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Western Classical Music
The concert chosen for this paper was a piano recital that consisted of various students that took place this April 2016. The reason I chose this recital to attend was that I knew one of the performers in the show and I wanted to both support her performance by my attendance in the audience and I wanted to expose myself to a diversity of performances for the purpose of this paper. The pieces ranged in period from modern (Bartok -- "Suite, Op. 14: Allegretto-Scherzo-Allegro molto-Sostenuto") to classical (Mozart -- "Adagio in b minor, K. 540"). The students were young adults of a variety of ethnicities, from Asian to European. It was overall a very eclectic mix of musical pieces performed by a diverse number of students. Unfortunately, there were not many people in the audience -- barely a dozen -- so it was difficult for the performers to really generate a buzz in the auditorium. Nonetheless, the experience was enjoyable.
A complete list of the program included the following pieces: Bartok's Suite, Op. 14, Grieg's Lyric Piece, Op. 54, No. 4; Chopin's Etude in c sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4; Mozart's Adagio in b minor, K. 540; Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 14; Perle's Pantomime, Interlude, and Fugue (1937); Chopin's Ballade in f minor, Op. 52; Gottschalk's The Banjo; Liszt's Wilde Jagt; Bach's Partita in C minor, BMV 826 Sinfonia-Rondeau-Capriccio; Beethoven's Sonata in c minor, Op13 II Adagio cantabile; and Chopin's Ballade in F major,...
38. The performances were held on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 8 pm at LeFrak Concert Hall.
Most of the performances were of the Romantic to modern genre. The Chopin and Liszt for example had romantic feels to theme. The Bartok was more modern, with its somewhat discordant and disconnected style of play. The Mozart was of the classical genre, like the Bach, which used counterpoint a great deal. The Beethoven piece was my favorite overall -- it was perfectly played and very melodic in a melancholic sort of way. The piece was played with obvious deep feeling and was very expressive of the romantic genre that it represented as well. Yawen Wang played this piece and I was greatly moved by the performance. I felt that those in the crowd were also moved by it because, in spite of their small number, they applauded most loudly for this performance when it was concluded. It tempo was perfectly paced and its texture was smooth and soft -- unlike the Liszt which was hammering and dense (like the Bartok). Its meter was very well balanced and seemed like a slower, more thoughtful example of something by Bach.
The Bach Partita was performed by Nayoung Im and this piece was also well played. Bach sounds very complex in its performance but there is such delight in the way the composition unfolds up and down a scale and it is so metrically poised and elegant that it makes one feel refined just to listen to it. Nayoung's performance of the Partita was also well-received and…
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