Even the audience at this concert was a lot more responding to what the musicians were doing on stage, they actually wanted to really clap hard to show that they liked the music. ... All the horns were on the right side of the stage while the rest of the instruments were on the left part. ... A few of the horn players in the front played with quit exuberance, they were really into what they were playing. ... As well there was another performer with a pony tail that played very well, not only did he play well but he was also played two different instruments and getting a lot of solo playing tim...

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The clarinet was the glorified instrument played Paul Votapek and in conjunction with the clarinet on stage was a piano played by Michael Baron. Although there were only two instruments being played on stage both musicians performed exceptionally producing an orchestral type sound. I chose a seat directly in front the stage a couple rows from the first. I had a clear view of the musicians, the stage, and the instruments. ...

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As soon as the music started, lights flashed out of control and the crowd swarmed towards the stage. Grabbing my friend's hand, I began pushing my way through the crowd towards the front of the stage. ... The coliseum was black but the stage lights seem to fill the floor with different colors of the spectrum. ... The air was smokey and hot from the explosions on-stage. ...

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Both performers dressed formally in all black attire and played on center stage blissfully. ... In this set, everyone was sitting down in a chair, Lindsey with the violin to his neck sat to the left side of center, while Wexler, with the cello in front of him, legs bracing the sides of his instrument, sat to the right side of center. ... This movement was very sad and made me think that someone was being led to their death in front of a firing squad. ... Each performer played the third movement vivace on stage. ...

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The venue was the perfect place for the concert, small and intimate with a seating capacity for eighty-five ticket holders and a stage that was only large enough to accommodate the instrumentalists, their instruments and their equipment. Moreover, the concert hall is designed to provide equally-distributed sound from the front row to the back of the theater. ... A couple members were even talking to each other while not singing, which showed poor stage manner. ...

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The concert began promptly at 3pm, when the conductor Nicholas McGegan entered the stage with the full theater clapping, along all the members of the orchestra. ... Two were from members of the orchestra, and one was from a man that was sitting about 3 rows in front of me, in the balcony. ... For the second piece, Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, "Linz", the piano had been placed sideways in front of the orchestra. ...

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After the conductor came on stage, he turned around and bowed. ... It was very formal, professional and had a huge impact on me that I didn't realize until after I bought the keyboard and sat down in front of it. ...

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Act I The story begins in the square just outside the cigarette factory in front of the guardhouse. ... Act IV Back to the city of Seville in front of the bull arena where Escamillo is ready to fight the bulls. ... Men waiting around for women to flirt and harass them, and the ultimate sight of seeing a woman stabbed to death on stage. ...

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He awoke one morning to read on the front page of Pravda a review condemning him as an unpatriotic intellectual whose work endangered and corrupted the spirit of the soviet people. ... And the action on stage that justified the murder of a tyrant was too graphic for his taste. ... Two days later the front page of Pravda featured, the now infamous review, condemning the opera and it's composer. ...

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As with film, television, and other primarily visual media, sound and music are often the forgotten elements in video game design. That may be because sound affects humans more subtly than splashy visuals. In fact, often times the mark of superior sound design is that one does not consciously noti...

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