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The concert I attended was the Lilly Classical Series at the historic Hilbert Circle Theater. I attended this concert on Friday, October 6th, 2017 at 8:00 pm. The conductor was Jun Märkl with a very special guest performance from Joshua Bell, a famous violinist. In this concert they played three, thirty minute pieces with a twenty minute intermission. The first piece was entitled Les Préludes and it was composed by Franz Liszt in 1844/5. The second piece was entitled Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46 which was composed/completed by Max Bruch in 1880. This piece featured the most celebrated concert violinist today, Joshua Bell. After the noisy intermission was the third and final piece, unfortunately there was no encore. The …show more content…

This concerto featured the violin soloist, Joshua Bell. The first piece is Prelude: Grave. The name is an appropriate one for this piece because it sounds exactly like that; grave. It has varying dynamic levels and was a captivating beginning to this concerto. The second movement of this concerto was titled Adagio cantabile. This piece started off in major and it continued that way with the only relief of a minor key by the violin soloist. This piece sounded rather depressing all the way through. The third movement of the concerto was titled Allegro. This piece was the most enjoyable to me and I noticed that between the violin soloist and the rest of the orchestra, there was call and response taking place starting with the violin soloist. It was almost like a conversation between the two and you could visually see the soloist make different facial expressions, almost as if he was challenging them to do better than what he was doing. The fourth movement of this concerto was titled Andante sostenuto. This piece is soft and sweet towards the beginning but when the soloist brings his contribution to the piece it makes the piece louder than it originally was. Soon the orchestra joins in on the louder dynamic level and comes up to his level only when he is silent. The final movement of this concerto was titled Finale: Allegro guerriero. This piece was a calming yet exciting way to end the concerto. It had varying dynamic levels and kept attention throughout the entirety of the piece. This concerto was my favorite part of the entire concert. It was interesting to see the conductor’s energy and the soloist, Joshua Bell’s, energy bounce off each other and they seemed to be having fun collaborating

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