Percussion Ensemble Concert Report

The concert I attended was the Percussion Ensemble directed by Dr. Colin Hill. The ensemble took place in the Bryan Fine Arts Building at the Wattenbarger Auditorium in Tennessee Tech University. The ensemble lasted about an hour and half. The ensemble consisted of seventeen members in total and every member performed passionately to their piece. The hall looked elegant and the members looked well dressed. The instruments looked very shiny and well taken care of. The first song the members performed was Gamerlan-bound/ beFORe JOHN 2 (2008)- Aurel Hollo (b.1966). He went to Lexington, and the key consisted of seventy-five formed from percussion. The song was very abrupt, soft, there was a lot of pauses, and whole notes. Also, some notes rung
The song was written in 1841. The song was a classical and rhythmic. There is a lot of tension going on. He wrote for wood sound and no pitch was consisted. Some instruments I know that were used was salt shaker, drums, maracas, and horns. The song consisted of four members and they had about three to four instruments being played. The performance had loud and soft sounds. Parts of the performance sounded dramatic such as they would play the drums loudly. Then parts of the performance sounded like a jungle and other times like a horror sound. The performance was all over the place it sounded differently than most performances because it did not stay within the same sound. The performance was well played and lasted long for about ten
The performance to this song was great colors and sounds. Consisted of twelve members and eight of them were playing the xylophone. The rest were playing differents instruments such as the drums. It was a very slow performance with different pitches. At times it sounded like footsteps and other times like Christmas. Passionately every member played their piece throughout the performance. The sixth song was Push (2010) Stephen Gorbos (b.1978). The performance was percussion and consisted of twelve members. Some instruments used was the piano, xylophone, and the drums. The performance had different pitches and were mainly soft and dreaming sounds. At times it would accelerate with loud pitches meaning to a climax. The piece was all over the place and lasted longer than the rest approximately twelve to fifteen minutes. The seventh song was cut off the performance. In conclusion, the performance was long, but very entertaining. I enjoyed each piece because I hardly listen to that type of music. I enjoyed my time being there it was my first time experience anything like that. The songs I have never heard of, however, my favorite one would be the one that sounded like a jungle which was the third song 180(2015)-Michael Burritt(b.1962). If I would have to attend something like that again I would definitely consider it. I could now say that Percussion is my favorite