Engaging the Concert Audience

A Musician's Guide to Interactive Performance-Learn to engage excite captivate and expand your audience! These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper more interactive level. As you do the concert experience will become more meaningful and the bond between you and your audience will grow. Whether you are performing music for an audience teaching a group of students leading an ensemble or just speaking publicly your success as a performing musician directly depends on your ability to connect. Featuring real-life examples and eight actual concert transcripts from several different genres and performance settings this text gives you the tools you need to deepend yourimpact build an enduring relationship with your fans and sustain a long-term musical career. You will learn to: design concerts that capture and maintain your audience's atention · develop an engaging stage presence · create meaningful activities for your audience that increase their enjoyment and understanding of your material · communicate as an amabassador across cultures and languages · become more engaging interactive educational and memorable.

Encourage your band to explore alternative constructs in musical composition. A wide spectrum of interesting and divergent ideas permeate this engaging new work for concert band. Addressing the visual realm through the auditorysense opens up uncharted vistas which James Curnow masterfully explores much to the enjoyment of the audience and the players alike. Team up with the art teacher for some cross-curricular work as well as imaginative ideas forthe use of visuals for your concert. If you are looking for something different here it is!

Grade 1.5 - Score and Parts-Enjoyable counterpoint and snippets of well-known carols along with delightful original material will make this engaging and humorous arrangement a memorable addition to your winter concert. Tick-tock; wind it up; and let thealarm ring! Your band and your audience will love this catchy new Christmas piece. Dur: 2:15

Treat your students to this Latin-flavored piece that uses only five notes! Geared toward the needs of developing musicians Samba La Bamba is skillfully scored and is a great tool for teaching basic rhythms. Percussionists will also get a chance to strut their stuff with a wealth of engaging material — students and audiences will love it!

The duets in Ten Concert Pieces for Classic Guitar Duo are written in different musical styles and varying degrees of difficulty. In addition to several pieces emulating the Baroque and Classical periods the collectionincludes compositions inspired by the bossa nova jazz blues and even the musical cross-pollination of the stride piano style. Ideal for recital concert or festival settings audiences as well as intermediate to moderatelyadvanced guitarists will enjoy the timeless international flavor of these engaging original compositions. Written in standard notation only.