Music 11
Youtube Video/Concert Report Assignment.Watch the first 20:05 of the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCl2z3ToBZ4
Here is the title of the work you will see and the featured performers.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Opus 35)
Composed by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Allegro moderato (Moderately fast)
Performed by Angélica Olivo, violinist
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar Sala Simón Bolívar
Caracas, Venezuela. 07/02/2014
Tchaikovsky was a 19th-century Russian composer. His emotionally-charged musicalcompositions are particularly grand expressions of the Romantic style.
Please note that the first 20 minutes of the video will show you only the first movement of this concerto. To see the complete concerto, you would need to watch the next two movements. These are shown in the last 16:45 of the video. After you have watched the video at least once, please write a review of the performance. Your review should be a carefully written essay of 1 to 1-and-a-half pages. Do not make your essay any longer than that. You will be marked on spelling, grammar, and the correct usage of musical terminology.Make careful, insightful observations about the music and about the performance. You may comment on the musical work, the soloist, the conductor, the orchestra, the general atmosphere,or any other aspect of the performance. Also, you may, if you wish, learn something about the composer and/or the musical work and include that in your review.
Discuss what a concerto is, and how the traditions and ideas of the Romantic period are expressed in this particular concerto by Tchaikovsky.
In your review, you might also discuss the period in which the work was composed, the genre, and the demands of the genre. What can you say about the performers involved? What words that we’ve used in class seem appropriate for the discussion? What instruments do you see playing prominent roles? What is the name for the large group that is performing? What can