Jessica Weiner Music Appreciation Dr. Gentry December 5th‚ 2015 Concert Response Paper #2 I had the opportunity to attend a concert in Jordan Hall‚ a beautiful and antiquated concert hall at the New England Conservatory in Boston. The ensemble consisted of the New England Conservatory’s very own Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and was led by David Loebel‚ the conductor. This was a full symphony orchestra with woodwind players‚ string players‚ brass players‚ and percussion players. The orchestra
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On Friday November 18‚ I attended a classical concerted performed by the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Joshua and Matthew. The venue was very pretty as I expected from Carnegie Hall and the orchestra was bigger than I thought. I was surprised to see a harp amongst the orchestra‚ so I was ecstatic to listen for it. The orchestra did a quick tuning session that sounded very in sync. The first piece was Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein. As I observed the conductor‚ I could
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The MDC Jazz Band ensemble was held in the McCarthy Auditorium on October 28th 2010. The conductor of the Jazz Band was Matt Bonelli. The concert consisted of 3 Jazz and 3 dance performance happening simultaneously. A large crowd attended the performance which began at 8.00 pm and ended at 9.30 pm. The first piece was the Wind Blues was hard to listen to because it was very loud to the extent that the sound produced was harsh. The trumpet part of the performance was the best. The sound produced
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1180061- Choose one of the epistemological or theoretical approaches dealt with in semester one. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach? In this essay I will be focussing on classical pluralism and will be talking about its strengths and weaknesses. Nowadays pluralism is regarded highly in terms of the way in which people view society. Although many pluralists are often positivists and believe that all groups have an influence over the government‚ the system does have many flaws
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Chapter 17: 1. Describe the solo concerto or "concerto" as it is now referred to in the Classical Period (5 pts). This could sort of be considered the start to public concerts where the composer organized and managed most of the administrative details. The Classical concerto features one person or instrument. The soloist stands while the rest of the orchestra sits. The enter and leave with the conductor which gives them a special status. They get to bow and acknowledge the audience. The most often
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On October 20th‚ 2017 I attended a performance at Small’s Jazz Club‚ in Greenwich Village. Smalls is a very cozy‚ comfy‚ underground club and I loved that it was so tiny because the sound was bouncing all around the room. I was very enthusiastic about dragging my 2 best friend to a jazz club‚ for my unappreciated fondness for jazz. We saw the Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet. Scott Wendholt was on the trumpet‚ Adam Kolker on tenor saxophone‚ Ugonna Okegwo on bass‚ and Billy Drummond on drums. This
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Classical China and Classical India have many similarities‚ but some ideas like politics and the social classes can differ from one or another. Politics was a way on how these classical civilizations had a government and what made the government had power to lead their civilization. Social class was a way to put people in ranks which was also a way for the different types of jobs they did. Politics also goes with social class since it showed that only certain types of people could be in the government
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Concert Critique Kanye West meets Beethoven is the only way to describe the three gentlemen who make up the sensational violinist duo known as Black Violin. Kev Marcus and Wil B are the violinists and are accompanied by DJ TK. Black Violin has created incredible synergy between classical and Hip-Hop music. They have created beautiful music like I have never heard before. They first made their big splash when they won the 2005 “Apollo Legends” contest in the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem‚ NY
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Jennifer Groglio Music 150 Live Concert Essay Title Throughout the history of time‚ music has changed‚ grown‚ and developed into many unique and different genres and broken off into many interesting directions. Among one of these rather recent and distinct groups comes the genre of psychedelic rock portrayed by groups like Dr. Dog and Wilco. Psychedelic rock is considered controversial simply because of its origin and the habits it produces‚ encourages‚ and signifies
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Though they had some different qualities‚ Classical China and India were very similar. The complexities of both India and China’s social hierarchy systems were very different. However their religious views and ideas were similar‚ and they both began to decline but were able to recover and maintain stability. Both China and India used social hierarchy systems‚ but they were used differently. India used a very strict system called Varna‚ or the caste system. People only associated with people in
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