The School Concert: The Mysterious Maestro

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Introduction The orchestra concert that I had watched and enjoyed was the school concert, which has performed at 25th October 2014, 12:30 pm. The concert was conducted at PERTRONAS Twin Tower (KLCC), MPO hall, which also known as Malaysian Phiharmonic Orchestra. The school concert has conducted for nearly 1 hour, which ends around 1:30 pm. The title for this concert was “The Mysterious Maestro”. There were total of twelve pieces that have performed by the orchestra. The first piece was named “Overture from The Force of Destiny”, the second piece was “Bachianis Brasileiras No.5 - Aria”, and the third piece was “Mediatation from Thais”. Next, the fourth piece was “Hannah’s song”, the fifth piece was “Estudiantina”, and the sixth piece was “Caucasian …show more content…

The symphony was one of the Beethoven's greatest work and best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Then, it was the greatest piece of music ever written. The genre of this piece was for symphony and suitable perform in the orchestral way. Then, the piece falls into classical period. The mood of this piece conveyed by the performers was happy and peaceful after suffer of the war and challenging then move to the peaceful life. The theme of the piece would take on a life of its own, enthralling politicians and public alike and ultimately co-opted for a huge variety of social purposes. Besides, the melody of the piece is beginning with simple melody then group these elements move into a sharp, powerful dotted theme. The pitch of the piece was become high when they perform the Ode to Joy. The sound gradually increased, the momentum is growing, and the band developed into full play until the climax. Then the tone color was warm and bright. The rhythm of this piece was combine energy through the use of staggered rhythm, staccato, and timpani accompaniment. After that, the dynamic of the piece is performing the level of sound in low and high way. So it brings the feeling of sad and happy to audience. The key of piece was D-minor inside the melody. The texture of this piece is polyphonic because it performs two or more lines of relatively equal interest at the same time. Lastly, …show more content…

Symphony No.5 was known as the final piece by Mendelssohn and after the first performance at Berlin, Mendelssohn never performed it again because he regarded the symphony as a piece of juvenilia. More than 20 year after Mendelssohn have passed away, the symphony has been performed again. Symphony No.5 was written as D Major on the title page of Mendelssohn’s score but only the introduction part is written in D Major while most of the main theme and cadence setting of the first movement are in D Minor. The first movement is Andante – Allegro con fuoco and the musiccarries the notion of conflicts. The music give the feeling of anger as the pitch of the song varies from slow to very fast paced higher pitch which would invoke the feeling of anger and seriousness in audience and the song was from baroque period. The tone color for this piece was bright and ringing. The texture that are used by the song are polyphonic as multiple have two or more line at the same time while performing. The volume of the music throughout the orchestra performance varies from low to high and carries different feeling with them. The rhythm of this piece is give the feeling of energy through the use of staggered rhythm, string, and accompanied by the timpani.The Harmony of the music