It was a breezy night in November of 1994 at the Center of Performing Arts in San Jose. Inside as the curtain came up we all started to smile with excitement and hope of doing ... and how that it dwindled in comparison to this. Although I knew exactly what I was doing down to the last breath, I still feared that I did not know enough to perform that night. This performance was the first major and professional concert that I had preformed in, all at the young age of 11. We had been learning music and dance routines since August ... us all to do the best that we could do. "To give the audienc...

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... only for a short while, and he reverted back to plucking for the rest of the performance, so I thought it was very interesting. The final group that I stayed to watch this night was Jazz Combo Five, directed by Clayton Cameron. The group comprised of an alto saxophone, a tenor saxophone, a trumpet, a guitar, a piano, a bass, and drums. The first musical piece was an original ... a tenor saxophone solo, piano solo, alto saxophone solo, and back to a piano solo. I was really impressed by the range of the alto saxophone player because he could play really high notes. Overall I enjoyed the ...

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On the night of March 11, 2013, three bands and two vocal groups performed at "The Vocal Jazz and Combos Concert" at Diablo Valley College (DVC). When I went to the concert, I sat in ... player expressed exceptionally sophisticated and beautiful tone, with a perfectly accurate pitch, and rhythms. Having a very good sense of dynamics, he knew when it was necessary to give accents on certain notes and emphasize selective parts. I liked when he performed a bird-like sound in a second piece. The second song was middle tempo, 6/8 meter refreshing song that made me feel like walking in ... ...

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A Senior Recital featuring Jennifer Mulhern I attended an instrumental performance the other night of a violoncello accompanied by the piano. The instrumental performance I attended was an ensemble performed by Jennifer Mulhern on violoncello and Faith DeBow playing the piano. This performance can be described ... , No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Suite in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. I also thought t...

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... pieces. This piece in particular illustrates 3 different emotions/environments. The first being quite fast and blissful. The second is somewhat lethargic, as if it were taking a break from the fast notes of the first movement. The third movement then hastens, and becomes even more vigorous than the first. I find the piece profound, as it succeeds in illustrating 3 different atmospheric moods without ... that this piece conforms to all three themes, and therefore has a profound denotation towards the artist. • The function of this piece is mainly just for recreational purposes, not for...

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... . I rode alone." This is my all-time favorite lyric from Davey Havok, their lead singer. I honestly don't know why, maybe it's the way he speaks it in amongst the beautiful notes in the background. Simply listening to their cd for a few minutes will get you hooked to the infectious choruses, and subdued verses of Davey Havok, with accompaniment from the fellow ... AFI fans across the world who voted for them. This topped everything for me. Seeing as how they recognized their fans, in just what might have been their most important night of their lives. Even though they"re largely popular ...

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I believe the concept of Apollo and Dionysus can be best described in a social sense. Apollo would be the part of a person that wants to spend the night alone in his or her apartment curled up next to a fire listening to some Beethoven or Brahms while reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Dionysus on the other hand is the ... in the labeling of one or the other. There is a great distinction in Apollonian music and Dionysian music. For instance an Apollonian scale would be one with easy to remember notes and order. When heard many times the Apollonian scale can become exceedingly predictable and s...

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