Barcelona I was not able to attend this concert in person, but I did watch it on youtube.com on December 18, 2012 at 12:46 pm on a Tuesday afternoon. I sat and watched it by myself in my family room, because my children and husband do not care for this kind of music as I do. The concert was with IL Divo, they are four men named David Miller, Sebastien Izambard, Carlos Marin, and Urs Buhler, and they are dressed in black suits when they come out on stage. The concert was live in Barcelona on April 3, 2009
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I. INTRODUCTION I went to a concert held at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York, on Sunday, February 14, 2016. The concert was performed by The Cleveland Orchestra. It was an all-Mozart program conducted by Mitsuko Uchida. The concert performed 3 pieces of Mozart’s work: Piano Concerto No. 17, Symphony No. 34 and Piano Concerto No. 25. I chose to focus on the last piece played in the concert Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503. II. BACKGROUND OF COMPOSITION The
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labels for two reasons – the first being that free music services such as peer-to-peer file sharing and music streaming caused a large decline in album sales. This revenue loss caused music industry professionals to seek revenue elsewhere, such as in concert sales. The second problem digitization caused for record labels was that artists no longer relied on labels for their music promotion and distribution, as they now had these tools at their own disposal. In the old business model, before the Internet
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passionate for music, and have always been fascinated by concerts and what it takes to put it all together. I went to my first rock concert when I was 14 and have been going to several shows a year since. In the past two years I’ve been paying attention to the different staff at venues and just seeing what they generally do. One of the jobs I’ve always been intrigued by was the people working the sound boards before and during the sets. One concert my father even pushed me to talk
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and tell a story. In order for composers to write pieces that told a story, they began to write several types of program music for piano and orchestra. Program music can be divided into categories: symphonic poems (tone poems), program symphonies, concert overtures, and incidental music. Firstly, a type of program compositions written in the 19th century was the symphonic poem which can be sometimes referred to as a tone poem. Symphonic poems can be defined as a single movement for orchestra that
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Concert Report 1 I attended the Musica Viva string quartet on Sunday February 23, 2014. The Quartet included Susan Doering and Daniel Jang on the violins, Claudia Shiuh on the viola, and Dieter Wuldhorst on the violoncello. This concert was made possible by the Friends of Orpheus and is dependent entirely on donations The concert hall was quite small and seated about 200. Attending the concert was about 65 people. That consisted of children, students, and older community members. When I came
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is also famous for its vibrant musical events and concerts where you can watch a legendary artist performing live or you can discover a great local band. From intimate jazz joints to massive amphitheaters to famous historic concert halls, there are numerous places to enjoy live concerts in San Francisco. Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall the 2739-seat auditorium is one of the most famous place to watch live concerts in San Francisco. Owned and operated by the City and
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encores. A.R.M.S. Concert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMS_concert The idea for hosting the concert was envisaged by Ronnie Lane, ex-bassist for The Small Faces and The Faces, himself a casualty of multiple sclerosis. The concert was billed as The Ronnie Lane Appeal for ARMS and featured a star-studded line-up of British musicians, including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, John Paul Jones, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones and Charlie Watts. The concert was particularly
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The Orchestra first started off with just a winter season for their concerts. Since they were becoming more famous and more people wanted to attend their concerts, they expanded to six different musical activities. These concerts include the Boston Pops, the Esplanade Concerts, the Berkshire Music Festival, the Berkshire Music Center, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. They traveled around the world performing concerts. During this 31-week period, the BSO played 22 weeks at Symphony
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Upon hearing her sing, Toscanini reportedly told her she had "a voice heard but once in a century." At the end of her European tour, Anderson was an acclaimed sensation in the capitals of Europe, and American impresario Sol Hurok signed her to 15 concerts in the United States. On December 30, 1935, she opened her American tour at New York's Town Hall. The program was typical for Marian Anderson, consisting of songs by Handel, Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, and Sibelius as well as several black spirituals
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