Giant song profile sheet

"Professor" Harold Hill is the main character of the play "The Music Man". He is a famous con artist known by the traveling salesmen. They talk about him all of the time. He goes to cities promising that he will teach the children music and form a band, but he doesn't do that at all. Once the uniforms and instruments are paid for, he leaves the city with the money before anyone can catch him. Harold Hill is one of those guys who can work well with the crowd. Well, he has to! He can sway a crowd at the snap of his fingers with his smooth talking. And if that doesn't work, then he can always woo the one woman who is usually against the whole idea, in this case, Marian Paroo the librarian. He can also seem to make any bad situation a very good one (for him of course). Take this example: on independence day, when the bad boy tommy shoots off a firecracker during the town meeting, professor hill hooks him up the with mayors daughter, sways that that new pool table caused this behavior and that making a band would fix all of this, and while the school board tries to get his credentials, he quickly gets them to form a barber shop quartet. But why did he avoid his credentials. Oh yeah, he doesn't have any. He was never a music teacher. To avoid this, he said he went to Gary Conservatory in his home town of Gary Indiana. he said the was the gold medalist class of '05, but they town wasnt even build till '06! Ho boy it looks like he is in trouble now. No he didnt get caught, he fell in love. We truely believe that he is now a normal guy who really likes Marian, until Charlie comes and tell marian he has a girl "every county in Illinois, and he's taken it from every one of them – and that's 102 counties!". Now we see the true side of him, until he actually does fall in love with Marian the librarian. And it ends with him being the good guy we all wanted him to be.

Here is a list of the main characters

Charlie Cowell (traveling salesman)

Professor Harold Hill (the music man)

Marcellus (old friend of harold)

Marian Parloo (the librarian)

Amaryllis (student of Marian)

Mrs. Parloo (mother of marian)

Winthrop (younger brother of marian)

Mayor Shinn (mayor of River City)

Eulalie Mackakiene Shinn (husband of mayor)

Tommy Djilles (boy from "wrong side of town")

Zaneeta (oldest daughter of the mayor)

The play starts of in a train car and its 1912. The car is in Iowa and traveling salesman are talking about the famous con artist "professor harold hill". He goes to towns promising them a band, but once they pay him for uniforms and instruments, he leaves with the money and they never find him. A man stands up and says "Nice talking to you, I might have to give Iowa a shot." As he grabs his suitcase, it clearly says Harold Hill on it. When he arrives to the city, he meets an old friend marcus. Marcus tells him about a new pool table they got. Well, harold hill tells the people of the town how "you've got trouble, right here in river city, and begins with t which rhymes with p which stands for pool." He lerans about the only woman who knows about music, marian the librarian and he tries to woo her. she ignores him. The next day (independence day)f, when the rowdy boy Tommy sets off a firecracker during the social, harold hill gets to work. He tells the town that a band could solve all of this. As he is about to leave, the ladies of the town warn him that marian is a bad woman and you shouldn't go after her. Harold Hill continues to hit on marian and she continues to ignore him. She learns about some evidence that could go against his credentials, but once she sees the excitement in her little brothers eyes about the new instruments coming to town, she tears up the book before anyone can see it.

The next day, Marian asks Harold that he hasnt taught the boys any of the notes and doesnt deem this important. why is that? he explains that he uses the think system and that you just need to think about the correct notes, then they will happen. That night, the school board tries to get harold's credentials, but he distracts them with a quartet, and slips away. Charlie Cowell comes in town to show the mayor the evidence against professor hill. Marian distracts him (kisses him) and makes him get on the train where he yells that Harold Hill has been with hundreds of women, and you are just like all of them. Harold comes by and tells her the untrue rumors he heard about her, and she believes that things charlie said must be untrue too. (HUGE, this is the part before my song!!!!) They agree to meet later that night on the footbridge. Marian tells him about how big of a difference he has made in her life. Then they sing til there was you. Marcellus interupts them and warns Harold to leave, but Harold says he can't just leave. Marian tells him that she knows he is a fraud, but she doesnt care, she loves him. The next day Charlie comes back and tells the evidence against Mr. Hill. Marian tries to tell the town that he has done exactly what he said he would do, but no one will listen. The constable cuff him, and lead him off to jail for the night. The next day, when they are trying to determine what to do with him, tommy (the drum major) leads the "marching band" of the town. Even thought they are horrible, the town loves it to death. It ends with Harold Hill and Marian embracing.

The End!

Black is the color of my true loves hair review

On December 10th, I had the "honor" of listening to Kaelen Baldwin sing the song "Black is the color of my true love's hair". Well where to begin. I guess the beginning. As soon as he walked on the stage, I knew he was nervous. He walked while he was slunched over and his bow was quick and his eyes were jumpy. I could tell this guy was nervous as can be, and it was affecting him in the negative life. Once he was ready to sing, he was clearly not properly aligned. He had his chest down, his hair down, and he kept moving his hair out of his eyes. He looked very scared on that stage as he started singing. He kept looking down in the uncomfortable way and his eye contact with the audience was not too good. Also, during the song I noticed his knee started shaking, and I think this could have been fixed by being more confident. All in all, I think we have learned a lesson. When it comes to music, you need to go big or go home. Don't sing timidly. If you sing confidently and wrong, you look better than correct and timid. So, go big or go home!

Cloudburst Review

For the fall choir concert, I had the fortune to listen the the Tennessee Tech Chorale. They were the best of the best when it came to singing. I saw on the program that they were going to sing Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre. Now, Eric Whitacre is my favorite composer, so at first I was ashamed. I didn't think that they could pull off this incredible hard work of music. But then they came on the stage. From the very beginning, they had a presence about them. They walked onto that stage like they were destined to sing in front of us at that very moment, and they were going to blow us away. They knew it, and thus the audience knew something great was about to happen. They started singing the song, and my heart just melted. People in the auditorium didn't know what was really going on because they were singing in spanish. The words wrapped around me and music soothed me as I listened to them do a wonderful job. But then, my favorite part of the song came up. It was the part when the storm comes and washes away all of the problems of the world and the world is born anew with a cloudburst. They turned off the lights in the auditorium and the they would flash on lights randomly to show lightning. They had percussionist play a bass drum, thunder sheet and some wind chimes to make it sound like the rain and thunder. The chorus would randomly snap their fingers as if the rain was falling on the sidewalk. It was the best song of the concert by far. They were just amazing when they sang. Their postures were great, you could see them relaxed, but confident when they sang. They kept their chests high, and their heads not so high. They just stood there and you knew they knew what they were doing. There was no fear in their eyes, and they looked like professionals (and sang like them too). All in all, I was simply blown away by our choir on that day.