Music 11 – Youtube Video/Concert Report Assignment
Watch the first
20:05 of the video below:
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)
I. 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 musical compositions are particularly grand expressions of the Romantic style.
After you have watched the video at least once, 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. Say something about 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, 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
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you say about the conductor? How does the audience respond? How does the work begin?
Does the musical material repeat? What word would you use to describe the technique of the
soloist? Does the violinist have an extended solo? What is the word for that solo, when does it
occur, and how would you best describe it?
