Imagine a world without music; think of times in the past few days when you have listened to music. Remember the mood it set and its influence on you, for music is an art that surpasses all generations, nations, and cultures. One can imagine an American cowboy playing his guitar on an empty plain, an African tribe dancing to the beat of drums, or thousands of teenage girls screaming at a concert performed by Justin Bieber. This simple pleasure has been presented through numerous venues: live…
Geffen Hall at Lincoln center to experience New York Philharmonic. Thursday, April 7 by half past seven all classical music lovers in a hurry toward to classical music concert of Beethoven and Strauss. The audience is exciting about this evening, and it is foreseeing, program for today is big. It includes Strauss “Oboe Concerto” and Beethoven “Symphony No 6, Pastoral”. Approached the venue I noticed how the audience was fully prepared for the concert. Ladies and gentlemen, in a nice evening…
Cash’s music because I was there specifically for them. I would say that…
participate while attending university. This is not because I do not know what I like; I just that I have not been exposed to these things yet. Although my personality is not fully molded, I actively search for novel and fulfilling experiences relating to music, food, and travel. The outdoor setting of marching band fosters the flashiness and untamed passion required to make an emotional bond with far-away audiences. Each year in my marching band, I embraced the opportunities to learn new show…
drinks, they would listen to the music and chose to eat that night at the Dog House for the experience of live music. On the contrary, the younger group of people just drank the whole night and used the experience of the live music event as a social gathering to comingle with their peers. In Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music, David Brackett uses multiple culture-related case studies to provide a relationship between categories of music and categories of people and in…
Maureen Hynes in 1982, the Chamber Music Festival has been bringing together talented musicians of all ages to its location at Long Island University (LIU) Post for 34 years. The festival hasn't always had such a large attendance. Deaver recalls when there would only be about 25 people and the program was just two weeks long. Now, just a couple years ago, they had a record-breaking attendance of 130 people. “In the past 15 years, people have gotten more into chamber music,” Deaver said to…
Bandleader — yesterday and now Being bandleader for many years, I would like to share some of my thoughts about this function in Music, especially in the Jazz genre, and meaning of this word during the last hundred years. Definition Looking at Merriam-Webster online dictionary, we see this short definition: the conductor of a band (such as a dance band). Very simplified; conductor — leader of the musical band. Before the era of Jazz, there was another word in common use; Bandmaster, meaning…
song, is accented and crescendos from mezzo forte to forte and has upward chordal movement. The song was lively and fast, quadruple meter, and polyphonic in texture. It is a song definitely meant for dancing. Because of the flat seating area of the venue, people had to remain seated to avoid blocking other concert goer’s view. Despite their inability to freely move about, people still twisted and turned in their seats and clapped and tapped their feet to the rhythm of the beat. Tristan’s efforts…
the concert. Joey performed at a local famous venue in Downtown Minneapolis known by the name of First Avenue. Other famous groups and solo artists to perform at First Avenue include Prince, Radiohead, Marilyn Manson, and many more. This concert was the 21st stop of 2018 in Joey’s “Amerikkkana Tour”. Known for his very deep thought and influential rap lyrics, he provided me and other fans from Minneapolis a live look at who he is, what him and his music represent, and what his harmonious yet…
Is digital music sampling and creating music remixes a way of creatively making popular new music, or is it copyright infringement? In today’s digital age, with applications like Garage Band, Snapchat and YouTube, anyone can be a music producer and upload their songs to the internet via websites like SoundCloud. It is easy to remix popular songs by simply using a laptop computer and because of this, more and more people are beginning to produce music they try to call their own, but often contain…