Description
Concert Review #1
You will attend a concert in person. You will then write a review of that concert. (These are just instructions from the teacher, please scroll down below and see the concert list, we will be pretending like you went in person)
Find in person concerts: (scroll all the way below)
Both Concerts MUST Be “Formal”
No stadium/festival concerts or concerts featuring pop artists (EDM, pop rock, hip hop, modern country, etc). Music should reflect the course’s content.
Appropriate genres include:
traditional jazz
opera
- symphony orchestra
- chamber music (like a string quartet or piano recital)
- “world” music (i.e. Japanese classical, Indonesian gamelan, etc), experimental, etc.
- Pop, rock, hip hop, reggae, and other popular style concerts, and outdoor, cafe/restaurant performances are NOT acceptable (with the exception of pop concerts on the Cuyamaca College Performing Arts Concert Series).
- IN PERSON CONCERTS MUST BE PRE-APPROVED BY THE INSTRUCTOR! Please allow 7 days for approval to be granted.
- THE WRITTEN REVIEW
1. Provide 1-2 paragraphs describing the concert you attended and the music performed in formal, academic language.
2. Give TITLES of pieces/songs and GENRE or type of music played (jazz, baroque, opera, romantic, etc).
3. Give a brief HISTORY of the music played.
4. What instruments were played?
5. Write about the performers themselves: where are they from, what is their background, what do they play?
6. What is your own response to the performance and the music? Like it? Love it or Hate it? Why?
7. Write about the substance of the performance and the music and your response to it ONLY. (I don’t need to know what you had for dinner or how traffic was getting to the venue.)
8. Upload your essay in PDF or DOC(X) format ONLY! You can receive a zero if I cannot read your essay.
9. Upload your PROOF of attendance. Acceptable proof: selfie at the concert with program or selfie with your ticket at the venue. You may paste these pics into your review or upload them separately. Please DO NOT send video! The files are too big.
CONCERTS:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! There are performances at Cuyamaca College – and you can earn extra credit for attending concerts at our school. Those concerts range in cost from FREE-$5 for students generally. ALL concerts at Cuyamaca College are acceptable for your review!
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San Diego Symphony Student Concerts ($5-10)
Students with current ID may enjoy any San Diego Symphony concert
Links to an external site.for just $10. Please see SD Symphony website for details.
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SDSU Concerts ($10)
World Music, Jazz and grad student recitals are all great ways to meet the concert review requirement!
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USD Concerts (mostly FREE)
Here’s a link to the USD Music Performance Calendar.
Links to an external site. They may add more as the semester progresses.
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UCSD (student concerts FREE; others vary)
Here’s the link to UCSD’s performance calendar
Links to an external site.. There are many, MANY student concerts at UCSD of very high quality that would be totally FREE so I recommend signing up for their newsletter and keeping an eye on the SD Reader for announcements.
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La Jolla Music Society
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SD Reader
Here’s a link to their events calendar
Links to an external site.– you will have to filter and dig for more info on your own but there’s lots of stuff out there.
