Piano Concert By Mrs. Kristi Helfen And Pamela Martin

On Spetember 21 at 7:30 in Williams Hall, I participated in a piano concert performed by Mrs. Kristi Helfen and Mrs. Pamela Martin. What’s even more surprising was that this performance is not only a simple piano concert. Rather, it was a four hands piano concert that required much more proficiency in piano. In this concert, they performed several renowned songs: Overture to Orchestral Suite in D major, BMV 1068 by Bach, Grnde Rondo in A Major D. 951 by Schubert, The Frolics of a Band of Children by Villa-Bobos, Sonata in F major, K. 497 by Mozart, and Marche Ecossaise sur un Theme Populaire by Debussy. Mrs. Kristi Helfen was a dedicated piano educator in Oxford College of Emory University and a freelance piano performer. In addition, she even got awarded with a grant from Steinway Piano Gallery to celebrate her commitment to piano education.

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Kristi Helfen and Mrs. Pamela Martin thoroughly introduced the music they were playing that night. Their descriptions of the songs gave me a great background knowledge of what I was about the experience and expect for the next hour. In addition, with the information about the background of different songs, I can immerse myself better into the scenarios and relish the mellifluous music. Therefore, I believed the introduction gave all the audience present that night a really detailed background. Amongst all extraordinary pieces of songs Mrs. Kristi Helfen and Mrs. Pamela Martin performed, the one that captivated me was Marche Ecossaise sur un Theme Populaire bt Claude Debussy. One of the reasons that this song was engraved in my mind was because this marching song did not take a normal route as all the other marching band songs. From what I learned in some online music courses, marching songs usually starts with a brisk pace, and as the music goes on, the magnitude of the atmosphere will turn to a more magnificent