Musical Event

Musical Event

Music is conspicuously a part of our lives at all grades, if individual, communal, or even national. The American public is evidently made cognizant of music through TV, wireless, recordings, reside, live performances, and backdrop music. It is commonly utilized to convey persons simultaneously and assist to articulate heritage persona, human compassion, and individual goals and aspirations. It communicates feeling and strong feeling, and the mind-set held by its creative individual as well as all of its listeners. Since decades music has been considered as a part of our lives and numbers of theorists say that music does influence us.

In this paper we will be discussing a musical event that I had attended. I have chosen one of the concerts which I attended to discuss in my paper. This critique is based on an experiential evaluation of the MIT Symphony Orchestra concert. Mahler's Fourth Symphony is usually considered the composer's most popular symphonic work. Part of its popularity is because of what makes it different from his other symphonies. The concert held at Avery Fisher Hall, a concert hall in New York City, on Thursday March 3rd, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. the MIT Symphony was directed by Dante Anzolini, and hosted a program of classical music comprised of Janacek's Lachian Dance No.1, Ravel's Tzigane and Mahler's Symphony No.4. This was indeed a worthwhile event that I attended, leading me to understand and see musical representations very closely.

Despite the fact that the music evening was very well-presented, led by beautiful performances by the orchestra and soloists Rachel Levinson '01 (violin), and Pamela Wood (soprano), it was surprising to see that few people attended the concert since three quarters of the Kresge Auditorium was left vacant. This under-attendance of the audience can only be attributed to the fact that the concert was held in weekday that engaged many students in their midterms and other assessments. The concert was again to be repeated on Saturday, November 4, at 8 p.m. in Ellsworth Hall, at Pine Manor College.

The idea is that music is connected to the dream and the unconscious, thus enables to utter truths that lay beyond reason and some romance. A touch of melancholy and painful beauty pervades Gustav Mahler's fourth Symphony. The whole tone is unmistakable Mahler's fully trained already here. Mahler was aware of treading new ground with his music. A childhood friend wrote about his first ...