayne Shorter‚ and many others. During this performance‚ there are thirteen different “groups” or different artists that sung at the white house for jazz day. The first performance after president Obama spoke was Aretha
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