Cultural Arts Report

By:Sriharsha

I attended a marching band competition in Fuquay-Varina.

Specifically, I watched Green level High schools show, “Into
the Quiet”. I watched it on Saturday, October 19. Their show
was about Beethoven. It had multiple famous pieces of music
written by Beethoven in it such as “ode to Joy”. There were a
lot of quiet, peaceful moments and there were also a lot of
big, loud moments. They performed so that the quiet parts
were very well balanced and stylistically, they were on point.
For example, when they performed a section of ode to joy,
they played it so it was a very smooth and gentle sound and
made it sound very graceful. When they played their loud
moment, it was a great contrast in sound going from a soft
sound to a loud, energetic sound. They did a very good job of
making the fast notes come out very clearly to the audience
and they did a great job of balancing with each other. Even
though the moment was loud, it was loud as an ensemble. I
couldn’t hear anyone sticking out. Everyone matched their
tone, pitch, and volume. At the end of their performance, they
did a good job of not losing energy and did well to drop down
to nothing at the ending. The percussion throughout the
performance added great effects to the winds throughout the
performance. All in all, I really enjoyed their performance.