Holding truth today and in the past‚ attending classical concerts is hailed as a sign of both sophistication and style. Very reminiscent of 18th Century attendances at places like the Music Center at Strathmore‚ my noteworthy experience broadened my musical horizon. As a newcomer to classical concert-going‚ I was enthralled by the aural masterpieces and the alluring atmosphere. In partaking in the National Philharmonic’s opening concert of the year at the Music Center at Strathmore‚ one experiences
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BARTOK VIOLIN CONCERTO Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 In B Minor‚ SZ 112‚ BB117. (1937-1938) 1. Allegro Non-Troppo 2. Andante Tranquillo 3. Allegro Molto Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist‚ and was one of the most profound musicians of the twentieth century. A smallpox inoculation gave the infant Bartók a rash that remained with him until he was five years old. As a result he spent his early years detached from other children and people and
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Pianoforte is the longer name of piano‚ because it was an innovative instrument in the 17th century Italy that allowed the dynamics of softness (piano) and loudness (forte) to be reproduced by its mechanisms. The Musical Instruments The Western Orchestra has the following classification of instruments: Strings. The string section includes the violins‚ violas‚ violoncello (cello) and double bass (string bass). They produce sound because a string stretched across these instrument’s bodies vibrate
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Fischer is the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE). Fischer is accompanied by the orchestra that served as her background in performing the music. The orchestra gave further depth on the emotions and power of the music played by Fischer. This proved that though Fischer is the main musician in this part of the concert‚ the greatness and power of her music remains incomplete or plain without the orchestra. At some point‚ Fischer stopped to give way on the sounds played by the orchestra. It seemed that it
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directives are unintentional and stem from incompetent knowledge on the techniques of each instrument; however‚ they also agree these poor directions negatively affect the sound of the individual‚ the section‚ and ultimately the orchestra as a whole. Because the sound of the orchestra is not fully reaching its potential‚ audience members are unwittingly paying to see a performance not up to par. Though not all‚ most conductors are culpable of unintentionally giving flawed instruction proving conductors
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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment Two Skills –related tasks Word count: 1082 I acknowledge that this paper is my own work. Trainee: Mileva Genadieva Signature: Date: 18.02.2013 Receptive skills: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being
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bookstore in downtown Lawrence; it is standing today on the corners of Amesbury and Essex streets. His father initially opposed Leonard’s interest in music when his was young‚ but in spite of this‚ when Leonard was a teenager‚ his father took him to orchestra concerts and eventually began to support his music education. Bernstein was very young we he started listening to piano performances; he was immediately captivated; he subsequently began learning piano seriously when the family acquired his cousin’s
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concert by the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The performance consisted of only two pieces‚ yet both were met with enthusiastic applause and praise. The first piece performed was the Violin Concerto in D major‚ Op. 35‚ by Piotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky‚ with the famous violinist Midori as the featured soloist. The piece was divided into three movements‚ the first being Allegro moderato. The Concerto opened with the orchestra playing a crescendo until
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chromatics? What does atonal mean? What are the dynamics like in an expressionist piece of music? How do expressionist composers explore pitch and timbre? What is a hexachord? What is the compliment? ‘Peripetie’ was written for a large orchestra to produce contrasts with texture‚ dynamics & timbre. It is written for quadruple woodwind (4 per section) Flute Piccolo clarinet 3 flutes & piccolo 3 clarinets & bass clarinet 3 bassoons & Bass clarinet bassoon contrabassoon contrabassoon
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concert in order to write my report. First piece was Pohjola’s Daughter Op.49 which was composed by Jean Sibelius. It has very colorful scores and it was played by a large orchestra which has 2 flutes‚ piccolo‚ 2 oboes‚ English horn‚ 2 clarinets‚ bass clarinet‚ 2 bassoons‚ contrabassoon‚ 4 horns‚ 2
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