¶ … joy of attending the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert at Lincoln Center. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performed a total of two pieces. The first of the two was the Violin Concerto No.3 in G. major, K.216(1775) and the second was Symphony No.41 in C. major, K.551("Jupiter"). Louis Langree was the conductor of the performance and Simone Porter was the featured violinist. In spite of the hot weather (86 Fahrenheit), there was a long queue at the door that extended two blocks from the door. Although the Damrosch Park is big and was occupied almost entirely by chairs, the author was able to get a seat in the seventh row. The venue as a whole was full. While both numbers performed were good, the first piece was much better than the second in terms of quality. The quite auditorium erupted with applause when the soloist came out onto the stage. Subsequent to that, the concert started. Quiet auditorium finally broke into applause; soloist in applause was involved stage, the concert started. The first movement was the Allegro. The soloist waited to begin playing until the queue for the solo arrived. The music played at that point was joyful and bright. The harmony of the music between the violin and the accompanying orchestra was outstanding and fascinating. The live performance and the sound therein stands in stark contrast to the recorded version of the same number that the author of this report listed to. The violinist was rather glorious in her golden dress. The third movement was the Rondo Allegro. It opened with a lonely passage and I thought it would be tedious. However, the passage turned out to be vivacious and it was quite different from the heavy opening of other music like Alfred Schnitzel's cello Concerto No.2. Because the author of this course has been enrolled in music class prior to this performance,...
This was especially true of the times of back and forth slow and fast movements. The author of this response enjoyed the first movement, the Allegro, as well as the third movement, the Rondo Allegro, quite a bit. The two movements felt the same yet different from each other at the same time. The third movement was soft, thin and gentle. The changeable rhythm that vacillated in a constant and ever-changing way brought me to another world that was replaced with radiant moonlight, an abundance of stars and a light breeze as the author was sitting on the terrace and listening to the music. The gloomy weather was a forgotten memory during that first thirty minutes of the performance.
They restated the chorale melody completely and had a different contrapuntal setting each time." Two famous variations artists in the Baroque era are George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach (Wikipedia Online). In the Classical Era, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert, are among the famous variations artists. Following are the types of variations in the Classical Era. Penultimate Variation This variation works on a slow tempo with multi-movements. Final
It seemed less a powerful expression of creative energy than simply a quality piece of music performed to perfection. One section I did not particularly care for was Tuba Mirum. This section chronologically follows the powerful Dies Irae section, and does so a little weakly, in my opinion. I enjoyed the tenor solo in this section, but felt that overall it was too restrained, and too anticlimactic coming on the
Minimalism, "Like serialism, this style uses repeated patterns and series and steady pulsation with gradual changes occurring over time. But whereas serialism is usually atonal, minimalism is usually tonal and more harmonic" (Spielvogel, 942). One could say that minimalism was a reflection of the hippie sixties that rejected the acquisitional tendencies of one's parents in favor of a more streamlined and strategically stark composition. The advent of modern classical music
Jazz Performance Report Jazz in its essence is a group of assorted musicians seamlessly communicating with one another. The communication may be planned or take place in spontaneity as the musicians become one in music. Since the tempo, key, rhythm and etiquette of the music is so potent, the musicians allow for great excitement generated by the music to shine, thereby making spontaneous improvisation easier. Jazz is a constantly evolving music
Baroque vs. Classical Music Although music from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century is all often grouped under the designation of 'classical' music today, the Baroque and the Classical periods have distinctive features and stylization that are immediately apparent when listening to the great composers of both eras. When listening to a Baroque work, the contrast between different 'movements' is quite notable. The celebratory Baroque work Handel's Water Music, for example,
Classical Symphony Music, like other forms of art, evolved from numerous traditions that, when taken together, formed a new way of thinking about, and performing, certain types of works. Audiences change over time, and certain musical compositions that sound odd or strange to one audience are often accepted by others (e.g. The rioting during the premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring). When people think of classical music, for instance, they tend
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