The New York Classical Players

For the second and final concert report, I listened to the performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, as played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven lived in Germany during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and was an influential figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in western music. The performance requires a large number of instruments, with woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, and even a choir during the 4th movement.

On November 7, I attended the concert called “ArtPower! Presents: St. Lawrence String Quartet” at 8pm in CPMC, UCSD. Four artists performed it: Geoff Nuttall, Mark Fewer for violin, Lesley Robertson for viola, and Christopher Constanza for cello. They performed three String quartets, composed in different eras. The first one is “ String Quartet in C major, Op.76, No.3 ‘Emperor’,” composed by Franz Josef Haydn, 1732-1809. The second one is ”Five Pieces for Spring Quartet,” composed by Erwin Schulhoff, in 1923.The third one is “String Quartet in C-Major, Op.61,” composed by Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904. This String Quartet with four musicians impressed me a lot, not only for the concert full of audiences, of whom half were on the lower floor

The chamber music concert was held in Manhattan School of Music at 5:00 pm Friday, April 15. The concert was conducted by many instruments with various types of music. The atmosphere was fairly intense as the concert hall was approximately the size of an average home living room with about 35 people in the audience. The camber concert was divided into two major parts with an intermission of 15 minutes in between the parts. As for this concert report I would like to focus on primarily the music pieces I’ve liked and the experience I have had.

I thoroughly enjoyed this concert from beginning to end. The opening piece, “String Quartet in F Major, K 590”, was both soothing and

On Friday, November 06, 2015 at 7:30 pm, I attended the conservatory orchestra concert conducted by George Rothman that was held in the Whitman Theatre of the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College. There were four pieces of music during this concert. The first piece of music was “Belshazzar’s Gastabud” (Belshazzar’s Feast), op.51 by Jean Sibelius. The second piece of music was “Le Tombeau de Couperin” by Maurice Ravel. The third piece of music was “Le Festin De L’Araignee” (The Spider’s Feast), op. 17 by Albert Roussel. The last piece of music was Symphony No.1 in D major, “Classical,” op.25 by Sergie Prokofiev.

This is it. The moment I have been waiting for what feels like forever. I played the last note with the most strength and intensity that I could and shut my eyes as I lifted my bow in the air. I held my breath and kept my eyes closed but my ears open in order to wait for the audience’s reaction. Silence. I opened my eyes with anticipation, only to be disappointed. “Oh… it was my imagination,” I said out loud to the empty classroom. I set my violin down on a chair to the right of me and sighed. For once I thought that my spotlight moment had finally come to life, but it was just a dream.

When I took my first bow on a stage, I knew that wanted to peruse the performing arts as a permanent career. I was so pleased with myself that I finally found a place where I belong. As I have grown as a performer, I have learned that performing is not just reciting lines in front of an audience but creating a picture with words. There is a technique behind acting and many have come to known this as “method”, “method acting”, or the “Stanislavski method”.

On April 23rd, I attended a musical performance by the Diderot String Quartet. The performance was held at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, N.Y. at 2:30 p.m. The Diderot String Quartet performance that I attended was titled “Diderot String Quartet: Haydn and his Students.” The Diderot String Quartet performance is titled after the musical pieces of the concert, which included string quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, Anton Ferdinand Titz, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The first musical piece performed was “String Quartet No. 1 in G Major” by Anton Ferdinand Titz. The second musical piece performed was “String Quartet Op. 76, No.6 in Eb Major Fantasia” by Franz Joseph Haydn. The third and final piece performed was “String Quartet Op.74 in Eb Major Harp” by Ludwig van Beethoven. Each musical piece was performed beautifully by the Diderot String Quartet, which included 2 violinists (Johanna Novom and Adriane Post), a cellist (Paul Dwyer), and a violist (Kyle Miller).

They positioned themselves to being playing Johannes Brahms composition “Quintet for Clarinet and Strings”. The next group of performers came on stage and started playing “String Quartet in G Minor, opus 10” by Claude Debussy. Claude Debussy is an amazing composer; my favorite composition by him is “Claire de Lune”. Gyorgy Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

I attended the West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra Concert which was held on Thursday the 25th of February 2016. It was hosted within West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center at the Lyle B. Clay Concert Center. The concert started at 7:40 pm, 10 minutes after the scheduled time, lasting for close to two hours. The concert consisted of four pieces; “Hebrides Overture”, “Concerto in D Major”, “Siegfried Idyll” and Overture to Rienzi. The third piece was conducted by graduate assistant director, Hanjin SA whereas the rest was conducted by Mitchell Arnold. As for instruments, those in use were percussion, timpani, tuba, trombone, horn, clarinet, flute, piano, harp, contrabass, violoncello, viola and violin.

On December 9, 2014, I attended classical music artist Philippe Quint’s guest appearance performance (at The Scripps Research Institute), which is part of the San Diego Symphony’s Chamber Music Series. Along with Mr Quint, Pei-Chun Tsai, Wesley Precourt and Edmund Stein delighted the audience with their sensitive artistry with the violin. Jeeyoon Kim so elegantly played the piano, Frank Renk demonstrated his talent on the clarinet, Aj Nilles and Jason Karlyn played the viola, while Xian Zhou and Chia-Ling Chien played the cello. This program included two pieces by Serge Prokofiev; the Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 and Violin Sonata in D Major No. 2, Op. 94bis, and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70.

The concert took place in the Weber Music Hall. Weber Music hall is a small auditorium with two levels of seating. The setting was very formal. Everyone was very quiet and paid attention to the performance. The lights were a little dim everywhere, as very bright light shined on the ensemble. The piano was center stage and faced sideways, so the audience could see the side view of the pianist playing. The violinist was in front of the piano and a little to the left, so he did not block the view of the audience. The majority of the audience was on the lower level of the auditorium, with a couple of stragglers up top. All of the audience was in front of the stage, and had a good view of the performance. I was expecting a well, organized

Suddenly my mind was at the moment of being exploded because of the awesome, beautiful sound that I heard above. The song that I loved the most was "In Kräftigen, nicht zu schnellem tempo."As Ms. Kopatchinskaja played this first music it had sounded so peaceful, but dark and horrifying sound. The concert outlined one work that is "Schumann, Violin Concerto". There are three movements of this work which is written all by Mr. Schumann the famous composer.

A total three piece of music was performed and they are all very nice. The concert begins with the Apres by Franck Krawczyk and this piece is from the modern period, and this has also been the first performance to the public. The second work is called Cello Concerto in A minor,Op.129 by Schumann and this piece is from the romantic period. This piece has three movements and the movements are played without pause. The first movement is in A minor key and it is not too fast. The piece starts with solo cello and very light string accompaniment and the theme is present in the solo part. The second movement is F major and it is very short and slow. The soloist is accompanied by pizzicato. The transition to the last movement is pretty loud and it

I attended a piano four hands concert performed by artists, Sangmi Lim and Dino Mulic. The pair preformed a program consisting of four pieces, Sonata in D Major, K.381. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940 (op. 103) by Franz Schubert, Three Pieces (Elegy, Song, Poco rumbato) by Vladimir Denader, and History of the Tango by Astor Piazzolla.