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. ... The instruments in the first group included bass, drums, conga, trumpet, alto saxophone, shaker and vibraslap. They performed two fast tempo songs for drums and percussion, and each instrumentalist was given the opportunity to hold a solo as well as improvise. ... The form of both songs was also similar to that of the first performing group; each instrumen...

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The orchestra consisted of what I expected, containing many violinists, violists and cellists as well as a number of brass and percussion players. ... Before the performance began, each performer tuned his or her instrument, together with the entire orchestra. ...

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