The Medium

The Medium

The concert held by the faculty indicates the passion that our faculty has for music. The love that they have for music can be heard by their instruments. Watching a live concert is an experience that I will never forget. When listening to live music, it seems like the person playing the instrument is controlling the air all around them. The surroundings change, and your only focus is the instrument and the person playing it, almost as if you can see the music coming out of the instrument. The song touches the heart of every listener.

The play "The Medium," written by Gian Carlo Menotti, was directed by Kent Smith, which took place at the Studley Theatre. In the play The Medium, Madame Flora was played by Nancy Riess Freer, who plays the role of medium and the mother of Monica. Madame Flora helps people to communicate with their dead ones, but in reality, she cannot communicate with the ghosts. Caitlyn Barnes portrays as Monica, who is the daughter of Madame Flora, as well as the lover of Toby and imitates as a ghost with Toby. Toby's act was interpreted by Ian Brodsky, whom plays the role of the lover of Monica and the fake ghost for Madame Flora to fool the clients.

The concert is accompanied by the piano, it starts slow, quietly as we are hearing it but not listening to it and then its gets louder as you get near to the instrument. The pianist makes the listener pay attention to the music by adding dynamics to it. As soon as pianist slows down, the first act plays when Madame Flora clients enter. And before we know it we are on the boat of emotions and flowing toward it and being sucked in to the world of the music. In just three minutes the conductor and the owners of the instruments take us on a beautiful journey of the pitch, timbre and dynamics. When the clients ask Madame Flora to bring their kids to talk to them, the dynamics make Act 1 sound sad. Music plays an important role in influencing emotions. As the piano pitch goes low, I felt sad for the clients because there was so much pain and there is no one to feel their pain. The clients break into pieces and there is no one to hold them together, to stop them from breaking into million pieces. It is like you can hear and see them suffering, there's pain and they can't speak of it, which can be understood by music.

Listening and watching to the act was like living some else's life; like living a dream of someone else's pain. The concert has all three levels of music that, Aaron Copland wants us to listen to. It plays on "Sensuous,""expressive," or "Emotional," and "Musical Content" level. The concert has music and acts that we can listen to. Watching the act while listening to the piano brings out our emotions; it has music that we can emotionally relate ourselves too, and it also has "Musical Content level". Through the act we begin