{"id":3597,"date":"2023-11-15T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:01:48","slug":"celebrating-women-composers-at-the-rhhs-prism-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/celebrating-women-composers-at-the-rhhs-prism-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women Composers at the RHHS Prism Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>By Lauren Shin, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Each year during the fall, the River Hill Music Department holds a prism concert in the school auditorium. Just as prisms break light into its component colors, a prism concert separates different music ensembles into its smaller groups to display various aspects of music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This year, the concert was held on Saturday, November 4th. The overarching theme was representing women in music- more specifically, recognizing women composers. Each of the River Hill music groups performed a piece by various composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Junior Olivia Shim, a clarinet player in the River Hill Wind Ensemble, shared her anticipation before the concert, stating that she was \u201cexcited because this year\u2019s musical selection is much better than last year\u2019s. I like how the rhythms are fun, especially for the clarinet part.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Wind Ensemble performed Fuzion by Carol Brittin Chambers, a very adventurous composition for wind and percussion instruments, full of diverse rhythms. Meanwhile, Marching Band took an interactive approach to perform Toxic by Britney Spears down in the audience aisles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">River Hill Orchestra also performed selections from contemporary women composers. The Advanced String Orchestra played \u201cStarburst\u201d by Jessie Montgomery, a uniquely modern arrangement displaying the vibrant aspects of each instrument in the string family through colorful rhythms and dissonance in chords. Senior Ella Jiao, a violinist, commented that she \u201cdidn\u2019t particularly like Starburst at first because it\u2019s not melodious like other traditional pieces, but I sort of like it now. It\u2019s very fun to play and everything sort of fell into place and made sense after a while.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">River Hill Guitar represented three female artists, including Adele and SnailMail by playing Rolling in the Deep, La Bamba, and Thinning, respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Senior Guitarist Bennett Vitek has been a part of the River Hill Prism Concert for 3 years now and shared that \u201cthis one was the most memorable because not only is it the last prism concert I\u2019ll ever perform at, but it\u2019s also been fun learning unconventional pieces by under-recognized women composers.\u201d He describes Thinning as a very moody and emotional piece. \u201cThe guitar distortion also makes it very powerful but the lyrics themselves make it very sorrowful at the same time,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Overall, this year\u2019s successful Prism concert was able to touch on the hearts of the audience and empower women in the music industry through the River Hill Music Department\u2019s various performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Shin, Staff Writer Each year during the fall, the River Hill Music Department holds a prism concert in the school auditorium. Just as prisms break light into its component colors, a prism concert separates different music ensembles into its smaller groups to display various aspects of music.&nbsp; This year, the concert was held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[532,531,815,286,281,533,814,269,211,285],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}