The Winter concert that occured on December 11th featured four Wind Ensemble pieces that ranged from exciting and rhythmic melodies to southern jazz styles and famous Christmas tunes. These contrasting selections gave the audience an interesting and entertaining variety of music and effectively brought the spirit of the Christmas season to the auditorium of Sartell High School. The Wind Ensemble began with Robert Buckley’s piece, Arctic Fire. This piece was especially impactful because dynamics were
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Concert Critique—Coldplay Live in Boston 2012 1. Coldplay, arguably one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the last decade, is in the midst of its Mylo Xyloto tour. The band members are the lead singer and keyboardist Chris Martin, the lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, the bassist Guy Berryman, and the drummer Will Champion. They start with the intro to Back to the Future playing at a sold-out TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Clearly, I chose the right concert for several reasons:
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An 800 Ticket Sales, Concert for International Artiste(s) Name: Institutional affiliation: An 800 Ticket Sales, Concert for International Artiste(s) Introduction In this century concerts have widely become a money making venture. The entertainment industry is generating millions of dollars through the sales of tickets. This scenario has benefited all the players of the industry particularly artist who incurred incur losses through illegal downloading of their artistic work. The prospects of
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I recently went to a Grace M. Davis Dance Concert. It was an incredible experience and also very enjoyable. I really liked their choreography and their performance.One of the things that I learned from this experience is that hard work always pays off. If you work hard and put your mind into something, then everything is possible. If you watch those dancers dance, a person can think that they came to this point in couple days and very easily. However, they worked years to become good and skilled
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I had to audition for concert band in the seventh grade. I was thirteen years old and had a decent number of friends, most of which were also in the band. My two best friends were Brett and Ryan. Brett played tuba and Ryan played trombone. I also played trombone and was fairly talented at it ,but I was worried because I heard that the band directors were very strict and most people didn't make it into the top bands at Centennial middle school. In addition to that I was also nervous as a result of
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So as part of the requirements for this paper I was required to attend an art show. Consequently I found one at Crystal Bridges called soul of a nation. This show/Gallery was quite fascinating it really spoke to me about the injustices the strife and the overall inequality that African-Americans faced in this country. The show itself was rather moving it really shows the struggle of a people kept down and it's voice was very loud very strong in very concise in it's message upon viewing such works
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On February 22 the Kettle Moraine School for Arts and Performance [KM Perform] will be presenting their own rendition of Little Shop of Horrors. Pulling off a cult classic like this seems to be a challenge at first glance. However so, Perform students are quickly rising to the occasion. Preparing for a musical is a tiresome, work-intensive process, much more than a mere snap of the fingers. Everyone working on this musical has only six to eight weeks to prepare. For the cast, there’s a lot to do
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Defense Strategy Course Lesson 1, Writing Assessment Essay Topic: Sharing Power? Prospects for a U.S. Concert-Balance Strategy Date: 12 January 2015 Name: Angela Butts, LTC, USAR Dr. Patrick Porter is an Australian academic at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Dr. Porter published a monograph entailing a well reasoned argument on a power-sharing grand strategy based upon concert of power and balance of power systems. According Dr. Porter, these are the strategies that will cause
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A decision to shift the United States strategy away from an American hegemony and toward a concert-balance strategy is thought provoking and needs serious consideration. Dr. Porter lays out a strong case for this change. When viewing current world affairs and ruling powers in emerging states, the United States can no longer be the sole first responder in the world. America needs to shift its strategic thinking, however, not necessarily to the degree of retrenchment described as hemispheric pullback
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Cassidy-Polera played the piano. The concert was made up of four main sets and then had three individual pieces at the end to close. The longest part of the show was “Suite No. 3 in C major for Cello Solo, BMV 109” by J.S. Bach. This was only Mr. Peled playing the cello. I found this very interesting as the music conveyed a lot of different emotions. After doing more research I discovered that the music followed a pattern of emotions that was outlined in the concert program. The piece started out with
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