Wind Ensemble Concert Report Sample

I attended The Wind Ensemble on March 9, 2016 that took place in San Jose State University Concert Hall. The program was part of San Jose State University School of Music and Dances performances Spring ’16. There were two conductors for this performance, Dr. Edward Harris was the director as well as the main conductor of this performance, and the graduate conducting associate Paul Herrea. In this ensemble, there were two percussion soloists by Professor Galen Lemmon and Anne Hsu, an alumni from SJSU. All the pieces in this performance classified as program music, and most of them were relative new, contemporary music base the day they were composed. There were four selections in this program, and it was conducted by two conductors. Every players were dressing up formal for this performance. There One thing stand out from the band was the fact that there was one string player among all wood wind and percussion instruments players, and he was playing the bass violin.
Before the concert started, while waiting for everyone to settle down in their seat, the players were doing a little rehearsal, it was a dissonance mixture of sound from every instrument. When it was show time, the conductors gave everyone a little greeting before proceeded to the first piece, American Fanfare by James M.
This piece was conduct by the graduate student, Herrea. From the description from the program note, this Vanity Fair was a comedy overture base on [Williams Makepeace] Thackeray’s novel. At the beginning, it was very energetic like the introduction to some mischief character that we used to see in movie. The second part start with the sound of a bell, and the music started to describe a scene from the middle of the night with all the peaceful sounds. The ending brought back the energetic mood from the opening with a little addition from the timpani player that made it sounded like the conclusion of the story the music