On Monday, October 10, 2011 I attended the USA Concert Choir Fall Choral Concert. The concert took place in the Laidlaw performing arts center in the recital room. They played a total of six pieces. Each piece was different and varied in style and tempo. The director of the concert choir is Dr. Moore.
Bob Fosse was the Director/choreographer who not only brought to Cabaret an interesting background and storyline, but folded the big musical numbers into the Kit Kat Club’s performances to better illustrate and emphasize the plot. John Kander was the music composer and Fred Ebb wrote the lyrics for both this movie and the 1966 Broadway Musical stage play. They wrote several new songs just for the film version. John van Burek was the playwright who adapted Joe Masteroff’s, 1966 book, Cabaret, for the stage. The film portrays the life of an American singer, Sally Bowles, who sings at the Kit-Kat Club in 1930s Berlin where she falls in love with bi-sexual Brian Roberts, a naïve Englishman who has just arrived in Berlin.
Kendall Sound Art On Saturday, February 8 2014, Kendall Sound Art presented a concert that took place at the West Kendall Regional Library. The musicians played five pieces. The program included “ Lasting Virtue” duet for flute and viola by Ferdinando DeSena. The second piece is PREMIER, which means ”by no means certain.” This piece was interactive electronic music. Ferdinando DeSena also performed it, and it was a computer and synthesizer composition.
Whitley Boudreaux Music 1010 Concert Report I attended a jazz concert that took place in November 16th at ULL’s Ducrest-Gilfrey auditorium. The program was divided into two sections. It started at 7:30 p.m. and ended around 9:30 p.m. It was a free concert to the public. The first selection was a jazz guitar ensemble.
The nickname “Garryowen” traces its lineage back to an old Irish ballroom dance tune. It was used as a marching tune for various nation's military formations such as Great Britain, Canada, and the United States of America with the British being the first to adopt it. The song gained its popularity in the 18th century where it was used as a drinking song by wealthy local youths in Ireland however the tune itself originates from 5th Royal Irish Lancers during the 1680s. Captain Myles W. Keogh along with other officers and members of the 5th subsequently served in the 7th Cavalry Regiment thus introducing General George Armstrong Custer to the tune. He would then make the tune the official song of the regiment.
Rameau contributed to a variety of dramatic forms, continuing, in some, the tradition of Lully. These included tragedies lyriques, comedies lyrics and comedies-ballets. His first success in 1733 was Happily et Archie, but as time went on fashions changed and the stage works he wrote after Les Paladins in 1760 remained unperformed. Orchestral suites derived from some of Rameau’s stage works at least make a certain amount of this music readily available. Sixty of Rameau’s 65 harpsichord pieces were written by 1728, with a final group appearing in 1741.
Joseph Carl Breil was the composer of all the original scores for The Birth of a Nation. Breil created music specific to the scenes and mood that D.W. Griffith wanted to portray to the audience. 2. The film Casablanca use sources music throughout its entirety to accomplish several things. Casablanca takes place during World War II with a storyline that bounces around from scenes in Paris, Morocco and New York.
Oral Presentation Lou Harrison was one of the great composers of the twentieth century--a pioneer in the use of alternate tunings, world music influences, and new instruments. Born in 1917 in Portland Oregon, he spent much of his youth moving around Northern California before settling in San Francisco. There he studied with the modernist pioneer of American Music, Henry Cowell, and, while still in his twenties, composed extensively for dance and percussion. He befriended another of Cowell's students, John Cage, and the two of them established the first concert series devoted to new music for percussion. They composed extensively for these concerts, including their still popular collaboration Double Music.
Bela Fleck Concert This past week, I watched a concert performed by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. The style of music was very different from what I am used to, but I was pleasantly surprised at how well the band played. The concert was held at the Quick Center for the Arts and seemed very informal. There were several times where audience members clapped, cheered, or stood up. The concert hall appeared to be a formal concert hall.
By 1943 he began a series of annual concerts at Carnegie Hall, which was an indication of how much jazz was now accepted in prestigious western classical concert venues. Ellington used this opportunity to write longer and more ambitious works in several movements, like the epic musical history of African-American life, Black, Brown and Beige. Between 1927 and 1931 the Ellington Orchestra played its most famous residency. At the Cotton Club in Harlem, the band backed ‘jungle’ dance-theatre routines in a variety of shows, part of a new popular interest in African-American culture later known as the Harlem Renaissance. During the Cotton Club years, the Ellington band