Jillian Kleemann Extra Credit Jazz 121 Professor Arthur Falbush Yesterday I attended the jazz concert that was held in the music building at 7:00 at night. I’m really not a big fan of jazz music, but I always love music live, because frankly that’s the best type of music to listen to since it’s so real. However when I went, I was very impressed with how much I really enjoyed it. The students who performed in the show were about my age so very talented. I really enjoyed the second group of students where Professor Falbush instructed.
The first group started off the right foot with an interpretation of the Rocky Theme Song. The members of the band used instruments like trumpets, saxophones, trombones, piano, drums, flugelhorns, and clarinets. Throughout the song different members of the band would switch off doing impressive solos, however my favorite was one of the trumpet solos that was performed by Ian Martinez, he truly stole everyone’s attention with his energy and apparent love for his part in the song. The ensemble played many songs I enjoyed, and was excited to hear a rendition of an old classic by Count Basie. The second ensemble and the first ensemble were similar in style, but the second ensemble used considerably less solos and played with an electric guitarist.
What a song! As a big Stevie Wonder fan, I was excited to hear this piece as a closing. The ensemble plays the piece gracefully from beginning to the end. I really enjoyed myself at this sponsored event as the music, the ambiance; the liveliness was a great combination. Music being played live should always be appreciated because the future is going downhill as far as appreciating true and live music.
After intermission, the students from the Magnet School played eleven short songs under the direction of their instructors Rebecca Markowski and Jennifer Hutchison, along with the accompaniment of the Delta Orchestra musicians. The performances were very enjoyable to me. The Delta Symphony opened with “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” by John Williams. I enjoyed this song because it was recognizable to me and I was surprised by this because I had not thought that I would recognize any songs at this concert. This song was very loud and powerful.
Emmaneul Mensah Caitlin O’Neil Music 150 3 – 31 – 2010 Midsemester Paper The performance by Lowell Lieberman Concerto for Clarinet, orchestra, and the Beethoven Emperor Concerto by Jon Nakamatsu, piano soloist was quite a spectacular performance. Both performances were very entertaining and professional as well. In the commencement of the show, I was anticipating seeing some kind of unexciting show, but as the show progressed, I found it to be very interesting through their interaction with the audience. I became very attentive to each performance they displaced and often found myself drawn in by their performance. Both musical performers incorporated unique musical elements such as melody, harmony rhythm to mention a few.
HESTEC Concert Popular concerts attract all sorts of audiences from the youngest to the oldest. One of the popular concerts that I was able to attend and that I really enjoyed this year was the Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology (HESTEC) Community Event. This event was on Saturday, September 5, and it was opened to the public. The HESTEC event is a yearly event the University of Texas Pan American prepares in other to motivate and so that all the children, teen, and adults can explore and get more information of any career that may interest them. Besides this goal, the UTPA also invites some Tejano singer to perform on that day.
At about the middle of the song, the drummer has a solo part and brings back in the other instruments. While I enjoyed both pieces while listening to them, I found myself moving more to the beat of the swing compositions and can almost feel that I am transported back to that era when I listen to
Jennifer Jones Novemeber 22nd 2012 Joe Jacoby Outside event: NIC Jazz Band Show On the night of November 15th I took my family to see the NIC jazz concert, now I have never been to see any live Jazz performance nor do not even listen to it. I am a very open minded person and knowing that my fiance has some past experience with jazz I knew it would be enjoyable. The Jazz concert was surprisingly entertaining throughout the entire performance. Upon arriving at the school I was very unsure as to what I was about to see and whether or not I would be able to identify what it was that I was seeing. So as the performance began and the choir, which I might add was
I really love listening to Boney James he’s a favorite of mine. When he plays his saxophone my body and mind goes into an instant relaxation. His music is like candy to my ears, it sound so sweet. Boney James came off the stage into the crowd and everyone is on their feet standing, shouting, and whistling trying to crowd him but he’s surrounded by
I turned out that the mostly everyone that attended the Van Dyke looked like they were passionate about music, and seemed pretty chill and relaxed. Some older looking man looked like he was really into the music that was being played, and kept makes strange faces as he kept bobbing his head while snapping his fingers. My friend and i could not help but to laugh a bit. Some lady that sang blues was playing before we got there. Too bad we couldn't get there on time because I really like