Essay On Music Concert

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Music 101

Byron Delto

Concert Report #1

I attended a Sundays Live concert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The concert was held in the Leo S. Bing Theater on the Edmund D. Edelman Stage. Scheduled for 6 p.m., the concert took place on the 30th.

The hour long concert consisted of three musical pieces:

• Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Opus 14, No. 2 with three movements:

 Allegro

 Andante

 Scherzo: Allegro assai

• Schumann’s Arabeske, Opus 18 with a single movement

• Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Opus 58 with four movements:

 Allegro maestoso

 Scherzo: Molto vivace

 Largo

 Finale: Presto, non tanto

Since it was a piano concert, there was only a single instrument – the piano. The room was setup so that the audience would be facing the stage which a featured a grand piano with towering white boards behind it. The boards were arranged in such a manner as to seemingly cup the piano and emphasize it. The room was clearly designed with acoustics in mind as displayed by the hetero-shaped wooden panels on the walls and the ceiling that started out flat and would sharply rise at regular intervals, eventually filling out a wavy form.

The first piece was composed by Beethoven. The first movement, played with an allegro tempo, was very light and jovial. It featured a very playful melody played over an arpeggiated bass. The second movement was played andante, or moderately slow, and initially had a lot of chords played staccato in the melody. I personally enjoyed the child-like playfulness exuded along with gravity in the background at some parts of the movement. The third movement was Scherzo: Allegro assai. The word “scherzo” refers to the fact that it is the third movemen...

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... and was institutionalized for two years until his death.

Frédéric Chopin was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland and died in 1849 in Paris, France. Chopin began playing piano at the age of six and soon after receiving lessons, he had become a better pianist than his instructor. He moved to Paris and began to work as a teacher while writing his own music. While in France, Chopin began a relationship with a novelist named George Sand. The two settled down in Nohant, Paris where Chopin had time to compose the “B Minor Sonata” and the “Opus 55 Nocturnes” and the “Opus 56 Mazurkas” (http://www.biography.com/people/fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-chopin-9247162#relationship-with-george-sand&awesm=~oBaGShQe6bw4T5). In the mid 1840s, Chopin’s health began to fall and he ended his relationship with Sand in 1848. He toured the British Isles afterwards until his death at the age of 38.