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Saturday, June 6, 2009 || 11:07 PM
of utter Despair.
Philharmonic Orchestra 3 hours ago,
was indeed a blast.
lasted for an hour and half.
Conducted by Claus Peter Flor,
with 21 instruments played by >50 people on stage,
was really amazing.
Music piece was
Symphony No.6 in A minor,
so called ''Tragic'',
& it is composed by Gustav Mahler.
Here's a little about him.
(born Kaliste, Bohemia 7 July, 1860; died Vienna, 18 May 1911)
Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conductor. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-Romantic composers, although his music was never completely accepted by the musical establishment of Vienna while he was still alive. Mahler composed primarily symphonies and songs; however, his approach to genre often blurred the lines between orchestral Lied, symphony, and symphonic poem.
His Style of Writing.
The spirit of the Lied (German for song) constantly rests in his work. He followed Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann in developing the song cycle, but rather than write piano accompaniment, he orchestrated it instead. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) is a set of four songs written as a rejected lover wandering alone along the earth; Mahler wrote the text himself, inspired by his unhappy love affair with a singer while conducting at Kassel. Keenly aware of the colourations of the orchestra, the composer filled his symphonies with flowing melodies and expressive harmonies, achieving bright tonal qualities using the clarity of his melodic lines. Among his other innovations are expressive use of combinations of instruments in both large and small scale, increased use of percussion, as well as combining voice and chorus to symphony form, and extreme voice leading in his counterpoint. His orchestral style was based on counterpoint; two melodies would each start off the other seemingly simultaneously, choosing clarity over a mass of sound.
Often, his works involved the spirit of Austrian peasant song and dance. The Ländler – the Austrian folk-dance, which developed first into the minuet and then into the waltz – figures in several symphonies, as indeed do the minuet and the waltz. (All three historical stages – Ländler, minuet, and waltz – are represented in the 'dance movement' of the Ninth Symphony).
Mahler combined the ideas of Romanticism, including the use of program music, and the use of song melodies in symphonic works, with the resources that the development of the symphony orchestra had made possible. The result was to extend, and eventually break, the understanding of symphonic form, as he searched for ways to expand his music. He stated that a symphony should be an "entire world". As a result, he met with difficulties in presenting his works, and would continually revise the details of his orchestration until he was satisfied with the effect.
He was deeply spiritual and described his music in terms of nature very often. This resulted in his music being viewed as extremely emotional for a long time after his death. In addition to restlessly searching for ways of extending symphonic expression, he was also an ardent craftsman, which shows both in his meticulous working methods and careful planning, and in his studies of previous composers.
the music ''Tragic'' is really facinating.
the beauty of the music when all instruments was played together
can't be describe.
*although i hate the percussion darn much =.=
ah it's really amazing.
i loved the 1st & 4th movement the most.
the 2nd & 3rd movements have lots of classical genre which i don't quite like.
haha
doesn't attract me.
and hah.
i loveee strings family.
The Big family surely rock !!!
Every member of it has such wonderful tune.
Every stroke sounded solid & strong,
and every stroke of every member can just blind together so perfectly.
a music piece really can't go far without them.
oh yea.
strings just rock !!!
XD
so this is my review about the orchestra just now.
i hope to go for another one.
perhaps the Swiss Chamber Choir on the 17th or 18th of July ?
haha
Music just rocks.
p/s.
lunch at a japanese restaurant*forgot namewas really satisfying.
i loved that meal.
haha
kani maki & unagi rock !!!
XD
jEs Ž †_'
i surrender my soul,
to you.
^^
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