Orchestra Winter Concert Experience

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Orchestra Winter Concert Experience

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        I arrived earlier enough to find a seat, familiarize myself with the environment, and absorb the atmosphere to convince myself that I was actually attending an orchestra concert for the first time in my life. NJSO Youth Orchestra Winter Concert was at its best bringing out a sense of occasion and spectacle. The music took place in one of the formal buildings in our school. It was a memorable musical concert. However, the music played was challenging since I was not familiar with some of them. Nevertheless, the songs performed were quality with the professional players looking committed and passionate concerning their performance. The songs played included “The bird catches aria” by Mozart,  Traditional- "Mary had a little lamb,” NewBold- "Honor and glory", Balmages- " Gallop",Balmages- "Impulse" and  Beethoven- "Ode to Joy".

        It was an emotional yet exhilarating moment given the fact that it was my first music concert. With the joyous experience, I was able to let loose of the notions and preconceptions I had developed about orchestra experience. It I was strange, I agree, but focusing on the music guaranteed me a good time. The songs played were overwhelming that rendered me open and vulnerable to them. In other words, I was carried away with the tunes, rhythms, watching how the maestro bay and the passionate musicians who seem to enjoy themselves interact with each other. Additionally, I could not fail to notice how the music ebbed and flowed rising and falling and sometimes powerful, ephemeral and delicate at others.  

        The songs played at the Orchestra Winter Concert spoke for themselves. However, I did not liked the fact that I was not familiar with orchestra concerts. I felt like I needed to study beforehand for maximum enjoyment. I felt like I had listened the songs days before the song, I would have had the best time of my life. Interestingly, during the music concert, I felt like classical music was all over and surrounding us. I recognized that these are the kind of songs I usually hear in movie soundtracks, cartoons, retail shops, cartoons, commercials, themes is television programs and sometime in several of the elevators. The whole time I was like “Where have I been all this time, if this is the kind of pleasure and fun people get from these concerts.”

        It was evident that this popular music quoted classical melodies. It was noticeable that every classical piece employed its own category of different tunes repeatedly in a wide variety of ways. I began recognizing these melodies as progressive work. I was able to recognize that by listening to the ways to the way the melodies were repeated raised many questions such as whether the melodies repeated the same with the first one and whether it was repeated with different character. In addition to the identified issues, some of the noticeable concerns included whether the melody began in a similar manner but go off in a different direction.