The Jazz Concert
The concert was held on 5th May 2016 at the Catalina Jazz Club. The concert lasted for two hours, from 8.00 pm to 10.00 pm. This being my first attendance at such a big concert, the spectacular recitals by the solo guitarist Billy Dean really captured my attention just like it did to the jovial audience. The concert hall was packed by an audience dressed in their best evening attire. The majority of the audience appeared youthful. The performance stage background was illuminated with a mixture of bright colors and decorations. The background illumination systematically and frequently changed to different themes as each solo guitarist was on the stage. The audience and performer were generally excited, and you could see a smile on nearly every face.
Billy Dean did six compositions during the concert. In performing the piece, Mysterious Barricades, Billy Dean displayed prowess in a compound and straightforward tempo. His strategy of adopting repetition in the composition balanced the rhythm and melody. In my opinion, Billy Dean succeeded in appealing to his audience since the presentation of this composition awoke the excitement expected of him. Billy Dean’s performance had harmony in the compound and straightforward tempo. Two pieces in the second performance, In Germany Before the War and Mysterious Barricades, were well performed during the concert. The solo guitarist, Billy Dean, was outstanding, especially in balancing moderato to andante tempo before progressing to a more vigorous allegro tempo. Reflectively, Billy Dean perfectly introduced the andante tempo of the second piece, after which he suddenly ushered in a slow rhythm to create a harmonized piece.
The Hip Hop Concert
The concert was held on 3th May 2016 at the MazMaze Club with the Xzibit as the main artist performing his hip hop songs. The concert lasted for two hours, from 9.00 pm to 11.00 pm. The concert hall was packed by an audience dressed in their best evening attire. The majority of the audience appeared youthful hip hop lovers since most of them were dressed in hip hop attire. The performance stage background was illuminated with a mixture of bright colors and decorations with big speakers stationed at the corners. There was a deejay on the deck and background dancers to back up the performance of Xzibit.
Xzibit’s music contained the elements of syncopation in his characteristic opposition of authority or habit and instigating the audience. For instance, while performing the song “Enemies and Friends,” Xzibit displayed prowess in a compound and straightforward tempo in artistically criticizing ‘snitches.’ He adopts repetition in stating rules of friendship. Across the three hours concert, the rhythm and melody of Xzibit’s rap compositions moved people to like the information being relayed. He appealed to his audience, who somehow live within the culture displayed in his music. The arrangement of words in the songs emotionally relayed his appalling demonstration of the contemporary black community of the United States. The tone of the songs brought out the bottomless grief that he intended to put across. This example portrayed how emotion in a composition has a profound connection with the audience and can easily persuade them to like the music. For instance, in performing the song, Enemies and Friends, the crowd was wild and was rapping along to every word Xzibit pronounced.
Comparison
In my opinion, the jazz concert was better than the hip hop concert. The compositions I liked best were presented by Billy Dean. The compositions consisted of pieces such as Little Meggie, St. Louis Blues, Whale in the Sky, Goodbye, My Friend, and A Nice Place to Visit. The talented Billy Dean artistically fused the tempo and dynamics to create deep jazz music. Gradually, the tempo of the compositions increased and harmonized proficiency and controlled energy as the audience clapped on through the swings between moderate, allegro, and andante. The hypnotic quality of the fast beat perfectly suited the modern performance style of Billy Dean’s jazz composition. The musical instrument played during the performance was a guitar. Song after song, Billy Dean demonstrated emerging and entertaining performance styles in balancing the tempo variances. On the other hand, the hip hop concert was controlled by a deejay, and there were no musical instruments.
The performance I liked best were those presented by Billy Dean. The composition ability in the six masterpieces was nearly faultless. Although Billy had instances of misbalance between changing the tempo, which was a little off by a fraction of beats, it was understandable given that the context of the performance was live, and such errors could be noticed easily. On the stage, Billy appeared calm and striking, and I would judge him as a successful performer. For Billy’s live performance, he constantly engaged the fans through his solo performance with a guitar, which he appeared to have mastered very well. In the other concert, the stage was disorganized, with many fans constantly interrupting the performance of their favorite songs. Xzibit could not complete a single composition since there was no coordination between him and the deejay.
In the two concerts, I learned the importance of a mixture of form, rhythm, harmony, tempo, and melody to create a perfect piece. Coherently, the level of auditory components have different audience repertoire for sensory connection, commonly referred to as context modality, which the solo guitarists showed with little struggle. However, I preferred concert 1 over concert 2 because it was better organized with the real instrument, and I have a liking for Billy Dean.