Glitter And Be Gay From Candide Concert Analysis

The second musical piece in the concert was Leonard Bernstein’s Glitter and Be Gay from Candide (1956), which featured soprano from SUNY Cortland graduate, Sarah Shairman. The musical piece opened with an introduction from the violin section of the orchestra accompanied with the powerful voice of Sarah Shaiman. Together the two forces produce the emotion of sadness the beginning of the song is depicting. When the soprano has a change of emotion, the tempo and pitch change with the instruments and the music becomes much more rhythmically tuned than previously in the song which compliments the rhythm and bouncing quality Sarah Shaiman’s singing technique during the remainder of this musical performance which in my opinion is the best musically performed piece from the entire concert. The audience was the most responsive to this musical piece than any other in the concert, hearing many bursts of admiration and whispers that praised Sarah Shaiman’s vocal style. Additionally the timing and pace of this performance was orchestrated flawlessly, especially with the constant changing and rising tempo throughout the song. This rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s Glitter and Gay was truly impressive. The next musical number that was performed was Oskar

At the center of the music-culture mode, music projects an Affective Experience, or the emotional impact the music has on one. All of the songs featured within The Performing Arts Department’s concert, provided a large amount of affective experience throughout the entire concert. Right from song one, not only I but the majority of the audience had found themselves taping their fingers to the beat of the orchestra, or nodding their heads simultaneously with the music being performed. Every song captured this quality in it’s audience in someway or another, while I found