On Wednesday, December 2nd I attended to a very impressive concert presents by my great music professor Sergio Gonzalez and Hialeah Performing Arts Club. Dr. Sergio Gonzalez invited magnificent singers from his MUL 1010 class to make this concert unforgettable with his accompaniment in the piano. The first thing that I liked about this concert was the atmosphere because I saw how the audience enjoyed the music played by my talent professor and the amazing voices of the vocalists. Every artist was
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Every year in the Massaponax High School marching band season, there is a day when the entire band, known as the MP2, goes to various neighborhoods in Spotsylvania to ask homeowners if they would like to donate to the band. Each marching band season comes with monumental costs, so this event is crucial to our success. It is so special an occasion that we all wear our black and teal uniforms. The staff call it “Band-Aid Day.” I did not particularly enjoy spending the greater margin of my Saturday
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orchestras, soloists, and world music ensembles take the spot light at a plethora of venus across the University Michigan’s campus. They all have their own sound, whether that is made through a certain genre they play in particular, or because of the instruments used within the ensemble. Two varying groups that compare and contrast well with each other that I saw play this semester was the New York Philharmonic and the University of Michigan’s (U of M) Caribbean Steel Band. The New York Philharmonic was
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Alex Bonney is a London-based jazz trumpeter, sound engineer, and composer who also has a flair for electronic music, a genre that is not included in his latest work, Halda Ema. Instead, the record dives into modern creativity, coordinating counterpoint and euphony, and was recorded live with James Allsopp (Nostalgia 77) on clarinets, Olie Brice (Paul Dunmall Quartet) on bass, and the veteran Jeff Williams (Dave Liebman, Lee Konitz) on drums. We are introduced to “Pangolin Husbandry”, the opening
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John Philip Sousa Perhaps the most iconic of all the marching instruments is the Sousaphone with its carefully crafted tubing and grandiose bell. This colossal apparatus is gargantuan not only in its physical size but in its thundering acoustics as well. But where did this mammoth instrument originate from? The answer is John Philip Sousa, a conductor and composer whose outstanding work in the United States Marine Band would earn him the title of “March King”. Sousa was born on November 6, 1854
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i had never been to a musical concert before Friday December 9th, the concert that I attended was interesting and worth seeing. There were both things that I viewed to be positive and negative about this concert. Each song had something different to offer from the feeling of each piece, what I like and disliked about the piece, and my/crowd’s reaction. March was one of the first pieces I heard. This piece was quite peaceful. There was a smooth melody throughout the work. Although the melody was
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melody from the beginning of the movement once more while the strings fall back. After this, the feeling shifts in the movement moves into a more sophisticated sound in a sense. The intensity still remains as the violin shrills above the other instruments creating a beautiful scene. I knew at the end of this movement that it was my favorite of the concert and felt as though I could not, in words, express the feelings that I felt while experiencing it. Although sad, the piece shifted into the second
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is an important term to know and a great concept to include in your kids music class curriculum in whatever way you can. As we mentioned in some of our earlier blog posts, when we think of a kids music class we don't always think about musical instruments and popular kids songs, we think music theory and how can we incorporate elements of it into our classes without it being too technical. During our rain theme, Tiva made a cute little raindrop
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Saturday, February 27, 2016 in the Grace Baptist Church of Santa Maria, CA. About 150 people attended the concert, most of which were seniors. Before the concert started, a few members of the orchestra were seated on stage, and were warming up their instruments. At the beginning of the concert, the concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the guest conductor made her entrance and conducted The Star Spangled Banner. As soon as the orchestra started playing, the audience stood and sang the
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When I think about the things I am most grateful for, the love that I have developed for music has to be high on that list. It was in fourth grade that I was really introduced the wonder that is music. That January, at the age of ten, I suddenly matured in a way that I could not have imagined. From that day on, a part of me began to develop. Now, that passion is one of the cornerstones of who I am as a person. This change can be largely credited to a big hero of mine: my sister, Anniestacia. Her
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