It's no secret that in the world of music there is always competition. But, despite this, there are still people who have an interest in organizing concerts and music festivals. And if you also sometimes thought about how to make a concert, then it will not be superfluous for you to familiarize yourself with a simple scheme for organizing concerts for beginners.

To get started you will need:

• No budget
• Knowledge local groups or contacts through which you can invite stars
• Friends willing to offer help
• Sociability, without it nothing
• The designer who will be busy with the artwork
• Computer with internet access

Instructions for organizing a concert

• Before organizing a concert, you need to do a little analysis music venues and commands. To do this, you will need a computer with Internet access, thanks to which you can go to specialized sites where you will learn a lot of information about groups and even find contacts to contact them.
• It is necessary to think carefully about the genre of the concert itself, and which venues will be more relevant for it, because the organization of concerts of stars has a completely different focus.
• Decide on the teams that will directly perform at your event. Prepare a list of teams that are most interested and write them an offer letter asking them to perform at your concert.
• Further, when you already have a list of bands and some venues for performing, you need to decide on the date of the concert. Weekends are considered the most best time for absolutely any concert.
• Simply indispensable for the organization of any concert are promotional materials. These include flyers, posters, posters, etc. And just the designer will help to develop them, because who can know better how to make a concert poster. You should make sure that you give the designer accurate information about the teams, dates, name and location of your event.
• The bands that will participate in the concert can also help you. It's enough to just give them a certain number of tickets for resale, naturally offer them a percentage of the tickets sold. This will help attract as many people as possible to the event.
• Activities should be promoted as actively as possible, using posters and a variety of leaflets. They can be given out to musicians, who in turn will distribute them to their friends and fans. Also, don't forget to put up a poster at the venue of the concert itself.

Important points for organizing concerts

Security is perhaps the most important point in organizing concerts. That is why all the thoughts of the organizers about how to properly organize a concert should first of all be directed to organizing all the necessary security measures for this event. And all because holding any kind of mass events carries a certain hidden threat, because there is a very large amount of equipment at the concert, which makes you think at least about fire protection.

In addition, even decorations are dangerous, because if their fastenings are not of high quality, then they can collapse at any moment, which can subsequently harm the guests themselves. Often, in the productions of their concerts, the organizers use fiery and light shows which require more caution and compliance with special safety rules.

Group concert organization

If you are thinking about how to organize a group concert, then you should know two main points that concert visitors do not know, but you, as the organizer, must know.

• The first is the fee, namely, how much the work of this or that group on stage will cost you.
• The second is the rider, or in simple words technical and living conditions. Usually it depends on the popularity of the team.

Classification of performing groups

• Widespread popularity in wide circles. Groups of this kind collect stadiums, their fees are very high, the conditions of the rider are almost impossible, but they will undoubtedly gather a full hall, from babies to pensioners.
• Widespread popularity in narrow circles. It's basically successful groups, which work in any style other than POP. Their fees are usually quite acceptable, and the riders include several points.
• Narrow popularity in wide circles. They have less success than the groups from the first point, however, their fees are higher than those of the groups from the second point, and the riders are painted on several sheets.
• Narrow popularity in narrow circles. Almost no one knows about them, although they probably have two released albums and one video clip in their piggy bank, which was shown a couple of times on music channels.

And if you are thinking about how to organize a concert with the participation of groups, then first you should use the services of groups that are widely popular in narrow circles. And if the event looks like a fest or session, then groups that have a narrow popularity in narrow circles will do.

Of course, so that your event does not consist of mistakes and shortcomings, it is better to turn to trusted organizers - professionals in their field. The cost of organizing a concert may not reach the mark of $ 1,000, or may exceed a million, so before starting work on organizing a holiday, you will need to decide from the very beginning on the amount of money that you are willing to spend.

If you are seriously interested in a career as a musician, you will have to perform live. It is useful to keep track of information in local media to know in advance the places where you can perform.
Often, especially at first, you will have to perform in combined concerts with other bands. Sometimes such concerts involve 3-5 teams per evening, and young musicians have to perform in the most extreme conditions: to warm up the "stars", often without a sound check and normal tuning.
But in order to get somewhere without it, there is no way. Everything notable bands started with something. And there is nothing shameful in this, playing for someone as an opening act. After all, your goal is to become famous. Therefore, any performance is your chance for good luck.

Be demanding of yourself

Try to be yourself the best group from the speakers. How to do it? Very simple. If you have seen the performances of the bands with which you are going to play, then you already imagine their style, repertoire, manner of being on stage. You know their strengths and weaknesses, and you can design your presentation to look good against their background.
If you don't know the bands you're playing with, a little reconnaissance work will be needed. Find and listen to their recordings, talk to people who have seen their performances, to the musicians themselves. Analyze the information received: what they do poorly, you should do well; what they do well, you should do even better. They are your competitors. But you can’t go into conflict with them and arrange sabotage for them. Win in a worthy way. "Only those who are not smart choose the path of war!" Perhaps you personally will play in one of these groups tomorrow, or one of them will play in yours.

At first, to make yourself known, you will have to speak for free. Don't overdo it: if you perform for free too often, it will be difficult for you to get concert organizers to pay you later. You can make two programs - one for free concerts, the other is for paid ones. If your group is too big or loud for some kind of concert, you can perform in a reduced line-up (soloist + guitarist, soloist + keyboardist), or under the "minus one" soundtrack. An "intermediate" option is also possible - the phonogram of the rhythm section is recorded (bass + drums), the rest of the musicians play "live" (this is how V. Syutkin sometimes works.)

Plan concerts in advance:

• Seek every opportunity to speak;
• Prepare in advance for a conversation with the organizers of the concerts. You will have to convince them to include your group in the program.
• Prepare demo materials for the organizers: a cassette (CD), graphic materials, video recordings of your performances (we told you how to compose them last time). Do not send materials by mail, give them in person. Usually a person listens to music for only 20-30 seconds, and immediately begins to express his opinion. If you are nearby, you may be asked to speak about your group.
• Attach a photo of the band, a press release, a list of songs that you plan to perform to the demo.
  (but not all of your songs, leave something in reserve)
• Feel free to promote yourself, mention all your latest accomplishments
• Try to find an energetic person for the role of administrator (manager). In the US and Europe, the group manager usually receives 10-15 percent of the income, although there are exceptions (manager The Beatles Brian Epstein received 25 percent of ALL the group's income, i.e. more than any of the Beatles)

Construction of the concert

• If you have never performed on stage before, here are some tips for you:
• We can recommend the following order: performance 45-50 minutes, break 10-15 minutes; or after 1.5 hours a break for 30 minutes. But if the audience in the hall is dancing, try to play non-stop for as long as you have the strength.
• In club concerts there can be long pauses (30-40 minutes each) after 3-4 hours of performances (i.e. after 3-4 sections of 45-50 minutes each with pauses of 10-15 minutes, respectively). If you are playing at a wedding, there will inevitably be pauses during the performance. If somewhere you are offered to speak for 2 hours, be prepared to speak for 2.5 hours.

Be specific

• Prepare the program in advance according to the time you have. If you are given 1 hour, the program should last 1 hour. If you are performing in a group concert, keep your performance short but memorable.
• Don't waste time between songs. 15 seconds of pause will seem like an eternity to listeners. 5 seconds is a normal pause. If the pause lasts up to 2 minutes, then you are disorganized and not ready to perform live. Prepare a list of songs in advance and follow it.
• Before the concert, set up and check the instruments and equipment.
• Do not allow yourself and your musicians to consume alcohol and drugs before the concert. It seems to some that this allows them to be more relaxed on stage, but the view from the audience says otherwise.
• Keep drinks and lighted cigarettes away from equipment and tools.
• It's important to remember that each of your concerts is a chance to get a few more fans.
• Never turn against yourself the audience and the organizers of the concert. An angry audience may start throwing bottles and chairs onto the stage, this will damage your equipment and injure you. If, thanks to you, the audience makes a riot in the hall, be sure: you will no longer have to perform in this hall.
• If possible, walk among the crowd after the concert and listen to what they say about you.
• Never let anyone in the audience, especially drunks, get on stage! - they can break something they can say something into the microphone that will turn the audience or the concert organizers against you, they can injure themselves or you.
• If performing outdoors, ask the organizers to provide a canopy or roof over the stage. This will protect you and your equipment from overheating and rain.
• Don't get irritated over little things while performing. You can never foresee everything in advance. There will always be something unexpected. Have backup cables, guitar strings, a screwdriver, electrical tape, tape in stock.
• Be positive before the performance.
• Don't fight each other on stage. Discuss everything after the concert.

In addition to these quite obvious questions, there are a number of other points that even famous musicians with solid concert experience.

Musicians often have to perform in places that are not specially adapted for this, in conditions that are far from ideal. You have to see that the musicians are sitting in a dark corner, the audience is indifferently hanging around the hall, the TV is muttering nearby. If you do not force the public to pay attention to you, you can put an end to your career.
If you don't get people to look at you, you certainly won't get them to listen to you. You should be clearly visible from all points of the hall, and no less well heard. Before the performance, ask yourself questions: can you remove or turn the chairs, standing with their backs to the stage? Can you see the stage from the bar? Can TVs be turned off? Can you sit on the stage or is it necessary to stand so that you can be clearly seen from everywhere?
At the beginning of the speech, focus your attention on the people sitting at the tables closest to you. If they are interested in your performance, their condition will gradually be transferred to the rest of the audience. Perhaps at first you will feel some kind of rejection, a lack of contact with the audience. You will have to show tact and endurance to get positive feedback.

Lighting

Many musicians are too picky about it. They prefer to play in the twilight: the light hits the eyes, the lamps are too bright, they are hot. It's all like that. Play in the dark The best way be invisible to the public. Many halls and clubs do not have adequate stage lighting, so you should take care of it in advance. In addition, often the capabilities of stationary lighting devices do not correspond to your plan. Therefore, it is worth considering your own lighting equipment.
An important issue for any performer is feedback from the audience. Execution in twilight reduces the possibilities feedback. How is this song perceived? How does the audience react to certain elements of the concert? To your verbal dialogue with the audience and your comments on the songs? Twilight, sluggish performance will make people bored, talking among themselves, changing seats and leaving the hall. If you receive a percentage of the tickets sold, the concert organizers will not be happy with you.
If you are experienced musicians with a hit repertoire, this does not mean that your performance will be a success.

To increase your chances of success, you need the following:

• Make a memorable introduction. Someone uses outlandish costumes, someone - theatrical action. Come up with something original but relevant to your musical material. You need to capture the attention of the audience from the very first minutes. For example, Oleg Skrypka from the Vopli Vidoplyasov group prefaces each song with funny rhymes on surzhik, Aria arranges fireworks, Hummingbirds invent intricate robes, and Armen Grigoryan from the Crematorium repeatedly burned his famous black hat.
• Dress appropriately. Clothes are the most easy way stand out from the crowd, right?
• Engage the audience with conversations - who are you, where are you from, where did you perform, your hobbies, etc. People should be interested in you enough to want to talk to you after the concert.
• Make a list of songs ahead of time and stick to it during your performance. Consider changing between fast and slow songs, original material and cover versions, etc.
• Your speech, comments between songs should be literate and varied. Vary the pace of speech and tone of voice. Learn from people who often perform from the stage. Think over your speech in advance. Write it down on paper and study it. It will be better than clumsy attempts to improvise from the stage.
• Make your presentation varied. Sing a capella (without accompaniment), acoustic ballads (with the main electric repertoire), use parodies of famous hits.
• Mobilize your sense of humor. Sing funny songs (at least at the end of the program), tell jokes and funny stories. People came to rest!

  Scenario of the concert for parents "The Magical World of Childhood"

  Do not burden them with philosophical questions.

• Avoid pauses. Tuning guitars, meetings on stage - a great temptation for the audience to go smoke and not come back. Make your performance "seamless", non-stop.
• Move, use all possible space. Make the audience turn their heads.
• Make the audience participate in the performance - sing along, clap their hands, dance.
• The viewer should not see that it is difficult for you on stage, that some numbers are difficult for you. In the eyes of the audience, you should do everything with pleasure for yourself.
• Use video effects (slides, film projections, etc.) A person receives 80 percent of information through sight. You may not be able to create a show that equals Pink Floyd in terms of entertainment, but what prevents you from striving for this?
• Make a memorable and effective ending. It can be something grandiose or vice versa, quiet and soothing.

Learn from others and from yourself

• Watch concerts of world stars.
• Record your performances. For starters, just on a computer, for example, in Cubase. Listen to it and mark everything you didn't like. This will have to be worked on.
• Record your performance on video. Video footage is a pitiless mirror. The first time you watch your performance from the outside, you will fall into horror. There is something to work on, right? Don't get killed. The video is just information about the past. The past is no more.
• By analyzing audio and video recordings of your performances, correcting mistakes, you will perform better and better every time. Progress will not keep you waiting!

So, at the "family council" it was decided that your child should go to study "music" at a music school. What is it for you, for him, and "with what it is eaten."

A child for 5 or 7 years of study in music. The school should learn how to properly master the instrument, sing well (for example, be able to sing any pop song or classical romance you like), develop an ear that makes it easy to “pick up” your favorite melody with accompaniment on the piano, find out “who is who” in the music world.

These will be lessons in playing an instrument (piano, button accordion, accordion, violin, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, guitar, etc.). Usually this is 2 (or 1) times a week for 30 or 45 minutes. And you need to prepare for these classes at home - that is, repeat what was played in the lesson in the "music room".

This is a choir, usually once a week. Parents! In no case do not look at this subject as a "secondary" one that you can not attend. It is only there that you can listen to the good singing of the choir and thus the child himself can learn to sing correctly.

This is solfeggio, a subject that includes both musical rules, and analysis of musical text, and learning - singing - musical numbers (songs recorded with notes), and composing music, and the ability to hear sounds and write them down using musical signs (musical dictation ).

This is ensemble music - singing in an ensemble, playing in an ensemble (for example, the opportunity to sing a song for several voices, play an ensemble (violin - guitar, violin - piano, flute - guitar, etc.).

Scenario of the family New Year

Usually this is a subject of choice, you need to negotiate individually. A very useful item, it gives a good base for mastering the voice.

This is the subject "listening to music", which from the fourth grade will be called " musical literature". Children will get acquainted with musical genres(song, dance, march, symphony, sonata, opera, ballet, song (romance), operetta...), with biographies of composers (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky…), with musical trends (baroque, classicism, romanticism, realism…). Learn to hear and understand the language of musical works.

For populists (harp, button accordion, accordion, balalaika, domra ...) and wind players (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, horn ...) - this is also an "orchestra".

It is very difficult for your child to study at a music school when you are not a musician. Voice apparatus usually not developed to sing even initial solfeggio numbers, hence poor development musical ear, non-accumulation of musical samples (bases) in the head, then - not hearing one's own playing the instrument, inability to tune in and sing in a choir, inability to sing or play in an ensemble. The displeasure of the teachers is the displeasure of the child, constant childhood stress: he sang it wrong, he didn’t hear it, he played it wrong. And suffering self-esteem: am I a loser? can't I? I am bad?

There is a real opportunity to help your child in a situation where the parent is not a musician, but he has time to help the child. Try the audio trainer.

Summer time is the time when there are no classes at the music school. And here there is a unique opportunity to make a breakthrough in the development of musical ear and voice - and for the next academic year to solve all the problems with solfeggio, with instrument lessons, in the choir, with vocal lessons. Take a little time to practice with an audio simulator - and in the next academic year your first grader, or second grader, or third grader's eyes will glow with joy - teachers always praise children with "good ears and voices." And the head will also turn on - the child will also be called smart - after all, when parsing musical examples, many rules for musical literacy will be remembered by themselves.

Scenario of the concert for parents "There is a sun in every child, just let it shine"

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Solo musical performances and groups

Yacht charter in Moscow is almost a common thing when it comes to weddings, celebrations, corporate parties, parties. You can rent a yacht in the Moscow region to enjoy the open spaces of the river and natural landscapes away from the noisy capital. When planning the leisure of guests, in the musical arrangement of the holiday, many increasingly prefer live performances of musical groups or solo performances of artists to recorded music. After all, what holiday would do without musical accompaniment? Various ensembles, performers of romances or jazz compositions, classics and popular modern songs, soloists and musicians of various directions will help to decorate the leisure of vacationers. If you wish, you can invite popular show stars, well-known pop singers. We have our own performers performing in various genres, so the choice is entirely yours.

Sometimes a very good solution would be to invite just one vocalist with a small ensemble that can perform songs in almost any style, so that the event will appeal to everyone and everyone, sparkle with all sorts of musical colors.

Solo musical performances

Solo musical performances will be appropriate for a quiet candlelit party, and for a noisy corporate party, wedding, birthday. The entertainment program can include performances:
. violinist
. saxophonist
. singer
. pop stars
. famous bard etc.

Music groups

lovers classical music you can invite a small violin quartet or a trio of guitarists. Those who like incendiary gypsy songs or bright folklore motifs, ensembles of modern song and music, classical jazz will definitely find a group and performers of the corresponding direction. You can invite a famous ensemble or your favorite rock band, and then the party will turn into a whole outdoor concert for everyone.

Service cost

The cost of such events is individual and depends on the price of the performance of a particular artist, team, total time concert program. All these points are decided and discussed in advance. There are many musical groups and actors who perform solo numbers, which often serve off-site holidays on ships and yachts. So - contact us, we will definitely select for you both a group and a soloist to your liking!

See also:
Organization of a buffet / banquet when renting a yacht, catering services on board
Yacht decoration with flowers and balloons
DJ, karaoke when renting a yacht
Event photography
Fireworks and fireworks

Irina Germanovna Tselenko

Marina Germanovna Ishchenko

GKKP "Children's School of Music No. 3, Astana, Kazakhstan

Lecture-concert "Only music will tell"

Purpose: to educate a socially active, creative personality by means of musical art.

1. Development of imagination, interest in music.

2. Education of musical taste, figurative perception.

3. Expanding horizons on the example of the world's musical cultural heritage.

Equipment: piano, violin, computer, reproductions of paintings, computer, DVDs. Musical illustrations will be performed by teachers Ishchenko, Tselenko.

Only music will tell what can not be expressed in words,

Only music will blow with inspired dreams,

They say - she is art, and she - she is alive.

Music is with us all the time. It surrounds us everywhere, it is within us. The chirping of birds, the rustling of leaves, the splashing of water, the howling of the wind - this is music, the music of nature. She was born on Earth before us, and then a man was born and created art from the sounds of nature and the name of this art is music. Man gave voice to grass, trees, water. Music told us about nature, about the world in which we live. Music reflects everything that a person lives with. Talking about music is talking about life (sounds "Morning" from the suite "Peer Gynt" by E. Grieg). The music of this work unusually colorfully paints a picture of the dawning day - the sunrise, the chirping of birds. Many composers in their works turned to the theme of nature. This is how Bach depicted spring in his short play (the play Spring sounds). Each picture of nature is invariably associated with some season. The history of music knows four famous interpretations of the theme of the seasons. These works are called "The Seasons". These are a cycle of concerts by Vivaldi, an oratorio by Haydn (1801), a cycle of piano pieces by P. I. Tchaikovsky (1876), a ballet by A. K. Glazunov (1899). Spring is the brightest, joyful, festive time of the year, when all living things awaken and bloom after the winter cold. March is the first spring month. P. I. Tchaikovsky in his piano cycle “The Seasons” gave the name to this month “Song of the Lark”. The lark is a field bird, which in Russia is revered as a spring songbird. Her singing is associated with the arrival of spring, the awakening of all nature from hibernation, the beginning of a new life. The play by P.I. Tchaikovsky "Song of the Lark" is performed. Snowdrop - a flower that appears Tchaikovsky gave the name "Snowdrop" to the month of April. The play is written in the rhythm of a waltz, all imbued with a rush, a surge of emotions. It heartily conveys the excitement that arises when contemplating spring nature, and a joyful feeling of hope for the future. The play "Snowdrop" is performed. Concerts of the cycle "The Seasons" by A. Vivaldi are program music, that is, music corresponding to a certain literary program. The first part of the concert "Spring" illustrates the first two quatrains.

Spring is coming! And joyful song

Full of nature. Sun and warmth

Streams murmur. And holiday news

Zephyr spreads like magic.

Suddenly velvet clouds roll in

Like a blasphemy, heavenly thunder sounds.

But the mighty whirlwind quickly dries up

And twitter again floats in the blue space. The first part of the concert "Spring" is performed.

Nature "warmed up", woke up, came to life, blossomed with violent colors. Summer has come into its own. Bright elegant butterflies flutter, birds from warm countries have returned. The play "Butterflies" by E. Grieg is being performed. Butterflies swept by. And now we are already hearing the first drops of warm summer rain, after which a rainbow appears in the sky. The wonderful play "Rain and Rainbow" from the cycle "Children's Music" by S.S. Prokofiev draws a dull sad mood. You can't go outside because of the rain. Then the melodic intonations become brighter and brighter. One can imagine that the rain has finally stopped, the sun's rays illuminate everything around, and a rainbow has appeared in the sky. The play "Rain and Rainbow" is performed. Before us is the next picture of the summer

landscape - a swan - a proud, graceful bird. most accurate musical characteristic this beautiful bird was given by the composer Saint-Saens.

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The play "The Swan" has been extraordinarily popular for many years. The ballet number "The Dying Swan" performed by the brilliant Russian ballerina A. Pavlova was set to the music of this immortal work. The piece was written for cello and piano. There are transcriptions for violin and piano, for violin ensemble and for saxophone and piano. The piece "Swan" from the suite "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens for violin and piano is performed. The concert "Summer" is rightfully considered the brightest work of the cycle "The Seasons" by A. Vivaldi. It seems that it is simply impossible to convey with music a picture of suffocating summer heat, thunderstorms and torrents more vividly and more figuratively. The first part - "Exhaustion from the heat" - is a remark by the composer himself

The herd wanders lazily, the grass withers.

From the heavy suffocating heat,

All living things suffer and languish

The cuckoo sings in the silence of the oak forest

And gently sigh the breezes. The first part of the concert "Summer" is performed.

A storm broke out. Almost visible streams of water falling from the sky, flashes of lightning.

But here is a thunderstorm;

Seething streams from steep heights overthrowing the valleys,

The roar rages on uncompressed fields.

The third part of the concert "Summer" is performed.

The days are getting shorter, the suffocating heat has receded, and it is raining more and more often. Autumn has come. Invigorating Invigorating spirit and clear weather.

Gardens and groves in autumn decoration,

Meet the golden season.

It's a bit sad, but also a great time of the year. Its beauty has always been admired by poets, musicians and artists. An artist has paints to paint a picture, a poet has words, a composer has only sounds. But they can perfectly draw, just as P.I. Tchaikovsky does. "Autumn Song" is how the month of October was called in his "Seasons". October is the real autumn. Not early, splendidly dressed and smart, but another, the one we call

late autumn. Late autumn is good in its own way. Somehow you especially feel freedom in the deserted fields, among the naked forest. Nothing interferes with the view - the elegant veils were asleep, and vast distances were open to us. Nature has focused on itself. She seems to be deep in thought. The researcher of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s work Kaigorodov said about the composer: “Tchaikovsky had a surprisingly strong, one might say, phenomenal sense of nature. I know of no other example of a person who would so strongly perceive the impressions of the colors of nature and react to them so strongly. It is not enough to say that P.I. Tchaikovsky passionately loved nature – he adored it.” It is this love for native nature that makes the composer's work so close and understandable to every Russian person. Performed "Autumn Song" from the cycle "The Seasons" by P.I. Tchaikovsky. If Tchaikovsky painted autumn pensive and sad, then A. Vivaldi depicted this season in the concert “Autumn” as a harvest festival. "Dance and Song of the Peasants" - this is the author's remark at the beginning of the first part.

Noisy peasant harvest festival. Fun, laughter, fervent songs ringing! The first part of the concert "Autumn" from the cycle "The Seasons" by A. Vivaldi is performed.

The fields were empty, the last leaves flew from the trees, the birds fell silent, the first frosts came, the first snow fell - winter came. "Winter Morning" piano piece from the cycle "Children's Album" by P.I. Tchaikovsky is one of the most remarkable musical landscapes composer. The nature of the music very accurately conveys the picture of an unfriendly winter morning with heavy clouds floating across an overcast sky. The play "Winter Morning" is performed. We bring to your attention one more musical picture"Winter" from the cycle "Album for Youth" by R. Schumann - the greatest master piano miniature. The play "Winter" is performed. Perhaps the most popular and recognizable piece of classical music is the concerto "Winter" from the cycle "The Seasons" by A. Vivaldi. The first part of the concert conveys a picture of the winter cold.

A frosty surface spreads the road,

And a man with cold feet

Trampling the path, chattering teeth,

Runs to keep warm.

Like all the concertos of this cycle, the music of "Winter" has a programmatic pictorial character, exactly following the text of the sonnet. The first part of the concert "Winter" from the cycle "Seasons" is performed. The third part of the concert is optimistic.

In the winter expanse, the people rejoice.

Fell, slipped, and rolls again,

And it's joyful to hear how the ice is cut

Under a sharp ridge that is bound with iron.

Hard winter, but the joy of the moment

Sometimes they soften her stern face. Performed the third part of the concert "Winter" by A. Vivaldi.

Used literature: A. Maykapar "The Seasons" A. Vivaldi: articles; A. Astafiev “On the music of Tchaikovsky.

If you're thinking about throwing a dream concert but don't know how to get started, follow 15 tips from seasoned organizers and your concert will be doomed to success.

1. Register your business.Alas, individual cannot organize a concert - for this you need to be an individual entrepreneur or a legal entity. Such cases will have to be registered.

2. Forget about your own musical tastes.Potential viewers may not like your tastes, so analyze social media and streaming services to get an idea of ​​the approximate audience that is ready to come to a particular artist.

3. Don't you dare forget about social media.Your viewers live there, and without regular notifications like “group Y is coming to city X”, people simply won’t know that you are organizing a concert of their favorite band in the sweat of your face. Do not skimp on advertising and occupy social networks - let everyone know about your organizational activities (but not immediately - see paragraph 10).

4. However, do not rely on polls in the spirit of "Which group would you bring?".Admirers of Shortparis, 1/2 Orchestra, Corpse-Eyed Toads and other less popular bands will shower you with likes and comments, but they may not come to the concert itself - in this case, you will be left with an empty hall and a gaping hole in your wallet.

5. Do not grab from the start for large projects.It is better to gain experience by making bumps on small moves than to make a big import, unknowingly make mistakes and fly into the cash.

6. Be as clear as possible on your estimated costs.Make an estimate of the event, remembering to include some amount for unforeseen expenses. And in general, provide yourself with financial safety net - remember about working capital.

7. Do not make events for the last money.Concerts cannot be considered as a joker that can rehabilitate your financial condition - you can be left without money at all. Yes, you need to be ready for flights - at first it is inevitable.

8. Get ready to waste time, money and nerve cells.Musicians, venue owners, managers, media representatives, "techies" and officials will piss you off with questions and demands, while making your wallet less dense at the same time. Accept it, but don't let yourself go over budget.

9. Discuss everything.Having decided on the group and the venue of the concert, negotiate with the musicians and owners concert venue about the date and time of the event. Also, don't forget about the fee: discuss not only the amount, but also the form - some groups work for a percentage of ticket sales.

10. Don't rush to advertise.Before the tour license is issued, any advertising is prohibited. Due to the violation of this rule, the coldwave group , for example, never performed at Corpus last spring.

11. Get a tour.This is a certificate that allows you to hold concerts on the territory of the Republic of Belarus (yes, everything is complicated). To obtain such a certificate, you will have to apply to the city executive committee or the regional executive committee - drag an application for issuing a certificate, an event program, background information about the band and pray that your concert is not branded " ". "Tour" will be needed not only by foreign, but also by domestic musicians - in this case, everything is done in a simplified form, and you do not have to pay for the certificate itself. However, you should not relax - to compatriots, the ideologists of the Minsk City Executive Committee , as well as to foreign performers.

12. Control time.A “tour” is done for about five working days, and ten days before the implementation entrance tickets You must have all the documents on hand.

13. Follow the technical and household rider of the artists.But be prepared for the fact that these requirements can be very crazy things: Kanye West, for example, requires a towel from Versace, and The Rolling Stones indicate in their rider a separate room with a pool table. It's good that you don't plan to bring these guys to us...

14. Always think about the audience.They are the main link of the whole concert chain. If you goof around with the sound, the dance floor, the warm-up or the wardrobe, you will get massive hoots, a flurry of angry comments and a pile of dislikes.

15. Know it will be scary.What if the flight of your musicians is canceled or the drunk drummer loses his passport? And traffic jams can fly out in the middle of a concert and the vocalist will definitely break an expensive amplifier ... Remember that force majeure happens, and keep an action plan in mind so as not to sit in horror with your head in your hands. If you have total problems with stress tolerance, find a more relaxed activity.

We express our respect to Ivan Vasilyevich, Yan Popkov, Pavel Bogdanovich, Oleg Chubakov and Sergey Polazhenko for their help in preparing the material.

The ability to organize an event is an important skill for everyone. modern man. For a musician, a concert is the main format of his work and a source of income. Many creative people resort to the help of professionals. Agents and managers know how to properly organize an advertising campaign, find resources, and sell tickets. And the task of the artist is to light the hall with his inspired creativity. In the history of art, a natural symbiosis of a musician and a manager has developed.

I see the goal, I believe in myself

The simplest option - you want to introduce your friends to your music. How to organize concerts in this case? The easiest way is to hold a flat. Home concerts were very popular in the USSR in the second half of the last century. Moscow and St. Petersburg rockers did not get along with the official culture and were forced to perform secretly.

Home concert, or Back to the USSR

In those days, there were traditions of the apartment house. Several musicians played acoustic instruments. No sound equipment was used. There were few spectators. They could talk freely with the musicians, and often the concerts turned into a feast or just friendly communication.

Today, it is possible to use sound recording equipment within the framework of apartment buildings. And the speakers and amplifiers will disrupt public order and interfere with the neighbors. The exception is private households. No official permission, no hall rent, no advertising, no expenses at all are needed to hold a house party. Enough free space, which one of your friends will provide free of charge. There is only one minus of the apartment house - the lack of income.

Help from a non-profit organization

How to organize concerts if you need to raise money for a good cause? Need a small amount urgently? Reach out to friends and acquaintances. But instead of simply asking for a loan, organize a concert-feast in your apartment. Let it be a little party. Tell the audience about your problem or arrange a presentation of the project. Set up a money box. It should look bright and attract attention. For those who prefer electronic payments, bank details should be printed. Hang the leaflet in a conspicuous place, and also distribute to each of those present.

Consider how your friends can control your spending. They need to understand where their money will go. How to organize concerts for charities and non-profit organizations? Here a simple apartment house is not enough. It is necessary to raise a lot of funds. Therefore, a competent advertising campaign is needed.

What to show the viewer

Define the target audience. Studies show that people of all ages and social strata of society donate to charity, but most of all - young men and women after forty. Both categories of citizens belong to the middle class. Unfortunately, these are completely different target audiences. It is not possible to create a common advertising campaign for them.

How to organize a charity concert and define your target audience? Do your own research. Start with an experiment. Try to hold a promotion in the main square of the city. She may look different. Hand out booklets and free artist demos to passers-by. Entertain walking people, and they will be grateful for it. You can arrange a small auction. Selling handmade toys, unfussy drinks, calendars, magnets and other small items will attract the attention of the townspeople.

Target audience and repertoire

Pay attention to who donates the most. You can involve a special observer in the study. This is how you define your target audience. Such an advertising campaign requires a lot of investment. To avoid this, try to attract volunteers.

Studied. But how to organize a concert? The next step is the image and repertoire of the artists. Explore the musical tastes of your future viewers. To do this, it is enough to monitor social networks. Pay attention to profile communities. For example, ladies gather in groups dedicated to family, children, and culinary recipes. Check what other communities they are in, whether they post music. Bikers, hipsters, yuppies, as well as representatives of other subcultures and social strata of society have their own groups.

Speech structure

The musical tastes of the target audience have been studied. Before organizing a concert, introduce the artists to the repertoire. Together with the musicians, make a list of songs in a certain order. Do not forget that concert numbers should be contrasting - a fast piece will certainly be followed by a slow one. Include performances by artists of other genres: dancers, comedians, circus performers. Men's numbers must alternate with women's. Do not forget that such an event does not last more than one hour. Don't take breaks between sections. Otherwise, after the intermission, you will not count the number of spectators.

The image of the musicians and the tasks of the producer

Attention should be paid to the appearance of the artists. If you are interested in how to learn how to organize concerts, take care not only of the costumes and make-up of the group, but also of their manner on stage. For a young audience, abrupt movements and extravagant appearance musicians. Older viewers won't like it. They will appreciate the calm and contemplative mood of the event. In addition, you need to take care of renting high-quality sound equipment, hiring professional lighting technicians, and even supervise the cleaning of the auditorium.

How to organize concerts? It's difficult enough. Popular among managers and organizers popular expression: "If you want everything to be good - do it yourself." This wise aphorism captures the main problem of all leaders. Finding responsible performers is one of the most difficult tasks. Therefore, the organizer needs assistants who control different areas of work. It is desirable that you have complete trust in these people.

As you know, creativity and discipline are incompatible concepts. Exceptions to this rule are rare. Artists can cause a lot of trouble. Do you want to know how to organize concerts in your city? Succeed in the field of production. Earn money for yourself and artists. And then the best musicians will contact you. Of these, the most talented and disciplined should be selected. Then success is guaranteed.

Where to hold a concert

A separate problem is the rent of the hall. It's good if the city has a Palace of Culture, a club, a stadium, a philharmonic society or something like that. And you have money for rent. If there is no professional concert hall, you need to turn on your imagination. Do you want to know how to organize a concert of a rock or pop band? needs a rehearsal room. Most likely, the group already has a capacious garage or warehouse where they regularly meet. You can ennoble this room and hold a concert there. Each city has a large warehouse or production workshop. It needs to be cleaned well. And then it's perfect for a rock performance.

How to organize a group concert, the practice of holding festivals will tell contemporary art. Often they are on the territory of abandoned factories and factories decorated in the loft style. Huge rooms have almost no partitions. Functional areas are distinguished only by meager decorations. Musical performances take place in a small hall. There are also exhibitions of installations, souvenir stalls and fast food sheds. Try to adopt this practice. Lease part of the premises to merchants. To do this, you need to have official permission. To get it, you have to work hard. But you are guaranteed a profit.

To lead is to foresee

It is good to organize the sale of discs with the group's records at the entrance to the hall. If the group is known only in your city, it is likely that their music is not yet available on the Internet. It's just that no one has been able to download it. Therefore, fans will be happy to buy their favorite songs. Holding a concert in an abandoned production facility can cause some problems. For example, there may be no sockets for connecting audio equipment. Everything possible problems must be carefully studied long before the start of the concert. And try to eliminate them. A good manager anticipates all possible difficulties in advance.

distinguished guests

How to organize a concert of a star? And what is the cap on the fee? Such questions are often asked by young art directors of numerous nightclubs, which today appear in every city like mushrooms after rain. Novice managers should be aware that the costs will not be limited to the star's fee.

Large funds will be spent on the relocation of the artist and his team, as well as on accommodation. The star will not stay in a cheap hotel and eat in the dining room. There is no guarantee that you will make a profit. It is more likely that there will be losses. Another difficulty is drafting a contract. It should be entrusted to an experienced lawyer who has worked with such documents before. This is another expense item.

The artist's fee may vary depending on the circumstances. Great importance has the date of the concert. For example, the amount of payments increases several times. Much depends on the time the artist is on stage and the number of songs he has to perform. The number of viewers and the density of the star's tour schedule are taken into account. The larger they are, the more expensive the concert will cost the customer. If you still decide to invite a star, you should book performance dates in advance and coordinate them with the musician. Clear organization is the key to the success of the event.

As a rule, promoting your own creativity takes no less effort than creating it. So don't expect the audience's attention to fall on your head on its own. Think about how to organize a concert, collect information about how creative people in your direction did it, for whom it really helped. After all, you don’t want the works created on the wave of wonderful feelings and lovingly improved by labors to gather dust on a shelf or in a drawer.

One spirit will not be full

The attention and love of the fans is a wonderful thing that every artist aspires to. Even if you are primarily interested in purely creativity, it is always nice to see that your ideas are shared. It is especially valuable that there are like-minded people nearby, and you are the spokesman for their feelings, and in a sense they are grateful for this.

Many artists make art for themselves. But if you ask if they would like to speak, many give a positive answer. The same goes for money. A novice artist needs to figure out how to organize a concert in his city and recoup the effort with some bonus.

Ideally, each person should do what he loves. If this is music for you, figure out how to make a dream come true, and a hobby into a profession. All of us humans are interconnected. So without the support of the public, you are unlikely to be able to become popular and rich, no matter how technical and thoughtful your compositions are. The masses need to be able to interest. You can hold both a solo concert and a joint one with some well-known or the same beginner group.

Where to begin?

In order to understand how to organize a band concert, even the most exalted minds will need to get down to earth and look at the issue from a purely practical point of view. You will have to negotiate with many people, learn how to solve organizational issues and understand the wishes of others. If by nature you are not only a creator, but also a talented leader and organizer, you will be able to understand how to organize a concert.

It is necessary to think over the type of event: it will be a solo performance or a festival. To achieve success, to see an enthusiastic crowd in the hall, and not two half-asleep beer drinkers, you need to figure out how to properly organize a concert. The event must be of high quality and original in order to win positive ratings and attract attention to you in the future.

First steps towards the goal

Let's say you already have a rough idea of ​​​​what the upcoming event will be like, you can organize a concert in a club or in an open area. Now you need to carefully consider the list of speakers, take care of good advertising. Of course, if you do not yet have a producer ready to help financially, you will have to resolve this issue on your own. Nobody said it would be easy. But this is your dream, so fight for it.

How to organize a concert of an artist if he has little material and few people know him? It would be good to enlist the support of more experienced and beloved by the public musicians. Of course, they must also have good reasons to perform on the same stage with you. This is either a fee that you share with them, or other interesting conditions. If you are roughly on the same level, it will be a win-win deal where both the cost with liability and the profit can be shared equally.

If you really are not very experienced yet and are thinking about how to organize a concert, it’s better to gather musicians who can hook more not with image and promotion, but with originality. In general, those who are in approximately the same conditions as you. They may already be known in your city, but they are not big stars on the national stage. It is with such people that it will be convenient for you to go shoulder to shoulder and learn from their experience. At this stage, the most important thing is to organize everything qualitatively so that they want to see you again.

Specify the place and time

How to organize a band concert will become clearer when you agree with the club managers on the time of your event. If you don't know how to contact them, check out their official website. You will most likely find all the information you need there. You need to talk with the administration about the place where the event will be held. Also important details are the fee, form of payment, requirements for speakers. The date must be agreed in advance. It is advisable to prepay in advance to avoid force majeure.

The location must be chosen very carefully. Carefully study all possible options, find out how much you will need to pay for the rent, how many people will be able to go there, whether the transport interchange will be convenient. Ideally, if there are bus stops, fixed-route taxis or metro nearby. Remember that in the event that the concert is not scheduled for the weekend, you can negotiate a discount with the owners of the venue.

Get Support

How to organize a concert without significant damage to the wallet? In such cases, it is best to have a sponsor. Music and art are also in their own way a commodity, the subject of bidding, purchase and sale transactions. So your work must be presented in the most favorable light.

You or your patron will have to spend money, but there are many ways to cover part of the costs. For example, by renting a bar, you can become a subtenant and provide advertising services using the premises, toilet cubicles, stage surfaces on the side and back. You can also hold contests and promotions, allow flyers to be distributed during the event, and sell goods in specially designated places. Even on your own poster for a fee, you can place someone's text, promote audio and video advertising, take some time for a press conference.