Music Appreciation
HUM 1113
First Concert Review
Spring Choir Concert 2016 The Spring Choir Concert was take place in Bruce Owen Theater, Oklahoma City Community College on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 7:00 pm. Ronald Staton was a conductor and his partner Lisa Barsaleau, and accompanist. I heard about the concert a day before it was performed from my friend who takes the other music class. I was so exciting because this was the first concert I had attended. After finishing my classes, I and my friend went to Braum and bought some food. This was at 4pm, we had 3 more hours left. Then we headed back to school and looked for the seat in the Visual and Performing Art Center, hearing someone practiced and prepared for the show while waiting. …show more content…
I asked my friends, but she did not know, too. However, at that time I focus on many people who used the phone to take pictures in front of me and there was someone tried to stand up to make a video. I had a little frustrated because at the beginning, we all knew the rule of thumb that we were not allowed to use to phone or any devices inside this room, and we all needed to turn off the phone. I did not know who he is, but he looked like a staff, went back and forth to reminder audience to do not use the phone. I counted there were five cases like …show more content…
I am not sure but I remember I knew a film was named exactly like that. I also heard “The Phantom of Opera” in this day, arranged by Ed Lojeski. This was the first exposure to it. I never saw any stage musical, nor read the book before. That was very interesting. This piece was first opening as the play of an orphan our conductor of this show- Ronald Staton. At first, we were not sure about the instrument that he used, just know that it was the keyboard because we had hardly saw it. Then after we heard the voice, we pretty sure that it was the organ. The play of the organ at the beginning of this piece dominated the show. The sudden switch of the instrumentations from a pure orchestra flavor like an organ to the more modern rock sound, piano, made the show greater than ever. This was the metaphor the power of the king and also the worried to his love (I think