Concert Report 1: Attend a concert of any genre and write about your experience. Your approach should be entirely “subjective”. I would prefer concerts to represent different genres (rock, jazz, folk, classical solo, orchestral, band, opera, modernism, etc.). This is a “personal” perspective on your own subjective experience at the various musical events you choose to write about. Not all events are equal, and some events may provide more capacity for written exploration than others. As stated above the content should be “subjective”. The intent is to reflect your individual experience only and be able to voice that experience in a somewhat collegiate but honest manner.

Sometimes a musical experience affects us emotionally, sometimes visually. It would not be improper to write a short story elected upon the experience….perhaps one that has absolutely nothing to do specifically with the music itself, but visual imagery “inspired” by the music. This would also be acceptable.

Concert Report 2: Same thing as concert report 1

Write about what you saw/heard. What did you imagine while listening to the music?

You can watch a past concert that happened already online but make sure it happened in September-December 5 of 2022. Write about your personal experience, and write as if you went to the concert in person.

Only one of these concert reports can be a tiny desk concert.

Concert Report 3: If you elect to attend a third concert then this will be the same format as the previous two. See the requirements for Concert Reports 1 and 2.

For this assignment you have the OPTION of either attending and writing up a third concert report, OR perform a similar listening assignment from recordings available online.

If you are electing to do the listening assignment:

Listen to a complete recording of a major classical work and write a report about it (the same as if you attended a concert.) This report should be no longer than the concert reports (so roughly up to two page – double-spaced.) Some recommended examples are listed below (be sure to include all movements):

Symphonies

Beethoven, Symphony No. 9

Beethoven, Symphony No. 3

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6

Stravinsky, The Firebird, or Rite of Spring

Brahms, Symphony No. 1

Brahms, Symphony No. 4

Dvorak, New World Symphony

Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique

Mahler, Symphony No. 9

Format for Concert Reports: double-spaced, 12pt font