Blog Post 3: Music Faculty Concert

After attending the 40th annual music faculty concert on the coldest night we've had in a while, I headed out into the chilly night air with an ear-full of Latin music. The venue was full of discarded coats and jackets from the audience that filled the packed auditorium. The song I'm writing over is called How Insensitive by Antonio Carlos Sobim. The performers played piano, electric guitar, bass and drums. As the chatter slowly quieted down from the packed audience during setup for these songs, the pianist, Kelly Durbin started playing a solo. With many ornaments including trills and riffs. The guitar completes some of the piano's phrases and this leads off into a jazzy duet by the piano and electric guitar with the guitar part including a lot of legato articulation. The bass and bass drum kept a steady beat with hi-hat notes on the off beats. The middle gets very loud with a full band crescendo. The piano starts playing shorter notes and then the piece ends with a full band decrescendo and the guitar quietly fading. The audience cheers.