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    The Nashville Symphony held a concert at The Schermerhorn Concert Hall on Friday November 5th, performing Franz Joseph Haydn’s famous work The Creation. This performance featured the Nashville Symphony, and the Nashville Chorus, and was conducted by world-renowned conductor Nicholas McGegan. This performance was very brilliant yet so simple. The symphony was cut down from its normal size to a moderate size, whereas the Chorus seemed to be at full strength and numbers behind the Symphony. There were

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    The first composition was Symphony No.44 in E minor Trauer. It was composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. The piece is from the Classical era and it is a symphony. Symphony is a large orchestral piece in several movements. James B. Mallard III was the conductor for the performance. The piece has four movements: Allegro con brio, Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto, Adagio, Finale: Presto. All of them were performed. The first movement was fast. It started softly then it became louder. Regularly, the minuet (with

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    Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a brilliant piece that exposes the senses to the dark conflicts, then fight through the controversy with small bursts of triumph and ends with the overall elation with the final victory of the immense battle. In our reading, it was brought to light that the first four notes have more meaning. “Dot, dot, dot, dash. The Morse code symbol for V, which stood for victory.” It leaves little to the imagination to understand why this piece by Beethoven

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    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is lauded as one, if not the most masterful piece of classical music that has ever been created. Unravelling all the components within it is a daunting task; beginning with the origin of the central theme of the piece from the poem “Ode to Joy”, the use of fugue, the deconstruction of the four movements, and the instrumentation. Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” generally speaks about brotherhood, joy, and drinking. Which if being experienced all at the same time, gives a sense

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    Mahler 3 Part Symphony

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    3. This piece is from the Romantic period, written in 1901 and published in 1902. Mahler wrote a large three part symphony intended to be played with a large orchestra of at least 36 instruments. He wrote the score with the intention of using the instruments in new ways and exploring the capabilities of the instruments and their ranges. The third part of this symphony, the Adagietto, is meant to bring a simplicity to the beauty of the piece. This piece ends with a rondo. 4. Mahler and I share a

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    The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 at the Berlin Philharmonie, gifted the audience with a masterful rendition of the movements within the symphony. The Symphony divides into three separate parts, in which the movements complement each other's characteristics. The symphony orchestra features a myriad of orchestral instruments featuring the Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, and Percussion families. Furthermore, the various movements throughout the performance utilize

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    Introduction to music class I decided, to write about the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason why I choose this symphony is because it’s an emotional piece of music, and it definitely catch my attention since the moment I heard it. I feel this symphony reach emotional situations that are above human explosions. Emotional areas that invade us through a contradictory fact between feelings. The Seventh Symphony in A major by Beethoven appears in 1813. The orchestra contains

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    A Circle of Forces; ASU Symphony Orchestra. Marking the start of a new musical session, there is much anticipation of what the new season offers. I wen to the concert featured three instrumentalists of the Arizona State University Orchestra.on November 4th at Ketzin Concert hall. Led by conductor Jeffery Meyer," The concert begins with Benjamin Britten's evocative " Four Sea Interludes," Nuyts’s "Tumbleweed Concerto"and ends with Prokofiev's powerful “Symphony No. 5”. From the

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    the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason why I choose this symphony is because it’s an emotional piece of music, and it definitely catch my attention since the moment I heard it. I feel this symphony reach emotional situations that are above human explosions. Emotional areas that invade us through a contradictory fact between feelings, towards a liberation unreachable earthly, especially in the second movement called Allegretto. The Seventh Symphony in A major appears

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    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra management model is progressive, critical, stabilitative. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra model is progressive in the way they expanded the viewing of a symphony. They incorporated lyrics as well as a slide show. The management understood the decline in attendance to the Symphony and made a judgement to incorporate multiple dimensions of art to expand their audience. The Orchestra also saw the importance of progression with the community presence. To get different parts

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