...Bhavin Patel Professor Barr Wednesday 3:00 11/22/10 Concert Report I attended the Fall Jazz Band concert at Mt. Sac in the Sophia B. Clarke Theater. The show was on Friday November 19th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. The concert first featured the Latin Jazz Ensemble of Mt. Sac. Followed by the Latin Jazz Ensemble was the Mt. Sac Jazz Ensemble 1. The concert was directed by Jeff Ellwood and Tim Curle. The first piece played by the Mt. Sac Jazz Ensemble was called “Intersecting Lines” which was composed by Les Hooper. After warming the audience up with that piece, they went on to play “True North” by Mike Dana. Next the Ensemble played “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” by Irving Berlin. The last piece the Latin Jazz Ensemble played was “Too High,” composed by Stevie Wonder, which I thought was pretty interesting. After a short intermission the Mt.Sac Jazz Ensemble came out and started off with “Hot and Spicey,” by Jason Goldman. The second song they played was called “Count Me In” by Billy Byers. Next they played “D-Bop” played in D-Flat I believe, and it was said to be a difficult piece for the ensemble, but they still mastered it. After “D-Bop” the piece called “Truth” was played which featured a solo piece from a talented saxophone player. Then they played “And Another Thing,” which is composed by Tom Garling. The last piece played was called “Yes or No,” and this was composed by Wayne Shortner. Jazz music started towards the beginning of the 20th century. ...
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...Ariana Duenas Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Music Report “Rhapsody in blue” On September 29, 2012, the symphony Orchestra at Moorpark College had their first concert of the fall semester with special guest the horn player, Jennifer Bliman and Esther Keel on Piano. The Symphony Orchestra collectively performed three pieces during the concert. 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. Alexander Borodin’s piece Symphony No. 2 in B minor was composed in the romantic period. He was a member of the group of composers called The five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music. It has a homophonic texture and its genre is classical music. There is a wide variety of instruments used in this piece. Among the wind instruments (woodwinds and brass) heard were bassoon, oboe, French horn, and trumpet. The strings played included the violin, viola, cello, and bass. Finally, the percussion instrument used for this piece was the timpani. This movement is broken down into four sections by tempo: Allegro, scherzo, andante, and Allegro. The allegro section begins with a fast introduction at a forte dynamic. This section is in a B minor...
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...music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became the dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," were credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then relatively new television channel MTV to fame. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot, and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop, and rock artists. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall...
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...The Influence of Pipa on Chinese Classical Music In Chinese classical music, Pipa is one of the most popular traditional musical instruments in China and known as the “king of plucked string instrument.” It is a plucked four-stringed musical instrument having a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. It has been played for about two thousands years in China and many Chinese ancient literary works and poems are related to pipa praising its refinement through its bright timbre and rapid rolling tremolo. Unlike nowadays situation that everyone could learn how to play pipa or enjoy the pipa performance in the concert, people from upper class in the ancient time rarely played classical instrumnets such as pipa and guqin (a plucked seven-string instrument of the zither family) in public or for commercial purposes. And they always refused to be regard as musician because performing artists in ancient China are usually considered as the lowest social class. “In traditional China, most well–educated people and monks could play classical music as a means of self-cultivation, meditation, soul purification and spiritual elevation, union with nature, identification with the values of past sages, and communication with divine beings or with friends and lovers” (Liu) However, the development of pipa in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) let it became popular in both court music and ordinary people. Indeed, pipa music has a profound impact on the Chinese classical...
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...(Gottlieb.) However, he went on the major in music at Harvard University. Although, his interest at college was in becoming a concert piano, but he was also introduced to orchestration. While in college, he conducted his own incidental music to “The Birds,” and directed and performed in Marc Blitstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock” (LB, Inc). After graduation he went to study with the Boston Symphon Orchestra’s summer institute, where he was the conducting assistant to Serge Koussevitsky. In 1943 he was placed in his first permanent conducting position with The New York Philharmonic, during his lifetime over 200 of his recordingings were made with the Philharmonic. In 1943 he was also asked to be a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall. This led to him being sought out as a guest conductor. He had his share of critics because of his dance-like style as a conductor. (Gottlieb) In 1945 he was named director of New York City Symphony. He held other positions from 1945 until 1969, conducting more concerts than any previous conductor. He spent a great deal of his time teaching and composing for non-classical gneres. Although it was known by family and friends a great regret was not being able to compose more music, however, the music he did compose was so invigorating and memorable. He brought jazz to the concert hall and syphonies to Broadway. His concert works was said to “revel the influence of many composers – Hindmith, Britten, Shostakovich, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff, to name...
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...within the public school system. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board approves of community-based charter schools. All Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) Charter School programs are open to student’s applications who reside within the school district. Starting a charter school is truly a community effort. However, the rewards we may find by creating a new educational option for children are well worth the effort. The first question we want to answer is why do we want to start a charter school? As a charter developer, we need to have a clear answer to this question. Matanuska-Susitna Valley residents desire a school that provides a rich and comprehensive educational program for students with talents and potential in dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, and visual art or media arts. This school will provide students and parents with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system to maximize each student’s special talents. Our graduates will increase the quality of their life, the lives of people who surround them, and the respective communities of the Valley. There are many people interested in helping to start our charter school waiting for recruitment. These founders will include parents, teachers, school principals, lawyers, business entrepreneurs and accountants. Our founding group needs to have expertise in a variety of areas, including: • Curriculum & instruction • Public...
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...During the day I was allowed to go to some of the places when they had family events like the Shag Dance competitions. The places at the Beach I remember were Fat Harold’s, The Pad, Ducks, The Boulevard Grill and the OD arcade. Since I was around this all the time I really didn’t care about it or pay much attention to it, but as I got older I grew fonder of it and listened to it occasionally and visited some of these places at the beach as an adult. Since I began this class in the fall learning about the History of Rock music it got me thinking about some of the music and events I grew up around and that got me wanting to learn more about some of these Beach Music bands. So as the semester went on I realized that this would be the perfect topic to write my research paper...
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...SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Savonia Business Marketing Plan in Spain of Black Light Discipline Heikki Karvonen Zhao Yunke Gogunskaya Valeriiya Xie Yuanyuan International Business Administration May 2011 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 5 2 TITLE 6 2.2 Subtitle 6 2.2.1 Subtitle 6 3 DISCUSSION 6 3.2 Subtitle 6 3.2.1 Subtitle 6 4 CONCLUSION 7 4.2 Subtitle 7 4.2.1 Subtitle 7 REFERENCES OR BIBLIOGRAPHY (examples) 8 5 APPENDIX 1 Title of Appendix 1 9 6 APPENDIX 2 Title of Appendix 2 10 INTRODUCTION With the development of globalization, our company decides to expand our target market to Spain. To make sure we have enough background knowledge about Spain, our company has done some marketing research, such as questionnaire, telephone interview and face-to-face interview before we dealing with the detailed marketing plan. In this marketing plan, we will present the result of our marketing research, and the analysis of marketing mix. The SWOT analysis is also an essential part of this plan. The insights of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats offer our company a good foundation before implementing the marketing plan. Below is some background information of Black Light Discipline band: Black Light Discipline is a Finnish band founded in 2005 on the idea to make captivating, synth-based grooves with a mix of metal and electro genres...
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...[No Subject] Me to Fatema SunelSent Nowadays, people are getting more & more involved in Music & for them, it has become a part of their daily life. Their mind has become so saddled with tension, & tempo of life is so fast that they seem to accept high blood pressure & nervous breakdown as the unavoidable side effects of modern civilization. It is a pity that they do not pause to think the adverse effects of music on their physical & mental health. I have endeavored to present in this booklet the scientific & spiritual points of views on music & dance etc. These observations have been quoted from various books of Persian, Urdu & English languages. I am very grateful to Maulana Seyyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi, the Chief Missionary of the Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania for editing & scrutinizing this effort of mine. I hope this booklet will help the readers in understanding the philosophy of the rule of Islam which forbids music. A.H. Sherriff 1/5/1983 W H A T IS M U S I C ? Music, according to the New National Dictionary, means "Art of combining sounds or sequences of notes into harmonious patterns pleasing to the ear & satisfying to the emotions; melody" According to the Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, this combining of sounds is "for reproduction by the voice or various kinds of musical instruments in rhythmic, melodious & harmonious form so as to express thought or feeling & affect the emotion;" & the word is also used for the "sound so produced," & for 'written...
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...Audioriver Business Plan Audioriver Business Plan 2013 2013-05-16 2013 2013-05-16 Index Page Number Executive summary 2 The Company & The Industry 3 Markets 4 Marketing 5 Finance 7 Milestones- Gantt Chart 9 Event Evaluation 10 Appendix number 1 11 Appendix number 2 16 Appendix number 3 17 References 18 Bibliography 20 Executive Summary Description of festival Audioriver is an international three-day festival, which is one of the biggest in Poland. The main objective is to promote alternative music with an emphasis on the electronic music genre. So far was seven editions of the festival, in the last was attended by around 50 thousand people. Audioriver takes place in the city of Plock in Poland, on the beach by the river Vistula. In 2013, the festival will take place on 26-28 July. Finance Required Audioriver financial requirements are estimated at about 1 million pounds. The main areas of expenditure are: management, event running...
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...Marketing Research and Strategic Marketing Plan Produced by Business Administration 126 Advanced Marketing (“West Coast Marketing”) Saint Mary’s College of California Professor Eric Kolhede December 14.2011 Students of Business Administration 126 Advanced Marketing (“West Coast Marketing”) Saint Mary’s College of California Abdul Malik Khan | Maria Ahlqvist | Alexandra Smith | Maria Orozco | Alisa Mosman | Matt Cardoza | Ally Short | Matt King | Amanda Minguillon | Melissa Queen | Anthony Costa | Nick Fong | Ben Rigel | Nick Tuttle | Betsy Serrano | Nicole Arce | Britany Linton | Nirbhik Trehan | Dawn Shipley | Priscilla Esparza | Dayna Best | Steven Dawson – Roberts | Elanor Pitts | Steven Vargas | Evan Schlinkert | Thomas Vo | James Palmer | Tommy Mohoric | John Howe | Tracy Vasquez* | Maddy Aliotti | | Professor Eric Kolhede*Coordinator | | Table of Contents I. Executive Summary 1 II. Research Problem 3 III. Situation (SWOT) Analysis 7 A. External Macro-environmental Forces 7 1) Demographic and Social/Cultural Trends Purpose 7 2) Economic Environment 16 3) Technological Dimension 21 4) Political Environment 27 5) Legal Environment 31 6) Cooperative Environment 33 7) Product Market Analysis 36 8) Competitive Analysis 50 B. Internal Environment 71 1) Introduction 71 2) Resources 75 3) Marketing Mix Program 77 4) Conclusion 77 IV. Primary Research 79 A. Focus Groups 79 B. Sampling Plan 93 1) Population 93 2) Sample Size 94 ...
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...Drumstick material and characteristics | Description This experiment was conducted to investigate whether the material used to make a drumstick affects its sound. Drumsticks of four different makes were used: the drumsticks were made from acrylic, maple, hickory or oak. Hypothesis The drumsticks that are made from oak will produce higher sounds as compared to those that are made from maple and hickory or acrylic. Overview The sound of a drumstick is influenced by the type of wood that is used to make it. It is also determined by its length, thickness, tip shape, taper and shoulder location. A drumstick that gives solid sounds have the correct balance, a proper response, and give the drummer a ‘good feel’. The shaft thickness of a drumstick affects both its height and weight. Thicker and heavier drumsticks are more durable and produce deeper sounds. Thinner and lighter sticks are easier to use and suitable for fast play. Drummers should choose their drumsticks according to the type of music they wish to play. A longer tapered stick provides faster response and flexibility while a shorter tapered stick is stronger and stiffer. The shape of the tip is important for the type of sound produced. The length of the stick influences the type of ‘feel’ and ‘reach’ the drummer has. The material the drumstick is made from determines its response and durability. Materials The materials required for the experiment are as follows: * A pair of titanium drumsticks (17 inches...
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...BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY Jackson, Mississippi A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDED IN 1883 CATALOGUE 2014-2015 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2014 Directory of Communication Mailing Address: Belhaven University 1500 Peachtree St. Jackson, MS 39202 Belhaven University 535 Chestnut St. Suite 100 Chattanooga, TN 37402 Belhaven University 7111 South Crest Parkway Southaven, MS 38671 Belhaven University – LeFleur 4780 I-55 North Suite 125 Jackson, MS 39211 Belhaven University 15115 Park Row Suite 175 Houston, TX 77084 Belhaven University Online 1500 Peachtree St. Box 279 Jackson, MS 39202 Belhaven University 1790 Kirby Parkway Suite 100 Memphis, TN 38138 Belhaven University 4151 Ashford Dunwoody Rd. Suite 130 Atlanta, GA 30319 Belhaven University 5200 Vineland Rd. Suite 100 Orlando, FL 32811 Traditional Admission Adult and Graduate Studies Admission – Jackson Atlanta Chattanooga Desoto Houston Memphis Orlando Alumni Relations/Development Belhaven Fax Business Office Campus Operations Integrated Marketing Registrar Student Life Security Student Financial Planning Student Development Online Admission Online Student Services (601) 968-5940 or (800) 960-5940 (601) 968-5988 or Fax (601) 352-7640 (404) 425-5590 or Fax (404) 425-5869 (423) 265-7784 or Fax (423) 265-2703 (622) 469-5387 (281) 579-9977 or Fax (281) 579-0275 (901) 896-0184 or Fax (901) 888-0771 (407) 804-1424 or Fax (407) 367-3333 (601) 968-5980 (601) 968-9998 (601) 968-5901 (601) 968-5904 (601) 968-5930 (601) 968-5922...
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...Recreation and Leisure in Canada Assignment AHSC 242 Table of Contents Introduction..................................................................................................................................................3 Part 1: Understanding/Recognizing how free time is spent.........................................................................4 Trends and Patterns........................................................................................................................4 Work and Leisure Occurring Simultaneously.................................................................................4 Motivation of Leisure......................................................................................................................5 Influence on Leisure........................................................................................................................5 Defining Leisure – Response Theory (MacNeil)..............................................................................5 Part 2: The Role of Leisure in our Lives.........................................................................................................6 Moving Away from home and entering a Serious Relationship....................................................6 Escaping Reality...............................................................................................................................7 My Life without School......................
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...Lifestyle of a typical LGBT consumer 6 Mistakes to avoid while marketing to the LGBT community 7 References 9 Decades after invisibility and reaching critical mass, a breakthrough July 1991 article in the conservative Wall Street Journal called the lesbian and gay community "a dream market." Today the American market is estimated to be valued at $660 billion, projected to reach $835 billion by 2011 --based primarily on U.S. population growth and steady 7% representation of gays and lesbians within the overall population. In 2004, 36% of Fortune 100 companies have advertised directly to the lesbian and gay market, and American corporations now spend about $223.3 million annually in gay print media, according to the 2006 Gay Press Report from Rivendell Marketing and Prime Access, which tracks 284 U.S. gay press publications. Much more has been spent in sponsorships and online advertising, which the survey does not track. The situation is fast changing in India as well, OutNowConsulting.com, The London-based consultancy firm has been conducting surveys across the globe on the product and lifestyle choices of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and provides advice to international companies like Lufthansa, IBM, Toyota, Citibank and Barclays on catering to this category of consumers. The main reason behind the interest in the Indian market is due to the growing purchasing power of the Indian queer community, which is...
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