Music Performance Review

The music students assembled and put together a gig for the performing arts students to come and watch. As I was walking in, I could see how small the room was and jam-packed it would be because there were a lot of students coming to see the music students perform their songs. There was a massive argument between some performers before the show even began, the argument resulted in in one of the girls crying which I thought left a very bad impression and it was unprofessional. There was a lot of shouting over each other and I didn’t like the way they were speaking to each other, it was very rude and I think that should’ve be resolved in a friendly and respectful manner. I think that making someone upset especially before they’re about to go on stage is quite hurtful because it causes the performer to lose confidence and give up on the gig because they aren’t in a good mood to play an instrument or sing.

After everyone settled down, the gig went on and as performers in the year 2 level 2 and some of the year 2 level 3 went on stage and performed their song I could sense a vibe of competition between each other. After a student introduced the song that her group was going to be playing, someone in the audience respectfully asked if she could repeat herself as she kept mumbling the words and it wasn’t clear for the audience to hear; she replied to the audience member by giving a lot of attitude which I was quite shocked by because we’re here to support her and watch her performance. I think that reacting like that really lets the whole group down.

Some of the songs that were sung were really catchy and fun to sing to. They were all very talented as some played an instrument whilst others sang or they did both which was fun to see how passionate they are about music.

At one point in time, I felt like I should just leave because the switch-overs of the next groups took extremely long leaving the audience standing around for too long. The music students were wasting a lot of valuable time talking over who goes next instead of just following and remembering their ques. That would have made it a lot easier for them.

Overall, I felt that some groups delivered a great performance and I enjoyed listening to some of the songs they sung and I was able to sing along because I knew the words. However, I also felt as if they weren’t taking it seriously which was quite disappointing.