CONCERT ATTENDANCE OBSERVATION AND CRITIQUE

DESCRIPTIVE
1. Write down the name of the performance, performers, venue, place, date, time.
2. Write your observations of the number of performers, biographic details of the performer(s) as per the program, performance notes on the repertoire and observations on the locale, acoustics, logistics, setup.

ANALYTIC
1. Analyze the piece(s) you heard as to melody, form, style, harmony, genre and texture.
2. Compare and contrast this performance to your own performance style and ability OR to the performance style and ability of your performance group at your school (band, chorus).
3. Identify connections and make comparisons of your observations at this concert and all SIX the themes identified by Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind.

REFLECTIVE
1. Reflect on how LISTENING can make us better performers.
2. Reflect on how LISTENING can make us better teachers.
3. Now that you have heard this performance, think about how it alters your thinking about ONE aspect of your teaching?
4. Now that you have thought about how one aspect of your teaching might be influenced by what you heard in the performance, how does this connect to one (or more) of the themes in the Pink text?
5. Now that you have answered questions 1 through 5, look back at those responses and with those responses in mind put together a listening guide of 20 questions that your performance group(s) (band or chorus) could use if they should go to this concert.