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Concert Review: What is the Affect of the Musicians?

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In order to write a review of a concert, here are some questions that might help you to organize your ideas[1]:

What is the behavior of the audience? This will vary greatly depending on the venue and the type of music you are reviewing. For instance, are they sitting quietly, or dancing and singing? If so, how intense is their movement, and how does it relate to the music?

What is the affect of the musician(s)? How concentrated on their instruments do they seem to be? Do they have a score in front of them? How often do they look at it? How do they interact with the audience?

Is there amplification in use? Are the sounds processed in any way?

What can you say about the visual dimension of the concert? Do the musicians move around the stage or remain in one place? Is there video involved?

From the answers to those questions, what can you infer about the performer’s expressive aims? Is music the most important element of the concert? Does it share the attention of the audience with more overtly theatrical elements?

The structure of the music will depend very much on whether you are reviewing a classical, jazz or rock concert. Multi-movement compositions (symphonies, concerti, etc.) differ greatly from the concert presentation of a jazz standard, which has extended improvised sections, and both are different from a song (whether the song’s genre is pop, rock, metal, or country).

If the concert as an event consists of a sequence of songs, what can you tell about the playlist? Is there a global expressive arch, or are there peaks and valleys?

If you attend a classical concert instead, are the works by a single composer or by several? Do all the works belong to the same period and/or style?

What does the music seem to prioritize (pitch, rhythm, texture, something else)? Considering what you’ve learned in the lectures so far, what technical information can you provide your reader about the music you heard at the concert?

These questions are merely presented because they MIGHT be useful; obviously that doesn’t mean that your review should consist in a series of responses to them. This is a loose guide, not a questionnaire.

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The ring never ends is a ply that was written and directed by Sean Graney. The play event was organized by the UB theater and dance department in conjunction with the UB's Humanities Institute, the Department of English with the support from both Carol L. Morris and Robert G. who are from the Visiting Artist Fund. The play is a piece that speaks to the elements of a new beginning after the end of the deteriorating world. After the word has gone through a period of demise and destruction, there is the aspect of growth that brings with is a new beginning, a rebirth. In the play a young man is trying to survive the horrors of the dying world in an opera house and finds the program that described by Wagner opera, which he takes to be the truth. The character is them seen to create a ring cycle of religion around the various artifacts that he finds in the opera house. As the world comes to an end, there are aspects of threat to the harbor that are seen to be a reflection of the Ring Cycle. In the play the main themes include fear, love and religion, while the twelve actors that are in the play come from the Department of Theater and Dance. All of the performances that were held between 28th April and 1st May, included six characters each and there were no two performances that were from the same cast.
At the entrance the students were paying $20 dollars to get in, while the seniors were offered a waiver and paid $10 dollars to attend the event. Students from any school were allowed to attend the event. Once inside, one could choose where they preferred to seat, as there were no preferential seating positions. This was relative to the fact that the tickets were all regular, meaning that none of the attendees was limited to where they could sit in light of how much they paid for the tickets.
At the beginning of the performance most of the audience did not seem electrified. There was an atmosphere of calm and anticipation from the audience that mimicked a tense moment with expectations. As the performance gained traction, most of the audie...
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