Back on the 18th of August 2017, I got the opportunity to attend the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on David Geffen Hall. The principal performers at the orchestra were the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra which performed Prokovief's 1st Symphony, Mozart's 25th and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. The concert also featured acclaimed violinist Gil Shaham who presented what I thought was one of the most dramatic interpretations of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto Number 1. And the conductor of the entire Symphony was Louis Langrée. From the performance, it was evident that Gil Shaham had performed with the group before as the fusion between the two was quite exemplary. Like all orchestra concerts …show more content…
3 in E major. Its absolute beauty in difference to the ferocious command of the final piece demonstrated his demand. The Bach showed his focused and clear tone. This tone was constantly displayed in the Tchaikovsky, but frequently past by so quick in which the audience did not have time to taste it. Therefore, Gil Shaham’s admiration of the conductor and orchestra were understandable as he heard to them. Thus, from a personal perspective, music at the orchestra was not like anything I have ever heard before. Unlike in most other different concerts, I have attended, in the orchestra concert; the conductor took the audience through a journey whose story was told by the other performance. The tempo, rhythm, and dynamics of the song fluctuated so much and in such progressive unison that one did not notice the changes as they occurred but realized later on. The concert started with an overture which began quietly as the performers who were manning the string instrument plucked them in unison. The string instruments were soon joined by the brass instruments which made the melody clear to the audience. The mood was made more dramatic as the music progressed and the tempo increased as the texture started to become highly intense with entrances that were