Texture: This song consisted of a polyphonic texture. As I could hear the two different melodic lines, again, the voices of the men were greatly emphasized and the talent they acquired could not go without being noticed. Dynamics: As the men sang this song they maintained the same dynamics the whole time. The movement was just over seven minutes long and featured a mezzoforte dynamic because of the loudness of their singing voices. As the concert began I thought they would open up with something
‘Electric Counterpoint’ by Steve Reich Comment on how Steve Reich uses the following in 3rd movement from Electric Counterpoint: * Tonality and harmony * Instruments and texture * Use of motifs, repetition and variety Reich uses tonal ambiguity, which means an element of uncertainty in his piece. This keeps the audience interested in the repeating piece, and keeps them guessing as to what the key of the piece is. The bass guitars enter to confirm the E minor key. The piece finishes on an E5 chord, which gives it an “open” and “light” sound. This piece was composed during the minimalist style outbreak, so it was only natural and exciting for composers to be experimenting with the newly-discovered ways of electronically making and editing music.
The members of the band include Stefan Lessard on bass, Boyd Tinsley on violin, Leroi Moore on saxophone and one of the best drummers in the world, Carter Beauford. Together these men will one day leave behind a similar reputation as one of the all time greatest "jam" bands of time. Dave Matthews' first solo album, Some Devil, was released in 2003. It was reviewed as an album much different than the many other's the band has released. Very little "jamming" was put into it and the themes in the lyrics were more morbid and serious as ever before.
Overall, the whole performance had a gentle feel to it. Another major part of the performance that I found remarkable and memorable was the ''story telling'' feel that was presented. Alana Bridgewater, singer and narrator, communicated everything as if it was a story about Africville, this was evident throughout the whole concert. This also made the concert more entertaining because it helped the audience create a picture of what the music is about and it created an image for the audience as they were listening to the band. The introduction that Alana read and performed before each song told a story along with the actual song, this made a perfect representation of what Joe wanted the audience to see from the experience.
The show lasted for 2 hours and twenty minutes. The band started the show with their hit “Oye Mi Amor”. The crowd was very energetic and sang along throughout the entire show. During the beginning of the show the stage had a white lace looking drop that covered the front of the stage. On the drop, the band used visual aides to project pictures throughout the first part of the show.
It seems that there was no need to use two kinds of drums in one band; however, since players showed us different timbres of these instruments and performed alone, each drum sounded thin, flat and unmeaning; in contrast, when these two tones mixed, it resulted a “magic reaction” in music, which was full of energy and great passion. It is the thing left a deep impression in my mind, which subverts my personal thoughts of the collaboration of a band. The second thing, which was stirring me, was what songs delivered to me. The whole concert included three different styles of musical compositions. The topic of concert is Latin jazz and songs were mainly about Afro-Cuban jazz and cha-cha-cha dance, which are branches of it.
You could easily tell that the dynamics were well enforced during rehearsal because when they played there was great dynamic differences throughout the piece. They had a very warm tone even though it was a fast piece of music and warm tones are more associated with slow pieces, Each band tuned individually and as a group before they played each of their pieces so that most likely helped in the aspect of tone quality. Throughout the concert I noticed that each
The men wore Tuxedo’s and the woman black dresses. The conductor, Grammy Award winner Arnie Roth stepped on stage and had the orchestra tune. He then introduced the first song. I found this odd as I thought the conductor would introduce more about the songs he was conducting throughout the entire concert; however, he only introduced the first song, and some information about it. I was drawn to this concert for two main reasons.
Concert Report “Take Me Home: A John Denver Tribute” On November 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM I attended “Take Me Home: A John Denver Tribute at the Redondo Union High School auditorium located at 631 Vincent Street in Redondo Beach, California. The venue is a high school auditorium which has recently been renovated and includes new seating with a capacity of approximately 1,400. The program lasted approximately 2 hours with a 20 minute intermission. The music style is country folk but at one time it was considered folk pop music. The music played was that of the late John Denver plus some original compositions by Jim Curry, the principal of this performance.
The migraine is the tough part of life when you're trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be. Now the song itself, from a musical and instrumental standpoint, is also very interesting. I’ve seen this band live twice already, and they’re a phenomenal band to see. Tyler Joseph, who pointed to me while I was crowd surfing (just saying), prerecords piano and synth melodies and techno beats and such. Then plays piano and sings on stage live.