I attended to Faculty Recital concert, on November 1, 2018 which located at Glendale community college. This was my First Time I attend to classical recital concert. All the performance performed by GCC music department staffs on an Auditorium building. The concert included following instruments: Violin, piano, cello, flute oboe and soprano. The stage was designed pretty simple. It was set up with white background, a royal piano which was located on the left corner of the stage and chairs and note stands in the middle of the stage for musicians. Performers. Before the concert started, an administrative came and welcomed to audience. The concert took around one hour, and performers were dressed up formal presented pieces by different composers.
The first performance was called Concerto in g minor RV 107, which composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741) and performed by Gail Acosta on a violin, Catherine Biagini on cello Bethany Pflueger on Flute and Paul Sherman oboe. This piece included three movement: 1) Allegro, 2) Largo, 3) Allegro. The opening movement of Concerto started with Allegro form where all players started play together, was fast and lovely tempo and switched to largo which was slower sustained tempo and, finally back to Allegro fast and loud movement to impress the audience. The rhythm of the music changed many times during the performance. In some parts seemed to have full sounds combination, whereas in some parts flute and oboe stopped and only cello and violin were playing.
I was amazed how the four performers could play in perfect coordination without any defect. This piece is an example of baroque style. The second piece of concert was combination two pieces song. The first song “Songs my mother Taught Me” From Gypsy Melodies op. 55 No.4 composed by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). This piece performed by Marine Ter-kazaryan with a soprano voice and Peter Green on piano. This was a Romantic style piece of classical music Dvorak. Opening part started with lovely melody with piano and after a few second soprano was joined, and it ended by very cheerful melody of piano itself. The second piece was a song which called “Song to The Moon” from Rusalka by Antonin Dvorak.
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This piece had the same opening as the first piece, started with piano. However, the melody of piano and soprano where both end at the same time. These two pieces were completely different from the first performance. They are example of an opera song in a classical genre. Her powerful voice got my full attention and made me stare on stage the whole time. The third performance was “Acht Stucke Fur Flote Allein” composed by Paul Hindemith (1921-1963) performed by Bethany Pflueger on flute. It contained 8 different personalities and each one independent from the other piece of solo flute in German language. Before the performance started performing, she explained the eight different concepts of flute she was going to play, and told audience, please put your phone on; however, a few second after her announcement a person phone started ringing which made everyone laugh and created friendly and warmer environment for audience. Each melody was varying from each other.
For example, the first piece had leisurely and slightly moved, second one had a movement in scherzando style which it means playful manner. The third opiece had very slow and free in time theme and so on. The fourth performance Oblivion which composed by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) performed by Ovanes Arakelyan on piano and Paul Sherman on an oboe. It is a tango piece and beautiful portion full of elegant notes. The song started by playing a piano and an oboe both together. This was my favorite piece which made audience to have feeling of sadness and happiness and at the same moment made your emotion to go up and down throughout the piece. The melody started very gentle with all the strings, with quiet and slow tempo, it progressed with the same tempo and about the halfway melody changed with a contrasting theme but less intense and finally, ended with higher pitched an oboe and grew stronger in the way it sounds.
Overall, Melody had long held notes with slowly falling figures. The melody was kind of sad, but it was full of emotion and love. One of the composers of this concert was Antonia Vivaldi Italian composer and violinist born in 1675 in Italy and passed away in 1741 in Vienna. Vivaldi marked on the concerto form of music in baroque style. He stablished the three movement of concerto(fast-slow-fast). His father was a person that thought him how to play violin and he became a famous violinist in 1703 and was appointed violin master at Ospedale de lla Pietà.
Vivaldi became a composer of sacred vocal music in 1713 and achieved in great succession by vocal music (Porter, et al.). He has around 500 concerti, they are either double concerti or chamber concerti for a group of instruments without orchestra (“Ripieno”). He also wrote about 50 operas and 50 vocal music composition. They range from short scale for solo voice to large scale of musical composition for double choir and an orchestra. Vivaldi famous work is “A series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons”. He impresses many other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach by its concertos and arias. Talbot, Michael, et al. “Antonio Vivaldi.”
Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 24 July 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Vivaldi. Another composer of this concert was Paul Hindemith one of the main figures between the first and second war. He was a German composer, violinist theorist and conductor born in 1895 and died in 1963 in Frankfurt. Hindemith uses new system in music that is non-diatonic and centers around tonic. He ranks all the musical interval from the most constant to the dissonant. At the age of 20, he became an opera orchestra leader and in late 1920 known as a foremost composer. He composed chamber music composed for “Amar-Hindemith”. In the 1930s he went to Ankara and led to establish an opera and ballet music and influence the development of music in turkey.
During late 30s, he wrote the book called “The Craft of Musical Composition” which he advocates about his system as a hormonic structure of other music and illustrate his system of music from early origins of European music to the contemporary. Kingsbury, Stephen. “Paul Hindemith | Biography & History.” AllMusic, www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-hindemith-mn0000112665/biography. The last composer of this concert was Astor Piazzola. He was born in 1921 in Argentina. Astor was a Latin American 20th century tango composer and arranger. He changed the traditional tango to the new style nuevo tango combining elements from Jazz and classical music. He was the only child of his family. In 1925, he moved to New York with his family and started playing bandoneon in 1929. And composed his primary tango “La Catinga” a year later.
On August 16th, 1953, he presented his classical composition “Buenos Aires” for Fabien Sevitzky competition and won a grant to study in Paris with the well-known French composition Nadia Boulanger. He had written about 750 composition Piazzolla stablish patterns called fast-slow-fast-slow coda for his composition which the fast section emphasizing gritty tango rhythms and angular melodic figures and the slow section is used for string instrument in group. Throughout Pialloza composition, piano used to be rhythmic backbone. At the age of 17, he created his orchestra group and started to compose for film. Piazzolla passed away in 1992 in Buenos Aires. Astor Piazzolla: Chronology of a Revolution, www.piazzolla.org/biography/biography-english.html. From the entire concert, the forth performance truly couth my attention. The fourth performance which presented by Ovanes Arakelyan on piano and Poaul Sherman on an oboe. This was a sound Track of the “Mario Bellocchio” film.
This song was full of emotion and love which cannot be put into any words. The melody gives you kind of feeling of sadness and hormonic sophistication which make me fell relax and deep sense of stasis. Classical music is my favorite type of the music. This piece brought me back toward my junior period back to my country. I got emotional and made me cry. I am lucky because I attended to this concert, now every day Listen to this song, and I fell in love with this song. The last piece, Liber Tango composed by Astor piazolla(1921-1992) is in a key of A minor played by Ovanes Arakelyan and Peter Green played on piano and the third party joined them who was turning the notes for players. Libertango is a piece in a four beat with an ABA structure and relying on a theme of freedom. The song started with extremely fast piano and after a brief respite, the material returns faster and more urgently.
Libertango contributed from contemporary Jazz and Tango, from the Jazz and Latin genre. Ostinato and the bass line are the backbone of Libertango The primary section had bass line in descending motion and the secondary section was place on fifth motion and tonicization. Overall the harmony was in minor mod. After preforming this piece all the performers came to the stage and presented themselves. I am more than happy to attend faculty recital concert and was the witness of all the instrumentalist at Glendale community college who presented professionally.
