Overall, the whole performance had a gentle feel to it. Another major part of the performance that I found remarkable and memorable was the ''story telling'' feel that was presented. Alana Bridgewater, singer and narrator, communicated everything as if it was a story about Africville, this was evident throughout the whole concert. This also made the concert more entertaining because it helped the audience create a picture of what the music is about and it created an image for the audience as they were listening to the band. The introduction that Alana read and performed before each song told a story along with the actual song, this made a perfect representation of what Joe wanted the audience to see from the experience.
This was overcome by the construction of the recitative which is basically a single melodic line accompanied by various instruments. In 1594 the first opera was born from the collaboration of librettist Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri which was given the name of Dafne. The story of Dafne was steeped in ancient Greek mythology and the affairs of gods. This new art form was received with enthusiasm and it led other composers such as Caccini to write other operas. The baroque period saw opera spread like wild fire with demand coming not only from aristocratic patrons but also from newly opened public opera houses.
All my life I always come cross seeing a one type of theater is seeing one’s of my favorite R and B musical singer at a concert and that simmered seeing a play because they both have a lot in comment like the audience, stage spaces, director, producer, and many more. Long time ago I did seen the Lion King play in New York that was really interesting and it made me feel like I was in the show with all the excitement going on like movement, dancing, singing and many more. Theater is totally different from the film and television because with all different performance, each audience response differently of how they see it in their view. Second, theater had many different things you should know when you go to see played a t the theater like stage spaces, scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and musical. The thing I was touch by the costumes design because of the fact I like fashion, how they would match up the costumes with the story.
In fact these two musicals are completely different from each other. However, that doesn’t mean that they don’t have their similarities too. Phantom of the Opera is a classical musical that takes place in mainly in the 19th century in Paris, France and tells the story of a love triangle. The main character is Christine, she’s chosen to replace an opera’s lead singer after the lead singer refuses to work under the conditions that the Phantom gives every performer and owner. Christine was blessed with the Angel of Singing from her father when he passed away.
In this essay I will be talking about the differences in the issues the story deals with, the characters of each story, as well as the musical differences. Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006, takes place in late-19th century Germany. Although it is set in a different time and place, most of the issues dealt with in this show are very relatable to teens of today such as, sexuality, abortion, rape, child abuse, and suicide. All of these issues are clearly stated in the show without having to look at another meaning behind them. On the other hand, Wicked, which opened on Broadway in 2003, deals with the issues of magical powers and the fine line of good and evil.
I enjoyed listening to them and not being startled every 30 seconds by the drums pounding in or the horns suddenly sounding out of no where. In this sense, I very much enjoyed listening to this orchestra in a different way then I enjoyed the other musical performances we went to see. When Joshua Bell came out to do his solo, it was actually very funny because he completely changed the mood of the night by playing “Yankee Doodle” on his violin. The whole mood
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams I had the opportunity to enjoy the play A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Ladislav Smoček at Činoherní klub[1] a week ago as it has been performed there since October 12, 2011. A Streetcar Named Desire was set in the 50s, in the time when the Great Depression that the Americans were facing had just ended. Tennessee Williams, an American playwright finished the play in 1947 after the Second World War. Its premiere was held at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York and it was directed by Elie Kazan. Jessica Tandy played Blanche, Kim Hunter played Stella and Marlon Brando played Stanley.
The set looked authentic for the time period and worked well for each act, however, the stage crew probably could have been a little more organized. It seemed as though they lagged or forgot to bring out what was needed for particular scenes but I must admit, it did seem to get better for each performance. The orchestra could have done a better job with playing the music throughout those longer scene changes in order to entertain the audience as they waited. It was a little awkward sitting through those long pauses with nothing to listen to. Also, they should have been able to realize that when there were microphone issues, they should play their instruments softer in order to help the singers to be heard a little better.
Brian Naughton MUSC1100_30 Opera Evolution Essay4 4 March, 2012 Opera’s Evolution from Baroque Era to Classical. Classical Opera's expansion and evolution owes a great deal of gratitude to the Baroque era of the early eighteenth century, but where Baroque opera was mainly designed and created for aristocracy or royal audiences, Classical opera branched out as a form of musical entertainment for the general public using the opera house as a center of experimentation. The population of the middle class would eventually become the mainstream participant engaging in opera entertainment as a response to aristocratic forms of opera. Some of Baroque's composers like Handel and Monteverdi used speech-like melodies in polyphonic textures in a linear-horizontal dimension consisting of continuous melody with wide leaps and chromatic tones for emotional effect where as classical composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven incorporated homophonic textures of chordal-vertical dimension with melody in balanced phrases and cadences with diatonic scales involving narrow leaps in their compositional works. The Baroque expressive effects of chromatic harmonies established in the major-minor key system with very brief expansions to other keys would evolve into Classical opera's favoring of diatonic harmonies expanding on the tonic-dominant scale which became the basis for classical opera's large scale form.
The actors were fairly decent; they made excellent use of the stage; and they could pull off their not-very-realistic characters that are only accepted in music theatre. Watching them, you would never be able to tell how much work was put into it because of how naturally everything looked to you, unless of course, you thought about it. There’s often so much going on that you could see it twelve times and notice several new things each time. Sometimes you get distracted by someone tall sitting in front of you, unless you are that tall man, but oftentimes even that isn’t enough to pull you out of the world that musicals pull you into. I think that the greatest thing about musicals as opposed to film is that they are doing it right in front of your