Roger Emerson is a professional composer and arranger with over 900 choral titles in print and over 30 million copies in circulation. He is the wildest performer of choral music in the world today. His works include the choral arrangements of Josh Groban’s You Raise Me Up‚ Seasons of Love from Rent‚ Joyful‚ Joyful from Sister Act‚ and Don’t Stop Believin’ from Glee. The best-selling choral arrangements‚ Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel‚ O Sifuni Mungu and Riversong. Mr. Emerson has been the recipient
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I have an extreme love for Music. I first started my journey with music in elementary school‚ at that time I never knew music would come to be such a part of my daily life as I got into middle school and high school. I was first in choir all through middle school and my freshman year in high school. I became accustomed to learning how to sight read and memorizing new music within a week. Learning new music and being able to sing it along with my choir members was more than rewarding and I loved
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Contemporary Choral Compositions Most people that live in the modern generation view choral music as old‚ boring harmonies whose composers died with kings. However‚ choral music is not just for the elderly singing hymns apathetically in the church pews on Sunday morning. Though the perception of it remains unenthusiastic among common listeners‚ the life of choral music is not as dead or boring as most would assume. Choral music is made modern‚ enjoyable‚ and vibrant through the works of contemporary
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harmonic progression‚ and the instrumentation. In addition‚ an important element of jazz is the ensemble because it mixes different harmonizing instruments used in jazz to produce a singular sound as demonstrated by the UIC Jazz Ensemble. The UIC Jazz Ensemble‚ directed by Andy Baker‚ enlisted various instruments from piano to saxophone in order to perform a wide range of jazz numbers. The ensemble played various jazz tunes by several composers and arrangers. Additionally‚ the program offered
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school I loved chorus and has been my favorite class I have taken. Learning new music and how to read and write it made me feel like it was possible to write my own song. In my middle school‚ there was a honors chorus class called the “Small Ensemble” The Small Ensemble was a small and privileged class‚ they got the opportunity to go participate in school plays‚ Christmas parades‚ Christmas caroling‚ and competitions such as‚ All-County and All-State. To be considered into this honors class‚ students had
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it can give us. There are four performances which exemplify this: the “Arabian Waltz” by the Silkroad Ensemble; “Believe” by John Pascuzzi‚ Steve Sklar‚ and Dr. Richard Grossman; "Quarter Chicken Dark‚" "Attaboy‚" and "Here And Heaven" by Yo-Yo Ma‚ Edgar Meyer‚ Chris Thile‚ Stuart Duncan‚ and Aoife O’Donovan; and “One Love” by the JJI Exile Brothers. The “Arabian Waltz” by the Silkroad Ensemble is a suspenseful yet intriguing song. I was initially surprised at the sheer amount of people and different
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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
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It was the first concert I had since I have been to Kent. This concert is called World Music Ensemble‚ which is include some Thai music‚ Chinese Guqin music‚ traditional Irish music‚ and music from Africa. I felt really excited because this concert include many types of music. There were two programs attract me deeply. First of all‚ Yangguang Sandie with Chinese Guqin drew my attention. There are some reasons‚ maybe the biggest reasons is I can understand the lyric. The lyric is changed from an
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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
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The Battle For Truth Throughout the course of history‚ from era to era‚ mankind has been on a continuous attempt to perpetuate what they perceive as the truth; and in doing so‚ embark on a quest to find their true identity and place in life. One must realize that the common theme in all literature is the search for identity and belonging. Bertolt Brecht‚ author of "The Life of Galileo‚" effectively uses the developing character Galileo Galilei to portray a strong message; a message which five
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