Music Faculty Concert

Last Friday I went to the Fortieth Anniversary Concert in the Conference Center. My favorite piece was La Mento. The music was very upbeat and exciting with a jazzy guitar. A pulsatile beat was made from the drums. The guitar played the melody while the piano played the harmony. The motion of the melody was conjunct motion. Unlike many rock concerts were musicians focus on the crowd, the performers of the night seemed very concentrated on their instruments as if the crowd was not event there. The audience was very engaged in the music and very courteous of the musicians. It was almost as if I was at a movie theater with people making sure not to distract from the film. The atmosphere of the conference center was very relaxing and cool. Even in the back rows I was able to see every movement and hear every note the musicians played. The pieces of the first musicians seemed to switch from making a song feel much longer than it really was, to hectic violin playing that made everything feel as if it were happening at extremely fast speeds. The pieces from the next musicians was very fast pace and made time to go by much faster.