Concert Report
The New, Experimental, and Improvised Music Concert was held at the Laidlaw Recital Hall in Mobile, Alabama on November 1 from 7:30-9:00. The concert featured a mix of newly composed pieces, as well as experimental and improvised ones. There were eight pieces in total, performed by both students and professionals. The following report discusses the performers and their pieces, in sequential order.

John Goforth performed the first piece; he is a senior majoring in music and is the Presser Scholar of Music. He presented a new composition.

Goforth's piece is titled "Adam vs. The Monster." It was performed on trumpet; the piece is soft and slow-tempo and incorporates a percussive ensemble.

Jerry Alan Bush performed the second piece. He teaches piano performance and literature and is a professor at Piano Faculty at USA.

Bush's piece was composed by John Goforth. It is titled "Heron's Bay," and the piece displays many shifts in tempo…...

This would have sent the audience home in an upbeat mood. Fiesta sent the audience home in a chaotic, frenzied mood. I would have liked to see more pieces like Illapa that evoked the desired imagery.
The pace of the music added variety and interesting, beginning with the slow rhythm of El condor pasa, then picking up the pace with Coleccion de Musica virreinal. Once again slowing the pace with Illapa and finally ending with the frenzied Fiesta. It was good in the way the music picked you up and then put you down again. The images in one's mind continually shifted, as did one's mood during the concert. This was a truly enjoyable evening, as an excellent way to let the mind relax from the hectic pace. I enjoyed a majority of the music pieces. I even found those that I liked the least to be interesting. The musical…...

Quite different from Haydn's contemplation in "La Reine," this is a patriotic piece, with some nuances of the Marseillaise that give it a distinct revolutionary sound. Very fast and active in different occasions, the piece promises new times for its listeners, times of social justice and equality. At the same time, we can almost here the old, aristocratic system going to pieces.
Mozart: Symphony No. 31, "Paris"

There is probably one excellent word to describe this musical piece: joy. Indeed, the symphony gives out a sense of exuberance in all its most important movements. The first movement is quite brash, with the chords taking over the scene for the introduction. However, the second movement is much more calm and serene, with the soothing sound of all instruments involved.

Personal Reflection:

One of the very exciting things about this concert was the fact that it was a thematic concerts, with music from the 18th…...

Mozart: Concert Aria "Va, dal furor portata," K. 21. This is a vibrant cantata, with dramatic implications for the listener.

Arne: Suite from Alfred. There is no need for Rule Britannia, for example, the final piece from Alfred, a piece encompassing the British idealism of grandiose domination. Bold and brash, the piece truly resonates at the end of the show.

Personal Reflection:

The concert was a thrilling experience, because of many different reasons. First of all, the variety of the pieces included in the repertoire is high enough to keep anybody on their feet. From Handel's occasional sumptuous pieces to Mozart's playfulness and, at times, grave approaches in some of the pieces, the concert was excellently balanced to include any individual preferences.

On the other hand, the concert was quite generous in the variety of instruments used as well, together with a generous combination of cantata and purely orchestral pieces. From this perspective, the…...

Even now music like Beethoven's seems elitist. Unlike a punk rock show, a classical music concert is attended by well-heeled individuals: people who dress up in gowns and suits and who leave their car at valet parking. The culture that surrounds classical music today is not much different than it was in Beethoven's time. In the nineteenth century, music like Beethoven's was appreciated largely by the burgeoning bourgeoisie: the upper-middle class that emerged after the fall of feudalism.
Attending the Dresden Philharmonic's performance of Beethoven's 5th symphony on the anniversary of that symphony's composition especially invokes the historical context of music. Even when taken out of context, a piece like Beethoven's 5th is timeless. I appreciated hearing the richly layered melodic patterns, complex structure and timing, and especially the way different instruments and different instrument sections worked together to create a harmonic whole. Moreover, watching the conductor coach the musicians…...

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Works Cited

The Fifth Symphony." Retrieved Feb 25, 2008 at http://imperial.park.org/Guests/Beethoven/5.htm

Gutmann, Peter. "Classical Classics: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony." Retrieved Feb 25, 2008 at  http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/fifth.html 

Stagebill for the Concert Association of Florida. "Dresden Philharmonic."

Jazz Concert Report
This report is about a jazz concert that was performed by Something More and Buster illiams on April 29th. The concert was in ashington DC, Blues Alley. Buster illiams and Something More composed the music that is referred as 'Deja'. The Something More group comprises of Renee Rosnes the pianist, Jeff atts the drummer, and Bruce illiams on the saxophone; the bass was entirely handled by Buster illiams.

Music style

By focusing on the band's performance, it is hard to pick on one style that best describes the performance since there was a change of style at different points of the performance. At the onset, Renee Rosnes' piano performance had a very soft start. At this point, the piano's mood and tone was sober; however, it gradually changed to become more active and vibrant. The saxophone then followed and just like the piano, it had a gloomy tone at the…...

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Works Cited

Tivis, Greg. Jazz Styles -- the Sub-genres. 2008-2016. Web. 29 April 2016.

Jazz concert was performed by the Fukushi Tainaka Quartet on the 16th of April. The venue was the Small Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, New York City. In that band, Fukushi Tainaka played drums, Chris Johansen played the tenor saxophone and Marc Devine was on the piano while Hide Tanaka played the bass.
Background of the Musicians

Fukushi Tainaka's name is among the best jazz musicians and the best drum player on an international level. He was a member of the group of the illustrious alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson. He has co-worked with several other artists as well, including trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw and Bill Hardman, guitarist andy Johnston and George Benson, pianist Benny Green, Champian Fulton, Junior Mance and Barry Harris, organist Lonnie Smith, saxophonist Junior Cook, Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Garrett, David "Fathead" Newman, James Moody and Frank Wess. Almost all the venues in New York have…...

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REFERENCES

A Passion for Jazz. (1998-2016). Styles of Jazz Music. Retrieved May 4, 2016, from A Passion for Jazz:  http://www.apassion4jazz.net 

Smalls LIVE. (2016). The Fukushi Tainaka Quartet. Retrieved May 4, 2016, from Smalls LIVE:  https://www.smallslive.com

Apparantely, Haydn made a huge amount of money on this piece, causing him to comment, "a thing possible only in England." The Vivaldi Concerto, it turns out, can be played as a Lute or Guitar Concerto, with the lute being a bit more popular in Court at the time. However, because the two have small discrepencies in the way they are strung, sometimes the rhythm must be changed a bit to suit the instrument. It is this type of interesting detail that, to me, makes a concert like this both more enjoyable and more intimate -- the musicians are truly communing with the audience and the audience is learning along the way.
Unfortunately, the auditorium was only about half-full, about an equal mix of students and perhaps family members of the orchestra? It did not seem like this venue was one that the community at large enjoyed regularly, which is…...

Jazz Performance eview
The author of this report has been asked to take in a jazz show and offer some information and opinion about it. The venue and artists involved will be named. There will also be other questions answered like whether the music was moving to the author, whether it was accessible or "far out," whether it was emotional or cerebral and whether the author liked the music or not. Overall, the performance taken in was very positive and high-energy and the author was not remotely disappointed. While jazz is not embraced or loved by everyone, the author of this report holds it to be a great musical form and one that all people should at least try to glom onto if they're seeking enrichment and entertainment.

Performance Information

Before getting into the reactions to the performance, the author will explain the details about the show. The name of the venue was…...

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References

NPS. (2016). A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927 - New Orleans Jazz National Historical

Park (U.S. National Park Service). NPS.gov. Retrieved 21 January 2016, from  http://www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/jazz_history.htm

However, at the same time, the Dominican Republic is also a Hispanic speaking island and thus the Latin influence is also heavy in their version of Reggae and other musical tastes. Finally, as the band grew up in the Bronx, their musical background was also heavily influenced by the growth of American style hip-hop, which grew up out of the Bronx area. This diverse, mixing pot of musical heritage was combined by the band Aventura to create the unique musical character of Bachata.
Overall, I found the Avnentura Kings of Bachata concert to be of high quality and highly entertaining. Watching the band perform on stage shows you how much they care about their music and how much they enjoy performing it for their fans. These facts bring a high level of energy to their show, which I found captivating. The band played their songs at a fast, energetic pace…...

Whether the particular piece was rough and rapid or soft and romantic, McDonald seemed to simply flow along with the music, letting it guide him as he guided it out of the piano and to our ears in with a full, natural and inspiring sound.
I was also impressed by McDonald's ease with the crowd. Though there were no other musicians or anyone else onstage with him, he was perfectly comfortable both when delivering his lecture and while playing. This is not too surprising; according to the program notes, he's been playing since he was for and made his orchestral debut at the age of eleven. Still, the way he talked to the crowd and connected to the piano made it clear that not only is Alex McDonald very good at what he does, he also really cares about music and our relationship to it. Attending this concert definitely strengthened…...

Crosby, Stills, and Nash (CS&N) concert I attended. Both my parents were big fans of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and when Neil Young went his own way the trio that was left continued making music in concert, touring, and writing songs. So since I had been hearing CS&N's music for much of my life as an adolescent and young adult in college, I was interested in hearing the classic rock group live.
What was the makeup of the ensemble (singers)?

Crosby, Stills & Nash had a high-quality group of session musicians on the stage helping them bring a full, classic rock sound to the audience. Todd Caldwell played the organ; Shane Fontayne played lead guitar; Steve DiStanislao was on drums; Kevin McCormick played bass guitar; and James Raymond, who is David Crosby's son, played the keyboards for the group.

What was the style of music they played? What were the dynamics?

For…...

Bocklin painted numerous versions of Isle, but it is Rachmaninoff's dirgelike vision of the rowing motif, the Dies Irae of the Latin mass, that remains as constant. and, in typical Rachmaninoff fashion, the BO is perfect for the piece with its sweeping tonality, clashes of chromaticism, and simple theme, yet complex underpinnings.
travinsky studied under the great Russian pedagogue and master of the tone poem, Rimsky-Korsakoff. This is nowhere near as obvious as listening to the harmonization and almost studied use of the different sections of the orchestra in their technical glory. Indeed, the opening of the cherzo fantastique almost sounds as if a younger Rimsky-Korsakoff added on to cheherazade or Tsar ultan. Comic and tragic both, every instrument scored is left out to "sink or swim" and is exposed in the delightful character of the piece.

The story of hostakovich's ymphony #10, is quite different. Fighting for decades with the…...

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Stravinsky studied under the great Russian pedagogue and master of the tone poem, Rimsky-Korsakoff. This is nowhere near as obvious as listening to the harmonization and almost studied use of the different sections of the orchestra in their technical glory. Indeed, the opening of the Scherzo fantastique almost sounds as if a younger Rimsky-Korsakoff added on to Scheherazade or Tsar Sultan. Comic and tragic both, every instrument scored is left out to "sink or swim" and is exposed in the delightful character of the piece.

The story of Shostakovich's Symphony #10, is quite different. Fighting for decades with the whims of Josef Stalin, Shostakovich was at times in favor, at times out of favor, depending on the whim of the Party and whether they thought his music valuable to the people. When Stalin died in March 1953, a collective sigh of relief was heard throughout the artistic community in the Soviet Union. Only four months after being intellectually free from Stalin, Shostakovich began work on this 10th symphony. By October he was finished, producing what many called the first major work of the post-Stalinist era. Rather than the preferred program music, the 10th is a personal outcry from Shostakovich for a more enlightened sense of individualism. Not broody, not triumphant, but, like many works that remain true to the repertoire, Shostakovich's 10th is a mature composer looking back, and at the same time forward.

The BSO is a pinnacle of sound, musical shape, and stunning timbre. Some find their sound too bombastic, but this reviewer would disagree, pointing to the slower, more intimate movements of the Shostakovich and the quite passages in the Rachmaninoff as proof at just what a virtuoso ensemble it remains. Truly, an American cultural treasure, laying back and having the music pour over one simply makes us long for more.

TransCanada is fighting people that are worried more about aesthetics and ideals rather than benefits to the consumer (TransCanada, 2013).
3.2 The significance of organization to issue and vice versa (330 words)

In the end, the issue that faces TransCanada is selling the pipeline to the public effectively enough, as well as to the populations that can green-light the project, so that the project goes forward and thus allowing TransCanada to deliver oil more efficiently and quickly than is currently possible given the current oil transportation infrastructure that exists. This is especially true given the advent of oil sands and fracking in the United States as well as parts of Canada (Koring, 2013). The gist of the issue is that many people support the pipeline but some are concerned and many of the people that are averse to the project are politicians that are trying to push green energy and/or are…...

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References

AlexGPR.com. (2013, March 30). PR Tip #264: Use Scope: Alex G. Alex G. Retrieved March 30, 2013, from  http://www.alexgpr.com/2011/06/scope/ 

BLS.gov. (2013, March 30). Public Relations Managers and Specialists: Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved March 30, 2013, from  http://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/public-relations-managers-and-specialists.htm 

Burdeau, C. (2012, January 8). BP Ad Campaign Following Gulf Oil Spill Deemed 'Propaganda' By Some. Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 30, 2013, from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/bp-ad-campaign-gulf-oil-_n_1192600.html 

ENS. (2013, March 4). Keystone XL Pipeline Gets Upbeat Analysis From State Department | Environment News Service. Environment News Service. Retrieved March 30, 2013, from  http://ens-newswire.com/2013/03/04/keystone-xl-pipeline-gets-upbeat-analysis-from-state-department/

Mass Causality Incident at Travis Scott ConcertThe Travis Scott concert tragedy of November 5, 2021, is one of the latest mass causality incidents. According to Patel and Kasakove (202, the Houston Astroworld festival hosted 50000 people and turned tragic when fans surged the stage to witness Scott\\\'s performance. The result was ten deaths and more than 300 injuries. The authors report that hospitals handled more than 25 emergency cases within minutes.The incident resulted in emotional torture among the victims and their relatives, and Patel and Kasakove report that a series of lawsuits have been filed to seek justice. It was traumatizing to learn about victims\\\' death as young as nine years. One can imagine the helplessness and fear among such a young audience. According to Valinsky (2021) a statement from Live Nation, the event organizer read \\\"heartbroken for those lost and impacted at Astroworld last night,\\\" depicting the intense emotions…...

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ReferencesPatel, V., & Kasakove, S. (2021, November 7). What to know about the Houston Astroworld Tragedy. The New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2022, from J. (2021, November 8). Astroworld Promoter Live Nation has a History of Safety Violations. CNN. Retrieved March 18, 2022, from  https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/08/business/astroworld-live-nation-safety-violations/index.html  https://www.nytimes.com/article/astroworld-festival-what-to-know.htmlValinsky,

I. Introduction
A. Briefly introduce the concert you attended
B. Include the date, venue, and name of the performer(s)

II. Background Information
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B. Discuss their achievements and previous work

III. Performance Evaluation
A. Discuss the overall atmosphere of the concert
B. Describe the audience's reaction and engagement
C. Analyze the performer's stage presence and charisma

IV. Musical Analysis
A. Describe the musical genre or style of the performance
B. Discuss the instrumentation and the sound quality
C. Analyze the technical skills of the performer(s)
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Concert Outline: A Symphony of Unforgettable Moments

Prelude: Setting the Stage

The evening commenced with a hushed anticipation as the audience took their seats. The stage lights illuminated a sleek and modern orchestra, their instruments gleaming in the warm glow. The conductor, a distinguished figure with piercing eyes and an aura of command, raised his baton, signaling the start of a musical journey.

Act I: A Crescendo of Excitement

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: The concert soared to new heights with Beethoven's iconic fifth symphony. The "Fate" motif, a driving force of four short notes, reverberated through the hall, evoking a sense of both urgency....