Extra Credit Outside Cultural Event (10 points on quiz) - The Power and Discovery of Music

In the newly build Concert Hall, the UMBC Department of Music held a free Giving Thanks concert open to everyone. It was a concert performed by Trio des Alpes; the Trio is made up of three people, each playing a different instrument: clarinet, cello, and the piano. During the concert, the Trio is joined by UMBC faculties that used voice, clarinet, and the violin. The concert was different from concerts by celebrities or super stars; this concert was performed with solely the Trio and UMBC faculties, which means no other music or dances around the stage.

The concert started off with opera-like singing and music, which was boring to me and almost made me leave, but didn't because it was only the beginning. After the singing part, the Trio started to perform and that was when I discovered the power of music. The songs that the Trio played consisted of all different types of music: deep, high, fast, slow, sad, happy, etc. The music I liked the most when they play were the music with fast and happy melody, it relaxed my stresses and made me feel very peaceful and calm, which attracted me to stay for the concert. After watching each part of the concert, I learned something I never knew in my life before. I always knew we had to clap when people finishes performing, but what I didn't know for these type of concert is you had to keep clapping as the performers finishes, bows, and leaves, then the performers will come back out on the stage to bow again and the clapping would stop after the performers leave again. I never thought I could learn and discover such helpful things from just a concert, so it was definitely worth it to go to the concert.

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Extra Credit Outside Cultural Event (10 points for believe statement on TIB essay) - Art Moving with Time

            Tom Scott is an artist that created quality arts over 3000 thousand pieces in his art career. His art works can be traced back to the early 1950’s until today. Located at the UMBC Fine Arts Building, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, there holds a gallery of Scott’s art works from different times of his career life. Scott’s arts contain different style from century to century; his works are form from a wide range of materials, which are range from abstract to oil paint to recycle materials to three dimensions and more. All these can be seen in the gallery filled with Tom Scott’s work.

            The gallery contained arts by Scott from the 1950’s to the 2000’s. It was fascinated to see almost all types of style of art in just one place. Even though there is many of Scott’s art work from his career time, the section of art work that attracted me the most was the works of 1990s through 2000s section. That section of art works had a lot of today’s fashion styles, trends and creativity inserted in the art works. First, a section of arts in this time period were open, painted frames that can be stand alone or combined in different configurations. To me, they looked really cool because Scott made these works simple but stand out, and have these works to be able to stand alone and not just on the wall. The other part of the 1990s through 2000s section that caught my eyes was the three dimensional arts. In these works, Scott created physical layers in the art and used color difference with patterns and shapes to make the three dimension show and standout, which I found amazing creativity. 

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