Orchestra Concert Review

The concert took place at Manhattan School of Music, which is located in the performing arts recital hall on Monday, May 1, 2011. The stage setting was neat, demonstrative, and very well organized as I first entered the entrance. I could feel electrify with many extreme bright lights hanged on the top, which made me felt more exciting. There were many types of people coming in this concert including teenager and elderly. This concert was conducted by Dr. Nicholas Muni from MSM Symphonic Band with one of the talented musicians from PCSl High School, Ms. Jai Sun Song. The Manhattan School of Music Band performed a total of fives pieces such as the “Drayton Hall Esprit” by Francis McBeth, “Sea Songs” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “With Quiet Courage” by Larry Daehn, “Noisy Wheels of Joy” by Eric Whitacre, “National Emblem” by E.E.

One Classical Evening was arranged by selecting composers, one from each of the classical music eras. We begin with an overture

The dynamics are medium, as the rhythm progresses into a minor sounding melody with the brass creating a carousal like harmony, while a xylophone novelty instrument accompanies with a slow tempo, creating unity and variety. The next section the brass band increases the tempo and fluctuates from a sweet waltz from the strings to a carousal brass band style, ending in a ritardando. Finally, the third dance, is described as a gala cake walk tune with various whimsical and spectacular variations of the strings and woodwind instruments. The texture and variety of instruments generate a fast tempo, that leads into a bravado abrupt

The event I choose to attend was the Concert featuring Maestro Soler in Taylor Auditorium. The event started out with Professor Jones giving the audience an introduction to what type of music we will be hearing also a bit of background information about Maestro Soler. Soler is a classical/popular Latin American guitar player. He was born in Spain. He is known all around the world and has won many awards. He travels around the world to do concerts around mostly Europe, and also once every few years comes to the United States to perform at colleges, like Campbell University. He is known to be the most notable artist in the guitar world.

The Kingwood Pops Orchestra held a concert on February 20, 2016 from 7:30 to 9:30 in the Nathaniel Center. The performance was a mixture of orchestral and vocal, but mainly orchestral due to the fact that the guest soprano, Megan Stapleton, was only featured in four songs out of the fourteen that were performed. Which were all well known songs such as Hooray for Hollywood, James Horner: Hollywood Blockbusters, Embraceable You from Girl Crazy, Highlights from Jurassic Park, Lara’s Theme from Dr.Zhivago, Bond, Explosive, Over the Rainbow from Wizard of Oz, Theme from Rocky, Academy Award Medley, I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy from South Pacific, Exodus, Up Where We Belong from Officer and a Gentleman, In His Eyes from Jekyll and Hyde, and lastly Up is Down from Pirates of the Caribbean.

“A bad they in Paris in still better than a good day anywhere else.” Popular quote. It was the first time that I would assist to a Symphony Orchestra concert and I was excited for this new experience. Pictures at a French Exhibition sounded like an artistic exposition of French pictures, instead was a repertoire of various pieces interpreted by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The event took place at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk city in a perfect Sunday afternoon. When my husband and I arrived were guided to our seats, just in time to breath and enjoy the magic of music.

On May 6th 2016 at 8pm the New York University held a program in the Frederick Loewe of Theatre on campus. The orchestra was made entirely of students from the university and they performed pieces such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92, Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane and Paul Hindemith’s Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) with Adam Glaser as conductor. The performance of Debussy’s symphony was particularly moving and featured a harpist Alix Raspé who recently graduated from the school. Of the few times I have attended classical events, my time listening to the university’s symphony has inspired me to visit more programs that respect the history of classical music.

I attended a performance by The Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Thursday November 19, 2015 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas. There was also a brief performance by The Women of the Dallas Symphony Chorus as part of the last piece of music performed. The Meyerson Center is a beautiful venue with brilliant architecture. The inside of the actual concert hall is set with a mood that makes the listening experience magical.

October 28th was the day of the Latin Music Recital in the Caine Performance Hall. This was only one of many performances that week. Latin is a genre of music that unless I have come across it at other such events I have not heard it otherwise. Thus it is a genre that I had to do some research on in order to better appreciate what I was hearing. This concert was basically split into two parts each part had a main soloist on guitar that was accompanied by other musicians.

On October 27 at 8:00 pm I will be attending the concert of Symphony 1 played by the conductor Alain Altinoglu and the Violin Veronika Eberie. It will be held in The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Centre.

Drenched audience members, lawn chairs, and picnic baskets are not typical of a symphony performance. However, they all played a role in the North Carolina Symphony’s performance of the music of Ludwig Van Beethoven on Saturday, June 24 at Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheater. The evening had a wet start as audience members ran through blinding rain and harsh winds from the parking lot to reach the amphitheater. Concertgoers feared that the show might be cancelled. The performance eventually occurred after a fifty-minute delay, although the original program was shortened to accommodate the rain delay. The outdoor setting and the rainy weather affected every aspect of the performance, including the venue, audience, performers, and musical works.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Percussion Group performed at Widener University on October 23, 2016. The concert lasted approximately one hour and a total of five pieces were performed. The pieces they performed were called, Music of Pieces of Wood, Gainsborough, Seoul Spirit, Zones, and Little Rhumba. The group consisted of five performers, Chris Deviney, Don Liuzzi, Angela Nelson, Phillip O’Banion, and Victor Pablo. The performers used a variety of percussion instruments throughout the concert; however, some of the instruments that were used in most of the pieces were the timpani, marimbas, chimes, cymbals, and bass drums.

On Wednesday July, 8 I attended a concert at the Mimoda Studio located in Los Angeles the concert started at eight o’clock. On that day there was a group of four Instrumentalists performing a cello concert. The performances consisted of acts of big composers such as David popper the cellist also Alexander Konstantinovich ,it last about an hour. The show did not include programs so I will have to go off my notes some of the pieces that were played for David popper were Serade, Ballet scene, Gavotte, and La Chanson villageoise. The pieces played from Alexander Konstantinovich were impatient, land of heroes. There were also some Armenian chants played from the medival times, that were either composed by Sahakdukht orkhosrovidukht.

On Thursday night, October 27th 2016, at 7:55 PM I was outside The Verizon Hall, The Philadelphia Orchestra, waiting for Symphony No. 1 by Brahms concert. On that day, I was kind of scared and worried about what to do and what to wear; as this is the first time I attend such concert. What made me more nervous that night, that I was alone; as almost all my classmates went to the free college concert, which was a month earlier than mine, on Wednesday night, September 21st. On that night, it started to rain with those cold wafts between time to time, so it kind of got along with the mood of the concert and made me feel like I am attending a concert in Paris or Rome and forced to attend the concert until the end. Even the vibes of the concert;

I attended the West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra Concert which was held on Thursday the 25th of February 2016. It was hosted within West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center at the Lyle B. Clay Concert Center. The concert started at 7:40 pm, 10 minutes after the scheduled time, lasting for close to two hours. The concert consisted of four pieces; “Hebrides Overture”, “Concerto in D Major”, “Siegfried Idyll” and Overture to Rienzi. The third piece was conducted by graduate assistant director, Hanjin SA whereas the rest was conducted by Mitchell Arnold. As for instruments, those in use were percussion, timpani, tuba, trombone, horn, clarinet, flute, piano, harp, contrabass, violoncello, viola and violin.