(2010-Present) – Student at MSU‚ Springfield - Ben Middleton (2006-Present) – Director of bands at Seckman High School REPERTOIRE LIST Notable Orchestral Repertoire Performed – - Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 - Britten - Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra - Buxtehude/Chavez - Chaconne - Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 - Bernstein - Suite from On the Waterfront - Mendelssohn - The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture - Brahms - Symphony No. 4 - Marshall - Kingdom Come - Bizet - L’Arlesienne Suite No
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Mock Concert report The piece begins softly with a lot of allegro feel. The violin strokes are airy and this seems to be a prominent part for the piece. It seems to be a fairly decent sized orchestra preforming this piece and they all seem fairly lively. The podium seems to have a soloist as well as a conductor‚ but the conductor is playing along with the soloist. This is an interesting technique‚ but it seems to fit the piece perfectly and it adds a unique perspective which seems to attract the
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The orchestra as we know it now did not exist before the 17th century. At the start of this century the orchestra was just beginning and developing on from the renaissance era where orchestras had only just began to be used rarely and only in tiny groups‚ with a small range of instruments. The main factors influencing this development include: instrumental technology‚ different classes of the public‚ playing techniques‚ economics‚ the role of music directors and changes in musical tastes. The
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Classical music of Mozart separating the differences between them to better understand each and the beauty of both. During the period of Baroque music the orchestra ranged from 10 to 30 instruments. The size of the orchestra could grow into the hundreds depending on the occasion. The primary instrument sounds you would hear from the orchestra were strings. Strings and winds were used to play the same music melody while the sound of woodwind brass was used to sustain harmony. While breaking down Pachelbel’s
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Why a Musical Instrument is an Important Hobby Audience: Students just starting secondary school. I don’t know how many of you play an instrument‚ but I personally have been playing the drums for just about two years now. Although I don’t play in a band or even have a strict practising routine I find them to be a key part of my life now‚ something that I would find very difficult to live without. As you are starting secondary school‚ this is an ideal time to start playing an instrument. Not necessarily
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Midori Gotō Midori Gotō is a Japanese American violinist born on October 25‚ 1971 in Osaka‚ Japan. Her mother‚ Setsu Gotō found out about Midori’s love for music at the age of two when Midori was singing a piece by Bach that she had heard few days ago. She had started taking piano lessons first but quit within three months. Then on her third birthday‚ her grandmother gave her a 1/16 size violin‚ then her mother decided to teach her the violin. Midori gave her first public performance at the age
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World War II‚ the Austrians adopted a new national anthem. Davis recorded Haydn Symphonies 93-104 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam around 1977. I think these performances are the best of the conventional interpretations of these Symphonies. Beecham recorded Haydn Symphonies 93-98 in 1958‚ and Symphonies 99-104 in 1960‚ both with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for EMI. Beecham’s performances are marked (marred?) by a number of omissions and idiosyncrasies‚ but he approaches these works
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The live performance that I had attended to was Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra “Messiah” near Madison‚ WI. The genre of composition is supposed to be drama. This composition genre is an oratorio‚ which is a large-scale dramatic genre originating in the Baroque. Baroque is based on text of religious or serious character‚ performed by solo voices‚ chorus‚ and orchestra; similarto opera but without scenery‚ costumes‚ or actions. This specific oratorio is different because this composition is in three parts
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history (historical figures) or nature itself. As Romantic composers widened the range of their musical material‚ we find richer harmonies‚ more passionate melodies‚ and greater use of chromaticism. There was an enormous increase in the size of the orchestra. The tuba was added to the brass section‚ valves were invented‚ giving the brass more flexibility. Composers wrote for woodwind instruments in threes of even fours. The piccolo‚ cor anglais‚
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was not specifically seen because most of the people that did show where dressed formal-casual. This concert had no special occasion to it but besides the fact that it was a mandatory class meeting at the Disney Concert Hall. The opera had a full orchestra. During this opera performance none of the actors had costumes on nor was the stage set up for an acting show. The scenes performed were all up to the actors; they memorized the play and then improvised their acting on set. The Doctor acted by Burdette
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