Blog 3

This is blog three and the topic is "An Evening of Latin Music" performed by the University of Texas at Dallas Music Faculty in celebration of the 40th anniversary at UT Dallas. I found the music concert to be overall wonderful and a great experience. The show was held around eight o'clock on Friday, January 29, 2010 at the Conference Center. I personally thought the time and place was chosen perfectly because it gave students time to prepare for the event with it being later in the day. I like the fact that it was in the conference center because you can just park in the student apartments or the parking lot across the way and not have a huge walk with it being cold outside that night. Though it was a bit cold outside the weather was okay because the concert was over before the weather could get to bad. With the setting of the concert being so great it lead to a full diverse house of students, teachers, and parents. You could tell that the audience love the concert because everyone applauded after each performance and knew the performers. The performers where faculty members dressed in all black and very skilled in there profession, might I add. There were both male and female performers; I noticed some of the performer were very into there music playing because you could observe them taping there feet while playing there instruments. The music played that evening was Latin music which I thought was pleasing to the ear. The Latin music sound fantastic with harmony. There was a chordophone, aerophones, and membranophone instruments being played by performers at the concert also. I enjoyed the part of the show entitled “How Insensitive and Lamento” because the beat was fast and you could dance to it if you like. My favorite part of the show was when the lady did a surprise number and song. The melody was great and lyric were easy to learn.