Afternoon concert series lends its stage to Brahmas

The Afternoon Concert Series took a new direction with the ‘Student Concert’ Thursday, in the Music Department in room 3400.

Sandra Saad highlighted the concert with a strong rendition of “Revenge.”

She said after the concert that she was just in character and didn’t have any grudges that motivated her performance.

Carl Jacobs kicked off the concert by singing, “Sing Like You Like to Sing, for God is the Simplest of All.” His soft, melodic, measured voice rendered “Simple Song” in prasie of the Almighty.

We were also treated to the saxophone gymnastics of Bruce Salyer. His quick work of the sax came out in flowery notes that moved up and down the octaves, perfuming the hall. The music hit you in waves with slight pauses while he caught his breath.

There was something special about how Deanna Tyndall sang the word “love”. She sang “Power of Love” by Candy DeRouge and Gunther Mende.

Pianist Frank Garvey was very smooth on his piano, resulting in a cool classical take of the song.

Organizer Jim Bergman said he was pleased with the performance and didn’t want to pick any favorites.

Next Thursday at 1 p.m. we will be treated to Kanae Matsumoto’s free piano concert at Music 3400.

Pierce student Jennifer Rivera liked Alisa Galper’s voice and Isaac Gome’s guitar in “Ain’t No Sunshine.” She said, “They combined together so good.”

Jessica likes to sing hip-hop and rap but those popular styles haven’t been presented at Pierce.

Alisa sang with a perfect, soft voice that you’ll never hear from recorded music.

Isaac’s guitar performance grew as the song progressed and reached its peak with a moving soliquie.

The crowd was very pleased and cheered loudly afterwards.

David Durrani sang “New Perspective.” He started of with the lyrics,“I feel the salty waves come in”, he continued with, “They’ll never win.”

The song sank into a silly love song while he played his raspy sounding guitar.

The final performance of classical music had some high points.

Pricilla Schneider played her piano with “The Force.”

Mavy Keating was uplifting with her violin. Nancy Perillo started off slow but quickly entered into harmony and the trio sounded great.

Many of the students in the crowd were like Sheeva Kish, a 19-year- old Behavioral Science student. She is required to attend all the concerts for her Music class. Last week’s performance of Turkish folk music, “Steal the Bridge” was calming to her. Sheeva’s favorite performer is soulful pop singer Adele.

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