I attended the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra’s opening concert on October twelfth with my twelve-year-old brother in law. Before the opening piece, the orchestra was tuning and no one was quiet for their tuning. It was very rude to the performers that were trying to tune. People came in during the first piece as well. The person to my left kept hitting me in my shoulder. Most of the people that showed up were dressed very nice. The performers wore all black tuxedos and dresses to keep the attention on the music instead of the performers. The first piece was Symphony: Mathis deer Mahler Engelkonzert by Paul Hindemith. It started beautifully with no breaks in the whole piece. It swapped between dupe meter and triple meter quite often. There was a beautiful flute solo in the middle of the piece. One of the solos had the flute playing the melody and a prominent bassoon playing underneath the melody line. It was an unusually nice combination. The whole piece was magnificent. …show more content…
85 by Edward Elgar. The stage was mot appropriately set up for the cellist, so the maestro had to move the stand and set it up for her. The maestro is the conductor. Once the soloist, Natalie Helm, was on the stage, everyone clapped for her. She wore a beautiful blue dress that reached all the way to the floor. She started the piece just like Yo-Yo Ma did in his rendition. It looked as if she loved playing in front of everyone. When the maestro stopped between the first and second movement, the crowd clapped. Because of the clapping, the maestro did not stop in between movements again. Not breaking in between would have been tiring for the performers if there was no intermission. The piece had pizzicato notes in all of the string sections. The cellist’s pizzicato notes were the best. She played virtuously. None of her pitches were off, even with the highest note on the cello that she played. It was beautiful to watch and