GREEN BRIGADE 9-21-19

[MeanGreenTexan]

10 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

Selfish, brutish, simple-minded, primitive, uninformed.  Any of those sound better?

If you cannot watch students perform a type of music you may not care for personally, rather, complain and expect more simplistic music, you're ignorant (uneducated, either willfully or accidentally) about what makes UNT's College of Music great.  Folks need to understand that, musically, you're watching the equivalent of the football players, when considering the talents/gifts these musicians have.

All this to say: "Sit back and enjoy the amazing musicians who are playing in front of you!"   Stop complaining about the Green Brigade.    

[UNT 90 Grad]

44 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Selfish, brutish, simple-minded, primitive, uninformed.  Any of those sound better?

If you cannot watch students perform a type of music you may not care for personally, rather, complain and expect more simplistic music, you're ignorant (uneducated, either willfully or accidentally) about what makes UNT's College of Music great.  Folks need to understand that, musically, you're watching the equivalent of the football players, when considering the talents/gifts these musicians have.

All this to say: "Sit back and enjoy the amazing musicians who are playing in front of you!"   Stop complaining about the Green Brigade.    

Point was that you can be educated on jazz yet still not care for it.

[GrandGreen]

9 hours ago, Green Crazy said:

We applauded because we were being polite. To you that might have seemed "very enthusiastic".  

Not my first game, I've witnessed it the other times too. Just thought it would be done by now.

I'm not shitting on the band either, it's done well like all of the music played by them, but it's not something most like to see/listen to in general, let alone a football halftime.  

 

Now, I am taking polite applause has very enthusiastic.  Sure that is what happened.

How do you know what most like to see or listen to?  Apparently, the overall response to the music was positive judging by this thread.  

Yes, a very small sample; but it is greater than your negative reaction.

This is obviously a silly argument, people opinions differ: if you don't like jazz and think it has no place at a football game that is your undeniable prerogative

The problem I have is that is not the extent of opinion. It extends to stating that most don't want to hear or see a jazz performance at half time.  That is suspostion based on your on musical preferences.  

I am not a big jazz fan either, but thought the Green Brigade performance was one of the best half times I have witnessed among hundreds of college games. 

 

[SilverEagle]

Before any discussion of like/dislike regarding Jazz gets out of hand (as is usually the case with social media) let me just say that I didn't view the tribute to the NT Jazz program as a signal that the Green Brigade was going to (henceforward) feed us a steady diet of Jazz and be a 450 piece shill for the Jazz program.

What I took from the performance is that it was a tip of the musical hat to a program that has given North Texas INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.  I suppose that many people get tired of "Jazz" coming up in the conversation about North Texas........but it beats the hell hell out of the other common (and very unfair) discussion.........COMMUTER SCHOOL.

 

Jazz is a broad label that covers decades of American musical history....and musical artistry.  I suggest, for anyone that is interested, the Ken Burns series on JaZZ. Here is a interview that Charlie Rose  did with Ken Burns and Wynton Marsalis regarding the series.