Music By Felix Mendelssohn

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.

When the concert first began, the three instrumentalists walked with energy despite their age. The first song, “Sonata I in G-Major Op. 2, Nr. 1” by Michel Blavet, was a Baroque Sonata. There were five movements and was played by the harpsichord, flute, and cello. All movements of the song were polyphonic because of the three instruments that had different parts and equal importance. In the first movement, I noticed that the flute tended to rise in pitch. In the second movement, I noticed that the melodies often repeated. Throughout the rest of the song the tempo changed from fast to slow and the flute would usually take the lead. On the last movement, the cello and the harpsichord

During a later part of Scene Two when the cast is dancing the movements match the music, they appeared to be doing the Waltz, so the music had abrupt changes. In Scene Three: Cadiz, the orchestra plays some sad and somber music at the beginning. As the scene progresses the music goes from dark and dismal to happy and cheerful. During one of the songs of Scene Four: Paris the Old Lady, Cunegonde and Candide were discussing a flight and the music being played by the orchestra matched the lyrics bringing the idea of a flight to life. The Old Lady has a mezzo soprano voice she executes all of her notes well in the song. At the end of scene three Candide, Cunegonde, and the Old Lady leave to go to a new place and in the song they sing there are rounds, which were well executed. It helped change the mood again which brightened up the audience.

The program was the American Music Journey, which was music that was played from when George Washington was president to modern day music. In the program there was a description of the ensemble, but no list of the pieces that they were going to be playing. The audience was pretty big, the auditorium was about three fourths filled. I think everyone enjoyed what was played that night. One of the bigger reactions was when the lights went out and the whole ensemble came out playing the theme to Pink Panther with lights on their instruments that would flash whenever they played a note. Once the lights started coming back on, you could see that all the members had on black sunglasses.

The first piece was called Ballad unto. The concert had 3 acts and this piece was the first act. I really love how they started off the concert very classical. Dwight used Bach music which already put me in the mind set of classical ballet. Even though the music had my mind, the movement otherwise was something different. The women were on point but keep to that contemporary taste that Dwight Rhoden likes.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a composer who lived in the 18th century. Many of his compositions are still known today.

Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel are considered possibly the most important female figures of the Romantic Era. Both women were friends living with the struggles of trying to make a name for themselves as musicians and composers while living in the shadows of their famous male family members: Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn.

I heard a ton of songs set up together from the accompanying instruments: guitars, drums, piano and trombone. The Brubeck Brothers Quartet began off playing introductory music that was a reflection of the group members before they presented themselves. The accompanying melodies were played: Dance of the Shadows, Cathy's Waltz, Jazzanians, Cool on the coast, Far more blues, In your own sweet way, and Blue Rondo a la Turk. As every melody was played it was much the same as if it was a piece of your body in light of the fact that the music was exceptionally alleviating to the ears and simply made you need to locate your internal peace. The entertainers presented themselves, gave an anecdote about their life, and told what their motivations were

In summary, the band played several different songs that I was familiar with even though I will admit, this was my first ever swing music concert. Their music crawls up under your skin and makes you want to move to the beat and just dance. It was

In January 27, 1756, in a town in Austria called Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold Mozart and Maria Pertl Mozart. Mozart was the younger of two children. His sister, Maria Anna Mozart (who was dubbed “Nannerl” by her brother) was only five years older than Mozart and was probably one of the greatest child prodigies in all of Europe, until her brother came along. Mozart’s sister traveled all around Europe to places like London, Paris, and Switzerland to perform compositions on the harpsichord, which is an instrument similar to the piano. When Mozart’s father taught Nannerl to play the harpsichord, Mozart eagerly looked on, and by the age of three, Mozart had mastered the harpsichord and had won his father’s interest. Mozart also went on to play many instruments like the piano, organ, violin, and viola.

This concert is performed in the Avery Fisher hall within the Lincoln Center in New York City. It was performed on July 29, 2008. The orchestra that is performing is the 42nd Mostly Mozart Orchestra. The conductor is Louis Langrée. The two pieces being performed in this concert is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

There were a total of four music pieces performed. They were “Overture from the Singspiel”, “Concerto in e minor”, “Concerto on b minor,opus 104”, and “Symphony#2 in b minor, opus 5”. I think pieces were performed belong to classical style.

The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.

Felix Mendelssohn is a well-known German composer, pianist and organist of the early Romantic Era. At a very young age, Felix Mendelssohn quickly established himself as a musical prodigy and is now studied by people across the world. What many do not know is that Felix had an older sister who was also a musical prodigy; however, unfortunately, she does not get the same credit as her older brother. Due to the gender politics of this time, women who performed after the age of one who should be married were looked at negatively in society. Women were meant to serve their husbands and take care of the children, not to compose or perform at musical venues. Pieces from both Songs without Words composed by Felix Mendelssohn and Das Jahr composed by Fanny Mendelssohn have so many similarities. When taking a closer look at Felix’s compositional work, it is sometimes indistinguishable to the works of Fanny.

Vienna was a hotspot for composer because during this time Vienna was doing great. What I mean by that is Vienna was a beatuful city full of beatuful buildings. And also had wonderful art there as well. because of this many people came to visit vienna and all it had to offer. And so of course it's only natural that composer would want to go to Vienna. They realized that was the quickest way to get there music noticed and so some of the best composers eve came there like Mozart, and Beethoven. And because of them, this also added to the prestiege of