Two Star Symphony: Concert Report

The symphony is in four very powerful and entertaining movements. The first movement begins in the pianissimo tone with the strings section, but quickly enters the fortissimo tone with the introduction of the woodwind, brass and percussion sections. The dynamics of the musical melody varies throughout the movement moving from crescendo to decrescendo modes. The first movement reminds you of a raging storm from soft blowing winds to thunder and lighting. The audience is mesmerized by this first movement of the sonata.

There were a lot of instruments you could hear when you first listened to this piece. The first instruments that I heard right away were the violins, flutes, and oboes. As I kept listening I noticed the clarinets, bassoons, cello, viola, and the French horn. The instruments that seemed like they were the most important in this piece were the violins, because they started the piece and through-out the rest of the piece they were always there being the main part of this piece.

During the opening movement, the piano and the violin duel with each other for dominance each with its own motive. Then the two melodies seem to find a more even balance with each other. Toward to end of the movement the two start to battle again bringing a degree of energy and drama to the composition. The second movement is a bit lighter with a cherry piano melody that is interesting counterpoint to the violins more passionate feel. The other instruments add depth and texture to the movements but seem to be merely an afterthought in the music.

The conductor started to move the baton in soft movements and all the instruments were synchronized to play the most beautiful melody that transported me to the old French pictures that I have in my head. Set in sonata allegro form, the first performance was soft and

Next, Amy Huzjak, the cellist, and the orchestra minus the horn section performed Shastoakovich’s cello concerto. Huzjak’s cello gave the composition a haunting and mournful tone. As the music filled the hall, the addition of an instrument was obvious; a Celesta added a unique pitch. This was my least favorite piece of the night; perhaps, the harsh sadness of the music put me at

After the traditional setting in Symphony #1, Beethoven varied his treatment of the 3rd movement as a traditional “Minuet” form while substituting a “Scherzo” for the penultimate movements of Symphonies 2, 3, and 5. Beethoven is credited for inventing this movement of the symphonic form and it is his original treatments of the “scherzo” that define its characteristics of tempo, length, and style. Adding new flair and style, the scherzo is almost twice as fast as the dance based “minuet” form of the classical and baroque period. Beethoven did not abandon the Minuet, as it reappears in later symphonies, but the implementation of this new symphonic movement gives credence to the notion that Beethoven had mastered the traditional form, and felt free to alter the compositional structure to give the greatest effect to the work as a whole. By the completion of his 7th Symphony, Beethoven had developed the scherzo into a serious movement of the classical symphonic form.

22 The movement opens with an arpeggiated figure, the trumpet enters with a very resigned tune. The upward leap at the beginning of the melody is the main feature of all phrases in this movement. The movement continues to build with each phrase before the unmuted section where the trumpet has an almost improvisatory accompaniment. After the high point the energy calms again towards the end of the movement.

The movement that occurred next was Divertimento for Clarinet Quartet. Throughout this piece, imitative polyphony was the predominant texture as the bass clarinet echoed the melody created by the clarinets. The tempo remained allegro throughout the entire movement. The piece came to a climactic end with its fast

The piece started off with a very quiet horn melody. The melody was very calming and warm and contained many notes of long durations. The melody was also very smooth and legato and used a good mix of major harmonies and minor harmonies which kept the phrase very interesting. The violins held a note to overlap the melody with leaps to next notes. The low strings held note underneath to support the main melody. The melody was then passed onto strings, and then to the upper woodwinds. The mood was very dark and more mournful. The low strings played repeating figures with shorter duration notes and accents on the downbeats, contrasting long duration melody from upper strings and creating tension. The upper woodwinds then play a melody that instantly brightens the mood. The tension contstantly builds up and then falls throughout. Afterwards, the flute has the melody which was very bright, legato, and smooth. The strings then respond to that melody while flute is playing repeated figures underneath that are sequenced and tension increased. After this section, the horn melody from the beginning was played again while the flute melody serves as a counter melody. This continues until the horn and flute are in unison, which then shifts to a call and response. Violin trills underneath provide tension. The tension was released when horn plays the main theme again. Then, an ascending

Violins on the left, woodwinds in the center, a brass section on the right next to the strings and percussion in the back all start out in a single conversation with the brass taking the opening lead of the piece. And fancy free it was as this work immediately started out as the fast tempo “galop” movement. The second movement had the traditional waltz with the third and final movement the “Danzon”. During the Danzon movement, I noticed the strings plucking and tapping their bows on their instruments. I had never heard this piece before and found it very consonant, with a nice level of fluidity and extremely pleasing to listen to.

This movement started out with woodwinds family playing in allegro vivace. Then the violas, cellos, and bass jump in and start to slow things down. At around 27:07 the tubas and triangle chime in and give this movement a fine shining. And at 29:00 this movement comes to an end with woodwind family leading the way out.

Herbert von Karajan conducted the orchestra I posted on EDpuzzle. In general, music instruments which an orchestra use for this music are two flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), two oboes and English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, and strings. In the early stage of the movement, loud minor sounds of string and woodwind instruments created feelings of magnificence and anxiety at the same time. In the midway of the movement, the orchestra played the combination or alternate of minor and some gentle major melodies. Therefore, the mood of this music frequently changes: powerful and impressive minor sounds and warm major sound.

The National Symphony Orchestra performed on Saturday evening, March 5, 2016 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The show was divided into three parts with different performance; the conductor for this group is Christoph Eschenbach, the National Symphony Orchestra Debut name is Ray Chen, Violin, & Adriana Horne, Harp, and play Bruch / 2 Prokofiev symphonies. The venue where the performance took place was at the Concert Hall with high-tech acoustical canopy, new seating sections and handicap-accessible. The atmosphere was beautiful and so vintage because of the Hadeland crystal chandeliers that was given by the government of Norway. The seating capacity was 2442 with audience mostly elderly caucasian people, families with their kids, and random young adults with a significant others.

I.In the first song the cello was placed in front of the piano. The song was allegro to moderato. At times it would speed up to allergo, but usually stayed at moderato. The song was also piano when the tempo was moderato. when the song would pick up speed the sound was also rise to mezzo piano.

The first violinist stood up and signaled, then all the instruments begin to play. The first piece was Javelin and it was a