Western Classical Music
The concert chosen for this paper was a piano recital that consisted of various students that took place this April 2016. The reason I chose this recital to attend was that I knew one of the performers in the show and I wanted to both support her performance by my attendance in the audience and I wanted to expose myself to a diversity of performances for the purpose of this paper. The pieces ranged in period from modern (Bartok -- "Suite, Op. 14: Allegretto-Scherzo-Allegro molto-Sostenuto") to classical (Mozart -- "Adagio in b minor, K. 540"). The students were young adults of a variety of ethnicities, from Asian to European. It was overall a very eclectic mix of musical pieces performed by a diverse number of students. Unfortunately, there were not many people in the audience -- barely a dozen -- so it was difficult for the performers to really generate a buzz in the auditorium. Nonetheless, the experience was enjoyable.
A complete list of the program included the following pieces: Bartok's Suite, Op. 14, Grieg's Lyric Piece, Op. 54, No. 4; Chopin's Etude in c sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4; Mozart's Adagio in b minor, K. 540; Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 14; Perle's Pantomime, Interlude, and Fugue (1937); Chopin's Ballade in f minor, Op. 52; Gottschalk's The Banjo; Liszt's Wilde Jagt; Bach's Partita in C minor, BMV 826 Sinfonia-Rondeau-Capriccio; Beethoven's Sonata in c minor, Op13 II Adagio cantabile; and Chopin's Ballade in F major,...
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