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Observing The Violin In The Utah Symphony

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Concert Report
For my concert report I chose to attend my first symphony! My friend plays the violin in the Utah Symphony and told me that she was playing and I figured it was the perfect opportunity to attend. I attended Carmina Burana on Friday, October 23rd at 7:30 pm at Abravenal Hall in Salt Lake City.
The first arrangement or three, lasted about 5 minutes, and was titled “Claire de Lune”. I really enjoyed this piece; there was a few instruments in this piece, flutes (aerophone), clarinets (aerophone), oboes(aerophone), bassoons(aerophone) harps (cordophone) and various string instruments (chordophone) including cellos and violins. The song was very quiet and peaceful and had slow tempos. I felt as though I was walking gracefully through …show more content…

What a great piece with so many rhythms, movements and tempos! I was so entertained and the 1 hour performance seemed to fly by. The instruments used were strings (chordophone), horns (aerophone), drums (membranophones), flutes (aerophone), cellos (chordophone), oboes(aerophone), clarinets (aerophone), piano (chordophone), suspended cymbals (idiophone¬), chimes (idiophone¬), symbols (idiophone¬) and a xylophone(idiophone¬) and they were playing using a polyphony texture. The performance started and ended in a similar way, the end was much louder and had a slightly quicker tempo though. I could tell that the song was telling a story because it gradually build until the “climax” of thee song and it held a strong rhythm, tempo and loudness until the song ended. The culture represented was a European culture and the piece told a story that was meant to be rambunctious that celebrated a life of drinking and the pleasures of love. The three people who sang solos were incredible and all did a great job of acting out what emotions they were singing about. This was such a great piece to see performed

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