Orchestra Performance Review

To emphasize the feeling of celebration and glory in the first movement, “Gloria In Excelsis Deo,” the orchestra began with a phrase consisting of frequent octave leaps followed by several 16th notes that rarely had any rests in between. With the chorus singing together on the same rhythm of half notes and whole notes, there is a fuller tone and grander sound that filled the whole auditorium. At one point when the orchestra played their ritornello with the chorus, and both groups did the crescendo together, it established the forte climax. Even though the orchestra had difficulty staying in tempo with the conductor for some of the 16th notes, the overall emotion is still

Next, the chamber orchestra quickly transitioned to a vivace song that was performed con fuoco and was named “Indiana.” In this song, every instrument was given an uptempo solo to showcase the performer’s immense talent. The dynamic throughout was forte in fashion and did not vary from beginning to end.

On Sunday, 14 October, Jeffrey Phelps, cello and Lee Jordan-Anders, piano, performed Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major, Opus 69 (1808) and Claude Debussy’s Sonata (1915)

Another song the choir performed was O come, O come, Emmanuel. The song was much different from the rest of the songs performed to this point, and the choir had use of many different instruments. The song was slow, soft, warm, and rich. On this song, the choir had splendid diction, and the words were easily understood. The artist cut off at appropriate times, and sang soft and loud as directed with much emotion. The choir blended well together, and the sound was free and

The concert began immediately with the Chamber Orchestra’s performance of Mozart’s “Divertimento in D major”, K. 136. This piece consisted of the 3 movements, Allegro, Andante, and Presto, which follows the fast-slow-fast arrangement typical of the Classical era. Divertimento is one of Mozart’s “Salzburg” symphonies, which are symphonies performed by only string sections. After the performance of this piece, the conductor commented on the 2nd violin’s part, and drew the conclusion that Mozart must have saved that role for either himself or an enemy. The second piece performed by the Chamber Orchestra was Bach’s “Suite No. 2 in B minor”, BWV 1067. This piece did not require a conductor, and also featured a flute soloist, Maisa Peters. Their

The first piece that was played was Mozart’s Symphony No.40. This is a beautiful piece of music. There are 38 players in the orchestra for this piece. And they all played

Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart’s requiem was his final masterpiece, despite being unfinished. Mozart finished the full score of Introitus, and had written the full vocal parts and bass line with an outline of the instrumentation for almost all of the Sequenz, which includes Dies Irae (Gutmann, 2009). Dies Irae was strongly influenced by the classical era because it was the era of freedom and experimentation.

The first song played from the Orchestra was Infernal Dance. The whole orchestra plays a loud chord to show the intensity of the piece. The rhythm of this movement is syncopation due to the rhythm not being on the beat. This makes the strong beat weak, thus giving a chilling ambience. Infernal Dance then transitions to the soothing movement Berceuse. Berceuse is a lullaby played by the bassoon. The Orchestra concludes the concert with Finale. Finale is the finishing piece of The Firebird and uses one french horn for the melody in a dynamic of piano. The whole orchestra soon joins in creating a hymn like choral. Instead of ending with a grand note, the brass takes the melody at a faster pace developing a celebratory ending. With its uneven rhythmic and extravagant arrangement this Suite fashions a spellbinding

In my opinion, that is the reason why we listened to this piece of music. To try and be exposed to a work that has a large supply of instruments and a choir at the same time. From listening to it, they did a very good job of incorporating the choir with the music. The choir was also very synchronized as well. They did not get too high or too low as a group. One of the differences with this piece of music is they incorporate different types of music and the choir sings from the very beginning. One thing that was very enjoyable was how strong and powerful the choir sang at the end of the piece. Once, again, the most difficult thing about listening to this piece was the lack of understanding any of the

For my Concert Attendance Report, I decided to view the Music’s Emotional Impact on PBS as I wasn’t able to attend a live orchestra performance. This video captivated a small introduction to Tchaikovsky’s life as well as having one of his well accomplished songs, Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 be played by the All-Star Orchestra, which was directed and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Tchaikovsky wrote this symphony when he was 37 years old when he was in rough patch in life. Tchaikovsky was homosexual and he married a woman, Antonia Miliukova, whom he didn’t love because he didn’t want people to suspect he was different, but to no surprise the marriage didn’t last long and he soon divorced. Tchaikovsky later met Nadezhda von Meck. She impacted

Orchestrally, it is scored for strings, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, two flutes, one piccolo, two oboes, one English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones, two harps, and one cimbasso. Musically, this opera is very directly vigorous. It sticks to the widely used concepts of arias, duets, finales, and choruses. His fine music often excused the glaring faults in character and plot lines.

1a. The first piece of the concert was Divertimento No. 2 in B-flat Major, K.137, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This Divertimento has 3 movements:

November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated, is occasionally referred to as “the day the music stopped”, but in reality the music had just begun (Baldacci). Approximately 2,500 people were attending a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert when they heard the news of their leader’s passing. After many gasps the audience stood in hushed reverence for their fallen president, and the musicians began to perform a movement from Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony: a funeral march (Inverne). This moment is now one of the most famous events in the history of classical music; it is a moment that launched a new era of music.

When the performance will upcoming, no one walk around, no one to eat and chat, no one use the cell phones. On the stage, performers were wearing black clothes and shoes. They debug with instruments by themselves, or sit quietly wait for the show to start. And then the conductor makes a short description about the performance. As for this concert paper I would like to focus on Symphony No. 1 in C Major. It was Beethoven 's first symphony genre works, and linking the romantic and classical styles. It built in 1800. The main melody is based on the flute and oboe. The first movement is Adagio molto - Allegro con brio. Beginning with slow teases. The first theme of a dance, vice theme is beautiful oboe and flute repartee. After the beginning, the melody change to powerful and variation. It only a little of melody do not have harmony. In general, violin and viola play first, and then it will add flute and oboe. The second movement is Andante cantabile con moto. It is built around a simple theme of the sonata allegro musical form of development and expansion. There are a lot of decorations in main theme. The third

The music played throughout all of the concerts adhered to be diverse. The instruments, the individuals performing, and the conductor all proved to be outstanding. The concerts proved to be interesting as I witnessed them, first hand.